Historie and descent of the House of Rowallane

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lie receaved & is the positive Judgement of
these whose collection serve in some sort
for a directorie to ws in Cases, throw pro-
cess of time become wncleare. That Ro-
bert Mure of CamCeskane & Androw
Muire of Monyhagen, predecessor'^ as is
heretofor observed, to the houses of Cald-
well* & Achindraine,t wer at y* time Bre-
thren of this familie, And of the Sones of
* Crawfurd, derives the Mures of Caldwell from
Gilchrist, who appears in 1363, a younger son of Sir
Reginald More of Abercorne; and says that Sir Regi-
nald, who was Lord Chamberlain of Scotland, temp.
David II. obtained Abercorne by marriage of one of
the co-heiresses of the Grahams of Eskdale. The
connection, however, of the family of Abercorne, with
the house of Rowallane, appears not to be very dis-
tinctly ascertained: neither does the present account
seem more certainly to fix that point.
f Dec. 3. 1658. John Mure of Auchindraine, was
served heir of Sir John Mure of Auchindraine, his
father, in the 8 merk land of Minnihagan, &c. within
Kyle Stewart. The 10 pund land of Auchindraine,
&c. within the Earldome of Carrick; also in the lands
of Cloncaird, Barneill, &c. all lying in the Bailyiarie
of Carrick — Inq, Spec, lately published. See a sin-
gular narration regarding one of the lairds of Auch-
indraine, App. Note C.