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GLASSARIE WRITS 225
tempore fuerit/vt nos et quemlihet nostrum ad omnia premissa
fideliter obseruanda possit compellere per omnimodam eensuram
ecclesiasticam. Renuncians etiam in hac parte pro me et heredi-
bus meis et executoribus/omni cauillacioni/excepcioni et Juris
remedio canonici et ciuilis/ac omnibus allegacionibus aliis/que
mihi in hac parte poterunt prodesse/et dicto domino Episcopo
contra istam obligacionem meam in aliquo obesse. Et ad maiorem
huius rei securitatem prefato domino Episcopo faciendam/homines
subscriptos ,'sibi inueni fideiussores et principales debitores/quemlibet
eorum in solidum . qui se ad omnia premissa pari modo
obligarunt. Videlicet dominum Thomam Gerland rectorem
ecclesie de banevy/philippum de logy . Andrea de botha : . Alanum
de balmossy 2 . Alanum Jacob . Johannem de Schave . Ricardum
filium Bridini et Johannem dictum Nurys burgenses de Dunde . In
cuius rei testimonium presentibus Uteris sigillum meum 3 vna cum
sigillis dictorum fideiussorum meorum apposui. Datum apud
Dunde die dominico in festo omnium Sanctorum Anno gracie,
M°.CCC°. vicesimo primo.
1 The deceased Nicholas de Botha appears as having been proprietor of land
in Dundee in a charter by Robert I. to Patrick de Invirpeffre {Reg. Mag. Sig.,
vol. 1306-1424, Nos. 691-779).
2 The lands of Balmossie are in the parish of Monifieth. Alan de Belmosse
had a charter from Robert I. of lands in Dundee and the third part of Craigie
{ibid., App. II., No. 457).
3 As the arms on this seal clearly contain a lion rampant, it is suggested by
Dr. Maitland Thomson that this fact possibly explains the mysterious stipulation
in No. XXXli. {vide ante, p. 179), and after a good deal of consideration the
Editor is inclined to agree. The Scrymgeour arms are given by Nisbet
(i. p. 288) as gules, a lion rampant or, armed and langued azuie, holding in his
dexter paw a crooked sword or scimitar argent. Whatever may be the origin
and antiquity of these arms the earliest extant instance of their use is in 1444,
by Sir John Scrymgeour, one of the parties to the indenture of 1443, whose seal
is thus described by Mr. Rae Macdonald {Scottish Armorial Seals, No. 2498) :
' Couche, a lion rampant holding a sword in the sinister paw. Crest, on a
helmet a lion paw holding a sword erect. Legend (Goth. I.e.), S iohannis
Scrymiour.' It may be that the similarity between these arms and those of
John de Glassarie is accidental— or it may be that the Scrymgeours only adopted
the lion after the marriage of Alexander Scrymgeour with Agnes, the heiress of
Glassarie. But the puzzle does not end here, for the next question is how did
John de Glassarie come to bear the lion rampant? The arms on his seal may
but no
of course be those which his father, Ralph of Dundee, used before him ;
seal of Ralph exists to throw light on the matter. Moreover, Ralph himself is
never designed ' de Glassarie,' and it is possible that it was really through his
mother, and not through his father, that both Glassarie and the lion rampant
came to their son. Be this as it may, John de Glassarie was in some way or
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