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BETROTHED TO MARGARET HAY OF YESTER.
had taken any further dealings with them does not appear. His proceedings,
however, were speedily nullified by the appearance of Sir William Sinclair
of Herdmanston in Selkirk, who, as the young Earl's commissioner,
assembled the people at a house on the west side of the burgh, affirmed the
Earl's proprietorship, as having been in peaceful possession of the lands
beyond the term appointed by law, and in which he still remained, declared
that Newton had no authority for what he had done ; and then taking earth,
stone, and wood from the house, he reduced these to powder, as a token
that he annulled and made void all Newton's proceedings, or those of any
acting under his authority. 1
In 1410 Earl William was betrothed by Margaret, Countess of Mar
and Angus, to his future Countess, Margaret, daughter of Sir William Hay
of Yester. But he took no part in public affairs under the regime of the
Regent Albany, nor does he appear on record until the year 1418, when
he received from William of Cluny an absolute surrender of the lands of
Easter Cluny in Perthshire. 2 The Earl likewise obtained from Walter
Ogilvy, Lord of Liutrathen, resignation of the lands of Inverquharitj', to be
bestowed, in terms of a charter by Walter Ogilvy, upon his brother, John
Ogilvy, founder of the family of Ogilvy of Inverquharity ; 3 and he executed,
apparently at the request of his sister Elizabeth, and her husband, Sir
Alexander Forbes, a formal obligation, interdicting himself from selling or
alienating any of the family estates to the prejudice of his sister, in case of
the failure of his own heirs. 4
1 Vol. iii. of this work, p. 48. 13th Feb- other lands to his squire, John of Ogilvy, lord
ruary 140S. of Inverquharity, and others were acquired
- Ibid. Original Resignation, 19th July by his son, Alexander Ogilvy, in the same
1418, at Castle Forbes. district in the time of James, third Earl of
3 10th and 20th June 1420. Vol. iii. of this Angus. [Ibid.]
work; Registrum Magni Sigilli, vol. ii. No. 4 4th November 1423. Vol. iii. of this
1550. The Earl at a later period granted work.
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