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Handwritten title page states: "An important Collection of Genealogical Papers by Alexander Sinclair chiefly relating to the Case of the Earldom of Mar. Printed for Private Circulation and Presented by the Author to his friend John Stuart LLD Principal Register of Deeds, Her Majesty's Register House, Edinburgh, with autographed handwritten letters by A.S. 1875-1878. Alexander Sinclair was born in Edinburgh in 1795 to SirJohn Sinclair, of Ulbster (the provocateur of the first Statistical Account of Scotland), and Diana, daughter of Lord Macdonald of the Isles. Alexander received his education at Musselburgh School and Edinburgh University. He was then a magistrate in the East India's service in the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. After this, he came back to Scotland and devoted himself to antiquarian and genealogical research. In his later years, he was an ardent supporter of John Goodeve-Erskine in the Earl of Mar controversy of 1875. He died in Edinburgh in 1877, in his 83rd year." So: Handwritten title page, handwritten content pages (2) of xxi papers as follows: I Observations on the Inheritance and position of the Most Ancient Earldom of Mar pp.20 II Z to the Earldom of Mar - Caithness, Buchan, Montgomery pp.16 III The Earldom of Mar; the difficulty (the only difficulty) considered pp.10 IV Appendix to the Earldom of Mar (Rothes, Errol, Gray &c pp.4 V Summary of the Case for the most Ancient Earldom of Mar pp.2 VI (On the continuity of the tight of female descent in the Earldom pp.6 VII Some particulars of the restoration of the Earldom in 1565 etc, VIII Preface to the Case of the Earldom of Mar - deemed too old to revive &c pp.18 IX Remarks on the petition of the Earl of Kellie, as being delusive pp .8 X Extracts from the Act (Mar) 1887 pp.4 XI New Position of the Earldom of Mar (similar in the main to IV) pp.12 XII The Earldom of Mar, the supposed difficulty explained pp. 10 XIII Similar to xvi pp.6 XIV On peculiarities in Names of Old pp. 4 XV Vindication as to Heirs Male in Peerages, and wives and widows names pp.36 XVI Are there two Earls of Mar? With an appendix pp.44 VVI Resume of the Earldoms of Mar XVII Heirs of the Royal House of Baliol pp.16 folding pedigree XVIII Remarks on the Tables in the preceding ?heirs of?.?. No. XVII pp.12 XIX Sketch of the Succession to the. Ancient Earldom of March pp.33 XX Genealogical Descent of the Royal. Line of Bruce. Loosely inserted is ?To the Peers of Scotland? 1879. pp.2 Bound in are two handwritten letters to John Stuart written and signed by the author, (1875), and a letter to Woodward from Bernard Burke at Dublin Castle (1878) (of Burke?s Peerage). Also a loose handwritten letter to Woodward from the Earl of Mar (signed) at Grosvenor Crescent Edinburgh (1886). Most papers have gift inscriptions to Stuart from Sinclair. John Stuart was born in November 1813 at Forgue, Aberdeenshire, and educated at Aberdeen University, and in 1836 became a member of the Aberdeen Society of Advocates. In 1853 he was appointed one of the official searchers of records in the Register House, Edinburgh, and in 1873 became principal keeper of the register of deeds. In 1854 he was appointed secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and was central to its operation. Quarter leather bound in green cloth; spine re-laid long ago with original gilt titling ?The Earldom of Mar? With bookplate of John Woodward. Marbled endpapers.See scans and email for more. Please note another similar collection of pamphlets from Sinclair and from the same source is also listed.
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