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Sir Humphrey, son of Sir Robert Colquhoun by the Fair Maid of Luss, succeeded his father about the year 1390. Being heir and representative of the families of Colquhoun and of Luss, he and his successors used one, or both, of these designations indiscriminately. On the 28th October 1393, “Humphrey Colquhoun, Lord of that Ilk,” was witness to a charter by Duncan eighth Earl of Lennox to John Kennedy of the lands of Buchmonyn, in the earldom of Lennox and shire of Stirling; and under the same designation, he was witness to a charter by the same Earl to Walter Buchanan of the lands of Ladlewn, on the 21st January 1394.^[1] On the 6th of May of that year, under the designation of Umfridus de Colquhoune, Lord of Luss, he was witness to the confirmation by the same Earl of a charter by John Hamilton of Buthernok, of his lands of Buthernok, in the county of Stirling, to Margaret Fraser, in prospect of the marriage to be contracted between him and her.^[2] And on the 10th of June, in the year following, under the same designation, he was witness to a charter by the same Earl to Duncan Macfarlane of some lands between the rivers Dywach and Aldanchwlyn on the one side, and the rivers Hernane [Arnan], Hinys [Innis], and Trostane on the other side, with the islands Elanvow, Elanvanow, Elandowglas, and Elaig, in the earldom of Lennox.^[3]

As Lord of Luss, Sir Humphrey, in July 1395, gave to his brother Robert, the elder of that name, a charter of the lands of Camysradoch, afterwards Camstradden, and Achigahane [Auchengaven], in the lordship of Luss and earldom of Lennox, whom failing, to his younger brother Robert, whom failing, to his brother Patrick, as appears from the terms of the charter already given.^[4] On the 10th of May 1398, under the same designation, he was witness to a charter by Duncan Earl of Lennox to Maliseus Carrach of the land of Blarechos, in Strathblane;^[5] and he appears to be the person who, under the name of Umfridus de Colquhoun, was witness to the charter of Robert Earl of Fife to Duncan Earl of Lennox of the office of Coronator of the Earldom of Lennox, dated 6th March 1400.^[6] On the 18th of December following, Sir Humphrey, under the designation of “Vmfray of Culquhune, Lord of that Ilk,” was party as a witness, along with four other “nobyl men and mychty,” to a remarkable indenture, the original of which is written in the vernacular, between Sir John Maxwell, Knight, Lord of Pollok, and Sir John Maxwell, Knight, and Robert Maxwell, his eldest and second sons, concerning the division and destination of the lands of Pollok and Calderwood;^[7] and for the greater security of the part of the indenture remaining with Sir John Maxwell, the son, the seal of Humphrey of Colquhoun, Lord of that Ilk, was procured, through Sir John Maxwell, the father, and Robert, his son, and set to the indenture at Dumbarton. This seal is still appended to the original indenture, although part of it has accidentally been broken. Annexed is a woodcut impression of the remains of this seal.

Sir Humphrey Colquhoun, under the designation of “Vmfary of Colqwhone, Lord of Luss,” and “Robart of Colqwhoun,” were witnesses to another indenture, dated at the Balacht, on 18th of October 1405, between Sir Duncan, Earl of the Lennox, on the one part, and Sir William of Coningham of Kilmawris and Sir Robert of Maxwell of Calderwood, with consent of their spouses, Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters of Sir Robert Danielstoun, on the other part, concerning the lands of Achynclock, Orrachy-more, Inchecallach, Inchefad, and others.^[8]

In a bond of manrent, dated Inchmoryne, 5th April 1406, by Arthore of Ardenagappil to Duncan seventh Earl of Lennox, the granter, as he had no seal of his own, procured “the sele of ane nobil mane and a michti, Wmfray of Culqwone, Lord of Luse,” “to set to thir presentis letteris.” “On this seal,” it is added, “was engraved a shield, and in the middle of the shield was engraved the likeness of a cross, and in the top of the shield was engraved the likeness of a helmet, and to it was annexed above the form of the head of a stag, and in the circumference of the seal was written Vmfridus de Culqwone.”^[9] No subsequent notice of Sir Humphrey has been discovered, and his death probably occurred soon after. He had three sons and two daughters.

1.

Robert, who succeeded him.

2.

John, who succeeded his brother.

3.

Patrick, the ancestor of the Colquhouns of Glennis, in the county of Stirling.

The two daughters of Sir Humphrey Colquhoun were—

4.

Mary, who married Sir Patrick Houstoun of that Ilk, in the county of Renfrew. Sir Patrick died in the year 1450, and Mary in 1456.^[10] Both of them were buried in the chapel of Houstoun, where a monument, which recorded simply their names and the time of their death, was erected to their memory. They had a son, Sir John, who succeeded his father, and who married Agnes Campbell, and had issue; but he did not long survive his father, having died in the same year in which his mother died. Sir Peter, the son and heir of Sir John, was at the battle of Flodden, fought on the 9th September 1513, and he fell with his sovereign, King James the Fourth, and the flower of the nobility and gentry of Scotland, in that fatal engagement.^[11]

5.

Christian, who married James Cunningham of Glengarnock, in the county of Ayr.

Sir Humphrey Colquhoun was succeeded in his estates of Colquhoun and Luss by his eldest son—

[1]	Cartularium Comitatus de Levenax, pp. 45, 60.

[2]	Ibid. p. 73.

[3]	Ibid. p. 65.

[4]	Vide supra, pp. 11, 12.

[5]	Cartularium Comitatus de Levenax, p. 74.

[6]	Cartularium Comitatus de Levenax, p. 95.

[7]	“Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok,” by William Fraser, Edinburgh, 1863, vol. i. p. 139.

[8]	“Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok,” by William Fraser, Edinburgh, 1863, vol. i. p. 146; Original Indenture at Buchanan.

[9]

The words in the original are:—In quo quidem sigillo sculptum fuerat quoddam scutum, et in medio scuti sculptum fuit ad modum et similitudinem crucis, et in summitate scuti sculptum fuit ad similitudines galie, et ei superanexum ad modum cuiusdam capitis cervi, et in dicti sigilli circumferencia scribebatur “Vmfridus de Culqwone.”—[Original Bond at Buchanan.]

[10]	Crawfurd’s Renfrewshire, p. 103, Semple’s edition, 1782. She is called Anne, and her husband, Sir John, by Crawford, in his Officers of State, p. 318. But this is clearly a mistake, as the names on their monument in the chapel of Houstoun are Mary and Sir Patrick.

[11]	Crawfurd’s Renfrewshire, p. 100.