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THE LAIUDa OK DuWUlLL. 277
of Dowhill. Jean Kuinsay was eventually repie-
by her granddaughter, who appeais to have
inherited no more than the right to redeem the pru-
perty, which had been ])ledged in security for debt,
and was unwilling or unable to exercise her right.
the mortgagees and others the eleventh laircl of
reacquired nearly all that had been owned
Kinloch l)y his ancestors, but his sun, in 1696,
finally parted with the whole to James Oliphant of
Williamshire.''
The Lands of Logie, which the family from its
days had held of the Abbey of Dunfermline,
to George Bruce of Carnok, who had a charter
them in 1600, following doubtless on their sale by
the eighth laird of Dowhill ; and they were never after-
wards reacquired.!
Although John, the eleventh laird, was able in his
days to clear the Kinloch jjroperty and restore
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to have left the estate again embarrassed, in cunse-
perhaps of his involvement in the political
of his later life. Be that as it may, no s