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Ward of Lanarksliire ;
THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. 17
and they had also shared in the
other honours distributed on the recent accession of the
King. Why they should have risen against the
government to which they owed these favours is not at
all clear, but apparently their rising had its origin in
the dissatisfaction with which a section of tlie nobility,
and the greater part of the connnonalty, regarded the
doings of the party that had brought about the over-
throw and death of King James III. at Sauchieburn.
Whatever may have been the occasion of the insurrec-
tion, however, it is not necessary to suppose that
the laird of Dunrod in taking part in it with his whole
force was actuated by high political principles. He
may have been incensed by the wrongs done to his
chief, David, Fifth Karl of Crawford and Duke of
Montrose, at the hands of those who had raised the
young Prince James against his father; or the conmionplace
motives of neighbourliness and self-interest may
have been sufficient for hini, and would not have been
regarded in the ethical code of the time as inadequate
incentives to the committing of treason.
Lord Lyle's castle of Duchal was within ten miles
of the Place of Dunrod ; Darnley's seat at Orookston
was even nearer to the IMains of Kilbride. Inhere was
an old-standing friendship between the Lindsays of
Dunrod and the Stewarts of Darnley ; and the
Lindsays held some lands from the Stewarts subject to
reversion.* This same laird of Dunrod also had been
on the inquest which served Lord Darnley heir to the
Earldom of Lennox, and that under circumstances
which raise the suspicion that the partiality of the
* Ads of Pari, Vol. III., p. 250.
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