Name | James Dunbar | |
Gender | Male | |
Legal: | 3 Dec 1621 | Privy Council Register |
John [Ancestor] and James Dunbar and William Sutherland in Inchkeill [Ancestor] involved in a dispute. Johna and James Dunbar are the complainants and William Sutherland appears as charged with armed assault [assumed to be William Sutherland as a young man]: Register of the Privy Council Vol 13, 1622-1625 At Edinburgh, 25 July 1622... John and James Dunbar against Adam Dunbar and others for assault and violence. Complaint by John and James Dunbar, sons lawful of William Dunbar of Hempriggs, as follows: - On 3rd December last [1621], while the complainers were quietly standing , with hawks in their hands, and intent on to take “their pastyme,” beside their father’s servants who were loading some horses with peats, they were fiercely attacked by Adam Dunbar, son lawful to Patrick Dunbar of Blairie, and by John McInnes, Thomas Finlay, and Colin Dunbar, his servants, all fully armed. The assailants struck at the complainers with their swords, wounded James Dunbar in one hand and on other parts of his body, and would have slain complainers had they not escaped. The same persons assembled others, all armed, - namely Alexander Dunbar of Kilboyak, William Innes there, and Thomas Urquhart, his [Adam Dunbar’s] servants, Alexander Watsoun in Easter Grange Lauchlan McJannus [or McIntoshe] of Strone John McLauchlane, his son, there, Mr Patrick Dunbar, parson of Duffus Hew Sutherland in Unthank WILLIAM SUTHERLAND IN INCHKEILL Alexander Sutherland in Duffus, and Patrick Dolas and James Grey, servitors of Alexander Dunbar [of Kilboyak], - and came at night to the house of the complainers in the Nethertown of Hempriggs, while they were at rest for the night. There perceiving Gilbert Bothe and Ninian Clerk, servitors of the complainers, going to their chamber about their master’s business, the said persons set upon them with drawn swords, struck at them, and chased them to the chamber door. The door having been closed, they violently “braschit” and struck it, with intent to break it open and to murder the complainers and their servants; and failing to gain entrance, they “cryit for fyre, avowing with mony horibill oaths to sett the said house in frye”; which they would have done had they not been prevented. – James Dunbar appearing for himself and his brother, and Adam Dunbar appearing for himself and the other defenders, the Lords find Adam [Dunbar] guilty of the first assault upon James Dunbar, and commit him to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, while they assoilzie the remaining defenders [i.e. to find the remaining defenders not guilty]. They further order James and Adam Dunbar to find “law souertie” [surety], each in the sum of 500 merks. | ||
Died | Aft 1622 | |
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Legal: | 29 Jul 1626 | |
Ratification in favour of James Dunbar Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament ratify and approve the act of adjournal given and pronounced before the justice, of the date 29 July 1636, by the which Patrick Dunbar of Kilboyack and Alexander Dunbar, apparent heir of Braco, with certain others, their servants and accomplices, are declared and adjudged fugitives from his majesty's laws at the instance of the widows and bairns, kin and friends of the late Ninian Dunbar and of the late Robert Dunbar, and at the instance of his majesty's advocate, for the cruel murder and slaughter of the said late Ninian and Robert Dunbar by the said Patrick and Alexander Dunbar, their servants and accomplices, under trust and assurance in manner mentioned in the criminal letters raised thereupon and act and doom foresaid; together with the signatures of escheats and infeftments granted to James Dunbar, son to William Dunbar of Hempriggs, of the escheat and lands pertaining to the said persons denounced as said is, vacant in his majesty's hands through the said doom given upon the crime foresaid, being murder under trust, which is declared to be treasonable by the act of parliament made in the year of God 1587, chapter 51, entitled, 'Murder or slaughter under credit is treason', in the whole heads, points and articles thereof. And his majesty and estates declare this ratification to be as sufficient as if the said act of adjournal, gifts and infeftments were inserted word for word, concerning which, his majesty and estates dispense and that the same shall be good and valid rights, in the same way as if the said parties had been doomed in parliament. [NAS, PA2/22, f.339r-339v. 17 Aug 1641] | ||
Person ID | I2698 | Grant |
Last Modified | 6 Jan 2020 |
Father | William Dunbar, of Struthers, 1st of Hempriggs, b. c 1555, d. 1624 (Age ~ 69 years) | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Mother | Katherine Anderson, of Struthers | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Family ID | F810 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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