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[edit] The Complete Peerage[2nd edition, volume 1, page 1] [edit] Aberbrothwicki.e., “ Hamilton, Avane, Aberbrothwick and Bothwellhaugh,” Barony [S.] (Stewart), sometimes (but apparently erroneously as to the two last-named titles) said to have been cr. 1581, with the Earldom of Arran [S.], which see ; forfeited 1585. {i.e., “ Aberbrothwick,” Barony [S.] (Hamilton), cr. 1608. See “ Hamilton,” Marquessate of [S.], cr. 1599, under the 2nd Marquess.} [edit] Barony (cr. 1608)BARONY [S.]
I. 1608. 1. James (Hamilton), 2nd Marquess of Hamilton [S.], received from James VI [S.] the lands, patronages and titles belonging to the Abbey of Aberbrothwick, the same being, by charter dat. 5 May 1608, erected into a temporal Lordship in his favour with the title of a Lord of Parliament, i.e. “ LORD ABERBROTHWICK ” [S.]. See “ Hamilton,” Marquessate of [S.], cr. 1599, under the 2nd Marquess. |