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directing the creation of Lords Home, Drummond, and Fyvie, as Earls of Home, Perth, and Dunfermline, and the enrolment of the patent creating the Earldom of Dunfermline. (Minutes, pages 13 & 15. Nos. 3 & 4.)

No. 8.-James Earl of Perth sat in Parliament as Earl of Perth, and had issue an only daughter Jaen, and was succeeded in the Earldom of Perth by his brother and heir male, John Drummond :

This is proved by the records of the Parliament of Scotland of 1610, the retourof the said John second Earl of Perth, as heir male to his brother James, then late Earl of Perth, dated the 11th of May 1612, and a Charter of King James VI., dated the 14th of January 1613, and the records of the Parliament of Scotland.. (Minutes, pages 17 & 19. Nos. 5, 6 & 7.)

No. 9.-John Earl of Perth sat in Parliament as Earl of Perth, and died in the year 1662, and was succeeded by his eldest son James, who thereupon became third Earl of Perth:

This is proved by the records of the Parliament of Scotland of the years 1612 and 1617, and by an instrument of Sasine in favour of James Earl of Perth, dated the 8th of November 1662. (Minutes, pages 191 & 27. Nos. 52, 53 & 8.)

No. 10.-James Earl of Perth died in 1675, and was succeeded by his eldest son James Drummond, who thereupon became fourth Earl of Perth,. and sat in Parliament as Earl of Perth:

This is proved by an instrument of Sasine in favour of the last-named James Earl of Perth, dated the 9th of November 1675, and the records of the Parliament of Scotland for 1686. (Minutes, pages 36 & 193. Nos. 9 & 56.)

No. 11.-James Lord Drummond, the eldest son and heir apparent of James: Earl of Perth, was attainted of high treason in 1715:

This is proved by the Act of Parliament 1 George I. Chap 32. (Minutes, page 55. No. 14.)

No. 12.-James Earl of Perth, who then bore the title of Duke of Perth, died on the 12th of May 1716:

This is proved by the act of his decease, registered in the Register of St.. Germain-en-Laye, and the inscription on the monument erected to his memory in the chapel of the Scotch College in Paris. (Minutes, pages 258 & 48. Nos. 61 & 11.)

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of Holyrood House and the pedigree of 1774. (Minutes, pages 187 & 371. Nos. 48 & 81.)

No. 18.-William Drummond, the third son of James the fourth Earl of Perth, died in his infancy, and Edward, the fourth son of the said Earl, who then bore the title of the Duke of Perth, died at Paris on the 6th of February 1760:

These facts are proved by the act of burial of the said William Drummond, registered at Versailles, the act of the marriage of the said Edward Drummond, the act of the burial of the said Edward Drummond, styled Duke of Perth, from the Registry of the parish of St. Margaret in Paris, and the discharge and renunciation of Lady Elizabeth Middleton, the widow of the said Edward Drummond. (Minutes, pages 362, 363, 261 & 108. Nos. 78, 79, 63 & 18.)

The retour of James Drummond Lundin, the decreet of declarator in favour of James Drummond, the son of the said James Drummond Lundin, and the grant of the Perth estates to the said James Drummond, afterwards Lord Perth, all hereafter mentioned, prove that the male line of James the fourth Earl of Perth failed on the death of Edward styled Duke of Perth.

No. 19.-John Drummond was the second son of James the third Earl of Perth, and was created on the 14th of April 1685 Viscount Melfort, and on the 12th of August 1686 Earl of Melfort, with a limitation of those dignities to him and the heirs male of his body by his second wife:

These facts are proved by a patent, appointing the said John Drummond a captain in the Foot Guards of Scotland, dated the 19th of September 1673, and the patents creating the said Viscounty and the said Earldom. (Minutes, pages 110, 111 & 112. Nos. 19, 20 & 21.)

No. 20.-King James the Second issued Letters patent, signed by himself, and dated at St. Germains on the 17th day of April 1692, by which he purported to create the said John Earl of Melfort, Duke of Melfort and Marquis of Forth, and the said John Earl of Melfort, then bearing the title of Duke de Melfort, died on the 5th of January 1714:

These facts are proved by the letters patent, and a copy of the act of decease of the said Earl of Melfort, Duke de Melfort, from the Registry of the parish of St. Sulpice at Paris. (Minutes, pages 114 & 262. Nos. 22 & 64.)