Identifier : gri_33125013643271 ( find matches )
Title : Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
Year : 1824 ( 1820s )
Authors : Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847 Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
Subjects : Historic buildings
Publisher : London, Sherwood, Jones, and co. (etc.)
Contributing Library : Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor : Getty Research Institute

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Glasserton, Whigtounshire ;
THE SEAT OF
STAIR HATHORN STEWART, ESQ.

Glasserton is situated in tbe parish of the same name, about four
miles from the borough-head, and two miles south of the Royal borough
of Whithorn, the ancient seat of the Bishops of Galloway, who were
occasionally denominated therefrom, Bishops of Whithorn.
Sir John Stewart, of Dalswinton, (son of Sir William Stewart, of
Jedworth, Sheriff of Teviotdale,) obtained, in the reign of King Robert
the Second, by his wife, Marian, daughter of Sir Walter Stewart, of
Dalswinton, in Dumfries-shire, the lands of. Garlies, in Kirkcudbright,
which became the designation of his family ; and in the reign of King
James the First, of Scotland, he acquired the estate of Glasserton, which
continued the chief seat of the Stewarts in the county of Wigtoun. His
descendant in the eighth degree, Sir Alexander Stewart, of Garlies,
was, by King James the Sixth, created Lord Garlies, 1607, and Earl of
Galloway, 1623. Symson, who wrote his history in 1684

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