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viii .10HX OF JOUNSXOXK, TJIIF.D UF TIIK NAMK, c. 1320.
Y.— 1. John OF JoiLNSTOxi;, r. 1320.
John of .John.stoiie appears as the next owjier of Tolmstoiie. After Eobeifc
Bruce succeeded to the Scotlisli tlirone, l)e surrendered to his uepliew,
Thomas luTudolph, the lordship of Aunaudale. As I
!ic new lord of Aunaudale,
i;andol]ih, who M'as also created Earl cif IMoray, granted a charter to William
Jlurray, his nephew, of tlie half of the tenements of Cuinlougan, and of
Ihilhwell, in Aunaudale, formerly pos.scssed Ly Thomas of Duricurri. Tiiat
charter is undated, but it was granted between tlie year.s 1312, v.dien
Fiandoliih acquired the earldom of IMoray, and 1332, wlieu he died. The
charter is witnessed by "Johannc dc Jonestono'' and "Gilberto de Jone-
stone,^' vrilhout any further designrition of cither of them, and also without
any relationship being stated. All the other witnesses to that charter are
also connected with Aunaudale, including ilio well-known names of Cailyle,
Kirkpatrick, Jardiiae, and Corrie.
John de Jolinstone, the senior of these two Johnstone attesting wit-
nesses to the eliarter by llaodolph, appears to liave died soon afterv/ards,
as no further trace of him lias been found, and the next inheritor of
the estate of Johnstone and ovrner of tlie lands of Lrakeutliwait Avas
Y.— 2. GiLBEia' OF Joii:;sTO>;i;, 1333-f. 13G0.
As stated in the previous !Mcmoii', Gilbert dc Jolinstone witnessed the
chiirler of liandolpli, lord of Aunaudale, to William I\luriay, of the lauds of
Cumlongau and L'yuel [liutlnveir]. After the temporary trium[ih of King
Edward Baliol, in tlic year 1333, the lordship of Aunaudale was, at least for
a time, partly under IJaliol's sway. The lands of r.rakeuLhviait, belonging to
Gilbert Johnstone, were granted by King Edwaid the Third, wlio then ruled
in Annandale, to Percy, ancestor of tiie ]\'orthumlioilaud famdy.
Gilbert de Jonestouc, William of Levington, Kubert of Crosby, and other
jurors, held an inquest at Loclunaben, on 2-lth July 13d7, under writ of King
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