A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . xvi.]. , daughter of Robert, Duke of , daughter of James I. At the death of the ist Earl of Angus of the Douglasline, his only son cannot have been more than fouryears old.^ The lads mother married her secondHam^^znYEari husband, Sir James Kennedy, in 1409, when hisof Angus, grandmother, Margaret, Countess of Angus andc j^^^^ betrothed him to Margaret, daughter of SirWilliam Hay of Yester. The same tutelary mind probablyguided him in adding to his already gr
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . xvi.]. , daughter of Robert, Duke of , daughter of James I. At the death of the ist Earl of Angus of the Douglasline, his only son cannot have been more than fouryears old.^ The lads mother married her secondHam^^znYEari husband, Sir James Kennedy, in 1409, when hisof Angus, grandmother, Margaret, Countess of Angus andc j^^^^ betrothed him to Margaret, daughter of SirWilliam Hay of Yester. The same tutelary mind probablyguided him in adding to his already great possessions byacquiring, in 1409, the lands of Easter Cluny in 142 I, when Angus was nominated one of the twenty-one ^ A precept for the second earls infeftment in the lordship of Liddesdale, byRobert, Duke of Albany, dated 27th March 1409, wherein the heir is describedas of full age [legitime statis], seems inconsistent with this ; but Williams parentswere only married in 1397, and Sir W. Eraser explains the discrepancy bysuggesting a special dispensation.—Eraser, ii. 24, note ; iii. RETURN OF JAMES I. 9 hostages in security for the payment of James ransom,the annual value of his estates was estimated at 600 that conveys a very indefiniteidea to modern minds; in fact,antiquaries are not quite unani-mous as to whether the annualtaxation or the annual gross rent; indicated in this thus nominated, Angussname does not occur among thosefinally appointed hostages. Possiblythe grandmothers prescient care Fig 5 — beai of ?» illnmfor the line prevailed to prevent f^°^f 7 ^f ^^ °^ ^^^its heir going into a captivity which caused the death of so many noble hostages for KingJamess fickle faith. Howbeit, Angus was among the Scottish nobles who met their King at Durham upon his liberation, escorted him in triumph into his own realm,^ and received James at ° kuighthood from his hand at the coronation at Ap^u^.;; Scone in M
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