A verbatim report of the Mordaunt divorce case.

Date:
1875
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Credit: A verbatim report of the Mordaunt divorce case. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    family of Balwaird, he obtained other lands. By her he had three sons -—William, his heir, and John, Prior of Blantyre, who, being a church- man, never married. The prior had a son, named Gilbert, who was physician to the King, and a man of considerable reputation. The third son was Alexander, ancestor of the Moncreifl's of Kintillo, afterwards of Culfargie, and then of Barnhill, iu Perthshire. But tradition, together with some old family papers, imputes to John, the second son of Sir John Moncreiff and Beatrix Forman, his wife, the foundership of the present family of the Moncreiffes, of Moncreiffe, in Perthshire. He retired with his family to Orkney, and there acquired the estate of Itapness. He mari’ied Isabel Robertson, daughter of Mr. Robertson, of Struan, by whom he had issue two sons—David, his heir, and William, of whom Mr. William Moncreiff, minister, of Methven, was lineally descended, the grandfather of Dr. William Moncreiff, physician, of Bristol. John Moncrieff died in 1590, and was succeeded by his eldest son, David. David Moncreiff, of Rapness, who first married Barbara, daughter of Mr. Barkie, of Tankencss, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, David, who succeeded his father, and married a daughter of Mr. Ander- son, of Holmsound, by whom he had one daughter married to Alex. Hunter, Esq., of Muirhouse; David died without male issue, and the estates passed to Thomas Moncreiff', and then to his third brother Harry, who con- ! tinued the line of descent. Thomas Moncreiff, the second son of the first- named David, was the first baronet of the Moncreiff family and from whom Lady Mordauut has lineally descended. It appears that this I Thomas Moncreiff was appointed Clerk of the Exchequer and Treasurer (Scotland), and being a man of great honour and economy, he acquired great wealth. About this time his cousin, Sir John Moncreiff’—of the original Moncreiff family—found his affairs so irretrievably embarrassed 1 that he was compelled to sell the whole of the large property in his pos- session, which had for so many years belonged to his family. The first estate which he sold—Cambee—iu 1697, to William Ord, Shirca, clerk of Perth, for about 40,000 marks (a large sum in those days), did little to get him out of his trouble, and the result was that he had to sell the lands, andb arony of Monci'eiff itself, noth withstanding that they formed the ancient inheritance of his ancestors. He sold them to Thomas Moncreiff, his cousin above mentioned, in 1663-6. Thomas was afterwards created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, by King James of VII. Scotland, and I. of England, by Royal letters patent to him and his heirs male. Sir Thomas dying without issue, and therefore his estates devolved on him and his nephew, Thomas, sen of his younger