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THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. 11
Thornley. At the beginning of the fifteenth century
the estate was in two portions, one of which was
granted in 1403-4 to the monks of Paisley by Sir Hugh
Wallace, who had inherited it from his grandmother,
Margaret Lindsay, the heiress of Craigie.* The other
portion, distinguished as Westir Thornley or Thornley-
Lindsay, was that which alone belonged to Dunrod.t
That two families of the same name should thus
divide between them the same tenement of land, and
one which lay remote from the other holdings of each
of them, points to a near relationship between the
families, and is fair presumptive evidence that the
Dunrod portion had been the appanage of a younger
son of the more ancient house of Craigie. On this
consideration, in the absence also of any historical
data opposed to the truth of it, the tradition that the
house of Dunrod was descended from one of the
accomplices in the slaughter of Cumin may well be
accepted.
The first appearance in the records of him who was
presumably the founder of the family occurs in the
accounts of Sir William Livingstone, Sheriff of Lanark.
In the year 1359, Livingstone reported to the Treasury
that he had received nothing from the Crown Lands of
Kilcadyow, because they were in the hands of John
Lindsay of Dunrod, by concession of Malcolm Fleming,
Earl of Wigton, who had no right in the same except
by permission of the King. He (the sheriff) was
therefore ordered to take possession of the lands on
behalf of his majesty, and to account for the fermes. J
* Reg. de Passelet, p. 79.
f Reg. Mag. Sig. XXII., 26 ; XXIIL, 27. (Vol. II., Nos. 511, 778.)
I Chamberlain Rolls, Vol I., p. 334.