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Nigel de Cockburn's lands 'in Meget' (i.e. Henderland on the shores of St. Mary's Loch) were taken from him by Edward I, and, together with other lands, forfeited for what the English King called rebellion, were granted to Robert Hastang. In 1311, however, NIgel and most of his fellow-sufferers having come to the King's peace, Edward II restored their property, recompensing Hastang with the lands of less amenable lairds.

Henderland thus belonged to the Cockburns certainly at the end of the thirteenth century; how much earlier it is impossible to say. It seems, indeed, that the Cockburns both held and lost a good deal of land before their recorded history commences; for the lands of Cockburn, which were at this time in the hands of the Douglas family, were undoubtedly the original home of the family, though they did not come back to them for many a day.

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Piers De Cockburn ( - )