BAILLIE, William of Lamington, Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"V. SIR WILLIAM BAILLIE of Lamington, son of the preceding proprietor, was a favourite of James III., King of Scotland......
In 1480 war broke out between Scotland and England, and in 1481 the Scottish Parliament authorized King James III. to levy six hundred men to garrison the fortresses of the kingdom. Of these, a hundred are ordered to be in 'The Ermitage, which sal be redy to support baith ye myddel and west borders in time of need, and as they shall be armed and charged, and to be Captain of them, the Laird of Lamington.' " (pages 21 and 22)

" ..... the death of King Edward IV., which occurred at this time, and the seizure of the Crown by his brother,
Richard III., deranged their plans, and a peace having been concluded between him and James III., in 1484, this Sir William Baillie was nominated amongst those lords and gentlemen that were appointed conservators on the Scottish side for the sure observation, keeping, and performance of this truce and league. This Sir William Baillie, on 22d May 1482, obtained a decreet of comprising against John Montgomery of Thorntoun of the half
of the lands of Easter and Wester Akingalls, extending to ten rnerks yearly, the fifteen shilling and fourpenny lands of Monyet, in the shire of Edinburgh, for £148, 16s. 8d., for goods spulzied by the said John Montgomery, off the said Sir William's land of Hoprig." (page 23)

"On 7th May 1491 this Sir William Baillie was ordered by the Lords of Council to appear before them, prepared to prove 'that he was lawfully entered by the Sheriff to the Tack and Mailing of a part of the third of Middlerig, lying in the Sheriffdom of Lanark.' In 1492 his name often appears in the records in connexion with the affairs of his deceased Brother-in-law, Lord Somerville, to whom he had been appointed Executor, and in the same year he is incidentally mentioned in a case before the Lords of Council."

from Lives of the Baillies ¹

William married.