300 James Lindsay, Provost of Lincluden. 



namesake, a nephew perhaps, with whose descendants they con- 

 tinued, and in whose family it was a tradition that they were 

 sprung from the house of Covington. The first of the family 

 married Margaret Cairns, who was heiress eventually of another 

 Provost of the College Church, Master Alexander Cairns, and 

 who brought to her husband the lands of Carsluith, which had 

 been a gift from the Douglases to this earlier Provost. 



The direct line ending at the beginning of the 16th century in 

 an heiress, Elizabeth Lindsay, Carsluith passed to the son of her 

 marriage with Richard Brown, while Fairgirth went to her uncle, 

 the heir male. Branches of the family were the Lindsays of 

 Auchenskeoch, and of Rascarrel, and probably also those of the 

 Mains of Southwick. All of them were flourishing in the middle 

 of the seventeenth century, but within a hundred years thereafter 

 the various properties were in other hands. If Master James 

 Lindsay, Provost of Lincluden, had really been the means of 

 settling these Lindsays in Galloway, then he had established for 

 himself a very lasting association with the ancient province. 



