Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
machling- schir's brother," in the forty shilling
HOILL. J _ °
=Iands of Machlinghoill, and the third
245. part of the lands of Leckprevick, in the
barony of Kilbryde, of the same date.
She was married to Robert Acheson
of SydseriF.
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PARISH OF HAMILTON.
MERRITOUN.
Craw. Mem.
144.
Ibid. 313.
1. Captain Arthur Hamilton is
the first we find of this family. He was
strongly attached to the house of Hamil-
ton, and, being a commander of some
note, he was engaged in all the enter-
prises and warfare of the period, under
Lord John and Lord Claud Hamilton.
He defended the castle of Cadyow, in
1570, against the English troops under
Sir William Drury ; and, when forced
to surrender, obtained honourable con-
ditions for himself and garrison; which
were afterwards shamefully broken. He
was banished, and his possessions con-
fiscated, but they were afterwards re-
stored by the treaty of Perth, 1572.
He commanded again in the Castle of
Cadyow, in 1579, when the Regent
Morton sent a body of troops to seize
Lord John and Lord Claud Hamilton ;
and being forced, by superior numbers,
after two days' determined resistance,
to yield, he was, along with the garrison,
marched prisoners to Stirling, where
the Regent, to gratify his hatred of the
Hamiltons, caused him to be publicly
executed.
II. John Hamilton of Merritoun,
who was most probably the son of Arthur.
His name appears in the commissary
records of Glasgow, in 1595 and 1596,
where it is also stated that he had
issue.
From the same authority it appears
there was an Archibald Hamilton of
Merritoun in 1610, and a Robert Ha-
milton of Merritoun in 1630.