222 STAFFORD — STAIR. STAFFORD [name, see page 208.] Barony. j. Sir Hugh Stafford, having m. before Sep. T InuatrA 1411 1410 > Elizabeth, mo jure Baroness Bourchibh, was (doubtless,
- wf"* c 't in her light), sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD STAFFORD,
, . ° tho'jaerj if not meant as LOUD BOURCHIER), by writs from 21 Sep. (1411), 12 Hen. IV., to 22 March (1412/3), 1 Hen. V. directed " JJuyoni Stafford. He il. s.p. 1420. See fuller particulars of him under " BOURCHIBB Barony, cr. 1342, sub the 4th holder. STAFFORD DE SUTHWYKE. Barony. /, Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Suihwyko, in Nonh I 1401 Bradley, co. Wilts, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD STAF- ,. FORD DK SUTHWVK) by writs from 25 July (1461), 1 Ed. IV., 1ARA to 28 Fcb - C1462/S), 2 Ed. IV., directed '* JJumfrido Stajford de, Suthwyke, Ckev." and was cr. by patent, 2-1 April 1484, BARON to STAFFORD OF SUTHWYKE. He was cr. 17 May l it)!), EARL 1469. OF DEVON, but was beheaded, three months afterwards, 17 Aug. 1409 when aa he (/. s.p. all his honours became extinct. See fuller par- ticulars under " Devon " Earldom, cr. May 146:9 ) ex. Aug. l ltiy. STAISBOROUGH. i.e., " Wentwortii of Wentwortii Woodhouse and of Stainrorougr, co. York," Viscouutcy (Wenticorth), cr. 1711, with the Eaiildom of Stiiaffokd, which Bee ; ex. 1799. STAIR. Viscountcy [S.] 1. James Dalrymple, of Stair in Kyle, co. Ayr, I. 1 090. oa 'y s ' ai "^ h ' of Ja,u( * s VtOXVaat, of the same (who rf. 1625), by .lanet, da. of Fergus Kennedy, of Knockdaw. was 6. May 1619, at his father's farm at Drnmmurchie, co. Carrick ; cd. at Manchline school anil at the Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. and first of the Graduates in Arts 1637, and for six years, 1641-47, Kegent at that Univ., having, in 1637-41, served in the army. He was admitted an Advocate [S.j. 17 Feb. 1647/8, was Sec. to the two Commissions, 1649 and 1650, from Scotland, to Charles 11.; a Lord of Session, 1657-60, and again, 1661-70; President of that Court, 1 870-81, and again, 1689-1*4, having been cr. a Baronet [S.], 2 June 1664 ; M P. [A.] for Wigtonshire, 1672-74, 167« (convention), 1681-82, and for Ayrshire, losfl-HO. He, being in disfavour with the Court party, quitted Scotland, in 168'J, for Holland, and returned in 1688 with William III. by whom he was restored to his old post as afsd. in Nov. 16S9 being subsequently cr. 21 April 1690, VISCOUNT OF STAIR, LORD GLENLUCE AND STRANRAER [S.] He m. 21 Sep. 1643 (contract!") dat. 20 at Balcail). Margaret, widow of Fergus Kennedy, of Knockdaw, ( h ) 1st da. ami coheir (but inheritrix of all the estates) of James Ross, of Balneil, co. Wigton, by Sarah, da. of Alexander Svmk, Advocate. She d. 16P2,(«) and was bar. at Kirkliston. He d. 25 Nov. 1695, in his 75th jear, and was bur. in St. Giles' church, Ediuburgh.C 1 ) Funeral entry in Lyon ollice. Maud." [Courthope, as corrected by himself in his own copy of his " Historic Peerage," now at the Coll. of Arms.] See the descendants of this Maud in liauks's " liar. Anr/l. Cone," under " Stafford of Clifton." (") Evidences at Lochinch seen by Col. lioyle. [Ex. inform. M. J. Shaw-Stewart.] ( b ) They were m. in 1640 ; see note " a " above. Her husbands were probably first cousins to each other and grandsons of the aboveuamed Fergus Kennedy. ( c ) Her suppoit of the Presbyterian Preachers made her very unpopular with the other party. She was nicknamed the " Witch of Endor," tec, and the misfortunes of her family were laid at her door ; c.ij., (1) of her 1st 8., who incurred the oblonuy of the Glencoe massacre ; (2) of her 1st da,, Janet (m. David Dunbar, 12 Aug. and bur. 30 Sep. 1669, but six weeks later), who is the supposed original of "Lucy Ashton " in Scott's " Bride of Lummermoor " ; (3) of her eldest surv. grandson, who killed his elder brother, &c. C) His great work, the " institutions of the Law of Scotland," testifies to hia ability, and he appears to have been (whilst, like all his race, a most zealous Presbyterian) a man
