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THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. 35
Sir John married secondly Jean, dauj^diter of George
Hamilton of Preston and liarbara Cockburn," who after
his death married Robert Williamson of Mureston. f
By her he had
(5) David, of Linbank. |
He had also a natural son
SOi/^soa
(6) John, implicated in the slaugliter uf Lcckie (.f that
Ilk.§
Alexander Lindsay, Eleventh Laiud of
DuNROD, succeeded on the death of his father in
1602. II Having
married in 1595 "l Margaret, daughter
of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood, he was involved
in a feud in which his flither-in-law was enixaixed with
Maxwell of Newark, the head of a cadet branch of his
own family. Newark was aided by Alexander Leckie
of that Ilk, whose wife was a Maxwell, a sister of his
ally. We know nothing of the cause of the disagree-
ment. At first the quarrel may have been trivial
enough, but later it fiamed into a fierce and bitter
strife, when in the autumn of IGOl Leckie was slain in
circumstances of cold-blooded atrocity. The tradition
is that he was shot from the window of a farmhouse
belonging to Dunrod as he rode past without thought
Marriage contract dated 13th July 1592 ;
of Sir John, a witness.
Acts and Decreets MS., CCIV., 301.
Reg. Mag. Sig., I., 32 (Vol. VII., No. 745).
t Anderson; House of HdviUtoa, p. 349.
I
COv., 384.
Alexander Ijindsiiy, son
Reg. Mag. Sig., I., 32 (Vol. VII., No. 745) ; Acts and Decreets MS.,
§ Reg. Friv. Coun., Vol. XI., p. 279 ; Pitcairn, Criminal Trials,
Vol. III., p. 493 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., I., 13 (Vol. VII., No. 725).
y Allrrev. Retoi-n.
^ Maxivelh of FolM, Vol. I., p. 475.