Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

SIU JOHN" JOHXSTOXE, KXIGJIT, 15C7-15S;
Margarrl Scott, Lady Jolmstoiic, is anaiii mentioned so liitt:" as April 1613,
wlien Lord ^Laxwell, having been tried for the nnirdo)- of lier son, Sir James
Johnstone, and condemned to death, slie and her grandson and his mother,
vere applied to hy the pri\-y council by direction of tlie king to ascertain
if Ihey ]ieviisted in hoLiing to their petition to liave justice executed upon
his lordship. They replied that tliey did insist, as will be more fully
narrated in the next MeTuoir.
Sir John Johnstone and I\Lu'garet Scott, Lady Johnstone, had issue one
sou and three daughters.
L Jaraes Johnstone, -who succeeded his fallier, and of whom a memoir follows.
1. Elizabeth, -who married Alexander Jardine, younger of Applegirth.
2. Margaret., who married, before November 1591, James Johnstone of
Westerliall, and had issue.
3. Grisel, who married, first, Sir llobcrl ^M.ixwoU of Orehavdtou, and, secondly,
after llJ15,ralriek Yans, younger of Barnkirroeh, by whom she had issue.^
' Sir Ji.)iii JoinistoiiP Lad au ilL-^itimate the- IriruLs of Bryileliolin from his bvotlifi-
Eoi), Simon, v.lio m 1004 refcivcl a giant of James, and renoiiiicod tlieni in 161G.