280              GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. II

Estate to William the first Lord Cochrane Afterward Earl of
Dundonald in the Year 1665.¹

[page 129.]

His Daughter Helen who was Married to John Cuning-
hame of Caddell in the Shire of Air who may likely have the
Antient Writes of the House of Ranfurlie in his Custody.
The Antient Family of Ranfurlie being Extinct in the Male
Line at Least in the Later Descents the heirs Male was come
to the Knoxes of Selvieland a family Also in the Barony and
Shirriffdom of Renfrew a Branch of the Family and House of
Ranfurlie. But now are the Representative of the Antient
Cheif family Knox of Ranfurlie it Self. And has Right to
Wear their Arms which for what I know they Do Accordingly.

[page 130.]

The Ancestor of Knox of Selvieland was William Knox
Younger Son to Uchter Knox of Ranfurlie by his Lady who
was the Lord Semples daughter. Some think he Married the
heir of the Antient Sirname and Lands of Selvieland of which
I have Seen a Charter as Antient as the Very Beginning of
the Reign of King Robert the Bruce Granted by Jacobus
Senescallus Scotiæ Stephano Filio Nicolai de Illa Terra quæ
data Patricio de Selvieland, Ubi aqua de Greiff Descendit in
Aquam de Clyde. The Charter wants a Date a thing very
Usual in Antient Deeds But from Fordon our Antient His-
torian we are told the granter of the Charter Dyed in the
1309. But this William Knox of Selvieland had another
wife by whom he had all his Children Viz: Margaret Daughter
of Patrick Fleemming of Barrochan² by whom he had a Son
William Knox of Selvieland who built the house of Selvieland
whereon his Name and his Ladys Is Still to be Seen. The
Lady was Margaret Daughter of George Maxwell of Newark
By Marion his Wife Daughter of William Cunninghame of
Craigends Widow of Uchter Knox of Ranfurlie by whom he
had his Eldest Son whose heirs Male are quite Extinct and
a Second Son whose name was Mark or Markus

¹  I have perused the Writings And the Charters of Ranfurlie in the hands of
the Earl of Dundonald But I Observe there are few or Rather Any of the Old
Charters. I Suppose the Earl of Dundonald the purchaser Satisfied him Self with
a Legall progress So that the Antienter Charters may be in the Custody of
Cunninghame of Caddell his Grandson and Heir.

²  Carta among ye writes of the Knoxes.