Kirkpatrick of Closeburn

20 KIRKPATRICK
With rage, amazement, shame, and grief,
The haughty Chieftain gaspt,
Fierce was the strife, but nature won
Her trembling claim at last.
Well had the maiden prophesied,
Her pleading wise and calm,
With time did bring, to Revenge's sting
A holy healing balm.
For a year had scarcely past away,
When from her father's hand,
Lindsay with pride, received his bride,
In wedlock's sacred band.
A happier pair were never known
To grace Caerlaveroc's bowers,
And soon on his knee, the Earl smiled to see
A young Lord of its ancient towers.
8. Winfred succeeded his father Sir Thomas. Playfair thinks Nesbit and Grose
are mistaken, and that this should be Umfred ; but Playfair confounds Winfred with
his cousin Umfred mentioned above as one of the hostages for the King's ransom.
9. Sir Thomas succeeded bis father Winfred, and died without issue. He settled
the Barony of Closeburn, &c. upon his brother Roger, by a Resignation into the
hands of Robert Duke of Albany, and Charter of Confirmation and Tailzie, to himself
and his heirs male of his body, " whilk failing, to his brother Roger and his heirs
male, &c. Dated at Air, 4th Oct. 1409."
In a Charter dated at Edinburgh, 1410, granted by Sir Robert Maxwell of Cal-
derwood to Sir Alexander Gordon of Stichell, ancestor to the Viscounts of Kenmure,
Sir Thomas appears as a witness, " Testibus magnifico et potenti principe et domino