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upon him by the restorer of the monarchy, since he died on the 9th of De-
cember 1331, as we know from Fordun (e). He was succeeded as Earl of An-
gus and Lord of Bonkill by his son Thomas, who lived daring very disastrous
times. In 1353, he married, by a dispensation from the pope, Margaret Sinclair
of Roslin (f); and dying of the plague a prisoner in Dumbarton castle, in
1361, he left by his wife, the Countess Margaret, a son, Thomas, who succeeded
him as Earl of Angus and Lord of Bonkill, with two daughters, Margaret and
Elizabeth (g). This second Thomas, who married a daughter of the Earl of
Mar, died without issue in 1377 (h); and he was now succeeded as Lord of
Bunkle by his eldest sister, Margaret, who married, for her first husband,
Thomas, Earl of Mar, by whom she had no issue; and, for her second husband,
William, the first Earl of Douglas, by whom she had a son, George, who was
the heir of Bunkle. This Earl of Douglas died in 1384, and his and her son,
George, obtained in 1389, upon his mother's resignation, a charter from
Robert II. of the earldom of Angus, the lordship of Abernethy, and the barony
of Bunkle (i). There remains a curious contract, in 1397, between Robert III.
and Margaret, Countess of Mar and of Angus, for the marriage of her son,
George, to a daughter of the Scottish king (k). Robert III. was thus induced to
grant to George Douglas, and the heirs of his marriage, the earldom of Angus,
the lordship of Abernethy, and the barony of Bunkle, with the advowson of the
churches within those territories to be held in a free regality (l). From that
by the name of John Styward, Dominus de Bonkill. See the Dispens. in And. Stuart's Genealog.
Hist., App. 430 ; and he assisted, as Earl of Angus, at the coronation of David II. on the 24th of
November 1331, as we learn from Fordun, 1. xiii., c. 21. Crawfurd in his Peerage was misled by a
loose expression in Fordun, to say that Sir John Stewart of Bonkill was created Earl of Angus at the
coronation of David II.
(e)  L. xxii., c. 21.    When the pretender to the Scottish crown, Edward Baliol, broke into Scotland,
he granted on the 20th October  1332, the manor of Bunkle, which John Stewart of Bonkill had
forfeited by his opposition to his pretensions, to Sir Thomas Ughtred, an active instrument on that
occasion of the English king, and of his puppet Edward Baliol.    See the Inspeximus Charter of
Edward III, 1340, in Rym., v., 177-8.
(f)  See the Dispensation in And. Stuart's Geneal. Hist., App., 435.
(g) Crawf. Peer., 9 ; Dougl. Peer., 21.
(h) Id.    And. Stuart's Geneal. Hist., 58.                               (i) Ib., 59.
(k) The original is in Lord Douglas's Archives : " Att Edynburgh ye xxiiii day of May ye yeir of
our Lord a thousand thri hunyr nynty & seven mad waryir Amandys unerurityn betwyx a nobill & ex-
cellent Prince Robert throw ye grace of God Kyng of Scotys of the ta'pte a'd Margarette contas of Mar
& of Angus of the toyir p'te yt is to say," &c. George of Douglas, Lord of Angus, in pursuance of
this contract, married the Lady Mary, the king's daughter.
(l) Roberts. Index, 139 ; Crawf. Peer., 9.