James Cranstoun, Master of Cranstoun

TITLES: Styled "Master of Cranstoun". (Ben M. Angel notes: This merely means he was eldest son, under Scottish tradition. It isn't really a title.)

RESIDENCE: Of Crailing, co. Roxburgh {Crailing, Roxburghshire, Scotland}.

PUNISHMENT: Imprisonment and Banishment> For maintaining a quarrel which he had entered into with the son of Sir Gideon Murray, whom he persistently challenged to fight after due reconciliation by order of the Court, he was imprisoned in Blackness Castle, and in August 1610 was banished from the country during his Majesty's pleasure [6]

Notes

• 6. [S511] #189 The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, with Armorial Illustrations (1904-1914), Paul , Sir James Balfour, (9 volumes. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914), FHL book 941 D22p; FHL microfilms104,157-104,161., vol. 2 p. 593-594.

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From Wikipedia: James Cranstoun (died 1633), who married first Elizabeth Macgill and secondly Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, and was banished from the country in August 1610 for challenging the son of Gideon Murray to a duel.[5]