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 302 MENTEITH. " ordained the said Earl aud his heirs to be called in all time coming EARLS OF AIKTH [S.] and to bruik and enjoy the honours, dignity, and precedence due to them by virtue of the said charter granted to the said Malise, Karl of Menteith, before all others."^) After this date he was styled KARL UK AIRTH AND MKNTKITH [S.], obtaining a new investiture of the lauds of the Earldom which by charter, 11 Jan. 1644, was continued to himself in life rent, with n in. to John, his s. and h. ap. anil his heirs male w hatever.t 1 ') He in. (settl. 30 Jan. 1610. 1), Agnes, da. of Patrick (Ghay), Loud Giiat [S.] She was living Jan. 1644. He (/. between Jan. 1G01 and 14 July, 16G2.('') [John Graham, styled Loud KlNPONT, or Loud Graham up KlNPONT, s. and h. ap. He m. April 1032 Mary, 1st da. of 'William (Kmil), Cth Kaki. MaIUscUaL. He joined (with 400 Royalists) Montrose, at whose victory, 1 Sep. 1044, at Tippermuir, he was present, and in whose camp at Collace, CO. Perth, lie was basely murdered. ( a ) He d. v.p.J XX. 1GG0? S. William (Graham), Earl of Airth axd Mes- to teitii [S.]. grandson and h., being s. and h. of John Gu.mia.m, 1G04. sti/led Loud K in tost, and Mary, his wife, both abovenamed lie sue. to the jiceruyc [S.] before Oct. 16ti2( c ) and satin Part as " Earl of Airth" from July 1670 to April 1685, but in April 1693 as " Earl of Monteith," having, after the expulsion of the Stuart Kings, so styled himself. Being greatly in debt and having no issue, he was desirous of resigning his peerage dignities as well as his estates in favour of the Marquess of Montrose [S.J (the chief of the house of Graham) and his issue, and obtained a Royal warrant in May 16S0 to that effect, but it, was ratified by Pari., 6 Sep. 1681, only so far as concerned the territorial Karldom of Menteith, the Grown being "unwilling to alter the settled course of succession of the titles of honour of the Karl of Monteith and Airth and others contained in his | the Earl's] patent." He m. firstly Anne Hkwes, from whom, on 2 Jan. 10S3/4, he obtained a divorce for her adultery. i e j He m, secondly (whilst this cause was pending) Catharine, da. of Thomas fem cK, ,.f Klairhall, co. Perth. She d. before him. He d. s.p., 12 Sep. 1694, and was bur. with his ancestors in the Isle of Inehinahoiiu' in the loch of Monteith. After his death all his honours became dormant or extinct. I 11 ) Possibly this was for the purpose of getting lid of the title of Menteith as being one which in some measure ^tho' of course not so much as in the case of Stiathern) was connected with Royal descent. b ) He sat in Pari, in Jan. 1621, April 1629, and Aug. 1631, as Karl of Monteith ; in Sep. 1631, April and Sep. 1632, as Earl oj Strathern, and in Aug. 1639 and possibly May 1662 as Earl of Airth. " After his creation to the Earldom of Airth he never used the title of Monteith except in conjunction with the title of Airth." [Nicolas's " Earldom.- of Strathern" (tc] (■') The death of the 7th Karl " must have taken place before, possibly many years before, 1663, for bis grandaughter, Lady Mary Graham, when she was Hi. to Sir John Allardice in Oct. 1662 was certainly sister to the then Karl of Airth. See the contract of marriage in the Evidence in the Airth case, p. 32, and the entry of the marriage in the parish register of Arbnthnot, iliid, p. 68," as quoted in Craik's " Romance oj the Peerage," vol. iii, where is an interesting account of the Karldom of Menteith anil where (p. 388, note), Nicolas's blunder of assuming that, the 7th Karl lived till 1670 is commented upon, ( d ) The perpetrator was James Stewart, of Ardvoirlich, whose pardon for the same was ratified Jan. 1645 and who became a Major in Argyll's Koot in 1648. See Scott's " Leycnd of Montrose " (who, erroneously, represents Lord Kilpout as Karl of Monteith) and the notes thereto, including one from Robert Stewart, of Ardvoirlich. (') The evidence against her was by icomen witnesses only, and " this judgment appears to have been opposed to the almost uniform tenor of precedent." See Craik's " Romance" as iu note " c " next above.