Mellerstain and the Haitlies thereof. 1^3 



referred to. And perhaps the last stage was on 23rd May 

 1591, when William Carnecors of Colmslie, donator to the 

 escheat of William Home, and William Home grant a dis- 

 charge for 4000 merks. Both William Carnecors and John 

 Haitlie were sister's sons of William Home. John died prior to 

 7th November 1607, when Marion Lumsden, his relict, and 

 "James Haitlie, now of Mellerstain," his son, are mentioned. 



The positions on the genealogical tree, occupied by Alexander 

 Haitlie of Haliburton, who grants an obligation to William 

 Lynlythgow of Dry grange in 1604, and by Mark Haitlie in 

 Fawns, who witnesses a discharge by John Haliburton of 

 Mertoun to his " weil beluit freind, Thomas Lynlythgow, 

 eldest son and heir of umquhile James Lynlythgow, portioner 

 of Eeidpath " in 1609, are not apparent. 



In 1625, as before mentioned, James Haitlie was served 

 heir to his father, John, in the lands, town, and mains of 

 Mellerstains, with the myln, also in the East half of the town 

 and lands of Fawnis, and soon after parted with them. 



The lands of Lambden, Spottischels, Brigeamscheles, Brume- 

 hill, Blasinbrack, and others, many of which apparently came 

 to the Haitlies about 1470, by Henry's union with Sibilla 

 Home, had either passed to cadets of the family, or been 

 alienated. But, as far as can be judged, the lands, which 

 gave it its territorial title, passed from James Haitlie's 

 hands, in extent very much as his ancestor, Sir Thomas de 

 Hattely, had passed them on to his descendants four and 

 a half centuries before. 



A word regarding the armorial bearings. On an early seal 

 of Robert Hately, called 1' Porte, there is a bird passant. On 

 that of John de Hetlyn in 1292, a flower of nine leaves; 

 and in the same year Alexander de Hatley uses a boar's 

 head couped, thus originating what became the hereditary 

 bearing, viz. — Or on a bend azure three boar's heads erased 

 of the first. 



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