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88 ANGLESEY— ANGUS. Boulogne-sur-Mer. He m. thirdly, 26 June 18S0, also at the British Embassy, Paris Minnie, widow of Hon. Henry Wodehouse, da. of J. I'. King of Sandhills, Georgia, U.S., America. [Emm Cyril Paget, styled EAEL OF UXBRIDGE, 8. and h. by 2nd wife, 4. 16 June, 1S75.] Family Estate*. These, in 1883, consisted of about 1,000 acres in Dorset, worth about £S00 a year ; about 10.00U acres in Anglesey, worth about £10,000 a year, and about l.fiOO acres ill Derbyshire, and 17,f>00 in Staffordshire, worth, together, about .£100,000 a year. Total "about 30,000 acres, worth about 110,000 a year. Sec Bateman's " Great Landowners." Principal Residences : Beaudcsert Park, near Lich- field, co. Stafford; Plas Ncwydd, c. Anglesey. ANGRE. Jony he Kii'Aiuis, mini, to Pari., 1290-1307, is styled in the celebrated letter to the Tope (2!) Ed. I), " DOMINUS DE ANQRE." SeuJ' RIVERS." AXOTJS. This was one of the seven original Earldoms of Scotland which, more or less, represented the seven provinces (melt province consisting of two districts), of the Pietish Kingdom, afterwards called Ausan, into which, prior to the ninth century, "transmarine Scotland " (i.e. the country north of the Firth of Forth anil the Firth of Clyde) was by seven brothers divided. ( a ) These divisions were: (1) Axcds (being the name of the eldest brother), now co. Forfar, with Me.uins, now co. Kincardine ; (2) AlHOIS with GiiWHV, now the north and east part of Perthshire ; (8) StRATHWUH with Menteith, now the southern part Perthshire : (4) Five with Fouikkye, both of which now form the county of Fife; (5) Mak with Buchan, now (together) forming Aberdeenshire and Banffshire ; (6) Moit.w (Muref or Moreb) with Ross, now Invornessskire and Kosshire ; and (7) Caithness with SDTHKRLASD. The district on the west being the Kingdom of Dalriada (now part of Argyllshire), is here omitted ; but in the tenth century the province of Aiiheg.uthkl (Argyll) was added, which included not only the Dalriada, but the entire western seaboard of Scotland M far north as the old province of Caithness, which latter province was then omitted, having previously passed into the hands of the Norwegians. The ruler of each of these districts originally bore the title of " Hi " (i.e. King), being inferior only to the "Annul" (i.e. Supreme King); but in the tenth century (with the exception of Argyll, and occa- sionally of Moray) each such ruler was styled "Moumaeb," i.e. Great Maer or Steward. During the reign of Alexander I, in the foundation charter of the monastery of Scone bearing date either 1114 or 1115, the Moumaeus of most of these provinces occur for the first time under the name of Earls. This charter was granted " with the consent of nine persons, two of whom have the simple designation of lipiscopus [being] followed by seven otherR, six of whom have the word Comes, or Earl, after their names, and the only one who is nut so designated is Gospatriek, whom we know to have been at the time Eaui, of Dunbar, and who probably represented that part of Lothian attached to Alexander's Kingdom. The other six must of course have represented the districts of transmarine Scotland which properly formed Alexander's dominions The six persons who bear the title of Comes, are Beth, Mallus, Madach, ltothri, Gartnach, and Dufugan, and of these we can identify four,"( a ) i i:. (Mallus) Sthatherne ; (Madach) Athole ; (Rothri) Mar ; and (Gartnach) Buchan. Doubtless another was (Dufugan), Angus. "Beth, Comes" is difficult of strict identification, not improbably he was Earl of Fife, but possibly Karl of Moray.! 1 ') In this early part of the 12th century, out of the seven original provinces founded by the seven brothers, Caithness, was certainly, and Mokay probably (though Fife possibly) wanting ; the two vacant places being supplied by Dunbah (from the Lowlands) and by Buchan, which had previously become separated from Mar. (") " Celtic Scotland," by W. F. Skene, ix.D. (3 vols. 8vo., 1880), vol iii, chap, ii, *» In this is a map shewing the seven ancient divisions. From this invaluable work most of the above remarks are taken. (b) See (as to the Earldom of Moray) Skene's " Celtic Scotland," vu.1 iii, pug* 6% note 36.