LOVAINE — LOVAT. 159 LOVAINE OF ALNWICK. Barony. 2. Hugh (Percy formerly Sjiitiison), 1st Duke of 1 1784- Northumberland (so a: 1766); was a:, 28 Jan. 1784, LORD • ' LOVAINB.C) BARON OF ALNWICK, CO. Northumberland, with spec. rem. to hia second son, Lord Algernon Percy, and the heirs male of hia body. He d. 6 June 1786, aged 74. II. 178(>. 2. Algernon (Percy), Lord Lovaine, Baron of Alnwick, second sou but heir to the aboveuamed dignity, according to the spec. rem. in its creation; 4. 21 Jan. 1750, was «-., 2 Nov. 1790, EARL OF BEVERLEY, co. York. See that title. LOVAT, or FBA8ER OF LOVAT. Barony [S.] 2. Hugh Fkaser,^) of Lovat,( c ) s. and h. of Thomas t 1 a{ i Frasku.C) uf the same; sue. his father about 1456 and was made a ' Lord of Pad. [S.] between 1468 and 1464(°) as LORD LOVAT or LORD FRASEB OF LOVAT [S ] He was living 3 March 1472 16 Dec. 1491, and 1 Nov. 1499, but d. before 30 April 1501. II. 1500? 2. Thomas (Fkaser), Lord Lovat [_S.], s. and h., being infeft, as such, on .'JO April 1501 ; Justiciary of the north of Scotland during the reign of James IV. [S.] Ho m. firstly, before Oct. 1501 (at which date she was living) Janet, da. of Sir Alexander Gordon, of Midtnar. He m. secondly, before 6 May 1509, Joueta, widow of Alexander Blair, da. of Andrew (Gray), Loud Okay [S.], by his second wife, Elizabeth, da. of John (Stewart), Earl of Atiiole [S.] He d- 21 Oct. 1524. His widow m. (thirdly 1 ! as his first wife David (Lindsay), 9th Earl of CRAWFORD [S.], who d. Sep. 1558. Her will is dat. 5 Feb. 1549. III. 1524. 3. Hugh (Eraser), Lord Lovat [S.I, 1st surv. a. and h( r ), by first wife, served heir 10 Jau. l r 24/5. He resigned his estates, which were incorporated into a Barony and regranted to him 20 March 1539, with rem. to his heirs male whatsoever, whom failing to his heirs whatsoever. He was {*) The grantee was, thro' the families of Smithsou, Seymour, and Percy, descended from the house of Lovaine, Dukes of Brabant. ( b ) The account of the earlier Lords as given in Burke's " Peerage " for 1884 (ct post) which was corrected by George Buruett, Lyon, is here followed. This differs a good ileal from that in Wood's " Doujlas." ( c ) The tower and fort of Lovat, near the Beauly in Iuveruess-shire, was possessed by Sinmii Eraser who was slaiu at Halidon hill in 1338. ( d ) He was 3. and h. of Hugh Eraser, of Lovat, who on 13 Dec. 1423, had safe conduct to meet King James I. [S-] at Durham, and who (having m. iu 1416 Janet, sister and coheir of William Feuton), d. before 1440. (°) The precedence assigned to Lovat iu the decreet of ranking, 1606, was, however, a somewhat low one, viz., the 18th out of the 37 Baronies therein mentioned, being betweeu Lord Oliphaut and Lord Ogilvy. Simon, the 6th Lord Lovat, protested 9 Jan. 1030, before the Court of Session against the precedence of 12 (Saltoun, Ochiltree, Gray, Carleill, Yester, Forbes, Cathcart, Sempill, Hemes, Elphinstoue, Oliphaut, and Sinclair), of the 17 Barons thus placed above him, while of the remaining five, four (Glands, Fleming, Crichton of Sauipihar, and Maxwell), were merged at that date in a higher peerage dignity, leaving but one (Lindsay of the Byres) whose precedency over bin he acknowledged. The Barony of Lovat is placed eleventh on the Union Roll of 1 May 1707, Forbes, Saltoun, Gray, Ochiltree, Cathcart, Sinclair, Mordington, Sempill, Elphinstoue, and Oliphaut, being ranked above it. {<) llis elder br., Thomas Eraser, Master of Lovat, d. unm. v. p., being (as also his uncle, Hugh Eraser, s. of the first Lord) killed at Elodden field, 9 Sep. 1513. See p. 63, note " b," su6 " Leuuo* " for a list of the Scotch nobles and their eldest sous there slaiu.
