Supplement to third edition of History of George Heriot's Hospital

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1529. Convicted, along -with Gilbert Wauchope of Niddry-Marshall
and others, of having been " art and part " (or aider and abettor)
of convocation of the lieges upon Edmonston of Edmonston. 1
Sentence not recorded. — P.G.T.
He was twice married — (1) to Janet Borthwick ; (2) to
Marion Cockburn ; and died in 1530 or 1531.
In the Index of Testaments of the Commissariat of Edin-
burgh there is the subjoined entry, but, unfortunately, the
record itself corresponding to this period is not now extant : —
" Honorabilis vir Andreas Heriot. Dominus de Trabron
apud Heprig, 2 July 1532."
James Heriot, "of the family of Trabroun," and, probably,
son and apparent heir of Andrew Heriot of Trabroun,
whom he predeceased. 2
Was uncle to George Buchanan, the celebrated poet and his-
torian, and sent him, in or about the year 1520, to the University
of Paris to complete his studies. After he was there two years
his uncle died, and he returned to Scotland poor and in bad
health. His own words (in his Vita ab ipso) are, "intra
biennium avunculo mortuo et ipse gravi morbo correptus ac undique
inopia circumventus ad suos est coactus."
Agnes Heriot, " of the family of Trabroun," and sister of
the preceding James Heriot.
circa 1500 Was married to Thomas Buchanan of Moss, Stirlingshire.
Their third son, born in February 1506, was the celebrated
1 At the time there was a deadly feud between the lairds, Edmonston of
Edmonston and Wauchope of Niddry-Marshall.
2 In the beginning of the 16th century, and till at least 1520, there was a
James Heriot "Justiciar" of Lothian. He is styled " Canonicus Jiossensis
ac officialis Sancti Andree infra Archidiaconalum Laudonie judex," and in
1518 was judge on a claim by the chaplain of the parish of Crichton against
Andrew Heriot of Trabroun (his father ?) for a competent mortuar'ms for his
deceased wife Janet Borthwick. — Liber Officialis Sancti Andree, Abb. Club.
Dr Irving, in his Memoir of Buchanan, says his uncle James Heriot sent
him, "apparently in the year 1520," to Paris, and died two years afterwards
(in 1522), and as that is the year in which another judge, " William
Prestoun, Rector de Beltoun," appears on record in place of Heriot, there is a
presumption that James Heriot the Justiciar, and James Heriot uncle of
Buchanan, were the same person.