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CARNWATH 49 CARNEGY OF KINNAIRD and CARNEGY OF KINNAIRD AND LEUCHARS BARONY [S.] I. Sir David Carnegy, of Kinnaird, was, on 14 Apr. J jg^g 16 16, fr. LORD CARNEGY OF KINNAIRD [S.] to him and his heirs male bearing the name and arms of I. 1633. Carnegy.(^) On 22 June 1633 he was cr. EARL OF SOUTHESK, LORD CARNEGY OF KINNAIRD AND LEUCHARS [S.] to him and his heirs male for ever. See "South- ESK," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1633. CARNWATH EARLDOM [S.] i. Robert, Master of Dalzell, s. and h. of Robert, Lord Dalzell [S.], so cr. 18 Sep. 1628, L 1639. by Margaret, da. of Sir Robert Crichton, of Cluny, had,in i634and 163 5, charters of the Barony of Carnwath. He sue. his father in the Barony between July 1635 ^""^ J^^^V 1636. On 21 Apr. 1639 he was cr. EARL OF CARNWATH [S.], with limitation to him and his heirs male bearing the name and arms of Dalzell. C') He was accused in June 1 643 by the Scottish Convention of betraying the designs of the Scots to the King, and they, on his retiring to England, fined him

^ 10,000 Scots. On 25 Feb. 1645, he was ^^ forfeit" sentenced to death, &?c.,

the act providing "that his only lawful son, Gavin, Lord Dalzell, shall enjoy not only all the estates but the title of Earl as if his father were dead."(°) He fought at the battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645, the loss of which is attributed, by Lord Clarendon, to his hindering the King from charging the enemy at the head of his Guards. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester, 3 Sep. 1651, and committed to the Tower, whence on 25 June 1652, he was allowed to go to Epsom to drink the waters. He m., istly, Christian, 3rd da. of Sir William Douglas, of Hawick, by Margaret (tocher 20,000 marks), da. of James Gordon, of Lochinvar. He w., 2ndly, Katherine, da. of John Abington, of Dowdeswell, co. Gloucester. He was bur. 21 June 1654, at St. Margaret's, Westm. Admon. 30 Oct. 1660 to (f) Being erected " in Baronem moyarfOT et Dominum Parliamenti," a peculiar and probably unique form, marking, very clearly, the distinction between the Greater and the Lesser Barons of Scotland. C') The proof that it was he (and not his father, as has hitherto been stated in all previous accounts, including the recent Scots Peerage) who was created Earl, has been kindly furnished to the Editor by J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D. The person who was Master of Dalzell 1 1 July 1 635 (Reg. Mag. Sig.) was Lord Dalzell at the date of his son's marriage contract, 21 July 1637 (Reg. of Deeds, 526, 69); and the first Lord Dalzell was dead July 1636 (Lanark Sas., Upper Ward, III, 342). "It there- fore follows as the night the day " that it was Robert the son who was created Earl of Carnwath 21 Apr. 1639. V.G. i^) See note by the late R. R. Stodart in Foster's Coll. Gen., p. 52, and see also an article by the late Col. Chester at p. 31 of the same work. 7