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258 THE LAIUDS OF DOWHILL.
Lindsay dropped into obscurity, and is said to have
died unmarried.*
Mr John Lindsay, Ninth Laikd of Dowhill,
by purchase, was the second son of the seventh laird.
In 1585, and from that year until 1592 or later he was
minister of Mukersey, one of the churches of the
Bishopric of Dunkeld, which was afterwards annexed
to the parish of Forteviot.f
In 1593 James Lindsay of Dowhill entered into an
obligation to infeft Mr John in an annual rent of £100
out of the lands of Logy, redeemable for £1000. This
is to be taken to mean that the laird was indebted to
his brother to the amount of £1000, for which he was
to pay as interest £100 per annum secured over the
lands of Logy. Similarly, in 1596 he became indebted
to his sisters, Barbara, Helen, and Catherine, to the
extent of £2000 among them, secured over others of
his lands. In 1599 he owed £2000 to Mr James
Aytoun, and in 1G02 a further sum of 1000 merks due
to one James Gib. The interest agreed upon he failed
to pay, although at thi.s time he sold his lands of Logy
and those in Forgandenny. Thereupon in 1603 he
granted to his brother John in further security a
charter of the greater part of Dowhill, with the
remainder of the barony and with the lands of Kinloch
in warrandice. Mr John was not the largest of his
creditors, but he may have assumed some obligations
towards the others.
Not yet was the laird's credit exhausted. He
* Live* of the Li'ndsays, Vol. I., p. 434.
t Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanaey Vol. II., p. 642 ; Reg. Mag. Sig.
XXXIX. 71 (Vol. IV., No. 2330).