188 Kenmure Castle. 



he obtained a Peerage by letters patent on the 8th day of May, 

 1633. He was created Viscount Kenmure, Lord Lochinvar. 

 He married Jean Campbell, third daughter of Archibald, 7th 

 Earl of Argyll. 



As a further mark of the King's favour, he obtained a 

 charter dated the 15th January, 1629, erecting a part of his 

 lands, with the buildings thereon, into a Royal Burgh. This is 

 thought to have been the Clachan of Dairy, because he also 

 obtained another charter under the Great Seal, dated the 19th 

 November, 1630, for changing the site, and fixing the " lands of 

 Roddings " as a more convenient site. This charter was ratified 

 by Act of Parliament in June, 1633. The old sundial which is 

 still to be seen in the garden at Kenmure was set up in 1631. 



When Charles I. resolved to model the church according to 

 the ideas of Episcopacy, Viscount Kenmure, at first, found it 

 difficult to refrain from supporting one who had raised him to 

 such high honours, and who had been so kind to him. He 

 attended Parliament, but rather than vote against his conscience, 

 he feigned indisposition, and returned home. He died a year 

 afterwards, and it is said that on his death-bed he felt the most 

 poignant remorse for not staying and votitig against the King. 

 He was a great friend of Samuel Rutherford. This eminent 

 divine attended him till his death, which took place on 12th 

 September, 1634. Rutherford lamented the death of his patron 

 in an elegiac poem, written in Latin, and in 1649 he published 

 the " Last and Heavenly Speeches and Glorious Departure of 

 John Viscount Kenmure." 



Besieged by Cromwell. 



He was succeeded by his son John, the second Viscount, 

 who died a minor. John, the third Viscount, was his cousin 

 germane, and a son of James Gordon of Barncrosh. He died, 

 unmarried, in October, 1643, and was succeeded by his brother 

 Robert as fourth Viscount. Robert, the fourth Viscount, was 

 also a strong Loyalist, and suffered severely for his attachment to 

 King Charles I. Lord Kenmure was particularly active in 

 enlisting, and to attract recruits he carried a large cask of brandy 

 at the head of his regiment, which was known by the merry 

 appellation of Kenmure 's drum. 



As all the petitions and remonstrances had failed to mollify 



