DINGWALL AND BUTLER OF MOORE PARK PEERAGES.

In the House of Lords.

CASE

ON BEHALF OF

FRANCIS THOMAS DE GREY EARL COWPER K.G.

ON HIS CLAIM TO THE DIGNITIES OF

LORD DINGWALL

IN THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND

AND OF

LORD BUTLER OF MOORE PARK

IN THE PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.

C. 441.

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In the House of Lords.

CASE

ON BEHALF OF

FRANCIS THOMAS DE GREY EARL COWPER K.G.

ON HIS CLAIM TO THE DIGNITIES OF

LORD DINGWALL

IN THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND

AND

LORD BUTLER OF MOORE PARK

IN THE PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.

THE DINGWALL CASE.

King James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England, by a Charter under the Great Seal of Scotland, dated on the 8th of June 1609, confirmed a grant of certain lands in the County of Ross, previously erected into the Lordship of Dingwall, together with the office of Constable of the Castle of Dingwall, made by John Lord Balmerinoch to Sir Richard Preston of Haltrie Knight, a Member of an Ancient Baronial Scottish Family, and of new erected the said lands into the Lordship of Dingwall, and granted them, together with the office of Constable of the Castle of Dingwall, to Sir Richard Preston his heirs and assignees whomsoever, and by the said Charter the King created Sir Richard, Lord Dingwall, to hold the said Honour to him, his heirs and assignees.

The following is a translation of the words of the Charter which