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THE LAIRDS OF DOWHILL. 255
Actis of Parliament, of the H[)eciall hounding, wending,
command, assistance, and ratlhabitioun of the said
Abbot of Sanct Colmis Inche and James Stewart his
eldest sone and apperand air, come upoun the XI day
of Marche last bipast to the ground of the suidis com-
plenaris landis and steding of Croftgarie and Brago,
and siclike to thair dwelling houssis of the saniyn ;
and
thair with foir hammeris, maisterfullie, wranguslie, and
violentlie brak Up the durris of thair saidis dwelling
houssis," and took away the whole inside goods and
gear, with 4 horses, 10 oxen and 4 kye, with a stack
of oats unthreshed and one already threshed, as well as
three stacks of oats and one of b out of the barn-
yard, . . . broke the bottom out of a great ark full of
meal and "skaillit" the meal into a burn; broke
up kists standing within their chamber and
" spuilyeit " their whole gold and silver out of the
same, and so brought them to extreme poverty. They
came a second time and cast down the walls of the
house to the ground, and ejected the coraplainers, who
aver that they had not been lawfully warned to remove
from the said lands. The parties having been summoned
before the Privy Council some of them appeared
but Lindsay of Dowhill, Patrick, his brother, and John
Tyrie did not. The case was remitted to the Judge
Ordinar, but we are left in ignorance as to how it
ended.*
This laird married Jonet, daughter of James Ross
of Craigton, and Marjory Stewart, his wife. Marjory
Stewart, the mother, as already stated, married as his
second wife, John Lindsay, the sixth laird of Dowhill
* Reg. Priv. Coun., Vol. II., p. 694.
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