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(blank) her procurators, to raise commission by deliverance of the lords
of council and brieves of chancery to certain judges in that part or to
the steward of Annanderdaill to serve lier as nearest heir to the said
late Symon Carrutheris of JVIouswall, in the said lands of Cumlonganewod,
held immediately of the lairds of CokpuU free blench, for payment
yearly of a red ros^ at the feast of St. John the Baptist, in name of
blench ferm, &c., and to cause her retour be past the chancery, and in
her name receive infeftment of the lands, to resign the lands in the
laird of CokpuU's hands as superior. And she hereby renounces and
resigns the said lands in favour of Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig,
knight, his heirs and assignees, for infeftment to be given to him.
Dated at Drumlanrig, 22 January 1607. Witnesses, Mr. John Douglas
of Arkland, William Irving of Bonschaw, and others. Jonet Carrutheris
signs with her hand at the pen.
127. In the Drumlanrig charter chest there is a MS. Protocol Book
of Mark Carrutheris, presbyter of St. Andrew's diocese, and notary
public (Dumfries). The entries in this book begin on the 17th October
1531 with the induction of Thomas Erskyne to the rectory of
Lochtmaban. They end with a sasine of Kentigern (Muugo) Maxwell,
brother of Edward Maxwell of Mylhil, in six acres of land of Mylhil, in
the parish of Traqueir and sheriffdom of Kirkcudbrycht, dated 18
February 1561-2. During the long period of thirty years in which
Mark Carruthers exercised his profession of a notary public, he appears
to have been well employed by the inhabitants of Dumfries, and also by
owners of adjacent properties, in recording the acquisitions and transmissions
of heritable property in that burgh and also in Lochmaben and
neighbourhood.
Head Eighth.—Ancient Miscellaneous Charters by the Earls of
Crawford and Lord Lindsay and other owners of landed property,
relating to lands in the counties of Dumfries and Lanark.
This section includes a list of the Weaponshaw of Annandale, held on
Birrenswark hill in the year 1541. Among other ecclesiastical writs it
contains two ; the first is one by Robert Stewart, natural son of King
James the Fifth, commendator of the monastery of Holyrood, near
Edinburgh, being a precept of sasine for a tenement in Edinburgh.
The second is a dispensation by John Hamilton, archbishop of St.
Andrews, for a marriage of James Twedy and Jonet Douglas, whose
marriage was hindered by the somewhat unusual impediment of spiritual
cognition (impedimento cognitionis spiritualis) . This cognition arose
out of the fact that Jonet's father had lifted James her proposed
husband from the sacred font. A fourth degree of consanguinity was
also involved. The archbishop, as legate, dispensed with the impediment
and allowed the marriage to proceed.
The writs under this head date from the year 1449 to 1569.
128. Charter by Alexander Earl of Oaufurd and Lord of Lindesay,
granting to his dearest cousin, John of Hammyltoun, brother gerraan of
James, Lord le Hammyltoun,' for his most grateful help, counsel and
service, often done to the Earl's progenitor, and to be done, the lands
of Quhite Camp and Kirkop, in the lordship of Craufurd Lindesay and
sheriffdom of Lanark, and in exchange for the lands^of Westir Brichti,
in his barony of Feme, and sheriffdom of Forfare ; to be held by him
and his heirs whomsoever, in name of excambion, for the lands of Westir
Brichti, of the Earl, his heirs and successors, in fee and heritage; and
notwithstanding any previous entail &c. for services due and wont^