Part of Mr. Montgomery the Elder's money

in my hand, which I have applied to my use To Col. Adam Downing by two bonds

0, 120

0,800 0 £2,790 0 O "This is a coppey of the Paper which he gave me :"A conveyance of Hugh, late Earle of Mountalexander, to William Montgomery of Grangee, Gent., of all that parcell of land commonly known by the name of Flushing Hill, adjoining the lands of Grangee, in the Barrony of Ards and County of Downe, together with the tythes thereof both great and small, and all the tythes of Grangee both great and small, bearing date the 31st day of August, 1682. The like conveyance of the lands of Flushing Hill aforesaid, and the tythes thereof from Charles Campbell of Donaghadee, Gent, bearing date the 2nd day of September, 1682."

The letter, enclosing these documents, ends thus :—

"I am boderd with trobel and company, so can say no more to my dearest brother, but I am y' ever affect" sister and sarvant,

"ANN HALL.

"What I main is his reail astate, which will be in a few years £400, and as for the lase, I lave it in his one power to improve his fortune with.""

Mrs. Hall's brother, Ralph Lambert, was appointed dean of Down, on the 4th May, 1709; bishop of Dromore, on the 12th of April, 1717; and bishop of Meath, on the 10th of February, 1726. He died on the 6th of February, 1731, and was buried in St. Michan's Church, Dublin.Ware's Works, vol. i., pp. 164, 267. Her daughter, Mrs. Montgomery, died in 1723, leaving two sonsEdward, who died in 1726; and William, who succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1755. The father re-married in 1725, with Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Samuel Hill, whose grandfather was treasurer of Ireland in the time of the Commonwealth. This lady has left the following interesting record of her children in a precious old Bible which had belonged to her motherin-law, Mary McGill, and which is now in the possession of Hugh Montgomery, esq., of Greyabbey :

:

"1. Mary Montgomery, his eldest daughter, was born on the 1st of December, 1726; her godfathers were the lord bishop of Meath (Ralph Lambert) and Rowley Hill, Esqr., her uncle. Her godmothers were Mrs. Catherine Rowley and Mrs Bailie of Inishargey.

"2. Hugh Montgomery was born on the 4th of September, 1727; his godfathers were the Rev. Dean Gore, of Down, and William Montgomery, Esq., of Killough. His godmothers were Mrs. Hall of Strangford, and his aunt Mrs. Mary Hill.

3. Ann Montgomery was born on September the 20th, 1730. Her godfathers were the Rev. Edward Matthews, and Francis Hall, Esq., of Strangford; her godmothers were Mrs. Montgomery of Drogheda and Mrs. Letitia Hall of Strangford.

46 4. Elizabeth Montgomery was born on Sept., ye 29th, 1731. Her godfathers were Archdeacon Usher and William Savage of Kirkestown; her godmothers were her aunt Mrs. Sophia Hill and Mrs. Mauleverer. She died Feb. the 27, 1738.

5. Rowley Montgomery was born Oct. ye 29th, 1732. His godfathers were Hugh Willoughby and Tom Tenison, Esqr. His godmother, Mrs. Alice Lambert.

"6. Catherine Montgomery was born August the 20th, 1735. Her godfathers were Mr. Tippen and her uncle Samuel Hill, Esqr.; her godmothers were Mrs. Rowelly and Mrs. Ann Hall, junr.

7. James Montgomery was born ye 14th Nov., 1736. His godfathers were Robert Maxwell, Esqr., of Finnebrogue, and his uncle the Rev. Hugh Hill of Mounthill; his godmother, Mrs. Hall of Strangford.

"8. Robert Montgomery was born August ye 24th, 1738. His godfathers were Robert McGill, Esq., of Gill-Hall, and the Rev. Dr. Bacon; his godmother, old Mrs. Bailie of Inishargey. 1758, 29 December, died at Fennibrogue of a fever; he is buried in Greyabby Church.

"9. Letitia Montgomery was born Oct. ye 4th, 1741. Her godfather, Mr. Hans Bailie; her godmothers, Mrs. Hall of Killough, and Mrs. Ann Fortiscue. July the 12 I unhappily lost my Dr. child by her falling into the cistern in the Court.

10. Samuel Montgomery was born on Trinity Sunday, May ye 29th, 1743. His godfathers were lord Kildare and colonel Welch; his godmother, Mrs. Lucy Hardman of Drougheda.

"My Dr Daughter, Mary Maxwell, died in Dublin, August, 1775. She lys in a vault in St. Michan's Church.

"Her Dr child, William Maxwell, died August ye 19th, 1756, at Fennibrogue of a sore throat. He is buried at Inch Church, he was just 6 years old. His brother, Edward Maxwell, died 7 Oct., 1756, of the same distemper, and is buried by him.

"Their sister, Elizabeth Maxwell, died at Springvale of the same Distemper ye 28th December, 1756. She is laid by her grandfather and many of her uncles and aunts in the vault of Grayabby Church." 29 Castle of Ponoune.-The chief who so distinguished himself at the battle of Otterburn was sir John de Montgomerie, who succeeded to the lordship of Ardrossan in 1367, through his mother, Elizabeth, a daughter of sir Hugh Eglinton of Eglinton. Sir John's eldest son, Hugh, was slain at Otterburn, fighting by his father's side. "The spear and pennon of Percy were carried along with the body of the gallant youth to Edinburgh Castle (from thence, no doubt, conveyed to the family burial-place at Eaglesham or Kilwinning), and the trophies still remain in the possession of the noble house of Eglinton. It is said that, when the late duke of Northumberland requested their restoration, the late earl of Eglinton replied-There is as good lea land here as any at Chevy Chase, let Percy come and take them.' See Paterson's Parishes and Families of Ayrshire, vol. ii., pp. 232, 233.

30 James McGill of Kirkistown.-See p. 251, supra. captain James McGill married Jean, daughter of Alexander Bailie of Inishargy, and by her had several children. Their mother carefully recorded their names and the dates of their births in the old family Bible mentioned in the preceding note, which she bequeathed to her second daughter Mary, who married William Montgomery. The author calls Mary "eldest daughter" of Captain James McGill, but according to her mother's account in the following record, she was the second. Mrs. Jean McGill mentions also the names of such of her children as died before her, and the manner of their deaths :

"Memorandam-Sarah McGill was born on the 23 of desember being Setterday about 5 o'clock in the efternoune 1648.

Memr.-Mary McGill was borne the last of november at 3 in the morning on Seterday 1649.

"Memr.-Elessabeth McGill was borne on the 15 day of agust on frayday 1651.

"Memr.-Margratt McGill was borne on the 19 of June 1653 att 6 in the morning.

"Memer.-hugh McGill was borne on the 21 of September 1655 on frayday att 7 in the morning.

"Memer.-Jeane McGill was borne on the sixth day of october on teusday.

1657

Memer.-Kettreine McGill was borne the 8 day of September 1658 frayday at 11 a clok.

Memer.-William McGill was borne on the 13 day of Jeanuerie 1660 on monday morning.

"Memr.-2 Kettreine was borne on the 20 of october 1662 on teusday morning.

"Memer.-The 2 Jeane McGill was borne 2 day of June 1644 on munday at ten a clok in the morning.

"Memer.-Anne McGill was borne on the 7 day of June 1665 on teusday in the efternoun.

"Memer.-Jeames McGill was borne on the 6 day of apryll 1669 on teusday in the efternoun.

"Memer.-Kettreine McGill 3 was borne on the forth of may 1672 on munday att night.

"Memer.-That my deir son Jeams McGill was murdred att Portglenone bridge with the barbrous Ierisse on the 7 day of apryll 1689, he being just tuintie yeare ould the night befor his death. I brought his bons hom in a box and lead them by his father."

[James McGill served under lieutenant-cololonel Shaw, who had charge of the trenches at Portglenone, and who being attacked, on the 7th of April, by a superior force of the Irish, was obliged to retreat after a gallant resistance in which several of his officers and men were slain.]

"Memer. That my deire sone hugh McGill was killed with a connone ball at the sedge of Achlone on the nynteine of Jullie 1690 he being in his thartie fyrst yeare of his edge. "JEANE MCGILL."

[The death of Hugh McGill at Athlone is noticed by Storey as having occurred on Sunday, the 20th of July, 1690. "That day," says he, "one captain Mackgill, a voluntier, was killed at our battery with a canon shot from the castle."-Impartial History of the Affairs of Ireland, p. 102. His death is also noticed by a brother officer, D. Campbell, in a letter addressed to sir Arthur Rawdon, and written from Carricknosure (Carrick-on-Suir) on the 24th, four days after its occurrence. "The lieutenantgeneral," says the writer, "broke ground and lost but about 14 men; the enemy raised a battery, and poor unfortunate Hugh M.Gill would needs go to see it, tho' dissuaded from it by every one; his arm and shoulder were shot from him by a cannon shot, of which he immediately fell dead, and not much lamented, because every one condemned his going thither.-Rawdon Papers, pp. 327, 328.]

"Memorandom-That my deir mother margrat mertteine depearted this Lyff on the 11 of november 1671.

"Memerandom - That my deir feather allexander Baellie depearted this Lyff on the tharteine of September 1682 Inshargie.

of

"Memerandom-That my deir brother eduard Beallie of ringdifference pearted this lyff on the 25 of november 1682. "Memerandom-That my deir sister-in-lau eleissabeth dumbare depearted this lyff on the seventh of agust 1683.

JEAN MCGILL. "Memerandom-That my deir brother, John Beallie of inshargie pearted this lyff on the thread of may 1687.

"Memerandam-That my deir sister-in-Lau Sarah Leix pearted

this Lyff

"Memerandom-That my sone hugh's first chyld Lucy McGill was borne on the thred day of november 1685 in Casseell balfore in the countie of fermanach.

"Memarandom-That my sone hughs 2 doughter Isabella was borne on the elevent day of Januerie 1686 in belinester in the countie of doun decd.

"Memerandom-That my son hughs thred doughter Lettishia was born on the tenth of may 1688 in belinester in the countie of doun: she is dead.

"Memerandom-That my sone hugh McGill's fourth doughter Jean McGill was borne on the 27 Jullie 1690 in belinester in the countie of doun eight days after her fa[ther was killed at Athlone]. See a preceding entry.

"Jeane McGill of bellinesters Book which I promissed to my doughter Mary att my death.

"Jeane McGill off bellinester ought this Book.

This book I leave to my deer doughter Montgomrie of Grenchoch, as witnes my hand,

"JEANE MCGILL."

On or about the 27th of August, 1660, William Montgomery of Rosemount, esq., demised to James McGill the lands called Ballynester, alias Corbally, and the quarter land called Ballymurchie, for the term of ninety years, at the yearly rent of £4 5s. In the year 1694, Alexander

Browne of Coolsillagh obtained a judgment against Jane McGill for a debt that had been contracted by her husband in 1674, for which Ballynester and Ballymurchie were sold to James Baillie of Inishargie. For these lands Baillie paid £62. He afterwards sold them to William McGill of Ballynester (son of James and Jane McGill), for the sum of £100. In the year 1700, William McGill sold them to Robert Hamill for £140, the latter transferring his right and title of these lands to Ann Hill, for the sum of three hundred and twenty one pounds. On the 28th of February, 1707, a tripartite indenture between Robert Hamill of Ballyatwood, esq., and Jane McGill of Ballinester, widow of James McGill, of the first part, Simon Isaac of Balliwalter of the second part, and Ann Hill of Hills. burough, widow, of the third part.-MS. preserved at Greyabbey. Mrs. Jean McGill, widow of captain James McGill, died in the month of January, 1711-12. She made her will on the 6th of December preceding, leaving to her grandson, Samuel Madden, esq., county of Fermanagh, all her worldly goods and claims whatsoever. Another grandson, named Robert Johnston inherited the lease and residence of Kirkistown. According to articles of agree. ment between these gentlemen, dated 18th January, 1711-12, Robert Johnston of Kirkistown, engaged to pay to Samuel Madden the sum of £40 for his claim derived through Mrs. McGill's will, and also to surrender up all goods bestowed to him or his wife "and in particular one silver tankard and large soop spoon." Johnston also agreed to pay all servant's wages, and all "funeral expenses as they now stand charged by Mr. John Chads his Bill 'merct of Belfast." This agreement was drawn up by William Balfour, esq., and Mr. James Montgomery, clerk; both these gentlemen signing as witnesses.-MS. preserved at Greyabbey.

31 Will Montgomery. The "original" narrative of Gransheogh, as well as that transcribed from it by Mr. Robert Watson, is at Tyrella, both being given to the late A. H. Montgomery, Esq., by major Mathews of Springvale.

Of Ballymagoun.-This portion of the Montgomery Manuscripts was not included in the edition of 1830, its existence being then unknown. It was first printed in the ninth volume of the Ulster Journal of Archæology, pp. 156-171, and 278-283, with an introduction and notes, by the Rev. Dr. MacIlwaine, incumbent of St. George's, Belfast. This gentleman obtained it from Adam Dickey, esq., of Belfast, to whom it had come after the death of his sister. The deceased lady received it (whether on loan or as a gift does not appear) from the family of the late Rev. William Montgomery of Ballyeaston, county of Antrim, who died in the year 1809, and in whose family it had been preserved. The author of the Montgomery Manuscripts supplied portions of his work to families specially noticed therein, and this fragment was, no doubt, thus given originally to Hugh Montgomery of Ballymagown, and transmitted through his representatives until it came into the possession of the Rev. William Montgomery abovenamed. This minister was introduced to the presbytery of Templepatrick on the 11th of March, 1756; on the 4th of May following, he came to a subsequent meeting, bringing with him a certificate from the Rev. Mr. Alexander of Castlereagh, most probably the minister of the congregation in which Mr. Montgomery had been educated, and of which his father's family were members. He was ordained, or settled in the congregation of Ballyeaston, on the 27th of July, 1759, and died there on the 24th of April, 1809. He is interred in Rashee burying-ground, where a tombstone, bearing the following inscription, marks his grave :—

1809. Sacred

To the Memory of the

Reverend William Montgomery, For 51 years Presbyterian Minister of Ballyeaston,

Who died on the 24th April, 1809,
Aged 75 years.

"He was an Israelite indeed,

In whom there was no guile."

Also, of Catherine, his relict, who died

in May, 1818, aged 81 years. Also, of three infant children.

Till his death in 1647.-This clergyman has been already mentioned by the author as attending the funeral of the first viscount, to whom he was related. See p. 135, supra. James Montgomery was of the Hessilhead branch, and the first viscount's mother was a daughter of the sixth laird of Hessilhead.

3 Hazilhead.-Robert Montgomery, sixth laird of Hessilhead, who succeeded to that estate in 1602, obtained a grant from bishop George Montgomery in Fermanagh, in James Montgomery, on the 13th of August, 1623. In the year 1618. These lands he granted to his second son, 1626, 10th of May, this James Montgomery, who is styled of Rouskie, conveyed to Malcom Hamilton, archbishop of Cashel, two quarters of land, containing eight tates, in the parishes of Aghalurker and Drummulley.-Morrin, Calendar, reign of Charles I., p. 609.

4 Near Monros.-Montrose is frequently written Munros in old charters, and is so pronounced by the natives of the district at the present time.—New Statistical Account of Scotland, Forfarshire, pp. 271, 272; Cosmo Innes, Sketches of Early Scottish History, pp. 7, 146, 153.

5 Called Hatoune.-Hatoune, or the Ha' town, in the parish of Newbyle, Forfarshire, was not far distant from Montrose or Munros. The Ha' or Hall, from which this place had its name, was built, or rather rebuilt, by Lawrence, lord Oliphant, in 1575. This castle was the bishop's residence in 1689, and in that year was used as a church, as appears from the following entry in the parochial records:-"The Prisbitry violently entered the church by breaking up the doors thereof, so that from the 8th day of May aforesaid, the pariochoners did conveen to the Haltoun, where they are to have sermon maintained

by the bishop of Aberdeen."—New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. ix., p. 591.

• Family of Dunrod.-The founder of the Dunrod branch of the Lindsays was John, a younger son of sir James Lindsay of Cragie and Thurston, one of the slayers of the "red Cumvn." From 1350 to 1602 there was a regular succession of chiefs, their original residence being Dunrod castle in Renfrewshire, from which they afterwards removed to the Mains of Lanarkshire, where the family had held estates from the time of Robert II. The last lord of Dunrod was Alexander Lindsay, who became an active partisan in the feud between the Montgomerys and Cunninghams, on the side of the former. In the prosecution of this bloody work, Alexander Lindsay secretly siew Leckie of Leckie, a noted bravo on the side of the Cunninghams, and brother-in-law to Patrick Maxwell of Newark. See p. 11, supra. Lindsay killed him by a shot from a farmhouse window, at Hagton Hill, near Glasgow, and the perpetrator was not known until many years subsequently, when Lindsay himself, in his old age and poverty, acknowledged that he was the slayer of Leckie. In 1619, Lindsay was compelled to sell the family estates, and he is sand afterwards to have subsisted miserably and disre putably as a warlock! In concert with certain reputed witches among his former cottars at Innerkip, this once haughty teritorial lord, the last of a long line of barons, esteemed the proudest in the West Country, lived by the feex of sea-captains and fishermen, who trusted to his Nacé aré to secure them against unfavourable winds! His accomplishments as a warlock are asserted in the following tradition d rhyme, which is still familiar to the inhabitauts of lunerkipe

“Iu Auldkirk the witches ride thick,
Axis Dured they dwell;
But the greatest loo amang them a'
Is auid Duurod Nasel.

A popular ballad, written subsequently to this local rhyme, describes. Imdsay as a very formidable person indeed, reavering av positively, his character of wizard:

“Aud Dunrod was a goustie carl
Trovere might see,

And so be was naa warlock wicht
They was baie in the baill countrie."

the old gentleman was a near relative, probably an uncle, It would ad Pleabech Eindsay mentioned in the text.

appear that other relatives settled in Ireland about the time at which she came with her husband, David M'Gill, to the Ards. The Bucknalls of Turin Castle, county Mayo, and the Lindsays of Holymount, in the same county, are of Dunrod descent, a fact established not only by unbroken family tradition, but the absolute identity of their armorial bearings with those of that ancient house. — Lives of the Lindsays, vol. ii., pp. 290, 293. The laird sold the barony of Dunrod, in 1619, to sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall and Ardgowan. An advertisement for the sale was drawn up on that occasion, and is now a curious document, exhibiting, as it does, the attractions of the property for purchasers, and containing a full list of the laird's tenants, their holdings, their rents in silver and in corn, vittall, beir, maut, meill, salt, butter, cheise, fouls, creills of peits, herring, rouch-wedders (unshorn), turses of hay, daily service, and riding for service. The advertisement concludes thus :-" Wt in ye ground abundans of lymestaine and friestane; in ye widdis all kynd of temmir usuall in yis countrie; the miller takes na mil stanes farther yane ye mill floir or the mill geawell (gable). Upone ye north syde ane commonty of mey awin, on ye sowth syde lys ye common commontie; wt. in Dunrod is abundant of gud mos and turfe, qlk. wt. in werie few years wil not be gattin for silver. Ye place is twa towris and fourteine houssis, by (besides) ye throwgange (tho roughfare) turnpyk (circular stair), and transis (passage). Yit it is bot four rumyeis (rooms), and ilk tour twyss wantit, sa ye kirk ye first place and Buriall. [This is obscure, but it probably means that the laird would sell his precedence in the kirk and in the burial-ground.] Vis Îand falls (produces) mair than thretteen scoir of bolls corne and beir, and fawis (yields) langle-lint and kemp (hemp), ye quhilk is were foren and profitabill. It maws threttie dark of hey: Of tydie ky mae thane nyne scoir, by (besides, yowis, hors, and yell soumis. Ye onsettis (farm-houses) ar weill biggit, and hes guid yardis, and ye tenants int ye best of ye cuntrie."-Scottish Journal of Topography, &c., vol. i., p. 275.

Eldest daughter.-In George Crawford's Description of the Shire of Renfrew, p. 125, Isabel Shaw, who married John Lindsay, is said to be second daughter of John

Shaw of Greenock.

8 October, 1633.-See p. 123, supra. 9 Ao. 1636.-See p. 135, supra.