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THE HOUSE OF DUNUOD. 37
penchant for patching up quarrels of tliis k\iu\. Then
in 1622, Sir James Maxwell died, the tii.il was a.ruin
postponed, and no record of any further i^roceedTngs
has come down to us.* Yet it appears tijat Lindsay
did not come out of the affair scatheless, if we inay
read that meaning into a charter of 1G42 by which the
king granted to Alexander Leckie, the s.>n of the
murdered man, the lands of lilast and West Rogerton,
Warnock's Thornton and the pendicle of Clarnemnire'
the last remnants of the once great estates of Dunrod. f
According to tradition Lindsay, in his uld age, confessed
that it was he himself that had shot Leckie.
Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod was a Justice of the
Peace for Lanarkshire, | and he was on a eonuuission
which included the provost and bailies of Glasgow,
appointed to apprehend Sir James Kincaid of °that
Ilk. § Yet he was accused of instigating a tumult in
the Kirk of Kilbride and abetting William and John
Pirie, who were attempting to assert alleged i ights to
a particular place in the church. || How
he gcjt into
the financial difficulties through which he lost the
estates can only be conjectured. As early as IGOo he
had contracted a debt of about .£800,11 and in 1614 he
advanced to his kinsman Hew Semple of Craigbait two
separate sums of £800 and 570 merks respectively
when Semple was about to retire to the Continent to
Reg. Priv. Coun., Vol. VII., pp. 187, 398; Vol. VIII., pp. 49,
250, 436; Vol. IX., pp. C47, 050. Pitcaini, Cnminal Trials, Vol. Ill ,*
p. 493.
t Reg. Mag. Sig., LVII., 16 (Vol. VIII., No. 1081).
{ Reg. Priv. Cuun., Vol. IX., p. 488 ; Vol. X., pp. 211 266
§ Ihid, Vol. X., p. 484.
\\lbid. Vol. XL, p. 512.
^ Reg. Mag. %., P.U.V., 67 (Vol. VIII., No. 1889).