Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

.Ai;i,s OF MAueii, i.ouij:> or axxandau:. JClHl
George, tui'lh EaiJ of .Diiubrir ami IlJardi, eUlcsi sou of Patrick, tlic uiuUi
earl and Lady. Agnes Eaiidolpli, was imicli di£a]>pointcd that after Lis
youngest sister Lady E!i:ialn;lli Dunliar liad beeii betrothed to David, ])ii]ce
of Jiotliesay, in tlie \ear 1^99, tlio luariiage \va.s frustrated by Archilxdd,
third Earl of Doui;his. He was ])Owerful enough to have the marriage of
liothesay cohebratcd with I\[ary, otlierwise sometimes styled Marjory Douglao,
Ills dangliter, iu Febi'uary 1 400. The. Earl of L)iiiibav and ]\Iarcli eomplained to
Xing Henry the Fourth by k-trer, dated, at Ids castle of Dunbar, 18th ]'ebn;a!y
1400, of llie wrong done to him, and renounced his allegiance to the King of
Scotland. The Earl of Dunbar and lilareli subsequently made hostile inroads
into Seothiiid, and, :ifter several years, negotiated with tJie ngent, Dube of
Albany, for liberty to ri.'.turu liouie. ])uring ihe absence of the Earl of
Dunbar and :darcli, iVom 1400 till 1400, Archibald, fourth Eail of Douglas,
obtained possession of the loid^liip of Danbar and the estates of th.e earldom
of March, as v eil as the loidship of Annandale. Eeing in^ssessed of these
lenitories, Douglas declined to agree to the restoi-ation of ilarch uuIgss he
obtained tlie castle of Loclmuiben and the lordship of Annandale, iu lieu of the
cas'le of Durdjar and the earldom of ilarch. Following out that arrangement,
p. charter v.'as granted by the regent, Duhe of Albaiiy, at Haddington, on -d
October 1409, to his cousin Arclnbaid,Earl of Douglas and Lord of Galloway,
of the lordship of Annandale. The charter narrates that the fee of the lord-
,shi]i of Annandale belonged to Geoige of ])unbar, son and heir of George, Eail
of ]\Iarch, and that Geoi'ge the son and Geoige llie earl resigned the fee and
frank-tenement at Haddington, iu pre^^elu•.e of most part of the lords and barons
of tlie kingdom. The lordship of Annandale -vvas to be held by the Earl of
Douglas and the heiis-male of liis body, whom failing, by the Earl of March
and his nearest lawful heirs whomsoever.'
The lordship of Annandale appears to have been enjoyed by Ldack Agnes
as jart of tlse inheritance of her i'athor, tlie renowned regent, and her brother
1 Kegistiuin Mi.-iii Si-jilll, vol. i. p. 241, Xu. 47.