Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

TESTAMEXT-OF .JOUN-JOriKf^tOXE, 15C2. lix
t]:a: ilk.' Uc apjiniiitcd "Xieolas DmiL^las, Lridy Jlione>.toun," and "Jhoiic
Maisterof Maxwell," his execiitors. Jolinstone also norainatcd llie Mastur of
IVIaxwell as special guardian of jiis "sent.' and air,"i ^q ])q advised also by tlic
Duke of Ciiatclhcrault, and llu- laiids of iJrunilaniig a^d Elpliinstone, and he
expressed a Nvisli that his heir slionld marry into the family of tlie ^Master
of Maxwell. He leaves portions to his three daughters by Xicohis Douglas,
Dorothy, ^Margaret, and Elizabeth or Bessie, committing Dorothy to the charge
of the ^Master of I\Iax-\vell, ^Margaret to Drumlanrig, and Eessie tu her
mother, and making various other provisions for their comfort and mainten-
ance. To his .son, Ilobert, he leaves the church of Eochmaben, tlie lands-of
Eaecleuch, and others. To his soii; John Johnstone, he bequeathed his riglit
over tlie lands of Over Cogrie and others. To his grandson, Eol.icrt Grahame,
he leaves the reversion of the lands of Courrance. The testator ordained "sex
bollis of mele of the fennes of Johnestoun to be delt to the purest hous-
haldaris of Johnestoun be ressonabill discretioun ;
Item, I love to the ifaister
of Maxvrell my haite, my horse, my sworde. and my doggis." Tlie I\Iaster c>f
Maxwell did not accept the office of executor, and Nicolas Doiiglas, the widow
of Johnstone, became the sole administrator of her hiisbuid's cstute.-
Thc goods, geir and suras of money pertaining to Jolm.stone at the time
of liis decease are enumerated and valued in the inventory. These consisted
of many bolls of oats and beir stored at his diffureut places of Eochhouse,
Thoruhill, Th.ornick and Eochwood ; also of large quantities of hay, oxen, cows,
with calves and slirks, scores of sheep, stones of cheese, stones of butter, linen
unshaped, linen jam to be made into cloth, woollen yarn, wool "littit" blue,
grec-n, and red ; lint, feathers, and a " pose " or hoard of gold and silver in a
coffer in Eochhouse, extending to tv.o hundred pounds of money, and
utensils and domieils in .silver v.oik, etc. His testament shows an anxious
' This refers to his gr.andjon nu.\ lieir, a^
'' Testament and Inventory, 2ath Deif-inlior
his $on, James, the yniuig chief of the .John- 15G2, Annaudale Peerage, Minutes of Evi-
5tnn..s, iireileceased him in 1552. dencc, If^TO, pp. 47-49.