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 6i6 APPENDIX G Council, and one of his most trusted adherents. (*) After the Protector's downfall Ingoldsby favoured the Restoration, and, having been app. Col. of a regt. of Horse by General Monck, he took General Lambert prisoner at Daventry, for which he received the thanks of the House of Commons, 26 Apr. 1659. For this and other services he was pardoned by Charles II, and cr. K.B., 23 Apr. i66i.('') He resided at Waldridge Manor from 165 1 till his death. He w., before 1650, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lee, of Hartwell, Bucks, 2nd da. of Sir George Croke, of Waterstock, Oxon, K.B.; she was bur. 7 May 1675, ^^ Hartwell. M.I. He d. 9, and was bur. 11 Sep. 1685, at Hartwell afsd. M.I. JOHNSTON OF WARESTON [49] Archibald Johnston,(') of Wareston,('^) co. Edinburgh, only surv. s. of James J.,(') of Edinburgh {d. 24 Apr. 16 17), by Elizabeth, 2nd da. of Sir Thomas Craig, of Riccarton, co. Ayr, Lord Advocate. He was bap. 28 Mar. 1611; ed. at Glasgow Univ.,(') matric. i Mar. 1629/30; admitted advocate, at Edinburgh, 6 Nov. 163 3; one of the chief promoters of the National Covenant,(«) signed at Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1637/8; Clerk of the Gen. Assembly, at Glasgow, 21 Nov. 1638; Procurator of the Kirk 1640. He was knighted at Edinburgh, by Charles I, 1641; a Lord of Session 13 Nov. 1641; Commissioner for Midlothian 1643; attended the Gen. Assembly of Divines at Westminster i July 1643; Commissioner for visiting Univ. of Glasgow 19 Aug. 1643; member of the Committee of (*) Ludlow relates that " a certain inferiour officer [Cornet Sumpner, of Col. Ingoldsby's regt.] having publickly murmured at the advancement of some that had been Cavaliers to commands in the Army, he was carried to Whitehal to answer for the same," whereupon the Protector (Richard Cromwell) asked him derisively " whether he would have him prefer none but those that were godly ? ' Here,' con- tinued he, ' is Dick Ingoldsby who can neither pray nor preach, and yet I will trust him before ye all.' " (Ludlow's Memoirs., vol. ii, p. 63). C*) Sir Richard and Sir Henry Ingoldsby had grants, under the Act of Settlement, of over 10,000 acres in cos. Clare and Meath; dat. 27 July 1666 and 1 1 Feb. 1668/9. ^Ir'nh Records, 15th Annual Report, pp. 60, 224). ("=) He bore for arms: Silver a saltire engrailed Sable, with three Gold cushions on a chief engrailed Gules. [^) He acquired this estate, which is in the parish of Currie, near Edinburgh, from Alexander Hay, iiis brother-in-law, by charter dat. 4 Apr. 1636. (') James Johnston, merchant-burgessof Edinburgh, was the ist s. of Archibald J., by Rachel, da. of Sir John Arnot, of Birswick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, which Archibald is mentioned by Douglas as "a younger son of the house of Beirholm, an ancient and honourable family in Annandale." {Baronage, p. 233). (*) The College books record the receipt, in 1629, " fra Archibald Johnstoune, for his buird for the space of fyve moneths — iij" lib." {Mun. Univ. G/asguensis, vol. iii, p. 530). (B) Burnet writes: " He looked on the Covenant as the setting Christ on his throne, and so was out of measure zealous in it. He had no regard to the raising himself or his family, tho' he had thirteen children: But Presbytery was to him more than all the world." {Hist, of his own Times, vol. i, p. 37).