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132 HIGHLAND PAPERS
(Abstract.)
Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, one of the Guardians of the Realm of
Scotland, to his sheriff and bailies of Forfar, greeting, Forasmuch as we
have truly understood that Alexander Scirmesur, by the grant of Sir
William Wallays, has been infeft and seized in the Constabulary of the
Castle of Dundee, and in certain other lands adjacent to the said town of
Dundee, concerning which constabulary and lands, by whomsoever they
were conferred upon him, we straitly charge you in the name of Sir John
Comyn, the son, our fellow-guardian of the Realm of Scotland, and in
our own name that ye place and maintain him in the same position in
the said lands and constabulary in all respects, as he held the same by
the gift of the said Sir William Wallays before that we entered on the
guardianship of the said realm. Given at Gouray, 5th December 1298.
VI. Charter by John de Glassereth to Dugal
Cambel and Margaret de Glassereth his wife
of Knocnagullaran and other lands, undated, but
believed to be circa 131 5. l
Omnibus Cristi fidelibus presentem cartam visuris vel
audituris, Johannes de Glassereth dominus eiusdem,
salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit universitas
1 The Duke of Argyll, to whom the Editor is indebted for this charter, has
kindly added the following note :
' In the Craignish Inventory it is certainly this charter which is thus re-
ferred to.
'c. 131 5. "Charter by John MacMartin of Gleserech (who had married Sir
' Dugald Craignish's sister Finguala) to Sir Dugald Cambell of Craignish and
' Margaret his (John's) sister, of the lands of Derrynaneunach, Knockalloway,
4 and others, to be held by them and the heir procreat betwixt them in free
' marriage ; in which charter he designs them Dugallo Cambell et Margarete
* sponse sue sorori meae."
' It is curious to find the patronymic of John entered as MacMartin, as it is
'certainly absent from the original charter. His father we know from the
• Panmure Register was Radulph of Dundee, Lord of Glasrie, so the latter must
' have been a MacMartin from Argyll.'
In a MS. History of the Campbells of Craignish in the Lyon Office, there is
a long story of how a dispute arose in which Sir Dugald of Craignish killed his
brother-in-law, and how MacMartin's only child, a boy about ten years of age,
was killed by his foster father, one MacRath, who fled to Ross-shire, and there
founded the race of MacRaes. As John of Glassarie was succeeded by his son
Gilbert (post, p. 134), it seems plain that this legend cannot apply to them.
Further, in a printed Craignish tree Finguala's husband is given, not as Mac-
Martin, but as M' Master of Glassrich. This of course may be a clerical error,
but the name MacMaster would be quite applicable to John of Glassarie, in
view of the fact that his father was long known as Master Ralph of Dundee !