Volume 2

278              GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. II

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of Craigends is one of the Arbitrators betwixt the Abbot of
the Monastery of Paisley and the Burgh of Renfrew Anent
their Marches Anno 1488.¹ This Gentleman's Lady is
Agnes Lyle.² The presumption is that She was the Lord
Lyle's Daughter, because there was no other family of that
Name, and they Resided Just in the Neighbourhood at the
Castle of Duchall not above two or three Miles Distance. He
left Two Sons Uchter his Successor, and George Knox a
Younger Son to whom his father gave in Patrimony the half
of the Lands of Knoc or Knox* And to Janet Fleeming his
Spouse a daughter of the Antient Family of Barrochan in the
Shyre of Renfrew³ Anno 1503 The Charter Provides the
Estate disponed to them and their heirs Simply.

Uchter Knox of Ranfurlie the next in the Line of Descent
of this Antient family was Allied to a very Noble Family viz
Jannet Daughter to the Lord Semple a near Neighbour to the
Laird of Ranfurlie⁴ by this Ladie he had Issue.

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Uchter his Son and Successor, William the progenitor of
the Knoxes of Selvieland. And Janet who was married to
Alexander Cuninghame son to William Cuninghame of Craig-
ends and again to Mr. John Porterfeild of that Ilk.⁵ And
another Daughter Hewissa who was Married to John Buntine
of Ardoch a very Antient family in the County of Dumbarton
where they Still Remain in Lustre.⁶

Uchter Knox the next Laird of Ranfurlie Married a Lady
of the Cuninghames but of what family I cannot Say but the
Tradition is that She was of the house of Craigends by whom

¹  The Chartulary of Paisley The House of Ranfurly had the Lands of Upper
or Over Craigends and the House of Glencairn the Estate of Nether Craigends
which Alex^r Lord Kilmaurs gave to Alex^r Cunninghame her Son in the 1474.

²  Roll or List of the Lairds of Ranfurlie.

³  The Charter I have Seen in the hands of Collin Campbell of Blythswood
proprietor of the Lands of Knoc or Knox.

⁴  Illuminate Birthbrieff I have Seen of a Gentleman of the Name of Bunting
of the House of Ardoch.

⁵  Writtes of Duchall I have Seen.                                      ⁶ Ibidem.

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* —— Joannes Knox de Eodem gives Hugoni Domino Montgomery unum
annuum Reditum Quatuor Celdrarum Farinæ Avenaticæ et Unam Libram Piperis
annuatim percipiend de terris de le Stane jacent in Dominio de Cunningham
infra Vic. de Air 8^vo die Martii 1501—Charta 455. Lib. 13.—M.