Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

•. .• PRE3KNT AT BATTLE OF I.OCIIMAKKX, liSi. .wvii
rci'.civeil a luuiissiou fioiii King James tiie TliirJ, and Johnsluiu; liml tlion
hw.n iiranfid as tlieir security for resloralion of the goods, but tins apparently
had not been wade, lience the aetion, the end of which not stated.^
About the same date, Sir Adam Johusloue was also .declared to be respon-
sible for the sum of -10 merks which his grandfather had been adjudged to pay
to John, livst Lord Cai lylc." In 1 50^ Sir Adam and his son James are accepted
us sureties, the one for the other, that the Murrays of Cochpool were to be fiee
from attack by Iheni or their adherents.^ At tlie same time he and his wife,
jNfarion Scott, were challon^'ed by the oflicers of the cri.wn for wrongfully
labouring the lands of roleoruell, AVhiteri;;, Aj'pletreewhnt. and ].angwoodend.
These lands had belonged to the late Sir Simon Carrutlicr? of ]\Jouswald,
and were in tlie hands of the crown as waid-lands during the minority of
his heir, ilarioa Scott, however, the widow of Archibald Carruthicrs of
]\Iouswald, appears to have laid claim to the laiuls, in which Johnstone,
now her husband, had thus an interest. Johnstone and liis wife -were
required to produce the evidences of their rights over tlie lauds, failing
which the)- wt-re to desist from the cultivation of them/*
In January 1509 a decree of the lords of council was given against Sir
Adam Johnstone under circumstances which appear to connect him with the
conllict at Loehmabeu on St. Magdalen'.'; day, liSl. At that battle John
]\irkpatrick, son of John Kirkpatrick in JIfslybray, had taken prisoner an
Englishman named '\^'iiliam ^lusgrave. This man had been liberated for
eighty "augell uobillis of gold," which had been paid to "William Irvine of
Ikmshaw, for whom Sir Adam Johnstone liecame security that he vould hand
llie ransom to Kirkpatrick. This, however, liad evidently not been done, and
' Act:i Auditoruni, Ktb Ftbniary 1502-3. Ko. 2000.]
Sir Adam JolmstoQC •sv.-i.s, on 2d A'jyust l.!i02, - l.Ttli TcbrHary 1502-3. Minutes of Evi-
at Edinburgh, where he witnessed a charter dciice in Anuandale Peerage (1S7C), p. 35.
by I'.obert Corsby of Owlcotes tt; a servant of ' ISlb Au-ust 1501. Ibul. (ISSO), pp. HS^,
Lord Maxwell's, that nobleman being also 900.
present. [Registrum Magui Sigilli, vol. ii., * 27th August 150J. Jbiil. pp. 993, 994.