CARRICK 59 EARL OF CARRICK, &€. [S.]. He is, however, never designated either as "Ear/ of Carrick" or "Duke of Rothesay " but always as "Prince, or "Steward of Scotland." On 4 Apr. 1406 he sue. to the throne as King James I, when his Peerage dignities (if any) merged in the Crown. Robert Stuart, Prince of Scotland, 3rd s. of King James VI, b. 18 Feb., and^. 27 May 1602, appears to have been designated DUKE OF KINTYRE, MARQUESS OF WIGTON and EARL OF CARRICK [S.]. See under Kintyre. [By Act of Pari. [S.] 27 Nov. 1469 it was declared that "The Earl- dom of Carrick." [S.] and other lands and lordships therein mentioned should be annexed for ever to the first born princes of the Kings of Scotland, and "it is understood that from this period the Dukedom of Rothesay, the Earldom of Carrick, the Lordship of the Isles and Barony of Renfrew" [S.] were so vested, with the privilege of a Peer of Scotland.(*) See under "Rothesay," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1469.] CARRICK (in Orkney) [Scotland] EARLDOM [S.] i. John Stewart, 2nd surv. s. of Robert (Stewart), Earl of Orkney [S.], by Janet, da. of Gilbert (Ken- I. 1628 nedy), 3rd Earl of Cassillis [S.], was, being h. to presumptive to his br., sometimes styled Master of 1644 Orkney, and having had grants of the dominical lands or of the Monastery of Crossregal, ^c, was, on 10 Aug. 1645. 1607, cr. Lord Kincleven [S.J-C") On 22 July 1628, he was cr. EARL OF CARRICK (in Orkney) [S.]. This dignity was called in question at the Privy Council, as being the proper style of the eldest son of the King of Scotland and one not communicable to any subject. The difficulty is supposed () to have been got over by an explanation that an imaginary place in Orkney, called "Carrick," was the territory intended; at all events, on 14 Dec. 1 630, he received his patent from (=>) Wood's Douglas, vol. ii, p. 436. (•>) This Barony (as also that of Balfour of Burleigh) was created without any men- tion of heirs, and Lord Kincleven sat (by proxy) in the Pari. [S.] of 4 Aug. 1621, between Lord Balfour of Burleigh (entered on the roll as Lord Burlie), cr. 16 July 1607, and Lord Holyroodhouse, cr. 20 Dec. 1607. See Hewlett, pp. 52-56, where it is remarked that "by the law of Scotland the grant of a heritable subject [which a Scottish peerage is] to a person without mention of heirs is a grant to htm and his heirs." The grantee's only da. and h., Margaret, m. Sir Matthew Mennes, K.B. (who d. 1648), and had an only child, Margaret, a minor and unm. in 1645/6, and then heir to the Countess, who m. Sir John Heath, of Brasted, Kent, and (f. 1676, leaving Margaret, her da. and h., who m. George (Verney), 4th Lord Willoughby (of Broke), and was ancestress of the succeeding Lords. (■=) Wood's Douglas, vol. i, p. 322.
