The Douglas book . 37 III.—1. JAMES DOUGLAS, THIRD EARL OF AXGUS. 1437—1446. TA]\IES, the eldest son of William, second Earl of Angus, and Margaret^ Hay, his Countess, succeeded his lather in the earldom of Angus andother lordships in 1437. He was retoured heir to his father in the barony ofKirriemuir on 11th January 1437-8,^ three months after his fathers death,and under the title of Earl of Angus, Lord of Liddesdale and JedburghForest, confirmed a charter, in the following year, to Alexander Ogilvie ofInverquharity, of the lands of Ludeinch and The Earl was at the time of this grant
The Douglas book . 37 III.—1. JAMES DOUGLAS, THIRD EARL OF AXGUS. 1437—1446. TA]\IES, the eldest son of William, second Earl of Angus, and Margaret^ Hay, his Countess, succeeded his lather in the earldom of Angus andother lordships in 1437. He was retoured heir to his father in the barony ofKirriemuir on 11th January 1437-8,^ three months after his fathers death,and under the title of Earl of Angus, Lord of Liddesdale and JedburghForest, confirmed a charter, in the following year, to Alexander Ogilvie ofInverquharity, of the lands of Ludeinch and The Earl was at the time of this grant residing at the castle of Tantallon,and one of the witnesses was his mothers brother, Edmund Hay of the same castle he granted another charter in the following year.^ Atthis time also was settled by arbitration in the Earls favour a claim madeby Sir Alexander Home of Dunglas to the lauds of Preston and Liutlaw inDoncle, founding upon an alleged charter by the Earls father, William, butwhich Earl Jam
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