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nate the reversion Robert Herries, son of the minister, entered 
into a contract of feu on 18th December, 1701. Stormont 
therein undertook to grant the Little Hutton property to 
Robert himself in life rent, and to his son, William Herries, 
and his heirs in fee, without any manner of reversion, redemp- 
tion, or regress, to be held by them of himself and his succes- 
sors by payment of a yearly feu duty of £440 Scots (£3 6s 8d in 
English money), and by giving personal attendance on horse- 
back to himself and his successors within the country of 
Annandale when called, in suitable order and at their own 
expense. Further, the property was to be thirled to the mill 
of Tundergarth, or, in other words, all corn grown on it was 
to be ground at that mill. A charter of Stormont to the same 
effect bears the same date, by virtue of which Herries and 
his son had sasine of the property on 2nd January, which was 
registered at Edinburgh on 28th February, 1702. 
Probably the attendance on horseback was not meant to 
be called for, though in his younger days Robert Herries 
might have been a champion worth having, for he was ready 
to quarrel and handy with sword and pistol. He was im- 
prisoned for a few weeks in 1667 for using both weapons 
against James Murray, messenger, and his party, who were 
trying to execute letters of poinding against Adam Newall, 
‘“‘ chamberlain to the Earl of Southesque ;’’® and Newall in his 
turn entered into a bond of caution at Halldykes, the 2nd July, 
1674, that ‘* Robert Herries of Halldyckis ’’ would not trouble 
Lord Hadykes (Ruvigny’s Jacobite Peerage, p. 44, where a note ex- 
plains that Hadykes is Halldykes, ‘‘ pronounced Ha’dykes,’’ near 
Lockerbie). Stormont’s fourth son was the famous Karl of Mans- 
field. 
6 Scottish Hist. Soc., xlviii., pp. 223, 224, 230. Adam Newall, 
who lived at Hoddom Castle, then belonging to Lord Southesk, died 
in 1688. His testament, confirmed at Dumfries, 12th March, 1684, 
shows that his widow, Sarah Herries, was daughter of ‘ Janet 
Makesoune’’ (see Footnote 4), and sister-german ef this Robert 
Herries. Both she and her brother, Robert Herries, were accused 
before the Privy Council by Lord Southesk in December, 1683, of 
concealing papers that had been in Newall’s hands as “‘ factor and 
chamberlane’’ to the Southesk estates. (See R.P.C., 3rd Series, 
vili., pp. 301-2.) 
