The Douglas book . Dumbarton, where, in 1361, he fell a victim to the plague,^ Hewas survived by his Countess and two daughters, jNFargaret and Elizabeth,and a natural son, William Stewart of Angus.^ Margaret Sinclair, Countessof Angus, married, as her second husband. Sir William Sinclair of Ilerd-manston.^ Margaret, the elder daughter of Thomas, Earl of Angus, suc-ceeded to the earldom and married Thomas, thirteenth Earl of Mar, and lastof the old line of Mar. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, renounced infavour of her elder sister all her rights as co-heir to her father,^ andmarried Sir Alexa
The Douglas book . Dumbarton, where, in 1361, he fell a victim to the plague,^ Hewas survived by his Countess and two daughters, jNFargaret and Elizabeth,and a natural son, William Stewart of Angus.^ Margaret Sinclair, Countessof Angus, married, as her second husband. Sir William Sinclair of Ilerd-manston.^ Margaret, the elder daughter of Thomas, Earl of Angus, suc-ceeded to the earldom and married Thomas, thirteenth Earl of Mar, and lastof the old line of Mar. The younger daughter, Elizabeth, renounced infavour of her elder sister all her rights as co-heir to her father,^ andmarried Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick, in East Lothian, ancestorof the Earls of Haddinston. 1 Fordun, k Goodall, vol. ii. p. 365 ; Ex-chequer Rolls, vol. ii. pp. 115, 168. There isa payment of £40 for expenses incurred dur-ing the Earls imprisonment and for hisfuneral. - Vol. iiL of this work, pp. 34, 43. ^ Robertsons Index, p. 62 ; Antiquities ofAberdeenshire, vol. iv. p. 724. * Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv. 13 LADY MAEGARET STEWAllT, COUNTESS OF ANGUS. A T the time of her fathers death in 1361 Lady Maegaret Stewart was-^-^ very young, perhaps a girl of seven years old. Between 1361 and1374 she became the wife of Thomas, thirteenth Earl of Mar, who haddivorced his former wife, Margaret, Countess of Menteith,i on account, it isalleged, of her bearing no issue to him. He was not more fortunate inLady Margaret Stewart, and she was left a widow by his death about 1374. As the charter or instrument of creation of the title of Earl of Angus infavour of her grandfather, John Stewart, the first Earl of Angus, is lost,and its terms unknown, it is uncertain whether the dignity was limitedto heirs-male or extended to heirs-female. Until 1379, Margaret, Countessof Mar, and her sister. Lady Elizabeth Stewart, enjoyed the Angus estates incommon, and exercised a joint superiority over them; but in that year KingRobert the Second confirmed an arrangement made between the sisters,whereb
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