These included yeomen, later called by Walter Scott "bonnet lairds", often owning substantial land. It was led by adventurers James Hamilton and Sir Hugh Montgomery, two Ayrshire lairds. There is a siding at Lairds Seat. The castle was the seat of the lairds of Premney. Like many of the other Cunninghame lairds, the Mures had a townhouse in Irvine. The house belonged to the Cheyne family, who were the Lairds of Tangwick. It contained three lofts reserved for the local lairds, namely Barskimming, Stair and Drongan. Black and white, taken from the Lairds of Meikledale's arms. From this Nicholas Sutherland descended the Sutherland Lairds of Duffus. Below these were the lairds, roughly equivalent to the English gentlemen. From Alexander descended the Davidson Lairds of Tulloch Castle who became chiefs of the clan. Both of these lairds had embraced the new religious ideas of the Reformation.