Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath

22 GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF
in vicecomitatu de Bamff, in the thirty-ninth year of that king's reign,
1369. And in the third year of King Robert the Second there is a charter
of confirmation to the same of some lands in the county, and adjoining the
burgh of Haddington.
We next find him engaged in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. 1 In
1 38 1 there is a passport for Alexander de Lindesay, also for Patrick de
Hepburn, chevalier, with twelve men and twelve horses. Likewise for John
de Abernethy with six men and six horses, also for John de Edmonstone,
chevalier, with sixteen men and sixteen horses, and John de Tours, cheva-
lier. The next year there are passports for their return. 2 Lastly, there is a
permission from Richard the Second to John de Edmonstone to take 200
quarters of malt with his own vessels from a port on the coast of Lincoln-
shire to any port he pleases in Scotland.
Whom this gentleman married, or when he died, there is no account.
That he was succeeded by a son of the same name there can be little doubt ;
and in this respect I think the Ednam pedigree more correct than Crau-
ford's, which makes only one generation. Whether he may not have had
a second son, Archibald, from whom the Duntreath family is descended,
will be inquired into hereafter ; moreover, if that very apocryphal work,
' The Memorie of the Somervilles,' can be trusted, he had a daughter, Mar-
garet, married to Sir John Somerville of Carnwath. I give the passage
at length : 8 —
'In October the same year, 1372, John, eldest son and appearing heir
to Walter, Baron of Carnwath, being at Court with his father, there was none
more taken notice of than this young gentleman. Being of a comely per-
sonage, affable and courteous, he gained the affection of all he conversed
with ; but that which contributed most to the young gentleman's advantage
was his acquaintance with Sir John Edmondstowne, donator to the forfaul-
ture of Sir Robert Baird, whose gift of forfaulture this gentleman, Sir John
Edmondstoune, had obtained from King David Bruce in anno 1345, and
by virtue thereof possessed at this time the Barony of Cambusnethan. It
was with this old gentleman, Sir John Edmondstoune, that young Lintoune
(Somerville) bare company both at the Court and in the country, because of
the pleasantness of his humour, and in regard he was in much favour with
1 Rymer's Federa et Rotuli Scotiae. 2 Ibid. 5 Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. i. page 130.