XI. James Denzelstoun of Colgrain. The fee of the lands of Colgrain, etc., having fallen to James, second son of Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain, (by the demise of his elder brother, John Denzelstoun,) John Douglas, in Little Dumfin, became donator of the ward and non-entry thereof by a grant under the Great Seal, 13th December, 1577 ; and at the same time had the marriage of the heir, who was infeft in 1603.
During the last years of the possession of Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain there were a great many documents of debt affecting the estate in the shape of annualrents, wadsets, and bonds ; indeed, there seem grounds for suspecting that his son James was a person of facile or extravagant disposition, as he was put into the charge of four persons as voluntary interdictors, who from that time appear as consenting to all his deeds. They were Walter Dennistoun in Colgrain, John Dennistoun in Auchindennan, Gavin Dennistoun in Kirkmichael-Stirling, and Robert Semple of Fulwood. In a wadset by Robert Denzelstoun of Colgrain James (his son) and his spouse Marion Denzelstoun adhibited their consent. He left
1. Walter, who succeeded him.
2. Robert, who was alive in 1626, but appears to have died unmarried.
