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104 THE MousK OF FAinoiirrw.
James Lindsay, Kightu Laird of FAiUGiiiTn,
married Marion Murruy, and their eldest son and heir
was born before 1G20.* hi 1G48 lie was a Com-
missioner of War for the Stewailry of Kirkcud})n(,dit
and his name (wrongly given as John) appears in the
list of six or seven hundred persons who were exempted
from the benefits of the Act of Lideninity of 1GG2
until they had paid the fines imposed on tliem.f
Fairgirth was fined ilGOO, and until this sum was
handed over to the Government he wus liable to be
called to account for anything in his conduct during
the Parliamentary Wars and Protectorate of Cromwell
that might be construed as treason. He died at this
time, however, for in IGG3 his widow, Mary A! array, is
mentioned as being then the wife of William Gordon
in Nether Corsock.]: The eiglith laird had issue :
(1) Jarne?, ninth laird.
James Lindsay, Ninth Laihd ok Fairgiiitii,
was served heir to his great-grandlather, loth March
166 4. II In the time of his grandfather the estates
had been forfeited, and bestowed upon Jolni Murray
of Lochmaben, afterwards Earl of Aiuiandale (see
page 100). From him they were held for a time, but
now appear to have been restored to their original
status as a crown holding.
* Register of Deeds, MS., Vul. 391. Paton'a Notes, p