James Gordon, of Cobairdy

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"Count Anthony Leslie was born in 1733, and was educated in the Scotch college at Ratisbon. By a judgment pronounced by the House of Lords, 29th April 1742, he was declared next heir of entail to his cousin Ernest, Count Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, in the estate of Balquhain in Scotland, and was served heir accordingly. In 1747 his tutors raised an action of reduction against James Gordon of Cobairdy, for reducing the settlement made by Count Ernest Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, whereby he settled the lands of Insch and Boddam, part of the entailed lands of the barony of Balquhain, on his uterine brother, James Gordon of Cobairdy. James Gordon of Cobairdy pleaded that Count Anthony Leslie was an alien, born out of the king’s allegiance, and consequently was incapable of bringing an action for recovering a land-estate in Scotland. The Court of Session, 19th June 1749, sustained this plea, and Cobairdy was allowed to retain the lands of Insch and Boddam, which the true heirs of the Balquhain estates have lost for ever."