Salt-foot controversy

FAMILY OF ALLANTON. 37
Bonkle, or Bonkill, the second son of Alexander,
sixth Lord High Steward of Scotland, and great-
grandfather to King Robert II.* It has been said
by some, that it sprung from a younger brother of
Darnly and Castlemilk. That is also true ; as the
Darnly and Castlemilk branches of the name (that
is, the Darnly and Dalswinton branches) are de-
scended from the eldest two of the seven sons of Sir
John Stewart of Bonkle, whereas the Allanton
branch is from a younger son.f Sir John was killed
at the battle of Falkirk, anno 12984
I. Sir Robert Steuart was born about the year
1280, and obtained the lands of Daldowie, on the
Clyde in Lanarkshire, which he held of the Arch-
bishop of Glasgow. It appears that he accompanied
his three brothers, Sir Allan Stewart of Darnly,
Sir Walter Stewart of Dalswinton, and Sir Hugh,
in the expedition to Ireland, under Prince Edward
Bruce, and was present at the battle of Dundalk,
an. 1318.$ He was succeeded by his son.
II. Allan Steuart of Daldowie, sirnamed " Aln-
wickster." He early attached himself to the House
of Douglas, under the celebrated Sir James, com-
* See Dun. Stewart's Hist of the Stewarts, p. 199. Sir
Robert Douglas's Genealogical Table of the House of Stewart,
&.c. and they have been followed by Brown and others.
t See, the foregoing History, p. 127, where Mr Crawfurd
speaks very vaguely, if not erroneously, on the subject.
% Hemmingfoid, Tom. I. p. 165. Lord Hailes's Annals,
p, 260.
5 Hollinshed's Chron.' of Ireland, p. 67, 68.