Church of St. John the Baptist, Dalry. 83 



(/f," &ic., dated in 1580. He obtaiued charters of several ecclesi- 

 astical lands from Alexander, Bishop of Galloway, ir)(]4, and from 

 the Commendator of Tongland, 20th May, 156G. 



In 1.jG2 he made a resignation of the whole estate in favour 

 of his brother, William (xordon of Penniughame. failing heirs male 

 of his own body, he having then no male issue ; and this William's 

 grandson's grandson actually succeeded in the honours of Ken- 

 mure, as will be shown hereafter. 



He married first Juliana, daughter of Home of Weddei'- 



burn, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, manned to Hugh, 

 Earl of Loudon, in 1072. 



In 1573 he married, secondly, Dame Elizabeth Maxwell, 

 daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Terregles, afterward Lord 

 Harries, in right of his mother, by whom he had five sons and 

 four daughters. 



Denventivater. by Robt. Trotter. Edin., 1825. Appendix p. 105, 



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Excei'id from N islet's Hemldvij as to tht Gordon of Kenmurc Anns. 



'' Sir Robert [Gordon] married a daughter of William, Earl 

 of Gowrie, and by her he had Sir John, his successor, whose arms 

 are illuminate on the House of Fallahall, 1G04. And in our old 

 Books of Blazon, as that of Mr Font's, Azure ; a Bend, between 

 three Boai's' heads couped, or. Which Sir John Gordon of Loch- 

 invar . , . was . . . created Viscount of Kenmure . . 

 He was succeeded ... by his son John . . . but he 

 dying without issue, the title came to John Gordon, his cousiu- 

 german, who dying unmarried, Robert his brother was heir to 

 him ; and he dying also without issue, 16G3 the . . . honoui's 

 devolved to Alexander Gordon of Peaninghame . . . who 

 carried for his atchievement, Azure ; Three Boars' heads erazed. 

 Or; Armed and langued, gules, supported by two savages, 

 wreath'd about the head and middle with Laurels, holding Battons 

 in their hands, all proper ; and for Crest, a Demi-Savage in the 

 same Dress, Motto, Dread God." 



