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 70 GRAHAM. GRAHAM. Barony [s.] J, Sir William Graham,(») of Kincardine and of Old I 1415' Jfoutmsp, co. Forfar, (elder )jr., of the half Wood, to Patrick, jure uxoris Eari. of Strathkhn [S.]), s. aud h. of Sir Patrick Graham, of the same, by his first wife, Matilda, sue. his father before 1-104, mu from 1411 to 1416, employed in several negotiations with England, and appears, not improbably, to have been cr. a Lord of Pari. [LOHD GRAHAM] [S.], by the Regent Albany [1419 '] with whom he was in great favour, such grant being confirmed by the Kiug (after his return to his kingdom), either to himself or to his grandson and heir.( 1 ') He m. firstly, Mariota, da. of Sir John Olipuant, of Aberdalgy. He m. secondly, 13 Nov. 1413,( c ) the lady Mary [or Mariota] Stewart, relict of Sir James Kennedy and formerly of George (Douglas), Earl ok Angus [S.], da. of King Robert III. [SJ, by Anuabella, da. of John Drummonp, she being sister to the reiguiug (tho' then captive-, King James L [S.]. He was living 10 Aug. M23.( d ) II. 14251 2. Patrick (Graham), Lord Graham [S.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of Alexander Graham, s. and h. ap. of the last Lord (by his first wife) who d. v.p. before 8 Jau. 1421/2. He was one of the supplementary hostages for the ransom of King James I. [S ], remaining in England 1427 to 1432. He had, as " Vominus Graham on 5 July 1451, and as " Dotnintu Lc Graham, consanguineus noster pradilcclas " on 20 April 1157, instruction to treat with the English, as also on 13 July 1159. He m. Elizabeth [Elene '.] He d. 1465 or Jan. 1467. " Elene, Lady Graham," was living in 1474.(°) ( a ) "The name has always been written interchangeably with Grmmc, the Scottish orthography. The earliest traceable ancestor (for we reject, of course, the fifth- century hero. Grcmc), is William de Graham, who settled in Scotland early in the 12th century. The surname therefore is clearly local and from its termination undoubtedly English. The only place in S. Britain of the name, which we find, is Graham, near Kesteven, in Lincolnshire." [Lower's " Family names," 1S60-] ( b ) If this supposition is correct the Barony of Graham must be reckoned as the first of the Baronies (Lords of Pari.) of Scotland. To this Sir William Graham of Kincardine, the designation of Wiltc'mus, Doininns le Graltam, or Willclmus, Dominus dc Graham, is applied in one or two of the Exchequer Rolls during the time (1406-19), of the Regent Albany, such designation being remarkable as taken from his name and not from his lands, and thereby indicating, apparently, his rank to be that of a Lord of Parliament. (See vol. ii, p. 423, note "c," sub "Crichton.") If, however, that is so, he is the only "Lord of Parliament" existing before the return (1124), of James I. [S.] from England, and it must consequently be held that, in anticipation of such return, he received his dignity more Anglicano, from the Regent. That such was the case is the conclusion arrived at by (one of the most competent authority on such a point) G. Burnett, late Lyon King of Arms, who (7 April 1S59), added to his remarks thereon the following. " It is the general understanding that a Regent cannot create an Itcrcditary dignity, but Albany's Regency was exceptional throughout, as I think, I have proved in my preface to vol. ii, of Exch. Rolls [S.], pp. xlvii, el scq. He con- ferred on his son John, in 1406, the Earldom of Buchan, of which he was himself in possession, and granted a charterof the Earldom of Ross, with a new limitation to his grandaughter, Sec, &c. ; had a great seal of his own and dated documents in the year of his Regency, not of the King's reign. As Lord Graham afterwards married the sister of James I. [S.] that King, on bis return from England (holding all Albany's acts as to dignities null) confirmed or renewed the title to him or his grandson and successor, who is generally considered the first Lord Graham." ( c ) A charter was granted 4 Aug. 1420 " Willielmo, Domino dc Graham, Militi, et Mariota? Stewart, sorori [sic] Robert!, Ducis Albania, sponsa;, dicti Willielmi," &c , wherein mention is made of their five sons. ( d ) In a charter of this date he is spoken of as " Domiims Le Graham" and " Willielmus, Dominus Lc Graham," as to which designations (as also as to that of Dominvs dc Graham in the note next above) see note " b " above. (<=) Acta audiCorum 18 May and 12 Oct. 1474, "Elene, Lady Graham, against Christian, Lady Graham." See Wood's " Douglas," vol. ii, p. 238 (note), sub " Montrose." It is, however, not clear who these Ladies were.