Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

64 HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
.tames, lord Lord Hamilton married, secondly, in 1474, the Princess Mary, eldest
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■ daughter of James the Second, King of Scotland, and widow of Thomas
Boyd, Earl of Arran. To Lord Hamilton she had issue —
I. James, second Lord Hamilton.
1. Elizabeth, married to Matthew, second Earl of Lennox.
Mag. sig. l. vii. A charter was granted on the 2d, and another on the 12th July 1474,
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of the baronies of Kinmel, Drumsargard, and Carmunnock, on his own
resignation, uniting and annexing them to the barony of Hamilton, to
James Lord Hamilton and Mary Stewart his wife, sister to the King, in
conjunct fee and liferent, and the heirs-male to be procreated betwixt
them ; which failing, to the heirs-male of the body of the said James ;
which failing, to the heirs in the entail, formerly made to the said James.
His spouse survived him, and had two charters in her widowhood, under
ibid. the great seal, " Maria? Domina? de Hamilton, de libero tenemento baro-
niae de Felyng, terrarum de Cavertoun, Naristoun, Polgavy," &c. ; also
of the barony of Kilmarnock, — both dated on the 14th October 1482.
ibid. l. x. No. 34, 35. She had charters of the same date to Mary Lady Hamilton, of the life-
rent of all the lands and baronies which belonged to Robert, late Lord
Boyd, and the deceased Thomas, Earl of Arran, his son.*
James, Lord Hamilton, died anno 1479, as appears from the chartulary
of Glasgow, wherein it says, " Obitus Jacobi Domini de Hamiltoun, sexto
die Novembris, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo
xisbet's Heraldry, nono." He had a daughter, who was married to Sir John Macfarlane,
Douglas's Baronage, chief of the clan Macfarlane, to whom she had issue. Sir John was killed,
p " " fighting bravely at the battle of Flodden, in 1513.
He had several natural sons; but of these only are known James de Ha-
milton, mentioned in the succession-charter 1455, Patrick Hamilton of
Kincavel, and John Hamilton of Broomhill.
* James Lord Boyd, son of Thomas Earl of Arran and the Princess Mary, was
killed, in 1487, at a place called the Wylielee in Ayrshire, in an encounter with the
Earl of Eglintoun, with whom he had a feud. Robert Crawford of Auchencairn,
eldest son of Archibald Crawford of Crawfordland, who was with Lord Boyd when
he was attacked, defended him with all his might, and afterwards died of the wounds
he received on this occasion. Lord Boyd had an only sister, named Graecina, who
was twice married, first to Lord Forbes, and, secondly, to David, third Lord Ken-
nedy, who, by her means, was created Earl of Cassillis, and who was slain at Flodden.
She had no issue to either of these noblemen. After the Earl of Cassillis's death, she
never married again, but lived chiefly with her kinsmen the Hamiltons.