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Family and Education
m. Christian Brydie (d. 1669), 4s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. d. c. 1656.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 691-2; Diary of John Lamont, ed. G.R. Kintoch (Edinburgh, 1830), 209.
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Civic: bailie, St Andrews burgh 1632 – 37, 1647 – 48, 1650; provost, 1649, 1651–?55.Parliaments of Scot. ii. 691. Commr. convention of burghs, 3 July 1649–4 July 1654.Recs. Convention Royal Burghs, 331–71.

Scottish: member, cttee. of estates, 1640 – 41, 1643 – 45, 1649–51. Commr. St Andrews, Scottish Parl. 1641, 1649 – 51; articles of treaty of Ripon, 1641; plantation of kirks, 1641; common burdens, 1643. Member, cttee. of war, 1643 – 44, 1649, 1651;Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 691. cttee. for dispatches, Jan.-Aug. 1649.Govt. of Scot. under the Covenanters ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 94, 104. Commr. to attend Charles Stuart in Holland, Oct. 1650.Corresp. of the earls of Ancram and Lothian (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1875), ii. 306. Dep. St Andrews burgh, tender of union, Feb. 1652, Oct. 1652-June 1653.Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 55, 104–5, 109, 184; R. Landrum, ‘Recs. Anglo-Scottish Union Negotiations’, Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. xv. 197, 227, 240, 292–3.

Parlimentarian
SWORD, James (d. c.1656), of St Andrews, Fife.
: Fife.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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SWORD, James (d. c.1656), of St Andrews, Fife.

Will
pr. 17 June 1656.Commissariot Rec. St Andrews ed. F.J. Grant (Scot. Rec. Soc. Edinburgh, 1902), 337.
Estates
June 1649 (confirmed July 1653), received rents from barony of Balcarres, Fife, in payment for 9,000 merks (Scots) loan to earl of Balcarres; 1652 mentioned as creditor of Sir William Dick of Braid.Reg. Gt. Seal Scot. 1652-9, pp. 7, 73-4. By d. had acquired lands in barony of West Barns, Cambo-Belsis and Muirhouse, Fife, and property on the Isle of May, inc. its lighthouse.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 691-2.
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