temporal Lordship of Torphichen, creating him Lord of St. John, and giving him the lands and baronies of Torphichen and Listoun, Balintrodo, Thankertoun, Denny, Maryculter, Stanhouse, Guitna, etc. He afterwards married Janet, daughter of Murray of Polonaise, but had no issue, and at his death in 1596 his title and the possessions which he had plundered from the Order devolved on his grand-nephew, James Sandilands, of Calder, and have remained in that line ever since.
David Seton is said to have been the last prior of Scotland, and to have retired to Germany with the greater portion of his brethren about 1572. In an old poem of that period he is mentioned as the head of the Scottish Hospitallera The poem is entitled, “The Holy Kirke and his Theeves.” After apostrophizing Sir James Sandilands for his treachery to the Order, it proceeds thus:—
“Fye upon the traitor then,
Quha has broucht us to sic pass
Groedie als the knave Judas.
Fye upon the churle quwhat solde
Halie Erthe for heavie golde,
But the Order felt na base,
Quhan David Setonne bare the Crosse.”
David Seton is said to have died about 1591, and to have been buried in the church of the Scottish Benedictines at Ratisbonne. He was of the noble house of Wintoun.
