98 LUMSDEN 



of Restalrig, and Marion Kie, his sjjouse, acquiescing in the 

 acquisition by Lord Home of the lands of Fast Castle or 

 Wester Lumsden, which Archibald Douglas and Alison Home, 

 his spouse, had acquired from Logan. "^ 



On 1st and 9th July 1606 the King gave these lands to 

 George, Earl of Dunbar, for services rendered to the Crown."- 



It is a question how far the above dispositions by Logan 

 wei-e given effect to, though in June 1G09 the Crown declared 

 that the sales by Logan to certain parties, including Sir John 

 Arnot, were good."^ The Priory and other lands passed into 

 the hands of the Earl of Home by special grant of the 

 King for services rendered, as recorded in a Crown Charter 

 dated 20th May 1610;"'^ but the lands and superiorities of Fast 

 Castle became the property of George Home, fourth son of 

 Alexander Home of Manderston, who had been in 160") created 

 Earl of Dunbar. They were specially excepted in Logan's 

 Conveyances after his forfeiture, and after the Earl's death 

 on 29th January 1611, his elder daughtei-, who married James 

 Home of Whiterig, purchased from the younger daughter, 

 Elizabeth, who married Theophilus, Lord Howard de Walden, 

 afterwards Earl of Suffolk, her half of the lands, and obtained 

 a Crown Charter of Ratification thereof on 16th December 

 1613,'"'' including the lands of Fast Castle, of which Archibald 

 Douglas of Tofts had obtained a Crown Charter and new 

 grant on 16th July 1612, on the forfeiture of Robert Logan 

 of Restalrig.'"'' Archibald Douglas was one of the four natural 

 sons of the Regent Morton. He was, however, in possession 

 of Fast Castle at an earlier date, for when he got from 

 James Maitland of Lethington on 10th June 1606 a Charter 

 of Tofts, he is designed as of Fast Castle." 



Ann Home, Lady Whiterig, having sold the lands to James 

 Arnot, senior, Merchant Burgess of Edinburgh, son of Sir 



^' Home of Wedderburn MSS., p. 223. 



'^ Great Seal Re^., Vol. 1593-1608, p. 646, No. 1773. 



"^ Acts Pari. Scotland, Vol. iv., p. 4-18. 



"^ Great Seal Register, Vol. 1609-20, p. 108, No. 290. 



" Do. do. p. 349, No. 963. 



'"' Do. do. p. 259, No. 699, 



"i [jaing Charters, No. 1497. 



