Cuthbert Baillie (abt. 1494)

This Sir William of Lamington is said, by the anonymous writer before alluded to, to have had a natural son named Cuthbert, who became a clergyman, and is said to have been incumbent of Thankerton. This Cuthbert Baillie obtained a charter under the Privy Seal of the five merk lands of Loekharthill, lying in the barony of Symington and county of Lanark, in which he is designed Cuth- bert Baillie, clericus. This charter proceeds on an alienation made in his favour by John Symington, of Symington, with consent of John Symington his son, and is dated 13th June 1512. Again occurs another contradiction. The anonymous writer before quoted says : — This Cuthbert was Ancestor to Baillie of St. John's Kirk, while Baillie of Castlecary says that Cuthbert Baillie was of the house of Carphin and was Eector of Cumnock, Commendator of Glenluce, and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in the reign of James IV. Castlecary asserts that the Baillies of St. John's Kirk descend from a younger son of this Sir William Baillie, named John. No authority has been produced in support of either assertion. Of the family of Baillie of St. John's Kirk descend the families of Baillie of Jerviswoode and of Walston, and the Baillies of Mannerhall are descended of a second son of Baillie of Jerviswoode.