Excerpt from The Red Book of Menteith Reviewed: In Reply to Charges of Literary Discourtesy Made Against the Reviewer, in a Letter to the Author of That Work Robert Stewart, the third son Of King Robert the Second, is stated to have been Earl of Menteith by marriage, and Of Fife by inheritance from the Countess Isobel.'1 The latter part Of the statement may admit Of argument, for while in the indenture between the Countess Isobel and Robert, Earl Of Menteith, in 1371, now for the first time correctly printed in the present work from the original inden ture,2 in terms Of which he Obtained the Earldom Of Fife, there is reference to a former entail Of the lands, nothing is said of the dignity, and the presumption is that he was Specially created Earl Of Fife by his father. But, on the other hand, the statement that Sir Robert Stewart was, or became, Earl Of Menteith by marriage' with Lady Margaret Graham, the daughter of Sir John Graham, is erroneous, as Sir Robert nowhere holds that dignity until after his father's accession. In 1364, three years after his marriage, he is styled in the Exchequer Rolls simply Robert Stewart Of Menteith.3 The records Of Parliament show that in 13674 and he was present in Parliament as Lord of Menteith only, and it is not until the day after his father's coronation that he pays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.