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"STRATHENDRICK and its Inhabitants from Early Times"
An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Fillearn, Brymen,Buchanan, and Kilmarnock.
By John Gutherie Smith (F.S.A Scot.) (Author of "The Parish ofStrathblane"). 1896, James Maclehose and Sons (Publishers to theUniversity). Glasgow.
Married Barbara, daughter of Sir James Scott of Balwearie. This lady, a lineal descendant of the celebrated Sir Michael Scott, was a cousin of Margaret Scott (the heiress of Monzie, who married first Drummond of Carnock and then Patrick the third Great Baron of Inchbrakie). David had two sons, David, and James who was called "Captain James Graeme of Monorgan" and Craigo; he is mentioned in the Register of the Privy Council. It will be remembered these lands of Craigo had been held by the first Great Baron of Inchbrakie. This David, the sixth, unhappily became involved with his kinsman the Earl of Angus, and the Earl of Errol, with other Roman Catholics, to overthrow the established religion of the country; this plot was called the "Spanish Blanks." Previous to 1578, Robert Graeme, younger of Inchbrakie, Archdeacon of Ross, David of Fintry's kinsman, had been cautioner for him to the tune of 5000 merks, in company with William Graham of Claverhouse and Robert Graham of Thornik. David Graham must have been a man of fine intellect; anyone who has seen the quaint little album on which are emblazoned the coats and signatures of his friends (probably also his fellow-conspirators), must feel that he had more cultivated tastes than were usual at that period; he paid the penalty of his conviction or temerity, and a quaint old journal records that on "Thursday, Feb, 15th, Sir David Graham of Fintry was capitally convicted and on Friday was beheaded at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, 1592." William Guthrie continues if Sir David had not made "his confession he would have been tortured as poor George Ker had been and he therefore chose the more easy death by execution."
By this date, Fintry had several cadets established in various parts of the country. We have already mentioned John Graham, son of the first of Fintry who founded the House of Claverhouse, from whom spring Duntroon and Balorgus. There had also been younger sons of William the fourth of Fintry, Walter and James, and also William and James of the fifth of Fintry; of course it was not necessary that each of these should have founded a house; but an old genealogy of Orkney states that besides those already mentioned, the Grahams of Pottento, Gogar and Claypots were all descended of Fintry, while James the second son of this David the sixth is styled of Monorgan and Craigo.
The eldest son of Sir David, sixth of Fintry succeeded
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