Agnews of Lochnaw

234 THE SEVENTH HEREDITARY SHERIFF. [l602.
into a promise that he would not be one of the party in a pro-
posed journey to the house of Inche.
It being known that Cassilis was on his way to Galloway,
certain men lay in wait for him at Ardstincher, and were about
to fall upon him, when their plans were disarranged by seeing
that Sir Thomas was beside him. Little aware of how narrow
his escape had been, Lord Cassilis rode on and arrived safely at
the Inche.
Early next morning, before he had risen from his bed, Auch-
indrane crossed to the island, and asking to see the tutor, coolly
reproached him " in respect that he had broken promise," and
" talkett with him the space of ane hour." Cassilis meanwhile,
conceiving some suspicions, sent orders from his bed-chamber
that the boat should not be allowed to take Mure from the islaud,
and then descending joined him and the tutor in the court-yard.
He then accused the Laird of Auchindrane with plotting to
take his life, which the laird indignantly denied, but neverthe-
less the earl informed him he must be detained a prisoner.
At this moment dinner was announced, and as the earl turned
to enter the house, Auchindrane's man, having slyly ascertained
that the boat was not fastened, beckoned to his master, and he,
with Ardmillan's brother (another conspirator), jumped instantly
into the boat, pushed off, and ere they could be overtaken, they
gained the shore, leaped on their horses, and escaped.
A short time afterwards the Laird of Bargany was mortally
wounded in an encounter with a party of Cassilis's adherents, to
the great regret of the whole countryside. He had married
Janet Stewart, daughter of Lord Ochiltree, and sister of John
Knox's second wife, 1 and by her he left a son Thomas, who died
unmarried, when the direct line of Bargany became extinct in
the person of the eighth baron. The line was carried on by
Hew Kennedy, descended from Hew, second son of Thomas
Kennedy of Bargany (fifth baron), who, as mentioned before,
married Katherine, heiress of Bennane. 2
1 In all peerages he is erroneously stated to have married a Gordon of Lochinvar.
2 The family is now represented by Hew F. Kennedy, Esq. of Benanne and
Fiimarts.