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 62 LENNOX. Duncan was (after tho death of his eldest da. the said Countess) the heir of the body of one or other of his two other daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, eierordini/ to their seniority, btlt it remains uneertuin, vhi"h of the two KCU the senior. Of these two ladies (1) Elizabeth m. ahoni 1382, f»k Jiihii Stuart of Darnley, co Remfrew (slain at Orleans, 12 Pehs 1 12S 9) ami Nov 1 120, leaving a s, and h.," Sir Alan Stuart, ol Darnley sl.iin 1439) whose s and U, f .lolin. Lord Darul.y [S.]. assumed this Earldom in 1 17-i. and was recognised as Eir! of L,.|in,,>; i'i 14SS as mentioned below. The ■•tlu r sister v 2 Marvraret, Wlui »i. before 25 July 1 192 It. -belt Mkntkth, of Uuskv antl was living, 18 May 1151 (more than twenty year* Inter than Kiizaheth) was mother of Sir .Murdoch Menteth. of Husky ( who (hesides a s< n Patrick, who il. young and iitnii.) had two daughter* of whom, the Youngest, Elizabeth, in. John Xapier. of Merehiittnun and hid seizin .if th" 4th pot of the Earldom of Lennox. 16 N"V. 1 4 7 -" t - Agnes Menteth, the 1st drt. and heir of line, M about 1 100, Sir John Halilane of Qleluilgles, v ho claimed the Earldom n( Lennox, jure iuwis. in right of her as the heir til line of her grandmother th- said MaiL'aivt (Menteth lift Lennox) therein stated to have been older than tier sister, Kiizaheth (Stuart me Lennox ah .venauie.l. He, his said wife and their Bon, ■lames Hal. lane, obtained in 1 17*', a writ of error as against a service of 23 duly 117:', under whieh Lord D.irnl.-y, the heir of Kiizaheth. had he.-n served heir, to hall the property and to the principal messuage of the Earldom and had accordingly assumed the title. Uame Agnes Hal. lam-, net Menteth, olnbiut 1 477, and in Oct. 14SS. Lord Darnley (the rival claimant) sat in Pari. [S.]. as Ettrt Of Lennox. Sir James Haldane. ho vever, son ami heir of th.. said Amies, was on 21 ;m. I 21 May 1490, served heir of Duncan. Earl of Lennox. his said mother's great cr.m.l- father), tind wtis '• intended in the fourth pal t of the Earldom, which belonged to him in property," when "he entered a formal protest that his not then claiming and insist- ini; "U his right to the said superiority of the whole Earldom should be no prejudice to him in future time of his ri'jht to the said superiority or his being held tie principal of the mid Kortilam, as it was known he descended from tho cities' sister." In Sep, 1491, a submission was entered hit . whereby the Hal. lanes il | agreed to j»ive up their quarter of the property of the Eirldoin to Lord Dacnley, w ho "should resitin to Sir .lames all the right o{ t he superiority and tenendvv <>f the said Earldom " whieh division, was carried out, in 1493. Notwithstanding these proceedings the title (assumed in 1473; was, since 1488, enjoyed by the family ol" Stuart as below, and appears never to have been seriously disputed by the family of Haldane.] XI. 1473, 10 or 1. Snt Jons Stewaut, or Stuart, of Darnley (or or DerDely) <u. Renfrew, s. and h of Sir Alan S. of the same, by 14SS. Catharine, ,1a. of (Sir William Si-tun, of Seton, whieh Alan was s". and h. of Sir John Stewart, or Stuart oi Darnley ttfsd. by Elizabeth, one of the three daughters and coheirs of Duncan, K.uti. nv Lknxox [S ] abovenained; sue. his father in 1439, and was cr. a Lord of Pari. [S.], by the title of LORD DKIIKKLEV or DAKXLEY [S.]. between 17 July i4n0 and 20 July 14H1 ( b ) most probably at the Coronation of James III. [8 j. who sue. to the throne, 3 Aug. 1460. He was served heir, 23 July 1 173 to his great grandfather, Duncan, Eaiil or- I.KNNOX [S j, aboreuauied, in half of that Earldom and in the principal messuage thereof, whereui he assumed the title (if KAMI, OK LENNOX [S. ]. sitting ill Pari, as such 20 Nov. 1475, and being so recognised in linyal letters. This service, however, was reduced, 12 June 1475, the Earldom of Lennox being claimed by the Haldane family as representatives of Margaret, da. of Earl Duncan, she being Btated to have been older than her sister, Elizabeth, the grandmother of Lord ("l " A memorial relative to the ancient E iris of Lennox," relating to the claim of the Haldane family to the succession thereto, was prepared by Alexander We.lder- bltrn, afterwards Earl of Uosslyn. and shews an intimate accpiaintanco with the feudal law of Scotland. See " Maidtuent's " Coll. Uen." ( h ) The Asloau ChrouieU says that he was made a Lord of Pari. [S.] at tho "same time as Karl of Erroll was helltit." i.e., June 1452 [ex. inform. M. J. Shaw-Stewart]. He, however, had two charter* of the Barony of Torbolton in Ayrshire, one, 17 July 1460, to him as "Sir John Stewart of Derneley," and the other 20 July 1401, to him as '• John, Lord Derneley."