Account of the families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill

OF HAMILTON OF BROOMHILL. 19
fled to the Watergate, where, the place heing so strait, many was thrown
and trod to death, and amongst which the above Commendator, with the
Queen's commission in his pocket to be Chancellor of Scotland. He was
greatly lamented, as being esteemed, of all that partie, the most moderat.
The aboue John Hamilton of Broomhill his third and youngest
daughter, first married Cuthbert Hamilton of Canir, in the paroch of Dal-
serf, with issue, and is, upon the 18th day of January 1544, infeft therein ;
and, upon the 20th day of June 1549, there is a declaration and instru-
ment by John Hamilton of Neilsland, her brother-in-law, and Robert
Hamilton of Dalserf, narrateing, that albeit the deceast Cuthbert Hamil-
ton of Canir had made and appoynted them tutors-testamentors to his
children, in case the said Isobel, after his death, should again marry; yet
they not only freely consent that the said Isobel should marrie Robert
Hamilton, son and appearand air to the said Robert Hamilton of Dalserf,
but also renounce their office of tutorie in their favours. This done the
said day at Broomhill. Witnesses, John Hamilton of Broomhill, and
Quintine Hamilton, burges of Hamilton, her bretheren. The said Isobel,
now spouse to Robert Hamilton of Dalserf, does, upon the 4th of October
1589, make her testament, her husband alive, and recommends it to the care
of John Hamilton of Canir, her eldest son, by her first husband, Robert
Hamilton of Dalserf, her present husband, and their eldest son, William
Hamilton of Dalserf, younger ; and that her daughter Katherin be married
and provyded for at the sight of her nephews, Gavin and Gavin Hamiltons,
elder and younger of Raploch, John Hamilton of Broomhill, her brother,
and the said William Hamilton of Dalserf, her son. Witnesses, Gavin
Hamilton of Raploch,* and Archibald, his brother, after of Milburn, her
nephews as said, the said John Hamilton of Canir, and William Hamil-
• " The Raploch, a house in great estimation at that time, [1595;] because of the worthynesse
of the owner, a gentleman of much understanding, favoured and employed by the house of Hamil-
tone in ther greatest concernes, of a vast estate, and universally lyked by all the name of Hamilton,
as he was much respected by his nighboures." Mcmoric of the Somervills, II. 22, where it is
stated that his eldest daughter, Jean, was married to James, Lord Ross. Douglas, however, in his
Peerage, (Ed. Wood, II. 417,) represents her as the wife of Robert the fifth Baron. Gavin
Hamilton's second daughter, Margaret, was married to Hugh, second son of the seventh Lord
Somerville.