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son, John de Monteith, the betrayer of Wallace, was sheriff of Dumbarton
and constable of the castle of Dumbarton in 1305 (h). Malcolm Fleming
was the sheriff of Dumbarton in the reign of Robert I. (i). Having ob-
tained a grant of the baronies of Kirkmtilloch and Cumbernauld, these
districts were detached from the sheriffdom of Stirling and annexed to
the sheriffdom of Dumbarton (k). On the other hand, a large extent of the
eastern part of Lennox, which appears to have belonged to the sheriffdom
of Dumbarton in the thirteenth century, was detached from that shire and
annexed to the sheriffdom of Stirling (l). Malcolm Fleming of Biggar was
sheriff of Dumbarton in 1364 (m). Sir John de Danielstoun held the same
office in 1373 (n). His son and heir, Sir Robert de Danielstoun, was
sheriff of Dumbarton and keeper of the castle in 1377, and he probably
held both those offices till his death in 1399 (0). Sir Robert Erskine of
Erskine, was keeper of the castle of Dumbarton and sheriff of the county in
1440 and 1443 (p). Sir John Colquhoun of Luss was sheriff of Dumbarton-
shire in 1456 and 1457 (q). He held the same office in 1471 and in
1473, and he probably continued sheriff till his death in 1479 (r). In the
(A) Ryley's Placita, 505-6.
(�) Chart. Lennox, i. 38. He was the father of Sir Malcolm Fleming, the first Earl of
Wigton.                                  (k) Eegist. Mag. Sig., Rot., i. 80 ; Bot., vii. 24.
(l) The precise time when this change was made cannot be distinctly ascertained. It seems, how-
ever, to have taken place during the latter part of the 13th century. See the chartularies of Lennox,
Paisley, Glasgow, and Oambuskenneth ; the Great Seal Register during the 14th century; and Prynne,
iii. 653-661.
(m) Two precepts of David II., one dated the 20th July, and the other the 10th of December 1364,
are addressed to Malcolm Fleming, the king's sheriff of Dumbarton. Chart. Paisley, No. 300, 301;
Chart. Lennox, ii. 63.
(n) Chart. Lennox, i. 90. He married a daughter of Malcolm Fleming, the first Earl of Wigton,
from whom he obtained the island of Inchcaillach in Loch Lomond, and the lands of Kilmaronock in
Dumbartonshire. Robertson's Index, 30.
(o) In 1377 he held the office of keeper of Dumbarton castle for life, with a salary of �80 yearly,
which was paid by the king's chamberlain. Chamberlain Rolls, A.D. 1377. He was keeper of this
castle at his death in 1399.
(p) On the 10th of August 1440, he engaged to deliver the castle of Dumbarton to the king when
he should be put in possession of the castle of Kildrummy. Acta Parl., ii. 55. In 1443, Sir Robert
Sempil acted as sheriff depute of Sir Robert Erskine, and he held the castle of Dumbarton, of which
he was dispossessed on the 15th of July 1443, by Patrick Galbreth. Short Chronicle of the reign of
James II, 35.
(q) His Account, as sheriff of Dumbartonshire, from the 25th of September 1456, to the 9th of
July 1457, is in Sir Lewis Stewart's Collections, fo. 238.
(r) He was sheriff of Dumbarton in 1471. Crawfurd's MS. Notes from the Exchequer Rolls.
An inquest was made before him as sheriff of Dumbarton, on the 4th of November 1473.