Facts and traditions collected for a family record

90 FACTS AND TRADITIONS.
II. The Lord of the Isles held for a short period some property in
Ayrshire : —
" a.d. 1476. John Lord of the Isles had restored to him, besides other lauds, the
lands of Greenend, with all that belonged to it, in the county of Carrick and
neighbourhood of Ayr." — Crawfurd, "Peerage of Scotland" a.d. 1715.
In Paterson's "Ayrshire Families," vol. ii., p. 353 : —
" Greenan, three miles from Ayr, in the parish of Maybole, is mentioned as be-
longing once to John Earl of Eoss aud Lord of the Isles, who feued the barony of
Greenan to John Davidson, his native esquire, in 1475. Davidson had also a
crown-charter of the lands of Grenane, 31st January 1476, in consequence of the
forfeiture of the Earl of Eoss. In 1591, this property belonged to John Kennedy,
of Baltersan, and now forms part of the Marquis of Ailsa's estate."
Gregory, p. 14- : —
" Arran was the property of Somerled."
P. 17. — "Arran was divided between Keginald aud Angus, and may have been
the cause of the deadly quarrel which we know existed between them."
Iona Club " Collectanea," p. 88 :—
"James M c Onele of Donnawik gave over to James Duke of Chastellaurault, Earl
of Arran and Lord Hamilton, the right he had or pretended to have to the lands
of Ceskane, and to the bailliarie of the ten-penny land, both within the isle of
Arraue. a.d. 1556."
III. At the end of the fifteenth century, John Earl of Eoss, fourth
and last Lord of the Isles " retired to the Monastery of Paisley, a
foundation which owed much to the pious liberality of himself and his
ancestors." In a.d. 1493, " John was forfeited and deprived of his title
and estates." He died in the Monastery of Paisley, " about the year
1498; and was interred, at his own request, in the tomb of his royal
ancestor, King Robert II." — (Gregory, p. 58.) There is, therefore, every
reason to believe that he had some influence in the neighbouring dis-