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 362 MORAY. [8.3(C) "> tu a c,:ulsc that an<1 ^ ' u 'irs ,na ' u ■'ouhl e called by that fettle. He however rcsioiml that Earldom a few months later!' 1 ) fur tho' he sat in Tail. [S.]. on 10 Sep. 156®, ns £«>V <>/ jfar, he sat there on 1.1 Oct. following as Bali <>( Moray. He opposed the Queen's marriage with Darnley anil win outlawed in 1585, hut pardoned in 1.166. He became (till his ileath three years later) ltroKNT tit SmTi.Axn. 22 Aug. 1567 (being known as " the gend Regent ") taking active measures against the Queen's party, by one of whom (Hamilton of Botlmvllhaugh . he was assassinated at Linlithgow, 21 .Ian. 159970, in his 87th year. Be rf. s.p.m, ami was Sur. in Si. Giles,' Edinburgh. M.I Mew. 8 Feb. 1661, Anne. 1st. ,1a. of William K ki i n 1st EaHL Mjhiscii.u. [S.J by Margaret. riji. ami coheir of Sir William Kkit/i Ilis widow in. (as his second wife). Colin 'Camibki.i.), 6th Maim, w kovi.l [S.]. wlm d. Oot.1584. She d. July 15S3 ; funeral entry at Lyon office. XV. 1570. 2. Ri J7.AUKTH, mo jure, Chuxtesk or Moray T$L l«t da. and coheir, and heir of line. She in. in 1 ISO, James STKtVAItT win,, at that time, was (Land b «p, of James 1st LORD IkuxK [S.]. by Margaret, da nf Archibald (CaUPBELL), Itn EaiiL ok Aihsti.L [S.J, and lie. cm such marriage assumed jure uxoril, the title of EARL OF MORAY [S.]. being so styled in the Act* of Pari. 1581. Me is well known as "the bonny Earl oj Moray," having been of great beauty and ao:ol)l- plishmeuts and high in the favour of Anne, the Queen Consort [S.] II,' sue. his father as LonD DOUXR on 20 July 1590. His wife rf. (three months before him.i IS Nov. 1591, he being slain J Feb. 1591/2, by his hereditary enemy, the Earl [diet* wards Marquess] of Huutly [S.], in a raid at Dunibirsil. tragic fate. The 3d Earl (grandson of the Hegont) had. in 1592, a Parliamentary ratification of the charter of 1 June 1566, and all other charters granted to the Regent, and, in 1611, a Rett charter of the Earldom nf Moray, on his resignation, with an altered limitation to heirs male. The circum.-tauces Connected with this last named charter shew that it included dignity as well as lands, and it was si, construed on Earl Alexander's death in 1700 when the Earl's second hut eldest surv. .-.,11 sac in preference to the daughter of his eldest son. It seems, therefore, to follow thai the Earl of Moray's creation must date either from 30 Jan. 1,161 2, or (if tin- charter hearing that date be liable to exception} from 22 Jan. 1,163 I, a date in exact correspondence with the place of Moray in the decreet of ranking [1606], namely, immediately before the Earl of Orkney (Stewart) who was certainly Karl on 28th Oct 1581, and almost certainly so before 7 July 1576." See" Earldom of Mar " (doubtless) by G. Burnett, Lyon, in "Genealogist," vol. iii, N.S.. pp. 1-21. (") His mother was da. of John (Erskine), Lord Erskine, theoY jure, Earl of Mar [S.] ( b ) The Earldom of Mar was in 1565 restored to its right heir, his cousin, John (Erskine), Lord Erskine [S.] ( c ) From some MS. notes (to which Mr. Itiddcll had access) of a speech of Lord Lough- borough, respecting the sustaining of the votes of the Earl of Moray on the election ol Rep. Peers [S.], 6 June 171*3, it may he gathered (1) that Lord L. " ignored the fact, vouched for by the clearest record evidence, that on her father's death, Elizabeth, da. of the Regent Moray, became Countess of Moray in her own right" and (2) that his opinion was that in 1581 [rectias 1581] the Bunny Earl had n new charter of the dignity. This has been sometimes construed as a decision of the Lords that the 1st creation and consequent precedence of the Earldom of Moray was in 1581, and the Lord Clerk Register (if truly reported) is said to have so stated it in an election on 10 Dec. 1884. But "during the whole discussion [in 17P3J the bearing of the question on precedency seems never to have been thought of, and, if we suppose with Lord Loughborough, that the Bonny Earl had in 1.18 1, or at any other date, a new charter with rem. to heirs male, we now known that that charter could only have proceeded on his wife's resignation and must therefore have lelt untouched the original pi-ecedence ; for there is no more firmly established principle in Scottish peerage jaw than that a charter of resignation bringing in new heirs (nay even strangers in blood) did not derogate from the precedence of the resigner." See " Earldom of Mar " as alluded to on p. 301, note " u " next above, and see also said note " e" circa finctn.