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CALENDAR OF FEARN
After the death of George Munro of Meikle Tarrel (282) in 1623
Milton was given in liferent to his widow, Margaret Dunbar (319), by
her stepson George of Milton (Munro Tree, L/7; RMS, viii, 613, 14
February 1624). It was apprised from him for 41,410 merks on 25 June
1627 by his father-in-law Robert Innes of Innes (RMS, viii, 1094).
George’s brother-in-law Robert Innes is said to have taken possession
of the house and property on George’s death, never allowing the latter’s
only son, Andrew (who died, unmarried, at the battle of Kilsyth in
1645) to enter it (Mackenzie, Munros, 288-9). The 1644 valuation of the
sheriffdom of Inverness shows no property in Andrew Munro’s name,
but gives the laird of Innes £1,200 in valued rent in Kilmuir Easter
parish (Fraser-Mackintosh, 367). According to Spalding (Troubles, ii,
142), ‘the staitliehoussofMilntounofRoss, perteningto his [the young
laird of Innes’s] father, wes rekleslie brynt (except the tour) with mekill
good insicht and plenishing; a thing to be notit’. The minister of
Wardlaw, writing of the ‘tedious Assembly’ of July 1649, with its
‘many rigid Acts and od proceedings, part of which I understand not’,
noted: ‘Reference Laird of Innes, younger, to the presbytery of Tain; it
seemes he lived there att Miltoun in Rosse’ (Wardlaw MS, 344). The
damage caused by the jackdaw’s nest clearly did not destroy the house
completely, as it was occupied in 1658 (see Fraser, Cromartie, ii,
430-35).
312 1642. The 18 of Maye Margrat Abercromie spus to William Ros
desesitt in Taine.
Wife of William Ross (327) and daughter-in-law of Andrew Ross,
provost of Tain (359). Stated by one eighteenth-century source (NLS
Acc 10225; see 359) to be a daughter of the laird of Birkenbog, but not
named in C.D. Abercromby, The Family of Abercromby (Aberdeen,
1927).
313 The 16 offjunye 1642 S [sic] William Sincklar off Maiye departitt
thair.
Son of George Sinclair of Mey (268). Brother of Sir John Sinclair of
Dunbeath (341). Husband of Katherine Ross (252). See Douglas,
Baronage, 252-3.
314 The 25 ofjunii Janett Sincklar gudwyff off Innerbakie departitt at
Tarbertt 1642.
Daughter of George Sinclair of Mey (268: see GD96/428). Wife of
Walter Innes, son and successor of James Innes of Inverbreakie (298).