Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Council, stating that this hereditary office was now vested in him, as the heir and representative of the Family of Douglas, by virtue of his feudal titles confirmed by Parliament; and he therefore claimed as his sole and undoubted right, to bear the Imperial Crown of Scotland at royal processions, within the City of Edinburgh, and especially at the then approaching royal procession of His Majesty from the Palace of Holyrood to the Castle of Edinburgh. When this Petition was presented, the Duke of Hamilton had also put in a claim to the privilege, and the King then allowed the Duke to carry the Crown; but reserved the question of right for future decision. It was not at all affected, therefore, by the judgment upon that occasion. There were various kinds of processions in which the Crown was borne; one was the royal procession, called " the Riding of Parliament;" another was the royal Coronation; and several others, for which there was no particular denomination. One of these was his Majesty's procession from Holyrood-house, when he lately visited Scotland. Lord Douglas claimed the right in all these cases,—at the Riding of Parliament, at the Coronation, and on all other occasions. This application was general; and their Lordships (the Council) would have to decide whether or not he had established his right to the privilege in question upon all those occasions; and if not to all, then to any, and to what extent. TheCounter Claim of the Duke of Hamilton was equally extensive. He stated that the privilege was originally granted to the Earl of Angus, from whom it descended to him as personally and hereditary honour; and, therefore, he alone had the right to exercise it. Lord Douglas denied that it was granted to the Earl of Angus, as Earl of Angus ; but that it was an heritable offi...