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42 CARLYLE WELL. He d. June 1575, being, apparently, slain by English marauders. Will pr. Edinburgh, 27 Jan. 1577/8. His widow was living Jan. 1608/9. [William Carlyle, Master of Carlyle, s. and h. ap. He m. (cont. dat. i Aug. 1551) Janet, da. of James Johnston, the yr., of that ilk. He d. v.p.y ^Sl"^- -H'^ widow m., as his 2nd wife, Alexander (Abernethy), 6th Lord Saltoun, who d. Apr. 1587, and jrdly, between 1587 and 1589, William Kerr (br. of Mark, ist Earl of Lothian). She d. 1608.] V. 1575- 5- Elizabeth, apparently, de jure ^ suo jure Baroness Carlyle of Torthorwald [S.], granddaughter and h., being only child of William Carlyle, Master of Carlyle, by Janet, his wife abovenamed. She ot., before 1 1 Aug. 1587, Sir James Douglas,(^) of Parkhead, who, having killed in 1596 James Stewart, sometime Earl of Arran [S.], was himself assassinated in High Street, Edinburgh, 1 4 July 1608, by Capt. William Stewart, the Earl's nephew. Sir James was cited by the Privy Council for the purposes of the Decreet of Ranking 6 Mar. 1605/6, as James, Lord Carlyle, presumably _;«r^ uxoris, and was placed between the Lord Cathcart [cr. 1447] and the Lord Sanquhar _cr. 1485]. He is styled Lord Torthorwald in a crown charter of that year, as also in all references to his death. His widow m., between 161 3 and Mar. 161 5, William Sinclair, of Blans, in East Lothian. In June 1624 she was under arrest, probably for debt, and was apparently still living 8 May 1642. VL 1608 6. James (Douglas), Lord Carlyle OF Torthorwald to [S.], s. and h. Immediately after his father's death he 1 638 . was recognised as Lord Torthorwald. On 6 Apr. 1 609, he received a charter uniting the Barony of Carlyle, tfc, with the Lordship of Torthorwald. () He sat as a Baron, in the Pari, of 1612, in his mother's lifetime. He m., istly, before 27 Dec. 1604, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Gordon, of Lochinvar, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of John (Maxwell), Lord Herries [S.]. In 161 5 he was suing for divorce against her owing to her adultery with William Bannatyne. He m., 2ndly, Nov. 161 8, at the parish church, Ludgate Hill, Ann Saltonstall. On 8 Aug. 1622 she divorced him for adultery. In 1638 he (according to Crawford), or (according to others) William Douglas,() his s. and h. by ist wife, resigned the Peerage to William (Douglas), ist Earl of Queensberry [S.], {'■) In the public register is a charter to George Douglas, next br. of this Sir James, dat. Feb. 1593/4, of the Barony of Carlyle, {s^'c, in co. Dumfries and Lanark, which he had probably acquired from his said brother. C") See Douglas, vol. ii, p. 676. This is sometimes (though erroneously) considered as a new creation of the Peerage dignity of " Carlyle of Torthorwald." {^) This William Douglas is said to have d. s.p. abroad. His yr. br. (of the half blood), James Douglas, bap., 2 Jan. 1621, at Edinburgh, probably d. young and unm.