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176 DItUMM 015 D —DUBLIN. i.e. " DRUMMOND OF GILSTOUN." Barony [&] {Drummond), cr. 14 April 168.1, with the Viecodmcy of Melfort [S.] Sec " Melfort," Earldom of [S.l, cr. 16S6. i.e. "DRUMMOND OF RICCARTOUN, CASTLEMALN AND GILSTOUN," Barony [S.] {Drummond), cr. 12 Aug. 1G86, with the Earldom of Melfobt [S.j, which see. i.e. " DRUMMOND OF CROMLIX," Barony |S.] {Drummond), cr. 16 Aug. 1686, with the Viscouncy of Stbathallas [S.], which see. DRUMRY. i.e. " Kilbiuny, Kikgsbubn axd Drf/mry," Barony [S.], (Lindsay Crawford), cr. 10 April 1703, with the Viscovntcy of Mount-Crawford [S.], which last dignity was changed by patent, 26 Nov. 1703 to the Viscountcy of Gamock [S.], which Bee. DUBLIN. Marquessate.(") Robert (de Vere), 9th Earl of Oxford, was at. in j 1335 full Pari. 1 Dec. 1385, MARQUESS(») OF DUBLIN( b ) (with the ' ^ ' Lordship and domain of Ireland for the term_of Iris life) and was 138G. sum. hy that title to Pari, on 8 Aug. 1386. These letters pateut were, however, surrendered and cancelled a few months later and he was cr. 13 Oct. 1386, DUKE OF IRELAND^) with the (*) " Such is the proper mode of spelling this title, which has, however, only obtained generally within these few years. The amusing author of Heraldic Anomalies (vol. i, p. 218) gives the present [18-14] Duke of Marlborough when Marquis [sic] of Blandford [1817-1840] the credit of having been among the first to revive the old and correct mode of writing it. Marquis was not only incorrect but objectionable, not only as being more French than English, and (tho' a high title) in France not only more common than in England, but one so frequently adopted as a travelling title as to give rise to a verb ' se marquiscr,' to assume the title of Marquis." See a (very carefully compiled) work by William J. Thorns, F.S.A., entitled " The Hook of the Court," 2d edit., 1S44, p. 96. On the other hand a well kuewn Antiquary (Mr. H. Gough) considers the adoption of the form Marquess to be "rather unfortunate" as "according to the old English practice it was the feminine form, cj., the Lady Marquesse of Winchester." Under which of these two forms the word " Marchio" is most properly to be rendered in English may be doubtful, yet inasmuch as Winchester " is the only Marquessate [E. or G. B. or U. K.] existing [save some few that are enjoyed with certain Dukedoms] earlier than 1784, after and long before which period, the patents being in English, each one (it is believed) of that grade was created "Marquess," it seems foolish not to follow universally the form adopted by the House of Lords in which (see Garter's Roll) Winchester (as well as others of the same grade) is Btyled "Marquess" not "Marquis." None of the Irish Marquessates are of greater antiquity than 1789 (tho' within twelve years from that date no less than nine were created) so that none consequently were created by patents written in Latin. (•>) This was the first MarquesBate cr. in this realm. See p. 147, note "a," sub "Dorset" Marquessate of, cr. 1397. (°) This was the first Dukedom conferred on ono who was not of the Royal Family but the same king (Richard II.) in 1397 a: in one day no less than five Dukedoms, viz., Hereford, Surrey, Exeter, Albemarle, and Norfolk, of which only two (Here- ford, Albemarle) were , by male descent, of the house of Plantagenet.