In the House of Lords, (from the Court of Session in Scotland), the Lady Sophia Frederica Christina Hastings Mure, now Marchioness of Bute, eldest surviving daughter of the now deceased Flora Mure Campbell of Rowallan, Countess of Loudoun, and Marchioness of Hastings, procreated of the marriage betwixt her and the also now deceased Francis Marquis of Hastings, and (by order of the House) the Most Honourable John Crichton Stuart, Marquis of Bute, her husband, for his interest, appellants, the Lady Edith Rawdon Hastings, eldest daughter of the now deceased Most Honourable Augustus Francis, Marquis of Hastings and Earl of Loudoun, and Mathew Norman MacDonald, writer to the Signet, her tutor ad litem, respondents

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