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Show ESTABLISH HEIRSHIP TO ENGLISH BARONY Three Men Who Trace Ancestry Back to Timo of King Eobert ! . Bruco of Scotland. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Way 2, Tho committee of privileges of tho house of lords was turned into a historical debating room when three men claiming to bo coheirs co-heirs to the barony of Strabolgi, in tho peerage of England, presented thoir ar. gumenls. With hardly any preliminary, learned counsel engaged in the case went back to the days of King Eobert Bruco of Scotland happily thoy did not introduce intro-duce the mythical spider and told of an ancient JSarl of Athol, and great-grandson great-grandson of Ada Countess of . that ilk, who married John do Strabolgi. In 130(5 this nobleman rebelled against lid ward 1, joined Robert the Bruce and thereby forfeited his estates, both in England and in Scotland. lie lied, or rather tried to flee, the country, but his ship was driven back by a storm on the English coast, he was captured, brought, back to Loudon and convicted of higb treason. He was, of course, executed, and his head was exhibited ex-hibited ou a spike on London bridge. The claimants to tho baron' aro Colonel Col-onel Uoxander Henry Lcith of Froo-lleld. Froo-lleld. Aberdecnsbiro; Oufchbert Matthias Kcnworthy of London and Dr. Reginald (Jorvase Alexander, physician to tho Bradford and Halitux infirmary. They havo already been found to, be co-heirs to tho baronies of Burgh and Cobhaui, subject to the removal of the nbeyauco and attainder in tho caso of Cob'ham. |