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 CATHCART 103 CATHCART BARONY [S.] I. Sir Alan Cathcart, s. and h. of Alan C, having, I UO-CA '" ^4-4-7, redeemed considerable property within the +3- 34- Earldom of Carrick that had been mortgaged by his grandfather, another Sir Alan Cathcart, was, not long afterwards, probably late in 1452, but certainly before 18 July 1454 (when he sat in Pari, as a Baron),(^) cr. a Lord of Pari. (^) as LORD CATH- CART [S.]. He had been an adherent of the Earl of Douglas, but rapidly rose in favour under James II and James III. He was Warden of the West Marches 148 1, and Master of the Artillery 1485. He m. Janet Maxwell. He d. in 1497, before 3 Oct., and was bur. at the Black- friars, Ayr. [Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, s. and h. ap., d. v.p.] II. 1497. 2. John (Cathcart), Lord Cathcart [S.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, abovenamed. He m., istly, Margaret, da. of John Kennedy, of Blairquhan. He m., 2ndly, before Aug. 1499, Margaret, da. of William Douglas, of Drumlanrig. He d. Dec. 1535. [Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, s. and h. ap. by ist wife. He m., in or before Aug. 1 507, Agnes, yst. da. of Robert (Lyle), 2nd Lord Lyle [S.]. He d. v.p., 9 Sep. 15 13, being slain, with two of his brothers, at the battle of Flodden.(') His widow m. John Maxwell, of Stanelie.] (^) A deed of that date between " Alan, Lord Carcaith, is'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 Ochihree (1459) being next immediately above him and Lord Carlyle (1474?) next immediately below him. C*) " It is perhaps worth remark, as old dignities with us i.e. in Scotland] were so generally territorial, that it seems to me, that [notwithstanding the above fact] there is no escape from the conclusion that Lords of Parliament were hereditary titles uncon- nected with land and sometimes even not based upon a free Barony at all; Graham, Gray, Borthwick, 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 made a Lord, all his lands were united and erected into the free Barony of Sempill." Extract from a letter of R. R. Stodart, sometime Lyon Clerk depute, dat. 9 Mar. 1885, to the Editor. G.E.C. On this Lyon King writes, Oct. 1911, "The Sempills held lands in free Barony as early as temp. Robert I [cf Scots Peerage, vol. vii, p. 527). The Cathcarts held the Baronies ofSundrum, Dalwellington, &c., about 1326. While the families mentioned may have had no Barony of their names at the time of their creation, they were probably Barons, and it is somewhat sweeping to say that the Barony was not based on a free Barony at all." V.G. {") For a list of the nobles there slain, see vol. v. Appendix D.