i8 CARDIGAN VIII. 1868. 8. George William Frederick (Brudenell-Bruce), Marquess of Ailesbury, Earl of Cardigan, dsfc, cousin and h., being s. and h. of Charles, ist Marquess of Ailesbury, who was only s. and h. of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, which Thomas was 4th and yst. s. of George, 3rd Earl of Cardigan, being br. to the 4th and 5th Earls of Cardigan. See "Ailesbury," Marquessate of, cr. 1821, under the 2nd Marquess. Family Estates. — These, in 1863, consisted of 7,210 acres in North- ants; 2,931 in CO. Leicester, and 5,583 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Total 15,724 acres, worth ;^35,357 a year. These, by the will of the 7th Earl, devolved on his widow for life, with rem. to trustees for 2 1 years to accumulate, rem. to Robert Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 4th s. of Ernest, afterwards Marquess of Ailesbury, with other remainders. Principal Resi- dence. — Deene Park, near Wansford, Northants. Note. — The ruins of Kirkstall Abbey andi2 acres were sold for ^^ 10,000, and the Abbey House for ^^3,500, in Dec. 1888, by the trustees of the Cardigan estates, to Col. North, who presented them for the use of the city of Leeds, from which the Abbey is but three miles distant. CARDROSS BARONY [S.] I. John (Erskine), Earl of Mar [S.], obtained, 27 Mar. 1604, from the Crown, a charter creating him I. 1606 Lord of CardrossQ together with a grant of the lands of or the Priory of Inchmahome and of the Abbeys of Dry- 1610. burgh and Cambuskenneth. This grant, which of itself was invalid, was confirmed by Act of Pari. 9 July i6o6,() the lands being erected into the Barony of Cardross, and the Earl, his heirs and successors therein, being granted the dignity of a Lord of Pari, to be called LORD OF CARDROSS [S.]. A new charter of the lands and title was therein ordered to be made, which on 10 June i6io,('^) was done. By it the Barony of Cardross was granted to the Earl and his heirs male and assignees whatsoever, with the rights, <yc., of a Lord of Pari. He nominated, accordingly, as his successor in that dignity (^) (reserving his (^) This charter (Reg. Sec. Sig. Ixxiv, 8966), creates the Earl " ipsius heredes masculos assignatos et successores quoscunque in predictis terris, dominos et barones dicti dominii et baronie de Cardross, ac ipsis honorem ... ad liberum dominum et baronem spectantem concedimus, cum . . . potestate ... in parliamentis, feCc, sedendi ac votum et suffragum habendi." {ex inform. J. Maitland Thomson). V.G. H 9 July 's the date of the Act in the record as printed, 1 1 July in the table of contents, 19 July in Wood's Douglas, {ex inform. J. Maitland Thomson). V.G. {^) This appears to be the first valid charter; no earlier one occurs in the Great Seal Register [S.]. {ex inform. G. Burnett, sometime Lyon). (^) See as to this class of Peerage [S.], vol. ii, p. 291, note "c," sub "Breadal- bane." It may be noted that the terms of the charter of 1 6 10, though they have been held valid to give the power of nomination, do so less explicitly than in any other instance.
