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16 THE HOUSE OF DUNROD.
new laird was unwilling to take seisin of Cragbirne and
Stanehous, which had already lain in non-entry for
about thirty years. In 1467, however, he did enter
upon these lands, and bestowed them upon David, his
grandson and apparent heir, who about 1485 resigned
them into the hands of the King. * We have not been
able to identify Cragbirne and Stanelious. Possibly
the names were translations or phonetic renderings of
Gaelic terms. The situation of the lands in the High-
land district of Cowal, of which Dunoon is the chief
centre of population, suggests this ; and suggests also
that they may have been the reward to the first laird
of Dunrod for a share in the capture of the castle of
that town. That the family should have neglected and
finally divested itself of this property is perhaps to be
explained by the difficulty which a lowlander would
experience at that time in collecting rent from a hold-
ing in the Highlands.
In 1470 Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod acquired by
purchase a tenement on the west side of the High
Street of Glasgow, and reserving his liferent he settled
it on his son Andrew in fee. f During the following
century we find mentioned in the local records a
number of Lindsays, reputable burgesses and magis-
trates of the city, some ofwhom were probably descended
from this Andrew, or from other cadets of Dunrod.
In the year 1489 the Lords Lyle and Darnley were
in rebellion. These noblemen had been entrusted
with the keeping of a district in the West, which included
The Lennox, Eenfrewshire, and the Lower
* Excheq. Rolls, Vol. VI., pp. 535, 631 ; Vol. VII., pp. 386, 551.
Reg. Mag. Sig., XL, 38 (Vol. I., No. 1621.)
t Chaiiers and Documents relating to Glasgow, Vol. II., p. 603.