Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

• TIIK 'JnWKir OF JOTIA'STONE on LOC'IIWODD, ir)no. xxix
l\':ii- Juiuv.s lln' .l\iutlli,;foi his many good and faillil'iil services;, a cliailcr oi
ihi' lands of .luliiislone, with the advowson of tliG paiisl) clmirh, and Uiu
l.iiids ot Kiilq^airick. inchuling liuu.slvelhe and Caversliolm, and tlie hinds
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ol A\'anii'liiav.'' In that ehaitev the tower antl fortalicc of Johnstone are
n,.'n;iuni'd for t!iL- lirsL time in a rnjal charter. The stronghold of Johnstone
pi- l^nihwuod, as it was called, is, howe\'er, referred to as the residence of
.TmIh! Ji.lmbtoin:: of Juh.nsione in ItTG, and, according to the tradition of
roe ftiiuily. it was erected in tlie fonrleenth ccntnry. Tjut any earlier records
ov charters relating to it were probably burned along with the fortress itself
in IT'.'^.'i, when the ehnrter-chest was consumed, and the date of its originid
biiildiiig cannot now be ascertained.
The charter is in the terms of a regrant, as the lauds had been appu'sed or
confiscated to the king to secure payment of certain fines and amercements
inllicted by the justiciary conit npon the late Adam Johnstone and lho.-:c
for whom he was responsible. These sums the l;ing now discharged to
dames Johnstone as heir of Adam, and granted the estates iu the sanie form
of holding as before the apprising.
In the year loll James Johnstone was sistcd, as heir to his father, di.-fcn-
der in the action, in the supreme civil court, at tlje instance of John Kirk-
jjatiick, for the ransoni of William Mitsgrave, as narrated in the previous
nienioiv. In the follo\\'ing year he was fined for not prodncing before tlie
court of justiciary ceitain members of his clan and others, for whom hi'
was held responsible, probably as one of the deputy' wardens of the AVcst
j\Iarches under Lord Home. The crimes committed wei 3 chiefly nunders,
:nid the amount of fines for which James Johnstone was held liable was £oOO
Scots, the culprits themselves being declared outlaws and their goods forfeit cd.-
On the resignation of IJobert, fifth Lord j\la\wcll, biother-in-lav.- of
Oanics Johnstone, he received a charter by King James the Fifth, with
1 Charter, dated ed NoveDiber 1009 ; Ilegistnini llagni Siyilli, vnl. ii. Nf. ."(."S^,
- Dth .April 1512 ;
Annaiidale Peerage Minutes of Evidence (ISSUl, p. O'.Ki.