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 334 COLVILL. IT. 1316. 4. Eoisert (de Colvill), Baron Colvill, only s. and h., aged 11 in 1316. He was sum. to Purl., as a Baron, by write from 25 Feb. (1341/2) 16 Ed. Ill to 20 Jan. (1365/6) 39 Ed. Ill, having previously, as far back as (1331) 5 Ed. Ill, sat in Pari., apparently as a Baron, though not recorded to have been so summoned. He served in the wars with France. He il. 1368. V. 1368, 5. Robert (de Colvill), Lord Colvill, aged 4 years, to in 1368, grandson and h., being only s. of Walter de C, by Margaret, 1370. da. of Giles, and grandchild and h. of Humphrey Bassinqbouhne, of Abington, co. Northampton, which Walter (who was aged 8, and then married in 1348) was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, and d. v. p. 1367. He d. unni, aged 6, in 1369/70, when his two cousins,^) descendants of the daughters of Roger, Lord Colvill (his grandfather's grandfather), were found his heirs, aud between them the Barony, if an hereditable dignity, fell into abeyance. COLVILL. 1295, June 8. William de Colvill, was, by writ of this date, sum. with about 60 others to attend the King, wherever he might be, but such writ is not supposed to constitute an hereditable liarouy,( b ) and neither he nor any of his descendants were ever afterwards summoned. COLVILL [or COLVLLLE] OF CULR0SS.( c ) Barony [S.] 1. Sir James Colvill, of Easter Wemyss, co. Fife, s. I 1604 !ln<1 n ' °^ J ames &i °f tue Slime » b y Margaret,( d ) da of Sir Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, was h. about 1551 ; sue. his father (who was I. 1609. b. 1532) in 1561 ; served in the Huguenot army under the King of Navarre (afterwards Henri IV of France), for many years, though occasionally returning to Scotland, where, in 1471, he successfully defended Stirling Castle for James VI [S.] against the Regent Lennox, but being involved in the a Raid of Ruthvon" (i582), fled again to France. On 20 June 1589, however, the lands of the dissolved Abbey of Culross (in the peninsula between the friths of Tay and Forth) were created into a temporal Lordship in his favour, with the title of free Baron of Culross. He was sent on several missions to the French King, for whom for 2 years (1592-94) he held the Governorship of St. Valery, receiving also " the dignity of a Knight of Honour in France "( c ) in 1603 from him. In 1591 he was on an Embiissy from Scotland to the Queen. " After the death of Alexander [Colville], Commendator of Culross, another charter, 10 March 1604,(°) again erecting ( a ) These were (1) Ralph Basset of Sapcote, then aged 17, s. and h. of Simon, who was s. and h. of Ralph, Lord Basset de Sapcote, by Elizabeth, da. of Roger, Lord Colvill. He was sum. as a Baron in 1371. See " Basset de Sapcote," Barony, sub. the oth Lord ; and (2; Sir John Gernou, then aged 40, s. and h. of Sir John G., by Alice, widow of Guy Cobaud, da. of Riger, Lord Colvill. He d. s.p.m.s. 13 Jan. 1383/4. See p. 333, note " d." (•') See Vol. i, p. 259, note "c." ( c ) See the best account of this branch of the family in a privately printed work (34 pages, large folio), entitled, " The ancestry of Lord Colville of Culro3s," by " Georgiana M. Colville, London, 1887," who acknowledges her great obligations to " George Burnett, Esq., Lyon King at Arms," and to " W. A. Lindsay, Esq., of the College of Arms " [London], " without whose aid," she adds, " I could not have com- pleted my task, and to whose knowledge and research I am deeply indebted.'' (•*) She was half-sister to the powerful Earl of Moray, the Regent [S.], who was son of her mother, Lady Margaret Erskine, by James V. [S.] (°) There is no reason to doubt the creation of 1604, and " Colville ok Culross" certainly existed as a peerage of that date in the " Decreet of Ranking " in 1606, being there placed before " Scone," a Barony cr. in 1605. The charter of 1604 being, however, lost, the only Barony that could be claimed by the heir male whomsoever (when such claim was made in 1723), was the subsequent Barony of 1609. See " Carmichael's tracts," 28.