Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

20 Memorials of the Families of Slrachaii and Wise.
one of the jurors in the trial of Lord Bahiierino, indicted
for having in his possession an illegal petition addressed
to the King. He died about 1G46. He had married
Sarah, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie,
afterwards ninth Earl of Angus, and by this marriage was
father of one son, Alexander, who succeeded as second
baronet of Thornton.^ Having, along with his relative
Colonel Archibald Strachan, joined the Parliamentary
forces, his estates were confiscated, and he was compelled
to escape to Flanders.- He died at Bridges (Bruges) in
West Flanders, about the year 1659.^ His testament and
inventory were given up by David Strachan,* merchant
burgess of Edinburgh, as assignee and only executor
qua creditor, the said David producing Sir Alexander's
" ticket or missive letter, all writin with his awine hand of
the dait the xv day of Mail 1657," bearing that he had
borrowed from the said David certain sums of money, for
which he gives warrant to the latter " to receive his twa
cower cloathcs from William Strauchanc in Inchgray, with
' Play fair's Barc)netajj;e, sec. iii., Appendi.\ 172.
2 Acta Pail, vi., 586-595.
» Edinburgh Coin. Keg. vol. Ixx., 24tli Jan. 1(502.
^ David ytrachan was probaMy a brother or other near relati\-e of the celebrated
Colonel Archibald Strachan, who was a native of Mussellmrgli, near Edinburgh.