The Sterling genealogy

100 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Williame Strivelyng of Glorat, has to his labouris, travellis, costls
and expensis, gotten and optenit to us the Castale of Dunbertane,"
bound himself to give to William and his heirs charter and seisin
of the £5 lands of Keppock.
After the cruel murder of this Earl on Linlithgow field in
1526 by Sir James Hamilton of Fynnart, William Striveling ob-
tained from Sir James the office of keeper of Dumbarton Castle
for seventeen years, from Whitsunday following the date of the
deed, — Mar. 19, 1527.
William Strivelyng was appointed curator to Matthew, the
fourth Earl of Lennox (an office only conferred on a near relative)
by grant under the Privy Seal of James V, dated Aug. 3, 1531,
and he was Sheriff of Dumbartonshire in that year. In a letter
of bailliary granted to him on July 10, 1532, he is styled the Earl's
well beloved cousin and curator. He signs along with his ward,
a gift by Matthew, Earl of Levanax, with consent of William
Stryvelyng of Glorat, his curator, to Sir John Striveling of Keir,
of the non-entry duties of the lands of Auchinhowie, dated Aug. 1,
1532. To this deed, his seal is said to be appended.
William Stryvelyng met with a sudden end to his busy career.
He was murdered on Good Friday, 1534, by Humphry Galbrath
and his accomplices, being then on the King's employment, coming
from Striveling to Dumbarton, by those who, in the expressive
Scottish phrase, " wes hounded out for that end, becaus the said
William did take the Castell of Dunbarton from those who wes in
possession thereof, and did possess the said John, Earl of Lennox
therein."
He was married first, before Apr. 20, 1517, to Mariota Bris-
bane, a daughter of Brisbane of Bishoptoun. John Brisbane of
Bishoptoun was on the above date appointed one of her attorneys
by James V. His second wife, to whom he was married before
1527, was Margaret, a daughter of Houstoun, of that family.
By his first marriage he had
II 1 George Striveling, his heir.
By his second marriage he had
2 Andrew Striveling, ancestor of the Stirlings of LAW and
EDINBARNET, now extinct in the male line (q. v.).