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CARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE
A VERY considerable antiquity
has been claimed
for the family of Carlyle,
some writers affirming
that it was settled in
Cumberland before the
Conquest, and that its
origin was either British
or Saxon. But while the
name is clearly derived
from the town or district
of Carlisle,1 with which
the earliest recorded
members of the family
were collllected, there is
no trustworthy evidence
of their origin or of their
history before the time of King Henry 1. (1100), or at
least before 1092, when King William IL (Rufus) overran
Cumberland, adding it to his English kingdom, and began
to rebuild the town of Carlisle, placing Randolf or Ranull
Meschln (or the younger) in authority, as Lord of the
'Honor of Carlisle.' It has been stated that at the Conquest
Hildred Carlyle (' de Karliolo '), the reputed ancestor
of the family, was possessed of Carlisle, Cwnquintln (or
Cumwhinton), Newby on the moor, and other lands, including
Kirkbampton, his chief seat. He is said to have
married a granddaughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland.
He is also stated to be a witness to the foundation
charter by the Conqueror to Richard, Abbot of Wetherall,
and to a subsequent charter by Ranulf Meschin in 1088, in
1 Early spellings of Oarllsle (' Caerluel ') are, among otbel'II, Carleol,
Carle!, Ohaerleollum, Karllol, and ln Norman-E'l'ench 'Oardollle.'
, VOL, II. 2..&.
370 Carlyle, LORD OARLYLE
favour of the monks of Wetherall.1 But these statements
must be discounted by the following, that the Oonqueror
never held Cumberland, and was dead some years before
the foundation of the Priory of Wetherall, while the existence
of Richard, the alleged first prior, is a matter of
doubt.' The true date ot the foundation of the priory (not
by the Oonque.ro.r, but by R.anulf Meschin) may be between
1092 a.nd 1100, when William n. died, or between that date
and 1112, but no Hildred appears as witness.' There is,
however, a Hildred, a. knight, a. witness to a charter by
Ranulf to the monks ot Wetherhal of a fishery, dated not
later than 1120, • but it is not certain that he was the
ancestor of the Carlyles,' who, however, bore the same
Christian name. They were contemporaries, as the direct
ancestor and first recorded of the family appears certainly
about 1130, as
HILDRED OF CARLYLE (' de Ka.rleolio '), who at that date
or before it, is found rendering accounts to the Exchequer
of the ' old farm' and ' new farm • of Oa.rlisle and the
King's manor there, dealing also with the wall of the city
and with the rents of a silver-mine in which the burgesses
of Oarlisle were interested.' He is at :first designed simply
Hildret or Hildred, and may have been acting as Sheriff of
Oarlisle, but his identity with Hildred of Carlyle is proved
by the grant which he had from King Henry 1. about 1130,
of lands in Gamelby and Glassanby in Cumberland, for
which in that year, or 1131, he rendered an account of 40s.
In the original charter the lands are said to have belonged
to Gamel, son of Bern, and Glassam, son of Brictrjc, the
King's drengs, and the new tenants were to continue to pay
the King's yearly ' nowtgeld,' or toll of animals. The grant
was valued at £15, 9s. 9!d.' About the same date, Hildred
of Carlyle grants to the recently founded priory of Wetherhal
the land and wood which had been in dispute betwixt them,
1 Article in The Patrician, by John Burke, 18'7, voL Ill. l56i; ct. also
Notu and ~. 3rd ser. xl. 4.00. 1 Re(liatrum Priora.tu. tu
Wd/l.erhal, by J. E. Prescott (1897), 50i. • Ibid., 6, note 14, where the
editor favours the later date. 4 The writer in The Patrlcian assumes
they were the same, and asserts that 'Hildred and his Ave 111ccessol'II
were all 'knights,' which is not borne out by written evidence. 6 Rw,
,u WetMThal, 9 and 10, note 11. ° Cal. Doca. Scot., L No. 26. ' Ibfd.,
Noe. 26, 470.
Carlyle, LORD CARLYLE 371
and he made this gift in his upper gallery in Oarlisle, by
t enure of the rod, in presence of the 'paTochia. ' of the
Ohurch, and a company of monks, knights, and burgesses
of Carlisle.1 Besides the two manors named, he seems to
have had Oumwhinton in Wetherhal, Kirkbampton, and
some others, which later were possessed by his descendants.'
It is not known when Hildred died, nor whom he
married, as the marriage with Eal'l Waltheof's granddaughter
is not proved, but he was succeeded by his son
ODARD OF CARLYLE, who, it appears, held his father's lands
of Gamelby and Glassanby during his lifetime. He probably
held his father's other lands a.I.so, although the
.succession of them is not so clear. He appears as a
witness to a chaJ1er by Uchtred, son of Fergus, lord of
Galloway, to the Hospital of St. Peter at York, dated
between 1158 and 1164.' He is stated to have been in the
castle of Oarllsle in the service of King Henry 11., when
the fortress was besieged by King William of Scotland in
1174, but he appears to have died not long afterwards, or
before 1177, when the lands appear in the hands of the
Orown.4 Odard was not improbably one of those who
followed the Bruces, the great lords of Annandale, into
Scotland, and he appears to have held the fief of Hodelme
or Hoddom there, as in later processes affecting his English
lands he is described as Odard de Hodelme. This Oda.rd is
not to be confounded with Odard the Sheriff, who was
a contemporary. He had issue, so far as known :-
1. RoBERT, of whom hereafter.
2 • .Richard, who is named along with his brother Robert
in two charters, renewing to the monks of WetherhaJ
the grant of land and wood made by their grandfather
Hildred, adding other benefits. Richard is
named first in the writs, which a.re dated some time
before 1195, but nothing further is known regarding
him except that he had a son .Robert, who is a
witness to both writs.'
1 Reg. de Wttherhal, 143-147. I Ibid., 148-1.51, s Cal. Doca. Scot., II.
No.1800(6). t Ibid., I. No. 200; Beg. de Wethtrhal, 17', No. !K, note 1.
1 &q. de W,theral, 148, 149. The editor of this regiater {145-H7) aaalgns to
him another son, .Anachatlll, but the evidence ls meagre and not satl••
factory,
372 OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE
. ..RoBBRT OF OARLYLE, or of Hodelm as he is chiefly
sty1ed, was born about 1139, as in a plea of 1199 he refers
to ,hip).sf_lt as a m~~ of _sixty or m~re. 1 It is probable that
l>,e. took his . surna.u;ie from the lands he held in Scotland,
pr~l;>ably Hoddom; and he also, as is proved by a charter to
ws son _A~m, )1(:i~ 1the lands ot' Locar~ebi or 1:,ockerbie in
Annandal~ wh,lch were given to him by the Robert Brus,
f.iord of Annandale, who died about 11~! That his
srmpathies were with Scotland is indicated by his pa.yin~
15 merks in 1177 to obtain the King's peace, and also by a,n
~ccusation brought against him, in 1199, clμi.rging him
with breaking his fealty to King Henry 11.. ~nd joining
i:ebelliously with King William of S~tland, . when the
latter in 1174. rav:aged Oumberland and besieged Oarlisli,,
The accuser :declared that-' he had challen~ed Robert in
presence of King Henry himself, who expelled him from
the Court. Robert pleaded that his ~ather Odard was in
1174 in the castle . of Oarlisle on King Henry's service,
that he held the land which the accuser claimed, and died
in possession, while Robert himself then held no land.' He
tPPealed to a ju_ry, the. result being that _the accusation -ra.s qua.she<l, as it had been concealed so long, the accuse:r:
was fined, and Robert de Hodelm acquitted.' The names
of the lands · in dispute are illegible in the original of
this plea, but othei;- writs show they were Gamelsby and
Glassanby, which Robert claimed as heir of his father
()dard, but which had been taken from him by King
Henry n. about 1177; and were by,lqng ,Richard I., before
p89, given to Richard, son of Richard Fitz-Truite, the
person who afterwards brought the accusation in 1199
with a view to disinherit Robert.1 Richard had sasine of
the lands in that year, but apparently they returned to the
ownership of Roberfs son, Adam. Robert is a witness to
various writs by William Brus, Lord of Annandale, after
1194, and he was still alive in February 1208-9, when be
renewed his plea about Gamelsby and Gl,assanby agaJnst his
' 1 Cal. Doe$. Scot., l. No. 28:1., ·s The writer 1.n •Pkt Patrician confounds
~ with • Bochardebl,' near CarUsle, 'Which be states Robert Brus gave
to Robert Carlyl~1n place of his lands forfeited, but there can beno doubt
that Lockerble In Annandale was the subject of the grant. • No land
ln England is probably meant. 4 Cal. Dou. Scot., L No. 28:1; Gema.lo~.
N.S. vilL 200-~. • .Ilnd., L Nos. 289, f70.
OARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE 373
old enemy Richard, son of Richard. But he was apparently
dead in the following year, when bis son was in possession
of the disputed lands which, according to testimony given
a.t a later date, were bestowed on him by King J obn.1
Robert of Hoddom had issue :-
1. ADAM, of whom hereafter.
2. Odlwd, who is named with regard to his father's
pleas as to the disputed lands of Gamelsby and
Glassanby, and who got possession of them between
February 1209 and 1211, but appears to have clied
then or soon afterwards, as in 1211-12 his wife was
mllJ'T'ied, or about to be married, again to Robert de
Musters.' Re hatl issue two daughters, his coheiresses
:-
(1) Ohr.atia.n, m'1'ried to William lreby, who left her a widow ln
December 12.>""7,3 with iS!lue at least one daughter:-
1. Chri&tia.n, married finlt to Thomas de Lascelles, who
died before September 1260; 4 secondly, before 1267, to
Adam de Gesemuthe. He became a crusader In 1270,'
and probably died abroad, as she married thil'dly,
before 1275, as his second wife, Bobert Brus, Lord
of Annandale (the Competitor), whom she survived,
dying about September 1303, without Lssue.•
II. E1'(1. Is stated to have been a coparcener with
Christian, but the evidence ls conflicting.'
(i) ,E,oo,, married, finlt, to Robert Lovell, apparently without
lsaue, w11,11 a widow before February l.2il2-43; s married
secondly, before 13 October 1216, to AJan de Cha.rtres.8 She
or her niece of the same name had ln 1238-59 an heir, then
under age, 11,nd who wa.s a. ward of Prince Edward, after•
wards King Edward 1.10
These two co-heiresses and their marriages are traceable
by the history of their father's manors, Gamelsby and
Glassanby, which were a frequent subject of litigation.
ADAM O.F CARLYLE is described as the son of Robert In
more than one writ, but in the first dated document in
which he appears he is styled Adam de Karleolo. He is
the first of his family whose connection with Scotland is
clearly establlshe<l, though his father, Robert, certainly held
1 Oal. Doca. Scot., NOfl, 449, 470, 483; 11. p. 151. t Ibid., Nos. 483, 493.
3 Ibid., Noe. 1610, 2007. • Ibid., No. 2200. • Ibid., l. Nos. 2eU2, 25M.
9 Ibid., II. Nos. 4B, 51, 1000. 7 Ibid., No. 2144. 8 /bi.d., L No. 1610. • Ibid.,
No. 160o. 1o Ibid., No. 2144.
VOL. II. 2 B
374 OARL YLE, LORD CARLYLE
laud there, and he was the first to possess Kinmount, wllich
descended In his family for several generations. As already
stated, his father held lands in Locket•bie (1 Locardebi ')
given to him by Robe1·t Brus, and they seem to have
formed a cause of dispute between the granter's son,
William de Brus, who became Lord of Annandale about
1194, and Adam Oarlyle. The latter took the case before
the judges at Westminster, and an agreement was made in
Oourt by which Adam, the plaintiff, quitclaimed the lands of
Lockerble to William de Brus, the defendant, who in return
grants so much land in K.inemunt (Kinmount) and other
places, including I Braeansweit' and a mill on the water of
1 Polranban,' probably the water of Pow, near Kirunount.
This agreement was dated 29 October 1198, and William
Brus bound himself, as he could not warrant the lands to
Adam, to give him, if necessary, equal value in Ile1·ternes
or Hartlepool.' This writ was evident.ly the basis of a
charter not dated, but probably not long subsequent, by
which William Brus grants to Adam, son of Robert, t.he
lands named Kinmount, in the parish of Oummertrees, defining
the boundaries, and granting commonty of pasture with
the tenants of l\fillebi, and with BrakanepWet, also one
mill with a pond and a reasonable site, and with reasonable
roads to the mill and to the water to be led to tile
mill upon I Poh·aba.n,' in the territory of Oumbertres. The
granter gave power to build and cultivate within the
bounds, except in Bracanepheit, where no houses were to
be made without his permission. Adam and his heirs were
to have free roads to market through the forest. at Lochruaben,
through Dalton, and to Dumfries th.rough' Rochel,'
perhaps Rockhall, to be held for the fourth part of a
knight's sen-ice, the chase of stag and Jlintl, bog and
roedeer being reserved to the granter. The g1-aot.er also
declares the lands and mill to be given in exchange for the
lands of Loeardebi (Lockerbie) which Robert Brus, his father,
gave to Robert, the granter's father, and he binds himself to
wa1Tant the grant by an equal exchange, if necessary, from
his lauds in Herternes or Hartlepool.' About the same
time, or a Jlttle later, William Brus granted a saltpan, also
l Cal. Doc8. Scot., i. No. 2666. ' Fifteenth Rep. Hi8t. MSS., App. vlll.
No. 67. Sec also fuCllimile o! writ inAnnandale Book, z. XU1,; 1, 2.
OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLEl 375
a fishery and a net on the seashore.' From later evidence
it appears that these subjects lay between Oummertrees
and Lochar, as they are so described in a decreet in 1445,
made in an action by William Carlyle, the then owner
of the fishery, which will be noted later on.
Adam Carlyle appears as a witness to a. grant by Hugh
Morville to the Prioq of Wetherhal, the date of which is
uncertain, but cannot be later than 1202-3.1 A year or two
later, or after 1204, he granted, as Adam, son of Robert, a
moiety of the tithes of his lands of Little Bampton in Kirkbampton
parish to the hospital of St. Nicholas of Carlisle,
on condition that it should always have two almsmen from
that parish.i About the same time he gave, with consent
of his wife, hall a carncate of land in the fields of Ormesby,
which is called l\firland, with all easements belonging to
the vill of Ol'mes~y within and without to the monks of
the Priory of Wetherhal, also pasture in the vill for their
own animals, specially for 300 ewes with their lambs, or as
many ' muttons.'• He may be identical with the Adam de
Carliol who appears as witness to a charter by Alice de
Rumeli, daughter of William FitzDuncan, granting hunting
rights in Bor_rowdale, Cumberland, to the Abbey of Furness
between 1210 and 1212, and to some other transactions in
the same county about same dates.' He disappears from
record after 1212, and perhaps died not long afterwards.
His wife's name was Matilda, but her family is not recorded.
Adam Carlyle had issue at least one son:-
Euoo OF CARLYLE, who confirms the charter by his father
Adam of the lands of Ormesby. The earliest notice of him
on record is in 1217, when his lands in Norfolk were ordered
to be bestowed on Robe1·t de Vaux, because Eudo was with
the King of Scots, Alexander u., then at variance with the
young King of England, Henry III., who thus seized the
lands. The two Kings shortly afterwards became reconciled,
and possibly the confiscation was not carried out.'
Between 1223 and 1229 he confu·med his lather's grant of
1 The only available copy of this writ Is printed, very imperfectly, ln
Notu and Qiuries, 3rd series, xi. 460,461. Thesaltpa.n Is there described as
between Cummertales and Cocho. 2 Beg. de Weth.4rhal, 190. a Ibid.,
177, and authorities cited. t 11,id,., 293-20j, 6 Cal. Doc8. Scot., I. Nos.
503-GM. • Ibid,, No. 682; cf. 686.
376 CARLYLE, LOR,D OARLYLE
Mirland to the monks of Wetherhal, adding, further of his
own gift, the whole land which belonged to him, as to
which he had taken a brieve of novel disseisin upon Warin
of Mira who held the land.' Within the same dates he
granted to the same priory the deal wood in the wood of
Cumquintin, growing and dry, to be taken by the monks in
the wood wherever and whatever they wish, for the upkeep
ot their house without the sight of the forester. He
also permitted them to take the standing oaks which are
d1·y in fruit (' quercus stantes qua sunt siccre in croppo ')
for the same purpose, without oversight of any one or
hindrance by him or his heirs ; and if the priory carts or
wains (' ka1Ti -vel carretta ') broke down in the wood, they
might take standing green wood necessa.ry for repairs, without
hindrance. The pigs of the monks and their men were to
have free pasturage (' agistationem ') in the wood for ever,
wherever they desired, as well in time of feeding (' pessionis
') as at other times.• In January 1224-25, a claim
was made against him by a relative who demanded a
certain share of Eudo's lands of 'Oumbrehale • and ' Cumquintin,'
which action Eudo defended, but the sequel is not
recorded.' He apparently <lied about 1230.4 leaving at least
one son:-
Sm WILLIAM OF OA.RLYLE, who is referred to in a writ of
later date as son of Endo. He is -first named in a writ in
favour of Sir Robert Brus, the third of that name, Lord of
Annandale, the date of which cannot be later than 1245,
and he was then a knight.6 Some time before 1252, as Sir
William, son of Eudo of Oarlyle, he granted to a relative
Adam, son of Roger of Carlyle (' de Oarliol '), an annual
rent from lands in Oumquintin, which Adam afterwards
bestowed on the monks of Wetherhal." About 1260 he witnessed
a grant of another annualrent from the same lands,
and he himself in 1278 claimed 16 bovates, 25½ acres of land
and 60 acres of wood, with the moiety of a mill, in Oumquintin
from Richard Maunsel to whom he ha<,l leased it for three
1 B eg. de Wetherhal, 200. 1 IlJid,., 150. 3 Cal. Docs. Scot., i. No. 898.
t He and h~ heirs are referred to on 29 October 1280 1n connection
with services due from a tenement in Beyt.on or Hayton in Cumberland
(Cal. Docs. Scot., I. 203). 6 Cal. Docs. Scot., i. No. 1685. 0 Reg. cu Wetherhal,
151, 152.
OARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE 377
years, that term being now expired.1 He probably left
two sons:-
1. WILLIAM, of whom hereafter.
2. Eudo, who is described as Eudo, son of William, son of
Eudo de Karle!, in a writ dated after 1285, by which
he confirms to the monks of Wetherhal the annualrent
granted, as already stated, by Adam, son of
Roger Oarlyle.' Nothing more regarding this Eudo
has been ascertained.
WILLIAM OF CARLYLE is described in the only recorded
notice of him as William of Oarlyle, younger. He died
before 25 June 1274, and apparently in the lifetime of his
father, which suggests that he was the son of tlle elder
William. An inquest was held after his death to determine the holding of his m•a nor of Oargow, in Cumberland, which
had been possessed by Robert R-0ss of Werk, also now deceased,
and the question was whether Ross died seised in
the manor, or whether he held it only by demise from.
Sapientia, widow of young Oarlyle. The jury affirmed that
Ros neither held o1 the king in capite, nor by demise from
Sapientia, but he died seised as of fee in the manor, holding it
of her for a hawk or a silver mark yearly, and doing foreign
service for her to the King, namely 32d. of cornage to the
Exchequer at Oarlisle.1 In 1301 the same manor was in dispute
between William Ros of Werk, formerly of Hamelak,
who had received a grant of his kinsman's estates, and
WILLIAM OF OARLYLll,4 who there is thus reason to believe
1 Req. de Wetlurht:u, 161. Cal. Doe&. Scot. II. No. 29. Richard Maun11el
appears about thl!! period, and up to about 1208, as in possession of
various lands formerly held by or from the Carlisles. Cf. R~g. <ie
Wetherhal. 1 Ibid. ttt cit. The editor thlnks this Adam to be of the
same family as Eudo, but of what relation does not appear. U may
be noted that In the charter of Kinmount by William Brus, already
cited, • Roger, son of Udard' ls a witness, as Udard of Hodelm is also a
witness. Roger may have been hia son. perhaps illegitimate. 1 Cal.
Doca. Scot., IL No. ~ • The exact sequence of the _pedigree in regard
to the three Williams ls somewhat doubtful, though the possession of
Cargow seems to point to the third Wllllam being the son of Saplentla
and her husband, rather than the son of Endo; while as he certainly
held the estates in Scotland he must have been the direct heir-male
of Adam Carlyle, who 11.rat had Ktnmount. In the homage roll of 1296
appears a Gilbert de Carle! of Dumfrlesshlre, whom Douglas Insert.a
In his pedigree as the son of Adam Carlyle and the father of Su- William,
378 OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE
was the son, or heritable successor, of Sapientia and her
husband. William Carlyle had resented William Ros's intrusion
into Ws manor of Oargou, and promptly dispossessed
him. Ros appea]ed to King Edward 1. then at Glasgow,
who issued orders to imprison Carlyle and levy the costs
on his goods. The Sheriff r epor~ed he could not execute
the writ, and the sequel is not recorded.1 William Carlyle,
however, appears on record before 1301. Before the assumption
by Robert Bruce of the crown of Scotland, be,
like many other Scottish lail'Cts, is found acting on the
English side. In 129'7 he bad a. safe-conduct to go into
Scotland, and was then and in 1298 in the service of King
Edward. In January 1304, before which date he had attained
the honour of knighthood, he was acting under the
orders of John Botecourte, Justiciar of Galloway and Annandale,
and was retained, with two knights under him,
to join in a proposed foray against the patriotic Scots!
Between 1304 and 1306 Sir William received from Robert
.marl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale, afterwards King
Robert, an addition to his estate of Kynemund or Kinmount,
the new portion forming part of the common pasture
of the neighbouring holding of Newbie, nearer the town of
Annan. The boundaries are stated, but are not now readily
identifled.s About the same time Sir William Heriz or
Herries granted to him and his wife two fishings, the one
called ' Olutesker ' and the other named 'Baysenette ' ; •
with a.n acre of land and a saltpan in Rainpatrick; which
fishings and saltpau were to remain with Sir William
Carlyle's heirs and assignees, even il be and his wife were
to die without heirs of their bodies.5 Some time between
August 1307 and March 1311-12, he had become one of the
brother-In-law of King Robert Bruce. But no evidence bas been found
to connect Gilbert wlth the main stem. His seal Is described as bearing
a lion rampnnt, and a legend • S. Gilb de Karliolo (Cal. Docs. Scot., II. No.
810p. 531, No. 1481). In 1381 a payment ot £10 is paid to the heirs of the
late Gilbert de Carliolo, from the burgh of Klrkcudbright (Exch.. Rolls,
I. 856). Another writer suggests that the line ca.me through an Ivo
Ca.rlyle who had a 60n WUliam and a grandson John (The Patri.ci.a.n, ill.
561), but this seems Inadmissible. (Cf. Cal. Docs. Scot., U. No. 397, Fel>rua.
ry 1289-90.) 1 Cal. Doca. Scot., ii. No. 1216. s Ibid., Nos. 989, 1437;
Rotu.U. Scotia, I. '18o.. s Fifteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App. vlJL No. 71.
4 Clutesker or Cloutsca.r Is nob far from Annanmoutb, and on the est.ate
of Ne,vble. • Baysenette • may be • Rasnet.' 6 Fifteenth lltp. Hist. MSS.
COPl:1 Noa. 721 73. '
OARLYLE, LORD OAB,LYLE 379
sureties on bebalf of David, Earl of Atholl, to repay 5000
marks to Sil· Ralph Monthermer (see vol. i. of this work,
p. 428), and at the last-named date King Edward II. ordered
the money which was still due to be paid.' In July 1317 he
bad finally joined the Soots, and his lands in England with
those of his wife were all declared to be -forfeited, and were
given to William de Montacute and his wife.' He was
apparently still alive abont 1325, when William, his eldest
son and heir, received a grant of the lands of Ooulyn and
Roucan. About tlt.e same date he and bis wife received
f.rom King Robert the lands of OrunMantoun, Minnigap,
and others, now in Johnstone parisb.3 He was dead before
March 1329, a-S appears from a chai·ter cited below.
IDs wife was Margaret Brus, daughter o1 Robert Brus, first
Earl of Oarrick, and sister of King Robert. She is specially
described in the cha;ters by Sir William Herrics already cited.
Their issue, so far as known, were:-
1. WILLIAM, who is :first referred to about 1325 as son and
heir of Sir William Oarlyle, and as the King's sister's
son. He succeeded his father before Maren 1329.
He and. his brother may have divided the estate
between them, as in a writ about that date by Sir
Thomas Randolph lie is styled Laird of Luce, and
1·eceived licence to make a park and enclosure for
game at his place of Luce, near Hoddom.4 He also
held Locha.rwoodt lands in the burgh of Annan, and
others, with tbe Mains of Kirkconnell.6 He died
before 24 July 1347, when a jury found that Ws
nephew was his heir.
2. John, who in March 1329 is described as son of the
late Sir William Carlyle, and had a permission from
Sh- Thomas Randolph, Lord of Annandale, to enclose
a park at Kinmount !or his exclusive hunting.'
Nothing is known oi his history, though he is said
to have been at the battle of Halidon Hill,' but he
was dead before 24 July 1347, leaving a son :-
(1) WILLIAM, who succeeded.
1 Cal. Docs. Scot., lil. Noa. 5, 200. 2 lbid., Nos. 561, Sfn, 581, 617.
8 Bobertson's Inde:r~ 13, Noa. 84, 85. ' Fifteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com.,
App. vUL No. 76. 6 Oal. Docs. Scot., lil. No. MW. e Fi/tttnthRtp. Hist.
MSS. Com., App. vii. No. 77. 7 Ha.Iles, Annala, 111. 88.
380 CARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE
WILLIAM OF CARLYLE, the son of John, succeeded in 1347
to the estates of his uncle William, then deceased, who is
also described as son and heir of the late Sir William
Oarlyle.1 The younger William was also son and heir of his
own father John Carlyle, and all the possessions of the
Jamily appear to have become united in him. He was of
age in 1347, and was allowed to receive his estates peacefully
so far as regarded the English domination of Dumfriesshire,
as neither he nor his uncle had done anything
against the English. His later history is obscure, but he
was probably father of
SIR JonN CARLYLE, who is first named in 1398, as one of
the conservators of a truce with England.' He was one of
an assize which on 2 June 1428 gave a verdict as to claims
to lands at Pencaitland between Sir Herbert Maxwell,
Lord of Oarlaverock and John Sinclair,Lord of Herdmanston.'
He was still alive in March 1432-33,'but may not have long
survived that date. He had issue at least one son:-
WILLIAM CARLYLE, designed of Torthorwald. He is
named as son and heir of Sir John Carlyle in a safe-conduct
of date 3 November 1413, when he passed into England as
one of several hostages for payment of a debt due by the
Countess of Douglas to an English knight.' In March
1432-33, while his father was still alive, he as William
Carlyle of Torthorwald entered into an agreement with
Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Killosbern or Oloseburn to marry
William's son John to Elizabeth, daughter ol Sir Thomas.
The dowry paid by Sir Thomas was to be 400 merks. John
and Elizabeth were to be ' handfast ' according to usage
' in baly kirk ' at the interchange of the agreements, an(,l
to be married in church as soon as lawful thereafter. The
couple must have been somewhat juvenile, as the agreement
provides that 'a sufficient scoler' was to be retained
' to tech the said Jone sic thingis as • .. ar sene mast
spedefull and profttabill to tech him and bald him tharat.'
William Carlyle promised that on the death of his father
1 Cal. Docs. Scot., liL No. 1499. 2 Ibid., iv. No. 512. 3 Book of Oarlaverook,
LL 429. 4 Fifteenth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com., App. viiL No. 81.
5 Botuli Scotia, 11. 208; cf. vol. I. ot this work, 235,
OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE 381
Sir John, he would pro,•ide the young couple with twenty
merks' worth of land In a 1avourable part. The agreement
was sealed at Dum(ries 8 Ma.rch1432-33.1 Three years later
he agreed to exchange all the lands of Kirkpatrick in Annandale
belonging to him through his late wile Elizabeth
Kirkpatrick with Thomas Graham of Aucl1incass for half
the lands of Rowcan, in the barony of Torthorwald, belonging
to Graham through his late wife J onet Kirkpatrick,
Oal'lyle paying also as compensation one liundred merks
Scots. This writ was also dated at Dumfries 2 September
1436,1 alter William's return from France, whither he went
In the train of the Princess 1'-fargaret, who was married
to the Dauphin, afterward Louis XI., 24 June 1436.3
In 1443 he is styled Lord of Kin.mount and Torthorwald,
when he obtained a mortgage over tl1e lands of Llmekllns
in Dumfriesshire belonging to John Oorbet of Hardgray,
and these lands were in 14:52 resigned by Oorbet in fa.volll'
of Carlyle who had a royal charter to himself and his heirs
25 April 1452.4 In 1445 William Oarlyle had a dispute with
Herbert, Lord Maxwell and his son Robert, as to the
possession of a fishing between Oummertrees and Locba.r.
The bearing came before the Lords Auditors of Parliament,
who decided that Carlyle should remain in possession of the
llshlng, according to the tenor of the charter to hlm by
William de l3royss, while if Maxwell asserts he has any
right lie may pursue it according to law.5 The charter in
question must have been that referred to in the notice of
Adam Oarlyle (cf. pp. 374, 375 supm) granted to him by
William Brus, who died in 1215. In 1457 William Carlyle of
Torthorwald was adjudged to be fined for some reason, and
paid £3, 12s.• William Oarlyle died before 10 November
1463, on which date Mary (of Gueldres), Queen of Scotland,
acting for her son Alexander, Duke of Albany, issued a.
precept fol' infetting Sir John Carlyle in certain lands on
his father's death} He married Elizabeth Kirkpatrick,
who died before 1436. Her parentage has not been definitely
ascertained, but as it was through her he obtained
1 F(,ftunth Rep. Hiat. MSS. Com., App. viii. No. 81. t Ibid., No. 82.
1 Fordun a Goodall, U. 485; Scottilh Ki'llga, 191. 4 FiftU'llth Rep. II,..l.
MSS. Com., Nos. 83, 85, 80. 6 Ibid., No. Si. The charter of 11.shlng was
not made to William Carlyle, but it was his property. 8 Exch. Rolla, vi.
UlO. 7 Fi,ftemtll Rep. Hi:,t, MSS. Com., App. viii. No. En,
382 CARL YLJll, LORD CARLYLE
the lands of Kirkpatrick, it is probable she was a daughter
of Sir Duncan of Kirkpatrick, lord of that Ilk, who on 10
August 1398 bad, on his own resignation, a charter to himself
and Isabel his wife of the barony of Torthorwald, from
King Robert III.1 The barony was to be held to them and
the heirs of their bodies, whom failing, to the nearest and
lawful heirs ol Duncan whomsoever, a destination which
suggests they bad no sons. Sir Duncan died before 4 June
1425,' after which date William Qarlyle is styled or Torthorwald.
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick had, as already stated, a.
sister Jonet, who married Thomas Grahame of Auchincass,
and was also dead in 1436.3 Jonet bad a third of Kirkpatrick,
4 and the third co-heiress thus indicated was Isobella,
daughter of Sir Duncan Kirkpatrick, married about H
November 1412 to Gilbert Grierson, younger of Lag.'
William Carlyle by his wile had issue :-
1. JOHN, who succeeded.
2. Adam, described by John, Lord Carlyle, in his will as
'brother-german.' He was alive on 80 January 1486-
87,' but died before November 1500. He had issue:-
Adam, referred to in his uncle's will In NoYember 1500, and by
his cousin, Elizabeth Carlyle, In 1516. He had a. charter of
Brydeklrk from his uncle John, Lord Carlyle, as • Adam
Carlile, son natural to .Adam Carlile his brother,' on 7 May
1499.T It was apparently he who, under Papal dispensation,
17 February 1602, married Ellen, da.ught-er of Simon
Carruthers of Mouawald.8 He was the ancestor of the
family of Carlyle of Brydeklrk, of which the last kno,m
surviving male descendant was the &v. Alexander Carlyle,
D.D., mln1ster of Inveresk, who died without male Issue,
25 August 1005. The Oarlyles of Limekilns were probably
derived from this famlly.9
I. Sm JOHN CARLYLE is first named in the agreemeut
already cited, made for his marriage with Elizabeth Kirkpatrick,
daughter of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Oloseburn,
by his wile Margaret, in 1483, when he must J1ave been
very young. It is probably be who, as John of Oarlyle,
I Fi/tU'Tlth Rep. Hult. MSS. Com., App. vlll. No. 101. 1 Reg. Mag. Sig.,
24 June 1425. 3 Hist. MSS. Com., ut supra, No. 82. • Exch. Rolls, vi. 109.
6 Original Instru.ment, Gen. Reg. Ho., No. 282. o Hist. MSS. Com., tit
aupra. App. viii. Nos. fr7, 97. 7 Acts and Decre~t.s, ccexxx. t. 279; titles
produced by Adam Carlyle In 1619. 8 Pedigree in Lyon Office. • On U
November 1559 Adam Carlyle, son of Alexander Carlyle of Brydeklrk, had
a charter of Lymekilns from Mjchael, Lord Carlyle (Acta and Decreets~
OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE 383
squire, is a witness, in 1443, to a. sasine given to his father
of the lands of Limekilns.1 In 1449, be bad a sasine of the
lands of Torthorwald.1 He was knighted In that or the
following year, as he is described as Sir John Carlyle
before 1450,1 and be was then in some post about the Oonrt,
as from that time fees are paid to him with other emoluments,
including cloth, furs, gowns for himself and his wife,
and other necessaries. In 1452 he is styled Sir John
Oarlyie of Luce, as his father was still alive. He received
numerous grants of wardships and of rtmts from the Orown
between 145G and 1159. In 1458 he was employed in
transporting artillery to Threave Castle in Galloway, of
which he was or became keeper. He was aJso keeper of
Lochmaben Oastle for a time. He held the office of Master
of the Queen's StaJ>le, and acted as Justiciary in Annandale
for the young Duke of Albany, not yet of age.'
In 1463, he was infeft, as heir of bis father in part o1
Middlebie,5 in Luce, Kinmonnt, Locharwood, and other
lands, not in Torthorwald, as he was already fiar of that
barony. Some time between October 1473 a.nd July 1474'
hew~ created a Lord of Parliament as LORD OARLYLE
OF TORTHORW ALD. An old inventory of 1686 styles him
John, Lord Tortborwald, in a writ of 8 December 1473.
Thls date may be correct, thoughbe was still Sir John Carlyle
on 12 October 1473.' But the writ referred to is of interest
on other grounds, being described as a charter under the
Great Seal, erecting the town of Torthorwald into a free
burgh or barony, to be called the 'town of OairleiU' or
Oarlyle, giving the inhabitants power to buy and sell in
the burgh, and 'to have baxters, bronsters, flashers, and
workmen of all airts and trades . .. and to have ane cross
and mercat day ilk week and oppen• fairs ilk year.' 8 The
new Peer seems to have done bis best to perpetuate his
family name, as his castle of Torthorwald thereafter
appears in writs as the castle of Oarlyle, and he also
1 Fifteenth Rtp. Hiat. JISS. Com., App. viii. No. 83. t E'JX/h. Rolla,
Ix. 661. s Ibid., v. 383. 4 Cf. Exch. Roll.s, vL vii., where frequent reference
Is made to him. 6 Hist. MSS. Com. Rtp., ut cit., No. 87. 1 ».tch. Rolla,
vili. 216 et seq. 1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 8 Hist. MSS. Com. lltp., id cit., No. 88.
Crawford, who apparently saw this writ, refers to It as granted toJoht1,
Lord Carl11le, and accepts It as indicating dat9 of creatlo11. (Puraue,
sub Carlyle.) · . .
384 OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE
describes the parish church of Torthorwald as the church
of Oarlyle.1
Lord Carlyle continued his public activity. He was
a constant attender of Parliament, and gave his services
abroad as well as at home. He was in France on some
mission in 1473 or 1474, and engaged in business or negotiations
there and in Denmark about the same time.1 His
services abroad and 'his frequent expenses and great
labours to the danger of his person at sundry times in the
King's affairs outside the realm, with the King of France
and elsewhere,' were rewarded in 1477, on the majority of
.Tames m., by a grant of the lands of Drumcoll or Drumcow,
co. Dumiries, forfeited by Sir Alexander Boyd.' Other
grants of Orown rents to a considerable extent were
bestowed upon him, and various charters were made in his
favour, among others a formal ratification of the grant of
Drumcoll by Parliament on 11 April 1481.4 He soon afterwards
had a dispute with a neighbour, Jasper Newlands ot
that ilk, whom he charged with disturbing him in possession
of his mill of Drumcow by drawing water away from
the mill-lade. On 30 January 1481-82, the case was tried
before the Sheriff and a jury, who decided entirely in favour
of Lord Carlyle, and ordered Newlands to cease from all
further vexation.5 In January 14.86-87, be seems to have
completed titles to a large number of lands, an enumeration
of which may show the extent of his possessions. He
was then infeft in the lands of Kinmount with mill,
Locharwood with mill, Dornok with mill and advowson of
the church, Middlebie with the same, Kirkconnell with the
same, Luce with the same, Annan with fishing, Kirkpatrick
with mill, Brumell, Marjorybank, Oulcotis, Ecolefechan,
Ryhill, Oummertrees, Torduff, Bengall, Dalibank, Brydekirk,
and Lochmaben, all resigned by him, and united with
the barony of Carlyle by charter. He had also at same
time a charter of that barony.•
Lord Carlyle disappears almost entirely from record, and
probably also from public life, after the accession of King
James IV., and little appears on record regarding him until
1 l!'i,ftet:At1,,Btp. Hist. MSS. Com., App. viii. Nos. ffl, '<11. t Eaxh,. RoU.a,
vllL 254, 293. • Reg. Mag. Big., 31 October 1477. • Exch. Rolla, viii. per
Inde:x; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., ut cit., Nos. 89, 95. 6 Ibid., No. 06. 1 Ibid.,
Nos. ffl, 91.
OARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE 385
the date of his will, ma.de at the 'oa.stle of Qa.rlile
situated in Scotland,' as the notary has it, 12 November
1500. The document is not lengthy. His body is to be
buried in the parish church of Carlile, in the barony oi
Qa.rlile, and he leaves four pennies of his goods to the fabric
of St. Mungo's Church, Glasgow. He acknowledges that
he has eight plowing oxen, and £100 in silver and gold,
which he has bequeathed to maintain two aisles in the
parish church of Qa.rlile (Torthorwald), founded by him.
He also owned to having six tassies or cups of silver,
which were to remain as heirlooms 'for the honour and
reputation of the manor-place and castle of Qa.rlile. • He
would say nothing of further intention, but referred to
forty pounds to be spent on bis burial. His executors were
Sir William Carlyle, bis grandson, Mr. James Carlyle, bis
son lawful and hatural, prebendary of K.irpatrick-cro
(Irongray), Thomas MacOlelan of Bomby, Robert Qa.rlyle
of Pittenain, bis son natural, and Adam Carlyle, son of
Adam Qa.rlyle, his late brother-german.1 Lord Carlyle
refers to himself as sound in mind, though somewhat
sick in body, and he did not die for some weeks later.
He wound up his affairs, resigned bis barony and other
lands into the hands of tl1e King, who granted them to
Sir William Carlyle, his heir, on 12 January 1500-1,'
while the resigner was still alive. But he wa-s dead
before 3 March 1500-1, as he is described as the late
Lord Carlyle in a writ of that day, confirmed some years
later.'
The first Lord Carlyle was apparently married three
times. As already stated, he was contracted in March
1432-33, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thoma sK.irkpatrick
of Oloseburn, and it is probable she was bis first wife.
Before 1476, and onwards to 14.84, a Janet, Lady Qa.rlyle,
appears as his spouse,4 but her surname is nowhere recorded.
Before February 1492-93, he married a Margaret
Douglas, widow of Herbert Maxwell, and mother of
Edward Maxwell of Tinwald.' She survived him, and was
living 22 December 1509. Lord Oarlyle had issue:-
1 Hist. MSS. Co-m. Rep., ut cit., No. 07. 1 Rcu. Mag. Sig. 1 Ibid., 25
Augiut 150!. '.Acta .Auditorum, 50; Acta. Dom. Cone,, lW. 5 Reg.
Mu.g. Sig., 2-1 Dec. 1509.
886 OARLYLE, LORD OAJ;l,LYLE
1. John, who died before 14.77, but o( whom no record
has been found. He had issue :-
(1) Wu.LIAM, who succeeded as second Lord.
(2) Robert, who is 118,med twice in his grandfather's will, already
cited, as brother of William, and grandson of Lord Carlyle.
(8) Eufa.niia, descdbed in 14-83 llS slster-german of William
Carlyle, who was.at lea.st contracted in ma.rrlage with consent
of her grandfather a~d brother to the Sir Simon
Carruthers of Mouswald, who died before March 1512,
but the marriage was apparently not completed.1
2. ]}fr. James, who became rector or Kirkpatrick-cro, or
Kirkpatdck-Irongray, and is styled by Lord Carlyle,
in his testament, his lawful and natural son.
3,. John, named in a charter to Margaret Douglas his
mother by her son, Edward .Maxwell of Tinwald, of
the lands of Blah-boy, co. Wigtown, which were to
pass to John Carlyle after her death.'
4. Ge01·ge, also named in a charter by Edward Maxwell
of the lands of Mowe and Shielhauch, co, Wigtown,
to 1iargaret Douglas, his mother, in lilerent, and to
George Carlyle in fee.'
5. Mariota, m.arried to Herbert Berries of Ter.regles and
had issue.4
6. --, a daughter, married, some time before 1488, to
Sir Ad.am Murray of Duncrietf.5
John, Lord Carlyle, had also a natural son, Robef't,
described as such in his father's will, and also in a grant to
him by llis father of the lands of Pittenaiu, 6 February
1483-84.8 He acted as his lather's lieutenant in the castle
of Th.reave. He died before 1 December 1508, having
married Margaret Weir,' who survived him, apparently
without issue.
II. WILLIAM, second Lord Oarlyle, is first na~ed in
a charter of date 19 October 1477, when he was still under
age, and his ward and marriage were granted to Lord
Carlyle, his grandfather.8 He was knighted on 29 January
1187-88, when James, the second son of that name of King
1 Fifteenth ]hp. Hist. MSS. Com., .A.pp. viii. No. 116; cf. also Acta
Dom. C<>ne., MS. xlil. f. 13. 2 .Reg. Ma.g. Sig., 24 Dec. 1500. 8 Ibid.
4 Ibid., 1 June 1486; Berries Peerage Evidence, 301. 6 Acta Dom. Cone.,
MS. xvi. f. 171, 6 Annandale Peerage Case Minutes (18i6), 117. 7 Reg.
Mag. Sig., at date. 8 Ibid.
0ARLYLE, LORD 0ARLYLE 387
James m., was created by bis lather Duke of Ross.1
Later, he was styled of Locharwood, during his grandfather's
lifetime.• He succeeded his grandfather as second
Lord Carlyle, probably in February 1500-1, as soon after
that date he paid part of the sum charged for the charter
to him of the barony of 0arlyle,1 and some time later he
was still due money to the King.• On 15 February 1502-3,
the Lords of Council, the King 11imsel.t being present,
transferred to him as his grandfather's heir and executor,
a debt of 400 merks due from Simon Carruthers, and two
other sums also due to the late lord. In January 1515, he
figures in a transaction which seems to show he was
trusted by his neighbours. Robert Oorsby, Laird of
Ulcottis, stated to a notary that he intended going to
England, and had arranged that the sum of money due by
William, Lord Carlyle, for the purchase of mcottis, should
remain in the buyer's hand till the seller's return, with all
money similarly due by Carlyle, who also agreed that if
Oorsby died on the joumey, his wife would be paid according
to the contract betwixt him and Carlyle.'
William, Lord Carlyle, appears only occasionally in the
public records, and probably did not take a very active part
in affairs. The latest mention of him seems to be in an act
of the Lords of Council on 28 January 1523-24-. He had
raised an action against the vicar of Pittenain and certain
jurors because the latter had returned a wrong and contradictory
verdict as to the vicar's possession of certain
lands. The Lords therefore quashed the verdict, Lord
Oarlyle being present in 0ourt.8 He died before 28 May
1325, as on that date his eldest son, James, had sasine of
the barony of Carlyle.' William, Lord Carlyle, married
Janet, daughter of John, Master of Maxwell, usually styled
third Lord :Maxwell. He had a charter from his grandfather
on 12 July 1487 to him. and his wife of the lands of Locha1·wood
and Middlebie.8 By her be had issue:-
1. JAME.9, third Lord 0arlyle.
2. 1\1IcHAEL, fourth Lord Carlyle.
1 Robertson's Records of ParUament, 325. 2 Protocol Book of James
Young, Canongate, 9 Feb. 1492-93. 3 Account& of Lord High 71rea&urer,
il. 9. t Ibid., 157. 6 25 January 1514-15, Fifteenth Rq,. Hilt. MSS.
Com., App. viii. No. 98. • See .Annandale Peerage Minutes (1876), 132,
133. 7 E.ccl,. Rolla, xv. 63'2. 1 lug. Mag. Sig., 10 Oct. 1487.
388 CARLYLE, LORD CARLYLE
3. Oat1,erine, married to Simon Carruthers of Mouswald
some time before 8 July 1516,1 and had issue.
4. Elizabeth, still unmarried in December 1516, as
appears from a bond to her father, who had provided
her liberally in certain lands and others, including
fishing of 'sex culpis' in Brewin Skar, parish of
Oummertrees, which she promised to resign on her
marriage and receipt of a dowry of 400 merks.1
III. JAMES, third Lord Oarlyle, has scarcely any place in
history, and he held his lordship only about a year, as he
received sasine on 28 :May 1525, and was dead before 16
June 1526, when be is refetted to as late tenant of certain
Orown lands.' He married Janet, daughter of Sir James
Scrimgeour of Dudhope, but had no issue. She sw·vived
him, and on 24 December 1529 had a special grant of half of
his lands, as he had resigned them in favour of her and himsell
in conjunct fee, but died before receiving sasine.• He
was succeeded by bis brother :-
IV. MICHAEL, fourth Lord Carlyle, who succeeded in
1526, but only received a Crown charter of the lands and
barony on ?:l December 1529.' Not much is recorded of
him. In November 1544 he distw·bed his sister-in-law in
her possession of her share of the lands, and despoiled her
of the use of grain and cattle tor a year, besides carrying
off a large quantity of household goods.' He seems to have
taken the English side in the war between England and
Scotland, and was accused of giving treasonable assistance
to England, and surrendering his house at Tortborwald to
the enemy. Archbishop Hamilton procured a remi,ssion for
him, in return for which be paid 1800 merks, and contracted
his son to the archbishop's grandniece, Jean Johnstone.'
In September 1567 he was cited before the Privy Council
with various neighbouring landowners to answer for disorders
within their bounds, and appeared in the following
month and renounced all bonds made with the Marian
faction, acknowledging the infant King's coronation and
government.' In 1573 he granted a charter to Michael,
1 Reg. Mag. Sig.; Fifte~h &p. Hist. MSS. Coni., App. viii. No. 122.
s Ibid., No. 99 . . a E:cch. RQlla, xv. 576, 632. 4 Reg. Mag. Sig. 6 Ibid.
G Ibid., 18 March 154347. 7 .Annandale Peerage Evidence(l876}, 45. 8 P. C.
Regiater, I. 670, 500.
OARL YLE, LORD OARLYLE 389
his third, but then eldest surviving son, of the lands and
barony of oarlyle, which. was afterwards set aside in Cavour
of his granddaughter, Elizabeth. Carlyle. He died in June
1575, being slain, it would appear, by English marauders.1
Michael, Lord OarlyJe, married, first, Janet Ohartel'is' (of
what family 11as not been ascertained), and secondly,
M.ariota Maxwell.8
By his wives he bad issue :-
1. --, a son, whose name is not recorded, but who
between 1547 and 1551 either died or was set aside
for some defect, as his younger brother was in March
1546-47 called in an action along witb. their father.
2. William, Master of Oarlyle, who is first described as
'son ' of Lord Carlyle in a charter to him by his
father on 5 January 1546-47, granting to him the
lands of Petttnain.4 In a charter ol 18 March.1547-48,
he is referred to as the second son of his father ,6
but in bis marriage-contract, 1551, he is styled
eldest son and apparent heir. He predeceased his
father, dying before or about 1572. He married (contract
dated 1 August 1551, already referred to)
Jean, daughter of James Johnstone, younger of Johnstone,
and of Margaret Hamilton (see vol. i, of this
work, p. 248), who survived him, and married,
secondly, as his second wife, Alexander Abernethy,
sixth.Lord Saltoun, and thirdly, between 1587 and 1589,
William Kerr, brother ol MarkKerr,Lord Newbattle,
who in 1593 interdicted her for extravagance.' She
died in 1608.7 The Master had issue one daughter:-
Elizabeth, of whom hereafter,
3. Michael, who had a long legal battle with his niece for
the estates and dignity of Oarlyle, but was unsuccesslul.
He had a grant of the lands of Locbarthur
on 6 March 1580-81 from John, Lord Maxwellt
whose daughter Grizel he married, and to whom
1 Annandale Peerage Evidence (1876), 120; P. C. R egister, Iii. 78, 80:
Edlnr. Tests., 27 January W77-78. 1 Annandale Peerage Evidence, 45.
5 Cf. Reg. Mag, Sig., 4 March 1580-81. She was apparently stlll alive lo
January1609as 'old LadyTorthorrell.' [P. C.Register, vlll. 217). 4 Annandale
Peerage Evidence (1876), 122, 6 R eg. Mag. Sig., at date. o Herald
and Genealogist, vlL 410, where William Kerr la wrongly designed;
Edinburgh, Inhibitions, vi. L 133. 1 Gen, Reg. of Inhib., 27 May 1618.
VOL. 11. 20
390 OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE
he seems to have sold a great part of the outlying
estates of the barony of Carlyle, excepting the lands
and castle of Torthorwald.1 He died before 26 September
1585.' His wife survived him, and she and
their eldest son, John Carlyle, had a, ta.ck of telnds
on 22 September 1597 and 12 April 1605.' He was
the ancestor of the Carlyles of Looharthur, of whom
William, the great-great-grandson of Michael, fourth
Lord Carlyle, died in 1751 s. p ., leaving a disposition
of his estate to his own heirs, whom failing, to h1s own
only brother Micha.el, whom failing, to his heir-male
who could establish his right as nearest heir-male to
Micha.el, Lord Carlyle. Michael, William's brother,
died in 1763 also without issue, and in 1770 the
House of Lords, affirming the previous decisions of
the Oourt of Session, declared that the primary 1·ight
to the title of Carlyle lay with George Oarlyle and
other descendants of Michael's younger brother John.
4. Jolin, who had a charter 24 March 1573 from bis
father, Michael, Lord Carlyle, of the lands of Boytath.
He was succeeded by
JarM• Carlyle, second of Boyte.th, who was served helr to hls
lather January 1624,4 and died ln 1631. He married
Margaret, daught.er of William Carlyle ot Brackenquhat,
and had lasue :-
(1) James, who succeeded.
(2) Mary, Jll.&lTied. at Dumfries, 10 April 1658, to Herbert
Cunningham, Writer.
Ja,mu Carlyu, third of Boytath, was served heir to his
grandfather 18 June 1635.6 He married, 1lrst (contract
21 April 1M5), Janet, daughter of John Carruthers
of Holmalns; secondly, Marion, daughter of
Johnstone of Elchleshlelds. He had issue :-
1. Th.oma-a, eldest son of first marriage, who was
of Boyte.th ln 1673. He married Margaret,
second daughter of Mr. John Menzies ot
Hanglngshaw, and had lssue :-
(!) Jamu, a trooper ln the Scots Greys, dled
In 1774s. p.
(U) William, killed at Dettingen, 1743, probably
without Issue me.le.
(lll) A(fnU.
II. <Jeorge, second son of ftnit marriage, merchant
l Beg. Mag. Sig., 7 March l~-81. t Reg. Sec. Sig.,liiL t 47, a Ibid.,
Lx:dv. t. 204 4 Retours Dumfrlesshire No. m. 6 Ibid,, No. 158.
OAR.LYLE, LORD OARLYLE 391
In Dumfries, dled 1002. He married Ellzabeth
Nisbet and had laaue, with a daughter
Margaret, two sons:-
(1) Jamu, who died s. p.
(Ii) Tlwmtu, who left Scotland and went- to
Travalah, co. Denbigh, Wales. He had
Lssne, with four daughters, two sons:-
a.. <korge, who was the succe.sstnl
litigant in 1'770, and declared by
the Honse of Lords to have the
nearest right to the title of Carlyle.
He died s.p.
b. Joseph.
llL Patrick, eldest son ot second marriage of
James Carlyle of Boytath. He was a merchant
traveller ln England, and married
Isabel Carruthers. He had lssue, with tbrea
daughters, a son:-
(1) James.
it, .Auxander of Roblequhat or Searigs, who had
no issue. He ls refeITed to, with bis brothers
Thomas and George, in 1683 and 1688.1
v . .Robert, who married -- Wright, and had
issue:-
(!) James, merchant in Dumfries; died s.p.
in 1741.
(11) .Akxander.
vi. Samud, died s. p.
vii. James, died s. p .
viii . .A.lfM8, married to James Veltc.b, merchant,
Dumfries.
lx. Elizabtth, married to John Thomson, merchant
Dumfries.I
5. Peter/ fifth son of Michael, fourth Lord · Oarlyle,
named in a charter by his father to 1lis brother
Micha.el on 24 March 1573-74.4
6. Esota, daughter by Janet Ohaxteris, married a.bout
1550 to Arthur Graham of Blawatwood, having as
her dowry the ]ands of Torduff, and ha.ct issue.5
ELIZABETH 0ARLYLE was s till a. minor when she was
retoured heir to :Michael, Lord OarJyle, her grandfather,
on 11 July 1579. She was declared to be his heir in the
lands and barony of Carlyle (or Torthorwald) with castle,
1 Papers in Lag Charter-Chest. 2 The above particulars mainly from
pedigree in Lyon Office. s .Another son, Edward, has been assigned to
Micha.el, Lord Carlyle, and claimed as the ancestor of the family of Lime•
kilns, but no evidence of him has been found. The Llmekllns family
seem to have been cadets of Brydeklrk ; cf. p. 382 ante. • Reg. Mag.
Siv,, ( March 1580-81. 6 Ibid., 4 December 1617.
392 OARLYLE, LORD OARLYLE
and the lands of Kinmont and many others in the sWre of
Dumfries, 1 but she was not infeft in her estates until May
1587.1 It was apparently in the interval that the litigation
a.bout the estates took place between her and her
uncle Michael, when the barony of Carlyle was ultimately
adjudged to belong to her. Some time before 11 August
1587 she married Sir James Douglas of Parkhead,' son
of Sir George Douglas of Parkhead, who was a natural
brother of the Regent Morton. It has been said that he
did not assume the title, as he always appears in official
records, as Sir James Douglas of Torthorwald.4 He was,
however, cited by the Privy Oouncil as James, Lord
Carlyle, in 1606, for the purposes of the Decreet of Ranking
on 6 March of that year, and he was a-ecepted as Lord
Carlyle, in terms of certain productions.' At that date
also he is styled Lord Torthorwald in a Orown charter, and
in the references to his death he is invariably styled Lord
Torthorwald.8 The Lord and Lady of Torthorwald seem to
have had little possession of their own lands. In 1592,
John Carlyle, son of Michael Carlyle, was infeft in the
lands as heir of his father.' Between 1593 and 1606 they
were granted to George Douglas, a brother of Sir James,
and to William Oun.ningham in Dolphinton, on the plea. that
they were in the King's hands because of improper alienation,
and the lands of Pettinain were bestowed on Alexander, son
of the Master of Elpbinstone. Sir James Douglas is prominent
in Scottish history chiefly as the assassin of ' James,
Lord Stewart of Newton,' better known as the Earl of
Arran, who had been the accuser of the Regent Morton,
and who for some years practically ruled Scotland till his
overthrow in 1585. Since then he had lived in obscurity,
but on 1 December 1596, he was met on a lonely road in
Lanarkshire by Sir James Douglas, who killed him and
contemptuously left bis body lying by the wayside, thus
1 Annandale Peerage Evidence (1876), ll9, 120. a Exah. Rolls, xxl.
538. a He Is described a.s James Dougla.s of Torthorwald in a precept
of that date by Archibald, Earl of Angus (Laing Charters, No. 1150).
• In 1592, In The Preswnt State of the Nobility in Scotland, be Is said to
have manled the heiress of Oarlyle, and to have 'the living but not the
honours• (case ot William Co11Btable Maxwell, Henies Peerage, A.pp. 18).
6 See Do!ereet of Ranking, etc., Herrles Peerage Evidence, 162-165, 174.
s Reg. Mag. Sig., 5 March 1606; P. C. Reg., vlii, 129 n. 1 Retours, Dumfrlesshire,
No. :r77; Exch. Rolls, xxll. 468.
OAl{LYLE, LORD CARLYLE 393
revenging Arra.n's treatment of the Regent Mortou.1 A
blood feud ensued with the Stewarts of Ochiltree, the family
of the murdered man, and though the Privy Oouncil took
measures from time to time to prevent bloodshed between
the parties, Lord Torthorwald, as he is styled, fell a victim
to vengeance. On 14 July 1608 he was, early In the morning,
standing near tlte Cross of Edinburgh, alone, when
Oaptain William Stewart, a nephew of Arran, suddenly
stabbed him in the back, and he died almost immediately.'
His wife survived him, and when her eldest son James
had a charter of his lands and lordship in April 16091 she
had a separate grant of her liferent right. On 13 July
1612 as Lady of Carlyle she granted the lands of Stank,
co. Dumfries, to James Johnston of Westerhall, and was
able to write her ~wn signature.• Between 1613 and March
1615, she was married to William Sinclair of Blans in East
Lothian.6 In. June 1624 she is referred to as a 'rebel'
against the King, having probably been 'put to the horn '
for debt. Her person was attached and the Sheriff-depute
of Dumfries was conveying her to prison, when some
zealous friends attacked the party, 'reaving' the lady out
of the Sheriff's hands not without bloodshed.' She was
apparently still alive on 8 May 1642.' She and her first
husband had issue :-
1. JAMES, who became Lord Torthorwald.
2. A1•chibald, who is named along with his brother James
in the proceedings of the Privy Oouncil after their
father's death, and also in a decreet of improbation
by Sir Robert Douglas (afterwards of Spott) against
Lord Sanquhar, and Archibald, John, and George
Douglas, brothers of James, Lord Torthorwald, and the
tenants and vassals of the barony of Torthorwald,
18 June 1619,' but of whom nothing further is known.
3. John.
4. George, named with their brother Archibald in the
above decreet.
JAMES DOUGLAS, Lord Torthorwald, had the title and sat
in the Parliament of 1612 as a baron, whatever hls father
1 P. C. Reg., v. 360. 1 Ibid., viii. 129. 3 Reg. Mag. Sig., 6 April 1600.
1 Laing Charters, No. 1048. 5 Acts and Decreds, cccm. f. 270b. e P. O.
Rea., xiii. 53'2. r Reg. Mag. Slg. 8 Acts and Decreets, ccc.xxx. t. 271b.
894- OARLYLEl, LORD OARLYLEl
did. He succeeded on 14 July 1608, and is at once styled
Lord Tortboxwald.1 On 6 April 1609 he bad. a charter of
the lands and barony of Carlyle, resigned by William
Ounningham in Dolphinton.1 He had not long had possession
when he began to grant annualrents and otherwise
dissipate his estate, and he was under interdict
before 11 September 1617, tbougb a-pparently his interdictors
could not altogether arrest his unhappy progress.'
A few years later lie sold or mortgaged all his lands,
including Torthorwald, to William Douglas of Drumlanrig,
who had a charter of them on 8 January 1622.4 He is said
by Orawford to have also resigned his title of honour to
Douglas in 1688, but he has not been discovered in any
record after August 1622, and the date of his death has
not been ascertained.6 He married, first, before June
1611,' Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar,
and iu 1615 he was suing for divorce against her and
William Bannatyne, younger of Corehouse, as co-respondent.'
He married, secondiy, November 1618, in the
parish church of Ludgate Hill, Anne Saltonstall, of what
family is not known. On 8 August 1622, she divorced
him for adultery .8 He had, so far as recorded, no issue by
his first wife, but by his second he had one son :-
James, baptized 2 January 1621, but of whom nothing
more is known.'
OREATION.-July 1473 or 1474.
ARMS.-As given by Nisbet :-Quarterly, 1st and 4th,
argent, a cross flory gules, for Carlisle ; 2nd and 3rd, or, a
cross gules, for Corsbie; on an escutcheon surt01,t argent
a saltire azure.
ORE.ST.-Two dragons' necks and heads addosse vert.
SUPPORTERs.-Two peacocks proper.
MoTTO.-Humilitate.
[J. A.]
1 .Acta Parl. Scot., Iv. 466, 468; cf. P. C. Reg., viii. Ix. and x. pcusim.
s &g. Mag. Sig. 3 Ibid., at date. • Ibid. 6 The Earl of Nlthsdale about
1620 had the title of Lord Carlyle, and Viscount Torthorwald was in 1682
among the Duke of Queensberry's titles. 6 Gen. Reg. Inhibitions, 5 May
1619. 1 Ibid., 2nd series, ix. 245. 8 Edinburgh Commissariot Decreeta, at
date. t The last Lord Torthorwald Ls said to have had a son Willian~
by his first marriage, but of this no evidence has l:>een found.
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Both of those are a hundred years after her death!
Both of those are a hundred years after her death!