Biggar and the House of Fleming

510 BIGGAR AND THE HOtJSE OF FLEMING.
the countess herself, because she had prevented her daughter
from giving over her fee of the lands in question. The King,
therefore, insisted that the countess would for his sake adopt
a different course, " becaus the said Malcolmis bairnis that suld
have the said landis ar sa teynder of blude bath to us and you,
and siclike becaus your husband is selland and pulland fast
away till utheris." He concluded by asserting that, if her
husband would not keep his promise to Lord Fleming, he
would find means to compel him to do so by the law.
Lord Fleming, on the 9th of April 1538, resigned his lands
into the hands of James V. and that monarch granted him a
new charter by which his Lordship's whole possessions were
formed into five baronies, 1st the lands of Auchtermony, the
annual rents of Kers, the lands of Lenzie, and the forest of
Cumbernauld were to form the barony of Cumbernauld, and
Cumbernauld House was to be the messuage for taking sasines ;
2d., The lands and barony of Lenzie with the town and burgh
of Kirkintilloch, were to form the barony of Lenzie, and Kirk-
intilloch was to be the place for taking sasines ; 3d., Boghall,
the town and burgh of Biggar, and the acres lying adjacent,
were to form a new barony to be called the barony of Boghall,
and the manor place of Boghall was to be the messuage for
sasines ; 4th., The lands of Thankerton and Biggar were to
form the barony of Thankerton, and the town of Thankerton
was to be the messuage for sasines ; 5th., The lands of Over-
menzion, the superiority of one half of Glenrusie, and other lands
in that quarter, were to form the barony of Mossfennan.
Lord Fleming, in 1535, accompanied James V. on his
matrimonial expedition to France. Ambassadors had, a short
time before, concluded a marriage treaty between James and
Marie de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke of Vendosme. Not-
withstanding this engagement he fell in love with Magdalene,
daughter of the French King, a lady of great beauty, but of
weakly constitution, and was married to her in the Church of
Notre Dame, Paris, on New Year's day 1537. In the spring
the King returned with his Queen and attendants to Scotland ;
but the fair and youthful Magdalene sickened and died, forty
days after she set foot on the shore of her adopted country.
The misunderstanding between James and his uncle Henry