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 COLVILL or COLVILLE 381 he received a grant ot some lands in Ireland.(*) He ;«., istly, charter 22 Aug. 1570, Isabel, sister of William, ist Earl of Gowrie [S.], da. of Patrick (Ruthven), ist Lord Ruthven [S.], by his ist wife, formerly Janet Douglas, spinster. He in., 2ndly, before May 1599, Helen, widow of Robert Moubray, of Barnbougle, formerly Helen Shaw, spinster. She surv. him. He d. Sep. 1629, from a fall from the terrace at Tillicoultry. [Robert Colville, Master of Colville, 2nd s.,(^) was, in 1595, only s. and h. ap., at which date he had charter of the Baronies of Easter Wemyss and Tillicoultry. He ?«., after 24 Sep. 1603, Christian, ist law- ful da. of George Bruce, of Carnock. He d. v.p.,m 1614, before 14 Dec. His widow was living 9 Aug. 1 630.] II. 1629. 2. James (Colville), Lord Colville OF Culross [S.], grandson and h., being only s. and h. of Robert C, Master OF Colville, and Christian abovenamed, was if. 1604. He had a charter of the lands of Tillicoultry, 5 Aug. 1630, and sat in Pari. [S.] in June 1633. In 1 634 he sold Tillicoultry (and doubtless the Abbey lands of Culross there- with, being in the next parish), as also, about the same time, the lands and Castle of Easter Wemyss, leaving Scotland for Ireland, where he was app. Quartermaster Gen. of all the Forces then under Monck, II Aug. 1647. Here he distinguished himself during Cromwell's expedition in 1649, ^""^ had a grant of the lands of Bally McLaughlin, co. Kilkenny. He /«., istly, about 13 June 1622, Magdalen, da. of Sir Peter Young, of Seton, who d. s.p., in Edinburgh, and was bur. there 28 Oct. 1638. He ;w., 2ndly (Elizabeth.'), who was, apparently, the mother of his children. (■=) He tn., lastly, shortly before his death, Margaret Clynton. He d. 1654, aged about 50, and is said to have been bur. in the vaults of Trinity Church, Dublin.^"^) Admon. 4 June 1656 to "the Hon. Lady to the laxity of treatment of this case (the first Scottish case that ever came before the House of Lords by a reference from the Crown), but also to the fact (which in his time was becoming almost forgotten) that the Court of Session was not deprived of its juris- diction in Peerage claims by the Union Act. He (pp. 354-359) is very severe on the incompetence shewn by the tribunal which, in 1723, judged "this strange and rather untractable case," and his remarks are certainly more than justified when it is con- sidered that of the statements made by the petitioner, two are palpably false, i.e. (i) the date of the death of the second Lord, and (2) that (the most important statement to the petitioner's case), the said and Lord died without male issue, while (3) the deduction of his own pedigree, from a brother of the first Lord, is unsupported by any evidence, and is open to grave doubts. See note "f " on following page. (*) See 15th Report of the Irish Record Commission. ('') The 1st s., James, was contracted, 6 May 1594, to Elizabeth, da. of David Wemyss of that ilk. He d. between June and 26 Sep. 1595. V.G. if) See however note "c" on following page. 1^) There was then no church of that name in Dublin; possibly, like his son, he was bur. in Trin. Coll. there. V.G.