Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

«rm"i'Y For> Ror.i:r;T ];nrcr,, j.okd of annandali-^. v
ciglit years, at a rent of .CoG, C.s. of silver yeavly, wliicU lie eiigaged'io pay
to iier and Lcr husband so loni,' as tliey \\-,irr;uitcd the lands to him. liobcrt
Lnice also linund himseir not to dispone the lands fov pii^ht years, and he
named certain gentlemen as sureties that he would fulfil his part of the
n;^'reenicnt. One of these Avas Gillxul, son of John, and the others ^vere
iruniphr.'y Janliue, ]Iug]i of Corri, "\\'illiaui of Hcriz, llohcrt of Crosschi,
lliehard de "llosco," and llobort of Trunor.' Gilbeit, son of John, aloO
apjiears as a witness, along with Sir lliohard de Levinlon, Sir Iloger Aveiud,
and the whole "curia" of Sir riobcrt de j'nis of Anant, to a ti-ausaction by
which Half the "Lardener" and Ids brother David rpxitclaimed to JJobcrt
de l!rus all the lands which they held of hivn in the vill of Anant, instead
of some accounts which the Lardener could not pay.- As Gilbert de
JonesLon he was \Nitness to a charter by Itoliert Brus to Eoger Crispin of
the lands of Cnoculeran, appaienlly Jiear Cuurmertrees, about tl:e sar.ie date
as the agreement, in which he figures as a pledge, the witnesses being nearly
all the sarae,.^ This charter is a bcardiful specimen of the caligraphy of the
period, as may be seen from the facsimile in this volume. The ink which
it was ^^ritleu with is still rejnarJcably fresh and distinct.
Some time afterwards, Gilbert de Joneston was advanced to the dignity
of knighthood, llobert Eruce granted to liobcrt of Crosby a right of
conimonty in the wood of Slajdcton, and the witnesses are Sir Humphrey
of Ivirlcpatrick-, Sir Adam of Carno!, Sir Gilbert of Jonestone, Sir Alan of
I)iiiiwidi, and others.* As "Sir Gilbeit de Joneston" lie witnessed a quit-
claim by I!ogei', son of "William rrench, to Sir Eobert liruco, lord of Annan-
' Jltli Xnvfiiilicr )C1S. Baiii'a C'alcn.l.ir Jolj-.i.-jtr.nc was in cl.ise alliance a.^ loid