The Swintons of that" Ilk, by A. Campbell Swinton. 335 



Margaret, who married Thomas, son of John Falside of that Ilk, 

 the representative of an ancient family in the Lothians. They 

 had a son, George, of whom it is told, that after the battle of 

 Pinkey in 1547, his castle of Falside was burned by the English 

 after a stout resistance. Sir John >winton died in 1500. His 

 son, 



XIY. John Swinton of Swinton married, in 1475, Katharine 

 Lauder, a daughter of the family of the Bass. As the parties 

 were in the fourth degree of consanguinity, a dispensation was 

 granted by the Bishop of Glasgow. Of this marriage there were 

 four sons. The third and fourth seem to have died without 

 issue. The second, Nicholas, a burgess of Haddington, possessed 

 from 1518 to 1531, the lands of Harcarse, which his father had 

 redeemed from a creditor " by paying down 120 merks upon the 

 altar of St. Giles." A son of Nicholas was David Swinton, 

 parson of Cranshaws, who again had two sons, John and George. 

 It is considered not improbable that this John may have been the 

 subject of a copy of verses entitled, " Tears on the death of Evander, 

 occasioned by the Lamentable Losse of the truelie Noble and Generous 

 Sir John Svynton, Icnight, Collonel of an Regiment of 2000 Nedder- 

 landers, going to Venize, who was cast away by a storme on the coast 

 of England, upon Goodwin Sands, the 13 of Octob., 1630." This 

 elegy, the author of which was George Lauder, son of Lauder of 

 Halton, and grandson of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, 

 was reprinted in 1848,* from a copy presumed to be unique. 

 The hero was presumably one of the many Scottish Colonels who, 

 between 1600 and 1640, "faithfully served the Venetian State 

 against both the Christian and Turkish Emperors. "f But his 

 services seem to have been given to many of the armies of the 

 Continent, as he is thus apostrophised — 



Moray, who gave them to Archibald Douglas, her son, from whom Sir John 

 Swinton, the petitioner' s grandfather purchased them for his service ' ' and 

 als monie silver veschals as war vorth fyff hundreth markis of Scottis mone, 

 swa that of the Erie of Marche I clame na rycht bot to be a tenande to my 

 Lord that now is, for my Grantschyr bocht thae landies der eneuch, con- 

 siderying quhat he gaff for thaim, and in contrair of the Erie of Marche in 

 defense of your realme he was slane at Homyldon." 



* The editor of the reprint was the late W. B. D. D Turnbull, Advocate, 

 who presented it to his colleagues of the Bannatyne Club. 



t "Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (Maitland Club), p. 245. 



