MAXWELL ALIAS BAILLIE, William, Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"At the death of Margaret Baillie, heiress of Lamington, the main branch of the family became extinct.

I. Sir William Maxwell, alias Baillie, son of the said Margaret Baillie and Edward Maxwell, her husband, was served heir to his father, Edward Maxwell, 26th March 1607. He obtained a Remission from the Crown on 16th July 1605, in which he is designed apparent heir of Lamington, of all crimes, he making reparation to the party injured, except treason, resetting of theft, magic, jape of women, false coinage, and particularly of the murder of Thomas M'Lellan of Chapelton. He passed Infeftment in the Lands and barony of Lamington, as heir to his father, on 9th November 1611, and in the lands of Hoprig and Penston same day, and obtained from James, Marquis of Hamilton and Earl of Arran, a charter of the lands of Hyndshaw, Watston, and Whissleberry, extending to a Twenty pound land, containing a clause of Kovodamus, on 15th February 1612, in which he is called the Marquis's kinsman."

from Lives of the Baillies ¹