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496 CAMBRIDGE I.e. 'Arran and Cambridge" Earldom [S.], cr. 12 Apr. 1643 with the Dukedom of Hamilton [S.], resigned and regranted several times, the final novodamus being 10 Aug. 1698, under which it still [19 12] exists. X. 1659 to 1660. became extinct. DUKEDOM. I. Henry Stuart, 3rd s. of Charles I, b. 8 July 1640, is said to have been cr. by his br., Charles II, 13 May 1659, EARL OF CAMBRIDGE and Duke of Gloucester. He d. unm., 13 Sep. 1660, when his titles See "Gloucester," Dukedom of, cr. 1659; extinct 1660. I. Charles Stuart, ist s. and h, ap. of James, Duke OF York (afterwards James II), by his ist wife, Anne, I. 1660 da. of Edward (Hyde), Earl OF Clarendon, was ^. 22 Oct. to 1660, at Worcester House, in the Strand, Midx., and was 1661. i"^/). there I Jan. 1 660/1, the King and Queen being among his sponsors. He was designated DUKE OF CAM- BRIDGE, but d. an infant, before the patent was passed, at Whitehall, 5, and was bur. 6 May 1661, in Westm. Abbey, "without any solemnity."(^) DUKEDOM II. EARLDOM. XI. I. James Stuart, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap. of James, Duke of York (afterwards James II), by his ist wife, Anne abovenamed, was ^. at St. James's Palace, 11, and bap. 22 July 1663, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.(^) On 23 Aug. 1664, he was cr. BARON OF DAUNTSEY, co. Wilts, and EARL AND DUKE OF CAM- BRIDGE. Knighted at Whitehall, 3 Dec. 1666, when he was nom. K.G. He d. an infant, at Richmond Palace, 20, and was bur. 26 June 1667, in Westm. Abbey, when his honours became extinct. 1664 to 1667. DUKEDOM. ^ III. EARLDOM. XII. 1667 to 1671. I. Edgar Stuart, 4th but ist surv. s. and h. ap. of James, Duke of York (afterwards James II), by his ist wife, Anne abovenamed, was b. 14 Sep. 1667, at St. James's Palace. On 7 Oct. 1667, he was cr. BARON OF DAUNT- SEY, CO. Wilts, and EARL AND DUKE OF (*) "Exemplar diplomatispro Carolo primogenito Jacobi Ducis Eboraci in comitem et ducem Cantabrigiae evehendo; prae morte vero immatura dicti Caroli, sigillo regio nullatenus muniti." — Ashmole's Colls., Ashm. MS. No. 838, cited by Courthope. On his coffin-plate he is styled "Duke of Cambridge." C") Bap. as "Jacobus Stewart, Dux Cant, filius Jacobi Stewart, Due. Eborac. iifc, Natus fuit undecimo Die Julii 1663." This shews that he was already designated Duke of Cambridge. In Mrs. Dawson's diary, Reliquia Herniams, he is said to have been born at 20 minutes past one on the twelfth of July 1663.