MARQUISES AND DUKE OF DOUGLAS, AND LORDS DOUGLAS.—William, eleventh earl of Angus, was created marquis of Douglas in 1633, and dying in 1660, was suc ceeded by his grandson James, who died in 1700, leaving issue one son and one daugh ter. The son Archibald, third marquis of Douglas, was created duke of Douglas in 1703, and died childless in 1761, when his dukedom became extinct, and his marquisate devolved on the duke of Hamilton, as descended in the male line from William earl of Selkirk, third son of the first marquis of Douglas. His grace's sister, lady Jane Douglas, born in 1698, and married in 1746 to sir John Stewart of Grandtully, was said to have given birth at Paris to twin sons in 1748. One of them died in 1753; the other, in 1761, was served heir of entail and provision general to the duke of Douglas. An attempt was made to reduce his service, on the ground that he was not the child of lady Jane Douglas; but the house of lords, in 1771, gave final judgment in his favor. He was made a British peer in 1790, by the title of baron Douglas of Douglas castle, which became extinct on the death of his son James, fourth lord Douglas, in 1857, when the Douglas estates devolved on his niece, the countess of Home.
The title of earl of Angus was claimed in 1762, as well by the duke of Hamilton as by Archibald Stewart. afterwards lord but neither urged his claim to a decision and the title is still in abeyance. The right attached to it of bearing the crown of land, was debated before the privy coup cil in 1823, when it was ruled that lord Douglas's claim to that honor, being a claim of heritable right, fell to be decided in a court of law. It has been supposed that the motto of the Douglas arms, Jamais arriOre, "Never behind," alludes to the peculiar precedence inherent in their earldom of Angus. The bloody heart commemorates Bruce's dying bequestttO the good sir James; the three stars which the Douglases bear in common with tiejMnrrays, seems to denote the descent of both from one ancestor.