Publications of the Clan Lindsay Society - Electric Scotland

^G THE HOUSK OK FAIIUilUTII.
more united under a single overlord. In this position
they continued until, on account of rebellion in the
year 1455, these Douglases were deprived ol" all their
lands and honours. The Lordship of (julloway was
never revived as a title ; but the original separateness
of the province, and the vicissitudes througli which it
had passed, continued for a time to be lellected in the
curiously mixed jurisdiction of the Sheriffs of Dumfries
and Wigtown, the Chamberlain of Galloway, and the
Steward of Kirkcudbright.
William, Abbot of Dundrennan, first Chamberlain
of Galloway under the new order, does not charge him-
self, in his accounts for the years 145G-1458, with the
rents of the lands of Fairgirth, Firth, Firthhead, and
Culmain, because they have been granted to James
Lindsay by a charter from the Crown. In two of the
references the holder of the lands is called Master
James Lindsay, and he is stated to have been infeft
anew by the king.* Unless the clerical title is here
given in error—a very unlikely thing in a document
drawn up by one who was himself a churchman—w^e
must suppose that there were two persons of the same
name who had coincident ritdits in Fair'drth, one a
layman—about whom there is no doubt— the other a
cleric ; and if the supposition of a conjoint ownership
be well founded, it is not difficult to point to a church-
man, who in all probability was the one referred to.
But first it must be noted that Fairfjirth was ori