The Lord SempillThe Baron of Craiginfeoch
Lord Sempill (peerage)
The Right Honourable The Lord Sempill (James William Stuart Whitemore Sempill, 21st Lord Sempill, Baron of Craiginfeoch)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Sempill
Credentials
- • RMS iii, no. 2124, p. 477 (leaf/scan n493 of archive.org item registrummagnisi03scot) (17 Mar., a.d. not printed on the charter itself; editors place it here on the authority of Regist. Secreti Sigilli lib. xvii fol. 73, within the run of entries headed '27 Jac. V.' / 'A.D. 1539-40' — i.e. c.1539-40
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