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

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favour of himself and Agnes Maxwell, his wife, in liferent, and
after their decease, of James Kennedy, their son, and the heirs-
male of his body; whom failing, Alexander Kennedy, his brother,
and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, Hugh Kennedy,
his brother, and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, John
Kennedy, son of the said Gilbert and Agnes, and brother of
the said James, and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing,
Thomas Kennedy, their brother, and the heirs-male of his body ;
whom failing, David Kennedy, their brother, and the heirs-
male of his body ; whom failing, the nearest heirs whatsoever of
the said Sir Gilbert Kennedy, their father. He took a charter,
in the same terms, in 1 404, of the lands of Cassillis and Guiletry
and two Kilmores, but in this charter each of the younger sons
are called brothers of James. In 1405 his son James married
the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III., and relict of George,
first Earl of Angus,* and by her left issue, —
1. Sir John, died about 1434. Among the hostages for
the redemption of James I. was " Joannes Kennedy
de Carryk, 11 who is said to be possessed of land to
the amount of v c - marcas — a large sum at that
time ; and he had a safe conduct to meet the King
at Durham with horses and retainers. In 1431 the
following notice of him occurs in Fordun : — " For
certain causes the King caused Archibald, third of
that name, Earl of Douglas, and Sir John Kennedy,
his nephews,-f* to be arrested, — the Earl he sent in
custody to the castle of Lochleven, and his nephew
he kept in the castle of Stirling, where he was kept
* The Princess Mary, or Marion, as she is called in some deeds, was con-
tracted in marriage to the Earl of Angus, 24th May 1 397, hut the alliance was short,
the Earl having died prematurely of the plague in 1402 ; she afterwards mar-
ried, successively, Sir William Graham of Kincardine, afterwards Lord Graham,
and Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreith, and had issue by all her marriages.
t There is added in a note, " ex parte sororum suarum," from the old book
of Couper, or other version of Fordun.