A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ThomasSeton of Northrig seems to have had at least three sons, George Seton of Northrig (in 1603), who married MargaretForrest,4 Robert, mentioned in a charter of confirmation in the same year,5and Francis. George Seton appears, withhis father and mother, in a curious processof lawborros, dated 6th December 1591,charging Janet Seton, relict of JamesHamilton of Samuelstoun, to find respon-sible cautioners that the pursuers andth
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ThomasSeton of Northrig seems to have had at least three sons, George Seton of Northrig (in 1603), who married MargaretForrest,4 Robert, mentioned in a charter of confirmation in the same year,5and Francis. George Seton appears, withhis father and mother, in a curious processof lawborros, dated 6th December 1591,charging Janet Seton, relict of JamesHamilton of Samuelstoun, to find respon-sible cautioners that the pursuers andtheir men and servants should be keptharmless and skaithless and nowise mo-lested, under the penalty of 1000 On the 14th of June 1597 ThomasSeton of Northrig sues Donell Wallace,minister at Morhame, relative to an unjustclaim to a croft of land occupied by thecomplainer, on the part of Wallace andMr. Walter Hay, minister at Locheris,and Commissioner of the Presbytery Again, on the 16th of March 1605there is a Letter of Gift to George Seytoun of Northrig, of the escheatof Patrick Leirmonth in Aberleddie and Adam Leirmonth his son, now. 1 Acts and Decreets, vol. iv. fol. 75. 2 This Thomas appears as a witness to acontract between Sir John Seton of Barns andhis brother William, dated 29th December of Deeds—Scott Office—xl. 177. 3 Register of Great Seal, vol. xxxv. 4 Ibid. xliv. 379. 6 Register of Great Seal, xliii. 326. 6 Acta Dovi. Cone, vol. clviii. fol. 337. 7 Acts and Decreets, vol. clxxi. fol. 21. 54o THE BAILIE OF TRANENT in the Kings hands, through their being convict by an assise held in theTolbooth of Edinburgh, 15th March instant, for art and part of the dis-membering and amputation of David Fowler in Morhame of a joint ofhis finger nixt the little finger in his left From the record of the testament of Alexander Seton of Northrig, itappears that he died in January 1567-8; that he constituted his son Georgeassignee to the sum
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