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WE shall do no wrong to reckon William (the first Earle of Dou∣glas) as the first Earle of Angus, also of the Name of Dou∣glas, seeing he married the inheritrix of Angus. Nay we
should do him wrong to omit him, being the root from which all the rest are sprung. He was the first Earl of Douglas, and first Earl of An∣gus of the Name of Douglas, though it be true that he was 23. or 24. years Earl of Douglas before he came to be Earl of Angus, and that is all the difference betwixt the antiquitie of these two houses in the posses∣sion of that Name. Now that it was Earle William himself, and none else, it is evident by a bond made by the said Earle William to his sister Marjorie (Countesse of Marre) for the due payment of the said Marjories third, let to him and Margaret Stuart (Countesse of Marre and Angus) where he calls her his wife. Also that the same Earle William was fa∣ther to George, it is clear by a Charter of Tutorie, and entaile made by Sir James Sandilands of West-Calder to George, in which Sir James speaking sayes thus, The Land of Calder were given to my father and mother of good memorie by my Lord Sir William Earle of Douglas and Marre his father: that is, father to George. Of the life of this William we have spoken in the house of Douglas, whither we referre the Rea∣der.