Salt-foot controversy

40 PEDIGUEE OF THE
bearing of Stewart of Allan ton to be as above men-
tioned.*
The existence, however, of Sir Allan Stewart of
Daldowie at this period, is proved beyond a doubt,
by his being named as one of the witnesses to a
charter, by King Robert III. dated 6th December
1893, and third year of his reign, " to Sir Adam
Mure of Rowallan, and Dame Janet Danielston,
his spouse, in conjunct fee, and so to the heirs to be
procreate between them, whom failing to Sir Adam
Mure's lawful heirs whatsoever, viz. Sir Reginald
Mure of Abercorn, and Godfrey Mure of Caldwell,
his grand-uncle and cousin, and their heirs, &c. of
the lands of Polnekill, or Polkelly, Green, Dum-
blay, Ainsoch, Dardarroch, and Balgray, in Ayr-
shire, and the lands of Nemphlar, in Lanarkshire,
to be erected into a barony, and to be holden ward.f
* Nesbit's Heraldry, vol. II. pp. 53, 299. It unfortunately
happens, that the Lion-office, or Herald's College of Scotland;
was burnt about 180 years ago j therefore there are no records
to he found there of an earlier age than the beginning of the
3 7th century.
•f- See Robertson's Index to ancient charters, p. 143. This
charter is in the possession of either the Earl of Glasgow, or of
Lady Loudon. In a memoir found among the papers of the late
Mr George Crawfurd, (by which it appears that he meditated a
history of the House of Stewart on a much more extensive scale
than that subjoined to his account of Renfrewshire) we find, that
he bad collected notices of many families of the name, and of
that of Allanton among others, in which the latter appeared as
witnesses to charters and seasines, from the first one here quoted
in 1393, down to the time of Sir Walter Stuart in 1643.