Alexander Leckie, 10th. of that Ilk

ALEXANDER LECKIE OF THAT ILK younger

Death

Alexander was murdered in September 1601 by Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod on behalf of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood. Both men were related by marriage. The fatal shot being fired out of a window of farm house near Hagton Hill, near Glasgow. The murder was not resolved until his son reached majority by 1622.

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

17 June 1606: Charter by which Patrick Maxwell of Newark, confirms that he has given the two and one half merk land of Over Mains of Wester Leckie, together with other lands in Wester Leckie , to Adam Cunningham, son of Adam Cunningham of Auchinhervie. The grant was made with the consent of his sister Euphamie Maxwell, widow of Alexander Leckie, fiar of that Ilk, in fulfilment of a marriage contract between her and Adam Cunningham the younger. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1593-1608, charter number 1794 on p. 654

NOTES

Alexander Leckie, of that Ilk {circa 1560-1601), was murdered by Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod. He married Euphemia, daughter of George Maxwell of Newark. His son Alexander Leckie, of that Ilk, carried on the feud against the Maxwells and Lindsays, and finally dispossessed Alexander Lindsay, of Dunrod, of his estate. He married Grizel, daughter of Sir John Murray of Polmais

   1 - Alexander Leckie, 10th of Leckie; bc 1567; d SEP 1601; m Euphemia Maxwell (bc 1571). He was murdered by Alexander Lindsay, of Dunrod on behalf of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood. Both men were related by marriage. The fatal shot being fired out of a window of a farm house at Hagton Hill, near Glasgow. The murder was not resolved until his son reached majority by 1622.

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   2 - In the month of September 1601, Alexander, son and heir of old Laird Walter, was foully murdered by or at the instance of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood and Alexander Lindsay of Dunrod, who were related to him by marriage. It is not till 1622, when victim's son had attained his majority and brought his father's murders to justice, that we get an account of what happened. It is set forth as followes in a paper submitted to the Privy Council by Alexander Leckie:

   There falling out a controversie betwix the Lairdis of Calderwood and Newwark anent the lands of Hagtounhill, the Lairdis of Minto, Ferme, and sindrie utheirs preassing to tak up the same dureing the tyme of the conference, the Laird of Dunrod and cerrtane of his complices crap up covertlie under and dyksyd neir the place of conference, and befoir the upgiffing thairof schott the defunct deid behind his bak, being then altogidder unfurnished of wapoun or any airmour ather offensive or defensive.(P.C. Register,xiii.,767)

   (The Lairds of Leckie by W.B. Cook)

   It would seem that somewhere about the time Walter Leckie of that Ilk married his second wife, he resigned the possession of his estates to his eldest son, Alexander, for Alexander is subsequently referred to as "Alexander Leckie of that Ilk," even though he pre-deceased his father. It was during the very end of the old laird's life that the greatest feud in the history of the family commenced, viz.: between the Leckies, Maxwells of Newark and Cunninghams, on the one side, and the Maxwells of Calderwoode and the Lindsays of Dunrod on,the other. The beginning was probably between the houses of Newark and Calderwoode, but as Alexander Leckie, eldest son and heir of Walter Leckie of that Ilk, had married a daughter of the laird of Newark, the Leckies were brought into the quarrel and soon took the lead in this small war.

   The beginning of the feud, as stated by Alexander Leckie of that Ilk, grandson of Walter, was "a controversy between the Lairds of Calderwood and Neward about lands of Hagtounhill, the Lairds of Minto, Ferme and others pressing to take up the same." (Register of Privy Council. vol. xiii, p. 767.) That Walter Lekky of that Ilk was concerned in the feud is shown by an Order of the Council, which, dated in 1602, after the death of his son, Alexander, reads as follows:- "In respect to the deadly feud between Sir James Maxwell of Calderwoode and his men, on the one part, and Walter Lecky of that Ilk, James Cunninghame of Glengarnok, and Patrik Maxwell of Newark, and their men, on the other part, both parties are to be charged to subscribe within twenty-four hours after the charge, under the pain of rebellion, assurances to one another, to endure till 1st March, 1603. (Register of Privy council, vol vi, p. 363.)

   Alexander Leckie was killed by Alexander Lindsay the Laird of Dunrod. one of the parties to the Leckie-Maxwell feud. The fatal shot was fired out of the window of a farm-house of his own, at Hagton Hill, near Glasgow. The perpetrator of this crime remained undiscovered for twenty years after the death of Lekkie. (Memoirs of the Maxwells of PoIlok, by Sir William Fraser, vol. i.p. 472.)

   Alexander Leckie, son of this unfortunate laird, describes the deed as follows: "The Laird of Dunrod and certane his complices crap up covertlie under ane dyksyd neir the place of conference, and befoir the upgiffing thairof schott the defunct deid behind his bak, being then altogidder unfurnished of wapoun for (or) ony airmour ather offensive or defensive. (Register of Privy Council, vol. xiii, p. 767-8) He also speaks of his father being "harmles and unprovydit for ony hostill act. (Register of Privy council, vol. xiii, p. 767-8)

   An order by the Privy Council, although dated 5th November, 1601, after the death of this laird, probably refers to his father:- "Notwithstanding the divers Acts made against the 'unlauchfull convocationis and the grit and monstrous bakis and companyis quhilkis hes bene sa frequent and comoun at dayis of law'-especially the Act of Estates ordaining that neither party to a lawsuit shall come to court accompanied by more than 24 persons, and that each party shall keep their lodging till the hour of cause, when first the one and then the other shall be brought out by the toun in armes and attended from their lodging to the bar---yet Sir James Maxwell of Calderwoode, on the one part, and-------- Lekky of that Ilk, on the other part, have given warning to all their friends to accompany them to their day of law upon 25th inst. There is an order, therefore, to charge them to cease from such convocation of the leiges on the said day, under the pains contained in the said Acts, and also to command, by open proclaimation, all the leiges to refrain from accompanying the said parties, under the pains against unlawful convocation. ( Register of Privy Council, vol. vi. p. 205.)

   Alexander Leckie married Euphemia Maxwell, daughter of George Maxwell, Laird of Newark, whose wife was Marion, daughter of William Cuninghame of Craigends ("Cartulary of Pollok-Maxwell," by Sir William Fraser. p. 363.) a grandson of the first Earl of Glencairn. She married secondly Adam Cunynghame, son of Adam Cunynghame of Auchinhervie. (Registrum Magni Sigilli Scot. for year 1606, No. 1794.)

   Alexander Leckie's eldest son was Alexander, who succeeded his grandfather.

   (Leckie Of Leckie by R.G.E.L.)

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