38o BUCHAN 1549/50, she was betrothed to James Stewart, afterwards the "Regent Moray," but she subsequently m. (his uterine br.) Robert Douglas (2nd s. of Sir Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, by Margaret, da. of John (Erskine), Lord Erskine and de jure Earl of Mar [S.]), who in her right became EARL OF BUCHAN [S.], and was living as such, 7 Apr. 1 574 and 10 Mar. 1576/7. He ^. 18 Aug. 1580, at the Mills of Drum. His widow d. a month later, 20 Sep. 1580, at Aberdeen. XVIII. 1580. 5. James (Douglas), Earl OF BucHAN, yc. [S,], only s. and h., served h. to his mother 24 May 1588. He m., in 1598, Anne, ist da. of Walter (Ogilvy), ist Lord Ogilvy of Deskford [S.], by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of William (Douglas), Earl of Morton [S.]. He d. 26 Aug. 1601, being said to be only aged 21, and was bur. at Auchterhouse. M.I. His widow wz., 2ndly (cont. 3 Dec. 1608), as ist wife, Andrew (Gray), Lord Gray [S.], who d. 1663. She was living 22 Feb. 16 13/4. XIX. 1601. 6. Mary, suo jure Countess of Buchan, lyc. [S.], only da. and h. She ?«., before 161 7, James Erskine, who, in her right, became EARL OF BUCHAN [S.]. He was 2nd s. of John (Erskine), Earl of Mar [S.], being the ist s. of his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Esme (Stewart), Duke of Lennox [S.]. On 22 Mar. 161 7, they had a charter of the Earldom to themselves and the longest liver of them, with rem. to the h. male of their marriage, failing which to the nearest h. male of the Earl, and on 26 Nov. 1625 they had a new charter with the same limitation of the Earldom. On 8 July 1628, the Court of Session awarded the Earldom a higher precedency than had been allotted to it at "the decreet of Ranking" in 1606 (wherein the Countess, then a minor, was unrepresented), placing the ranking of the Earldoms of Eglintoun, Montrose, Cassillis, Caithness, and Glencairn below instead of above " Buchan. "(") This rank was ratified by Pari. 28 June 1633. The Countess d. 20 Aug. 1628, at Holyrood. The Earl w., 2ndly, Dorothy, da. of Sir Philip Knyvett, Bart., of Buckenham, Norfolk, by Katherine, da. and h. of Charles Ford, of Butley Abbey, Suffolk. She (/. before 1647, ^^^ 's doubtless the "D'na Bohan, bur. 4 Feb. 1638/9, at St. Mar- tin's-in-the-Fields. Admon. 23 Sep. 1647; again 22 Dec. 1649 ^^ ^^Lady Dorothy Bohun, late of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx. ;" again 24 June 1651, and finally as the '■^Countess Dorothy Bohane, 22 Aug. 1654, to her son Henry Erskine. The Earl d. Jan. 1639/40, in London, and was bur. at Auchterhouse. Admon. 23 Sep. 1647. (^) The effect of this is apparently to recognise the date of 1469 as that of the creation of this Earldom. The Earldoms of Rothes, Morton, and Menteith, next to which Buchan was thus placed, having been cr. before 1458, while the Earldom of Eglintoun, which was thus postponed to Buchan, was cr. in 1 508.
