Kirkpatrick of Closeburn

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reward. Kirkpatrick generously went farther, he stipulated for the safety of the ancient
Lord. Accordingly, while he received the estate of Kirkmichael, 1484, for his own
services, Douglas was permitted to retire to the Abbey of Lindores.
The son of this Alexander was "William of Kirkmichael, who adhered to the ancient
creed of his forefathers, and thereby gave much offence to the reformers. At the first
General Assembly of the reformed Kirk of Scotland, holden at Edinburgh, 20th Dec.
1560, it was thought expedient to ask at the Estates of Parliament and Lords of Secret
Council, ' for the eschewing of the wrath and judgment of the Eternal God, and removing
of the plagues threatened in the law, that sharp punishment may be made upon the
persons underwritten, and other idolaters and maintainers thereof, in contempt of God,
his true religion and acts of Parliament ; whilk says and confessis messe to be said,
and are present there within the following places in Nithsdale and Galloway ; the
Prior of Whithorne and his servants in Crugletone, the Laird of Corswell in Corswell,
the Lord Carliel, the Laird of Kirkmichael, who causes messe to be said and images to
be holden up, and idolatrie to be maintained within his bounds.' (Keith's History of
Scotland, p. 499.)
12. Sir Thomas, who succeeded his father in 1502, married the sister of Robert
Lord Creghton of Sanquhar, descended from a natural son of King Robert the Second,
and ancestor of the Marquis of Bute. In a Grant, dated 29th Nov. 1509, Robert Lord
Creghton of Sanquhar grants the ward of the lands of Robertmure ' to an honorable
man and his brother-in-law, Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, Knight.'
13. Sir Thomas, who, on the 22nd June, 1515, got a Brief from the King's
Chancery to be served heir to his father, married Margaret Sinclair, daughter of the
second Earl of Caithness, who was killed at the battle of Flodden, 1513, and sister of
the third Earl who was killed in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain possession of
the Orkney islands, to which he alleged a claim.
Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick was one of the many leaders, taken prisoner at the Flight
of Solway Moss, in 1542, and appears thus in the list of those compelled to give
pledges to keep the peace, published by Lodge in his Illustrations of British History :