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DUNBAR 509 and of Shrewsbury, 23 July 1403. After the death of Robert III in 1406, he treated with the Regent Albany [S.] for restoration to Scotland. This, however, was not effected without his resigning, to the all powerful Earl of Douglas, the Lordship of Annandale, the Castle of Lochmaben, (^c, by charter 2 Oct. 1409. In 141 1 he was one of the Commissioners for a truce with England. He m. Christian, da. of Alan de Seton (formerly Wintoun), by Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Alex. Seton, of Seton. She was living 7 Mar. 1401/2. He d'. about 1416 or 1420, and certainly before 31 Mar. 1423, aged about 80. X. 1420. 10. George (Dunbar), Earl of March, or Dunbar to [S.], s. and h., L about 1370, being about 50 in 1420. 1435. ^^' ^h° ^^^ knighted at the Coronation of James 1, con- sented in 1409 (with his father) to the alienation of the Lordship of Annandale to the Earl of Douglas. He was employed in negotiating the freedom of James I, whom he met at Durham, in 1424, on his return to Scotland. He was arrested with the Duke of Albany [S.], but sat on his trial in May 1425; was in frequent embassies to England, and was, in 1430, one of the sponsors of Prince James, afterwards James II. In 1434, however, the King, on the pretence of his holding an Earldom and estates which had been forfeited by his father's treason, whose pardon being by a Regent only (not an actual King) was alleged to be invalid, seized his lands, had the case referred to Pari., by which it was declared at Perth, 10 Jan. 1434/5, that the Earldom and estates vitre forfeited. (^^) At the same time the King conferred on him " the empty title " of Earl of Buchan, but he never assumed it, and within 10 years it was granted elsewhere. The Earl fled to England, retaining only the Barony of Kilconquhar, co. Fife, held from the Bishop of St. Andrews. He m. Beatrice, who d. before 1421. On 7 Aug. 1 42 1 he had lie. to marry Alice, da. of Sir William Hay, of Yester, but it is uncertain if this marriage ever took place. He d. between 1455 and 1457, aged over 80, having had since 9 Apr. 1449 (when he was styled Comes Marchiarum et Dominus de Kilconquhar) an annuity of 400 marks out of the revenues of the Earldom. [Patrick Dunbar, of Kilconquhar, co. Fife, s. and h., was witness to a charter, 10 Oct. 1423, and even after his father's attainder was styled grandmother to Henry IV, to which King, therefore, the writer was third cousin once removed. It must be noted that the word " Graunde-dame " means Great-grand- mother. (See Jamieson's Scott. Diet.). The word " Gudame " would have been used for GraWmother. The letter is in facsimile in the Nat. MSS. [S.], Part ii, No. 53. (*) There can be no doubt that the conduct of these Earls — "as pre-eminent in their power, as precarious in their loyalty " — had made the King resolved to compass their annihilation. James I had, indeed, small scruple in doing this, and other acts of a like nature, and paid the penalty thereof by being, but two years later (1437), murdered in revenge for his unjust seizure of the Earldom of Stratherne [S.] from the right heir.