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 CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA. 427 p. 139, note" " c." Mr. Shaw-Stewart sends the following addendum. "Since writing niy note on Lord Hamilton's marriages (from which note the author of this Peerage has so kindly inserted an extract at page 139), I have examined the entries in the Exchequer Rolls from 1156 to 1469 that relate to the tierce of the Dow. Countess of Douglas, who married the 1st Lord Hamilton, and am inclined to think that they afford no satisfactory solution of the discrepancy between the Glasgow obitus of 1460 and the Papal Dispensation of 1476. These entries may be thus explained. Archibald, 5th Earl of Douglas, died in 1439, and Euphemia Graham, his widow, married in the following year (which, also, saw the death of. her two sons in Edinburgh Castle) James Hamilton, afterwards 1st Lord Hamilton. Her tierce from the Douglas estates was presumably paid for 15 years, but on the attainder of the 9th Earl of Douglas in 1455, and the confiscation of his estates, the King, to whose side Hamilton had rallied, would doubtless wish to secure him from loss, and for this reason seems to have assigned to him in lieu of her tierce, certaiu lands in the Forest of Ettrick (which forest was part of the Douglas estates and came into the King's hands at the couliscatiou), viz., Wynter- burgh, Eltrieff, and Berribus, in the Ettrick ward, and Douglas Craig in the Yarrow ward. Accordingly, we find the Ranger of Ettrick Forest takes credit in his accounts from 1455 to 1460, for the value of these lands " concessorum per Domimun Regem, Jacubo Domino lli mmyltoun pro tercia spouse sue" (vol. vi, 226, 228, 273, 443, 541, and 620, and vol. vii, 25.) The next year for which Ettrick accounts are forthcoming is 1166 and in those aeeouuts (vol. vii, 47S, 497), similar entries occur. But in 1407 while a similar entry occurs for the three portions of land in the Et'.rick ward (p. 526, 528), that in the Yarrow ward is thus entered " de Fermis loci de Douglas Craig eoncessis nomine Lothvel pro tercia sibi debita " (p. 530.) Ju 146S the lands in Ettrick ward are entered as " concessorum Domino Hammyltoun pro tercia debita quondam spouse sue" (p. 619), while that iu Yarrow is entered as " iu manibus Domiue de Bothveil pro tercia sibi debita de primo termino liujus computi, et de primo extractu curie omnium Saucturum " U>. 021.) The Countess Dowager of Douglas (Lady Hamilton) was " Domiua Bothwell ' by virtue of the Royal Charter of 26 April 1425, granted on her marriage to her first husband the Earl of Douglas. It seems improbable that this title would have been used if her second husband, Lord Hamilton, were alive. Aud this to some extent supports the Glasgow obitus against the Papal Dispensa- tion. It should also be noted that Dougl as Craig entered from 1455 to 1460 as granted to Lord Hamilton could not be described in 1466-67 as in possession of his wife, "Lady Bothwell," unless Lord Hamilton were dead. On the other hand the entries at pages 478, 497, and 619 of vol. vii may be cited as evidence that Lord Hamilton was not dead in 1460 but survived his wife. But it will be observed that these entries nowhere state that Lord Hamilton was then alive or received the rents, but simply mention the fact that the lands iu question had been conceded (i.e., in 1455) to Lord Hamilton in lieu of his wife's tierce and that she was dead before 146S. On the whole I am inclined to think that the Glasgow obitus of 1460 is not to be. set aside by the statement, however precise, iu the Papal Dispensation of 1476." p. 141, note "a," line 1 ; for " 16S " read "163;'' note " e," insert at end thereof " see p. 247, note 1 a,' and p. 408, note " b," for some remarks as to lands of religious houses granted to Laics with a peerage [S.J about this period and also as to this Marquessate of /{aniitton being sumetimes called the Marquessate of Kinneill." p. 156, last line ; for "living 1S91," read " d. there S Feb. 1S92, in her 93d year." p. 171, line 24; after " 1871," insert "she d. 10 Jan. 1892, at 12 Grosvenor crescent aud was bur. at Salattyn, Salop." p. 175, line 1 ; after " 1851, insert "is C.I.." ]). 197, line 1 ; after "HAWKUEAD," insert '' Ros, sometimes called Ros ok Halk- head, or Hawkhkad, Barony [S.] {Ros), or. about 14S9." p. 200, line 33 ; after " RENLIS," insert " OF KENLIS OR KELLS." p. 233, line 28 ; after " Brighton,'' read " will pr. at £9,263."