James Muirhead

- 1622    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	James Muirhead
  Gender	Male
  Death	Oct 1622
  James had made his will on 22 September, 1622 in which he named his eldest son, James as his executor. James left 100 merks to 'John Muirhead of Brydinhill,' his son, James' eldest son. The witnesses to the will included: Thomas Muirhead, minister at Cambusnethan, James of Braidshaw (variously, Bellshaw) and James Muirhead of Shawfoot and his wife, Margaret Muirhead, Elizabeth Muirhead, and John Muirhead, his assignee. The estate which James Muirhead 'elder of Lachope' left when he died in October, 1622 included the following inventory recorded on 15 March, 1623 in the Glasgow Commissary Court Testaments.(1.42) There were 50 bolls of oats, 4 bolls of bear (i.e. barley), 12 bolls of steelbow seed oats (in William Laurie's hands of Nether Lauchope), 4 bolls of steelbow oats (in James Marten's hands in Garvell) and 6 bolls of steelbow oats (in James Smyth's hands). The term, steelbow referred to property, real or personal, which belonged to the deceased individual rather than to his tenants. There was one horse, a mare, and ten cows, two quoys (i.e. variant of quey, or heifers) and eight sheep. The household goods included eight featherbeds with coverings along with four sewed coverings, six linen board cloths (known today as tablecloths), four dozen linen serviettes, a basin and a laver, four pots (three made of iron and one of brass), five pans, racks and two speitts. There were also twenty-seven plates, one dozen trenchers, two stoups and ten silver spoons. James' clothes were listed as 'abuilziements of his bodie.' They, along with the goods previously listed, were given the value of £1,523 ƒ6 8d in pounds Scots. (A single pound Scots being worth roughly one-twelfth of one pound Sterling, the estate would have been valued in pound Sterling as roughly £127.) An individual residing in Langrig owed James £40 at his death. James, in turn, owed £1,529 ƒ13 4d (£333 ƒ6 8d to his son, Thomas Muirhead; £93 ƒ6 8d to Alexander Waddell; £65 ƒ13 4d to Elizabeth Muirhead; £93 ƒ6 8d to Margaret Muirhead - he had been made assignee by his sister, the 'guidwyfe of Schawfute' of 400 merks; £200 to James Baillie; £333 ƒ6 7d to John Muirhead - who had been made assignee by his mother, Betie Cochrane; an unreadable amount to Barbara Setoun's compt; £100 to the deceased Arthur Muirhead's assignees; £5 to Gilbert Hamilton, merchant; £200 to Thomas Fairie; and wages to his servants: Marion Mortoun, Thomas Muirhead, Agnes Muirhead, Thomas Muirhead and John Paull, his herd). The residue of the estate amounted to £33 ƒ13 4d, which was to be divided into two parts - one part, the 'bairns' part' was to go to his children; the other part, the 'deid's part' could be bequeathed however desired. James named his eldest son, James as his executor, and he left 100 merks to John Muirhead of Brydinhill, his son's eldest son. James' Testament was witnessed by John Hamilton of Weston, Mr. Thomas Muirhead, minister of Cambusnethan, James Muirhead of Bellshaw and James Muirhead of Schawfute.
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. James Muirhead   d. Oct 1622 ▻ Janet Hamilton;   Margaret Cunninghame   2. William Muirhead   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Christian Muirhead,   b. Abt 1527   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ John Porteous,  m. 1544
  Person ID	I267012	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	James Muirhead,   b. Abt 1510   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Janet Baillie   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F297966	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Janet Hamilton   d. Abt 1586
  Marriage	some time prior to the year 1555, and most likely before 1549.
  Children	+ 1. James Muirhead,   b. Abt 1573   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Katherine Muirhead   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Margaret Muirhead,   b. Abt 1575   d. 1637 (Age 62 years) + 4. David Muirhead,   b. 1575   d. Jan 1614 (Age 39 years)   5. Claud Muirhead   d. Yes, date unknown + 6. Thomas Muirhead   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Alexander Muirhead,   b. Abt 1595   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F109717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Cunninghame   d. 21 Mar 1596
  Family ID	F297983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2010

  
  

• Notes

  7th of Lauchope It is believed that this James Muirhead was the James Muirhead of Lachop who was knighted by King James VI in either 1617 or 1621. On 26 May, 1579 James Muirhead of Lauchope again found himself on the wrong side of the law when a proclamation was issued against him because he would not regard a summons.(1.32) Issued from Stirling Castle, the proclamation stated that James Muirhead of Lachop was 'to be put to the horn' (i.e. to be denounced as a rebel or outlaw) for failing to appear before the Privy Council. Soon thereafter, a warrant was issued for the arrest of James' brother, William Muirhead, as was recorded in the Register of the Privy Council:(1.33) "Caution for Hew Kennedy of Barquhany to deliver William Muirhead, brother of James Muirhead of Lachop to the Captain of Edinburgh Caƒtle on the 21st inƒtant, under pain of £500." On 11 November, 1579, the Parliament passed an act of 'forfaulture' (i.e. forfeiture) against Lord John Hamilton, Lord Claud Hamilton, James Muirhead of Lauchope, William Muirhead (James' brother) and others who had associated with them.(1.34) The act was issued: "tuieching the diƒherreƒsing of the poƒtertie of thame that are convict of the murtheris of the King our Soverane Lordis deareƒt father and the tua Regentis." The term disheressing was an old Latin legal term meaning to 'disinherit', so this act was aimed at 'tuieching' (i.e. causing) the posterity (i.e. the future generations of them that had been convicted of the murders of the King and the two Regents) to be disinherited (i.e. unable to inherit certain property real and personal). Four months later, on 10 March of 1580, a record was entered in the Register of the Privy Seal (1.35) which recorded a gift to William Aikenheid of the escheat of the goods of James Muirhead, 'sometime of Lauchope', and of the profits of his heritage for Crop 1579. The reason given was that James had been convicted by Parliament and forfeited for treason, or 'put to the horn for non-compearance before the Privy Council' "to have anƒerit to ƒic thingis as wer to be inquyrit of him at his cuming." In July, 1580 a Summons for treason (1.36) was issued against John, Commendator of Abirbrothock, Claud, Commendator of Paisley, John Hamilton, provost of Bothwell and others, including James Muirhead of Lachop. In December of 1580 the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer recorded an entry (1.37) stating that a messenger was sent "with letters to charge the tenants of James Muirhead sometime of Lachop, Gavin Hamilton sometime of Raploch and Robert Hamilton sometime of Dalserf, forfeited persons, to pay their rents to HM Treasurer within ten days." The acts of forfeiture were against the individual, and not necessarily against his family. This is made evident by an entry recorded in the Register of the Privy Seal, dated 30 November, 1580.(1.38) That entry served as a 'Confirmation of Assignation dated 23 May, 1575 by James Muirhead sometime of Lachop to Margaret Muirhead his daughter of an annualrent of 65 merks alienated by him and Elizabeth Hamilton his spouse by John Hamilton of Pedderisburne from the lands of Drumgalloch and Blakrig in the parish of Monkland, to be "intromitted with by her until the redemption thereof by a payment of 650 merks and 20 pounds of lent silver".The Sovereign gives this to her despite her father being forfeited.' According to John M. Morehead in his book, a proclamation was issued from Holyrood House on 06 April, 1585 which stated that if James Muirhead of Lauchope, Lord Claud Hamilton and others did not secure passage on ships at Aberdeen prior to the first of May, and head for parts beyond the British Isles, their properties would be forfeited. The proclamation stated:(1.39) "Order by his Majeƒty, with advice of his Council, to Claude Hammiltoun, ƒometime Commendator of Paiƒley, James Mureheid of Lauchop (and other Hamiltons) 'and all utheris the ƒaid Caludis domeƒtiqcue ƒervandis or dependaris quhilkis returnit within this realme with him or eftir and ƒtand under the ƒentence of foirfalture' to retire with all filigence to Abirdeen 'and thair to tak ƒchip and depart furth of this realme to the partis of France and utheris beyond ƒey, England and Irland exceptit, betwix this and the firƒt day of Maii nixt to cum, wind and wedder ƒerving' with certification that, they return to Scotland, England, or Irland, the doom of forfeiture under which they lie ƒhall be rigorouƒly executed upon them." The last incident in this line occurred on 10 August, 1591 when James' eldest son, James, and his own sons, Thomas and Claud and others posted sureties to assure the parliament that he would quiet down, politically.(1.40) The entry in the Register of the Privy Council, dated 10 August, 1591, noted the "Caution by James Mureheid younger of Lawchop and Mr. Johnne Mureheid of Bradanhill, as two principals and Johnne Hammiltoun younger of Wodhall as ƒurety for them, and by the ƒaid principals and ƒurety for James Mureheid elder of Lawchop, Thomas Mureheid and Claud Mureheid his ƒons; James Mureheid of Braidschaw, James Mureheid of Schawfute and Johnne Mureheid in Glaƒgow that James Crauford of Kipbyre, James Craufurd his ƒon and Thomas Craufurd his brother ƒhall be harmleƒs under penalties following viz: Mureheid elder of Lawchop £1000, Johnne Mureheid 1000 merks; James Mureheid 1000 merks, Mureheid younger of Lawchop £500; Mureheid of Braidƒchaw 500 merks and each the others £500."