Laurence Dundas |
Son of: |
Robert
Laurence Dundas |
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born: |
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occupation: |
Bailie of Brechin |
died |
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x Helen Ogilvie |
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the following children were born of this union:
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Laurence Dundas born 12/2/1662 Brechin, Angus, Scotland |
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Helen Dundas born 20/6/1663 Brechin |
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Alexander Dundas born 20/3/1665 Brechin |
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Catherine Dundas born 18/11/1666 Brechin |
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David Dundas born 4/11/1667 Brechin |
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Johne
Dundas born 30/12/1669 Brechin |
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Isoble
Dundas born 13/2/1672 Brechin |
In the National Archives of Scotland there is a copy sasine
to Capt. Laurence Dundas,
late bailie of Brechin, and Helen Ogilvie, his spouse, of an annual rent furth
of lands of Balgray, Persie and Glencaritie in parish of Kingoldrum,
sheriffdom of Forfar, 1662. |
Decreet - Kenneth MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth against Laurence Dundas in Brechin. www.rps.ac.uk At Edinburgh, 9 April 1661, anent the supplication presented to the estates of parliament by Kenneth, earl of Seaforth, mentioning that in the year 1659 the petitioner, being in his majesty's service under the command of the lord commissioner his grace for which he, being forfeited most unjustly by the power of the usurpers and his lands and estate surveyed and sequestrated by one Laurence Dundas in Brechin who, by his power with these usurpers, did altogether stop and impede the petitioner's peace and capitulation unless the petitioner gave him £205 sterling, which he forced the petitioner to pay to the English usurpers; humbly therefore, desiring a warrant for summoning the said Laurence to compear and hear him decreed to refund the sum above-written and annualrent thereof, as the supplication bears. And anent the warrant issued thereupon from the lords commissioners for trade and bills, and summons given by virtue thereof to the said Laurence Dundas, personally apprehended to have compeared at a certain day bygone, which, being called and the said pursuer, together with the said defender, both compearing presently, the rights, reasons and allegations of both the said parties, together with the depositions of several well-known witnesses, sworn and examined in the said matter, extant in process, being heard, seen and considered by the said lords commissioners for trade and bills and they being therewith, well and ripely advised, gave in their report in the said matter, bearing that they having heard a petition given in to them by Kenneth, earl of Seaforth, showing that in the year 1659 the petitioner, being in his majesty's service, was only for that reason forfeited by the usurpers; Laurence Dundas in Brechin got, for the surveying of his estate, £205 sterling, and that the said earl could not get his capitulation closed until he should make payment of the said sum as he was forced to do; therefore, craving that the said Laurence might be decreed to refund to him the said sum of £205 sterling. The said Laurence compearing alleged that the libel was not relevant unless it were said that he was the person that did stop his capitulation and condescend what manner of way he did impede the same. Secondly, the libel was not relevant except it said that the said earl was forced to pay the said sum to the defender, it was replied that there was no necessity to say that the defender himself stopped the capitulation, or that the money was paid by the earl to him, but that it was sufficient to say that the usurpers refused to close his capitulation until the said sum should be paid in satisfaction of what was given for surveying his estate by the usurpers to the defender, which he offered him to prove and was found relevant by the commissioners, who admitted witnesses for proving of the same, and did find by the depositions of the said witnesses that the said Laurence was one of the surveyors of the said earl's estate, and that one of the articles of the earl of Seaforth's capitulation was that he should pay £205 sterling of survey money or thereby, and the same was accordingly paid to the English. As also, it having been acknowledged by the defender that he got a salary from the English for the said survey, and being clear by Anthony Wilson, Englishman, his books in Leith that there was £200 sterling given to the said Laurence Dundas upon that account, the commissioners did conceive that the said earl should be paid of the said sum of £200 sterling by the said Laurence Dundas. Which report, being represented from the said lords commissioners for trade and bills, and being this day read and at length considered by the estates of parliament, and they well and ripely advised therewith, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his said estates of parliament, decrees and ordains the said Laurence Dundas to satisfy and pay to the said Kenneth, earl of Seaforth the foresaid sum of £200 sterling, and ordains letters of horning others in form as appropriate. |
Convention of Royal Burghs, 7.7.1671. "The convention being informed that there is great heats and animosities risen between the town of Dundee and Brechin, chiefly occasioned by the alleged escape of Laurence Dundas out of Dundee prison". |
1671. Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session: "The Town of Brechin against the Magistrates of Dundee, — upon this ground, That they had suffered one Dundass, their prisoner, to go to the fields, and cross the water of Tay in a boat : Notwithstanding whereof, this allegiance was found relevant,— That they offered to prove that he never went abroad but for his health, or necessary business, but with a keeper or guard, which was granted for his health by the advice of physicians ; and when he crossed the ferry, it was in the Town's own boat," with a guard, and was never suffered to land in Fife's side ; but that day, and all other days that he was suffered to go abroad, he was returned to the tollbooth, and was never one night out of prison. Which being the general custom of the Burgh of Edinburgh, and other towns, the Lords found it relevant to liberate the Magistrates from the debt" |
1672. February 10. The Town of Brechin against the Town of Dundee-.
The Magistrates of Brechin pursue the Magistrates of Dundee for payment of the debt of Lawrence Dundass, who, being incarcerated in the tollbooth of Dundee, was suffered to come out of the tollbooth. The Lords having, before answer, ordained witnesses to be examined, anent the manner of the prisoner's out coming, and the necessity thereof; the witnesses proved, that he came once out to the kirk to sermon, and several times to get his meat at the jailer's house, and sometimes to the fields, and upon the river by boat, the jailer or his man being still with him; and that he was still sick. There was also an instrument produced taken against him, when he was not out upon these occasions; but the prisoner did not escape at any time. Upon all which, the Lords found, that debt did not burden the Magistrates of Dundee and absolved them. |
Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis, 21.4.1674 - Charter by Robert Laurie, Bishop of Brechin in favour of George Steill and John Jameson bailies thereof of those two tenements of land, with the malt kiln, malt barns and two cobles and yards thereto adjoining, all lying contiguously within the burgh of Brechin at the north port thereof and east side of the gigh street of the same burgh, bounded by the arable land pertaining to the heirs of the deceased John Ochterlony late provost of Brechin at the east, the high street of the said city at the west, the land pertaining to Alexander Hendrie maltman at the north, and the yard pertaining to John Mathers armourer at the south parts: which lands formerly belonged to Laurence Dundas, late bailie of Brechin, were apprized from him by Rory MacKenzie advocate, assignee to Kenneth Earl of Seaforth, for a debt of three thousand six hundred merks Scots money, and one hundred and twenty pounds of Sheriff's fees, and disponed by the said Rory MacKenzie to David Snieer, bailie of Brechin and the said George Steill and John Jameson: to be held of the Bishop in feufarm fee and heritage for ever, and for yearly payment of the original feuduty thereof. Signed before witnesses, John Skinner merchant burgess in Brechin and the foresaid John Spebce town-clerk thereof.21/4/1674 |
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