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 190 CASTLE WELLAN— CATHCAR.T. CASTLE WELLAN. See " Annesley op Castle WbliAN, co. Down," Barony [I.] (Annesley), cr. 17. r )8 ; Earldom [I.], cr. 1789. CATHCART. Barony [S.] 1. Sir Alan Cathcaut, s. and h. of Alan C, I 1460 1 having, in 1447, redeemed considerable property within the Earldom of Carrick that had been mortgaged by his grandfather, another Sir Alan Cathcart, was, not long afterwards, probably before 8 Oct. 11 GO, but certainly before 2 July i6o{*) cr. a Lord of Parl.( b ) as LOUD UATHCART [S-]. He was Warden of the West Marches, 1481, and Master of the Artillery, 14S5. He m. Janet Maxwell. He d. before 12 Aug. 1499. [Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, s. and h. ap. Ho d. v.p.] II. 1499 1 2. John (Cathcart), Lord Cathcart [S.], grandson 1 and h., being s. and h. of Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, above- named. He m. firstly Margaret, da. of John Kknnedy of Blairquhan. He m. secondly, before Aug. 1499, Margaret, da. of William Douglas of Drumlanrig. He d. Dee. 153S. [Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, s. and h. ap. by first wife. He m. firstly, in or before Aug. 1507, Agnes,t c ) da. of Robert (Lyle), Lord Lyi.e [S.]. He m. secondly Margaret, da. of Parrick Maxwell of Newark. He d. v.p., 9 Sep. 1513 being slain, with two of his brothers, at the battle of Flodden,] III. 1535. 3. Alan (Cathcart), Lord Cathcart (S,) grandson and h., being only s. and heir of Alan, Master of Cathcart, abovenamed by his second wife. He m. Helen, da. of William (Semtill), 2nd Loud Sempill [S.] by his first wife, Margaret, da. of Hugh (Montgomery), Earl of Eglintoun [S.] He d, 10 Sept. 1547, being slain at the battle of Pinkie. Will of same date directing his burial to be with his ancestors at the Grey Friars at Ayr. IT. 1547. 4- Alan (Cathcart), Lord Cathcart (S,) only s. and h. He was a great Promoter of the Reformation, and was one who signed the bond, in 1567, on behalf of the young King, James VI [S.], on whose side he fought at Langside in 1568. Master of the Household, 1569, receiving several beneficial grants from the Crown. He m. Margaret, da. of John Wallace of Craigy. He d. Dec. 161S. [Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, s. and h. ap. He m. in or before 24 June 1594, Isabel, da. of Thomas Kennedy of Bargeuy. He d. v.p. 1603.] ( a ) A deed of that date between "Alan, Lord Carcaith, &c." was produced at the Decreet of Ranking [S.] 1606. Lord Cathcart was there "ranked" as 8th of the Barons; Lord Gray (1437) and Lord Ochiltree (1459) being next immediately above him and Lord Carlyle (1474 ?) next immediately below him. ( b ) " It is perhaps worth remark, as old dignities with us [i.e. in Scotland] were so generally territorial, that is seems to me, that [notwithstanding the above fact] there is no escape from the conclusion that Lords of Parliament were hereditary titles unconnected with land and sometimes even not based upon a free B?.rouy at all ; Graham, Gray, Borthwich, Cathcart, Drummond and Sempill had no Barony of their names, when they first got the hereditary title. Sempill of Eliotston, for instance, was not a free Baron, but, sometime after he was mn.de a Lord, all his lands were united and erected into the free Barony of Sempill." Extract from a letter of R. ft. Stodart, late Lyon Clerk depute, deceased, dat. 9 March 1885, to the Editor. (c) In Wood's " Douglas," Vol. ii, p. 165, under " Lyle," she is called Helen, da. of Robert, 3rd Lord Lyle (who d. 1511) by Mariot Lindsay his wife. Under " Cathcart," in that work, is a note to the effect that as Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle had a da. Agnes, who in. John Maxwell, this Agnes was probably, the Agnes, sometime wife of the Master of Cathcart, and that the said Master had no second wife, Margaret, as in the text, but was survived by the said Agnes.