Estate: Glenholm

Glenholm, Peeblesshire
1525 - c1650

The lands of Glenholm, in upper Tweeddale near the family’s barony of Oliver, were gathered together by Malcolm, 3rd Lord Fleming, in the years after his father’s murder by the Tweedies.

Acquisition

Malcolm, 3rd Lord Fleming, assembled these lands between 1525 and 1534. He received charters of Cardrona, Rachan and Glenquotho in 1525; Urisland and Smailhope from Katherine Fraser of Fruid in 1531, as part of the settlement of the Fleming-Tweedie feud; and Cardrona and Rachan again in 1534. The Lords Fleming were also patrons of the kirk of Glenholm.

Estates within the barony

Glenholm (Glenquholm), with Cardon, Cardrona, Rachan, Glenhighden, Smailhope (Smellhope), Urisland, Logan, the mill of Glenholm, and Quarter Chapelgill and Curdown.

Mortgages and forfeiture

Glenhighden and Glenquotho were wadset to James Bowmaker for one hundred merks in 1534, and Smailhope was pledged to John Geddes in 1589 and to Malcolm Fleming of Cardrona in 1604. Quarter Chapelgill and Curdown were forfeited with the 5th Lord’s other lands before September 1572.

In July 1632 a fourth part of Rachan, Glenhighden, Glenhowden and Glenholm was apprised by the Earl of Lauderdale and others for over 25,000 pounds Scots, and in December 1633 Lord Fleming apprised Rachan, Glenhighden and Glenquotho in turn.

Disposal

No final sale of the Glenholm lands is recorded. Smailhope appears to have been disposed of before 1609, yet in 1650 John, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, was infeft in it as heir to his father, and in 1645 Glenquotho and Quarter Chapel had been disponed irredeemably to Sir David Murray of Stanhope.