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204 TUE LINDSAYS OF
to marry William Maxwell was dated 30th June
When Mungo Lindsay took up the succession there
seems to have been little, if any, real estate for him to
inherit ; and in him ended the ancient Lairdship of
Wauchope, which had continued in the I'amily for over
400 years.
The Wauchope Lands.
In Wauchopedale— At what time the Lindsays
acquired a settlement here we do not know, but a
barony bearing the name of this territory was held by
Sir John, the Chamberlain, in 1285. His grandson,
another Sir John, son of Sir Simon, had a re-irrant of
it after it had been forfeited by Sir Simon, and, except
for the ineffective forfeiture by Edward Baliol, his
descendants continued in undisputed ])ossessiun until
the attainder of John Lindsay in 150G. Falling by
that event to the Crown, Wauchopedale was first
leased and afterwards granted in heritage to the Lords
Maxwell, from whom it eventually passed to the Dukes
of Buccleuch. They, in 1679, were found by inquest
to own virtually the entire area drained by the
Wauchope Water, comprising thirty farms and the
old baronial mill,t and there is no reason to think tliat
the holding of the Lindsays was any less extensive.
It probably included the Avhole of what constituted
the ancient parish of Wauchope except the church and
its lands, which belonged to the Priory of Canonbie.
This old-time parish no longer exists as such, it having
V^ § Scots Peerage, Vol. VI., p. 488. In tlie Book of Caaiaverock, Mungo
Lindsiiy is wrongly called John.
* Hyslop, Langholm as It Was, p. 203.