History of the Johnstones, 1191-1909, with ... - Electric Scotland

NOTES AND ERRATA.
Page 27, line 7. This name is written M'Cullock, then M'Guffog, and finally M'Guffock,
when Hew of Rusco was chosen to represent the Barons of Kirkcudbright in the
Scottish Parliament of 1700.
Page 29, line 23. The decision of the Ecclesiastical Court is not extant, but Gavin the
younger could not have inherited if it had been unfavourable.
Page 42, line 6. Maximilian von Johnston und Kroegeborn wishes the statement that he is
a Count to be contradicted.
Page 43, line 35. Symon was returned heir to his grandfather, Ninian.
Page 57, line 42. Buchanan says he was brother to the Laird of Roslin.
Page 63, line 37- In 1542 the Lord Treasurer's Account records a small payment to James
Johnstoun of Cottis, "sent to England by his Grace to get advertisement of the
Englishmen's purposes." Also to "the Laird of Graitney for a horse for his Grace,
and for horses to move his Grace."
Page 69, line 13. The evidence submitted to the House of Lords in 1881 stated that John
of Wamfray left no heir, but further research shows that John married Janet,
daughter of Sir John Spens, she being endowed with the annual rent of a house in
Dumfries. The couple left a son, John, who married Katherine Boyle, and died s.p.
Page 70, line 17. The date of Bombie's murder is given from an old "Scottish Peerage,"
but the remission to his eight assailants, granted Jan. 13, 1538-39, states that it
occurred in 1527-28.
Page 132, line 6. Sir John Dillon was made a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire by the
Emperor Joseph II. of Austria (eighteen years before he was made a Baronet), on
account of his success as a member of the Irish House of Commons in obtaining
permission for Roman Catholics to attend their own churches.
Page 139, line 32. A petition was presented to the Privy Council in 1661 from the wife,
daughters, and remaining children of Archibald, late Lord Warrieston, praying that
the execution may be suspended owing to his severe "illness, till he has recovered
his memory and strength of mind." Lauderdale insisted on it being carried out
at once.
Page 165, line 3. For "brother" read "nephew."
Page 182, line 16. Captain Gideon Johnstone died at Hawkhill, Edinburgh, May 12, 1788.
Page 316, line 29. Of the Johnstons of Eccles, Colonel George Johnston left four daughters,
besides his son, George Arthur. Three brothers of the grandfather went to America
— Patrick, Adam and William. An account of Dr George Johnston and his books is
in the Diet. Nat. Biog.
Page 327, line 32. Buchanan says that when Buccleuch, Bothwell, Maxwell, and Mark Ker
were released from Edinburgh Castle in 1530 "to gratify the King, one of the
hostages, Walter Scott, killed Robert Johnston," a man of notorious violence, who
seems to have been also a hostage. The Laird of Johnstoun is elsewhere mentioned
as being put in ward with the above chiefs, and Robert may have replaced
him ; but they were probably nearly related, as the slaughter " bred a deadly feud
between the Johnstouns and Scotts."