Marion Maxwell

MARION MAXWELL

Evidence from the Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock

7 April 1416: Indenture between James Stewart, Lord of Kilbride, and Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood, for the marriage of George Stewart, son and heir of the former, and Marion Maxwell, daughter of the latter, by his first marriage ; whereby the said James binds himself to infeft George and Marion, and their heirs in his barony of Kilbride ; under entail, failing the heirs of the said parties, to the eldest of the said James's sons who should happen to be heir, and a daughter of the said Robert, who should enter in the said barony as heirs of the said George and Marion, and be married in like manner ; and failing the sons of the said James, to his eldest daughter, and a son of the said Robert, they to enter as heirs in the said barony by virtue of the said entail ; and so on, while the said James and Robert have sons and daughters. And the said Robert binds himself to pay to the said James £10 Scots yearly, during his life, for Philpshill, for his part of Boysfield and Over Calderwood, and all the mail of all the lands falling in ward in the said barony, and all the reliefs and half escheats of courts thereof happening to be paid to the said James ; and he binds himself likewise to pay the half of the said mails and reliefs, etc., to Isabel, wife of the said James, during her life, after her husband's death ; and to use his endeavours to recover the lordship of Elamton, and in the event of succeeding, to cause the said James and Isabel to be jointly infeft in the franktenement thereof, and the children (George and Marion, etc.), in fee. And failing the recovery of the said lands by Robert, the said children being espoused, he binds himself to pay to the said James and his heirs, for the said marriage, £100 at Whitsunday and Martinmas following the completion thereof. Sealed interchangeably at Lanark, 7th April 1416. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 383