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Family and Education
b. 1625, 1st s. of James, 1st earl of Hartfell [S], and his first wife, Margaret (d. 1 June 1673), da. of William Douglas, 1st earl of Queensberry [S]. m. (contract, 29 May 1645) Henrietta (d. 1 June 1673), da. of William Douglas, 1st marquess of Douglas [S], 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 7da. (3 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Apr. 1653. cr. earl of Annandale [S], 13 Feb. 1661. d. 17 July 1672.CP; Scots Peerage, i. 258-63; W. Fraser, Annandale Family Bk. (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1894), i. pp. ccxlvii, ccxlvii, cccxxvi.
Offices Held

Military: col. Nithsdale regt. Mar. 1651.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. cciv. Capt. of horse, 1 Jan. 1667–?d.Scots Peerage, i. 262.

Scottish: PC, Apr. 1661–d. Member, high commn. 16 Jan. 1664–6.J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 326, 409; Scots Peerage, i. 262.

Local: commr. assessment, Dumfriesshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. part 2, p. 839; A. and O. J.p. 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 311. Hereditary steward of Annandale and kpr. of Lochmaben Castle, 23 Apr. 1662.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. xxiv; Scots Peerage, i. 262.

Parlimentarian
JOHNSTONE, James (1625-72), 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.
: 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Dumfriesshire., Lochmaben.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

JOHNSTONE, James (1625-72), 2nd earl of Hartfell [S], of Lochwood and Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.

Will
testament of 13 Apr. 1672.Fraser, Annandale, i. p. ccxlvi.
Estates
mostly in Annandale, including lands and baronies of Johnstone, Corrie, Knock, Newbie, Moffat, and the heritable keepership of Lochmaben Castle; received crown charter of estates, 1662; on death, rental income of £41,757 Scots (£3,480 sterling) payable from 23 baronies and other estates.Scots Peerage, i. 262, 264; Fraser, Annandale, i. p. ccxxxiv.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Chandos Street, Covent Garden, Westminster Aug. 1655.Fraser, Annandale, ii. 305.
Religion
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