lt)6 LUMSDEN 



Preston, Ttli May 1504.^3S Patrick Lumsden of Blanerne is a 

 witness to an Instrument of Sasine, 21st August ISli.i'^^ 



On 30th August 1555 John Stewart, Gommendator of 

 Coldingham, grants to John Lummisdane of Blanerne the 

 lands of Easter Lumsden, and the Charter contains the exact 

 boundaries. ^^"^ 



John Lumsden of Blanei^ne is summoned with others before 

 the Regent Murray of the Privy Council to give his advice 

 for ordering justice within the bounds of the East March. ^^^ 

 He was Cautioner!^- with Alexander Home of Manderston 

 for Duncan Forbes of Monymusk and John Forbes of 

 Pitsligo, his brother, on 20th March 156-1, and was put to 

 the horn and fined for failing to appear to answer his 

 obligations. 



With Alexander Home of Aytoun, the Lairds of Butterdean 

 and Combling, he took pai^t in a Border raid.^^^ John 

 Lumsdaine is Bailie in an undated Precept of Clare Constat 

 of certain lands in Edinburgh, about the year 1544.^^* 



On 13th May 1580 the King gave John Lumsden of Blanerne 

 certain lands in connection witli a Decree he had agaii\st 

 Robert Logan of Restalrig.^"^'^ 



John Lumsden of Blanerne had a brother Patrick, i'**' who 

 is a witness to a 8asine on ^Sth December 1574, and two 

 sons — David, who married in 1585 Margaret, daughter of 

 Patrick Congelton of that ilk, and James, who married the 

 heiress of the lands of Airdrie, and is the ancestor of that 

 family and the Lumsdens of Innergellie, Strathvithie, and 

 Mountquliannie. He was served heir to Thomas Lumsden of 

 of Airdrie on 14th January 1566.^^" 



i=w Marchmont MSS., p. 67. 



i»« Wedderburn MSS., p. 31. 



"0 Laing Charters, No. 634. 



141 Privy Council Records, 23rd August 1567, Vol. . . . 



1^ Pitcairii's Criminal Trials, Vol i., p. 442. 



1^^ Raine's North Durham, Appendix, p. 19. 



"^ Duke of Buccleuch MSS., p. 66. 



i« Great Seal Register, Vol. 1546-1580, No. 3015, p. 827. 



1^' Wedderburn MSS., p. 178. 



1^" Haddington Retours, No. 2. Fife Retours, No. 61, 



