Account of the families of Birnie and Hamilton of Broomhill

OF HAMILTON OF BROOMHILL. 25
by his aboue nephew, James Hamilton of Neilsland, in the hands of Sir
Mathew Sandilands, notar and curat at Stenhouse, doeth testifie ; wit-
nesses, Andrew Hamilton of Heilies,* (called Arselesse Andrew, another
Cleange the Casway, and without which too the family of Hamilton had
their own difficultie to conques Arran,) Gilbert Lawrie, John Steill, and
others.
They had ishue besides the aboue Claud, who succeeded him ; David,
John, Robert, William, and Thomas. David and William went to
Ireland. They had also two daughters, Isobell, married to her cussen,
John Hamilton, younger of Neilsland, and Elspit, to Alexander Wood of
Sunniesydes. Both with issue.
Here is a gift of the waird and marriage of the lands of Broomhill,
fallen in the hands of James Master of Arran, throw the decease of the
said umquhile David, and giuen by him, with the consent of James Duke
of Castlerault, in favours of the aboue John his brother, dated at Hamil-
ton the 24th of November 1551. I see also amongst his papers, the
testament before spoken off, of John Hamilton of Neilsland, dated 7th
September 1554, taken up before Sir John Johnson, viccar of Kinneil,
Robert Hamilton of Canir, Mr John Rae, and Mr Archibald Barrie,
viccar of Hamilton, whereby he leaues the aboue Elizabeth, then his
spouse, and James his eldest son by his first wyfe Janet, a sister of this
John Hamilton of Broomhill, his executor, and my Lord of Kilwinning,
and Archibald Hamilton of Raploch, his brother, and John Hamilton of
Stenhouse, his nephew, tutors to his bairns; and he ordains Sir John
Johnson to be guider and intromitter with Bessie's graith and goods as
before said.
There is a factory, Mr James Balfour, Dean of Glasgow, to the said
John Hamilton of Broomhill, for gathering the teind sheaues of the par-
sonages of Hamilton and Dalserf, dated at Edinburgh the 5th of August
1562 ; witnesses, David Rolloch of Kincladie, and Thomas Balfour, his
brother.
Tack, the Duke of Castlerault to him, therein designed, " my well be-
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