Erskine Halcro genealogy

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2328, it appears that at that time Thomas Stewart of Barscube was in
difficulties and had to pledge his lands of Salsarhill and Hunterhill to a
certain Lord Lisle for ^"ioo. This seems quite inconsistent with his being
proprietor of the lands of North Barr, Craigton, etc., in 1497.
Again, from an entry in J?. M.S. of date 25th May 1579, Matthew Stewart
of Barscube and John Logan of Balway executed direct precept of sasine
of the lands and barony of Inchinnan, in a charter confirmed by the king.
The explanation of the whole, as I understand it, is that these Stewarts,
cousins of the Lennox Darnley Stewarts, were only at the time proprietors
of the smaller estates of Salsarhill and Hunterhill, and that their connection
with the large estates of the family was of the nature of a trust.
($l2).—R.M.S. 28th October 1496, No. 2328. 'Thomas Stewart of Barscube,
proprietor of the lands of Salsarhill, with the mill thereof, and the sixth part
of the lands of Hunterhill.'
(5/2). — R.M.S., 4th March 1502, No. 2706. George Stewart of Barscube is
a witness to a deed in connection with land in Renfrewshire. He got sasine
of the lands of Barscube, Saucerland (Salsarhill), and Hunterhill in 1502 —
see Exchequer Rolls, xii. p. 711.
(6/2). — In D.S.H. this Barscube is called ' Robert,' but the terms in an
entry in R.M.S., dated 28th August 1550, refer to John (7/3) and to his father
John, who was the husband of Katherine Brisbane. It appears, therefore, in
this solitary instance, that Duncan Stewart has fallen into an error. In
corroboration of this I find, in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. i. p. 163,
that on 20th August 1533 John Stewart of Barscube was accused, with
others, of the slaughter of the laird of Craiginnes. This John was most
probably (7/3).
(7/1) and (7/2). — Matthew, fourth Earl of Lennox, had another brother, John,
Lord d'Aubigny, who succeeded to the earldom when his brother Robert
(7/2) resigned. This John had a son, Esme, Lord d'Aubigny, who was
created Duke of Lennox by James vi. on 5th August 1581, when the Earl-
dom of Lennox was raised into a dukedom. He died in Paris in 1587-1588,
when his son Ludovick, then a minor, inherited the dukedom. It appears