Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

MOFl'ATPALK AND RVAXDALE. '
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At a later dfitc Moffatdale came into tlie possession oC ihe irenics family,
King James tliij Tliirdgrantcd a charier to Henry, son of James of Douglas,
lord of Dalkeith, and to Margaret Douglas, Jiis spouse, of the lands of
Moffatdale and otliers.^ Ey the year 1-lSG they had come into the pos-
session of the Hcrrics family; for the same king in that year granted a
charter to Ilerhcrt Hc-iiies, son and apparent heir of David Ilerries of
Terreglis, of the lands of Mofiiitdalc, Aviudale, and others.-
In the time of William, third Lord ITcrries, the lands of ^Moffatdale and
lA'audale, wliieli had previously been included iir the LAf;o>;Y of Hekkiks,
were erected into a barony called the Bakony of Moffatdale and Evandale.
This must have taken p)lace in or prior to 1550, at which date the barony of
Moffatdale and Evandale is mentioned in a precept from the chancery of
Queen Mary, and it gives an importance to the lands at this early period.^
By the marriage, in 15 iT, of the ITcrries co-heiress, Agnes, eldest
daughter of ^^'illiam, third Lord Herries, to Sir John Maxwell, second son
of Eobert, fifth Lord ]\Iaxwell, tlie Herries estates, including the lands o{
Moffatdale and Evandale, passed into the possession of Sir John ]\Ia?:\vell,
who in 15G6 was created Lord Herries.* The lands of Moffatdale and Evan-
dale continued after tins to form a part of the Ilerries and Maxwell estates
for upwards of si.xty years, when the tenure of them liy the Herries family
ceased, and they were added to the Johnstone estates.
In the year 1G21) ihe lands and barony of Moffatdale and Evandale v/erc
purchased by James Johnstone, afterwards first Earl of Hartfcll, from John
ilaxwell. Lord Herries, ond his son John, l\raster of Herries, for 27,000
mci-ks. The sale is described in the Memoir of the earl.^
' CiO'.vii Ch'irtei-, dated 3id piptembcr iiienls, p. 15?, No. SO]
14V.3. [licgislcr of Hk: Great Se-il, vol. ii. ^ He received a tliirj part ot tlic? extensive
No. 1];!S.] Herries estates Ijy his wife, and lie acquired
- 1st June 1-IS6, il/iii. No. IGO 1. the roinaiuiiig t\vo-third.s from the other co-
• 13th February 1550. [Inventories of heiresses, the two younger sisters of Agnes,
the Maxwell, Herries, and Nithsdalc Muni- * P. clxxv. of this volume,
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