The Earl of MorayLord of Scone
(other titles are peerages)
The Rt Hon The Earl of Moray (John Douglas Stuart, 21st Earl of Moray, Lord Abernethy, Lord Strathdearn, Lord Doune, Lord St Colme, Baron Stuart of Castle in the peerage - Lord of Scone in the baronage of Scotland)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Moray
Credentials
- • RPS, 1605/6/105 (9 July 1606) rps.ac.uk/trans/1605/6/105 ; RMS vii, no. 645, p. 239 (29 April 1612 (an. reg. 46 et 10)) archive.org/…/1up ; RPS, 1669/10/92 (23 December 1669)
- • Private charters witnessed by the keepers of the Roll
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