The book Arran; - Cook Clan

56 THE BOOK OF ARRAN
' John FuUartoun ' had sasine of the same on attaining his
majority, paying a full year's rental as relief ; in 1539
another John FuUartoun enters, after ten years as heir under
ward. We may here spin out to its close the story of FuUarton
ownership in this quarter. Three Johns succeeded each
other in these ' nine merk lands ' between 1495 and 1539,
and in 1541 the last of them made resignation of the property
to James Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, whose son Alexander,
eleven years later, transferred them to James Duke of
Chatelherault and Earl of Arran.^ Thus withered on the
Knightslands the three branches, two above and one below,
of the FuUarton escutcheon ; the cedar of the Hamiltons
was spreading its roots.
But, in the meantime, the stock had been transplanted
farther north. In 1391^ King Robert iii. granted to ' Fergus
of Foulertone of Arrane ' the land of ' Erqwhonnyne ' ^ in
Arran, of the old extent of two marks sterling yearly, for
yearly payment of one penny of silver as ' blench ferme,' a
' white ' or nominal sum, to be paid at Pentecost in the Castle
of Brodick. As the Knightslands' Fullartons are said to be
also ' of Corsby,' this FuUarton ' of Arran ' must be a minor
branch of the same, a younger son. Nine years later Robert
grants to the son of Fergus the lands of ' Killemechel in the
Baillary of Arran,' with the office of ' crowner ' or coroner
of that bailliary, which office, we now learn, had belonged
to Ferchard or Fergus. Later we have Kilmichael and
'Glenklowy' associated with the same office, and by 1511 we
find in the possession of the Fullartons the two marklands
of Forland or ' Irachonane,' which in 1527 is expressed as
Quhytfoirland. There is no need to hunt these grants
through later charters, but one variation may be noted.
1 Hist. MSS. Commission, as cited, pp. 22-3.
2 These details are from Origines Parochiales, citing the FuUarton Charters.
3 ' Arywhonyne, or Straith-oughlian,' Pennant's Tour in Scotland (ed. 1774), p. 186.
That is, Strathwhillan. See list on p. 39.