Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

ccxvi JAMKS, KARL OF AXNAXDALC AND HAUTFELL, 1653-1 G72.
merks; and if two, to the eldest 25,000 laeiks, and to the other 15,000
inerks ; and ia case there be more than two daugliters he was to pay to tlieiu
45,000 merks, uamely, to the eldest 20,000 merks, and among the rest the
remainder of the sum in equal divisions. The Marquis of Douglas on his
part bound himself to jiay as tocher to the Earl of llartfell 26,000 merks
Scots ; and Lord Johnstone and Lady Henrietta disch:iri,'ed the Marquis and
Dame JIary Gordon, his spouse, of all furtlier claims. A charter was given
by the Earl of Hartfell to Lord Johnstone and Lady Henrietta in terms
of the contract of marriage, containing precept of sasine. That charter is
dated at Lochwood -Ith June 1645.' The marriage between Lord Johnstone
and Lad)' Henrietta L)ouglas was duly solemnized in terms of the contract
in lCt5, and it appears to have been a very happy union.
On the death of his father, James, first Earl of Hartfell, in April 1053,
Lord Johnstone succeeded to the peerage of Hartfell and the Johnstone
estates, as second Earl of HartfeU. He expede a .service at Lochmabeu on
25th October 1653 before the Sheriff of Dumfriesshire, uho, at an inquest,
made a retour that the deceased James, Earl of Hartfell, father of James, now
Earl of Hartfell, died seized as of fee in the lands of Johnstone and others
therein described ; that James, now Earl of Hartfell, is nearest and lawful
heir-male to his father in these lands ; that the lands are now held of the
keepers of the liberties of England in place of the late king; and that the
late Earl of Hartfell died in the month of April 1653.^ A precept was
issued on 31st October 1653 by the keepers of the liberties of England for
infefting his lordship as heir to his father, James, Earl of Hartfell, in the
lands and barony of Johnstone.^ Sasine followed on the precept on tlie Sth,
9th, and 10th Xo\ ember ensuing.* The feudal title of the second Earl of
Hartfell to his landed estates was thus formally completed.
> Charter in Aniiandile Charter-clicst. ' Annaudale Peerage Minutes of EviJonce,
- Anuandale Peerage Minutes of Evidence, 1S7S, p. 711.
lS7li, pp. 5S-61. * Ibid. p. 714.