Memorials of the families of Lumsdaine, Lumisden, or Lumsden

FAMILY OF LUMSDEN. 29
there is no record of the transaction except the confirmatory
charter, which is dated 24th July, 1511. He married the
widow of George Gordon of Hallhead (a daughter of Mortimer
of Craigievar), and died in 1479-80, when he was succeeded by
his eldest son.
V. Thomas Lumsden, whose precept of sasine in the lands of
Fowlis Mowat and Balnakelly, dated 7th April, 1480, is in the
Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff, Vol. IV., p. 323. He died
without issue in 1495, and was succeeded by his brother.
VI. Robert, whose instrument of sasine from the Earl of
Rothes, as " nearest and most lawful heir to umquhil Thomas
Lumysden of Medlar, h. broy r - german," is dated 7th April,
1495. He married — (1) Isobel, daughter of John Forbes
of Terpersie ; (2) Jean Calder of Asloun ; and he is said to
have had nineteen children. He was concerned in the treason
— real or pretended — of John, Master of Forbes, and, says the
Cushnie MS., "for taking part and speaking for the Master,
was warded in Edinburgh, and not relieved out till after the
said Master of Forbes's execution." * The Master, it will be
remembered, was convicted of being art and part in a treason-
able conspiracy to kill the King -per bumbardam sive macld-
nam bellicam le culvering vidgaritur appellat. ipso domino
1 The MS. here quoted is a very curious little book in a sheepskin cover, much
thumbed and worn, written by Robert Lumsden of Cushnie, in 1640. The writing
is small, close, and very beautiful, but the ink is now so faded that it is scarcely
legible. Happily a copy was taken in 1764, by John Lumsden of Cushnie, and one
"ets some help from it here and there ; but it is a very confused piece of work, with-
out a single date in it from beginning to end.