102 EarLy SHERIFF Court Book OF DUMFRIES. 
rig ;6! and he is mentioned in 1520, 1545, 1546, and 1549.6 
In 1566 he, his wife Christina Grierson, and his son Peter are 
referred to. 
Alexander Cottis seems to have been a parishioner of 
Glencairn.4 As to Alexander Kirkpatrick, Oswald Cunyng- 
hame, and Andrew Wilson we have no information. 
’ Barthole Smart is mentioned as a parishioner of Glen- 
cairn on 20th February, 1546-7. A person of that name 
is frequently designated as being ‘‘ in Marquhryne.’’® It 
seems that he was a merchant in Glencairn, and had obtained 
a charter of the 24 nerkland of Marquhirn from the Earl of 
Glencairn in 1585.®7 
The laird of Ingliston was John Edzer. On 30th January, 
1481-82, Uchtre Edgar of Ingliston served on an inquest ;® 
and won February 21st, 1498-99, he was decerned to 
pay to the King and his Treasurer #40, in whicn 
he was bound for Cuthbert Greresone as surety that 
the latter would not vex nor _ trouble Margaret 
Akinzeane, relict of Donald Greresone, in the peaceable enjoy- 
ment of the merkland of Kere called Penmarte.®? On 2oth 
January, 1514-15, Agnes Langmure, with consent of her 
husband, Nicholas Edzar of Ingliston, granted a charter of 
certain lands in the county of Renfrew ;’° and it seems probable 
that John” was the next proprietor. We learn that in 1546 
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61 Hist. MSS. Comm. XV. Report, App., Pt. viii., p. 65.” 
62 Lag Charter Chest, 84; H. Anderson, Prot. Bk. (1541-1550), 
22, 79, 80, 81; Charters in H.M. Reg. House, Edinburgh, 1398. 
63 H. Anderson, Prot. Bk. (1566-69), 11. 
64 Charters in H.M. Reg. House, Edinburgh, 1392. 
65 Tbidem. 
66 H. Anderson, Prot. Bk. (1541-50), 37. See Lag Charter Chest, 
143, 144. 
87 See Smart v. Glencairn, 8th March, 1619, Acts and Decreets, 
eclxxxvili., fol. 87. 
68 Hist. MSS. Comm. XV. Report, App., Pt. viii., p. 48. 
69 Act. Dom. Conc., ii., 332. 
10 R.M.S., ii., 153. 
71 In our Court Book he is styled ‘‘ of Ingliston ’’ in the list of 
jurors at the court held on 25th June, 1538 (fol. 6). 
