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ill 15(i'j Kirhj'ntnek ^^uell Joluistoiio for tlic ciniouut, wliicli lie vras adjudged
U) pay, but the money was still m)]iaid at Ids deatli, a few iiionths later.^
Tlie last appearance on record of Sir Adam Johnstone is as a witness to
a charter hy John, Lord IMnxwell, granting various lands 1o the arehliishop
of Glasgow, dated at Edinbuiijh, 2d May luOO.- In that cliarler Johnstone
is described as a knight.
Sir Adam Johnstone died between 2d May 1509 and 2d November same
year, on which date James Johnstone, liis son and heir, received a charter of
the lands of Johnstone and others.'' j\Iarioii Scott, who is named as the
wife of Sir Adam Johnstone in 150.', v. as tlie widow of Archibald Carrnthers
of Mouswakl, who was alive in Ji:ne 1481.^ Slic survived her second
husljand, and was alive in ilarch irill.-' Sir Adam Johnstone hail issue, so
far as is knottn, tv.-o sons: first, James, v.'lio succeeded him, and of whom a
memoir follows; second, ATilliam, who, in a lease by John Lindsay of
Covington, of date 9th ]\Iarch lolP-SO, is dpsciibed as brother of James
Johnstone of that ilk. No other mention of "William has been found, and
he is not named in tlie entail of the Johnstone lar.ds made by his nephew in
l.Vl:?, and as no descendants of William are knov,-n to exist, the probability
is iJiat he died without issue.
XI.— tlAMES JOllXSTOXt OF JOliNS'JO^E.
j\L\i:v M.\xv.T,Li. ((jf ^MAXvrKLL), in.s Wife.
i:i09-lo24.
'J'his James Johnstone is fust mentioned in 1-aOt, ^^ilen he and his father
ajipcar as mutual pledges for each other. He does not again occur on
record until November 150D, when, after his father's death, he received from
• nth March 1510-11. Minutes of £vi- 3 IJegistnim Magui Sigilli, voJ. ii. No. 33S2.
(Iciicc ill Annaiidale Tecrago (ISTU), ji. tiS. * Ihid. No. 15S7.
'' 11th March 1510-1]. Minutes of Evi-
^ llegistrum Magni Sigilli, vol. ii. No. Sliljil.