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Capehope, infra baroniam de Scraisburg, alias
Hunthill, erecta in burgum de Ruthirfurd. In 1691
he declared the sale of Nether Chatto to Sir John
Scott, Bart., of Ancrum, ratified by the Crown in
1692, and as such sale was in contradiction of the
terms of the Earl of Teviot's will, he obtained in that
year an Act of Parliament ratifying the Charter from
the Crown of Scraisburg also, which Barony he like-
wise had sold to Sir John Scott. He married Dame
Sara Ollens, upon whom he settled an annuity of
2000 merks out of Nether Chatto, &c, appointing
John Ruthirfurd of " Kirkraw, trustee " for my ladye.
He died d. s. p. 1724.
John Ruthirfurd, second surviving son of John the
Cock of Hunthill, is styled, in deed dated 2 2d
August 1 6 19, Master John Ruthirfurd, sheriff-depute
of Co. Roxburgh. He had the lands of Hyndhouse-
field and Howdenbraes, Jedburgh, and also the
Maison-Dieu lands confirmed to himself, his wife
Barbara, and eldest son John, by Sir John Ker of
Jedburgh, 24th March 1623. His wife Barbara was
daughter of James Gledstanes of Coklaw, whose
father made this the residence, having sold Gledstanes
in Lanarkshire, hitherto the headquarters of the
family. 1
1 A younger brother remained at Arthurshiel, a small property-
belonging to the estate, and William Gladstains is said to have been
his great-great-grandson. He died in 1720. He was a maltman
in Biggar, and was grandfather of John Gladstones, merchant in
Leith, who bought Fasque, and was created a Baronet in 1846.
His second son is William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of
Great Britain, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. It will be seen
by referring to the Chart Pedigree that Sir Stafford H. Northcote,
Bart., of Pynes, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Beacons-
field's administration, the present leader of the Opposition,
descends from the Gledstanes of that ilk and Coklaw.
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