Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

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TO THE EARL OF ANNANDALE.
Pleass your Lordschip,—I ressauit this day your lordschipis
letteris with your box of wreittis and informatiouns tuiching
Brochtoun,1 quhilk I haif considerit at greit leasure, and I
trust thair sail not be muche bussines of this erand befoir
Mertimes. For befoir the ressait of your letteris I haif pro-
curit the dyet of meiting to be in November, and thairfoir I
haif deteynit the rest of your lordschipis letteris sent to
Brochtoun,2 Airthour Houstoun,3 and Robert Creychtoun,4
with that vther writtin to the bischop of Gallouay,6 till the
1 In the parish of Whithorn, Wigtownshire—a property long in the possession
of a family of the name of Murray, who are said to have come originally from
Morayshire, in the twelfth century, but were only first known in Galloway in the
fifteenth. The present proprietor is Horatio Granville Murray-Stewart, Esq.
2 John Murray, son of George Murray of Broughton, and Katherine Vauss,
the daughter of Sir Patrick Vauss of Barnbarroch (see note, p. 89). Bom in 1606,
he was at this time nearly of age, and this and the subsequent letters appear to
relate to the arrangements preparatory to his entering upon the full possession of
his patrimonial inheritance. The Earl of Annandale, who was his kinsman—
the former’s great-grand-uncle, Mungo Murray, the son of Cuthbert Murray of
Cockpool, being the ancestor of the Broughton family—was probably one of
his guardians, and had, at all events, a share in the management, financial and
otherwise, of the estate during his minority. John Murray of Broughton
married a niece of the Earl’s—Marion, daughter of Sir James Murray of Cock-
pool, his eldest brother, in 1630. M‘Kerlie’s History of the Lands and their
Owners in Galloway, Edinburgh, 1870-79, vol. i. p. 476; Douglas’s Peerage.
3 Probably a cousin of John Murray of Broughton ; a son of William Houston
of Cutreoch, who was married in 1594 to a daughter of Sir Patrick Vauss of
Barnbarroch. —Ibid.
4 Probably another cousin; the son of John Creighton of Larg, who was
married in 1570 to Margaret, another daughter of Sir Patrick Vauss, and widow
of John Dunbar of Orchardtoun. —Ibid.
5 Andrew Lamb, formerly minister successively of Arbroath and South Leith,
and chaplain to the King (James VI.); consecrated Bishop of Brechin at London,
21st October 1610; translated to the See of Galloway in 1619 ; became blind,
and died in 1634. He also was related by marriage to the Broughton family,