CuurcH oF Sr. Joun THE Baprist, Daury. 83 
de,” &c., dated in 1580. He obtained charters of several ecclesi- 
astical lands from Alexander, Bishop of Galloway, 1564, and from 
the Commendator of Tongland, 20th May, 1566. 
In 1562 he made a resignation of the whole estate in favour 
of his brother, William Gordon of Penninghame, failing heirs male 
of his own body, he having then no male issue; and this William’s 
grandson’s grandson actually succeeded in the honours of Ken- 
mure, as will be shown hereafter. 
He married first Juliana, daughter of Home of Wedder- 
burn, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, married to Hugh, 
Earl of Loudon, in 1572. 
In 1573 he married, secondly, Dame Elizabeth Maxwell, 
daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Terregles, afterward Lord 
Herries, in right of his mother, by whom he had five sons and 
four daughters. 
Derwentwater, by Robt. Trotter, Edin., 1825. Appendix p. 165. 
ie 
Lucerpt from Nisbet's Heraldry as to the Gordon of Kenmure Arms. 
‘Sir Robert [Gordon] married a daughter of William, Karl 
of Gowrie, and by her he had Sir John, his successor, whose arms 
are illuminate on the House of Fallahall, 1604. And in our old 
Books of Blazon, as that of Mr Pont’s, Azure; a Bend, between 
three Boars’ heads couped, or. Which Sir John Gordon of Loch- 
imvar . . . WaS = | . created Viscount of Kenmure 
He was succeeded .. . by his son John .. . but he 
dying without issue, the title came to John Gordon, his cousin- 
german, who dying unmarried, Robert his brother was heir to 
him ; and he dying also without issue, 1663 the . . . honours 
devolved to Alexander Gordon of Penninghame . . . who 
carried for his atchievement, Azure; Three Boars’ heads erazed, 
Or; Armed and langued, gules, supported by two savages, 
_ wreath’d about the head and middle with Laurels, holding Battons 
in their hands, all proper; and for Crest, a Demi-Savage in the 
same Dress, Motto, Dread God.” 
