BREADALBANE 291 cr. EARL OF BRAE D'ALBANE [sic] AND HOLLAND,(=) VIS- COUNT OF TAY AND PAINTLAND.C) LORD GLENURCHY, BENEDERALOCH, ORMELIE AND WEICK[S.], With z spec. proviso (similar to one contained in the first patent) viz. a power for him to nominate as successor (^) any younger son, by his (then deceased) ist wife and the heirs male of the body of such son, with a rem. to the heirs male of his own body, rem. to his heirs waZ?, rem. to his h&rswhatsoever.(f) P.C. [S.] 1685. (^) The choice of the title of " Holland" being that of the Earldom enjoyed by his late wife's family, which Earldom (though in 1673 it had become merged in that of "Warwick") did not become extinct till 1759, seems unaccountable. G.E.C. Very possibly the name is taken from Holland in Orkney, which may have come into his hands from the Earl of Caithness. V.G. C') The place so designated is Pentland, which gives its name to the well-known Pentiand Firth. In the proceedings regarding the claim to the Peerage of Breadal- bane in 1862, this title is sometimes spelt Pentland. (') This is one of the class of Peerages [S.] in which the grantees were authorized to nominate their successors in the dignities granted. Chronologically arranged they appear to be comprised in the following list. 1604, July 7. Hume of Berwick, Barony. No nomination made. 1610, June ID. Cardross, Barony. Nomination made 30 Jan. 1617/8. 1646, July 31. RoxBURGHE, Earldom. Nomination made 23 Feb. 1648. To this dignity that of a Dukedom was attached, 25 Apr. 1707. 1661, Jan. ig. Rutherford, Barony. Nomination made 23 Dec. 1663. Dor- mant 1724. 1663, Nov. 3. [Query 13 Nov. 1666. See Riddell, p. 85, note, and Wood's Douglas, vol. ii, p. 666.] Erroll, Earldom, new destination of. Nomina- tion made 13 Feb. 1675, which (though it did not receive any subsequent sanction from the Crown) was, on 19 May 1797, held to be valid by the House of Lords. 1670, Dec. 5. Dysart, Earldom, regrant of. No nomination made. 1672, May 30. KiNGHORNE, Earldom. No nomination made. By charter, I July 1677, this Earldom was designated as "Strathmore and King- home." 1681, Aug. 18. Breadalbane, Earldom. Nomination made 14 July 1685. 1688, May 16. Sempill, Barony, regrant of. No nomination made. 1706, June 17. Queenseerry, Dukedom. Nomination made. 1706/7, Feb. 27. Stair, Earldom, regrant of; but, in this case, the nomination dated 31 Mar. 1747, was (as being made after the Union with Scotland) declared, on 4 May 1748, by the House of Lords, " not valid in law." Along with these should, perhaps, be classed the Barony of Dingwall. Adam (Keith), Lord Dingwall, had 24 Nov. 1591, on his resignation, a charter of his lands and titles "suis haeredibus masculis et assignatis quibuscumque," under which he assigns them both to Sir William Keith of Delney, who had, accordingly a charter of the same, 22 Jan. 1592/3. See also an article on this class of Peerage in Her. and Gen., vol. iii, pp. 522-527. (^) There is a curious proviso that, in the event of the nonpossession of the family estate of Glenurchie, half of these honours {viz. Breadalbane, Tay, Glenurchie, and Benederaloch) should cease, and the other half (wi'z. Holland, Paintland, Ormelie, and Weick _i.e. Wick] remain. See Riddell, p. 220, and compare the grants of the
