Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
parkhead. service, at Hamilton, in 1630, and again
~" in 1635.
Slier. Rec.
Ham.
IV. Claud Hamilton of Parkhead,
who, in 1656, was elected a curator to
young Robert Hamilton of Milburn.
Com. Rec. Glas. In the recorded testament of Sir
James Hamilton of Brumehill, of date
4th March 1663, he appears as one of
his creditors.
Wodrow, ii.
.'i20.
V. James Hamilton of Parkhead,
who, during the reigns of Charles the
Second and James the Second, was
greatly persecuted on account of his re-
ligious opinions. In 1681 he was tried
and found guilty, for having been at the
meeting at Schawheadmuir, where the
Covenanters assembled previous to the
battle of Bothwellbridge ; and, on the
5th May 1684, being a fugitive, he was Wodiw, App.
outlawed, and his estates forfeited. But, '
at the Revolution, on his return, they
were restored.
220.
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PARISH OF LANARK.
TEDDERS-
BURN.
I. John Hamilton of Peddersburn,
= descended of the House of Torrance,
27. (. 32. ' na d a precept and charter, from the
Abbot and Monks of Newbottle, con-
firmed by Queen Mary, of the lands of
Peddersburn, with the pertinents, dated
6th April 1554.* He appears to have
had issue :
1. John, his heir.
2. Robert, who, on the 29th JanuaryCom. Rec.
1589, obtained a decreet against Robert
Dalziel.
II. John Hamilton of Peddersburn.
On the 19th August 1594, " Johannes
Hamilton de Peddersburn, et ejus soror,
Ibid.
* Preceptum Cartas Confirmationis super Carta feudifirmi in eadem contenta, facta per Venera-
bilem in Christo Patrem, Jacobum, Abbatim de Monasteries de Newbottle et Conventuura ejusdem ;
Johanni Hamilton de Pettesburne, hseredibus suis et assignatis quibuscunque, de totis et integris
terris prefati Abbatis et Conventus, terrisde Pettisburne, cum pertinentibus, jacen. in dominio de
Newbotle, infra baroniam de Monkland, et Vicecomitatura de Lanerk, inter terras deBrownyside ex
orientali, aquam de Calder ex australi, terras de Faskin ex occidentali, et terras de Garthe, terras
de Airdry et partem terrarum de Ryzairds, ex boreali. Tenend, &c. de prefato Jacobo, Abbate de
Newbotle et con ventu ejusdem, et eorum successoribuSj prout in prefata carta de super confecta latius
continetur. A pud Striviling, sexto die mensis Aprilis anno Dni. raillesimo quinquagentesimo quin-
quagesimo quarto et regni nostri duodecimo. — Privy Seal, vol. xxvii. fol. 52.