Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 241
Com. Rec.
Glas.
David Fullarton of that Ilk, and had
issue.
Die. of Dec. ,'t. James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh
2649.
died before 1594, and was succeeded by
his daughter, Alison, who sold the lands
to her uncle.
wishaw ms. II. David Hamilton of Monktoun-
mains, who was at the battle of Lang-
syde, and afterwards forfeited. He was
also at the Raid of Stirling in 1571, and
was obliged to fly into England, but re-
turned with the banished lords in 1585.^
He was cautioner in a bond of provision,
6th January 1594, for his niece Alison,
spouse of Mr Ga win Hamilton, minister
of Hamilton, at which period his mother
Christian Schawe, and his sister-in-law,
Isabella Sinclair, were both alive.
He married- the sister of his brother's
wife, Alison Sinclair, by whom he had
issue :
1. David, his heir.
2. Claud Hamilton of Barnhill.
Vol. ii. p. 130. David Hamilton of Monktounmains
and Bothwellhaugh died in 1619, as
appears from a note in Robertson's
Genealogies of Cunninghame.
" Near the south entrance, and within
the park of Fullarton (formerly Corsbie),
stand the ruined walls of the little an-
cient parish church of Corsbie, the
church- yard of which is enclosed by a
stone wall and iron gate ; and, together
with the area of the church, is still used
as a place of sepulture ; and here also,
close by the east gable of the church,
lies a large flat monumental stone, bear-
ing the following inscription, still per- bothwell-
fectly legible :" =====
HEIR LYE COIIPIS OF ANE HO-
NOVRABEL MAN CALLIT DAVID
HAMMILTOVNE OF BOTHEL-
HAVCHE SPOVS TO ELESONE
St YCLAR IN HIS TYME QVHA
DECEIST THE 14 OF MERCI1E 1619.
III. David Hamilton of Botbwell- Com. Rec.
haugh. He gave a bond, dated 2d
August 1632, for " ane bunder and
twentie pundis Scottis" to Robert Ha-
milton of Barncluith. He died before
1637, as it appears then that " the
guidis and gear of umquhile David
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh'' were Ibid -
escheated and given to Thomas Hamil-
ton, a youDger son of the family of In-
nerwick. He was succeeded by his son,
IV. James Hamilton of Bothwell-
haugh, who, on the 19th November
1628, was served heir to his grandfather,
David of Bothwellhaugh.
On the 20th February 1630, he was Itiq. Ret. Gen.
retnured heir in general to his grand- n>id. Kirkcud.
mother, Alison Sinclair; and on the
12th December 1643, again retoured
her heir, in the lauds of King's Grange
or Spotts in the lordship of Galloway.
He had an only daughter, Anne Ha- Com. Rec.
milton, " servit and retourit" heir to
him, who married Lewis Cant, son of
John Cant of Morton; she and her
husband, on the 20th September 1654, Ibid,
were summoned by Archibald Hamil-
ton, merchant burgess of Glasgow,' to
enter heirs to her umquhile father James
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh.