526 DUNDEE the least we could do for his family and yours was to admit you to the num- ber of the Earls and Peers of our Kingdom of Scotland. You ought not to doubt that it was with pleasure, we have granted you the title of Earl of Dundee for yourself and your successors." He was cr. K.T. (titular) loMayiyoS. He w., about 1706/7, ( — ). Shed', in childbed, June 1709. He d. 1740, shortly before 14 Aug. His s. and h., who was b. May 1709 (James 111 being sponsor), was Inquisitor of the order of Malta, 16 Aug. 1740. DUNDONALD BARONY [S.] I. .647. EARLDOM [S, I. 1669. I. William Cochrane, 2nd s.^") of Alexander Blair, afterwards Cochrane, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Cochrane, of Cochrane, co. Renfrew, had charters of the Barony of Cochrane, 19 Dec. 1642; he was of Cowdon; was M.P. for co. Ayr 1644, in the Scottish Pari., and again 1656, sitting as such, though a Scottish peer, in the English House of Commons.C") Hewasbypatentdat. at CarisbrookCastle,2 6 Dec. 1647, cr. LORD COCH- RANE OF DUNDONALD [S.], with rem. to the heirs male of his body. He was one of the " Engagers " for Charles I. He acquired, in 1653, the Lordship of Paisley, where he lived in great splendour, being fined by Crom- well's "Act of Grace" no less than ^^5,000, afterwards reduced to ;^i,666. A Commissioner of the Treasury [S.] 1667-82. He was cr., 12 May 1669, EARL OF DUNDONALD, and LORD COCHRANE OF PASELEY AND OCHILTRIE [S.], with rem. of those dignities to the heirs male, which failing to the eldest heirs female, without division, of his body, and the heirs male of such heirs female, bearing the name and arms of Cochrane {^^ qua semper tenebuntur"), all which failing, to his nearest heirs whatsoever. He m., about 1633, after 14 Apr., Eupheme, da. of Sir William Scott, of Ardross, CO. Fife, by Jean, da. of Sir John Skene, of Curriehill. Hed. 1686, and was bur. at Dundonald. His widow surv. him some years. [William Cochrane, styled Lord Cochrane, ist s. and h. ap.; ed. at Glasgow Univ. 1648. Commissioner for Excise 1660. He w., in 1653, 1690, which James, of course, would not have recognized) was then in existence, had been held by the gallant Claverhouse, and was then held by his successor, also an active supporter of the Stuart cause. The explanation doubtless is that James imagined the title to have become extinct in 1700. V.G. (») His elder brother. Sir John Cochrane, a Col. in the army of Charles I, and an attendant on Charles II (when in exile, 1650), d. s.p., before the Restoration. There were also five other brothers (seven sons in all), of whom no less than four were also in the Royal army, one of them, Col. Sir Bryce Cochrane, losing his life therein in 1650. C") See note sub II Viscount Falkland.
