. The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . cember 1612, two days after the confirmation of hisfathers charter of 1595 above mentioned, he resigned thelands in favour of Sir Thomas Dishington and his wife,Elizabeth Scott, who had a new grant of it from the King,^and on 6 July 1615 he joined with the Dishingtons in a newresignation of the lordship in favour of Thomas Erskine,Viscount Penton.* Lord Pittenweem died and wasburied (not improbably from the Fleet pr
. The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . cember 1612, two days after the confirmation of hisfathers charter of 1595 above mentioned, he resigned thelands in favour of Sir Thomas Dishington and his wife,Elizabeth Scott, who had a new grant of it from the King,^and on 6 July 1615 he joined with the Dishingtons in a newresignation of the lordship in favour of Thomas Erskine,Viscount Penton.* Lord Pittenweem died and wasburied (not improbably from the Fleet prison ^) at St. Brides,London, 16 December 1625. At his death the Peeragebecame dormant, and no claim has since been made to it. Creation.—Lord Pittenweem, 26 January 1609* Arms.—Sir William Stewart, the Oommendator, bore onhis seal: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, three fleurs de lys withina bordure charged with eight buckles; 2nd and 3rd, a fesschequy within a (bordure engrailed?). Orest.—A wolf sejant. Supporters.—Two wolves. [j. B. P.] 1 Acts and Decreets, 6cxxix. 104. ^ Beg. Mag. Sig. ^ Ibid. * Pari, Scot., v. 94. ^ Comjilete Peerage. SCOTT, LORD POLWARTH. N account of the first threeholders of the Polwarthtitle which was con-ferred on Sir PatrickHume by patent dated26 December 1690, witliremainder to the heirs-male of his body and tothe heirs of those heirs,will be found under thetitle of Earl of March-mont (vol. vi. 12-23). SirPatrick having been ad-vanced to that dignityon 23 April 1697, thebarony remained mergedin the earldom until thedeath of Hugh, third Earl, on 9 January 1794, when theearldom became extinct, and the barony of Polwarthvested in, IV. Anne, de jure Baroness Polwarth, daughter ofSir John Paterson, Bart, of Eccles, and his wife Anne,eldest daughter of Hugh, third Earl of Marchmont. Sheclaimed the barony in 1818, but died on 11 March 1822,before any decision had been given on her case. V. Diana, de jure Baroness Polwarth, younger daughterof
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