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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
THE SCOTS PEERAGE
Edinburgh : Printed by T. and A. Constable
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DAVID DOUGLAS
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OF THE NOBILITY OF THAT KINGDOM
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LORD LYON KING OF ARMS
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ROSEBERY, PRIMROSE, EARI- OF,
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ROSS, ANCIENT EARLS OF, .
ROSS, STEWART, DUKE OF, .
ROSS, ROSS, LORD,
ROTHES, LESLIE, EARL OF, .
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ROTHESAY, STEWART, DUKE OF,
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RUTHERFURD, RUTHERFURD, LORD, 364
RUTHVEN OF FREELAND, RUTHVEN, LORD, ... 385
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ST. COLME, STEWART, LORD, 394
SALTOUN, ABERNETHY. LORD, 396
SALTOUN, ERASER, LORD, 417
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SEAFIELD, OGILVIE-GRANT, EARL OF, .... 454 With full-page Illustration.
SEAFORTH, MACKENZIE, EARL OF, 495
SELKIRK, DOUGLAS, EARL OF, 516
SEMPILL, FORBES-SEMPILL, LORD, 526
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SINCLAIR, SINCLAIR, LORD, 569
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EW families can trace their descent from such ancient and authentic sources as the great house of Maule. For- tunate in its records, it has been no less fortun- ate in its recorders : the Hon. Harry Maule of Kelly, third son of the second Earl of Pan- mure, made, with the assistance of his second son James, a collection of the charters relating to the leading families from whom he was de- scended. This chartulary was completed in 1733, and com- pares favourably with similar collections made at that period, as the compilers displayed 'a love of historical research with a spirit of critical discrimination rarely combined in the works of their contemporaries.' By the generosity of Fox Maule, Earl of Dalhousie, the collection was printed in 1874 under the able editorship of the late John Stuart, LL.D., as the Registrum de Panmure, and most of the information contained in the following article has been got from the pages of that work. But as it was ' framed less for the purpose of tracing out lists of all the members of the family and preserving in detail the dates of their births and deaths than of concentrating attention on the main line and illustrating each generation by groups of historical documents, etc.,' it has been necessary to make further search for many of the facts dealt with.
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2 ISIAULE, EARL PANISIURE
The family of Maule trace their origin to France, and the first on record appears to be
Ansold, Lord of Maule, who, with Rectrude his wife, made a donation to the Priory of St. Martin des Champs at Paris 1015. The seigneurie of Maule lay about eight leagues from Paris, and a few leagues from St. Germains-en-Laye. Ansold was succeeded by his son,
GuARiN, who is named in a charter by Robert, King of the Franks, before 1032,' to William, Abbot of St. Germains. His wife's name, which is also mentioned in the charter, was Hersende. They had a son and successor,
Ansold. His patrimony must have been large, and he probably added to it, as he is called by Ordericus Vitalis ' dives Parisiensis.' His son and heir was
Peter, Lord of Maule, who, along with his two immediate successors, is frequently mentioned in the chronicles of the last-named historian. He gave large gifts to the monastery of St. Evroult and lived to a good old age, dying 12 January 1106. He was of a jovial disposition and preferred feasting to fighting.^ His wife's name was Guindesmoth, and they had issue : —
1. Ansold, who carried on the line of the family.
2. Theobald, 3. Guarin. 4. William. 5. Huheline. 6. Eurembiirga. 7. Odeline. 8. Herseiide.
Ansold, Lord of Maule, seems to have been of a higher type than his father. He was a brave soldier and saw much service : he was learned, temperate, and exceedingly strict in morals. Shortly after his father's death, and apparently influenced not a little by the appearance of a comet with a long and fiery tail, he made peace with the neighbouring monastery, with which he had had some con- tention, and confirmed to the monks all that his predecessors had given to them, adding other gifts of his own. Towards the end of his life — it is said he had borne arms for fifty- three years — he entreated the monks of Maule to admit
^ Eeg. de Panmure, ii. 8. * JUij,^ i6.
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him to their brotherhood ; and having got the consent of of his wife and his son and heir, he was invested with the religious habit ; but he did not long continue to wear it, as he died the third day after his admission to the Order, in the year 1118. He married Adeline, daughter of Ralph, surnamed Malvoisin, and by her had issue : —
1. Peter.
2. Ralph.
There seems little doubt that some of the younger branches of the family accompanied William, Duke of Normandy, in his invasion of England. Orawfurd says ' that the ancestor of the Maules in Scotland was a son of Peter, the first Lord of Maule of that name, and that he was one of the companions of William. It is certain that the name Maule occurs in the lists of those who came over from Normandy at that time.^ The Christian name or names are not given, but in the reign of Henry i., Robert and Stephen de Maule are mentioned as giving a benefaction to the restored Abbey of St. Hilda, Whitby, of the church of Hatun in Cleveland, with its pertinents the chapel of Newton of Thorpe, and Hatun Parva.^ Whether these Maules were sons of Peter, Lord of Maule, has not been ascertained ; they do not occur among the names of his children mentioned by Ordericus. But Robert is believed to have come to Scotland with the other Normans who accompanied David i. there. His name is mentioned in a charter by Henry, Earl of Northumberland, David's eldest son, granting lands in Northumberland to Eustace Fitzjohn.* It is more likely that he was the grandson and not the son of Peter, Lord of Maule. He is believed to have had at least two sons : —
1. William.
2. Roger.
William de Maule. Under the designation of William Masculus he witnessed, about 1141, the confirmation of a charter by Earl Henry to the church of St. Mary of Haddington,* and in that year he was also witness, at
1 Lives of the Officers of State, 259. 2 Grafton's Chronicle, ii. 3; Holinshed, ii. 294. 3 Monast. Aug., i. 410. * Bodleian Mss,, Ixxiv. 27; Reg. de Panmure, ii. 67. * Reg. Prior. S. Andree, 191.
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Jedburgh, to a grant by the same Earl to the church of the Holy Trinity of Tiron in France,' as well as to another, granted after 1147, to the church of St. John in the Oastle of Roxburgh, dated at Traquair.^ He is said to have accompanied David i. to the battle of the Standard in 1138. He is found in possession of the lands of Foulis, and, between 1162 and 1186, granted to his nephew, Thomas the cleric, the church and church lands of Foulis, by a charter whicli is witnessed by another nephew, Richard, and also by Michael Maule.^ William de Maule had two daughters but left no male issue : —
1. Christian, married to Roger de Mortimer, who got
grants from King William the Lion of the lands of Foulis, which formerly belonged to his father-in-law, and two tofts in Selkirk and Clackmannan, which King Malcolm, the King's brother, had granted to William Maule."
2. Cecilia, married to Walter de Ruthven. Her grandson.
Sir Gilbert de Ruthven, renounced in 1262 all rights in the lands of Foulis competent to him through her.^ The elder brother having had only female issue, the line of the family was carried on by his younger brother,
Roger de Maulb, regarding whom not much is known. He appears as a witness to a charter by Duncan, Earl of Fife, granting to the Canons of St. Andrews the church of Cupar.* Neither the date of his death nor the name of his wife has been ascertained, but he is believed to have had three sons : —
1. Richard.
2. John, who witnesses two deeds by William, Bishop of
St. Andrews, relating to the teinds of the vicarages of Haddington and Linlithgow. He is described as one of ' our clerics,' and must therefore have been in holy orders.'
3. Thomas, also a cleric, and designed as such in a
charter by his uncle William Masculus de Foulis,
1 Cal. of Docs. France, 357. ^ Reg. Glasguense, i. 10. ' Reg. Prior. S. Andree, 40. * Ibid., 80. ^ ji^g ^e Panmure, 82. « jieg. Prior. S. Andree, 242. ? jbid., 159, 160.
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granting him the church and church lands of Foulis.'
Richard db Maulb. About him too there is but little information. He is named as a witness to his uncle's grant of the church of Foulis cited above. He is said to have had two sons : —
1. Peter.
2. William. As Archdeacon of Lothian, William de
Maulia witnessed a deed of Alexander ii., ordering the Sheriff of Edinburgh and others to make an extent of the pasture of Lethanhope 28 August 1241. He also witnessed a donation by the same King of the vale of Lethan to the monks of Newbottle.^
Peter db Maule, the eldest son, is the first member of the family from whom the descent of his successors can be clearly proved by existing documents. The previous genera- tions, from want of fuller evidence, can be stated only with a certain amount of inference and conjecture. Of his actual life indeed not much is known, the most important fact in it being that he married, before 1215, Christian de Valoniis, daughter by Loretta, daughter of Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, and heiress of William de Valoniis, Chamberlain of Scotland, who died at Kelso in 1219.^ She brought to her husband the large baronies of Panmure and Bervie, which had been originally granted to her grandfather, Philip de Valoniis, by William the Lion about 1180.* She also succeeded, along with her co-heirs Lora, wife of Sir Henry Baliol, and Isobel de Valoniis, the daughter of Roger de Valoniis, Lord of Kilbride, and wife of Sir David Cumin, to the English estates which belonged to Christian Fitzwalter, Countess of Essex, who was the daughter of Gunnora de Valoniis, wife of Robert Fitzwalter, and cousin of William de Valoniis above mentioned. The names of Peter and his wife occur in a deed of 1254, relating to the settlement of a dispute between them and the abbot and convent of Arbroath, concerning the bounds of certain lands belonging to the
1 Beg. Prior. S. Andree, 40, 46. 2 Eeg. de Newbotle, 90. ^ Chron. de Mailros, 187. * Eeg. de Panmure, i. p. xix.
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respective parties.' Peter de Maule is said to have died in 1254. There is a charter, without date, by Oliristian de Valoniis, ' in pura viduitate,' by which she granted to John de Lydel her lands of Balbanein and Panlathyn which she and her late husband Peter de Maule had granted to Thomas de Lydel the father of John. By his wife Peter de Maule left issue : —
1. William, who succeeded.
2. Thomas, who is said to have been killed in 1303 while
defending the Oastle of Brechin, of which he was governor, against the English.^
William de Maule of Panmure granted, in 1293, to Radulph of Dundee, a charter of the lands of Banavie and Balrotheri, with the advowson of the church of the same. Little is known about him, but he was dead before 1312, when his son is found granting deeds to the son of Radulph of Dundee. He married Ethana de Vallibus, daughter of John Vaux or de Vallibus, Lord of Dirleton.^ By her he had a son,
Henry de Maule of Panmure, who granted, as above stated, in 1312, an acquittance to John de Glasreth, son and heir of Sir Radulph of Dundee, for ten merks, part of the sum due for the confirmation of the charter by William of Maule previously referred to. In the final agreement between the parties about the lands mentioned, which is dated 26 May 1325, in connection with certain disputes between them, he is styled Sir Henry of Maule, Knight of Panmure. He is said to have married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Hay of Locherworth, by whom he had issue : —
1. Walter, who succeeded.
2. William.
3. Peter.
4. Christina, married to Alexander, son and heir of John
of Strathechin, with whom she got a charter from her father of the lands of Oarmyle and others, con- firmed by King David ii. 27 August 1347, and by King Robert ii. 4 February 1382.
* Reg. de Aherhrothoc, i. 322. ^ Flores Hist., Mat. Westminster, 446. ^ Reg. de Panmure, i. p. xx.
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Walter Maule of Panmure, on 31 December 1346, granted a charter to his nephew, Henry of Strathechin, and Ysoca, his wife, of three parts of the lands of Muncur in the barony of Panmure ; and another of the lands of Carnegie to John, son and heir of John, son of Ohristin, son of John of Balnahard.^ He was present at a Justiciar's Court held at Forfar 17 July 1348,^ He made a grant to the Bishop of Brechin of the chaplaincy of Both and was dead before August 1348, when the Bishop confirmed it.^ The name of his wife has not been ascertained, but he left two sons : —
1. William, who succeeded.
2. Henry, who got a charter of the lands of Glasletyr
from his brother 1 May 1389.
William Maule of Panmure granted, in 1361, a tack of the lands of Skryne to Alexander Strathechin of Carmyle. He was dead before 12 August 1407 when Alexander, Earl of Craw- ford resigned to the heirs of William Maule of Panmure the lands of Kekisflat. He married Marion, daughter of Sir David Fleming of Biggar and Cumbernauld, to whom he made a grant of the lands of Skryne and others by a charter confirmed by King Robert ii. 3 September 1380. By her he had issue : —
1. Thomas, who succeeded.
2. Janet, who was married to Alexander Ochterlony, son
and heir of William Ochterlony of Kelly. She had, along with her husband, a grant of the lands of Grenefurde in the barony of Panmure 4 October 1434.*
Thomas Maule of Panmure was killed at the battle of Harlaw 24 July 1411.^ He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Gray of Foulis, by whom he had a posthumous son,
Thomas Maule of Panmure. On 31 May 1412 he had a precept from the Duke of Albany for infefting him in parts of Panlathy as heir to his father.^ His tutor during
^ Eeg. de Panmure, ii. 166, 167. ^ Reg. de Aberbrothoc, ii. 20. ^ Eeg. Episc. Brechin, i. 10. * Eeg. de Panmure, ii. 181. ^ ihid., 230. * Ibid., 187.
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his pupillarity was Sir Andrew Gray, his grandfather, as is shown by discharges granted to him in 1427. Sir Thomas Maule established his right as heir of line to the lordship of Brechin, through his grandmother, Marion Fleming, whose mother, Jean Barclay, was daughter of that Sir David de Barclay who married Margaret, daughter of David de Brechin.* Sir Thomas died in 1 150, having married, in 1427,^ Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Abercrombie of that Ilk. By her he had a daughter who married Sir David Guthrie,^ besides a son and successor,
Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure. Not much is recorded about him. He appears as giving possession to the monks of Oupar of an acre of land and fishing in Stenkindehavin [Stonehaven] 20 February 1456-57." He also granted letters of reversion to his uncle, Andrew, Lord Gray, of the lands of Skethin.^ On 25 November 1481, in an instrument re- lating to an agreiement between him and the Earl of Craw- ford as to the boundaries of certain lands, there is mention made of a limit running ' a magna cruce lapidea de Cambi- ston,' one of the most interesting of the sculptured stones of Scotland, which still survives. Sir Thomas died after 16 January 1497-98, on which date he gave possession to his grandson and heir, Thomas, of all his moveable goods, only providing that he should supply his grandfather with all necessaries and pay his debts.® He had previously, on 2 March 1490-91, conveyed the barony of Panmure to him,' and he had also, on 14 March 1497-98, a charter of the lands of Balishan.® The reason of his divesting himself of all his property, both lieritable and moveable, during his lifetime, may perhaps be found in the fact that, according to the family genealogist, ' rydand at the huntes neir to the Grein Lane of Brechine [he] swddenlie become blind and lost his sight, quliarfor he was called the blind knight.' Sir Thomas married, first, Elizabeth, younger daughter of David, third Earl of Crawford : he seems to have divorced her, apparently for no fault but because his brother-in-law. Sir David Guthrie, had attempted to divorce his sister on
1 See vol. ii. 223, 224. 2 East Neuk of Fife. 3 Eeg. de Panmure, i. p. xxv. * Ibid., ii. 236. ^ ibid., 242. « Ibid., 262. ? Confirmed 2 June 1491, Reg. Mag. Sig. « Confirmed 25 March 1497-98.
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the ground that they were within the prohibited degrees. Lord Crawford had supported Guthrie in his contention, and Maule's revenge was to divorce Crawford's daughter in return. Whatever may be the truth of this story, which rests on the authority of the family chronicler of the seven- teenth century, there is no doubt that Sir Thomas did marry, before 12 August 1489,^ a second wife in the person of Catherine Cramond, a daughter of the Laird of Aldbar.^ By his first wife he had a son,
1. Alexander, ' who was ane prodigal man, not gewen for
the well of his hows.' He left Scotland in 1489, having quarrelled with his wife, taking large sums of money with him. When or how he died is not known ; neither he nor his money was ever heard of, and it was supposed that he had been robbed and murdered. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir David Guthrie of that Ilk, and had by her, who died about 1526 and was buried in the kirk of Monikie, two sons and a daughter : —
(1) Thomas, of whom presently.
(2) William of Auchrinnie, who married Janet, daughter of
John Carnegy and sister to Sir Robert Carnegy of Kinnaird.
(3) Isabel, married to Kamsay of Panbride.
By his second wife Sir Thomas had a son,
2. William, said to have been blind like his father. He
resided during his life chiefly with his uncle, the Laird of Aldbar.^
Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure succeeded his grand- father, with whom he was a great favourite. He had a charter of the barony of Panmure from him 12 March 1490-91;* and another of Balischane 14 March 1497-98.' He appears to have been a very stout, pleasant and good- natured person : he certainly did once burn, ' for ane indig- natione,' the house of John Liddel of Panlethyne, but he was very penitent for this act, and obtained a remission under the Great Seal.® In later years he made several
1 Beg. Mag. Sig. ^ She is said to have married, secondly, Robert Keith, brother to the Earl Marischal, and to have lived till 1532. ^ in 1546 his legitimacy was called in question by his grand-nephew, Robert Maule of Panmure, but the result has not been ascertained ; Acta Dom. Cone, et Sess., xxii. f. 29. * Confirmed 2 June 1491, ibid. ^ Confirmed the following day, ibid. * Not recorded in Beg. Mag. Sig.
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donations to religious houses. On 20 April 1504 he and his wife and children were received into the confraternity of Friars minor,' and on 22 April 1509 he mortified certain lands of Skethyn to the Minorites of Dundee for masses to be said for the souls of his grandfather, father, himself, and his two wives.^ Sir Thomas fell with many friends and vassals at Flodden in 1513. A graphic glimpse of the fierceness of the fray is afforded in the narrative of the family historian: — Sir Thomas was very fat, or as it is phrased in the direct vernacular of the day, * he was grown in the womb, and therefore was not able, be reason of the great presse to draw his sword, whairf or the laird of Guthrie (his uncle or cousin) drew it furth to him,' but in the medley and struggle which ensued a man of his build ran a poor chance. He married, first, previous to 12 March 1490-91, Elizabeth, daughter of David Rollok of Ballachie ; and, secondly, before 1504, Christian, daughter of William, Lord Graham, and widow of James Haldane of Gleneagles,^ with- out issue. By his first wife he had issue : —
1. Robert, who succeeded.*
2. Elizabeth, married (contract 13 June 1507), with a
tocher of 320 merks, to Alexander Strachan, younger of Oarmylie.^
3. Isabel, married to Henry Ramsay of Panbride."
4. a daughter, married to John Liddel of Panlathyne,
who fell at Flodden.'
Robert Maule of Panmure succeeded his father when he was sixteen. In 1526 he took part with the Earl of Lennox in the unsuccessful attempt to rescue James v. out of the hands of the Douglases, for which he got a remission under the Great Seal from the King 27 February 1527-28.' On 25 February 1528-29 he had a royal charter to himself and his wife of the lands of Paulethy and others.^ He had a licence under the Privy Seal, 20 February 1528-29, permitting him to stay at home from all hosts, courts of justiceayres, and parliaments on the ground of his
* Reg. de Panmure, ii. 268. ^ ibid., 276. ^ j eta Dovi. Cone, xxiv. f. 92. * Douglas inserts a second son, William, but see ante, where he is said to be son of Alexander. ' Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 146. ^ Reg. Mag. Sig., 8 May 1551. Macfarlane calls her Margaret and her husband David. ^ Ibid. 8 Reg. de Panmure, ii. 306. " Reg. Mag. Sig.
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liealth/ He may have been suffering from the effects of a fray with Ogilvy of Balfour, whom he accidentally met at the burn of Barrie ; in tlie fight he was ' ewil wondit.' He got a remission for taking part in the insurrection of the Earls of Lennox and Angus against the Regent Arran 13 February 1543-44.^ He opposed the idea of a match between the Queen and Edward of England. He was taken prisoner during the invasion of Scotland by the English in 1547, while defending his house of Panmure, being severely wounded by a culverin shot. He was carried off to Eng- land and imprisoned in the Tower, from which, however, he was released in 1549 through the intervention of the Marquis d'Elboeuf. He died 3 May 1560, and was buried in Panbride Church. His character is graphically portrayed by the family historian before referred to : — ' He was ane man of cumlie behauior, of hie stature, sanguine in coUoure both of hyd and haire, colerique of nature, and subject to suddane anger, ane natural man, expert in the lawes of the countray, of gud langage, expert in countine of genealogies ... he was very temperat of his mouthe, but gewin to leicharie, an abel man on fut, ane gud horsman, lyket weil to be honorable in apparel, and weil horset, mykil honorit with his nychboures and in gud estimatione. He tuk gryt delyght in haukine and hountine. He tuk plesior in play- ine at the fut bale,' and had the moor of Batliel reserved entirely for that game. ' Lykwayes he excerciset the gowf and oftymes past to Barry lynkes ' ; there the games were played not for money but for drinks, and the chronicler relates how the laird would never enter a ' browster hous ' but sent one of his servants to pay for all when he had lost a match. There are few more happy sketches of a country gentleman of the period than this — a gentleman of the better class, no doubt, though it is said that he was quite illiterate and could neither read nor write. So much so that when in his later years he became an adherent to the reformed religion, his eldest son, ' ane godly persone gewine to redine of the scripture, did nychtlie valk besyde his father ' and instruct him in the leading tenets of the faith. Robert Maule married, first, before 1519, Isobel, daughter
1 Reg. de Panmure, ii. 306. 2 ibid., 308.
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of Sir Lawrence Mercer of Aldie.* She died 30 April 1540, and was buried in the choir of Panbride Church. He married, secondly, in 1545, Isobel, daughter of James Arbuthnott of that Ilk, and relict of David Ochterlony of Kelly. She died in 1558. By his first wife Robert Maule had : —
1. Thomas, who succeeded.
2. John of Oamistoun, died unmarried at Pitcur and was
buried at Kettins.^
3. Robert, who lived at Pitlevy, and died unmarried in
October 1600.'
4. Margaret, married to Andrew Haliburton of Pitcur.*
5. Elizabeth, married to William Haliburton, brother of
the Laird of Pitcur.^
6. Janet, married, in 1540, a week before her mother's
death, to James Strachan of Balvousie. Her testa- ment was confirmed 11 February 1594-95.'
7. Agnes, married, as his second wife, to Strachan of
Oarmylie.'
8. 9, 10, 11. According to Macfarlane there were four
other daughters, named respectively Isobel, Geils, Jean, and Catherine, 'all but meanly married.' If these were all daughters of Isobel Mercer, she must have died when they were very young. By his second wife Robert Maule had issue : — 12. Henry. On 18 September 1565 he had a charter from his brother Thomas of part of the lauds of Skryne and others.^ On 24 March 1580-81 he witnessed a charter as ' servitor ' to Bsme, Earl of Lennox, Oom- mendator of Arbroath.^ He is generally styled por- tioner of Skryne, and as such had a grant, along with his son Henry, from John Boswell of Balmuto, 11 October 1591, of the sunny half of Balgreggie in Fife.'" He had also a charter from Lord Balmerino, 1 August 1605, of the lands of Easter Innerpeffer." He married, first, Katherine, daughter of John Boswell of Bag- lillie, and, secondly, Janet Lyon, widow of Henry
1 Beg. Sec. Sig., i. 3039. - Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 148. ^ jHfj^ * Ibid. 6 Ibid. ^ Edin. Tests. ^ Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 148. » Con- firmed SlJanuary 1565-66, i?cflf. Jlfaflf. 5iflr. »/6jU, 28 August 1581. ^^Ibid., 18 January 1591-92. " Ibid., 28 December 1605.
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Guthrie of OoUieston.^ By his first wife he had a son,
(1) Henry, who wrote a History of the Picts,^ and married in 1612 a daughter of Durham of Pitkerro.' He acquired the estate of Melgund,* and, besides two other sons, was the father of James Maule of Melgund, who because of his knowledge of the diving-bell was employed by the ninth Earl of Argyll in 1665 to recover possible treasure from a Spanish vessel sunk near Tobermory in Mull.*
13. Andrew. He also had a charter from his brother
Thomas of part of the lands of Skryne 5 April 1558/ and another of other portions of the same lands 18 September 1565.^ Under the designation of Andrew Maule of Gourdie (or Guildie), for a long time one of the King's familiar servitors, he had a royal con- firmation of his portion of Skryne to himself and his wife 30 January 1600.^ Both he and his wife were alive on 15 July 1624, when they and their sons resigned the Skryne lands in favour of Patrick Maule of Panmure." His wife's name was Margaret Durham. They had issue : —
(1) Robert, mentioned in the charter of 1624.
(2) William, also mentioned there.
(3) David.^<^
(4) Barbara, married to Thomas Wishart of Bondarge.'^
(5) Grisel, married to Gilbert Wishart, son of the Laird of Logie.
(6) Elizabeth, married to Thomas Pearson, son of the Laird of
Lochlands.^^
(7) Marjory, married, first, to William Nairne, son of David
Nairne of Sandford, and secondly, as his second wife, 29 April 1652, to the Earl of Ethie, afterwards Earl of Northesk, then a man of about seventy-three.^^
14. William, merchant in Edinburgh. He appears as a sub-
stitute of entail in the charters of the Skryne lands to his brothers Andrew and Henry above mentioned. On 19 May 1592 he had a charter from John Guthrie of Oollieston of the lands of Oruikston, co. Forfar, for
1 Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 149. ^ Crawfurd's Peerage, 393. ^ Mac- farlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 149. * Reg. Mag. Sig., 6 December 1652. 5 Sixth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., 625, 627. ^ Confirmed 7 April 1558, Reg. Mag. Sig. ^ Confirmed 31January 1565-66, tfeicZ. ^ Ibid. ^ Ibid, lo Mac- farlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 149. " Ibid. »2 Ufid. 13 Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, ii. 351.
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which he paid 6000 merks,^ and which he sold in 1610 to David Carnegie, citizen of Brechin, for 5000 merks.' By November 1607 he had served his term of oflBce as Dean of Guild of Edinburgh.^ He died 19 April 1619,* having married Betliia, daughter of Alexander Guthrie, town-clerk of Edinburgh, in whose right he was admitted burgess 25 July 1579. She died 22 Decem- ber 1624,^ liaving had issue seven daughters and co- heiresses : —
(1) Marion, married, 30 August 1598, to Sir Alexander Seaton
of Kilcroich, afterwards a Lord of Session.^
(2) Bethia, married, 9 September 1601, to James Murray of
Skirling.'^
(3) Margaret, married (contract mentioned in charter of 13
August 1607, where she is styled conjux affidata) to Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony.^
(4) Eleanor, married, 6 September 1610, to Alexander Morrison of
Prestongrange.^
(5) Janet, married, 27 September 1615, to William Oliphant of
Kirkhill.io
(6) Isabel, married, first, to James Dundas of Duddingston, and,
secondly, to James Hamilton of Parklie.
(7) Elizabeth or Beatrix, married, 24 February 1620, to Robert
Burnet of Crimond," and died 1622.12
15. Marjorie, married to Andrew Guthrie of Kingenny."
Thomas IMaule of Panmure, the eldest son of Robert, was born 21 December 1521.^* He was as a youth a great favourite of Cardinal Beaton, and was contracted to one of his natural daughters, but on King James's advice, ' marie newir ane preist's geat,' the contract was broken off on payment by his father and himself of 3000 merks.*^ He went to Prance with the embassy of Beaton in 1541 and came home the next year. He was at the battle of Pinkie in 1547 and had many exciting adventures in making his escape from that field, all of which are most graphically told by the family chronicler. He was taken by the Eng- lish at Panmure along with his father as above stated, but he appears to have escaped and to have been re-taken soon after. He suffered a short imprisonment at Morpeth but
1 Confirmed 30 January 1596-97, Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Jbid., 2 August 1610. 3 Ibid., 18 November 1607. * Edin. Tests., 21 June 1620. ^ Ibid., 1 Sep- tember 1627. 6 Edin. Reg. ^ Ibid. 8 ^J^g^. Mag. Sig. » Edin. Reg. 10 Ibid. " Ibid. 12 Family of Burnett, 133. >3 Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 149. " Beg. de Panmure, i. p. xxxiii. ^^ Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 150.
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was released before long. He was with Queen Mary at Aberdeen in 1562, but was not at tlie battle of Oorrichie, having been summoned home by the illness of his wife. He had a royal charter 17 March 1540-41 of the barony of Panmure on the resignation of his father, and at the same time the vill and lands were erected into a free burgh of barony under the designation of the East part of Panmure.^ In 1541 he sold to Elizabeth Beaton, a natural daughter of the Cardinal, and probably the lady to whom he was con- tracted, half the lands of Skryne.'' His name occurs frequently in the Great Seal Registers as a grantor of charters to various persons, and it seems that he sold or alienated in some way a large portion of his estates. On 10 August 1576 he sold to his son Patrick the whole lands and barony of Panmure, only reserving a liferent to him- self and his wife.^ He does not seem to have taken any prominent part in public affairs, but after the murder of Darnley he supported the Regent Moray and his succes- sors against the Marian party.
Thomas Maule was a pleasant person ; ' ane fair man, of personage lyk to his father, of rudie coullour, his hair read yellowe and his beard, of ane liberal face and blythe coun- tenance, newir for na adwersitie dejected.' He was a great sportsman ; ' he wald ryd al day . . . except in the morninge he wald tak ane drink of ale and theareafter ane lytel aquavite, and continewe to the eveninge without other meat or drink, and at his first cumine hame at ewin vald cal for ane drink.' He never wore a greatcoat, winter or summer, and like a true sportsman ' in the cauld frost vald vysche (wash) his haukes supper, and never shrink for cauld.' He was an athlete of note in his young days, and it is related that he and his brother-in-law, Willie Halyburton, clad in jacks and boots, leading their horses, on whom they strapped their cloaks, and each with a goshawk on his wrist, walked from Pitcur to the Water of Deane, and thence across to the Lunan, down which they went till they were able to strike across to Panmure ; the distance was about thirty miles, but encumbered as they were with hawks and led horses, and considering the
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 2 Ibid., 15 April 1541. 3 lud., 23 August 1576.
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rough ground over which they must have travelled, it was a very good day's tramp. Though a mighty Nirarod, Maule had no great capacity for business ; many estates, as has been noted above, were parted with by him, and including Panlethin, Glaster, and Oarnegy. There was some fric- tion, probably arising out of these alienations, between liim and his eldest son, but this seems to have been got over before his death, which took place 7 March 1600, at the age of seventy-eight years two months and seventeen days.'
He was contracted in marriage, 8 January 1526-27, to Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of David, Earl of Crawford,^ but whether the marriage was ever carried out is not certain. Her name does not appear as his wife in any writ, and either she or another sister of the same name had been contracted to John Erskine of Dun in 1522, when he was under fourteen, and she was his wife when she died in 1538.^ There is no doubt that Thomas Maule married, in November 1546, Margaret Halyburton, a daughter of the Laird of Pitcur. The union was an exceptionally happy one : she survived her husband, dying October 1602, at the age of seventy-six. By her Thomas Maule had issue : —
1. Patrick, who succeeded.
2. William, who went to Sweden, when twenty-two years
of age, with Archibald Ruthven, and entered the military service there. He died abroad s.p.*
3. David, died at Panmure, of ' a feltic gravel,' 1579 s.pJ
4. Robert. He was commissary of St. Andrews, and an
elder in the church there. He was a learned person, and wrote a work entitled, De origine et vettistate gentis Scotorum, of which Macfarlane, while admit- ting its erudition, disapproves, because he 'depresses the antiquity of our kings, yea, and partly unhinges their succession also,' which suggests that the history was on more reasonable lines than those of the more ancient chroniclers. The work, however, for which
* Reg. de Panmure, i. p. xxxvi. His testament-dative gives the date of his death as 29 November. » Ibid., ii. 302. 3 Cf. vol. iii. 27. * Several members of the Maule family went to Sweden from time to time ; some got naturalised and ennobled. See Fischer's Scots in Siveden, Donner's Scottish Families in Finland and Sweden. ^ Macfarlane's Gen. Coll., ii. 151.
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he should be held in remembrance is the history of his own family, to which reference has so fre- quently been made in this article. It shows that however learned he might be, he could rise to a vivid and picturesque style, such as is seldom attained by a family historian. This scholar and antiquary did not, however, keep himself free from family disputes. On 14 January 1602 a complaint was brought against him by Martha Forrester, the widow of his brother Thomas, stating that he and another had assaulted and abused in ' ane uncouth and uncivill forme ' an officer called Gavin Duncan, who had served on him letters for the restitution of certain evidents and goods which had been de- spoiled from her. A certificate from the kirk session of St. Andrews was produced testifying to 'the infirmitie and disease of Maule,' and he was ' excused.' ^ He married Catherine, youngest daughter of William Myretoun of Cambo. By her he had at least one son,
(1) Patrick, born 7 January 1606, married, first. Christian, daughter of Robert Forbes of Rires,^ with issue a daughter' Catherine, married to John Ochterlony of the Guynd ' secondly, Jean, fourth daughter of John Ayton of Kin- naldie.s
5. Thomas of Pitlevie. He along with his wife had
a charter, 19 November 1594, from Henry Ramsay of Ardowny, and Helen Beaton, his wife, of the lands of Ardowny.* He died at Panmure November 1600, aged forty. He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Robert Lychtoun of Ulishaven, by whom he had issue, Thomas, Rohert, Margaret, and Catherine; and secondly, Martha Forrester, as above-mentioned,' by whom he had one daughter.^
6. George, who was a mariner in England, where he
married and had issue a son, William, who died s.p.^
7. James, stated to have lived at Eyemouth, and to have
had a son Alexander.
1 P. C. Beg., vi. 335. 2 East Neuk of Fife, 2nd ed., 116. s Macfarlane''^ Gen. Coll., ii. 152. * Eeg. Mag. Sig., 20 March 1594-95. & Macfarlane's Gen Coll., ii. 152. 6 ji)ia, ^'"''^ " '^^^'
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8. Alexander, died in infancy.
9. Margaret, said to have been married to James
Stewart, son of James, fifth Lord Innermeath,
10. Agnes, died 1568, aged six.'
11. Isohel, married to Henry, son of Robert Durham of
Grange.^
Patrick Maule of Panmure was born at Pitcur in March 1548. He was at school at Kettins, Dundee, and Montrose, where he stayed till he was fourteen, at which mature age he was married and went to live with his father. After the death of the latter he found the estates in very bad order; some of them had been sold and the others were heavily mortgaged,