STRATHERNE. 287 XIH. 13SS? 2. Euphemia, iuo jure Countess Palatine of to Stratiikiink and Cocntess ok Caithness [S.] only da. and h., b. 1110? before 137 .">. She resigned, after 1990, being then unmarried, the Earldom 0/ c'a i'M new [S.] t: 1 109 ; forfeited 1 137. [By Act of Pari. [S.] 4 Aug. 1455 the Earldom (i.e., the territorial Earldom] of Stiiathf.iini-: was annexed to the Crown.] i.e., " ABEBNETHY AND STRATHERNE "() Barony [8.1 J see "lfoBJkt " Karldom of [S.j, cr. 1562. Earldom [S.] 2. WlLUAM (GRAHAM ), EaKL OF MeNTKITH [S.], XVI. 1C31 9 f ' ,tner "> that dignity in 1598, being 7th in descent tn ' from Malise, K.utt. ok Menteitm and, sometime (1413-25), Karl 1/; ob OK Stratherne [S.] abovenamed. He obtained a patent 31 July 1691, ratifying and approving "to him and his heirs male and of entail" the style of KARL OF STRATHERNE AND MENTEITII [S,]. This patent, however, as well as the retoar on which it was founded (which found the Karl to he heir of David, cr. KaHL OF Stratherne, in 1371 ) was "reduced" bv the Court of Session 22 May 1(133. and the Karl aiul his heirs were ordained " to be called in all times com'ing EARLS OF AIKTH [S.] See fuller particulars under " M kntkitii " Earldom of [S.% cr. 1427. i.e., "CUMBERLAND AND STRATIIEARN " Dukedom; see under "Cumberland," Dukedom of, cr. 176G ; ex. 1700. (") This was upset by patent 31 July 1631, which again was set aside by the Court of Session 22 May 1633. See in text under the date of 1631. ( b ) The "Stratherne" here mentioned is not the ancient district in co. Perth, but one ill c... Moray, now called ST It ATI! DEAN. See Kxeh. Molls [S.J VI, preface, p. cvij. The charter of 17 April 1011. changing the line of succession to the dignities of the Earldom of Moray, &c., granted to the then Earl " totas et integras Comitatum et dominum de Murray, dominium de Abernethy et Dominium de Stratherne," being a late example of a Charter obviously intended to grant dignities as well as lands.
