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Книга по требованию: The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry K. G., K. T , Vol. 8

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Preserved at Drumlanrig Castle (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry K. G., K. T , Vol. 8: Preserved at Drumlanrig Castle

Between the year 1388 when William Douglas was provided to the barony of Drumlanrig and the present year 1895 when his lineal heir and representative, on the female side, His Grace William-Henry Douglas-Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, possesses the barony, upwards of five hundred years have elapsed. During these five centuries Drumlanrig has been successively held by no less than eighteen generations in this line of descent. These have been so successful in their acquisition of other baronies and territories within the county, that a historian of the time of William, first Marquis and Duke of Queensberry notes that the landed estates which were erected into the Dukedom of his Grace were of prodigious extent. The peerages also which were created in favour of successive owners of the Drumlanrig estates were rapidly progressive from the humble baron to the higher titles in turn of Viscount of Drumlanrig, Earl of Queensberry, Marquis of Queensberry, and finally Duke of Queensberry.

In one instance, that of James, second Duke of Queensberry, commonly known as the Union Duke, from his zeal and ability in carrying through the Union between Scotland and England, for his services in this connection had another Dukedom, Marquisate, and Earldom added to the Dukedom and Marquisate of Queensberry which he inherited. He was created in 1708 a British peer by the title of Duke of Dover, Marquis of Beverley, and Earl of Rippon. His younger son, Charles, who succeeded him as third Duke of Queensberry, had also additional honours conferred upon him. He was in 1706 created Earl of Solway, Viscount of Tibberis, and Lord Douglas of Lockerbie, Dalveen, and Thornhill. His present representative, the seventh Duke of Queensberry, also inherits the Dukedom of Buccleuch.

With such a long line of ancestors and so many titles and territories to deal with, it would be out of place in a mere Report on historical documents which the Queensberry family have acquired from time to time, to enter into any minute biographical details of the successive heads or members of the Douglases of Queensberry. Necessary explanation?, however, will be given on particular historical points and also on documents of special historical interest which emerge in the course of the Report.

The Douglases of Drumlanrig are a branch of the illustrious house of Douglas, Earls of Douglas. The barony of Drumlanrig before being acquired by William Douglas was an outlying territory of the still more ancient family of Mar, Earls of Mar. The extensive estates of the Earls of Mar lay chiefly in the Mar country and the Garioch, both in the county of Aberdeen.

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