Person:John Smollet (2)

John Smollett Jr.

• Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire: A History of the County Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of... (Dumbartonshire,: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1879), Vol. 2, Pages 175 to 208.^S1

II. John Smollett appears as a bailie of Dumbarton in 1516. In 1524 he was one of the Commissioners appointed to negotiate with the burgh of Renfrew, regarding disputes as to the navigation of the Clyde. In 1528, John Smollett, along with six others, authorizes parties to appear on their behalf before the Regent of England, to obtain restoration of gold, silver, hides, woolen cloth, and pickeled salmon, belonging to them, captured in the ship “James” of Dumbarton. Along with his wife, Marion Houston, he had a charter of the lands of Kirkton of Cardross and Clerkhill, on the 21st August 1528. On the 16th September, 1529, he gave a legacy to the Church of St. Mungo, in Glasgow, along with instructions as to his funeral:-- “Die xvj mensis Septembris, 1529, Johanes Smollet constituit suam sponsam et Willielmum Smollet, suos executors in uberiori forma; et legavit guatuar denarius ecclesie et fabrice Sancti Kentigerne, et carpus sum sepeliendum ubi dues placuerit.” He married, in 1519, a daughter of Peter Houston of that Ilk. By a singular agreement, contained in the family papers, he appears to have had the option of marrying either one or other of Houston’s daughters, each of whom had a tocher of 300 merks. He died before 1541, leaving—^S1

1. James, his heir.^S1

2. William, who also cucceeded, and carried on the line.^S1

3. Margaret, who married John Williamson^S1

1.   Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire: A History of the County Burghs, Parishes, and Lands, Memoirs of... (Dumbartonshire,: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1879)
   Vol. 2, Pages 175 to 208.

   Family of Smollett of Bonhill