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 | | Hamilton of Wishaw, in his ‘Description of the shires of Lanark and Renfrew,’ says, that the parish and barony of Dalzell did formerly belong to the Dalzells of that ilk, till the forfeiture of Sir Robert Dalzell by King David the Second, for his remaining in England without the king’s permission. |
 | | June 1343, but according to Hamilton, they were given to Robert the Steward of Scotland, who granted them, with one of his daughters, to a knight of the name of Sandilands, and by the marriage of the granddaughter of the latter to the heir of Sir Robert Dalzell, they were restored to the ancient proprietors. |
 | | Sir Robert Dalzell, first earl of Carnwath, was the son of Robert Dalzell of Dalzell, by Janet, his wife, daughter of Gavin Hamilton of Raploch, commendator of Kilwinning. |
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