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 142 HAMILTON. by charter 5 May 1C0S. He sue. his uncle James, Enrl of Arraii [S.T, in March 1009 as head of the Hamilton family becoming thus (if indeed such dignities had not been previonslyf 1 ) acquired by his father) Eaul OF Aiuian and Loud Hamilton [S.J P.C. [S.]. 1613; P.O. [E.], 1617. He was made a Peer of England, 16 June 1619, being cr. BARON OF ENNERDALE, co. Cumberland, and EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. He was oue of the Council for the plantation of New England, 1620 ; Lord High Commissioner to the Pari. [S.J, 1621 ; el. K.G., 2 Feb. 1622/3, inst, 2 April 1623 ; Lord Steward of the Household, 162-1-25. He m. (contract 30 Jan. 1603), Anne, 4th da. of James (CuKNIHGBASl), 7th Eaiil of Glf.ncairn [S.J, by his first wife, Margaret, da. of Sir Colin CAMPBELL. He d. >if fever at Whitehall 2 March 1624/5, aged 35, and was bur. (from his house called " Fisher's Folly" in Bishopsgate) in great state at Hamilton, in Scotland, 2 Sep. following.( b ) Fun. entry in Lyon office. His widow took an active part on behalf of the Covenanters, raising a troop of horse (at the head of which she rode) in 1639 in opposition to her eldest son who was on the King's side. Her will dat. 1644. Marquessate [S.J 1 1,8 and 7. James (Hamilton), Marquess j j j of Hamilton, Earl of Auras, Lord Hamilton and v ] gag Lord ABEnrmoTitwicK [S.], also Eaiil ok Camisuidok Bavony [S.] j ' and Baron of Ennerdale [E.J, s. and h., b. 19 June ..... 1606; stifled Earl of Auras, 1609-25; matric. at N U1 - J Oxford (Ex. Coll ), 14 Dec. 1021 ; sue. to the peerage Dukedom [S J ann E 0 »» 1624/5, at the age of 18 ; bearer of 1(',43. the sword at the coronation, 2 Feb. 1626 ; Master of I. the Horse, 1628-45 ; Gent of the Bedchamber, 162S; knighted at Windsor, a Oct. 1630, when he was el and inst. K.G. He was General of 7000 men sent in 1631 to assist the King of Sweden in Germany in the hopes of recovering the Palatinate. P.C. [E. and S.j In May 1638, he was Commissioner to the Kirk of Scotland, endeavouring, fruitlessly, to reconcile them to the new prayer book, &c. In June 1639, he was in command against them. His anxiety to be on terms both with the King and with Pail, brought him into various difficulties. He was rr. 12 April 1613, by pat. dat. at. Oxford, DUKE OF HAMILTON, MARQUESS OF CLYDESDALE, KARL OF A UK AX AND CAMBRIDGE,^) LORD AVEN('l) AND INKERDALE(«) [S.J, with a spec. (•>) See p. 141, note " c." ( b j It is said that the Scots wished him to marry the Princess Elizabeth, 1st da. of the King. He was (according to Chamberlain) "every way held the gallantest gentleman of both the nations. ' ( c ) The grantee was by inheritance from his father " Earl of Cambridge and Huron of Ennerdale" [innerdale] in the peerage of England, which dignities, cr. 1619 became extinct in 1651 on the failure of heirs male of the body of the grantee. No resignations or regrants could affect them as English dignities. Yet the patent of 1643 creating the Scotch Dukedom &c. contains them, so does that of 1661, and so also (27 years after their extinction as English dignities) docs the patent of 1698. It certainly seems as if Scotch dignities of the name of Cambridge and Innerdale were thereby created ; if not in 1643 (when they were in existence as English honours, and so might, tho' irregularly, be mentioned as words of surplusage, in the Scottish creation), yet at all events in 1698. That they were so cr. in 1643, was the opinion of Mr. Anderson in his " Ducal Howe of Hamilton " who writes (p. 146), after stating the extinction, on the death of the 2d Duke in 1651, of these as English honours, that " the Scottish honours of Earl of Cambridge and Lord Inner- dale, included in the patent of the Dukedom granted to his brother in 1643, descended to his niece [in 1651J along with the other titles." One, however, whose opinion on Scotch matters is entitled to the greatest weight, writes on this matter as follows. " The titles of Cambridge and Innerdale are not properly Scotch peerages under any patent of creation. They are indeed included among the numerous minor titles connected with the Dukedom of Hamilton in the regrant of 1698, but were probably inserted because the writer of the document had been aware that these titles once belonged to the family as English titles." All things considered, however, the editor has not ventured to reject them. Mr. Balfour Paul {Lyon) remarks (very pertinently) upon these titles, that their existence " is one of those puzzles to which I doubt if any satisfactory solution will be found." ( d ) The Barony of Aven (alone) occurs here, in lieu presumably of the Barony of Even and Avendak as to which see p. 141, note " b."