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i28 THE JOHNSTOUNS OF KIRKTON AND WARRIESTON
of his servants. His wife and son, Joseph, were to be his only executors,
Joseph to follow his mother's counsel in everything ; and he asks his " well
beloved Sir James Skene, his brother James Arnot, and his faithful friend
David Johnstoun to be overseers in all things concerning his Will, and his
hope and confidence is that they will discharge their honest friendly duty
thereunto." He also left ioo marks to help to restore the Church of Kirkpatrick
Juxta, " where my predecessors bones lie."
Thomas Johnstoun (a creditor) was young Castlemilk, who, after being
sued by Murray, Douglas, and M'Briar to pay rent for his own lands, besides
dues and tithes, went to London, where he probably fell into the company
of some of the gay young men about the Court—among whom was Richard
Graham, a great friend of Charles, Prince of Wales—for there he signed the
transfer of his last possession—Castlemilk. After this he entered as a captain
in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, where he died. His
brother, Alexander, was an advocate, much employed, as his father had been,
by the Laird and other relatives, and married a daughter of Wilkin Johnstoun
of Elsieshields. James died s.p. The other brother, John, was ordained into
the Anglican Ministry in Yorkshire, possibly owing to the resistance to
Episcopacy in Scotland, and there he married, about 1626, Elizabeth, daughter
of Henry Hobson of Ufflete. He was curate of Reidness, in the parish of
Whitgift, and then vicar of Sutton upon Derwent, and had seven children
at the time he was served heir to his brother Alexander, who died in Dec. 1643.
He did not get much, as Alexander had lent money to his relatives—£220
to Robert Johnstoun of Stapleton, son of Robert of Raecleuch, and others
besides having had expensive tastes, for he owed £220 to a goldsmith. His
only assets, except money owed him, were his library worth ^200, two diamond
rings worth £160, a gold
£12.
bracelet worth £40, and two enamelled cups value
The Vicar of Sutton, who died 1657, left eminent if rather eccentric sons,
but with his double relationship to Warrieston it is strange that his eldest
son, Nathaniel, was a strong Jacobite, and his youngest, Henry, became a
noted Benedictine monk. Another son, Alexander, died at Mittau, in Courland.
This part of the Elsieshields family seems to have been the elder, and
that of Kirkton the junior, and of the last, Archibald, Laird of Warrieston, is
far the most conspicuous. He had a zealous Presbyterian in his grandmother,
Rachel Arnot, as well as in his mother, Elspeth Craig, and he was educated
by Robert Baillie, "afterwards Principal of the Glasgow University. These
Edinburgh Johnstouns, hearing of the lawlessness of their country cousins,
attributed it probably to the old religion when the King saw that it was from
the want of any at all.
Archibald was admitted an Edinburgh advocate to advise the Committee
formed to resist Charles I.'s attempt to force the English ritual upon the Kirk.
His history, which fills a controversial page in that of Scotland, is fully written
elsewhere, 1 and requires a volume for itself, from the stirring events in which
1 Diet. Nat. Biog., Vol. XXX., and the authors quoted there.