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10 THE HOUSE OF DUNROD.
Fifty years after the death of Cumin—in the year
1357—another James Lindsay murdered another Roger
Kirkpatrick in the Castle of Caerhiverock, und was
executed for the crime. These two are said by Bower
to have been the eldest sons of the accomplices in the
slaughter of Cumin, but the affiliation in both cases is
inconsistent with charter evidence.*
The Lord of Thurston and Craigie after Sir James,
the son of Sir Walter, of whom we have certain know-
ledge, is Sir John, who lived in the latter half of the
fourteenth century, and who was Sheriff and Coroner
of Ayrshire. In him ended the direct male line, his
only child and heiress carrying the estates by marriage
to the Wallaces of Riccarton. f
For the family of Dunrod, then, to liave been
descended from Sir James Lindsay, the companion of
Bruce, it must have sprung from a cadet of Lindsay
of Craigie ; and Lord Lindsay points out as favouring
the traditionary origin that both families were specially
attached to the High Stewards and hold their lands
under them, and that the lands of Thornley in the
barony of Renfrew, known to have belonged to Craigie
in the fourteenth century, are afterwards found to be
in possession of the lairds of Dunrod. j The Dunrod
possession, however, did not extend over the \vhole of
Wyntoun; Bk. VIII., Ch. XLV. ; Book of Plu3cardin, Bk. IX.,
Ch. XLIV. ; Scotichronicon, Lib. XIV., CXX. Tho laird of Craigie in
1335, 1342, and 1343, was Sir John Lindsay (Scotts of Buccleuch, Vol. II.,
pp. 4, 5; Hist. MSS. Com. XIY^^ Rep. App. pt. III.). Tho Roger
Kirkpatrick of 1305 was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas, before 1319.
(Charter of King Robert I., quoted Scottuih Nation sub voce Kirkpatrick.)
t Robertson's Index, pp. 46 (No. 45), 97 (No. 322), 131 (No. 25).
The Book of Wallace (Grampian Club), Vol. I., p. 33.
J Lives of the Lindsays, Vol. I., p. 64.