Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

HIS DESIGNATIONS. ccxiii
the three additional peerages of Auuaudale, Annan, and Loehinaben acquired
by liiraself, and also his large landed estates in Anuandalc, shonld descend to,
and be inherited by, tlie heirs of his own body, as M'ell sons as daughters, and
even by the children of his sisters. He believed that lie had secured this
arrangement in the years 1G57, 16C1, and 1GC3, by resignations of the peer-
ages and estates, and new grants of them, which included the succession to
them of the heirs male and female of his body. This was in the future to be
a distinguishing feature of the occupancy of his peerages and estates, that they
were to be inlierited by his heirs-female even to the broad limitation of heirs
whomsoever, while he himself liad inherited them under limitation to heirs-
male alone. The change which this Johnstone cliief thus effected, as it has
an important beaiing on the subsequent history of the Johnstone family, will
be unfolded in detail in the course of this memoir.
James Johnstone, younger of Jolmstone, was born in llie year 1G25.
Judging from his subsequent correspondence ou tKe business of tlie large
landed estates of Annaudale, and also from his management of the public
business of the country in which he was officially engaged, he appears to
have received a liberal education. No accounts, however, have been found
which would show at what university his studies were pursued. His son, the
first Marquis of Annandale, was educated at Glasgow Iiniversity, but the
records of that great seat of learning do not allbrd any evidence that he him-
self was educated there. This Johnstone chief had various designations at
different periods of his history. For tlie first eiglst years of his life he was
known, according to Scotch practice, as James Johnstone, younger of John-
stone, or the Laird of Johnstone, younger. For the next ten years from 1G33,
when his father was created Lord Johnstone of Lochwood, he vras called tlie
j\Iaster of Johnstone. For the ten succeeding years from 1G13, when Lord
Jolmstone was created Earl of Hartfell, he was designated by the courtesy
title of Lord Johnstone; and for eight years thereafter, from 1053, when his
father died, his appellation was Earl of Hartfell. In IGGl he was created