Transcript of the House of Lords Proceedings for the session on Thursday 25 February 1875, concerning the Mar peerage claim. Starts with a speech by Lord Chelmsford concluding that 'the dignity of Earl of Mar created by Queen MAry is descendible to the heirs male of the person ennobled, and that the Earl of Kellie, having proved his descent as such as heir male, has established his right to the dignity'. Follows a speech by Lord Redesdale, agreeing that the earldom was newly created in 1565 and that the Earl of Kellie's claim is legitimate.
After this is an appendix including: an 'authenticated copy of ORIGINAL CHARTER of MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS to John Lord Erskine. - dated 23th Juni 1565'; 'An ACT for the Restoration of Johh Francis Erskine fo Mar, to the Dignity and Title of Earl of Mar (17th June 1824.- Anno 5o Georgij 4th, No 249)'; 'ACT of PARLIAMENT, in favour of John Earl of Mar, dated 29th July 1587'; 'RETOUR of the GENERAL SERVICE of John, Lord Erskine, as nearest and lawful Heir of Robert, Earl of Mar and Garioch, and Lord Erskine, - dated 5th May 1565 (1)'; 'EXTRACT RETOUR of the GENERAL SERVICE of John, Earl of Mar, as nearest and lawful Heir of Isabella Douglas, Countess of Mar, - dated 20th March 1588 (1)'; 'Extract DECREET of RANKING of the NOBILITY of SCOTLAND, dated 5th March 1606, and registered 6th April 1841'; extract from Minutes of Evidence, pp. 416-417, House of Lords proceedings for the session on the 3rd of MAy 1870; copy of the Union Roll of Scotch Peers; text on the creation of the Earldom of Kellie; copy of the petition of John Francis the late Earl of Mar (exact copy of a manuscript given by the late Lord to his nephew (Lord Kellie's opponent) while on a visit to his uncle at Alloa Park in September 1852); transcriptions of a charter by Isabella Countess of Mar and Garviach to Alexander Stewart of the Earldom of Mar, 12 August 1404, of charter of the same dated 9th December 1404, of a charter by King Robert III confirming the foregoing, and of a charter of William Earl of Douglas and Mar to James Mowat dated 26th July 1377; transcriptions of House of Lords proceedings for the session on the 17th of June 1868 examining Mr Fraser; transcription of a 'special service' of John Earl of Mar as heir to Isabella Countess of Mar through Robert Earl of Mar, 20 March 1588; transcriptions of a charter of Isabella, Countess of Mar and Lady of Garioch, 18 March 1402, and of a charter by Margaret Countess of Douglas, Lady of Mar and of Garioch, 15 August 1384, of a retour of Sir Robert Erskine, as heir of Isabella Douglas Countess of Mar in one half of the Earldom of Mar and Lordship of Garioch, 22 April 1438, and of a retour of the said Sir Robert Erskine to the other half of the said Earldom, 16 October 1438; an 'EXTRACT DECREE of GENERAL SERVICE, John Francis Erskine Goodeve Erskine, Earl of Mar, Baron Garioch, etc. etc., to his Uncle, John Francis Miller Erskine, Earl of Mar, etc. etc., - dated 14th February and recorded 4th March 1867'; correspondence between Mssrs Hunter, Blair, and Cowan, and Messrs Gibson-Craig, Dalziel, and Brodies dated 16 and 21 June 1869; minute of meeting at opening of repositories of the late Earl of Mar, 26 June 1866; matriculation of his arms by the nephew and "heir general" of the late Earl of Mar; 'REPORT by the Law Officers of the Crown on the Bill for the Restoration of John Francis Erskine, Esquire, to the title and dignity of Earl of Mar, in 1824'; memorandum 'for ye registeris' from Minutes of Evidence, Mar Peerage, p. 331; 'EXCERPTS from extract decreet by the Lords of Council and Session, in Action of Reduction and Declarator, at the instance of John, Earl of Mar, and John, Lord Erskine, his Son; against Alexander, Lord Elphinstone, and others, - dated 1st July 1626'; 'Copy of a Letter by King Charles the First to the Earl of Mar. 18th July 1626'; 'EXTRACT from SPEECH of Mr. A. G. Marten, Q. C., M.P., (Counsel for Lord Kellie's Opponent), at the House of Lords, 24 July 1873'; and 'Translation of Charter of Mary Queen of Scots Restoring to John Lord Erskine, the Earldom of Mar, on the 23rd June 1565'.