102 LUMSDEN 



young, for he was succeeded by a iiephe\v(?), said to have 

 been grandson of Ramsey of Whitstone or Woodstone in 

 Kincardineshire. ^^^ 



While Easter Lumsden passed into tlie hands of Sir liobert 

 Home of Broombank, the King's Advocate, Wester Lumsden 

 and Fast Castle passed by purchase under a ranking and sale 

 into the hands of Sir John Hall of Dunglass, Merchant Burgess 

 (^f Edinbuigh, avIio obtained a Great Seal Charter thereof on 

 8th November 1687, i**^ in favour of himself and liis eldest 

 son, James Hall, whom failing his second son, William Hall, 

 of which Charter he obtained a Ratification from Parliament 

 on 17th July 1695 J^3 



It may be pointed out, as throwing light upon the rise and 

 fall of the Logans of Restalrig, that the fii'st Sir Robert 

 Logan of Restahig married Elizabeth Hepbiu'n of the Bothwell 

 family, 1*^^ and that Robert Logan of Restalrig, who got a 

 grant of lands on 19th January 1478, seems to have been 

 the brother-in-laAv of Robert III.^"'^ 



EASTER LUMSDEN. 



The earliest OAvner we find of these lands is a Gilbert de 

 Lumsden, avIio, with Uavid de Wester Lumsden, is a witness 

 to an obligation of William, Vicar of Auldcambus, in favour 

 of the Priory regarding four oxen found straying within the 

 Avoods and Avarren of Coldingham on the eve of circumcision 

 in 1249.1*^*^ He appears as Avitness to various Charters doAvn 

 to 1263.10' 



101 Scottish Notes and Queries, Vol. 8, p. 92. 



102 MS. Vol. Great Seal Register, 8th November 1687. 

 io» Acts of Parliament of Scotland, Vol. 9, p. 503. 



10^ Great Seal Register, Vol. 3, No. 132. 

 105 Do. Vol. 2, No. 1411. 



10'^ Raine's North Durham, Appendix, p. 45, No. 192. 

 107 Do. do. Nos. 195, 196, 200, 202, 210, 21i 



229, 262, 277, 279. 



