116 HALLDYKES AND THE HERRIES FAMILY. 
Stewartry of Annandale. The Earl reserved a right of re- 
version on payment of 7500 merks, and about the same time 
granted to the Steels a discharge of a feu duty of £10 10s 
Scots. On 30th May, 1654, the Steels and a creditor of theirs, 
Ronald Brown, portioner of Leitfeild, made a disposition of 
the same property in favour of Mr Robert Herries, minister of 
Dryfesdale, and Janet Mackison, his spouse, in life rent, and 
of their son, Robert Herries, in fee, subject to the reversion 
and the ‘‘ hazard ’’ of the feu duty above mentioned. Sasine 
in their favour followed on 24th July, and was registered at 
Dumfries on 30th August, 1654. The minister+ and his wife 
disponed their rights in the property in favour of their son, 
Robert Herries, on 24th August, 1660. 
James, 2nd Earl of Annandale, died in 1658, when his 
earldom became extinct, while his viscounty of Stormont and 
his right of reversion over Little Hutton passed to David 
(Murray), 2nd Lord Balvaird, and on his death to his son, 
David, 5th Viscount Stormont,® with whom in order to termi- 
4 Robert Herries was minister of Dryfesdale from 1616 till his 
death, which took place at the age of 80 on 10th May, 1662, accord- 
ing to his tombstone, carved with two armorial shields, in Dryfes- 
dale Old Kirkyard. On 8th January, 1642, he was served heir- 
general to his father, William Herries, burgess of Edinburgh, who 
died in 1598, appointing in his will (confirmed at Edinburgh, 24th 
January, 1598/9) overseers for his son Robert and council givers 
for his wife, Katherine Bankes (for whom see R.P.C. vi., p. 521). 
Among his debtors were Robert Herries of Mabie and his son Richard 
and others of his own name. His son, the minister, married Janet 
Mackison at South Leith on 10th September, 1618 (Scott’s Fasti, L., 
pt. ii., p. 647). A notarial instrument shows that on 4th Novem- 
ber, 1670, she personally at Halldykes put her son Robert into pos- 
session of her household goods there, as well as her corn and live 
stock. Besides Robert, she had an elder son, Mr William Herries 
of Harthat, or Hartwood, in Annandale, who died in 1658. One of 
his daughters, Katherine, married John Herries of Mabie, and her 
brother, Francis Herries of Hartwood, and his son William after 
him, became possessed of Mabie for a short time by purchase from 
John Herries’s creditors. (For pedigrees of the Herrieses of Hart- 
wood and Halldykes, see Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th 
Series, iv., pp. 272, 301, 378; v., 40, 118, 119.) 
5 This Lord Stormont’s second son, James Murray, was created 
by the Pretender in 1721 Earl of Dunbar, Viscount Drumcairn, and 
