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Arthur S. Boyd

Appendices

Page 84.

                              APPENDIX "A"

Mr. William P. Boyd, in his "history", says that the first
Steward was a son of Fleance, son of Thome, descended from
Kenneth III, King of Scotland. Andrew Stuart, author of
"Genealogical History of the Stuarts" (1798) disproves the
pedigrees which trace the Stuarts back to Kenneth McAlpine.
Andrew Lang says that the real descent of the Stuarts was
known as early as the 14th century, when Richard Fitz-Alan,
Earl of Arundel, in 1336, sold the Stewardship of Scotland to
Edward III of England, a transaction which was confirmed by
Edward Baliol. The sale was a political fiction founded on
the assumed forteiture of the Scottish branch of the Earl's
family, thru which their hereditary office (the Stewardship)
was supposed to have reverted to their English connections.
Their descent from the Breton family is supported by the
"Norman People". The genealogy of the Stuarts in the Scot's
Peerage begins with Flahald. By odd coincidence, Allen was
the real family name of the last pretenders to be Royal
Stuarts.

APPENDIX "B"

The daughter of Walter Fitz-Alan, the first Steward, married
(ca. 1248) Donald MacDonald of Isla and South Kintyre,
ancestor of the Lords of the Isles. The son of Walter, also

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APPENDIX "B" (cont.)

named Walter (d. 1246?), was father of Alexander (1214-1283)
the fourth Steward. This Alexander was Regent during the
minority of Alexander III of Scotland, and commanded, with
his brother, Walter Balock, the right wing of the Scottish
Army at the Battle of Largs, 1263. Walter Balock married a
daughter of the Earl of Monteith, and was ancestor of the Sir
John Menteith who was supposed to have betrayed William
Wallace. Walter Balock was also the ancestor of the Stewarts
and Grahams, Earls of Menteith and Streatham, and Airth,
which title passed by Margaret to Robert Stewart, Duke of
Albany. Alexander, the fourth Steward, had two sons: James
the Fifth Steward and Sir John Stuart of Bonkyl, killed at
Falkirk, July 22, 1298.

James, the 5th Steward, married a daughter of the Earl of
Dunbar, and was present at an assembly of the estates at
Scone, February 5, 1283-1284), gathered to confirm the crown
of Scotland to the "Maid of Norway" (granddaughter of King
Alexander III, whose daughter Margaret maried Eric, King of
Norway). He was also one of the six Custodians of the Realm,
known as the Council of Regency, appointed at Scone, April
11, 1286, after the death of King Alexander III (March 19,
1286). The successor to the Crown was Alexander III's grand-
daughter, the infant "Maid of Norway", who died in September


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APPENDIX "B" (cont.)

1290. James, the fifth Steward, and Earl Walter Stuart of
Menteith were members of the group led by Robert Bruce
(grandfather of King Robert Bruce) in support of a rightful
ruler of Scotland of the Blood of Alexander III, Bruce being
intended, as he laid claim to being of the blood of Alex-
ander III and also being an heir, according to the ancient
custom of Scotland. In June 1291, forty Scottish nobles
(among them the Steward) met an equal number of English
nobles to discuss the relative of several claimants to the
throne. The Crown was given by Edward I of England, as Judge,
to John Baliol on November 17, 1292 (See appendix C). John
Baliol was grandson of the eldest daughter of David, Earl of
Huntington, younger brother of William the Lion, King of
Scotland (1165-1214). (Robert de Bruce, who later became
King, was son of Robert Bruce, grandson of Robert Bruce, and
great-grandson of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, who
married Isobel, second daughter of David, Earl of Hunting-
ton). James the fifth Steward, was witness to an agreement
between Bruce and Florence, Count of Holland, dated June 14,
1291, and died in the service of Bruce in 1309.

Walter, the sixth Steward, son of James the fifth Steward,
married Marjory, daughter of King Robert Bruce, and died in


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APPENDIX "B" (cont.)

April 1326, being succeeded by his son Robert, the 7th
Steward, who on the death of David II, ascended the throne of
Scotland as Robert II, was crowned March 26, 1371, and thus
began the line of Stewart Kings. While Steward, he held the
town of Perth during the siege (1338) and surrendered it
August 17, 1339. His son John, Earl of Carrick, succeeded
him, and was crowned August 14, 1390, with the title of
Robert III. David, Duke of Rothesay, son of Robert III, was
murdered, and his brother succeeded to the Crown as James I.


APPENDIX "C"

John Baliol was crowned King of Scotland on St. Andrews Day,
1292, at Scone, and did fealty to Edward I of England, on
December 26, 1292. The Scots were at first loyal to Baliol,
but he later betrayed his country and surrendered it to
England. Wallace rebelled and called himself "Guardian of the
Kingdom", which title he retained after Baliol resigned his
crown on July 7, 1296. Wallace lighted the torch in May,
1297, at Lanark. Robert Bruce, with the Steward, and other
nobles (including the Boyds), with their retainers, joined
the Rising. Percy and Clifford, the commanders of Edwards
forces, arrived at Irvine, July 7, 1297, and made peace with
Bruce's party, including the Steward and other nobles, but
Wallace still held out in the forest of Selkirk.


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APPENDIX "C" (cont.)

The Battle of Stirling Bridge, in which Wallace was vic-
torious, occurred September 11, 1297. Though the Scottish
nobles were bound by oath to Edward, their hearts and their
retainers were with Wallace, and the Steward was on Wallace's
side that day.

The Battle of Falkirk, July 22, 1298, was lost by the Scots
to the English, and among those killed was Sir John Stuart of
Bonkyl, brother of the Steward, and cousin of the Boyds.
Stirling fell to the Scots in the fall of 1299, and the
English revenged by over-running Scotland later in the year.
On February 9, 1304, many nobles were captured, among them
the Steward, and were exiled from Scotland by the English. On
July 24, 1304, Sterling was lost to the English.

Wallace was taken near Glasgow in the spring of 1305, and was
executed August 23, of the same year. Since 1296 Scotland had
had no king, and Robert Bruce was crowned at Scone on March
27, 1306.

APPENDIX "D"

Pont, in his "Cunninghame Topographer" (1609), says that Dean
Castle, Kilmarnock, "belonged first to ye Locartts, Lords
thereof, then to the Lord Soulis, and .....the Boyds." Of the

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APPENDIX "D" (cont.)

Locartts I have no record. The name was originally a
territorial one; de Loch Ard, but the Lords Soulis are
supposed to be descended from the de Morevilles (having the
same Arms) who were at one time constables of Scotland, and
were one of the most powerful families in western Scotland,
holding at one time nearly all of Cunninghame. There is
record of a grant of lands in Dunbarton the de Morevilles by
King Malcolm Canmore (1058-1093). Lord Soulis was one of the
committee arranging for the marriage of Edward, son of John
Baliol, to the niece of the French King in 1294. He was com-
panion of Bruce in 1298, and served under him in August 1314,
in raiding Northern England, and was still loyal on April 6,
1320, when he signed a letter to the Pope in Bruce's favor,
but in August of the same year he was tried, with others,
at a parliament held at Scone, and condemned for treason
in attempting to overthrow Bruce in his own favor, as he was
a grandson of the Lord Soulis who was claimant for the
Crown after the overthrow of Baliol, but barred by il-
legitimacy. He was taken at Berwick and died in prison, and
his lands were forfeited to Bruce, who granted them to his
loyal followers.

Dean Castle was accidently burned in 1735, thru the careless-
ness of a maid servant handling some flax. This happened at a

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APPENDIX "D" (cont.)

time when the unfortunate Fourth Earl of Kilmarnock, William
Boyd, (who was involved in the Rising of 1745) was in France,
and on his way homeward he received his first intimation of
it by seeing an account in a newspaper of a Dean Castle in
Scotland being consumed by fire, without stating what part of
the country, so he was not aware that it was his own until he
arrived in England.

The first charter erecting the town of Kilmarnock into a
burgh of Barony was granted in 1591, in favor of Thomas, 5th
Lord Boyd; a second was granted in 1672, in favor of William
Boyd, first Earl of Kilmarnock, whose grandson, the third
Earl, in 1700, gave a charter to the town, of the whole
common good, customs, etc. By virtue of these charters, the
town holds its present Municipal Constitution.

The estate of "Orchard", in Kilbryde, part of the original
grant, was sold in 1670, probably by William, 9th Lord Boyd,
to Major Buntein, who sold it, in 1710, to William Baillie,
and the Misses Baillie sold it, in 1759, to Robert Boyd, of
Dykehead, who had a son, Thomas Boyd of Orchard, whose dau-
ghters, the Misses Boyd, owned it in 1820. Another daughter,
Jean, married Robert Hyndman of Lunderston, in Renfrewshire.

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APPENDIX "D" (cont.)

The estate of "Orchard" contains about 50 acres, and is
situated between the lands of Springside and the village of
Kilbride. On the corner of it stands the ancient "Law Tower"
from which the estate probably takes its name, as having
actually been the garden or orchard of that great mansion,
when inhabited by the Boyds. Law Tower seems to be more
modern than Portincross, and most of these high square-formed
edifices to be found throughout Scotland, neither is it so
dismally deficient in light (in one of the sides there are
eight windows), and, considering the size of the apartments,
many modern dwellings are not so well accomodated. It is
furnished with 4 or 5 gun ports in the lower story, which
decidely shows that it was built after the introduction of
cannon. In point of situation, too, nothing could have been
better chosen, as it enjoys a fine view, on three sides at
least, of the highly picturesque scenery of that part of
Scotland.

It is 40 feet long, 30 feet broad, 40 feet high at the
cornice, exclusive of the bastions, which are 6 feet more.
The walls are 6 feet thick, it has 28 windows, the inside
area being 28 feet by 18, and is divided into four stories.
Tradition says that it was built by the Boyds of Kilmarnock,
and was probably erected about the year 1468, at the time of

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APPENDIX "D" (cont.)

the height of their power, when Thomas, Master of Boyd, later
Earl of Arran, and son of Lord Robert Boyd, married the
Princess Mary, sister of King James III. There is a charter
on record, dated October 14, 1482, granting the lands of
Kilbryde, Dalry, Nodesdale, Kilmarnock, etc......, to that
Princess in liferent, and to her son, James, Lord Boyd, in
fee; on none of which estates was there a house equal in mag-
nificience to this, or in which a lady of her rank could have
resided.

I find no record as to how the lands of Nodesdale passed from
the family, but Robertson, in his "Cunninghame", says that
these lands, with the lands of the older Barony of Gogoside
(erected in 1595), were erected, in 1650, into the Barony of
Nodesdale, and soon after, this Barony, with the additional
adjoining land, was, in 1695, erected into the Barony of
Brisbane, and was owned by the family of that name.

Of the lands of Hertschaw, a small estate, "Raithmur" was
owned by a Mr. Boyd, in 1820, and the annual rental was 114
pounds, 6 shillings.

A Miss Boyd owned a small estate near Largs, in 1820, and a
Thomas Boyd was minister in Beith, Cunninghame in 1556.
William Boyd was admitted as a minister in Fenwick Parish,
Cunninghame, June 25th, 1782.

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APPENDIX "F"

Sir Thomas Boyd's son, William Boyd (ancestor of the Boyds of
Badenheath) ..... had from King David II a grant of the lands
of Auchmarr, in the County of Dunbarton, forfeited by Duncan
de Luss, December 18, 1365 (W.P. Boyd says 1368). Thomas
Fleming of Foulwood, formerly Earl of Wigton, having im-
pignorated to him the lands of Ligyne for 80 pounds Sterling,
he gave a charter of these lands to Malcome Fleming and
Christian, his wife, dated on the feast of St. Martin, in the
winter of 1372, wherein he styles himself: Julius quondam
Domini Thomae Boyde, Militis, and to which charter, Robert
Boyd, his brother, affixed his seal. Thomas Fleming, late
Earl of Wigton, granted him a pension of twelve merks Ster-
ling until the said Earl or his heirs should infest the said
William Boyd or his heirs heritably, in twelve merks worth of
land either in the shire of Dunbarton or in that of Lanark.

A charter was granted by King Robert III to William Boyd of
Badenheath, of the lands of Galvan and Rash, in Renfrewshire.
Mr. W.P. Boyd says that he also obtained charters from King
Robert II in 1375 and 1376.


Page 94.

APPENDIX "G"

Robert de Boyd (son of Sir Thomas Boyd), ancestor to the
Boyds of Portincross, this branch of the family being so
known because they held the Castle of Portincross, the most
ancient in the parish of Kilbryde, situated on a point of
land of that name, on a bare rock, close to the sea even at
low water, and completely surrounded by it at high water or
stormy weather. It has a dismal aspect, with a very scanty
supply of light from a few narrow slits or windows in its
extremely thick walls, yet it seems to have been an
occasional seat of Royalty, at least in the time of Robert
II, as no fewer than seven charters are on record, granted by
him during the first nine years of his reign (1371-80), dated
"apud" "Arneie" (or Ardnel). This must have been at Port-
incross, it being the manor place of that Barony, though not
the usual place of his residence, but merely at such times
when he might be there on a visit to his relatives, the
Boyds; his own place of residence being at Dundonald, at no
great distance. That it may be as fully as ancient as those
times may be inferred from the fact that, though there may be
slits in the walls for the flight of arrows, there are no
apertures that can be construed into gun-ports for firearms,
which were invented before that period, and would assuredly
have been included in all places of defence that were erected
afterwards.
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APPENDIX "G" (cont.)

The estate of Ardneil, or Ardnel, is situated on the
seacoast, on both sides of the promontory of Portincross,
within three-quarters of a mile of the village of Kilbryde
belonged to Godfrey de Ross, and being forfeited, were given
by King Robert the Bruce to Sir Robert Boyd in 1306, passing
to his son, Sir Thomas Boyd, who conferred them on Robert de
Boyd, above mentioned.

From this Robert Boyd, who affixed his seal to a deed of his
brother William, in 1372, was descended in the direct male
line, Robert Boyd of Portincross, on July 29, 1658, "......
in the five merk land of Ardneill within the parochin of
Kilbryde and Bailyiarie of Cunninghame; to the 30 shilling
land of the Maynes of Hellingtown; the 2 merk land of Muir of
Hellingtown; the half of the Myln of Hellingtown; the 46
shilling 8 pence land of Knockindaill; the 4 merk land of
Harrickhill of old extent, within the Bailyiary of Kyle-
Stewart" all of which are more particulary described in the
retour of his service, which will be found in the Register
Office in Edinburgh. Who he married is not mentioned, but he
had a son Robert, and a daughter Grizel, and died between
March, 1694 and September, 1695, as may be inferred from some
entries in the Parish Register of Kilbryde in those two
periods. He was suceeded by his only son:


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APPENDIX "G" (cont.)

Robert Boyd of Portincross, who married before the year 1694,
Antonia Montgomery (daughter of Sir Robert Montgomery of
Skelmorly), by whom he had a son, Hugh Boyd, and a daughter,
Lillias, both of whom died in infancy. He died previous to
the year 1714, without leaving any surviving issue, upon
which the representation of the family, as well as the pos-
sessions, devolved on the issue of his sister:

Grizel Boyd, who, previous to the year 1680, was married, as
his second wife, to Alexander Fullarton, Eqsuire of Kil-
michael in the Isle of Arran. By him she had two sons:
William and Robert, and five daughters, and she died March
14, 1772. Her son:

William, took the surname of Boyd, and prior to 1714,
succeeded to the estate of Portincross, by inheritance from,
and by the special designation of his maternal uncle, Robert
Boyd of Portincross, above mentioned. In 1714 he married
Grizel Campbell, only daughter of Angus Campbell, Esq. by
whom he had a son, John Boyd, and four daughters. In 1746 he
alienated the ancient family estate of Portincross to Patrick
Crauford, Esq. of Auchnames, and afterwards acquired the
lands of Balnakill, in Kintyre, where he died. He was
succeeded by his only son:

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APPENDIX "G" (cont.)

John Boyd, who died without issue, at Skipness, about the
year 1784 or 1785. Thus the elder branch of the marriage
between Grizel Boyd and Alexander Fullarton failed, and the
estate of Balnakill devolved upon on the issue of the second
son, John Fullarton (who had not adopted the surname Boyd),
and who, not owning the ancient estate of Portincross or
bearing the name of Boyd), though possessing a more recently
acquired Boyd estate (Balnakill), we will not include in this
work but will refer those interested to page 127 of Robert-
son's "Cunninghame" The arms of the Family of Portincross are
identical with those of the Kilmarnock Boyds, with a suitable
distinction showing the different branch of the family, being
a plain border around the shield. The Boyds of Wigton were of
the Portincross family.

APPENDIX "K"

Adam Boyd, son of Alexander Boyd (second son of Lord Robert
Boyd, (17), had two sons: Robert Boyd of Penkill and Troch-
rig; and James Boyd, Archbishop of Glasgow. Robert Boyd of
Penkill had two sons: William and Mark Alexander Boyd.
James Boyd, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 1581?), had a son,
Robert Boyd of Trochrig.

Robert Boyd of Trochrig, above mentioned, was born in 1578,
and was educated in Edinburgh and in France. In 1604 he was


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APPENDIX "K" (cont.)

ordained pastor of the Protestant church at Verteuil, and in
1606 was appointed one of the professors at the University of
Saumur. He was also a minister in that city, and married a
French lady. King James VI conferred on him the Principalship
of the University of Glasgow, but because of religious dis-
sension he resigned and retired to his estate in Ayrshire,
and later was appointed Principal of the University of
Edinburgh, but for the same reason again he resigned, and was
ordered to confine himself within the bounds of Carrick, in
Ayrshire. This restriction was later removed and he was
appointed minister at Paisley, but his situation there was
made unpleasant thru the opposition of the Earl of Abercorn,
who had joined the Romish church. He died soon after in
Edinburgh, January 5th 1627, in his 49th year. His life has
been written by Wodrow, and portraits of him will be found in
Chamber's "Eminent Scotsmen" and Anderson's "The Scottish
Nation". An excellant biography will be found in "The Scots
Worthies", and a list of his numerous works in any complete
encyclopedia. Mention is made by him in a letter, in 1605, of
a cousin, David Boyd: and a cousin Zacharias wrote him a
letter in 1625, probably the Zachary mentioned below. Robert
Boyd of Trochrig had a son and a daughter, born about 1615.


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APPENDIX "K" (cont.)

Mark Alexander Boyd, above mentioned, was born January 13,
1562, and was educated under his uncle, the Archbishop of
Glasgow. Having little taste for study, he tried unsuccess-
fully to push his fortunes at court, where he fought one duel
and engaged in numerous broils, and then decided to follow
military profession, going to France. In Paris he took up his
studies, and went from there to Orleans, Bourges, Lyon, and
Toulouse. In 1587 he was with the troops sent from Auvergne
to support Henry III, and in that expedition he was wounded.
While resident in Toulouse, in 1588, he was imprisoned by the
insurrectionists for his support of the Royal cause, and,
after obtaining his release, went to Bordeaux, thence to
Rochele, and finally settled near Poictou, where he devoted
himself to study. In 1592 he published, at Antwerp, Latin
poems dedicated to James VI, and in 1595 he returned to
Scotland, and was for a time traveling tutor to the Earl of
Cassillis. He died April 10th 1601, at Penkill, his father's
estate, and is buried with his ancestors in the church of
Dalie (or Darlie). His portrait will be found in Pinkerton's
"Scottish Gallery", and a list of his works in any complete
encyclopedia. He left a son Robert.

Zachary Boyd (1585-1653), a Scottish Divine, was of the Boyds
of Penkill, and was a cousin of Andrew Boyd, Bishop of
Argyle; son of Robert Boyd of Trochrig.

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