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THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. 68
Addendum :—Other information with regard to the last laird
of Dunrod is to be found in tlie records of the Privy Council, but
this was overlooked until the foregoing was in type. According to
a statement by the Leckie party in the Maxwell-Leckie feud, a controversy
had arisen between the lairds of Calderwood and Newark
with respect to the lands of Ilagtunhill ; and a conference of the
parties was being held upon the disputed lands when Dunrod and
his accomplices crept up behind a dyke and killed Leckie by a
gunshot in the back, the victim being quite unarmed. Dunrod
solemnly denied that the fact was done by his foreknowledge,
counsell, or device, but the Privy Council, in view of his having
admittedly been present, and having afterwards been fugitive from
the law on account of the slaughter, held that he must be regarded
as art and part in the crime, and decreed that he should surrender
the superiority of East and West Rogerton, Garnermure, and
Warnock's Thornton to young Leckie, but should continue to hold
them in feu from him, except Warnock's Thornton, which was already
feued to the laird of Cathkin.*
Alexander Lindsay, last laird of Dunrod, had issue
(1) Alexander, fiar of Dunrod. t
(2) Robert. +
(3) Adam, t
(4) Thomas, t
(6) James, t
(6)(?) Nicola, married Mr David Sharpe, minister of East
Kilbride. J
The author has to thank W. A. Lindsay, Esq., K.C., Windsor
Herald, for a very careful revision of the MS. and for addi-
tional notes, founded upun valuable material collected from
the unprinted records, at the instance and at the cost of the
Earl of Crawford, to whom special thanks are dfo. This
material is indicated in the reference notes by the letters
MS. after the title of the original source, lie is also indebted
to William Strang, Esq., of Bostield, East Kilbride, and to
Robt. W. Mowat, Esq., Longcroft, Cambuslaug, for revising
the MS. with reference to the topography.
* Reg. Priv. Coun., Vol. XIIL, pp. 112, 767, &c.
+ Ibid, p. 745.
t Reg. Mag. Sig., LIL, 274 (Vol. VIL, No. 148G).
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