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52 THE HOUSE OF DUNROD.
Carnduff, Flakefield, Easteii and Wester, and
Blackburn with its mill, together formed the ten
merk-land of Overmuir.* In 14i)4 all of theni were
granted to Alexander Lindsay of Crossbasket by his
father, the fourth laird of Dunrod. f They were
retained in their own handy by the ehiefs of the line
of Crossbaaket until the beginning of the 17ih century,
when Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod granted them to
his brother, Mr John, of Southwood, who in 1G24 sold
them to Robert Hamilton of Torrance, j
On the dispersal of the Kilbride lands belonging
to the Lindsays of Dunrod, the Mains, East and
West Rogerton, Ilighflat, Brousterland, Bogton, and
Warnock's-Thornton were purchased by William
Hamilton, eldest son of the deceased William Hamilton
of Duncanrig. § Before the end of the seventeenth
century they were in possession of a family of
Thomsons, styled " of the Mains." ||
Easter Kittochside, Nerston, and the lands and
mill of Nether Philipshill, were acquired by the
Flemings of The Peel. H
The Murrays and Headhouse, Over Philipshill
(Hairmyres), Cross, Braehead, Overshiells, and the
lands in the south of the parish, namely, Crosshill,
Auldhouse, Lairfad, Burnhouse, Aikinfin, Carnduff,
Blackburn, and East and West Flakefield, as well aa
the office of sergeant and coroner of the whole regality,
* Reg. Mag. Sig., P.R. VII., 220 (Vol. IX., No. 388).
+ Ibid, XIII., 146 (Vol. I., No. 2229). ,
J
Ibid, I., 47 (Vol. VII., No. 763).
§ Reg. Mag. Sig., LV., 318 (Vol. VIII., No. 670).
II Abbrev. Retoin.
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., LIV., 156 (Vol. VII., No. 2234); Abbrev. Return.