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THE LINDSAYS OF WAUCHOPE AND BAllCLOY. lUD
Another possible line of descent for him is hinted
at in the Lives* In the reigns of William the Lion
and Alexander II., some twenty or thirty years before
the birth of Sir John the Chamberlain, there was living
one Simon de Lindsay, who was a proprietor in the
territory of Molle in Roxburghsliire. This Simon
granted to his daughter Helen the lands of llungerigge,
with a certain meadow called liolemede, below Ederad-
sete, within that territory ; f and Lord Lindsay says,
on what evidence we know not, that Hungerig afterwards
belonged to the Lindsays of Wauchope. He
points out too that the name Simon recurs in that
family at the end of the same century. That the
same lands should be in possession of men of the same
name at different but not widely separated periods, is
strong presumptive evidence of blood-relationship
between these men. If, however, there were in the
Wauchope estate lands called Hungerig, these could
not have been the same as those owned in property,
though not in superiority, by the above mentioned
Simon de Lindsay ; for Helen, wife of Adam de Hetune
— and, doubtless, the daughter of Simon—with consent
of her husband, sold to the monks of Melrose her whole
rights in Hungerigge and Holemede, and never did
they revert to the family to which she belonged. {
The evidence then whi(;h seemed to support the thesis
that Simon de Lindsay of the time of William the Lion
was progenitor of the Wauchope family is not such as
it was supposed to be, and the thesis cannot be main-
tained on that ground ;
* Livts, Vol. I., p. 24, note.
t Mun. de Melros, Vol. I., p. 130.
I Mun. de Melros, Vol. I., p. 257.
nevertheless proof may yet be