Historical account of the noble family of Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa and Earl of Cassilis

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29th November 1371, that he founded a chapel, near to the
parish church of Maybole, for a priest and three chaplains to
celebrate divine service at the said chapel, for the happy state
of himself, Mary, his wife, and their children, and for his ances-
tors and successors, and mortifies thereto his eighteen merk
land lying contiguous to the chapel, an annual rent of ten
merks sterling, payable from the lands of Balmaclunican, an an-
nual rent of five merks out of the lands of Barricloich, an an-
nual rent of six merks out of the lands of Treuchane, and an an-
nual rent of five merks out of the lands of Barriloch. This
grant is confirmed by a charter of King Robert the Second,
de Carrick, and in 1393 Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dumire granted them to his cousin,
John Kenned)', son of Fergus Kennedy * 5. The complete identity of the arms
Nisbefs of Carrick and Kennedy. The arms of the old Earls of Carrick were argent a
" 2™sf^ la. chevron gules simply. They are so represented in Sir David Lindsay, the Lord
Advocates' Lyon's matriculation of arms. The seal of Gilbertus de Carrick in 1285, ap-
pended to a deed in Lord Panmure's charter-chest, about the patronage of May-
bole, exhibits a chevron between three cross crosslets fiche ; and the Kennedy
arms are described in an authentic copy of an original confirmation by Robert II. ' *
in 1371 to John Kennedy of Dunure, including a description in Latin of the seal
of the latter, sent to the University of Glasgow by the Principal of the Scotch '
College at Paris. John Kennedy's seal is stated to exhibit " super cera viridi in-
tegrant — super scuto erecto cantherimum medium inter 3 cruces duplices hujus-
modi -&+ Scuto assident utrinque duo Leones, in crista stat leo erectus ;" with
the legend, " Sigillum Joannis Kennedy." That is, a shield erect exhibiting a
chevron between three cross crosslets, with two lions sitting on each side as sup-
porters, and a lion erect as the crest. Subsequently, the Kennedys added to their
arms the royal double tressure, in consequence of the marriage of James Kennedy
of Dunure with a daughter of Robert III. In the seal to the charter of founda-
tion of St Salvador's College by Bishop Kennedy, his coat of arms is shewn on the
one side with the double tressure, and on the other without it. The Family sub-
sequently adopted two swans as supporters and a dolphin as crest, and the first
time it has been observed isabout 1516, soon after being created Earls of Cassillis.
David, sixth son of Sir Gilbert Kennedy, was one of the retinue, along with John
Maxwell of Calderwood, who attended the Princess Margaret of Scotland on her
marriage to the Dauphin in 1436, in honour of which event the alteration may
have been made on the supporters and crest.
* Sir John Maxwell of Pollok is a witness to this charter.