To Scotland thai dyde neuir grewance mar.—B. V. v. 567.
“Yong Auchinlek” could be eyme or uncle to Wallace, only on the supposition that his father had married Wallace’s maternal grandmother, the widow of Sir Reginald (or Hugh) Crauford. His chief property was in Ayrshire. The heirs male failing, James IV. gave the lands of Auchinleck to a younger son of Boswell of Balmuto. Thus the family of Boswell of Auchinleck is lineally descended from Auchinleck of that ilk. V. Nisbet, I. 60.
So late as the year 1617, there was a gentleman of this name who held half of the property of Tweedie, in the barony of Stonehouse, distant only a few miles from Gillbank.—Jacobus Auchinleck, haeres Jacobi Auchinleck de Twedie, avi,—in baronia de Stanchous. Inquis. ut sup. (117.) It is probable, from the vicinity, Stonehouse being only about six miles from Gillbank, that he might be a descendant from that Auchinleck who is celebrated by the Minstrel. Gillbank is now the property of a gentleman of the name of Thomson.
ADDITIONAL NOTE TO BOOK SIXTH.
———— Syne couth to Braid wood fayr,
At a consaill thre dayis soiornyt thai.
At Forest kyrk a metyng ordand he;
Thai chesd Wallace Scottis wardand to be.—V. 765.
The tradition at Biggar is, that it was in the old church there that Wallace was chosen Guardian of Scotland. But this seems to be a mistake. For we have no proof of the erection of a church there till the year 1545, when the college of this place was founded by Malcolm Lord Fleming. Spottiswood’s Relig. Houses, c. 19.