Douglas of Penzearie
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Also recorded as Penziere, Penzerie, and Pinzearie
- George Douglas, priest,
son of Sir James Douglas, 8th Baron of Drumlanrig.
- ..James Douglas of Baitford, now callit of Pinzerie ...
- George Douglas of Penzearie married Barbara Lauder. Their
son, James, maried 26 Dec 1560 Jean Hepburn, daughter of John
Hepburn of Smeaton, East Lothian and Helen Swinton. They has 3
children, William, Isobel and Marie/Mary, who married Matthew
Hairstanes. Marie married 2ndly George Maxwell, 9th of
Carnsalloch.
In I610 this William Douglas, being feuar of Lincluden
in right of his father, James Douglas of Pinzerie,
was
arraigned before the High Court of Justiciary upon a
" dittay
" containing many counts : first, that in company
with John
Cunninghame his servant, and about a score of
" deboischet " men, he
dragged out of his house at the
Brigend of Dumfries one Thomas Softlaw,
a burgess, and
slew him ; second, that at the same place, but on
another
occasion, he set upon and slew Edward Maxwell of Cros-
toun ; third, that when Greir, a swordslipper, one of his
accomplices
in the last-mentioned crime, had been " tane
with the bludie hand "
and lodged in prison, Douglas broke
the prison, released Greir, and
carried him off to his house
of Lincluden ; fourth, that when Lord
Herries attempted
to carry out the Council's order for the arrest of
Douglas
on account of his association with a proclaimed rebel and
murderer, Robert Lord Maxwell, Douglas violently resisted,
and with
his servants drove Herries and his men out of
Lincluden ; and lastly,
he was charged not only with
common and habitual theft, but, although
" ane landit
gentilman," with housebreaking and theft in the place of
Greenlaw, the property of his cousin, William Douglas of
Drumlanrig, then Provost of Lincluden.
Provost Douglas was justly
indignant with his dis-
reputable relative, and vowed he would have
young Pinzerie
drowned, or at least driven out of the country.
Pinzerie,
realising that he had gone too far, resolved to throw
himself
on his kinsman's mercy, and a pretty picture has been
preserved of his going to Greenlaw so early in the morning
that the
Provost was still " lyand in his bed, and Penzerie,
pulling off his
breikis and schankis,i fell down upon his
bair knees before the
Provost, craving God and him for
pardoun and forgiveness." Perhaps the
Provost would have
winked hard and let the culprit escape ; but the
arm of
the law was stronger than of yore. Pinzerie was tried
before the Justice-depute, and, albeit there were two of the
name of
Douglas among the jury of fifteen, he was con-
victed on all the
counts. Thereafter he was taken to the
Mercat Cross of Edinburgh,
where first his right hand was
struck off as a penalty for theft, and
then this inglorious
Douglas was hanged on a gibbet.-
See also:
Douglas of Baitford
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