108  EarLy SHERIFF CourT Book or DUMFRIES. 
younger son Gilbert, are referred to.18 It may be that Eliza- 
beth Roreson, wife of Uchtred Edgar, son and heir apparent 
of John Edgar of Ingliston, was his daughter. On rith 
June, 1549, Andrew Rereson, junior, is mentioned as tutor of 
Bardennoch ;!2! and we find an instrument of sasine dated 5th 
July, 1566, of the five merkland of Bardennoch and the 
£3 38 4d land of Creichane in favour of Thomas, Andrew’s 
son.!22 Douglas of Drumlanrig having obtained the gift of 
the ward and marriage of the two daughters of Simon Car- 
ruthers of Mouswald, deceased, and having established their 
title to their father’s lands, entered into an agreement in terms 
of which Thomas Roreson of Bardennoch married the elder 
daughter, she disponing to Drumlanrig half of the lands and 
barony of Mouswald. Drumlanrig proposed a similar arrange- 
ment for her sister Marion. She, however, declined to accede 
to the proposal, and rather than submit, threw herself over 
the tower of Comlongon Castle, “‘ thairthrow wilfullie breking 
of her awin craig and banis quhairof she deit.1% In 1581 
Thomas Roreson was charged with treason, in that he had 
committed the crime of coining and circulating false money 
to the extent of two thousand merks in the year 1573. The 
following persons were summoned as witnesses :—Cuthbert 
Cunynghame in Castelfarne, John Setlingtoune of Stanehous, 
John Kirkchaugh of Wogrie (Bogrie), John Welsch of Coles- 
toun, George Greirsoun of Balmacurane (Dalmacurane), 
Robert Greirsoun in Inglistoun, Malcolm Fergussone in 
Cadzeloch (Caitloch), Edward Crechtoun in Gordounestoune, 
Quintigerne M‘Adam in Knokingaroch, and Edward Fergus- 
soune in Over Inglistoun. In the absence of the accused, the 
119 H. Anderson, Prot. Bk. (1541-50), 35. 
120 Tb., 39. 
121 [b., 79. 
122 H. Anderson, Prot. Bk. (1566-69), 18. On 10th July, 1563, 
Thomas was served heir to his father, Andrew (Inquis. Spec., Dum- 
fries, 6). 
123 W. Fraser, The Annandale Family Book, Edinburgh, 1894, i., 
pp. xxxi. ff.; J. J. Reid, ‘‘ Barony of Mouswald and Barons: A Page 
of Border History,” Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland 
(1888-89), xxiii., pp. 24-79; see R.M.S., iv., 1440. ' 
