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44 THE HOUSE OF DUNUOI).
by David, the fifth laird, in 1502,* althounli all hia
other estates in the principality are enuinoratud. This
may have been because of their havin^r been bestowed
upon " John Lyndissay of "J'hornle," who was probably
a son of Alexander, the fourth laird, t The superiority,
however, was in possession of the head of the family
in 1518, when John Lindsay of Durirod had seisin of
"Thornle-Lyndesay/'J This laird, as already men-
tioned, sold a portion to John Maxwell of Easter
Stanely, and the rest, which had been appraised and
sold, having also been acquired by Maxwell, the re-
united lands, extending to ten merks by the old
valuation, were called Thornley-Maxwell, and sub-
sequently passed through various hands. §
The lands which still bear the name of Thornley
are only a small portion of the original estate, which
included also those lands that are now called Glen,
Colinslie, Potterhill, Wetlands, and High Parks. ||
The lordship of Kilbride when first we have his-
torical knowledge of it—late in the twelfth century
belonged to Roger de Valoins, a Norman Knight.
De Valoins having received the barony from King
William the Lion, claimed also the patronage of the
parish kirk ; but Joceline, Bishop of Glasgow, main-
tained that the kirk, with a ploughgate of land— 104
acres—and common pasturage, had been a possession
of the See of Glasgow from very ancient times. Neither
* Reg. Mag. Sig., XIII., 511 and 526 (Vol. I., No. 2640).
t Maxwells uf Polluk, Vol. I., p. 234.
J Excheq. Rolls, Vol. XIV,, p. 607.
§ Reg. Mag. Sig., XXIII., 27; XXIV., 43; XXIII., 142; XXIV.,
290 (Vol. II., Nos. 778, UUl, 916, 1256).
II
Robertson's Renfrewshire, pp. 313, 314, 315.
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