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Subject: ROSS of Hanyng: Is this contract the beginning of the end?
Date: 4 Aug 2005 14:19:16 -0600
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Surnames: Ross, Boill, Stewart, Campbell
Classification: Deed
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REGISTER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF SCOTLAND. Vol. VIII (1620 - 1633), page 481, No. 1425. Dated June 19, 1629.--REX....confirmavit cartam quondam Mathei Ros de Hanyng,--(qua,--cum consensu suorum legit. curatorum, et Jacobi dom. Ros principis sui nominis,--pro impletione contractus inter se cum dicto consensu ab una, Dominam Margaretam Boill matrem suam cum consensu Jacobi archiepisc. Glasguen, ejus mariti a secunda, et (quond.) GEORGIUM CAMPBELL de Cesnok a tertia partibus, de data presentium,--vendidit dicto Geo., heredibus ejus et assignatis quibuscunque, absque redemptione,--terras et baroniam de Hayning-Ros, comprehenden, terras de Hayning, Paroche, Over-Lone, Nedder-Lone, Bruceroddingis et Wraithis, cum molendino granario de Hayning nuncupata Craigmylne, ejus terris &c., cum earum turre et piscariis, extendentes ad 20 librat. antiqui extentus, cum octava parate communitatis mori de Galstoun et quarta parte de Lefnok-commountie tanquan partibus dicte baronie, in balliatu de!
Kyle-stewart, voc. Air.--.....etc.....Apud Glasgow, 4 Dec. 1621.
N.B.: In 1621, this so-called "contract" was drawn up with its three parties involved (1.--The legal curator for Matthew Ross who was deceased in 1621 - and - James Lord Ross of Hawhead on the first part; 2.--Dame Margaret Boill, mother of said Matthew Ross - and - Archbishop of Glasgow who is her second husband, for the second part; 3.-- and George Campbell - who is in 1629, also deceased - for the third part). In 1629 this three-party contract was being confirmed by the King.
As I make sense out of this, Matthew Ross of Hanyng and Margaret Boill must have left underaged children for whom no guardian, 'potestas' , tutor had been appointed. So, George Campbell was so named in 1621. Campbell has now died, and Dame Margaret of Hanyng and her second husband are getting the King's OK for what they have done so far in behalf of the minor heirs. The Question: After that, WHAT ACTION WAS TAKEN? because this seems to be about the last we hear of ROSS of HANYNG! Was the estate of the heirs wasted, or sold for their maintainance, or did their new tutor abscond with that which he was appointed to protect?
If George Campbell were a tutor, why were the lands of Hanyng-Ros sold ("vendidit") to him and his heir or assigns whomsoever?
Keep in mind, that the last Ross of Hanyng seems to be George Ross of Galston, who only as the heir of his nephew Ludowick Stewart, was able to buy land in County Down.--W.F. of Iowa.
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