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INTRODUCTION
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dated 22nd November of that year, and in his father’s Diary.1
He purchased the estate of Granton, in the neighbourhood of
Edinburgh, from his nephew, Sir Thomas Hope, 3rd Baronet
of Craighall, in 1656, and dying, sine prole, 15th February
1680, was buried at Cramond. He sold the estate of
Granton, shortly before his death, to his nephew, John Hope
of Hopetoun.
Gilbert Neilson, advocate, the son of Thomas Neilson, had
sasine of the lands and barony of Craigcaffie, Wigtownshire, in
November 1643. The old square tower of Craigcaffie, or Craig-
cathie Castle is still standing. It is situated in the parish of
Inch, three and a half miles north-east of Stranraer, and was
once surrounded by a fosse, but never could have been a place
of much strength. The Neilsons are said to have traced their
descent from Neil, Earl of Carrick, who died in 1526. Gilbert,
whose name, strangely enough, does not occur in the official
list of advocates of the Scots bar kept in the Library of the
faculty in Edinburgh, was succeeded in 1647 by Robert, probably
a son. The property continued in the family till 1759, when
it was acquired by John M‘Dowall of Logan, and in November
1791 the Earl of Stair was infeft in it on a Crown charter.2
Robert Inglis was a Scottish merchant and banker in
London, who seems to have acted as a factor or agent for
his countrymen there.3 He is frequently referred to in Sir
Thomas Hope’s Diary.
1 P- 173-
2 M'Kerlie’s History of the Lands and their Owners in Galloway, vol. i. p. 136.
3 Among Sir Charles Erskine’s papers, there is a sealed autograph receipt
of Inglis’s, dated 31st December 1646, for ^12,000 sterling, ‘according to the
order of the commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland,’ of which he had given
out ^5964, and ‘sixteene pounds sterling to Wm. Cuming for his charges to
and from Newcastle, according to their warrant of the 22d Deer. 1646.’ The
balance he binds himself and his heirs to pay, ‘ according to the order of the
commissioners for the Kingdom of Scotland residing at London for the tyme and
not otherwise.’
83
dated 22nd November of that year, and in his father’s Diary.1
He purchased the estate of Granton, in the neighbourhood of
Edinburgh, from his nephew, Sir Thomas Hope, 3rd Baronet
of Craighall, in 1656, and dying, sine prole, 15th February
1680, was buried at Cramond. He sold the estate of
Granton, shortly before his death, to his nephew, John Hope
of Hopetoun.
Gilbert Neilson, advocate, the son of Thomas Neilson, had
sasine of the lands and barony of Craigcaffie, Wigtownshire, in
November 1643. The old square tower of Craigcaffie, or Craig-
cathie Castle is still standing. It is situated in the parish of
Inch, three and a half miles north-east of Stranraer, and was
once surrounded by a fosse, but never could have been a place
of much strength. The Neilsons are said to have traced their
descent from Neil, Earl of Carrick, who died in 1526. Gilbert,
whose name, strangely enough, does not occur in the official
list of advocates of the Scots bar kept in the Library of the
faculty in Edinburgh, was succeeded in 1647 by Robert, probably
a son. The property continued in the family till 1759, when
it was acquired by John M‘Dowall of Logan, and in November
1791 the Earl of Stair was infeft in it on a Crown charter.2
Robert Inglis was a Scottish merchant and banker in
London, who seems to have acted as a factor or agent for
his countrymen there.3 He is frequently referred to in Sir
Thomas Hope’s Diary.
1 P- 173-
2 M'Kerlie’s History of the Lands and their Owners in Galloway, vol. i. p. 136.
3 Among Sir Charles Erskine’s papers, there is a sealed autograph receipt
of Inglis’s, dated 31st December 1646, for ^12,000 sterling, ‘according to the
order of the commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland,’ of which he had given
out ^5964, and ‘sixteene pounds sterling to Wm. Cuming for his charges to
and from Newcastle, according to their warrant of the 22d Deer. 1646.’ The
balance he binds himself and his heirs to pay, ‘ according to the order of the
commissioners for the Kingdom of Scotland residing at London for the tyme and
not otherwise.’
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