Memorials of the families of Lumsdaine, Lumisden, or Lumsden

8 FAMILY OF LUMSDAINE.
of Blanerne still stands fast, though the pleasant modern
mansion has become the family home instead of the old tower
hard by.
From a charter dated 1347 I gather that Gilbert had a
son Adam (Kaine, App. ccc.) ; but from 1364, which is Gilbert's
last appearance {see p. 5), to 1430, there are no charters
extant to guide us ; a blank the more to be regretted as there
are many Lumsdens recorded between those years whose
relationship to the East or West Lumsden or Cushnie families
it would be very desirable to trace. Besides those who entered
the famous Scots Guards, two of the name are recorded as
having served in France — viz., Alexander, ecuyer Ecossais,
circa 1340; and Alan, circa 1392. (L'Abbe de Bevy's
Extracts from the Records of the Extraordinaire de la Guerre,
preserved in the " Chambre des Comptes " at Paris, cpioted
by Sir Thomas Strange in a letter to his son, copy of which
is at Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire).
In the Scots Guards -we find in 1419 : "William Lumisden,
ecuyer Ecossais, recu a Hesdin sous Robert Pitullo ; " in
1434 : " John Lumisden, chevalier, recu a Monthlery (he
may possibly be the John mentioned in the entail of West
Lumsden in 1438; see post, p. 12); and in 1439: "Robert
Lumisden, recu a Arras " (Forbes Leith's Scots Guards in
France, Vol. I., pp. 154, 159, 169). In the muster-rolls of the
Archers of the Guard, in 1498 and in 1499, "Thomas Lom-
esdel" appears, and in 1505 is "Jehan Alomesdel" (Forbes
Leith, Vol. I., pp. 172, 175). That the last names stand for