Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath

THE FAMILY OF EDMONSTONE. 69
plundered and spoiled at pleasure by that garrison, and sicklike the said tenants have since
November paidgreat Sesses to the garrisons of Sterling, Airth, Craigbarnet, Duntreath, etc .,
and in like manner the aforesaid tenants having for security put their whole victual (which
were left unexhausted for helping to sow the ground), the same, with their clothes and other
goods belonging to them, were totally burnt and destroyed with the house.' They there-
fore implore their condition to be taken into account. The Estates of Parliament remitted
the petition for consideration by Committee of Estates. It appears, however, from the
above-mentioned petitions of Sir James and of his tenants, which, though without date,
are indorsed 1661, that the inquiry ordered by the Parliament of 165 1 had been prevented
by the invasion from England which immediately followed. Whether any pecuniary
indemnification followed this later application does not appear, but Sir James was
immediately raised to the Peerage, which, however, he did not enjoy above a few weeks.
Note 18, Page 12.
The Edmonstones of Woolmet were a cadet branch of the elder line, but I presume
it to be extinct.
Note 19, Page 12.
I have copied this notice from the ' Beauties of Scotland,' vol. iii. page 434. If the
date be 1688 or 1698, and not 1658, it would refer to the notorious freebooter himself.
Regarding the family in Shetland, my information is derived from a letter I received
from Dr. Lawrence Edmonstone, dated Baltasound, February 15, 1834.
I believe that a direct branch of the Cambus-Wallace line lives, or lived a few years
ago, in the parish of Biggar. A younger brother of the last Edmonstone of Newton
bought a property in that parish, and called it Cambus-Wallace.
Note 20, Page 12.
I am indebted for this and other interesting information relating to the elder line of
Ednam to William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Esq., Professor of Rhetoric, Edinburgh Uni-
versity, who is the eldest representative of that line. Nisbet gives as the authority for
the Ednam coat 'Workman's illuminated Book of Arms,' who was Herald in the reign of
James the Sixth. Besides this, Mr. Riddell kindly furnished me with a copy of 'the
matriculation of the arms of Edmonstone of that Ilk and Edmonstone of Duntreath,' in
Porteous and Stacey's Index: ' Edmundston or — 3 Cressents gules. Edmundston Dun-
treath the same, wyt an annulet in fesse gules, alias a mallet, alias a star.' In a more
modern hand, ' Eduiondston of that Ilk, argent on a bend, gules, three annulets, or in chief
— a unicornis head sable.'
Note 21, Page 13.
It is curious that the annulet, which is distinctly given in Mr. RiddelPs copy of the
Garvock seals, should be omitted in the attested copy mentioned here. Moreover, this
attested copy has been subsequently partially retouched with a pen. The coronet, which