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NOTES TO APPENDIX A.
must have been at least 20 years younger than Alexander Mont¬
gomerie, whose sonnets to her have led both Dr Cranstoun and
Dr Brotanek into the fanciful supposition that the poet enter¬
tained a hopeless passion for her. 29a. ‘ The Scots Peerage,’ vol. ii.
p. 442. 29. ‘The Scots Peerage.’ 30. The marriage bond is
dated April 10, 1582. Hew Montgomerie appears as one of the
‘cautionaris and sureties.’ Fraser, ‘Memorials of the Montgom¬
eries, &c.,’ vol. ii. p. 321; also vol. i. p. 48. 31. ‘The Scots
Peerage.’ 32. ‘ The Scots Peerage.’ 33. Paterson’s ‘ History
of the County of Ayr’; Reg. Mag. Sig., Mar. 18, 1590-91;
Jan. 19, 1607 ; Reg. Privy Seal, Sept. 29, 1603. 34«. Reg.
Privy Seal, Sept. 24, 1583. 34. Reg. Privy Seal, June 22, 1602,
Register of Testaments, Commissariot of Edinburgh (Marion Sem-
pill’s last Will and Testament, Dec. 27, 1593); Robert Brown’s
Protocol Book, p. 192 (v. Archaeological and Historical Collections
relating to Ayrshire and Galloway, 1895). 35. Reg. Privy Seal, Mar.
4, 1580; June 22, 1602; Reg. Mag. Sig., Jan. 5, 1590: this charter
records the transference of the lands of Auchinbothie from John
Spreuleto John Montgomerie; Mar. 18, 1590; Jan. 24, 1593 ; Feb. 22,
1634 ; Reg. of Testaments, Commissariot of Glasgow, Oct. 1603, vol.
iii., f. 97. 36. Reg. Mag. Sig., Sept. 1592, Jan. 24, 1593; ‘The
Historic and Descent of the House of Rowallane,’ written prior to
1657 by Sir W. Mure, v. p. 86. The mother of Elizabeth was a
daughter of Lord Sempill, z/. 15. 37. Reg. Privy Council, Sept. 1623.
38. Crawford’s MS. Baronage. 39. Laing Charters, No. 1294, Craw¬
ford’s MS. Baronage. 40. Paterson’s ‘ History of the County of Ayr.’
41. Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials,’ Mar. 22, 1622. 42. A natural son.
See Robert Brown’s Protocol Book, p. 192 (Archaeological and
Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire and Galloway, 1895).
43. Pitcairn’s ‘Criminal Trials,’ Mar. 22, 1622; Reg. Mag. Sig., Feb.
22, 1634; Aug. 5, 1646; Register of Testaments, Commissariot of
Glasgow, Oct. 1603, vol. iii., f. 97. 44 and 45. Reg. Mag. Sig., Feb.
22, 1634; Aug; 5, 1646; Laing Charters, Oct. 13, 1647. 46. Reg.
Mag. Sig., Sept. 23, 1592. 47 and 48. Paterson’s ‘History of the
County of Ayr.’ 49. G. E. C.’s ‘ Complete Peerage.’ 50. Reg. Mag.
Sig., Nov. 11, 1537. 51. Reg. Mag. Sig., Nov. n, 1537; Sept. 13,
1571 ; Register of Testaments, Commissariot of Glasgow, vol. ii., f.
68<5; ‘ Genealogical History of the Stewarts,’ by Andrew Stewart
(1798); Robertson’s ‘ Genealogical Account of the Principal Families
in Ayrshire,’ p. 352. 52. Register of Cautions in Suspension, vol.
xii., June 19, 1592 ; Register of Testaments, Commissariot of Glasgow,
vol. ii., f. 68A 53. Register of Cautions in Suspension, vol. xii., June 19,
1592. Jean Fraser’s son John (a full cousin of Alexander Montgomerie)
married (1) Marion, da. of Hugh Crawford of Kilbirny, (2) Elizabeth,
da. of Barclay of Ladyland (v. Paterson, vol. ii. p. 141, and Crawford’s
MS. Baronage). This was pretty certainly a sister of Hew Barclay