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56 THE HOUSE OF DUNROD.
the family estates of Carndufl; the two Flukefields,
aud Blackburn, but in 1G24 he sold them inedeemably
to Robert Hamilton of Torrance.* lie had also some
of the lands beloncrjnor to the estate of Linbank dis-
poned to him by his half-brother, David. These he
sold to Bryce Semple of Cathcart. f He was in
possession for a time of the barony of Glencairn,
pledged to him in security of deljt. J Whether he
left any descendants we have not been able to
ascertain.
Blacksholm, a small estate in the parish of Kilmacolm,
Renfrewshire, was granted in 1544 to John
Lindsay by John, Lord Lyle. § The heads of thia
family eventually claimed to be the heirs male of the
original line of the lairds of Dunrod, and they were so
if their founder was a son or grandson of David, the
fifth laird. Mariota Lindsay, the mother of John,
Lord Lyle, was almost certainly a daughter of the
same David. A part of the Shiells of Kilbride, of
which she was the life-tenant, was occupied by her
brother Alexander, and possibly John Lindsay, first of
Blacksholm, was a son of Alexander. || In 1551 Lord
Lyle disposed of the superiority of Blacksholm and
others of his lands to Alexander, Earl of Glencairn,
and thereafter the Lindsays of this family figure as
vassals and servitors of the Earls. *\
* Reg. Ma,j. Sig., I., 47 (Vol. VU., No. 7G.S).
iCurlulunj of Pollok Muxivell, p. 311; licg. Mag. Sig., LV., 361
(Vol. VIII., No. 747).
X Beg. Mag. Sig., P.R. II., 38 (Vol. VI., No. 1546).
§ Crawfurd, Hist, of Renfreivshire, Robert.son'« Ed., p. 94.
||i/is^ MSS. Com., nth liep., Pt. VI., p. 211».
If Reg. Mag. Sig., XXX., 646 (Vol. III., No. 629).
Reg. Prio. Goun., Vol. III., p. 759.