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the Kerris, and the said Jhonne is alhay with the
Kerris, and has the Laird of Cessfurd's dochter to
his wyffe . . . quhilk mycht provoke ane gret
inconvenient," &c. The injunction, however, does
not appear to have been acted upon, and his son
inherited Capehope with the other estates.
John of Hunthill's brother William appears by a
deed of 1544 to have been tutor to William Ruthir-
furd of Langnewton, and to have had possession of
those " 140 acras terrarum jacentes inter lapides
arenosos, vulgariter dictos le Sandystanys et Over
Aulcrum, quas quondam Georgius Ruthirfurd tenuit,
et easdem forisfecit per crimina proditiorie tradi-
tionis." He married Christian, daughter of Chris-
topher Armstrong of Mangerton, 1 whose brother,
John of Gilnockie, was so cruelly put to death by
James V., who gave possession by deed under his
own hand to the Lord Maxwell of the lands " escheat
through justifying the said Johnnie to death," quhilk
many Scottismenne heavilie lamented, for he was ane
doubtit man, and als guid a chiftane as evir was
vpon the borders.
John Ruthirfurd of Hunthill, son of John and
Isabel Ker, was a very noted chieftain ; he was
commonly called the Cock of Hunthill. In 1565,
with the chiefs of Ferniehirst and Cessford, Mow of
that ilk, and Ker of Littledean (who married his
sister Isabel Ruthirfurd), he signed a bond to stand
by Queen Mary, for which Queen Elizabeth made
them suffer. In 1570 the Earl of Sussex and Lord
Hunsdon wrote to their mistress, informing her that
" they had brunte two miles on each side of the river.
On the 1 7th inst. we began with Fairnhurst (which
1 " Cristofer Armstrong, calit Johne's Pope." — Sup. to Min-
strelsy of Scottish Border, vol. i., p. 415. He was styled also
" Johnne's Christe."