Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 271
office he is observed as early as 1453.
By this lady he had issue :
1. Robert, chancellor of Glasgow,
who appears to have died before his
brother John — without issue.
2. Thomas, who was called to the
succession among the other heirs of
Lord Hamilton, in the first settlement
of the Hamilton estates, by charter un-
Mag. sig. Lib. der the great seal, of date 23d October,
1455 ; but he appears to have also died
before his brother John, without issue.
S. John, who succeeded to Orbistoun.
4. Archibald.
5. Gavin, the ancestor of the family
of Haggs.
Douglas's Bar- II. JOHN HAMILTON, the first We
have found designed by the title of Or-
bistoun.*
He married Jean, daughter of Ham- dalziel
ilton of Woodhall, by whom he had issue : ~
1. Gavin, his heir.
2. Archibald-
's. John, the first of Ferguslee.
4. Patrick.
5. David, the first of Both wellhaugh.
1. Daughter, married to the Laird of
Hawkhill.
2. Daughter, married to Alexander
Stewart of Race.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
III. Gavin Hamilton of Orbis- Mag. sig. Lib.
toun, who was named one of the heirs ""'
of entail, in a deed of settlement, exe-
cuted by the first Earl of Arran, 1 6th
January, 1512-13.
He was again named one of the heirs
of entail, in a settlement of the Hamil-
136.
the 10th October 1398, and was confirmed by a charter, under the great seal, 5th February
1398 — 9. The first provost of the collegiate church of Bothwell was Thomas Barry, a canon of
Glasgow, who celebrated, in Latin verse, the victory of Otterburn, in which James, Earl of
Douglas, fell, while crowned with success, on 19th August 1388. The collegiate church of Both-
well was the most opulent establishment of the kind in Lanarkshire. Besides the endowment
already mentioned, there belonged to it the titles and revenues of the parish churches of Strath-
aven and Stonehouse, and the sixteen pound lands of Cathkin, with its mill, in the parish of
Carmunnock, all which were shared among the eight prebendaries, who also shared the lands and
mill of Netherurd ; and each of them had a manse and garden lying adjacent to the collegiate church
of Bothwell.— The prebends were : — 1. The prebend of Strathaven alias Nethertoun. a. The
preber.d of Overtoun. 3. The prebend of Newtoun. 4. The prebend of Netherfield. 5. The
prebend of Cruikburn. 6. The prebend of Stanehouse. 7. The prebend of Hessildeane. 8. The
prebend of Kittiemuir. To the provost was appropriated the lands of Osbernstoun, and the tithes,
revenues, with the manse and glebe of the church of Bothwell, which was formerly a parish of
great extent, as it comprehended the present parish of Shotts. — Chalmers' Caledonia, iii. 6+9.
* Originally Osbernstoun, from some person of the name of Osbern, who, probably about the
period of the Anglo-Saxon colonization, had his tun or dwelling there, afterwards corrupted into
Orbistoun.
The coat of arms of Magister Gawin, provost of Bothwell, was put up in the church of Hamilton, built
by hie brother Lord Hamilton, in 1451.