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THE EARLDOM OF LOUDOUN 221
succeeding October, on a Sabbath day, the diet was called
in the Court of Justiciary against the Sheriff. He failed
to appear, and James, Earl of Arran, was amerciated
in a hundred pounds for his failure to underlie the law.
Arran had apparently become surety for him. Campbell
was denounced rebel, and all his moveable goods were
ordained tc be forfeited. A large number of his friends
and followers, including the Craufurds of Leffnoris,
Campbell of Cessnock, and the Craufurds of Kerse and
Drongan, found caution at the same Court to underly
the law for the same crime, at. the forthcoming Justiciary
Court at Ayr. Dame Isabella Wallace, Lady Loudoun,
was accused of being a party to the slaughter, but her
curate, Sir William Bankhede, and other two witnesses,
appeared and testified that she was sick.
The criminal annals of the period contain numerous
references to this crime, for which, unless it may have
been in the reprisal of the Kennedys, nobody seems to
have suffered in the end very seriously. The records
supply proof otherwise of the feudal antipathies of the
Campbells and the other Kyle barons. In the national
controversy that raged, with the Duke of Albany on the
one side and the Hamiltons and Douglases on the other,
the Earl of Cassillis sided with Albany, Sir Hugh Campbell
with his rivals ; and, apart from the immediately
domestic broils of the Ayrshire families, this more
national antagonism no doubt had its share in accentu-
ating the hostility entertained by the Kyle barons to
the lord of Carrick. \
The first of the Campbells to attain to nobility was
Sir Hugh, first Lord Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr, and a
Privy Councillor in Scotland, whom James VI., June 30,
1601, created a Lord of Parliament by the title of Lord
Campbell of Loudoun. His lordship married, first, in
1572, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Gordon of Loch-
invar, and had issue, John, Master of Loudoun, who
died before his father, leaving issue by his wife, a daughter
of John, first Earl of Wigton, Margaret, who succeeded
her father in the barony of Loudoun, and Elizabeth, who