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360 BRUS 1295, in Guisborough Priory. His widow, whose dower was settled by deed dated 29 Aug. 1296, (*) d. s.p. shortly before 6 July 1305. (*") BARONY BY 2. Sir Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, s. and WRIT. h. by ist wife, b. July I243.() He did homage and had , livery of his father's lands, 4 July I295.('^) Having »?., "-'■ istly, in 1271, Margery, i«oy«rf Countess OF Carrick [S.], he was sum. cum equis et armis from 6 Apr. (1282) 10 Edw. I to 17 Aug. (1294) 22 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrews- bury,() 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Roberto de Brus, comiti de Carrik". After his ist wife's death, he resigned the Earldom of Carrick to his son, and they, as Robert de Brus le veil, and Robert de Brus le jeouene. Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to Edward I, 28 Aug. 1296. He was sum. cum equis et armis from 15 May (1297) 25 Edw. I to 12 Mar. (1300/1) 29 Edw. I, and to Pari, from 24 June (1295) 23 Edw. I to 26 Aug. (1296) 24 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Salisbury,(*) 26 Jan. (1296/7) 25 Edw. I, by writs directed Roberto de Brus (only), by which summonses to Pari, he is held to have become LORD BRUS. He w., 2ndly, Alianore. He d. shortly before 4 Apr. 1304,0 aged 60, and was bur. in the Abbey of Holm Cultram. His widow w., without licence, between 2 Dec. 1 304 and 8 Feb. 1305/6,(5) Sir Richard le Waleys, of Burgh Wallis, CO. York [Lord Waleys]. She d. between 13 Apr. and 8 Sep. 1331.C') See " Carrick," Earldom of [S.]. IL 1304101306. 3. Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick [S.], Lord Brus [E.], s. and h., b. 11 July 1274, at Writtle, Essex. He did homage and had livery of his father's lands, 14 June I304.(') On 25 and 27 Mar. 1306, he was crowned King of Scotland. His estates in England had been taken into the King's hand, 20 Feb. 1 305/6. (') He d. 7 June 1329. See further particulars under "Carrick," Earldom of [S.]. (') Wednesday the feast of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist 24 Edw. I. {Clou Roll, 24 Edw. I, m. 7 d). 1^) Writ of diem cl. cxt, 6 July [Fine Roll, 33 Edw. I, m. 6); Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 117, no. 7. {^) " 1243. Isabella de Clara peperit R. de Brus filium nomine [Robertum] in Julio." {Annalei de Theokeiheria, p. 129). (^) Fine Roll, 23 Edw. I, m. 12. if) As to these supposed Parliaments, see Preface; and as to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any Peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. (') Jncient Correspondence, vol. xxv, no. 31. Writs of diem cl. ext. I May {Fine Roll, 32 Edw. I, m. 8): Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 1 13, no. i. (6) Patent Roll, 33 Edw. I, pars I, m. 22. Fine Roll, 34 Edw. I, m. 13. C") Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 28, no. 6: cf. file 27, no. 13. (') Fine Rolls, 32 Edw. I, /«. 4, 34 Edw. I, m. 13.