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175. 1613.

The duplication of rental of the kirklands collected by the bailie of Kyle-Stewart was £4 13s 4d.

Liber Responsionum, 1600-13, folio 300. 176. 1750.

The church was repaired. Fasti, i i i , p. 73.

179. 1797.

The church completely repaired and a bit added.

N.S.A., V, p. 569. 178. 1919.

The old church was restored. Fasti, i i i , p. 73.

179. 1955.

The church is very well-known as the only intact Norman church in the shire. I t has become a place of popular pilgrimage and the visitors' book in the porch has a long list of names in it. Although the church is certainly Norman, there is no evidence to give it a definite date of erection and too much importance should not be laid upon the metal plate inside the church which avers that it was built in 1160 and restored in 1919. The church is now well cared for and many gifts have come to it , so that it now has a stone sedilia, font and stained glass windows. The yard has no medieval stones but there can be seen some interesting types of cherub and skull variety not far from large Celtic crosses of modern erection. Inside the church are traces of the original building, e.g., the window apertures are still marked by scars in the stone, while marks on the walls show where the rood-screen used to divide the chancel from the nave. Masons' mark are also in evidence and the ancient woodwork is of major interest. Outside are traces of a south porch and the solo remnant of medieval sculpture, a gargoyle with a human face much defaced by weathering. For a full account see Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1951, pp. 38-40.

The founder of the parish was probably Simon Lockhart and his dwelling-place may have been the small round moUnd at the foot of the village which was flattened out in the early 19th century. Another motte with ruins on it stood at Helenton, but nothing is known of its history.

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T h e C a t h c a r t s of C a r l e t o n and K i l l o c h a n

S I R JAMBS FERGUSSON, B A R T . , Keeper of the Records of Scotland

The muniments of this ancient Carrick family appear, with the exception of two mediaeval charters, to have been lost. The following account of the Cathcarts in the 16th-17th centuries, compiled from notes taken over a long period from different sources, published and unpublished, could, no doubt, be enlarged by further research ; but so far as it goes it may serve as a corrective to the account given in Paterson's History of Ayrshire, which is extremely inaccurate and far from complete.

The history of the parent stock down to the time of the 2nd Lord Cathcart may be found in the Scots Peerage, vol. i i ; the later history of the family after the creation of the baronetcy is given in The Complete Baronetage and Burke's Landed Gentry.

R O B E R T CATHCART , second son of John, 2nd Lord Cathcart, by his second wife Margaret Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, had a charter from his father of the 13 merkland of Killunquhane in Carrick, dated at Edinburgh, 4 March, 1504-5, and confirmed by a charter under the Great Seal the same day. 1 Lord Cathcart reserved from this grant one acre of ground on the east side of the property near to the '' stane '' of Drummillane. This is the earliest known reference to the celebrated Baron's Stone of Killochan.

As " Doniinus de Killu7iquhan," Robert Cathcart was present at a meeting of the Court of Justiciary at Ayr on 30 October, 1508. ^ He, his eldest brother Alan, Master of Cathcart, and their younger brother John, were all killed at the battle of Flodden, 9 September, 1513.8

He married Margaret (also called Marion) Cathcart, daughter and co-heiress of Alan Cathcart of Carleton, with issue—

1. R O B E R T , of whom later. 2. Alan, who appears as a witness on 3 December, 1553

(Protocol Book of James Colvill, f.79).

His wife survived him and married, secondly, in 1518, Hew Campbell, son and heir of the deceased Robert Campbell of Kilmanach ; * Hew was still living in 1538.

1 . R.M.S., i i . 2944. 2. Minute Bool: in Register House. 3. Scota Peerage, i i . p. 510. 4. Protocol Book of Qavin Rot, 246-9.

I

m S i b y l Cathcart , the other daughter and co-heiress of A l a n

Cathcart of Carleton, marr ied first Robert ' s brother J o h n Cathcar t of Glendowis, w i t h issue two daughters—

1 . Jonet , who marr ied (contract March , 1529) R o b e r t Craufurd , brother of Bartholomew Craufurd of K e r s e , w i t h issue. *

2. Marion, who marr ied , before 1532, Gi lbert G r a h a m of Knockdo l ian , and had issue. She was s t i l l a l ive i n J u l y , 1575, wheh she was a p a r t y to a decreet arbitral.«

S i b y l Cathcart marr ied , secondly, Gi lbert Kennedy , and h a d two more daughters, Marion and Jonet . She died about 1530.

R o B E E T C A T H C A E T , the elder son of Robert and Margaret Cathcart , was not served heir to his father t i l l 20 December, 1524, * so was presumably born i n 1503. H e thus secured the 13 merk land of " K i l l u m q u h a n , " but the succession to the rest of h is heritage was disputed. J o h n Campbel l , n a t u r a l son of J o h n Campbel l of L i t t l e Cesnok, h a d h a d assigned to h i m b y his father a gift under the P r i v y Seal (which is not recorded) of S i b y l Cathcart ' s h a l f of the barony of Carleton and of the w a r d of S i b y l ' s four daughters ; and D u n c a n Craufurd , another brother of Bartholomew Craufurd of K e r s e , had also a gift, dated 15 March , 1530-1,^ of h a l f the 17 merk land of Carleton and of the marriage of the " necys " (i.e., grand-daughters) of A l a n Cathcart of Carleton. T h e t w o claims came before the Lords of Counci l i n 1532, when i t was decided that J o h n Campbel l had the prior r ight . ^ '

I t appears, however, tha t Robert managed to re-unite the femily estate i n 1538, when, w i t h the consent of his mother, he bought h a l f of the lands of Carleton, including " the pr inc ipa l messuage and mansion of the same " — t h e old tower, of wh i ch the r u i n m a y s t i l l be seen near Lendalfoot. ^ H e was s t i l l s tyled " Robert Cathcart of Ke l luchane " when he sat on a n assize on 30 December, 1539.^ B u t he had come to be k n o w n as Robert Cathcart of Carleton b y 1541, when he was named as first heir of remainder to A l a n , 3rd L o r d Cathcart , his cousin, from whom he held the lands of K i l l o c h a n , * and who was k i l l e d at the battle of P i n k i e i n 1547. F r o m henceforth, although residing at K i l l o c h a n , the heads of th i s f a m i l y were a lways sty led " of Car le ton . "

5. Protocol Book of Gavin Ros, 938-9. 6. BaUie Court Book ot Carrick, f. 27. 7. Exchequer Rolls, xvli. p. 740. 8. Protocol Booh of Qavin Eos, 747. 9. S.S.S., u. 851.

10. W. Moir Bryce : The Scottish Orey Friars, ii. pp. 252-4. 1. B.M.S., Ui. 1809. 2. Ibid., 2123. 3. im., 2397.

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I n J a n u a r y , 1547-8, Robert Cathcart was invo lved i n a fight w i t h Thomas K e n n e d y of K n o c k d a w and his sons, two of whom, D a v i d and Thomas , mut i lated h i m of his left hand and hur t a n d wounded h i m i n the face. *

Robert Cathcart appears i n 1552 as a procurator for Mar i on Colvile, whose father, Thomas Colvile of Pemont, had been k i l l e d a t P i n k i e 5 ; and on 3 December, 1553, he and his brother A l a n were witnesses, " at K i l l u n q u h a n e " when their cousin Marion C a t h c a r t , " L a d y Knokdo leane , " protested against the judgment of the E a r l of Cassil i is and others chosen as arbiters i n a dispute between hersel f and D a v i d K e n n e d y of Pennyglen, whereby she declared herself much in jured , and appealed to the P r i v y Counci l .* H e was s t i l l l i v ing on 16 November, 1557, when he sat on a n ass i ze , ' and died probably i n 1560, his eldest son hav ing received sasine of the lands and barony of Carleton short ly before 2 November i n that year. *

H e married E l i z a b e t h Corrie, possibly a daughter of Thomas Corrie of Ke lwood . She surv ived h i m and died at D a l q u h u r (a smal l house near K i l l o c h a n ) i n J a n u a r y , 1573-4, hav ing made her w i l l on 4 J a n u a r y . ^ The i r children, a l l of whom but the eldest are named i n their mother's testament, were—

1. J O H N , of whom later . 2. Thomas , on record as a witness on 11 March , 1 5 5 6 - 7 , 1 "

and al ive i n 1581. ̂ 3. Gi lbert , probably the Gi lbert Cathcart , burgess of A y r ,

who died i n 1600 [Register of Deeds, c x x i x , ff. 42-7). 4. A l a n , on record as a witness i n 1549, ^ who on 30 J a n u a r y ,

1569-70, had sasine, on a charter from W i l l i a m Craufurd of Drumsoye dated 16 December, 1569, of the 30s land of Mcll lmorestoun but d id not secure possession of i t from Craufurd 's son t i l l 1604.3 H e signed t h e " B a n d " i n support of the Reformat ion at A y r on 4 September, 1562, designating himself , incorrectly, " A l l a n Cathcart of C a r l t o w n . " H i s eldest brother was also a s ignatory, and the " Thomas Cathcart w i t h m y h a n d " who l ikewise signed m a y have been his second brother.* F r o m at least 1600 t i l l his death he was known as A l a n

4. Pitcairn's Criminal Trials in Scotland, i. pp. •335-6, *343. 6. Ilegister House Calendar of Charters, viii. 1556. 6. Protocol Book of James Colvill, If. 78-9. 7. B.M.S., iv. 1252. 8. Exchequer Rolls, xix. p. 463. 9. Edinburgh Testaments, iii. ff. 117-8.

10. R.M.S., iv. 1395. 1. im., V . 276. 2. Protocol Book of James CoIviU, f. 59. 3. im., t. 44; Acta and Decreets, ccix. ff. 308, 327 ; ccxii. ff. 6-8. 4. MemoriaU of the Montgomeries, ii. pp. 192-3 ; Knox's History of the Reformation,

ed. Dickinson, i i . p. 56.

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Cathcart of Clauchfin, * and s i trvived to extreme old age, dying i n A y r i n 1625, a " t r u l y wor thy person . . . b l ind i n his body for three or four years before his death but clear-sighted i n spir i t as the good prophet A h i j a h , a m a n of a grave a j id composed temper." *

5. J a m e s . 6. D a v i d . 7. Margaret. 8 . K a t h e r i n e , who marr ied Thomas McAlexander of Corsclayis

and had issue ; she died i n J a n u a r y , 1569-70 . ' 9. A second Margaret, marr ied before 1574 to J o h n K e n n e d y

of Ba l t e rsan and had issue ; she died on 15 J a n u a r y , 1593-4.8

J O H N C A T H C A E T O F C A E L E T O N , who appears as a witness on 25 May , 1551,® succeeded his father. A s already noted, he signed the " B a n d " i n support of the Reformation on 4 September, 1562 ; and, w i t h the la irds of B a r g a n y , B l a i r q u h a n , Ke lwood , and D a l q u h a r r a n and several others from A y r s h i r e , he signed the B o n d of Association i n 1567. ^ " H e was on the assize i n December, 1564, when B e r n a r d Fergusson of K i l k e r r a n , his brothers T h o m a s and D a v i d , and others were accused of a t tack ing J o h n C r a u f u r d of Camlarg and others i n the Sheriff Court of A y r . ^ I n 1600 he was accused, along w i t h most of the C a r r i c k barons and la irds , of abiding from the E a r l of Angus 's r a i d of Dumfries . ^ H e was named i n 1607 among the heirs of remainder to A l a n , 4 th L o r d Cathcar t . ^ H e died on 9 October, 1612, when his debts exceeded his assets. *

J o h n Cathcart , who finished re-building or enlargiag the house of K i l l o c h a n i n 1586, according to a n inscription over i t s door, married, apparently i n 1563, He len Wal lace , who surv ived h i m and died i n J a n u a r y , 1624, ^ at K i l l o c h a n . She was " a grave, wise, virtuous woman " and " directed a l l things about her f a m i l y herself i n her extreme old age." * T h e y had i ssue—

1. J O H N , of whom later . 2. Mr. Robert , var iously designated as " i n K i l d o n a n " i n

1593, " of P e n m o i r " i n 1602, but generally " of Nether P i n m o r e . " ' H e accompanied the widowed

6. Register of Deeds, cxxix. f. 47. 6. Wodrow's Collections, i i . , Part I I . p. 269. 7. Edinburgh Testaments, xxi. 16 July, 1590. g. Edinburgli Testaments, xxviil. ff. 56-8. 9. Protocol Book o( James Colvill, f. 70.

10. Paterson's History of Ayrshire, i. p. 150. 1. Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, i. p. *457. 2. Ibid., l i . p. 106. '

. 3. B.M.S., vi . 1872. 4. Glasgow Testaments, ix. tt. 29-30. 5. R.M.S., iv. 1486 ; Glasgow Testaments, 28 October, 1624. 6. Wodrow. op. cit., p. 267. 7. e.g., Reg. of Deeds, cxxix. ff. 46-7, cxliii. ff. 442-6; Ayr Sasines, i i . ff. 216-7.

L a d y B a r g a n y to E d i n b u r g h i n J a n u a r y , 1602,* when she went to seek reparation for her husband's murder ; * and i n 1605 he witnessed her testament and several other deeds executed b y h e r . i " H e was named i n his father 's testament i n 1612 as a creditor for over £1,000, and died apparently between 1621 and 1628, though a report of his death reached a fr iend i n F r a n c e i n October, 1616. i

H e married , f irst , Agnes Kennedy , widow of a n Ecc les of K i l d o n a n , who died 22 December, 1593,* and b y whom he had a son—

(i) J o h n , on record as a witness i n 1601 and 1604 ; ^

and married secondly, late i n l i fe (ante-nuptial contract dated at G i r v a n 12 September, 1621), E l i z a b e t h Mure, a daughter of the notorious J o h n Mure of Auchindrano who had been executed for murder i n 1611. Mr . Robert settled on her the l i ferent of the 40s l a n d of Nether Pinmore . *

3. Mr. H e w , who appears as a witness on 29 October, 1626, then described as l awfu l son of umquhi le J o h n Cathcar t of Carleton. * F r o m his brother the reigning l a i r d he had on 9 May , 1629, a charter of the £9 l a n d of K i l l u q u h a n e w i t h the castle (castrum), fortalice, manor-place, &c., and took sasine of i t immediately after h is brother's death i n 1633.«

4. J a m e s , of B a r n e i l l , a witness i n 1596 , ' who had a Crown charter of E a s t e r B a r n e i l l on 18 J u n e , 1601 ,* and sasine thereon on 31 J u l y following. * H e was a witness on 17 J u l y , 1603, to the testament of his uncle Thomas McAlexander of Corsclayis . ̂ O n 14 May , 1605, he lent £1,000 to the E a r l of E g l i n t o n . ̂ H e is stated b y Paterson to have purchased the estate of Genoch i n

Eeg. of Deeds, Ixxxvi. f. 104. Historia of the Kennedyis, p. 52. Glasgow Testaments, xvii. ff. 114-6; Keg. of Deeds, ex. ff. 134-8. Wodrow, op. cit., p. 260. Mr. Robert Catlicart's close association with the Bargany and Auchindrane families is

part of the evidence, not yet conclusive, leading me to consider him the probable author of the anonymous Eistorie of the Kennedyis (ed. Robert Pitcairn, 1830), which Is a principal source of the story of the great Cassillis-Bargany feud.

Edinburgh Testaments, 1 November, 1694. Secretary's Reg. of Sasines, Ayr, i. f. 105, ii . t. 367. Ayr Sasines, ii . f. 216-7. B.M.S., viii. 2066. Ayr Sasines, vl. ff. 27-8. Reg. of Deeds, Ixxxiv. f. 12. R.M.S., vi . 1194. Secretary's Reg., Ayr, i. fl. 118-9. Edinburgh Testaments, xliii. f. 100. • ,.. . Eeg. of Deeds, cxxi. ff. 38-9. J ' -

m . ' Wigtownshire in about 1618 and to have died about

1636. He married, according to Paterson, Margaret Cathcart, and had, with other issue—

(i) Robert (not mentioned by Paterson), afterwards of Barneill, called " eldest son " in 1617. ^

(ii) John, who succeeded to Genoch, ancestor of the Cathcarts of Knookdolian. ^

(iii) Margaret, eldest daughter, who married in 1617 « Hew Kennedy of Bennane, and died in March, 1670,^ leaving issue.

5. Alan, on record as a witness on 6 March, 1587-8,« who had a Crown charter of the 30s land of Ballochbroyik and others on 2 June, 1593,' and appears as an arbiter in March, 1604. "

6. William, a witness on 7 Ju ly , 1601, and 29 March, 1603, but still described as " adolescens " on 15 February, 1604 ; * mentioned as the youngest son in his father's testament in 1612.

7. Margaret, who married (ante-nuptial contract dated 17 November, 1596), John Wallace of Dundonald. He died before 31 March, 1608; she later married Sir John Wallace of Carnhill, and was living in 1621.1"

8. Jonet, who married William Wallace (died 1616), commendator of Pailford from 1576, brother of John Wallace of Craigie and one of King James's suite of some 300 bajons and gentlemen on his voyage to Norway in 1589.1 She was styled Lady Pai l l , and died " at the place of F a i l l " in May, 1630. ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae erroneously states her to have been the wife of Mr. William Wallace, minister of Symington.

J O H N C A T H C A E T OI ' C A R L E T O N appears as a witness to a charter by Alan, 4th Lord Cathcart, on 14 May, 1594. ^ He was an active supporter of Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany in the Bargany-Cassillis feud, and commanded Bargany's rearguard in the fight at Pennyglen near Maybole, when Bargany was mortally wounded. *

2. Ayr Sasines, vii. t. 375. 3. See Paterson, Ayr mid Wigton, ii. pp. 162-4. 4. Ayr Sasines, yii. t. 375. 5. Glasgow Testaments, xxxv. 12 April, 1670. 6. Reg. House Charters, xiii. 2947. 7. R.M.S., V . 2333. 8. Reg. of Deeds, cxxxiii. S. 337-9. 9. Secretary's Reg., Ayr, i. f. 105 ; li. fl. 131, 356.

10. Reg. ot Deeds, cxliii. ff. 442-6 ; Ayr Sasines, 11. f. 180. 1. The Booh of Wallace, i. pp. 122-3. 2. Glasgow Testaments, xxii. 30 November, 1630. 3. R.M.S., vi. 112. 4. Eistorie of the Kennedyis, pp. 46-7.

m He was named as only executor of his father's testament on 1 October, 1612, ^ and in 1624 was executor dative of his mother's, she being " ane aigit woman " who " duelt and had hir residence with hir sone." ^ He was one of the commissioners representing Ayrshire in the Convention of Estates in 1 6 2 5 . H e died in Apri l , 1633.8

He married Rebecca Lokhart, possibly one of the Lockharts of Bar in the parish of Galston. The marriage seems to have taken place between 16 and 31 January, 1577-8, when John Cathcart cannot have been more than 14 years old. B y the marriage settlements his father granted him the 40s land of Hallowchappell, the 2 merkland of Barsalloch, and the £3 land of Mains of Carloton with " the Chapel-croft " ; and Rebecca's mother Jonet Dalrymple (who had married, secondly, John Hume) resigned in her favour the £5 land of Camregan with its mill . He married secondly, in 1587, Janet Chalmer, Lady Wattereid. "

He had issue— 1. John, who died vita patris in November, 1628, having

married Margaret Kennedy, who survived him and was still living in 1665. ^ They had issue—

(i) H E W , who succeeded.

(ii) Mary, on whose behalf her " father brother " Mr. Hew Cathcart was executor dative to her father.

2. Mr. Hew, the executor dative above-mentioned, first appears on record on this occasion but is possibly the " Hugo Cathcart " who graduated M.A. at Edinburgh in 1615. He was an overseer to the testament of his aunt Lady Pai l l in 1630. He was for several years guardian of his nephew Hew Cathcajt of Carleton, who refrained from entering heir to his father so as not to incur responsibility for the latter's debts ; ^ and was known as the Tutor of Carleton. 3 As late as 11 May, 1643, the Tutor signed (as " M. H . Cathcart " ) a precept of dare constat dated at " Killuchan " which his nephew was granting " cum expresso consensu et assensu ejus curatorum subscrihentixm " to Robert Inglis, merchant, as heir

5. Glasgow Testaments, iv. ii. 19-20. 6. JMd., X X . 28 October, 1624. . , 7. A.P.S., V. p. 166. 8. Glasgow Testaments, xxiv. 6 November, 1633. 9. B.M.S., iv. 2761, 2767 ; V . 1395.

10. Glasgow Testaments, xxi. (3), 13 May, 1629. 1. Laina Charters, 2595. 2. Sec Keg. of Deeds, cccocvi. ff. 253-4. 3. See B.M.S., ix. 458, 552, 1870 ; Ayr Sasinea, vii. ff. 386, 461, &c.

m to his father the deceased Mr. James Inglis, minister at Daily, in the 20s land of Ki l lub .*

His actual signature to the National Covenant of 1638 has not been found ; but in August, 1640, he, with the E a r l of Cassillis, Sir John Hamilton of Bargany, Mr. John Boyd of Trochrig, and others, signed a bond (discharged on 23 December following) for £2,732 6s 8d for arms and ammunition supplied to them by an Edinburgh merchant, evidently for use in that cause. ̂ I t was probably he, though described as " Mr. Hew Cathcart of Cairletoun," rather than his nephew, who was appointed by the Estates in 1643 a member of the Committee of War for Ayrshire.« He was by then an elderly man, and probably died not long afterwards.

H E W C A T H C A B T OP C A R L E T O N was for some years, as already noted, under the tutelage of his uncle. On 25 February, 1662, he was retoured heir to his grandfather John Cathcart in the lands of Carleton.'

He was, according to Wodrow, " wonderfully holy and heavenly in his family " and " extraordinary m solving cases of conscience." ^ There is a description of his holding family worship in the hall of Killochan, when " the family convened, and cushions were cast down ; and then being called out of his closet, he went to worship, and prayed both earnestly and confidently, after which he retired to his chamber without ever taking notice who was in the hall , t i l l meat was sot upon the table ; and then he came out and welcomed his guests very kindly . " " I n the hall of Killochan, too, in his time, there was held a conventicle at which Mr. Thomas Kennedy preached, a former minister of Lasswade, " but at this time thro-wn out of his charge, by the rage of the prelates," and it was on this occasion that John Stevenson younger in Camregan, who afterwards fought at the battle of Bothwell Bridge, first " f e l l in love with the W o r d . " "

Hew Cathcart died in February, 1677.1 j j g married, early in 1650, ^ Grizel Agnew, elder daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew, knight, younger of Lochnaw (afterwards 2nd baronet), by his

4. Ayr Sasines, vii. I . 605. 6. Ailsa MSS. Misc., Box 2. - ' ' 6. A.P.S., V I . , Part 1, p. 54. 7. Ayr RetouTS, 517. 8. Analecta, quoted in Paterson's History of Ayrshire, i. p 304. 9. Quoted in Sir Andrew Agnew's The Bereditary Sheriffs of OaUoway, p. 309.

10. A I^^^^ Smd-Strengthening and Comforting Cordial for Old and Young Christians,

1. Glasgow Testaments, xl. pp. 259-262. 2. Agnew, loc. eit.

m wife Lady Agnes Stewart, daughter of the 1st E a r l of Galloway. They had issue—

1. J O H N , of whom later. 2. H E W , created a baronet, of whom later. 3. Andrew, a merchant, taken prisoner by a French privateer

in August, 1688, but exchanged the following year. ^ He is presumably identical with the Andrew Cathcart, merchant in Glasgow, suspected by the K i r k Session of Dail ly in 1693 of fornication committed at Killochan. *

4. Anna, reported to the Pr ivy Council in 1684 as one of those in the parish of Dailly who did not frequent the ordinances—" Anna Cathcart, daughter to the Lady Carletoun." ^

J O H N C A T H C A E T OF C A R L E T O N was retoured heir to his father on 29 August, 1677, in the 408 land of Hallowchappell, 2 merkland of Barsalloch, the Mains of Carleton, half the lands and barony of Carleton with the principal mansion of the same, and others ; also in the 13 merkland of Killoquhen. *

Like his father, his sister, his grand-uncle, and his cousin Robert Cathcart of Barneill , John adhered to the cause of the Covenant. I n the spring of 1678, after the withdrawal of the " Highland Host " from Carrick, the Committee of the Pr ivy Council in the West ordered the garrison of Blairquhan, which according to Wodrow' consisted of 120 foot and 40 horse, to be transferred to Killochan. This order was carried out towards the end of March ; but as John Cathcart had submitted on March 13th to take the oath against tolerating conventicles, the Pr ivy Council sent directions from Edinburgh on March 26th that their Committee should transfer the garrison from Killochan to Bargany " i f you think the same be a fitt place."*

He married (contract 28 November, 1679) Annabella Maxwell, second daughter of Sir George Maxwell of Pollok, whose tocher was 16,000 merks, * " but died the first night after the marriage without issue." 1 " His body was brought home in February, 1680, the burgh accounts of Irvine making reference to 18 February as " that night that Carletoun's corps came to the toune." His brother Hew was retoured heir to him on 19 Apri l , 1681. ̂ His widow married, secondly, in 1686, Sir Robert Pollok of Upper Pollok.

3. Register of the Privy Council, 3rd series, xiv. p. .'i84. 4. Kirk Session Minutes, 23 November, 1693. 5. Privy Council Register, 3rd series, ix. p. 532. 6. Ayr Retours, 610. 7. History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, x. p. 478. 8. P.C.R., 3rd series, v. pp. 410-1, 415, 548, 562, 569-71, 576-7. 9. Fraser's The Marwells of Pollok, i. p. 77.

10. Playfair's Baronetage, App. p. Ixiv ; Muniments of the Royal Burgh of Irvine, ii . p. 282, (fee, 1. Ayr Retours, 625.

Sni H E W C A T H C A K T OF C A E L E T O N , 1st baronet, was appointed a Commissioner of Excise and Supply for Ayrshire in 1684,2 and was among those appointed in December of that year to proceed against those in the county who were guilty of " ecclesiastick disorders,"' and on 27 March, 1675, to proceed against " desperate rebells sculking up and down in some southern and western shires."* But at the Revolution he raised troops for the Protestant cause and garrisoned Ardmillan. *

He was a Member of Parliament for Ayrshire, 1703-7, and was created a baronet of Nova Scotia on 8 Apri l , 1703,* with remainder to his heirs male whomsoever.' He died in March, 1723, " or thereby," and his wil l was confirmed at Glasgow on 8 September, 1746.»

Sir Hew married in 1695 Anne Broun, daughter of Sir Patrick Broun of Colstoun, 1st baronet, and had issue.

I n the K i r k Session minutes of Dailly there are various allusions to Sir Hew Cathcart. Some two years before his marriage a Dailly girl, Margaret Girvan, was " rebuiked for the sin of fornication with Carleton " and had a child alleged to have been his. 9 On 15 January, 1695, " the La ird of Carletoun " was one of four chosen to be elders, and was regular in his attendance at the Session's meetings up to 1711. On 2 January, 1698, he was appointed with the minister " to speak to Trochreg about the poor's money," and on 3 May, 1702, he was unanimously chosen to represent the Session in the Presbytery of Ayr .

2. P.C.R., 3rd series, ix. pp. 54,60. 3. Ibid., X . p. 87. 4. Ibid., pp. 204-5. 5. IMd., xiii. p. Ix. 6. Not 20 January, 1704, as stated in the Complete Barmeiage. 7. a.M.S., ia>. Ixxx. No. 110. 8. Not December as stated in the Complete Baronetage. Glasgow Testaments, Ivi. p. 388, 9. Minutes of 26 November and 10 December, 1693.

C o r r e s p o n d e n c e of the First E a r l of D u n d o n a l d

A N N I E I . D U N L O P , O . B . E . , L L . D .

The thirty-nine letters here edited are contained in a volume of documents, largely correspondence, belonging to the muniments of the E a r l of Dundonald. Last year, when they were temporarily in the custody of the Keeper of the Records in the Register House, his Lordship kindly granted permission to transcribe them as a contribution to the Collections of the Ayrshire Archaeological Society. Eor myself, and in name of the Society, I thank the E a r l for making available these letters which combine a deep human interest with considerable political significance. I n themselves they do not give a complete or continuous record of events, but they serve as a mirror of their times.

On the personal side we see how the declining fortunes of some ancient houses are counter-balanced by the rise of others. We see how men with good education, business ability and command of ready money can carve a road to success ; we note how after the Union of the Crowns the Court at Whitehall becomes a magnet to attract many of the Scots nobility. Thus the yoimg Duchess of Buccleuch keeps princely state in London while her Scottish patrimony is left in the hands of Commissioners and at the mercy of chamberlains and designing neighbours. We find men some­times successful and sometimes frustrated in the fulfilment of theii" ambitions. I n some letters we sense anxiety, carking care and perplexity. I n the case of the E a r l of Dundonald himself we can follow the different stages of a successful and honourable career, cast in an age of political and religious upheaval. His long life span (1605-1685) more or less coincided with the struggle for the Covenants ; but his correspondence shows that other dynamic forces were also contributing to alter the whole fabric of society.

William Cochrane was descended from an old Renfrewshire family which issued in the female line on the death of his grand­father, William Cochrane, leaving a daughter as sole heiress. I n 1603, Elizabeth Cochrane married Alexander Blair , a younger son of Alexander Blair of that I l k , who on his marriage assumed the name and arms of Cochrane. Wil l iam, afterwards 1st E a r l of Dundonald, was the second son of Elizabeth and Alexander, but became the acknowledged head of the family in 1642, when his elder brother. Sir John Cochrane, resigned his Scottish estates on taking up a diplomatic and military career in the service of Charles I . His new status gave additional distinction to a position which William Lad already well established by his own