200 HISTORY OF STRATHENDRICK

narrates how his brother, " Mr. James Napeir, was bound servant to me in my
art and calling of Chirurgerie and Pharmacie," how he had " bound himself,
faithfully to serve me be night and be day, holyday and workday in all things
Godly and honest, not to absent himself from my service at any time without
my leave had and obtained thereto." He narrates further that " notwithstanding
the said James Napeir hes most grossly transgressed the haill tenor of his
Indentures, and hes for this long time agoe deserted my service," and thereby
forfeited his indentures and made his brother William, who was his cautioner,
liable in damages for the injury Borthwick had received.
Thomas Napier had two children by his second wife, Isobel Rigg — John
and Susanna — and in a liferent provision and annuity by James Napier of
Ballikinrain, their nephew, to Janet Blair, his spouse, in 1724, there is a
burden on the estate of Ballikinrain on account of these, by that time, elderly
people.
Thomas Napier of Ballikinrain deceased before ist March 1672, for on that
day there was signed at Edinburgh a precept by John Earl of Rothes and other
Commissioners of Charles Duke of Lennox and Richmond, for infefting William
Naper as heir to the late Thomas Naper of Ballikinrayne, his father, in the lands
of Ballykinrayne.^

WILLIAM NAPIER, ELEVENTH OF BALLIKINRAIN, AND REBECCA BUCHANAN,

HIS WIFE.
William Napier succeeded his father before ist March 1672. His wife
was Rebecca Buchanan, daughter of Archibald and Isobel Buchanan of Blair-
hennachra or Drumhead. Their marriage was in 1677.
