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DINWOODIE,
or DUNWITHIE, a
surname derived from lands of that name in the parish of Applegarth,
Dumfries-shire, formerly possessed by a family that continued there a long
time. In the Ragman Roll appears the name of Alleyn Dinwithie, supposed by
Nisbet to be of the family of that ilk in that county. At the beginning of
the sixteenth century, the lairds of Dinwoodie seem to have been at feud
with the Jardines, and to have suffered much from the violence of their
neighbours in those unsettled times. At the Justice-Ayre held at Dumfries
in August1504, John Jardine in Sibbald-beside, and Robert Brig, living
with Alexander Jardine, produced a remission from the king for art and
part of the cruel slaughter of Thomas Dunwedy of that ilk, at his place of
Dunwedy. Only eight years afterwards (about 1512), “the Laird Dinwiddie
was slayne in Edinburgh by two persones, who eschaped by taking the
sanctuarie of Holyroodhouse, a saufgaird much respected in those days.” [Anderson’s
MS. Hist. Adv. Lib.] Sir James Balfour calls him the laird of
Drumweiche and says he was killed “by the Jardans.” See ‘Pitcairn’s
Criminal Trials,’ under the first-named date, which contains also the
following entries: – Robert Dunwedy, son of the laird of Dunwedy, and
Gavin Johnstone were admitted to the king’s composition (to satisfy
parties) for art and part of the stouthrief of four horses, two
candlesticks, and sundry other goods from Bartholomew Glendunwyne, in
company with the laird of Johnstons and his accomplices; and Nicholas
Dunwedy, in Dunwedy, called ‘Gait-fut’ (Goat-foot), convicted of resetting
Adam Corry, common thief, in his theftuous deeds, – hanged. In 1543,
Alexander Dinwoodie of that ilk was forfeited for joining with the
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