Dimension 340 x 500 mm. Single sheet, engraved pedigree to recto, docket title to verso. Several old vertical and horizontal folds.

James Makgill (d. 1747) made his claim to the Viscountcy of Oxfurd (also called Oxenford and Oxfuird) in Scotland in 1734. The title was created in 1651 for Sir James Makgill, first Baronet, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Makgill of Cousland, also in the Peerage of Scotland, with remainder to 'his heirs male of tailzie and provision whomsoever'. The remainder to heirs male whatsoever was a Scottish concept that permitted inheritance by persons not descended from the original grantee, but descended in the male line from male-line ancestors of the grantee. However, on the death of the first Viscount's son, the Lordship and Viscountcy were assumed (wrongfully according to a 1977 decision by the House of Lords) by his daughter Christian. The attempts of James Makgill, de jure fourth Viscount of Oxfuird, to prove his claim were ultimately unsuccessful.

ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, House of Lords, and Oxford), and two further in North America (Folger and York).