Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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The Joiinstoxes as Peeks of Scotland from 1G33.
X^'I.— James Jouxstoxe, Loed Joii^^stoke or LocinvooD, 1C33,
FiiiST Eai;l of Uaktfell, 10 4 3.
Lady JIap-gaket Douglas (Dkumlaxkig), his first Wife.
Elizabeth Joiixstoxe (Elpiiln'stoke), his seco.nu Wife.
Lady Margaket Hamilton (Haddington), his third Wife.
1C08-1G53.
CHAITEK FIRST.
Eirtli of Jaines Johnstone, 1C02— Tutorsliip of Piobert Johnstone of Eaecleuch—King James
interferes in favour of the Jlinor— Curators appointe'l, 1C17—Marriage v.ith Lady
Margaret Doiighis, 1622— Resides at Newbie—Purchase of lilofiatdalc and Evaudale
Jourucj's to Edinburgh and London.
This chief of the Johiistoucs having been iii possession of the Johnstone
estates for tlie long period of forty-five years, acquired more landed property
and dignities in the peerage of Scotland than any of his predecessors. As
the Lead of a great Border clan, and as a loyalist under King James the
Sixth and King Charles the First in the tronlJous times of the Covenant and
the Connnouvvealtli of Cromwell, the memoirs of his life and actions will
require some detail. Lut it is not proposed to enter at large on the con-
tentious questions connected with the covenanting period unless in so far as
this cliief was directly concerned in them.
James Johnstcue \va3 born in 1G02. His succession to the Johnstone
estates in ICOS was in very unfavourable circumstances: he was tlieu only
six years of age, and owing to the untimely death of his father little or
no provision had been made for him. The nearest agnate or heir-male on
the father's side was a distant relative, Eobert Johnstone of Eaecleucb.
He was the eldest son of Kobert Johnstone of Eaecleuch and parson of
Lochmaben, the immediate younger brother of the minor's great-grandfather,
James Johnstone, younger of Johnstone. The minor having no uncle or
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