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 CRANSTOUN 495 CRANSTOUN BARONY [S.] I. William Cranstoun, s. of John C, of Moriestoun, was Capt. of the Guards to James VI [S.], by whom he I, 1609. was knighted. Having acquired with his wife (whose br. d. s.p. legit.) the lands of Cranstoun, he was cr., 1 7 {f) Nov 1 609, LORD CRANSTOUN [S.],('') with rem. to his heirs malcrf He m., before 15 Mar. 158 i, Sarah, ist da. of John Cranstoun,('^) of Cranstoun, CO. Roxburgh, by Margaret, da. of George Ramsay, of Dalhousie. She was living 1 1 Mar. 1 6 1 g.^) He d. at Cranstoun, and was bur. there 23 July 1 627. Fun. entry in Lyon Office. IL 1627. 2. John (Cranstoun), Lord Cranstoun [S.], s. and h., served h. to his father, 10 Nov. 1627. Coroner of co. Roxburgh, Jan. 1638 for life. He ?«., istly (cont. 22 Nov. 1616), Eliza- beth, da. of Walter (Scott), ist Lord Scott of Buccleuch [S.], by Mar- garet [.''], da. of Sir William Ker, of Cessford. She was living 30 June 1 619. He »/., 2ndly, before 23 Apr. 1623, Helen, da. of James (Lindsay), 7th Lord Lindsay of Byres [S.], by Eupheme, da. of Andrew (Leslie), Earl of Rothes [S.]. He d.s.p. in or before 1648. His widows'. 1658, IIL 1648.^ 3. William (Cranstoun), Lord Cranstoun [S.], nephew and h., being only s. and h. of James Cranstoun, of Crailing, co. Roxburgh, styled Master of Cranstoun, (*) by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Francis (Stewart), Earl of Bothwell [S.], which James was next br. to the last Lord. In 1648 he was one of the "Engagers" for Charles I. He accompanied Charles II into England in 1651, fighting for him at Worcester, where he was taken prisoner and committed to the Tower. His estate was sequestrated, lands of ;^200 a year value being settled on his wife and children, and he was excepted from Crom- well's "Act of Grace," Apr. 1654. In 1656 he was allowed to levy 1,000 (*) Scots Peerage sajs ig. (^) Sometimes, but apparently with no authority, called Cranstoun of Creeling [i.e. Nether Crailing, co. Roxburgh]. if) There is no mention of the limitation being to heirs bearing the arms of Cran- stoun (as is generally supposed) in the patent recorded in the Reg. of the Great Seal. (■*) He was great-grandson and h. of William of Cranstoun, one of the lesser Barons (but not a Lord of Pari.) in the Pad. of 18 Mar. 1481/2, who d. 1515. (•) Elizabeth Macgill, sometimes attributed to him as 2nd wife, was wife of his son James. V.G. (*) The heir presumptive to a Scottish Peerage was styled " Master," though it is presumed that this was only done where the appearance of an heir apparent was im- probable. An instance of such use by the heir presumptive occurs in a charter 2 3. July 1 63 1, by " Alexander Lindesaye, Crafurdie Magister, frater legitimus et natu maximus Comitis Georgii, Crafurdie Comitis." See Lives of the Lindsays, edit. 1849, vol. i, p. 128, note.