The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral - Electric Scotland

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tlmm-h tlu- treachery of Schaw of Sauchy, the possession of the young
I'M: in his 15th year, inflamed his ambition with the prospect of
, and
used every artifice in their power to poison his mind against
his fath ttcd by the Humes and Hepburns, and Lord Gray, Lyle,
: Urummond, Angus proclaimed war in the Prince's name against the
;^, and the southern part of the kingdom soon became a scene of
violence and revolt. The northern nobles, however, were, as a rule,
faithful and loyal : and
James, by a sudden move, made his way through
Angus to Aberdeen, where he found himself at the head of a large
following, with whom he returned southwards. The sequel is well
AH ; negotiations at Blackness, followed by a new outbreak, and the
death of the King at the hand of one of the insurgents on the fatal St.
rnabas day, nth June. Equally well known is the devotedness, after
the disastrous day of Sauchie, of the people of Aberdeenshire to the
cause of their late Sovereign and Lord Forbes' progress through the
country, displaying the bloody shirt of James III. to incite the multitude
to rise against his murderers. The Crathes charter room contains
evidence that when James thus retired northwards, the laird of Leys
was among his friends and supporters. At Aberdeen, on 23rd April,
1488, Alexander Burnet resigned his whole lands into the King's hands,
and two days later he received a charter under the Great Seal (then in
the possession of Bishop Elphinstone, who had been appointed Chancellor
in supersession of Argyll) uniting the lands of Leys, Killenaglerach,
Cullonach, The Hill, Candahill, Crathes with mill, and Drumsallach with
Loch of Banchory and Island, in the Sheriffdom of Aberdeen, with
Wester Cardncy, into one free barony, the reddendo being one penny
it the head messuage of the lands and barony of Leys at the
ival of Whitsunday. There is a precept of the same date directed
-hop of Aberdeen, and an attestation in place of sasine, infefting
in the barony of Cancgleroch, in the Sheriffdom of Kincardine, and
tcr Cardncy, in the Shcriffdum of Aberdeen, united into one free
>ny in terms of the King's charter and precept, and dated "apud
villain dr
f barony, like others of its date, is not in the extant
r of the Great Seal but it was not (as will be seen) treated in
truck at by the Act of the first Parliament of James IV.
:
ruling all gifts of James III. subsequent to 2nd February, 1487-8, in
prejudice uf " the crown that now is."