| He witnessed charters by Robert, Duke of Albany, to William de Conyngliam, at the monastery of Paisley in 1406 and at Stirling on 20 August 1406 to Thomas Melvile. He also witnessed an Instrument of Resignation by William Urry on 9 January 1409-10 and a charter to Dougal Macdougal on 11 March 1409-10. John Sympyll de Elyotistoun had a safe-conduct 13 December 1423, to Durham, to wait upon King James I and again on 3 February 1423-24, when he was one of the hostages given up on the release of the King. He was one of the Auditors of the Exchequer Accounts in 1426, and witnessed a charter by William of Cunningham, vicar of Dundonald, granting various lands and rents for the support of two chaplains in the parish church of Irvine, 26 July 1426. On 15 December 1426 he and his son Robert attested letters by Rankyn of Fowlartoun to Adam and William of Fowlartoun. He, along with his son, witnessed an indenture between Alexander Montgomery, Knight, and Alan Stewart, Lord of Dernle on 15 May 1438. He sat in the General Council at Stirling on 10 August 1440-41, and in the Parliament at Edinburgh 3 April 1441.4 |