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 392 KINGHORN — KING SALE. TEL 1647. J. Patrick (Lyon), Eakl of Kinguorn [1606], Loud Glamis [1445?], and Lord Lvon and Gi-amis [1606], in the peerage of Scotland, only a. and h. by second wife; styled Loud Gi.amis till he sue. to the Earldom [S.] 12 May 1047. He obtained a new charter dat. 30 May 1672, of the title and dignity of EAKL OF KING HORN, LORD LYON AND GLAMIS [S.], with the former precedency, to him and the heirs male of hid body, which foiling to any person he might nominated") which failing( 1 ') to his heirs male whatsoever, which failing to his heirs and assigns whatsoever. By charter dat. 1 July lb'77, the designation of his Earldom was changed from Kinghoru to STBATHMOKK AND KING HORN, the precedency of the latter being retained. See under " Sthathmork." KLNGSALE. [Observations. — The origin of this peerage is obscure. Its position as the second in rank of the 3 most ancient)' 1 ) Baronies [I.] is undoubted, and has been acknowledged in almost every Pari. [1.1 Its possessor, in 1489, was one of the nine Barons [I.] then sum. by Henry VII. to Greenwich ( u ), and was then ranked immediately after Lord Athenry (the premier Baron) and immediately before Lord Kerry.] Barony [I.] r. Miles de Coukcv, s. of John de Courct, the I 1223 youngerO (who was probably a relative and possibly the illegit. son(8) of the celebrated John de Gourcy, the Conqueror of Ulster), having received from King Henry III., 29 May 1223, the grant of ( a ) See vol- ii., p. 14, note "a," sub " Breadalbane," for a list of those Scotch Peerages in which the grantees were authorised to nominate their successors in the dignities granted. ( b ) He died without having exercised such power of appointment. ( c ) Yet it has apparently sometimes been ranked as the first Barony |XJ and before Athenry. See a curious note thereon in " Lodge " VI, p. 150, as to this dignity having lost its precedency, temp. Hen. VII. when the Irish Lords were sum. to Greenwich, the then Lord being a " Great Yorkist ," whereas Lord Athenry was " a Great Lan- castrian." The story, however, is hardly probable. ( d ) See vol. Lj p. 171, note " c," >ub. " Athenry," for some observations on the early Irish Baronies as peerage dignities. (») See "Pre/ace " to vol. i., p. iii., note "a." ( f ) Among the hostages (at a date near, tho' prior, to 15 July 1204) for John de Courcy of Ulster, according to the list in the " Calendars of Documents and State Papers," on p. 39 of the " Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, 1171 — 1251 " (1S75), occurs " Young Milo Fit: John de Curcy," as nlso one " John de Curcy, son of Roger de Chester." On the former entry, Mr. J. Horace Bound (in a critical notice of "John de Cowci, Conqueror of Ulster" (which appeared in "The Antiquarian Magazine") vols. iii. and iv.), very aptly remarks ''This strange rendering of ' Milo til' Job.' de Curcy juv.' {juvenis was the recognised Latin equivalent of our term 'junior') is very much to be regretted, for it bolsters up the daring fiction of the descent from John [of Ulster] of the later De Courcis, a descent which rests wholly anil solely on the mistranslation of this entry. The Latin obviously corresponds to tho French ' Milo lils de Jean de Courci lejcune ' (junior), this John being so named to distinguish him from his great name- Bake. But though this rendering ought to be self-evident, 1 may as well clinch the matter by a passage (which is not to be found in this calendar) alluding to the same hostages : ' Duos obsides Johis de Curcy, qui in eodem castro sunt, scilicet Rob' fil' Will' Salvag' et Milonem fil' Joh' de Curcy junioris ' (rat. 6 John, m. 4). We must therefore read the line, Miles, son of John de Courci the younger" [which John was doubtless so styled to distinguish him from the well-known John de Courcy (the elder) of Ulster.] (K) The famous John de Courcy of Ulster (often, tho' improperly, called Earl of Ulster) had a bastard sou whose name was John, i.e. John de Courey of Ilatheuuy and Kilbarroek, co. Dublin, murdered in 1208 by the De Lacy family.