. The Herald and genealogist. e he surrendered it into the handsof the Queen, and obtained a new patent to himself and the heirs maleof his body; whom failing, to such person or persons descended fromthe first Viscount of Stair as he should nominate and appoint by awriting in his lifetime; whom failing, to his immediate younger brotherWilliam, and then to James the second son of the said William byPenelope Countess of Dumfries, with many other complicated arrange-ments. This was confirmed by charter and ratified by Parliament. Accordingly, 31st March, 1747, he made a nomination to John Dal-rym
. The Herald and genealogist. e he surrendered it into the handsof the Queen, and obtained a new patent to himself and the heirs maleof his body; whom failing, to such person or persons descended fromthe first Viscount of Stair as he should nominate and appoint by awriting in his lifetime; whom failing, to his immediate younger brotherWilliam, and then to James the second son of the said William byPenelope Countess of Dumfries, with many other complicated arrange-ments. This was confirmed by charter and ratified by Parliament. Accordingly, 31st March, 1747, he made a nomination to John Dal-rymple, eldest son of his brother George, to succeed him. He died twomonths after, when James and John both assumed to be Earls of Stair(William the father of James being then deceased); but a deed afterthe Union was not supported, and James succeeded. John was thusdisappointed for twenty-one years; but then he became fifth Earl,instead of third, on the death without issue of William fourth Earl ofDumfries and Stair in 1768. 528. THE ARMS OF APPLETON. SIGILLVM WILL I DE * APPELTON * CL ICI. This Seal presents on a shield of arms a chevron (shaded with the linesnow used to designate gules) between three apples in a hanging is not easy to make out the four emblems which occupy the circularpanels of the seal; but the fourth is clearly a Katharine-wheel, and all werenot improbably emblems of the saints to whom the clerk was devoted. It may fairly be presumed that the Appletons scattered up and down onthe Tees arose from Appleton Wiske in Allertonshire or East Appletonnear Richmond. From the superior execution of the seal engraved we areinclined to think that William de Appelton, like Wycliffe, was not merelynamed after the place of his birth, that his surname and arms were settledin his family, and that he belonged to a race of the name which occurs inconsiderable social status in the early part of the thirteenth century in con-nection with the constables of Richmond. The
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