Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

X AUAM JuirXSTONK OF JOUXSTOXK, M13-145!.
Two sufe-cuiKhicts in I'^ubviuiry l;4.->3 ami 28th ^.larcli 1385, aililressed to
Sir Jl'Iui Johnstone, appear to be granted to the .same person. The second
safe-conduct, besides granting; him personal protection, cxter.dcd protection
to a sliiji which lie had froi;jhti;d api'ai-ently v.ith nierfliaiidi-c from abroad.
lie is also named in 1385 as the recipient of 300 francs d'or, a share of tlie
money brought from Prance by Sir John de Vienne as a subsidy to tlie
Scots. 'J'iiis sum was no doubt paid to him as a coinpensatiori for daniage
done bj' English invasions. He was also one of tliose who pledged Iheni-
seives for the observance on the "West IMarcli of an agrecmoit which lual
been made between England and Scotland as to the delivery and ransom of
prisoners taken on either side duiing the pireceding nine years. In this
indenture he stands first on the part of Scotland, and is followed by Sir John
of Cailyle, Sir William Stewart of Castlemilk, and others.^
Sir John Johnstone appears to have died shortly afterwards, and was
succeedi-d by his son.
VI f.—An.\M JoiiNSTONi: of Joiins'ionio.
jAxrr Setox, ma "Wife.
] 413-1-1:54.
In modern times niore interest has attached to the personal history of
this Adam Johnstone of Johnstone than to any of his predecessors. This
distinction was not acquired by any i'anious c;\]iloits performed by him
exceeding tliose of any of las ancestors. Several of these had attained to
the honour of knighthood, and thej' were men C'f valour and renown as
became their heroic race. The distinction referred to, wliich in modern
times has led his- name to be often quoted in judicial tribunals, arose from
the simple fact that the most persistent of all the numerous claimants of
' Iii'lentiuc- made ;it CI.K-liinili,Tin..?t:uie, Gth Xo\fml)ei- 1 COS.— liain'K C.ikuilar, vol, iv.
I'p. I OS, 109.