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

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES. 47
ary, to Peter Dundas, the two parts of the lands of Balvin,
-within the sheriffdom of Perth, for the space of three years, for
certain quantities of grain, or the value thereof, yearly. —
B. ofD.
1555. Was a consenter to a Contract, dated 8th July, between John
Couttis, Burgess of Edinburgh, tutor to John Lawson of Loch-
tullo, and Alexander Home, son to William Home of Prender-
gaist, concerning the lands of Denisleeside, Lochtullo. Wit-
nesses — Alexander Heriot, and George Home, yr. of Spott. —
B.ofD.
1556. Infeft in lands of Frierness in Lauderdale on Deed by Alex-
ander Lord Hume. Witnesses — George Heriot, in Longniddrie,
Symon Fortoun, Jacobus Heriot de Hirnyclewt, &c. — Protocol
Bh. of Hadn.
1556-7. Was surety along with Gilbert Wauchope of Niddry-Marshall
and Patrick Hepburn of Wauchton that William Wauchope
(son and heir-apparent to Gilbert), Edmund Nicholson, miller
in Dirleton, and five others, would underly the law for slaying
wild fowl with culveringis and pistolettis, between May 1552
and November 1556.— P. CT.
1557. As one of the Curators of Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield (son
and heir of the deceased Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield), was
party to a Contract, dated 1557, between Elizabeth
relict of the deceased Thomas Hamilton and William Hutsoun
her spouse. — B. of D., v. 3. /. 6.
1 Nisbet in his Heraldry (originally published in 1722), speaking of the
Heriotsof Trabroun, says, "of whom [them] are the HeriotsinLongniddry,"and
this statement is corroborated by the circumstance of George Heriot in Long-
niddry having been a witness (as will be seen in these pages) to important
deeds connected with the family. The representatives of the Heriots, farmers,
at Castlemains, Dirleton, about the end of last century, some of whom are in
Gullane, North Berwick, and South Carolina, U. S. , claim descent from this
George Heriot. It may also be noted that George Heriot in Longniddry
obtained a lease under the Privy Seal, dated 14th March 1553-4, of the East
and West Barnes Links (the sandy ground at the sea-shore near Dunbar.)