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LIFE-RECORDS OF MONTGOMERIE.
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of Huntlie, Claud Lord Paislay, Andro Maister of Vchiltrie, Rofort
Lord Setoun, Mr Robert Dowglas, provest of Linclowden, Jo^n
Murray of Tullibardin, and1 Setoun of Parbroth, Controller.
Sic Subscribitur
Lenox.
J. L. Thyrlstane.
Blantyre.
Huntly.
R. Lord Setoun Witnes.
Claud HAAmiLTOUN as Witnes.
Andro, Maister Vchiltrie, as Witnes.
Culluthy.2
Lynclouden Witnes.
Parbroth Controller Witnes.
Tullibardin as Witnes.
(Register of Deeds, vol. 40, f. 40.)
VIII.
[REMITT in causa Capitane Alexander Montgomery against
Mr Williame Erskin, Person of Campsie. xoth Novem¬
ber 1592.]
§ 1. Anent our souerane lordis Ic(Ceres, purchest at the instance of
capzYane alexander montgomery, Aganis mr Williame erskin, persone
of campsie, & lohnne prestoun, edward bruce, lohnne arthozzr,
and lohnne nicolsone, comwzissam of tdmburgh, for \air interes,
Makand mentioun that, either )>e said Mr Williame hes intentit ane
pr^fendit suz/zmoundA and actioun befoir the co/«misstfrA of
e&inburgk aganis \>e said capzVane Alexander for productioun befoir
thame of the le((er\s of pensioun, grazztit be our souerane lord to the
said capz/ane alexander, of the soume of fyve hundreth merkis
Jeirlie, To be vpliftit furth of the reddiest fruitis of the Arche-
1 Space blank in MS.
2 In a charter, dated November 23, 1583 (Reg. Mag. Sig.), the name of Eufamie
Wemys is entered as the “spouse of magister David Carnegy of Culluthy.” This
may have been the lady to whom Montgomerie addressed his sonnet (number 44
in Cranstoun) beginning with the punning line, “TrEU FAME WE MIS thy
trumpet for to tune.” Culluthy was one of the Lords of Session, a Privy Coun¬
sellor, and Commissioner of the Treasury. In the Register of the Privy Council,
December 28, 1594, there is this curious entry in reference to another Eufame
Wemys: “Bond of Caution by Andro Wemys of Myrecairnie for Eufame
Weyms his daughter 5000 merks to remove herself from the Queen’s company,
not to come within eight miles of her presence without the King’s licence, and
to have no intelligence with her by word, writing or message.”