422 COMPLETE PEERAGE bargany OF Hamilton [S.]). On i6 Nov. 1641, (") he was cr. LORD BARGENY [S.]. () He was served h. to his father 23 Apr. 1642. He accompanied the Duke of Hamilton [S.], in 1648, on his unfortunate expedition into England, and being captured after his defeat, was imprisoned for a year. He then joined Charles II in the Netherlands, and when the King invaded England in 1651, Lord B. was sent to Scotland by him, to raise a force there. He was again taken prisoner at Elliott, in Perthshire, 28 Aug. 165 1, and imprisoned in the Tower for about a year, and was excepted from Cromwell's Act of Grace. He m., in 1632, Jean, 2nd da. of William (Douglas), ist Marquess of Douglas [S.], by his ist wife, Margaret, da. of Claud (Hamilton), Lord Paisley [S.]. He d. Apr. 1658. His widow d. 1669. II. 1658. 2. John (Hamilton), Lord Bargeny [S.], s. and h., served h. to his father 17 Oct. 1662. In Nov. 1679 he was imprisoned on an indictment for high treason, viz., for a conspiracy against Episcopacy, against the life of the Duke of Lauderdale [S.], (^c, but was never brought to trial, and was released June 1680, on finding security in 50,000 marks. (") In 1689 he raised a regiment of 600 foot to promote the Revolution. He m., istly, in 1662, Margaret, 2nd da. of William (Cunningham), 9th Earl of Glencairn [S.], by his ist wife, Anne, da. of James (Ogilvy), ist Earl of Findlater [S.]. He m., 2ndly, in 1676, Alice, widow of Henry (Hamilton), Earl of Clanbrassill [I.], da. of Henry (Moore), ist Earl of Drogheda [I.], by Alice, da. of William (Spencer), 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton. She d. s.p., 25 Dec. 1677, at Roscommon House, Dublin, He d. 15 May 1693, and was bur. at Ballantrae, co. Ayr. Will pr. Prerog. Court [I.] 1696. [John Hamilton, styled Master of Bargeny, ist s. and h. ap. by ist wife. He w., 19 June 1688, Jean, da. of Sir Robert Sinclair, Bart. [S.], of Longformacus. He d. v.p. and s.p.m., and was bur. 27 Mar. 1690, at St. Giles's Church, Edinburgh. His widow d. 12, and was bur. 16 Dec. 1700, in New Church (St. Giles's Edinburgh). Fun. entry of both at Lyon office.] (") III. 1693. 3- William (Hamilton), Lord Bargeny [S.], 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h. male. He took the oaths and his seat in Pari. 9 May 1695. He was a strenuous opposer of the Union. (") The date in the text is from the original diploma, penes the Hon. Hew Hamilton 1904. Nisbet, Heraldry, vol. i, p. 394, gives 14 Nov. 1 64 1, and an MS. collection of patents in the Advocate's Library [S.], gives 22 Oct. 1639, which year is adopted in Diet. Nat. Biog. C") " Expressions in the Bargeny entail have led to a surmise that there may have been a rem. to heirs female, failing the male line of the Patentee. " {ex inform. G.Burnett, sometime Lyon.) (") State Trials, vol. xi, p. 65. C) The issue of Joanna, their only child, b. 1690, who m., 23 Feb. 1707, Sir Robert Dalrymple, inherited the Bargeny estates by decision of the House of Lords. See Douglas, pp. 197-199, where a full account of such succession is given.
