Mungo Mure of Rowallan

MUNGO MURE OF ROWALLAN (aka KENTIGERN MURE OF ROWALLAN)

Mungo Mure of Rowallan is the son of John Mure of Rowallan: "Mongow succeided to his fayr Johne." House of Rowallane, page 79. His mother is Margaret Boyd. Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, i, A.D. 1488-1529, charter number 3431 on p. 519

A date and place of birth has not been identified for Mungo Mure of Rowallan. He succeeded his father in or before 1513 and must have been born before this date. Exchequer Rolls of Scotland

Rowallan Castle

Mungo Mure of Rowallan made improvements at Rowallan Castle: "This Moungu Muire raisit ye hall vpone four vouttis [vaults] and laiche trance and compleitit the samen in his avin tyme." Family Tree, 1597 Sir William Mure translated this as: "He bigged the hall from the ground & completed it in his owne time. Historie, p. 81

Death

According to Sir William Mure of Rowallan, Mugow Mure of Rowallan was: "a man of singulare valour and verie worthie of his hands, qrof he gave good proofe in divers conflicts. He died in battell at the Black Satterday In the year of our lord 1547." The editor of Sir William's Historie explains: "The battle of pinkie-cleuch, so disastrous to the Scottish army, alling out on a Saturday, was long so emphatically called in Scotland." Historie, note on pp. 81-2

Marriage

Mungo Mure of Rowallan married Isabel Campbell, daughter of Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudon. Sir William Mure of Rowallan says this of the marriage: "He married Isobell Campbell daughter to the schereff of Aire whose mother was Wallace of the house of Carnell. She bare unto him Johne who succeided, Archibald of Arioland & Cotland, Mr Patrick, persone of ffarne, Hugh of Blacklaw & Skirnalland, and Robert And daughters the lady Enterkine, Lady Carnall, Lady Mochrum, Lady Baruchane, and Lady Dreghoen." Historie, pp. 79-80

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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1513: Libri Responsionem. Cunynghame. Idem ballivus respondebit pro 300 marcis de relevio 100 marcatarum terrarum antiqui extentus baronie de Rowallane, regi debito per sasinam datam Kentigerno Mure de eisdem anno etc. predictis. Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Volume XIV, A.D. 1513-1522, page 526

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12 July 1526: Preceptum carte feodifirme KENTIGERNI MURE de Rowallane,--super totis et integris illis quinque mercatis terrarum antiqui extentus de Blacklaw, quinque mercatis terrarum de Hairschaw, sex mercatis terrarum de Corshillis, sex mercatis terrarum nuncupat 'le' Clerkland, xl solidatis terrarum de Cuttiswra et quinque mercatis terrarum de Ormesheuch, extenden, in integro ad viginti libratas terrarum antiqui extentus cum pertinentiis, unacum molendino regis de Clerkland et omnibus suis pertinentiis, jacen.in dominio de Stewartoun infra vic. de Are, etc.,--cum clausulis carte feodifirme: REDDENDO, etc. summan xliiii lib., etc., in augumentationem, etc., ad summam xxii lib., unacum duplo dicte feodifirme, etc. Reservato tamen Margarete Boyd matri dicti Kentigerni, domine de Rowallane, vitali redditus, etc., pro toto tempore bite sue, etc.; exonerando dictum Kentigernum de solutione dicte feodifirme durante vita dicte sue matris, etc. Perr Signetum vi. 9. et vii. 8. Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, Volume I, A.D. 1488-1529, charter mumber 3431 on page 519

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12 July 1526: Charter granted by King James V under his Great Seal in favour of Kentigern More of Rowallane and his heirs male whom failing to the eldest of his heirs female without division of those 5 merks of land of old extent of Blaklaw, 5 merks of land of Hairschaw, 6 merks of land of Corshillis, 6 merks of land then called the Clerkland, 40s of land of Cuttiswra and 5 merks of land of Ormesheuch extending together to 20lib of land of old extent which Margaret Boyd, Lady of Rowallan, mother of said Kentigern, held of the King in liferent by his letters under the Great Seal together with the King's mill of Clerkland lying in the lordship of Stewarton within the sheriffdom of Ayr; to be held of the King in feu farm, paying therefor yearly 44 pounds usual money of the kingdom, at two usual terms Whitsunday and Martinmas by equal portions in name of feu farm in augmentation of the rental of the foresaid lands and mill to 22 pounds yearly together with the marriage of the said heirs when this should happen and also the foresaid heirs paying double of the feu duty the first year of their entry thereto as use is of feu farm and the said Kentigern and his heirs building and upholding the said lands a sufficient house with hall, chamber, kitchen, stable etc and other necessary buildings and policies and corresponding to those which were formerly on the said lands reserving to the said Margaret her gift of liferent of the foresaid lands and mill and the profits of the same for the whole time of her life according to the tenor of the King's letter and gift under his Great Seal first made to her thereupon and exonering the said Kentigern and his heirs from payment of the feu duty during the life of his mother. Witnesses: Gavin, archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin, bishop of Aberdeen, clerk register, Henry, bishop of Galloway and chaplain of the Royal Chapel of Stirling, Archibald, Earl of Angus, Lord Douglas, Colin, Earl of Ergile (Argyll), Lord Campbell and Lorne, John, Earl of Lennox, Lord Dernlie, Patrick, prior of the metropolitan church of St Andrews, secretary, George, abbot of the monastery of Holyrood near Edinburgh, keeper of the Privy Seal. Dated at Edinburgh in the 13th year of his reign. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/10/11

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16 July 1526: Respite made in favour of Cutherbert, Earl of Glencairn and fouteen others, including Mungo Mre of Rowallan: "for thair treasonable art and part assegeing of the castell of Striveling" and other crimes, including: "thair treasonable assegeing, taking and withhalding of his castell of Dunbertane." Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, i, A.D. 1488-1529, charter number 3440 on pp. 520-21

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2 May 1530: Agreement by Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, on the one part, and Robert Boyd in Kilmarnock, and Mungo Muir of Rowallan, on the other part, anent the assythement modified by arbiters of the said Robert, for the slaughter of his chief. National Records of Scotland, Boyd Papers, reference GD8/74

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30 May 1531: Bond by Robert Boyd in Kilmarnock and Mungo Muir of Rowallan to Hugh, earl of Eglinton for 1500 merks National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/2/3/17

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13 November 1531: Instrument narrating that Hugh, earl of Eglinton, discharged Robert Boyd in Kilmarnock and Mungo Muir of Rowallan of 200 merks. Witnesses: Robert, bishop of the Isles; James Wallace of Craigie; Thomas Niven, messenger; Thomas Michell; Mr Andrew Montgomery, vicar of Stewarton; sir Robert Montgomery, parson of Kilblayne. Notaries: George Baxter and William Mure. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/2/3/18

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7 June 1532: Summons of error at the instance of King James V and William Master of Glencairn against James Muirhead of Lauchope, Thomas Hamilton of Woodhall and Charles Campbell, Macers, and against William Wallace of Craigy, Mungo Muir of Rowallan, and 13 other persons to compear before the Lords of Council and answer for their manifest and wilful error, in retouring that Dame Isobel Wallace of Easter Loudon died last vest and seised as of fee, in the half of the lands and barony of Wester Loudon. At Edinburgh. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/47

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24 November 1532: Summons of errors (See GD39/1/47) at the instance of King James V and William Master of Glencairn, against James Muirhead of Louchope, Thomas Hamilton of Woodhall and Charles Campbell, macers and against William Wallace of Craigy, Mungo Mure of Rowallan and 13 other persons to compear before the lords of Council and answer for their manifest and willful error in serving of Hugh Campbell of Loudon as son and heir assignee of the deceased Dame Isobel Wallace of Easter Loudon in the half of the lands and barony of Wester Loudon and Stevenston. At Edinburgh. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/49

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17 February 1535-36: Extract decreet of lords of council in action at instance of Mungo Muir of Rowalloun against William Cunninghame of Cuninghameheid, re charter of lands of Pokelly National Records of Scotland, Cuningham of Cuninghamhead, reference RH15/28/113

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21 July 1540: Instrument bearing that Alan, lord Cathcart, produced before George Campbell of Brintwood, John, Wallace of Meynfurd and John Laing, sheriff-deputes of Air [Ayr], in a sheriff court sitting in the tolbooth of Air a transumpt (dated at Glasgow, 8 July 1540 under the seal of the Official of Glasgow and subscription of sir Thomas Hammiltoun [Hamilton], notary public) of two instruments of sasine dated 18 February 1505 by deceased Mr. Constantine Montgomery, notary public: (1) by Alan Cathcart of Carltoun [Carleton] propriis manibus to John, lord Cathcart, of the 6 merkland of Carltonhill, 40s land of Alhallochapell, 20s land of Dornelle and 20s land of Glaistry; the 40s land of Nether Pinmore and 18 merkland of Killub and Troweire; and the 2 merkland of Innoch, all in the bailiary of Carick [Carrick] and sheriffdom of Air; (2) by the said Alan, the said Lord Cathcart having resigned the subjects to him as superior, to John Cathcart of Drumsmodan [Drumsmudden] as attorney for Alan, master of Cathcart. On which Robert Cathcart of Killunquhan [Killochan] asked instruments. Done in the tolbooth of Air between 1 and 2 p.m. Witnesses: Hew, master of Eglintoun [Eglinton], John Cuninghame [Cunningham] of Caprintoun [Caprington], David Boswele [Boswell] of Auchinlek [Auchinleck], Mungo Mure [Muir] of Rowallan, Mr. William Montgomery of Stane, Robert Craufurd [Crawford] of Clolynane, William Cuningham of Cuninghamhede [Cunninghamhead] and David Cuninghame of Robertland. Notary: Murdoch Nesbit [Nisbet], clerk of the diocese of Glasgow, apostolic and imperial notary. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Cathcart Family of Carleton and Killochan, reference GD117/40

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1541: Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer

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3 October 1545: Commission under the quarter seal for serving the brieves of Hugh, Master of Eglinton, as heir to his grandfather. Permission is given to hold the inquest in the burgh court house at Irvine because the plague was raging on those Cunningham lands of which he was to be given infeftment. Endorsed: William, lord Semple; Mungo Muir of Rowallan; Charles Mowat of Bushie; Thomas Nevin of Monkredding and Adam Montgomery of Murhous swear, in presence of Cardinal Betoun and others of the lords, to carry out the inquest. Done at the palace of Linlithgow, 5 October 1545. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/2/4/5

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3 June 1630: (16856) Dominus Willielmus Mure de Rowallane, miles, haeres Quintigerni Mure de Rowallane, proavi. xi. 20. Inquisitionum Ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum, etc., Vol. II. Inquisitionem Generales

Genealogical Accounts

1. The historie and descent of the house of Rowallane by Sir William Mure, knight of Rowallan ; written in, or prior to 1657. Published 1825 by Printed for Chalmers and Collins in Glasgow . 
2. Genealogics: Sir Mungow Mure of Rowallan
3. Clan Muir Society: The Mures of Rowallan
4. Our Royal Ancestors