Susan Mervyn

SUSANNA BALFOUR

Susanna Hamilton, here treated, is the daughter of Sir William Balfour of Pitcullo. Darryl Lundy's Peerage: Susanna Balfour

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

3 August 1682: Notarially executed copy of disposition and assignation of writs dated 20 March 1665 by Charles Demancell in Carniephlappitt to John, Lord Burghly [Burghley], of the lands and barony of Duncrub in the sheriffdom of Perth, and the lands of Tullicutrie [Tillicoultry] in the sheriffdom of Clackmannan following on a bond dated February 1647 by the deceased Archibald Campbell Marquis of Argyll, as principal, and deceased John, Earl of Loudoun, Chancellor of Scotland, and James, Lord Rollo, then Sir James Rollo fiar of Duncrub, as cautioners, to deceased Sir William Balfour of Pitcullo, whom failing to Susanna Balfour, his youngest daughter, for £12,000; an assignation thereof dated 20 March 1652 by William Balfour to John, Lord Burghley, then Master of Burghley; a translation by Lord Burghley 3 February 1658 in favour of the above Charles Demancell; a decreet of apprising dated 20 January 1664 later approved by the Court of Session 18 March 1664, of the above lands from James, Lord Rollo, in favour of the said Charles Demancell and a Crown charter, precept under the Quarter Seal and instrument of sasine of the said lands dated 20 March 1674. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Rollo family of Duncrub, Perthshire, reference GD56/85