Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 235
asiair,
NEAR CVLROSS.
Mag. Sig. Lib
uxvi. No. 951
Criw. Gen.
Coll. MS. Ad.
Lib.
I. John Hamilton, Abbotof Paisley,
and Archbishop of St Andrew's, was the
first of this family. He was a natural
•on of James, the first Earl of Arran.
He was made Abbot of Paisley in 1525,
Bishop of Dunkeld in 1546, and Arch-
bishop of St Andrew's in 1549. He
obtained a legitimation under the great
seal, 20th June 1545; was Keeper of
the Privy Seal from January 1542-3
until August 1546, and Treasurer of
Scotland from 1543 until 1554, when
his brother resigned the regency.
ByGrizzelSemple, Lady Stanehouse,
widow of James Hamilton of Stane-
house, he had issue :
1. William Hamilton of Blair.
2. David, who, on the 20th April
1580, obtained a legitimation under the
great seal.
1. Jane, married to Robert Bruce of
Blairhall : She had a charter under the
great eeal in 1588, " Jeanse Hamil-
ton, Dominse Blairhall, filiae Johannis,
Archiepiscopi Stse. Andreae." John,
Archbishop of St Andrew's, was taken
a prisoner at the surprise of the castle
of Dunbarton in 1571, and executed at
Stirling by the Regent Lennox a few
days afterwards, as already stated at
page 113.
II. William Hamilton of Blair was Crawford',
forfeited in the Parliament held in the Memoirs
Canongate of Edinburgh 16th May
1571, not long after his father's execu-
tion.
By his wife, Elizabeth Drummond,
he had issue :
1. John, his successor.
2. JVilliam Hamilton of Lochmuck, co. wood's Pwr-
of Down, Ireland, who married Mary, age ' '" 62a
sixth daughter of John Boyle of Kelburn,
ancestor of the Earls of Glasgow, and
had issue :
1. Daughter, married to George Hali-
burton, minister of Perth.
III. John Hamilton of Blair, who Mag. Sig. Lib.
was served heir in 1638 to John, his* 1 '' No ' 243 '
grandfather, in certain subjects near
Broughty-ferry, and in 1603 he had a
resignation from his father of the lands
of Blair, to himself and Elizabeth
Ferney, his spouse, of which he had a
charter under the great seal, dated 22d
September of the same year.
He sold tile lands of Blair and wentscotsiarTet'*
abroad during the reign of King James state^T 18
the Sixth.
He married first, Jean Fairney, Wood's Peer-
secondly, Barbara, daughter of James,* gc '
first Lord Balmerinoch, and left issue.