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CCXXxiv JAMKS, EARL OF AN.N'AXDALE AND IIARTFELL, 1G53-1G72.
witnesses in the case. On Gtb j\Iay of the same year \Yitnesses against
Argyll were examined, but Annandale is not mentioned as one of tliem.^
On 23d April 1G62 the king granted to the Earl of Annandale and Hart-
fell a crown charter under the sign-manual and groat seal. The warrant for
the charter, which is still preserved, shovrs that it had been intended to be
completed at the same time as the patent for the peerages.^ The limitation of
heirs in the charter is in favour of James, Earl of Annandale and Hartfell,
Viscount of Annan, Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, Lochmabeu, Moffatdale,
and Evandale, and the heirs-male of his body, which failing, to the heirs-
female of his body, without division, and heii'S-male of the body of the said
eldest heir-female, carrying the name and arms of Johnstone, which failing,
to the earl's nearest lawful heirs whatsoever, of the lauds and barony of
Johnstone, Corrie, Knock, Newbic, barony of Moffatdale, and the heritable
office of keeper of the king's castle of Lochmaben, with the fees and other
dues thereunto belonging.
The king also by that new charter granted to the earl, and the heirs-male
of his body, whom failing, to the heirs-female of his body, without division,
and the heirs-male of the body of his eldest heir-female, wiiich failing, to
his nearest and law ful heirs whatsoever, the lauds, lordships, baronies, aud
others therein specified, which the king also thereby erected, created aud
incorporated into a free barony, lordship, and earldom, regality aud justiciary,
to-be called the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell, and lordship of John-
stone, with the title, style, and dignity of an earl, according to the date of
the patent granted to the earl and his father. The king also thereby erected
the town aud territory of iloflat into the burgli of barony and regality of ^Moffat.
Tliroughout this Magna Carta of tlie new earldom of Annandale tliere
' Acta of the Parliaments of Scotlauil, tlie warraut, tlie year 1002 Jiad bcfu origiu-
vol. vii. Appendix, p. 65^ ally engrossed ICOl, and deleted, and the
year of the king's reign was eorrected to the
- Annandale Peerage Minutes of Evidence, " 14th,'' by the deletion of the word "thir-
lS-14, pp. 94-111. la the testing clause of teenth."