Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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INTIIOliUCTroX.
KiiWAi;ii ll!;rcK, I'akl of CAUiiicK .wn Kixc; oi'" Ii;i:i..\mi.
Oil his succes.^iuu ta tlie yowii of Scotland, King I^olieiL tlie liiiico
sluiwed gieut generosity ia providing large territories to his rolaiivcs and
frJL'nds who had assisted him in his long-snstained struggles for tliu cmwn.
"We, ha\'e seen tliat he )iro\ided to his nephew Piandolph the lordships of
Ainiandale and Man, and also the great earldom of Moray, Tlie king also
provided the ancient earldom of Carriek to his brother Edward Ijruce, who
thereafter hccanie Eaii of Carriek. lleing of the warlike spirit of his race,
t.lic Irish of Ulster, when in their troubles, invited him to come to their aid
ami aisistanee, and also acknowledged him as their sovereign. He landed at
Carrick-reigiis on iTiih ?i!ay 1315, and was solemnly crowned Iving of
Ireland 2d Sfay 1316. Ibit lie did not enjoy the kingd,om long, having
fallen at the battle of Dmidallc on 5lh October 1318. During the two years
in wliieh Edv/ard Bruce was King of Ireland, he granted, under the style and
tiile (if "Edwardus Dei gratia Kex Ilibernie," to John of Carlton, the land of
Dalmakeran and others. Tho.5C formed part of the earldom of Carriek. The
reddendo was yearly three suflicieiit sprars on Christmas day at the head
manor of Turnber3-,'and three suits yearly at the grauter's court at Girvan.
That charter was conP.niied by King Ib.ibert the Bruce at Scone on Gth July,
eighteenth year of his reign (1321). The original conrirmatiou charier is in
the charter-chest of Sir Keginald Cathcart of Carlton, Baroiwt, by whose
permission a facsimile is here introduced. The original is printed in the
Appendix to tliis volume, along with a translation.
Edward I'.ruce, Eail of Carriek and King of Ireland, left no legitimate
issue. But his three sous, I'lObert, Alexander, and Thomas, were successively
styled Earls of Cariick, Thomas died without issue, when the earldom of
Carriek re\'erleil to the crown.
Alexander Stewart, I-larl of ]\Iareh and I,ord of Anuandalc, second son of
King James the Second, was mad.e "Warden of the jMarcli by an act of parlia-