Person:John Semple (32)

John Semple, of Fulwood

• THE REGISTER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF SCOTLAND Under The Commonwealth A.D. 1652-1659, edited by Stevenson, John Horne and Dickson, William Kirk. Published by H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1904). Page 149, 150

• 327. (A.D. 1654.) Edinburgh, August 7.

THE PROTECTOR grants JOHNE SEMPILL, eldest lawful son to William Sempill of Fulwood, and Grissell Porterfield his spouse, and longest liver of them two in conjunct fee, and to the heirs male gotten or to be gotten betwixt them, whom failing to the said Johne Sempill his nearest heirs male and assignees whomsoever, - these parts and portions of the lands of Meiklefulwood pertaining to the said William, lying within the parish of Killellen, barony of Renfrew and sheriffdom thereof, viz.; - the lands called the Toune-head Mailling of Fulwood, extending to a 30s. land thereof, possessed by Johne Park elder and younger and their tenants; that part of the lands of Fulwood called Blackburne with the pertinents; the equal half of that 20s. land of the said lands of Fulwood possessed by John Neilsone; that cottar roum in Turningshaw possessed by Michael Pirie; that cottar roum and land in Turningshaw possessed by Johne Speir there; the principal place, mansion-house, dwelling and yards of the said lands of Fulwood, and green adjacent to the said place; the mill of Fulwood, mill-lands, &c., thereof, with the dry multures used and wont furth of the whole lands of Fulwood, Turningshaw, Blackburne, Burnebrae, and Birkinhead; - reserving to the said William Sempill of Fulwood, and after his decease to the said Johne Sempill and his foresaids, the coals and coalheughs of the said lands; - and also grants to the said Johne Sempill and the heirs male gotten betwixt him and the said Grissell Porterfield his spouse, whom failing to his heirs and assignees whomsoever, - the remanent of the said lands of Meikle Fulwood, and lands of Turningshaw, Blackburne, and Birkinhead, with their pertinents; the 50s. lands of Calderhaugh, with the manor-place, mills, woods, fishings, tenandries, &c., thereof, in the said barony and sheriffdom of Renfrew; the lands of Kirkmichaell Sempill, and lands of Kilmalid, with the tower, manorplace, woods, fishings, mills, tenandries, &c., thereof, extending to a L10 land of old extent, in the sheriffdom of Dunbarton; - which lands pertained to the said William Sempill, and were on 28th July 1654 resigned in favour of the said Johne Sempill and his said spouse and their foresaids, instruments being taken in the hands of Johne Sempill, writer to the signet: - TO BE HELD of the Protector for the duties and services used and wont: - With precept of sasine. Lix. 165.

1.   Semple, William Alexander. Genealogical History of the Family Semple: From 1214 to 1888. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1888)
   Page 24.

   John Semple, in whose person the Semples of Fulwood failed, about the year 1679, alienated the lands of Fulwood to John Porterfield of that ilk. His son was

2.   Thomson, John Maitland; James Balfour Paul; John Horne Stevenson; and William Kirk Dickson; eds. Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland. (Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House, 1814-1914)
   Page 149, 150.
3. ↑ Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire: A History of the County Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of... (Dumbartonshire,: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1879).

   The Book of Dumbartonshire - Noble of Ferme and Ardardan Noble - Page 355 - William Noble acquired an interest in certain tenements in Dumbarton in 1585. He was infeft into the Ardardans in 1588, and in Murrock and Guiseholm the following year. He married Janet, daughter of John Sempill of Fulwood (who died in 1616), and had issue:
   Sons:
   1. Humphrey Noble
   2. William Noble
   3. Henry Noble
   Daughters:
   1. Grisel Noble
   2. Margaret Noble

4.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

   Hereditary Sempill Lords of Fulwood, and Noblestoun & Clan Sempill

5.   Archaeological and historical collections relating to the county of Renfrew, parish of Lochwinnoch. (Paisley: A. Gardner, 1885-1890)
   Vol.1, Page 192.

   – Decreet ordaining John lord Lyle to warrant the lands of Carruth and Easter Branchell to John Semple of Foulwod, 21st March, 1540-41

6.   Contract of Marriage between Johne Striveling [Stirling] of Craigbarnard [Craigbernard - Craigbarnet], Margaret Rid [Reid], his spouse, and Christene Calendare [Callander], daughter of Margaret Rid, on the one part, and Robert Sempill [Semple] of Corruth [?Carruth], and Johnne Sempill [Semple], his son, on the other part, for the marriage of the said Christene Calendare and Johnne Sempill, whereby Robert Sempill agrees to dispone to his son and his heirs male his lands of Corruth and Eister Branchell [Easter Branchell, Renfrewshire] in heritable fee. 24/1/1601
   
   The lands of Corruth, in Renfrewshire. Varient spellings are Caruth, Carruth, Curruth. Carruth, an estate, with a modern mansion, in Kilmalcolm parish, Renfrewshire, 2 miles W by N of Bridge of Weir station.
   
   When Charles I tried to impose a new prayer book on Scotland, he faced a great deal of opposition; his authority was defied by a General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Glasgow. Charles planned to invade Scotland to enforce his authority, and Dumbarton was to be the landing place for troops from Ireland. However, the king's plans for Dumbarton were forestalled when the Provost of Dumbarton, John Sempill, captured the castle in 1639. As a result of this and other setbacks, Charles was compelled to sign a treaty, the Pacification of Berwick.
   
   Confirmed testament dative and inventory of Christian Callender [Callander], spouse of John Sempill [Semple] of Aikenbar [Aitkenbar], provost of Dumbartane [Dumbarton]. March 20, 1618