[2] He also acquired the "Lee Penny", an amulet or touch piece said to have healing properties, and which remains in the family's possession.

Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621–1675) fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, but switched sides, and later married the niece of Oliver Cromwell.

His brother George Lockhart was appointed Lord Advocate, and he purchased the Lanarkshire estates of the Earl of Carnwath.

This George's younger brother James also went overseas, fighting in the Austrian army during the Seven Years' War.

He inherited the Lee estates by staging the death of his traitorous older brother, and was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1782.

The house was sold a few months later for an all-time record price for a private Scottish residence to Addison Fischer, an American tycoon.