Sir John Stewart of Minto, Provost of Glasgow

SIR JOHN STEWART ON MINTO knight

Death

Sir John Stewart of Minto, here treated, is reported to have died in February 1582-03. Stirnet: Stewart 05

Monumental Inscription in Glasgow Cathedral

HEIR AR BVRIET Sr WALTIR Sr THOMAS Sr JOHNE Sr ROBERT Sr JOHNE AND Sr MATHIEV BY LINEAL DESCENT TO VTHERIS BARONS AND KNICHTS OF THE HOYS OF MYNTO Wt THAIR VYFFIS BAIRNIS AND BRETHEREIN A View of the City of Glasgow, p. 298

Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow

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27 May 1551: Glasgow Protocols I, protocol number 85 on p. 85

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September 1571: John Stewart, bastard son of Sir John Stewart of Minto, acting as procurator for Robert Stewart, lawful son of Sir John Stewart of Minto, sold one half acre of land in Dowhill to John Mure, flesher, citizen of Glasgow. Glasgow Protocols, VI, Henry Gibsone's Protocols, 1568-73, protocol number 1790 on pp. 67-8

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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5 May 1573: Instrument of resignation and sasine by one of the bailies of Glasgow to Matthew Stuart, eldest son to Sir John Stuart of Minto, and Janet Stuart, spouse to Matthew, upon the resignation by Sir John of a tenement in the city of Glasgow on the south side of the Drygate, between the lands of the archdeacon of Glasgow and John Spruell on the west and the lands of the laird of Kincaid and the manse of the prebend of Cambuslang on the east, and the High Street on the north. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Graham Family, Dukes of Montrose , reference GD220/1/E/5/5/2

Genealogy

Stirnet: Stewart 05

Biographical Summary by Electric Scotland

Sir John Stewart of Minto was served heir to his father, 20 May 1555. When about seven years old he was contracted in marriage to Margaret, eldest daughter of Geroge Maxwell of Cowglen, a girl of the same age. This marriage never appears to have been entered into, as on 8 November 1543, after the death of Margaret Maxwell, which occurred between 8 November 1542 and 20 January 1543, he raised a summons of reduction of certain dues which had been granted in security of the marriage on the ground that such obligation to marry (the parties being minors) was from the first contrary to canon law. He must have married very shortly afterwards, as he had a charter on 16 February 1543-44 to himself and his wife, Joanna Hepburne, of the lands of Wester Perthwik, in the county of Renfrew.

He was Provost of Glasgow, and baile of the barony, which latter office he had got from the Earl of Lennox when he became Regent. He was Keeper of the Castle of Glasgow of Glasgow from May 1568 till 9 Nov 1573, when James Boyd, the Archbishop, got possession of it.

Robert, Lord Boyd, also usurped, in the same year, the office of bailie, till, in 1578 the King resumed it as Earl of Lennox, and the same nobleman was in 1574 nominated as Provost, but Sir John (who had been knighted previous to 10 Mar 1563-64) obtained possession of that office again before his death. He was also in 1566 Chamberlain of Galloway above Cree. He died in February 1582-83 and was buried in the cathedral of Glasgow. There is an interesting monument there, noteworthy as one of the few examples of old brasses in Scotland.

John married Johanna Hepburn before 16 Feb 1543-1544.

John next married Margaret Stewart, daughter of James Stewart of Cardonald and Unknown.

John next had a relationship with Unknown.

His eldest son, Sir John Stuart of Minto, assisted at the coronation of King James the Sixth in 1567. He was provost of Glasgow, and had the command of the castle of that town. He married, first, Joanna Hepburn, by whom he had a son, Matthew, whose male line became extinct in the person of Sir John Stuart, who died in the expedition to Darien in 1697; secondly, Margaret, second daughter of James Stewart of Cardonald, heir to her brother James, and had a son, Walter, who became first Lord Blantyre, and four daughters.

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