Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

BKOWN OF FORDELL. 43
Lindsay of the Byres. Lady Brown's only sister, Anna Scott, married
in 1653 Sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie, county Ayr, Baronet,
and is represented by the Earl of Eglinton.
Sir John's widow was allowed a fifth part of her husband's seques-
trated estate, and the following extracts from Lamont's Diary give par-
ticulars of her second and third marriages : —
" 1654, Apr. The laird of Collernie younger, in Fyfe, rnaried the
laird of Rossie's daughter (formerlie S r Johne Browne's lady). They
were maried in Leith by Mr. Johne Stirling, minister of Edenbroughe.
David Barclay of Collernie (her father-in-law) died Feb. 1663.
" 1667. About the end of May, or the beginning of June, the laird
of Rowallan, a west cowntrey gentleman, maried the Lady Collerny
younger, formerly the deceassed Sir John Brown's lady ; and the laird
of Dalape younger, a west cowntrey gentleman, also maried hir only
dawghter to the said Sir John Brown, heretrix of Rossy, in Fyff'e.
Remember both the mother and dawghter were contracted att one tyme
att Edb., and both proclaimed att one tyme in their parish church of
Monemeall, and both maried att one tyme in Edb."
She died in 1706, and was interred on the 9th of August in the
Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh. By her third husband, William Mure
of Rowallane, who sat in Parliament for the county of Ayr, she had one
daughter, Jean, Countess of Glasgow, represented by the Earl of Loudon.
There was at Rowallane a portrait of Sir John Brown.
Of her second marriage was born, John Barclay of Colairny, in the
parish of Dunbog, county Fife, whose daughter and heir, Antonia,
married in 1717 Henry Stewart, second son of Sir James Stewart of
Goodtrees and Coltness, Lord Advocate of Scotland, who assumed the
surname and arms of Barclay.
On 9th March 1682, John Barclay presented a petition to the Privy
Council, stating that his nephew, Thomas Barclay, aged eighteen, in posses-
sion of an opulent estate and considerable jurisdiction in his county, whose
predecessors were loyal, was, by the marriage of his mother to Mure of
Rowallane, in the way of being " bred up in a family of fanatical and dis-
loyal principles, not being permitted to be acquainted with or visit his