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NOTES TO APPENDIX A.
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‘ Criminal Trials ’; Gibsone’s Protocol Book, vol. i. (w. Glasgow Proto¬
cols, vol. v. p. 14). His last Will and Testament given in Glasgow Pro¬
tocols, vol. ii., f. 68 (‘Archaeological and Historical Collections relating
to the Counties of Ayr and Wigton,’ vol. i. p. 179 note). The evidence
that Hugh, the poet’s eldest brother, married Marion Semple is clear,
although Paterson thinks otherwise. In the ‘ Historic of the House
of Rowallane’ it is stated that the wife of Hugh Montgomerie and
mother of the Elizabeth Montgomerie who married Sir William Mure
was ‘one of eleven daughters to the Lord Sempill.’ This is also men¬
tioned in Crawford’s MS. Baronage. Her last Will and Testament
is given in the Register of Testaments, Commissariot of Edinburgh.
She died in 1593. Her name is there given as Marioun. In
Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials’ an entry, dated December 1, 1576,
alludes to her as ‘Marioun Sempill, Ladye Hasilheid,’ and there is this
further reference, ‘ Hew Montgomerie of Hasilheid, Marioun Sempill,
his spous,’ &c. In Sir A. Hay’s ‘Estimate of the Scottish Nobility,’
edited by Rogers for the Grampian Club in 1873 (PP- 33> 57. 61),
Hugh Montgomerie’s wife is given as a daughter of Lord Boyd. Bro-
tanek accepts this, and adds that it is on this Lord Boyd that the poet
wrote the epitaph which appears in his words (v. Cranstoun, p. 222).
16. The Montgomery MSS.; Burke’s ‘Commoners’; Lodge’s
‘Peerage’ (ed. 1754, vol. ii.); Paterson, in ‘History of the County
of Ayr,’ states that she had issue ‘ Hugh, Viscount Montgomerie
of Ardres, 1560.’ 17. Calendar of Charters (Register House,
Edinburgh), vol. viii., June 18, 1554; William Hegait’s Second
Protocol Book (Register House, Edinburgh), June 13, 1558; Index
to Deeds (Register House, Edinburgh), May 21, 1563; Glasgow
Protocols, vol. v. p. 14. 18. The Montgomerie MSS.; Font’s Topo¬
graphical Account of Cunningham, Ayrshire; Reg. Privy Council,
July 14, 1597. 19. In the Register of Deeds, vol. viii., f. 464a, under
date Sept. 5, 1564, is recorded the marriage contract of the poet’s
sister Agnes, to John Smollet, son and apparent heir to William
Smollet, burgess in Dumbarton. Hew Montgomerie, 5th laird of
Hessilheid, and Patrick Montgomerie of Giffen, appear as sureties for
‘Margaret Freser, Lady Hessilheid’; Reg. Mag. Sig., Aug. 26,
1583 (confirming charter of date July 20, 1570); Reg. Privy
Council, May 26, 1592; Paterson, ‘History of the County of Ayr.’
20. See entries under 5. 21. See entries under 5. 22. Laing
Charters (edited by Rev. John Anderson), No. 2243; see also entries
under 5. 23. The Montgomery MSS.; Laing Charters, No. 924;
Burke’s ‘ Commoners’; Lodge’s‘Peerage’(ed. 1754, vol. ii.) 24. The
Montgomerie MSS.; Paterson’s ‘History of the County of Ayr’;
Laing Charters, No. 1582 (May 15, 1636), No. 1499 (infefted as heir of
his father Adam in certain lands in Beith). 25, 26, 27. ‘The Scots
Peerage.’ 28. ‘The Scots Peerage.’ Born 1563. His younger
sister, Margaret, who married Robert, 6th Lord Seton in 1582,