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The EAEL of STAIR, K.T., LL.D, V.P.S.A. Scot, Lord-Lieutenant
of Ayrshire and Wigtonshire.
The DUKE of POETLAND.
The MARQUESS of BUTE, K.T, F.S.A. Scot.
The MARQUESS of AILSA.
The EARL of EGLINTON and WINTON.
The EARL of GALLOWAY.
The EARL of GLASGOW, F.S.A. Scot, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland.
The LORD BORTHWICK.
The Right Hon. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, Bart, K.C.M.G, LL.D.
The Right Hon. Sir J. DALRYMPLE-HAY, M.P, OB, D.C.L, F.R.S.
Sir M. SHAW- STEWART, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
Sir ANDREW AGNEW, Bart, of Lochnaw.
Sir WILLIAM WALLACE, Bart., of Lochryan.
Sir WILLIAM J. MONTGOMERY- CUNINGHAME, Bart, VC
Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart, M.P, of Monreith.
R. A OSWALD of Auchincruive.
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R. W. COCHRAN-PATRICK of Woodside, M.P, LL.D., F.S.A, V.P.S.A. Scot
W. S. COOPER of Failford, LL.M. Cantab, F.S.A. Scot.
l?on. Secretary for W,i$ton0Wv2.
The Rev. G. WILSON, Glenluce, C.M.S.A. Scot.
treasurer.
C. G. SHAW, Esq., County Buildings, Ayr.
Council*
Colonel GOULD HUNTER-WESTON of Hunterston, F.S.A.
F. T. R. KENNEDY of Dunure.
J. MACDONALD, LL.D, F.S.A. Scot, AyT.
R. MUNRO, M.D, M.A, F.S.A. Scot, Kilmarnock.
J. SHEDDEN DOBIE of Morishill, F.S.A. Scot, Beith.
R. WYLIE, Castle Pen, KUwinning.
vi LIST OF MEMBERS.
3U'0t of Sternberg, 1883.
AFFLECK, John, Union Bank, Glasgow.
Agnew, Alexander, 11 Reform Street, Dundee.
Agnew, Sir Andrew, Lochnaw, Stranraer.
Agnew, R. Vans, of Barnbarroch, Wigtonshire.
AlLSA, Marquess of, Culzean Castle, Maybole.
Aitken, A., Solicitor, Stranraer.
Alexander, Col., M.P., of Ballochmyle, Maucnline.
Alexander, Dr., Dundonald.
Allison, R. A., Scaleby Hall, Carlisle.
Anderson, J., Carthgale, Kilmarnock.
Anderson, Matthew, Writer, Milliken Park, Glasgow.
Anderson, W., 149 West George Street, Glasgow.
Andrews, David, Solicitor, Girvan.
Antiquaries, Society of, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.
Armstrong, R. B., 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh.
Arthur, J. F., C.S.I. , Lochside House, New Cumnock.
Arthur, M., 9 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow.
Ayr, Burgh of.
BAILEY, J. Lambert, Banker, Ardrossan.
Baird, Mrs., of Cambusdoon, Ayr.
Bartlemore, J., of Bourtrees, Paisley.
Baxter, D., Ladyburn, Kilkerran, Maybole.
Blackwood, J., Gillsburn, Kilmarnock.
Blair, Archibald, Surgeon, Dairy, Ayrshire.
Blair, Captain, of Blair, Dairy, Ayrshire.
Blair, Rev. D. Oswald Hunter, O.S.B., St. Benedict's Monastery,
Fort Augustus.
Borland, J., Chemist, Kilmarnock.
Borthwick, Lord, Ravenstone, Whithorn.
Boswell, P. C. D., of Garrallan, Cumnock.
Bowie, J. H., Union Bank, Coatbridge.
Boyd, Colonel Hay, of Townend, Symington.
Boyd, D. A, 225 West George Street, Glasgow.
Boyle, Captain, of Shewalton, Dreghorn.
LIST OF MEMBERS. vii
Brisbane, C. T., of Brisbane, Largs.
Brown, A. J. Dennistoun, of Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire.
Brown, D., Banker, Maybole.
Brown, D., Townend Cottage, Dairy.
Brown, George, Burnside, Irvine.
Brown, J., Orangefield, Ayr.
Brown, J. T., Gibraltar House, Edinburgh.
Brown, Miss, of Lanfine, Newmilns.
Brown, Richard, Kensal Tower, Ayr.
Brown, Robert, Underwood Park, Paisley.
Browne, Rev. A., The Manse, Beith.
Buchanan, A., of Curriehill, Edinburgh.
Bute, Marquess of, Mountstuart, Rothesay.
CAIRD, Sir James, C.B., 3 St. James' Square, London, S.W.
Cairney, William, 1 1 Derby Terrace, Glasgow.
Caldwell, James, Craigielea, Paisley.
Campbell, Colonel Sir A., Bart., of Blythswood, Renfrew.
Campbell, Colonel Hamilton, of Netherplace, Mauchline.
Campbell, R. F. F., M.P., of Craigie, Ayr.
Campbell, Captain R. M., of Auchmannoch, Glaisnock House,
Cumnock.
Carfrae, Robert, 77 George Street, Edinburgh.
Carment, J., LL.D., 32 Albany Street, Edinburgh.
Carrick, Joseph, Cleveland, Edge Lane, Stretford.
Carruthers, David, Market Lane, Kilmarnock.
Cathcart, Miss, of Auchendrane, Ayr.
Challoner, N. B., Royal Bank, Kilmarnock.
Christie, William, Royal Bank, Irvine.
Comrie, Alexander, Accountant, Dairy.
Conway, Rev. D., St. John's Chapel, Port-Glasgow.
Cooper, W. S., of Failford, Tarbolton.
Copland, J., Public School, Kilwinning.
Copland, James, General Register House, Edinburgh.
Cowan, Hugh, St. Leonards, Ayr.
Craig, James, Deanmount, Kilmarnock
Craufurd, E. H. J, of Auchenames, West Kilbride.
Crawfurd, T. Macknight, of Cartsburn, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh.
viii LIST OF MEMBEES.
Crichton, Major E. 0., of Linn, Dairy.
Crichton, Sheriff, 13 Nelson Street, Edinburgh.
Crum, A., M.P., of Thornliebank, Glasgow.
Cuninghame, John, Ironmaster, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Cuninghame, Sir W. J. M., Bart., V.C., of Corsehill, Glenrnoor
House, May bole.
Cuninghame, W. C. S., of Caprington, Kilmarnock.
Currie, Dr., Hydropathic Establishment, Skelmorlie.
Cuthbert, Alex. A., 14 Newton Terrace, Glasgow.
DALEYMPLE, G, M.P., Ardencraig, Eothesay.
Dalrymple, C. E., Kinellar Lodge, Aberdeenshire.
Dalrymple, Hon. Hew, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer.
Dick, J. T., 38 Sandgate, Ayr.
Dickie, Hugh, Eector, Academy, Kilmarnock.
Dickie, J., Town-Clerk, Irvine.
Dickie, James, 18 George Square, Glasgow.
Dickie, James, London Eoad, Kilmarnock.
Dickson, T, General Eegister House, Edinburgh.
Dobbie, Eobert, M.D., 3 Wellington Square, Ayr.
Dobie, J. Shedden, F.S.A. Scot., of Morishill, Beith.
Donald, Alexander, Teacher, Muirkirk.
Douglas, Campbell, Architect, 266 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Douglas, David, 15a Castle Street, Edinburgh.
Douglas, J., M.D., Whithorn, Wigtonshire.
Drew, J., Doonhill, Newton-Stewart.
Dunlop, Alexander, of Doonside, Priory Lodge, Largs.
Dunlop, David, Solicitor, Ayr.
Dunlop, W. H., of Annanhill, Kilmarnock.
Dunlop, W. H, Solicitor, Ayr.
E ASTON, Eobert, C.A., 115 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
Eglinton and Winton, Earl of, Eglinton Castle, Irvine.
Elder, George, Knock Castle, Largs.
Evans, John, D C.L., Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead.
FAULDS, A. Wilson, Knockbuckle, Beith.
Ferguson, W., of Kinmundy, 2 1 Manor Place, Edinburgh.
LIST OF MEMBERS. ix
Fergusson, Eight Honourable Sir James, K.C.M.G., of Kilkerran,
Maybole.
Fergusson, James M., Observer Office, Ayr.
Finlay, John, Greenfield, Alloway, Ayr.
Finnie, A, of Springhill, Kilmarnock.
Fleming, James, 83 Jamaica Street, Glasgow.
Flint, John, 2 Montgomerie Terrace, Ayr.
Foster, W. K., 45 Leinster Gardens, Hyde Park, London, W,
Franks, Augustus W., British Museum, London.
Fraser, W., AV.S., Deputy Keeper of the Records, 32 Castle Street,
Edinburgh.
GAIRDNER, R., Thorntoun, Kilmarnock.
Gairdner, William, Dalblair House, Ayr.
Galloway, Earl of, Galloway House, Wigtonshire.
Gardner, Alexander, Publisher, Paisley.
Gardner, William, Shawl Manufacturer, Paisley.
Geddes, G. H., 8 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh.
Gemmell, Thomas, Banker, Ayr.
Gemmell, William, 150 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Gilmour, A., Solicitor, Irvine.
Gilmour, Allan, Woodend, Kilmarnock.
GlRVAN, J. Graham, 186 West George Street, Glasgow.
Glasgow and Galloway, Bishop of, Ayr.
Glasgow, Earl of, Crawford Priory, Cupar-Fife.
Glasgow, R. B. Robertson, of Montgreenan, Kilwinning.
Goudie, Ex-Provost, Ayr.
Graham, J., of Broadstone, Stranraer.
Graham, T. D. C, of Dunlop, Dunlop.
Grant, Rev. Alexander T., Rosslyn, Edinburgh
Gray, G., Clerk of the Peace, Glasgow.
Greenwell, Rev. Canon, Durham.
Greg, R. P., Coles Park, Buntingford, Herts.
Greig, T. C, Rephad, Stranraer.
HAMILTON, Alexander, Solicitor, Irvine.
Hamilton, Captain, of Pinmore, Girvan.
Hamilton, George, Ardendee, Kirkcudbright.
Hamilton, H. M., 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
Hamilton, J, Town-Clerk, Kilmarnock.
Hamilton, J. G., 38 Portland Street, Kilmarnock.
Hamilton, John, of Sundrum, Ayr.
Hamilton, Mrs. H., 3 Lansdowne Terrace, Cheltenham.
Hannah, A., Cairnsmore, Bellahouston, Govan.
Hay, Right Hon. Sir John Dalrymple, of Park, Wigtonshire.
Hendrie, James, Meadowbank, Kilwinning.
Horne, Robert R., 150 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Howatson, Charles, of Glenbuck, by Lanark.
Howatson, George S., Eglinton Ironworks, Kilwinning.
Hunter, Andrew, Ayr.
Hunter, David, Sea Tower, Ayr.
Hunter, E. A., Newark Castle, Ayr.
Hunter, John, Burnfoot, by Ayr.
Hunter, Mrs., Clifford Lodge, Largs.
IRVINE, Burgh of.
JOHNSTON, D., 160 West George Street, Glasgow.
Johnston, T. B., Geographer to the Queen, 9 Claremont Crescent,
Edinburgh.
Jonas, A. C, 21 Trafalgar Terrace, Swansea.
KAY, R. M., Clydesdale Bank, Ayr.
Keith, Rev. W. A., Burham Vicarage, Rochester.
Kennedy, Captain Clark, of Knockgray, Henbury, Wimbourne,
Dorset.
Kennedy, F. T. R., of Dunure, Ayr.
Kennedy, James, 25 Greendyke Street, Glasgow.
Kennedy, J, of Underwood, 71 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
Kennedy, J, yr. of Underwood, 71 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
Kennedy, Thomas, Glenfield, Kilmarnock.
Kerr, W., Nethergate House, Dundee.
Kilpatrick, William, Solicitor, Provost of Ayr.
King, H. B., Commercial Bank, Kilwinning.
King, Walter, Paisley.
KiRKHorE, Thomas, Writer, Ardrossan.
Knox, R. W., of Moor Park, Kilbirnie.
LIST OF MEMBEKS. xi
LAIXG, Alexander, LL.D., Newburgh-on-Tay.
Lamb, J. B., Architect, Paisley.
Landsborough, Rev. D., Kilmarnock.
Leadbetter, Thomas, Westerhouse, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh.
Leck, Henry, of Hollybush, Ayr.
Livingston, Rev. K, F.C. Manse, Coylton, Ayr.
Lockhart, John, Sheriff-Clerk Depute, Ayr.
London Library, 12 St James' Square, London, S.W.
Lyon, D. Murray, Secretary to Grand Lodge of Scotland, Free-
masons' Hall, Edinburgh.
M'ALISTER, J., Surgeon, Kilmarnock.
M'Call, James, 6 St. John's Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow.
M'Callum, Robert, Town Chamberlain, Ayr.
M'Chlery, William, Balminnoch, Kirkcowan.
M'Clelland, A. S., 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
M'Connachie, J. A., C.E., 1 2 Victoria Road, Kensington, London, W.
M'Connel, William, of Knockdolian, Girvan.
M'Cosh, James M., Solicitor, Dairy.
M'Crone, James, 25 Stockwell Street, Glasgow.
M'Ctjbbin, W. F., 5 Alloway Place, Ayr.
M'Culloch, Thomas, Founder, Kilmarnock.
M'Culloch, David, Beech Grove, Kilmarnock.
M'Derment, J. I., C.E., Ayr.
M'Ewen, Robert F., of Bardrochwood, 20 Buckingham Terrace,
Edinburgh.
M'Gavin, J., 19 Elmbank Place, Glasgow.
M'Gibbon, D., 89 George Street, Edinburgh.
M' Gibbon, William, Draper, Stranraer.
M'Grigor, Dr. A. B., 19 Woodside Terrace, Glasgow.
M'Kenzie, J. W., 16 Royal Circus, Edinburgh.
M'Kerlie, P. H., 26 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, London, W.
M'Kerrell, R. M., of Hillhouse, Dundonald.
M'Kerro"W, Dr., Ayr.
M'Kie, J., Publisher, Kilmarnock.
M'Micking, Gilbert, 55 Princes Gate, London, S.W.
M'Roberts, George, Stevenston.
M'Vail, Dr., Kilmarnock.
xii LIST OF MEMBERS.
Mac ARTHUR, Lady, 27 Princes Gardens, London, S.W.
Macdonald, A. G., The Crescent, Ardrossan.
Macdonald, J., LL.D., The Academy, Ayr.
Macdonald, J. C. R., 11 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh.
Macdouall, James, of Logan, Stranraer.
Macdowall, Henry, younger of Garthland, Lochwinnoch.
Macfarlane, Dr., Kilmarnock.
Macgregor, P. Comyn, of Brediland, Paisley.
Mack, Anthony, The Crescent, Ardrossan.
Mackay, Professor, 7 Albyn Place, Edinburgh.
Mackean, J. A., Maryfield, Paisley.
Mackenzie, Alexander, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley.
Mackie, Daniel, of Knockgerran, Girvan.
Mackie, Robert, Draffen House, Stewarton.
MACKINNON, William, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Macleod, Rev. W., 5 Thirlestane Road,Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh.
Macrorie, William, Solicitor, Ayr.
Masson, G., Oakshawside, Paisley.
Matthews, Rev. G. D., D.D., Quebec.
Maxwell, Mrs., of Carruchan, Dumfries.
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, M.P., of Monreith, Garlieston.
Mercer, John, C.E., Ayr.
Metcalf, Rev. W. M., South Manse, Paisley.
Middlejias, W., Town-Clerk's Office, Kilmarnock.
Miller, Robert, Alloway Cottage, Ayr.
MlLROY, Dr. A., Kilwinning.
Mitchell, Dr. A., 34 Drummond Place, Edinburgh.
Mitchell, J. 0., G9 East Howard Street, Glasgow.
Mitchell Library, Ingram Street, Glasgow.
Montgomerie, J. C, Dalmore, Stair.
Moore, J. Carrick, of Corsewall, Stranraer.
Morris, James A., A.R.I., B.A., 46 Newmarket Street, Ayr.
Munro, Dr. R., Kilmarnock.
Murdoch, George W., Glasgow News Office, Hope Street, Glasgow.
Murdoch, J., Architect, Ayr.
Murdoch, J. B., Barclay, Langside, Glasgow.
Murdoch, R. D., Fairfield Lodge, Ayr.
Murray, David. 1G9 West George Street, Glasgow.
LIST OF MEMBERS. xiii
MURRAY, William, Bams Park, Ayr.
Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh.
Mutter. W., of Meiklelaught, Ardrossan.
NORTHESK, Earl of, Longwood, Winchester.
OLIVER, Rev. J., Belhaven, Dunbar.
Oswald, R. A., of Aucliincruive, Ayr.
PARK, Richard, Architect, Newton-Stewart.
Parlane, James, Rusholme, Manchester.
Paterson, John, of Knowehead, Irvine.
Paterson, Sheriff Orr, Ayr.
Paton, James B., Merchant, Ayr.
Paton, Robert, Gartferry, Ayr.
Paton, Theophilus, of Swinlees, Dairy.
Paton, William, of Hillend, Dairy.
Patrick, Miss Cochran, Ladyland, Beith.
Patrick, R. W. Cochran, M.P., of Woodside, Beith.
Patrick, W. Ralston, of Trearne, Beith.
Philp, Rev. George, Saltcoats.
Picken, James, Hillhouse Lodge, Fenwick.
Pollock, J., Victoria Works, Beith.
Pollock, John, Town-Clerk, Ayr.
Pollock, William, Solicitor, Ayr.
Pollok, R. M, of Middleton, Ayr.
Pollok-Morris, A., of Craig, Kilmarnock.
Porteous, J. S., Oakbank, Maybole.
Portland, Duke of, per J. H. Turner, The Dean, Kilmarnock.
RAFF, James, 14 Wellington Square, Ayr.
Ramsay, Dr., Lochwinnoch.
Ramsay, R., Greendyke Street, Glasgow.
Reid, Charles, Lily Mount, Kilmarnock.
Reid, H. G., Stationery Office, London.
Reid, William, junior, Chapelhill, Paisley.
Rennie, Thomas, Banker, Maybole.
Robertson, Rev. W. B. Irvine.
LIST OF MEMBERS.
Rose, James, 1 1 Langlands Street, Kilmarnock.
Ross, Alexander M., Town-Chamberlain, Paisley.
Rowat, William, Rosehill Cottage, Paisley.
Russell, William D., of Maulside, Dairy, Ayrshire.
SCOTT, John, Seafield House, Greenock.
Shaw, Charles G., Ayr.
Shaw, W. F., 39 Stockwell Street, Glasgow.
Signet Library, Edinburgh.
Somervell, James, of Sorn, Mauchline.
Stair, Earl of, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer.
Steele, Ex-Provost, Ayr.
Stephen, William, 31 Sandgate, Ayr.
Stevenson, Allan, Architect, Ayr.
Stevenson, William, Witch Road, Kilmarnock.
Stewart, H. Murray, of Cally, Gatehouse.
Stewart, J, MP., of Garvocks, Largs.
Stewart, J., Heathfield, Irvine.
Stewart, J. Leveson D., 6 1 Linden Gardens, Bayswater, London, W.
Stewart, M. J, South wick, Stranraer.
Stewart, Sir M. Shaw, of Ardgowan, Greenock.
Stirrat, James, Solicitor, Dairy.
Stoddart, James H., Glasgow Herald Office, Glasgow.
Stoddart, R. R., Lyon Clerk-Depute, Edinburgh.
Struthers, A. W., 3 Barns Terrace, Ayr.
Sturrock, Arthur, British Linen Company Bank, Kilmarnock.
Sturrock, J., junior, Solicitor, Kilmarnock.
Sturrock, Provost, Kilmarnock.
Symington, G., Banker, Glenluce.
TAYLOR, William, London Road, Kilmarnock.
Thomson, R., Crookedholm, Kilmarnock.
Thomson, Rev. J. H., F.C. Manse, Hightree, Lockerbie.
Todd, Hugh, Solicitor, Stranraer.
Turnbull, Andrew, Town-Chamberlain, Kilmarnock.
Turner, F. J, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield, Notts.
Turner, J. H, The Dean, Kilmarnock.
URQUHART, Rev. A., Free Church Manse, Portpatrick.
LIST OF MEMBERS. xv
VERNON, Hon. G. R, Auchans, Dundonald.
Vivian, A. P., M.P., Glendorgal, St. Colomb Minor, Cornwall.
WALES, James, of Buckstone, Rawdon, Yorkshire.
Walker, Alex., Wine Merchant, Kilmarnock.
Walker, J., 74 Bath Street, Glasgow.
Wallace, Charles, Dally, Kirkcolm, Stranraer.
Wallace, Sir William, of Lochryan, Stranraer.
Wark, Audrew, Bartholomew House, London, E.C.
Warrack, Rev. Alexander, Free Church Manse, Leswalt, Stranraer.
Watson. J., Wallace Bank, Kilmarnock.
Weir, William, of Kildonan, Portland Ironworks, Kilmarnock.
Weston, Col. Gould Hunter-, of Hunterston, West Kilbride.
Wilson, Rev. G, Free Church Manse, Glenluce, Wigtonshire.
Wilson, R. Dobie, 15 Green Street, Grosvenor Square, London, W.
Wood, James, Portland Villa, Troon.
Wright, Hugh, of Alticry, Port- William.
Wylie, R, Kilwinning.
Wylie, Rev. W. H., 5 Glenan Gardens, Helensburgh.
YOUNG, David, Town-Clerk, Paisley.
PREFACE.
It must be satisfactory to the Municipality of Ayr, as well as
to the Members of this Association, that the valuable series
of charters and other muniments belonging to the Royal
Burgh are now transcribed in a way which will render them
more permanent and useful.
It was at one time intended to include in the present
volume some of the earlier of the Town Records, but space
did not permit, and these records must therefore be added
to the rapidly -accumulating amount of work yet to be
overtaken.
The thanks of the Association are very specially due to
Mr. R. D. Murdoch of Ayr, who has spent much time in
tracing the boundaries of the lands granted to the burgh by
King William the Lion, and the result of his investigations is
incorporated in the Introduction.
Two old views of Ayr (at pp. xxxiv and 74) have been
reproduced by photo - lithography from Slezer's Theatrum
Scotiae (first ed., 1693). The plate of the Burgh Arms has
already been used in the Charters of the Friars Preachers, but
its appropriateness to the subject - matter of the present
volume suggested its use again.
W. S. COOPER.
Failford, Tarbolton, May 1883.
INTRODUCTION.
In 1197 a.d., a new town was built between the rivers Doon
and Ayr (factum est novum opidum inter Don et Ar).1
This new town was doubtless founded on the site of
an old town or hamlet which had flourished from very
ancient times under the protection of an old fortress. That
there was an old town and an old castle is abundantly
evident from the words of the Chronicle of Melrose, and
from the charter of King William the Lion, erecting the town
into a royal burgh, in which he speaks of "my new castle
at Ayr " (novum castellum meum super Are).2
This charter is dated the 21st day of May, but the year
is not given ; Chalmers, however, fixes it as between 1202
and 1207, from the fact that Florence,3 the Elect of Glasgow,
is mentioned as one of the witnesses.
The lands granted to the burgh of Ayr by King William
the Lion included the whole, or almost the whole, parish of
1 Chronica de Mailros. and by his mother a relation of the Scottish
king, was elected the successor of Malvoisin
in 1202. He seems never to have been con-
2 Lord Hailes says this castle was pro-
bably intended for a barrier against the men
of Galloway. Hailes' Annals of Scotland,
vol. i. 162.
secrated, but settled quietly in his diocese,
which he resigned in 1207 ; and, going to
Eome in 1211, died there in 1212.— dial -
3 Florence, son of the Earl of Holland, mers' Caledonia, vol. iii. p. GIG.
xx INTRODUCTION.
Ayr, known as the Burrowfield, and distinguished as such from
the Barony and Parish of Alloway immediately to the south.
In opposition to the usual practice of following the course of
the sun, which is adopted afterwards in naming the places at
which toll was to be taken, the description of the boundaries
runs from west to east. The first four places mentioned are
From Bleau's Map of Kyle, 1654.
easily identified. The boundary runs "from Inverdon" — that
is the mouth of the Doon, which in those days we assume
to have entered the sea not far from the mouth of the
Ayr, " as far as to Inverpolcurtecan," or the mouth of the
Curtecan Burn, now known as the Belleisle or Slaphouse Burn,
and which must then have been a tributary of the Doon,
joining it at or about Belleisle bridge, on the road from Ayr
to Low Bridge of Doon.
INTRODUCTION. xxi
That the Doon has changed its original channel to the sea
is highly probable, although it is a curious circumstance that
there is no conclusive evidence on the point ; and it is only
fair to add that Mr. Murray Lyon, a well-known authority on
"Auld Ayr," does not believe that any change took place.
The charter we are considering makes it quite certain that
the Doon and Curtecan had not separate mouths as at present ;
and it is worthy of notice that the boundary of the burgh
lands begins at the mouth of the Doon, proceeds inland, and
ends at the mouth of the Ayr, without mentioning, as one
would expect, that the sea was the boundary between the Ayr
and the Doon. Take, in connection with this, the fact that the
Chronicle of Melrose speaks of the new town being built, not
upon the Ayr, but " between the Doon and Ayr ; " and the
inference is not unreasonable that the town itself occupied the
space between the two rivers. Perhaps the most significant
piece of evidence is to be found in the fact that though the
Doon is the natural march between the parishes of Ayr and
Maybole, yet to this day certain lands to the north of the
Doon are attached to the parish of Maybole.1
Assuming that the channel of the Doon has changed ; how
or when this took place is not known, but it must have occurred
after the division of the country into parishes, in the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries,2 and prior to 1610, about which time
the survey of Ayrshire by Timothy Pont was made ;3 as, in
the map founded thereon, and published in Bleau's Atlas in
1 To wit, the lands of Cunning Park. See also New Statistical Account of Ayrshire, p. 9.
2 Orhjiiies Parochkdes Scotiae, vol. i. Preface, p. xx. note.
3 Dobie's Pout's Cuninghame, Preface, p. xv.
xxii INTRODUCTION.
1654, the Doon and Curtecan are shown falling into the sea
as at present.
The boundary is then said to run " as far as to Crottun,"
which is, by a simple transposition of letters, the modern
Corton. Then "by Curtecan to the head of Curtecan," that
is to say, near to the point where the Ayr and Dalmellington
road passes, on the line of the Roman road from Ayr to
Kirkcudbright. It is then said to ascend "by Boghesken
as far as to Monedamdereg." The former of these places is
translated as a tract of rising ground with a bowlike bend,
bearing some resemblance to a man's hough.1 Just beyond
Curtecanhead, the Ordnance Survey map shows the parish
boundary making a bend such as that described, and the
contour lines show a rise of seventy-nine feet. Monedamdereg,
which signifies the moor of the red ox or hart, is possibly
identical with Mosshill, the name of a farm at this point.
Monemethonac, which next occurs, is translated as Middle-
moor, and may be the same as Mossend, another farm on the
route. The boundary proceeds "to Pollecleuan, and so by
Pollecleuan to Lochfergus." Pollecleuan is no doubt the
Pouclewen, which will be observed on Bleau's map of Kyle,
and it is probable that the rivulet which falls into Lochfergus
was so called. Lochfergus has retained its name unchanged
to the present day. The boundary line goes " down to
Dufhat," a place of which there is no record beyond what
1 Dr. Donald Smith communicated an to the effect that Dr. Smith was the best
interesting article on the topography of this Celtic scholar of his time. From this source
charter, with a glossary of the names men- the translations given are taken. See also
tioned, to the Scots Magazine for October Scots Magazine for 1808, p. 333.
1807, to which the editor appended a note,
INTRODUCTION. xxiii
may be gathered from the meaning, viz. a black mossy
surface fit for cutting into divot or fire turf. It then goes
"to the rivulet to the east of Drurnnesauel," probably the
same as Knocksoul, a farm which extends to the boundary
of Ayr parish. "And so by Polleclonecrangali to Dufioch,
and thence to Pollemulin." Polleclonecrangali is translated
as the lake or pond of Reginald's grandchildren, and has no
modern equivalent. Dufioch means the black loch, of which
there is now no trace. Pollemulin is translated the mill pond ;
or, possibly, it might be the mill burn ; certainly a burn does
rise here, flowing in old days perhaps from Dufioch, and falls
into the River Ayr not far above the Overmills. From this
point the boundary is along the River Ayr to the sea, a
distance of about two miles.
Having thus endeavoured to trace the boundaries of the
lands granted by William the Lion, it now remains to
consider the identity of the places at which toll was to be
taken. These places were Mach, Karnebuth, Loudoun,
Crosenecon, and Lachtalpin. It will be observed that while
in the former case the enumeration of the places proceeds in
the contrary direction to the course of the sun, in this
instance the localities are named in the usual order following
the sun's course. It will, however, be more convenient to
consider them in the opposite order.
Lacht or Laicht Alpin, the stone or grave of Alpin,1
1 In 836 A.D., Alpin, king of the Scoto- from the Chronicle of ' Dumblane, to have been
Irish in Kintyre, landed in the Bay of Ayr at that time within the extensive boundaries
and laid waste the country towards Dalmel- of Galloway. — Chalmers' Caledonia, vol. iii.
lington. He was defeated and slain near pp. 455-6. See also Chronicles of the Picts
the site of Laicht Castle, which appears, and Scots, Preface, p. clxxxv.
xxiv INTRODUCTION.
appears in Bleau's map as the Castle of Laicht, and is still
to be seen in the maps of Ayrshire as the site of a ruined
castle (though no ruins now remain), not far from the farm
of Laight. Lachtalpin commanded the River Doon and the
Roman road leading from Ayr to Kirkcudbright, being the
principal and probably the only road from Ayrshire into
Galloway.
Crosenecon is undoubtedly Corsencon, in the parish of
New Cumnock. There is a hill at this point, which is on
the borders of Ayrshire, marked in Bleau's map as Cossinkon
Hill. Between this hill and the River Nith is also found
the great Roman road leading from Carlisle and Dumfries
up the valley of the Nith to Ayr.
Loudoun presents no difficulties ; it must either have been
Loudoun Hill, or a castle, fort, or village close to it. Such
a situation on the Roman road from Carstairs to Loudoun
Hill, a route which must always have been the chief, if
not the only communication between Lanarkshire and Ayr-
shire, is just that which might be expected to have been
chosen as a point for collecting duties.
Karnebuth is not so easily identified. Chalmers says : —
" It appears that the privileged territory of the burgh of
Ayr, for buying and selling, bounded with the limits of
Rutherglen, at Carnbuth, on the eastern extremity of Kyle,
and in the south-east bounds of Cunninghame."1 As, how-
ever, the position assigned by Chalmers to Karnebuth
would place it close to Loudoun, it seems unlikely that he
should be right. We should expect to find the different
1 Caledonia, vol. iii. p. 481.
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INTRODUCTION.
XXV
stations for payment of toll at a somewhat equal distance
from each other. Now there is a place, bearing the name
of Cairn, which fulfils this condition, on the borders of Ayr-
shire and Renfrewshire, where the great road from Ayr
to Glasgow, by Stewarton and Mearns Moor, crosses. This
may possibly be the sole remaining trace of Karnebnth,
which signifies the cairn where fair stalls were erected.
The last place mentioned is Mach. Some writers, assum-
ing that the liberties of Ayr extended only over Kyle,
have supposed Mach to be the same as Mauchline.1 This
is evidently a mistake ; Mach in the original has no sign
of contraction, and Mauchline is never written Mach.2 It
is suggested that the place referred to may have been the
Maich Burn, which forms the northern boundary of Ayrshire,
and is crossed by the great road from Ardrossan, by Dairy
and Kilbirnie, to Paisley and Glasgow. It may be added
that, in former times, Maich was at least occasionally written
Mach.3 This position would complete the chain of posts, on
the assumption that these toll -places were fixed on the
boundaries of Ayrshire, as nearly as possible equidistant
from each other, and commanding the principal roads by
which merchandise could be taken to and from Ayr.
It may be objected to the positions now assigned to
Karnebuth and Mach that they are inconsistent with the
liberties of Irvine, which are popularly supposed to have
extended over the whole of Cuninghame. It is certain,
1 Mach is translated Mauchline in the is written Mauhhelin. — Ayr and IFigton Col-
National Manuscripts of Scotland, Part I. lections, Vol. II. p. 142.
No. xl. 3 For an instance see Origines Parochiales
2 In an early charter (1177), Mauchline Scotiae, vol. i. p. 95.
d
xxvi INTRODUCTION.
however, that at an early date Irvine was in the habit of
paying toll to the burgh of Ayr. In a charter to the burgh
of Irvine, by Robert I., in confirmation of a charter by
Alexander II., not now extant, the burgesses of Irvine are
freed from the toll which they were wont to pay in the
burgh of Ayr (a tolneo quod solvere solebant in burgo nostro
de Are ante presentem concessionem nostram liberi sint
omnino et in perpetuum quieti).1 This same charter, the
date of which is 1322, declares that the burgesses of Irvine
are to be free from payment of all toll and custom on their
chattels carried through the whole kingdom. Again, in a
charter granted by Robert II. in 1373, as is supposed, it is
stated, in reference to a dispute as to the boundaries, limits,
and liberties of the burghs of Ayr and Irvine, that the said
burgesses of Irvine were from thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty
years, and beyond the memory of man, in possession of the
whole baronies of Cuninghame and Largs, annexed to the
liberties of the said burgh of Irvine, for freely exercising
their traffic and merchandise only.2 On the whole, it seems
probable that the liberties of the burgh of Ayr originally
extended over Cuninghame, and that the charter of Alexander
II. encroached upon these rights.
The possessions of the burgh of Ayr were largely increased
in 1236, when Alexander II. granted a charter of the lands
of Alloway, Corton, and Carcluie.3 It is worthy of remark
that the condition is attached to this grant that the burgesses
shall neither burn, nor give away, sell, nor in any way
destroy the green wood on the said lands, but shall only
1 Irvine Charters. 2 Irvine Charters. 3 P. 9.
INTRODUCTION. xxvii
take what is necessary for their own buildings of Ayr, and
for making their own boats of Ayr. By the charter of erec-
tion, each burgess had a right to clear six acres of wood
which he held along with his toft for a small yearly payment,
and, from the restriction now referred to, it may be con-
jectured that the work of clearing had been prosecuted
with perhaps too great vigour.
In virtue of these grants the burgesses of Ayr were pro-
prietors of all the land which is now represented by the
parishes of Ayr and Alloway ; and judging from the many
valuable privileges which were from time to time conferred,
it would appear that the burgh was specially favoured by
the Kings of Scotland.
By a charter of Alexander II., dated 7th December 1236,
there is a grant to the burgh of Ayr of the fishings in the
rivers Ayr and Doon for the uphold of the bridge (ad sustenta-
tionem pontis), and for improving the harbour, and promoting
other common affairs of the town.1 This raises a rather
interesting question as to whether the bridge existing in
1236 is the present old bridge. There is, unfortunately, no
authentic information as to the date of the building of the
bridge, but the architecture is similar to that of bridges
known to have been built in the thirteenth century, and it is
quite probable that its date is prior to 1236. Tradition has
it that the bridge was built in the reign of Alexander III. by
two ladies, the bas-reliefs of whose heads are still to be seen
on a stone in the parapet, for the purpose of saving life in
crossing the ford. As we know there was a bridge in
1 P. 14
xxviii INTRODUCTION.
existence in 1236, it is unlikely that loss of life occurred after
that date ; the tradition, however, may very well refer to the
reign of Alexander II. The first notice of the bridge in the
Burgh Court Book is in 1440. We hear of it again, in 1491,
when James IV. went on pilgrimage to St. Ninian's of
Whitherne ; and, travelling by way of Ayr, was ferried
across the river at St. John's Kirk, as the bridge was then
under repair.1
It is interesting to observe, that for centuries after the
date of the grant of Alexander II., the fishings were disponed
to parties undertaking to uphold the bridge ; and when
the fishings of the Doon were granted to John Kennedy of
Baltersane in 1593,2 it was in consequence of the refusal of the
then lessees to advance money on loan for the repair of the
bridge.3 In the charter last referred to there is a reservation
of the right of the inhabitants of the burgh of Ayr to wash
their clothes at the water of Doon — a right which was
exercised till about the close of last century.
In 1588 James VI. gifted certain imposts to the burgh for
the maintenance of the "harbry hevin and brig," which are
stated to be " presentlie rwynous " and " decayit and fallin
doun."4 We find, however, from other sources, that " nocht-
withstanding thair present povirtie," the community were able
to lend the king the sum of 1000 merks in 1587 ; 5 and again,
in 1588, they rendered a special service, insomuch as they
" riggit furth and sett to the sey upoun thair awne expenssis
1 Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, 1473-98, Preface ex. 183.
2 P. 122. 3 Mr. Murray Lyon's unpublished notes. 4 P. 55.
6 Register of the Privy Council, vol. iv. p. 222.
INTRODUCTION. xxix
(amounting to £1000), ane sufficient weirlyke ship, furnist
with a sufficient nowmer of men, viveris, munition, pulder,
bullattis, and all other necessaris, under the charge and
command of Schir Williame Stewart, quha, within few dayis
thaireftir, tuke, apprehendit, and brocht to his Hienes the
personis for quhome the foirsaid ship wes thocht necessair to
be sett forth."1 In 1687 James VII. grants certain duties
on ale and wine, upon the narrative that the rents and
customs of the community were insufficient for their debts ;
and that by the ruin of their seaport and the sandheaps
arising in their river, and the great expense of removing
the mud and refuse cast up by the sea, the burgh was
reduced to great straits, and was rendered incapable, among
other things, of maintaining the bridge, the church, the streets,
and the harbour.2 A somewhat curious light is thrown
upon this grant by one of the muniments of the burgh, which
informs us that " William Cunyngham, provest, had borrowed
the soume of fyve hundreth pounds sterling money, upon his
oune private credit for payment of the said gift, and which
accordingly he lies payed for the said gift, and for defraying
the necessar charges and expenss thereof."3
A few years later, viz. in 1695, there is an Act of Parlia-
ment empowering the burgh to levy a tax for the repair of
the harbour, " considering that the harbour of the toun of
Aire is ruined and lyes in rubbish and that thereby the trade
of the foresaid toun is quite decayed."4
There is no doubt that from an early date Ayr was noted
for its trade, particularly for its imports of French and
1 Register of the Privy Council, vol. iv. pp. 309-10. - P. 66. 3 P. 202. 4 P. 73.
xxx INTRODUCTION.
Spanish wines, and it remained, probably for a long time,
the principal seaport of the west of Scotland. In 1237 it
appears that a ship and goods, the property of the burgesses
of Ayr, was arrested at Drogheda on account of a robbery
at sea;1 and, in 1264, we find that ships were being built
at Ayr.2
The town of Ayr suffered greatly from the blowing of the
sand. In the reign of Robert II. this annoyance had reached
such a height that the bones in the cemetery were uncovered
and the burgh was like to be destroyed. In order to stimulate
the invention of the ingenious, the king granted a charter,
in 1380, whereby he gave the right of property in the re-
claimed land to whoever should prevent the blowing of the
sand.3 In 1425 there is a warrant by the Duke of Albany4
to the community of Ayr to straiten the Sandgate ; which
shows that the said Duke, with other nobles, at the request
of the community, visited the Sandgate and carefully observed
that the daily overflow of sand (flatus arenae) in the said
street wholly destroyed it ; the Duke, therefore, gave com-
mand to the inhabitants to make the street narrower, so as
to exclude the blasts of sand, by building up to a certain
stake, which he with his own hand fixed in the ground.5
The narrowing of the Sandgate does not seem to have cured
the evil, for we find that on 19th September 1573 there is
complaint made to the Privy Council by "the maist part"
of the inhabitants, and specially by the "indwellaris of the
1 Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. i. p. 249.
2 Tloe Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. i. p. 6. 3 App. p. xxxv.
4 Who was then Regent. 5 P. 79.
INTRODUCTION. xxxi
Sand Gait/' that " the said Sand Gait with the haill venallis
of the said toun, except the brig," are "overblawin and
almaist wrakit " with sand. They proceed to allege that
"the speciall caus thairof is be the negligence and ovirsicht
of the magistrates of the said burgh, quha having respect to
thair particular proffeitt lies takin na regard of the common-
welth thairof, bot speciallie be occasioun of ane civile dissen-
tioun betuix tharne thir diverse yeiris bigane, the saniyn lies
bene altogidder neglectit ; quhairas the commoun gude of the
said burgh, quhilk of auld in rentall extendit to the sowme
of thre hundreth and vii markis and fyftie-fyve bollis of malt
and meill yeirlie and utheris proffeittis . . . was sufficient to
have stoppit the said inconvenient." 1
The burgesses of Ayr have always clung to their rights
with singular tenacity, and have generally been successful
in vindicating them. A long-continued struggle took place
between the burgh and the Sheriff of Ayr in reference to
the right of the latter to call the burgesses and their tenants
in Alloway to his courts. In this dispute the sheriff Mas
worsted at all points. In 1459 there is a charter by James II.
exempting the tenants of the barony of Alloway from being-
called as witnesses in courts beyond the burgh of Ayr,2 and
this is confirmed, in 1471, by letters under the signet of
James III.3 From letters of Queen Mary in 1547-8 to the
Sheriff of Ayr it appears that the burgesses had not been
wont to answer before any judge but the provost and bailies
of Ayr ; the sheriff is therefore discharged from citing any
of the said burgesses to his court.4 In 1557 there is a
1 Register of the Privy Council, vol. ii. p. 278. - P. 32. 3 P. 36. 4 P. 40.
xxxii INTRODUCTION.
confirmation by Queen Mary of a bond by the Sheriff of Ayr
and his son, in which they admit and agree to respect the
jurisdiction of the magistrates of the burgh in cases of
slaughter, mutilation, theft, etc.1 We find in 1555 that the
burgesses so far departed from their contention as to compear
in Edinburgh to bear witness in a cause, but at the same
time they guarded themselves by protesting that their said
compearance should not prejudice their privilege in time
coming.2 There is another protest, in 1580, in respect "divers
and sindrye of the burgessis and inhabitantis of the same
burght ar summond to this day and place (Edinburgh) to
pas upoun the assys."3 Seven years later it again became
necessary for John Lockhart, "burgess and auld provest of
the burgh of Air," to take another protest at Edinburgh for
a similar reason.4
By the charter of erection King William appointed a weekly
market to be held every Saturday,5 and this was confirmed
by Alexander II.6 and David II.7 A yearly market was
afterwards granted by Alexander III. at the feast of the
Nativity of St. John the Baptist, to last for the fifteen
following days.8 In 1458 James II. granted an additional
yearly fair on the feast of St. Michael and four days im-
mediately following, at the same time ordaining that the
burgesses are to hold and possess their other public fair on
the Nativity of St. John.9 The Sheriff of Ayr appears to
have interfered with this new fair, and in 1459 he is charged
by the king to desist.10 In 1701 there is an Act of Parliament
1 P. 42. 2 P. 105. 3 P. 111. i P. 115. 5 P. 1.
c P. 6. 7 P. 8. 8 P. 18. 9 P. 29. 10 P. 31.
INTRODUCTION. xx.xiii
appointing a public yearly fair to be held upon the first
Tuesday of January and four next days.1
Among the Miscellaneous Muniments of the town will
be found a charter by the burgh to the convent of the Friars
Preachers,2 which, had it been discovered in time, would have
found a place among the charters of the Friars Preachers
in the volume presented to the Association by the Marquess
of Bute.
There is also an interesting document containing the
allotment of seats in the parish church, of date 10th March
1656.3
1 P. 74. - P. 102. 3 P. 195.
APPENDIX.
Copy of Charter by King Robert (II.), granting the reclaimed lands to
those who should preserve the burgh and church of Ayr from being
destroyed with sand. — [10th December 1380.] *
Eobertus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis hominibus totius terrae,
seu clericis vel laicis salutem : Dum burgus noster de Air, per motionem
et agitationem arenae sit quasi totaliter annihilatus et destructus, et . . .
similiter per brevis processum temporis ad finalem destructiouem redegi
videbitur, nisi citius per discretorum virorum solertia et diligentia remedium
apponitur ; nos igitur desiderantes de aliquo . . . competente in hac parte
futuro providere, et precipue causa ecclesiae Johannis Baptist! quam in
bonore reverentia et devotione semper intendebam et intendam mantenere,
protegere et fovere, cujus caemeterium per violentiam motionis arenae ut
predicitur fere usque ad fundamentum ipsius ecclesiae adeo est denudata et
destructa quod multorum ossa defunctorum ibidem bumata videntur per
ventorum violentiam de terra evulsa penitus et circa concessimus de
gratia nostra speciali illis quicunque fuerint, qui in hac parte defensionem
apposuerint, et ipsam villain, ecclesiam et caemeterium a destructione dicta
arenae liberaverint, omnes pacatas vastas infra dictum burgum quas
meditantibus illorum laboribus et impensis a destructione praefata arenosa
liberaverint et fuerint habitabiles, tenendas et habendas eisdem dictarum
pacatarum praenominatis conquestoribus et haeredibus suis de nobis et
haeredibus nostris in feudo et hereditate in libero burgagio, libere et quiete
plenarie integre et honorifice, reddendo inde annuatim de qualibet pacata
predicta, postquam effecte fuerint habitabiles aut habitabilis, unum denarium
1 This charter, which is printed by Grose, burgh. It has not, however, been found. —
is said by 1dm to be among the archives of the Grose's Antiquities, ii. 195.
xxxvi APPENDIX.
sterlinense ad festum Pentecostis, tantum pro omni ferma inde exigenda
aut solvenda. In cujus rei testimonium praesenti chartae nostrae, nostrum
praecipimus apponi sigillum, testibus venerabilibus in Christo patribus
Willelmo et Joanne cancellariis nostris St. Andree et Dunkeldensis ecclesi-
arum episcopis, Joanne primogenito nostro de Carrick senescallo Scotiae,
Roberto de Fyffe et de Menteith, filio nostro dilecto, domino Willielmo de
Douglas et de Marr consanguineo nostro, comitibus, Jacobo de Lindesay
nepote nostro, Kentigerno et Alexandra de Lindesay consanguineis nostris,
militibus : apud Edinburgum decimo die Decembris anno regni nostri
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MUNIMENTS
OF
THE BUKGH OF AYR.
I.— ROYAL CHARTERS.
1. Charter by King William the Lion, erecting the Town of Ayr into a
Free Burgh.— [21st May 1202-1207.1]
Willelmus Dei gracia rex Scottorum episcopis abbatibus comitibus
baronibus justiciariis vicecomitibus prepositis ministris et omnibus probis
bominibus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis presentes et
futuri me ad novum castellum meum super Are burguni fecisse et eidem
burojo et bumensibus meis in eo manentibus omnes libertates et omnes
liberas consuetudines concessisse quas alii burgi mei et mei burgenses in eis
manentes per regnum meum liabent Assedi etiam in eo quolibet die Sabbat i
diem fori Concessi ut burgensibus qui illuc venient ad burguni meum in-
habitandum et ibi sedentes et manentes erunt ut quieti sint a tolneio et
omni alia consuetudine per totam terram meam de dominicis catallis suis
Prohibeo itaque firmiter ne quis in I'egno meo ab aliquo illorum tolneium
aut aliquam aliam consuetudinem de dominicis catallis suis exigat super
meam plenariam forisfacturam Concessi etiam eidem burgo meo et burgen-
sibus meis qui in burgo illo sedentes et manentes erunt quinque nummatas
terre que pertinent ad villam de Are per divisas inferius scriptas scilicet
de Inverdon sursum usque in Inverpolcurtecan et de Inverpolcurtecan
sursum usque ad Crottuu et sic per Curtecan usque ad caput Curtecan et
1 The year is not given, but Chalmers (Caledonia, iii. p. 499) fixes the date, from the witnesses,
as between 1202 and 1207.
B
2 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
sic a capite Curtecan ascendendo per Bogliesken usque ad Monedamdereg
et sic a Monedamdereg per sicum usque in Monemethonac et a Mone-
metlionac per sicum usque in Polleclevan et sic per Polleclevan usque in
Loclifergus et a Loclifergus descendendo usque in Dufhat et a Dufhat
descendendo per sicum usque ad rivulum ex orientali parte Drumnesauel et
a rivulo Drumnesauel descendendo usque in sicum ex occidentali parte rivuli
illius et sic per sicum ilium usque in Polleclonecrangali et sic per Polleclone-
crangali usque in Dufloch et inde usque in Pollemulin et sic per Pollemulin
descendendo usque in Are et sic per Are descendendo usque in mare
Concessi etiam burgensibus meis ibidem manentibus ut cum quolibet plenario
tofto suo babeant sex acras terre quas de boscbo extirpaverint infra predictas
nummatas terre ad faciendum inde commodum suum reddendo annuatim
milii pro quolibet tofto et sex acris illi adjacentibus duodecim denarios
Mando itaque et firmiter precipio ut omnes bomines qui cum merchaturis
suis ad vendendum et emendum ad ilium predictum burgum meum venerint
firmam pacem meam babeant et forum exerceant et in bene et pace redeant
Precipio etiam firmiter ut apud Macb et Karnebutb et Lowdun et Croseneton
et Lacbtalpin tolneium et alie consuetudines que burgo debentur dentur et
recipiantur Probibeo itaque firmiter ne quis tolneium aut aliquam aliam
consuetudinem quam predicto burgo meo de ratione facere debet ultra
predictas divisas asportare presurnat super meam plenariam forisfacturam.
Si quis vero tolneium vel aliquam aliam consuetudinem predicti burgi mei
ultra predictas divisas asportare presumpserit precipio firmiter ut omnes
bomines infra predictas divisas manentes sint auxiliantes servientibus meis
ad adquirendum jus meum et ad capiendum et attacbiandum ilium qui
tolneia aut aliquam aliam consuetudinem ad predictum burgum meum per-
tinentem ultra predictas divisas asportaverit vel asjjortare contenderit
Testibus Florentio electo Glasguensi r cancellario meo Waltero et Willelmo
capellanis meis Pbilippo de Valoniis camerario meo 2 Eoberto de Londoniis
filio meo3 Willelmo de Boscbo et Hugone clericis meis Willelmo de Valoniis4
Tboma de Colevill 5 Reginaldo de Crauford Apud Lanarc vigesimo primo
die Maii.
1 Florence, Elect of Glasgow, was succeeded 3 A natural son of William the Lion.
in 1207 by Walter, who was consecrated in 1208 4He died in 1218 (Chron. de Mailros, p.
(Keith, p. 237). 135).
2 Philip de Valoniis died in 1215 (Chron. de ' He died in 1218 (Chron. de Mailros, p.
Mailros, p. 121). 134).
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Translation.
William, by the grace of Gocl King of Scots, to bishops, abbots, earls,
barons, justiciars, sheriffs, provosts, officers, and all good men of his whole
land, clerics and laymen, greeting : Be it known to those present and to
come, that I have made a burgh at my new castle upon Ayr, and to the
said burgh, and to my burgesses dwelling in it, have granted all the free
customs which my other burghs and my burgesses dwelling in them
throughout my kingdom have. I have appointed in it also a market day
every Saturday : Moreover, I have granted to the burgesses who shall come
thither to inhabit my burgh, and shall there remain and dwell, to be quit
of toll and all other custom through all my land for the goods pertaining
to them as burgesses. Therefore I straitly forbid any one in my kingdom to
exact from any one of them toll or any other custom for their said burgess
goods, on pain of my full forfeit : Also I have granted to that same
burgh of mine, and to my burgesses who in that burgh shall remain and
dwell, the five penny lands which belong to the town of Ayr, by the bound-
aries afterwritten : To wit, from Inverdon as far as to Inverpolcurtecan, and
from Inverpolcurtecan as far as to Corton ; and so by Curtecan to the head
of Curtecan ; and so from the head of Curtecan going up by Boghesken as far
as to Monedamdereg ; and so from Monedamdereg by the ditch as far as to
Monemethonac ; and from Monemethonac by the ditch as far as to Polle-
clevan ; and so by Polleclevan to Lochfergus ; and from Lochfergus going
down to Dufhat ; and from Duf hat going down by the ditch as far as to the
rivulet on the east of Drumnesauel ; and from the rivulet of Drumnesauel
going down as far as to the ditch on the west of the same rivulet ; and so
by that ditch as far as to Polleclonecrangali ; and so by Polleclonecrangali to
Dufloch, and thence to Pollemulin ; and so by Pollemulin going down to Ayr,
and so by Ayr going down even to the sea. Also I have granted to my bur-
gesses there dwelling that with each complete toft of theirs they shall have six
acres of land, which they shall reclaim out of the wood within the foresaid
five penny lands, to make their own profit thereof; paying yearly to me
for each toft and six acres adjoining it, twelve pennies. I command,
therefore, and straitly enjoin, that all men who with their merchandise to sell
and to buy, to that said burgh of mine shall come, have my firm peace,
and use the market, and in safety and peace return. I command also,
straitly, that at Mach, Karnebuth, and Loudoun, and Croseneton and Lach-
4 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
talpin, toll and other customs which are payable to the burgh be given and
received. I prohibit also strictly that no one presume to carry away beyond
the said bounds toll or any other custom which to my said burgh he ought
of reason to give, on pain of my full forfeiture. But if any one presume to
carry away beyond the said bounds toll or any other custom of my said
burgh, I strictly command that all men dwelling within the said bounds
be helpful to my servants to recover my right, and to take and attach him
who shall endeavour to carry off beyond the said bounds tolls or any other
custom pertaining to the said burgh. Before these witnesses, Florence,
bishop elect of Glasgow, my chancellor, Walter and William, my chaplains,
Philip of Valonis, my chamberlain, Robert of London, my son, Wdliam de
Boscho and Hugh, my clerks, Williatn of Valonis, Thomas of Colevill,
Reginald of Crauford. At Lanark the 21st day of May.
2. Transumpt by the Lords of Council of the Charter granted by
King William to the Burgh of Ayr. — [16th November 1599.]
At Edinburgh the saxtene day of November the yeir of God jm vc foure-
scoir nynetene yeiris The Lordis of Counsale underwrittin thai ar to say
ane noble and mychtie lord Johne erle of Montroiss lord Grahame etc.
chancellar Alexander lord of Fyvie president Williame commendatare of
Tungland Johne commendatare of Halyrudehous Edward commendatare of
Kynlos schir James Elphingstoun of Barnetoun knycht secretar to our
soverane lord schir David Lindesay of Edzell knycht schir Johne Cokburne
of Ormestoun knycht justice clerk schir Richard Cokburne younger of
Clerkingtoun lord privie seill Mr. John Prestoun of Fentounbarnes Mr.
Johne Skene clerk of his hienes register Mr. David Makgill of Cranstoun
Riddell Archibald Douglas of Quhittinghame Andro Wemeys of Myrecairny
Mark lord of Newbottle schir Robert Melville of Murdocairny knycht and
Mr. Peter Rollok bischop of Dunkeld — anent the summondis raisit at the
instance of the provest bailleis counsale and communitie of the burgh of
Air aganis schir David Murray of Gospertie knycht comptroller Alexander
maister of Elphingstoun thesaurar and Mr. Thomas Hamilton of Drumcarne
advocat to oure soverane lord and all utheris haveand or pretendand to haif
interes in the mater underwrittin makand mentioun that quhair umquhde
Williame be the grace of God king of this realme for the tyme of worthie
ROYAL CHARTERS. 5
memorie be his chartour and infeftment under his gritt seill gaif and con-
fermit to the said burgh of Air and to the burgessis thairin remaneand all
liberteis and frie consuetudis that utheris burgessis duelland within this
realme haid and that thai sould haif in the said burgh of Air every Setterday
ane mercatt day to the burgessis thairof inhabitants dwellandandremaneainl
within the samyn And als gaive and disponit to the said burgh burgessis
and inhabitantis thairof all and haill the fyve pennyland quhilk pertenit to
the toune of Air and dyvers utheris landis lyand and boundit as is contenit
in the said charter as in the samyn of the dait the twentyane day of Mail
in the selff at mair lenth testifeis Quhilk charter and infeftment be reassoun
of the anticjuitie thairof and intervall of the tyme is now becum mutit dym
auld and difficill to be red and understand as alsua the seill thairof is brokin
and wayis the register of the samyn efter sa lang tyme is nocht extant
Quhairfoire necessar it is the said charter be transsumit befoir the lordis of
eounsale to the effect the samyn may remane in register and be extant at all
tymes And anent the charge gevin to the saidis persones defenderis to haif
compeirit befoir the lordis of eounsale at ane certaine day of lang tyme bypast
to haif hard and sene the said charter and infeftment copyit and transsumit
in auttentik and dew forme in maner underwrittin or to haif allearit ane
O
reassonable caus quhy the samyn sould nocht bene done lykeas at mair
lenth is contenit in the saidis summondis The saidis complenaris compeir-
and be Johne Haliday thair procuratour and the saids comptrollar thesaurar
and advocat defenderis abonewrittin and all utheris haveand or pretendand
to haif interes as said is being lauchfullie summond to this actioun oftymes
callit and nocht compeirit the lordis of eounsale hes transumit and transumis
the said charter and infeftment to the effect the samyn may remane in
register and be extant at all tymes and decernes and ordanes the extract
and transumpt thairof subscryvit be the clerk of register to be deliverit to
the saidis complenaris upoun thair reassonable expensses to be bruikit joysit
and usit be thame as thair awin propir evident at thair pleasour in tyme
cuming And als the saidis lordis decernes and declairis the samyn transumpt
and copy of the charter and infeftment abonewritten to mak als gritt fayth
in jugement and outwith as the principall in all tyme cuming Becaus the
saidis persones and all utheris haveand or pretendand to haif interes in the
said matter wer lauchfullie summond to haif compeirit befoir the saidis
lordis of eounsale at ane certane day of lang tyme bypast to haif hard and
sene the said charter and infeftment transumit in maner abonewrittin or
6 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
els to haif allegit ane reassonable caus quhy the samyn sould noclit bene
done with certificatioun to thame and thai failleit the saidis lordis wald
transume and decerne the samyn to be delyverit to the said complenaris
and to mak als gritt fayth as the principal! in maner abonewrittin And
thai being lauchfullie summond to that effect compeirit nocht to schaw ony
reassonable caus in the contrair bot failleit thairintill lykeas wes cleirly
understand to the saidis lordis and thairfoire thay transumit and decernit
in maner abonewrittin and ordanes lettres to be direct heirupoun yf neid
beis in forme as effeiris Of the quhilk charter and infeftment the tennour
followes : Willelmus Dei gratia Eex Scottorum (etc., vide No. 1, supra).
Extractum de libro actorum per me magistrum Joannem Skene clericum
rotulorum registri ac consilii supremi domini nostri regis sub meis
signo et subscriptione manualibus.
(Signed) Joannes Skene,
Cls. Regri, etc.
3. Charter by King Alexander the Second, granting to the Burgh of Ayr
the privilege of a Weekly Market? — [9th May 1223.]
Alexander Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciant presentes et futuri me concessisse
et hac carta mea confirmasse burgo meo super Are et burgensibus meis in
eodem burgo manentibus omnes libertates et omnes liberas consuetudines
quas alii burgi mei et burgenses mei in eis manentes per regnum meum
habent Et ut habeant in eodem burgo meo super Are quolibet die Sabbati
diem fori Concessi etiam burgensibus qui illuc venient ad burgum meum in-
habitandum et ibi sedentes et manentes erunt ut quieti sint de tolneio et
omni aha consuetudine per totam terram meam de dominicis catallis suis
Prohibeo itaque firmiter ne quis in regno meo ab aliquo illorum tolneium
aut aliquam aliam consuetudinem de dominicis catallis suis exigat super
meam plenariam forisfacturam Concessi etiam eidem burgo meo et burgen-
sibus meis qui in burgo illo sedentes et manentes erunt quinque nummatas
terre que pertinent ad villam de Are per divisas inferius scriptas scilicet
de Inverdone sursum usque in Inverpolcurtecane et de Inverpolcurtecane
sursum usque ad Crottune et sic per Curtecane usque ad caput Curtecane
et sic a capite Curtecane ascendendo per Bogheskene usque ad Monedam-
1 Tins is a thin vellum charter, about ten inches square : seal wanting.
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dereg et sic a Monedamdereg per sicum usque in Monemethonac et a
Monemethonac per sicum usque in Polleclevane et sic per Polleclevane
usque in Lochfergus et sic a Lochfergus descendendo usque in Dufhate
et a Dufhate descendendo per sicum usque ad rivulum ex orientali parte
Drumnesauel et a rivulo Drumnesauel descendendo in sicum ex occidental!
parte illius rivuli et sic per sicum ilium usque in Polleclonecrangali et sic
per Polleclonecrangali usque in Dufloch et inde usque in Pollemuline et sic
per Pollemuline descendendo usque in Are et sic per Are descendendo usque
in mare Concessi etiam burgensibus meis ibidem manentibus ut cum quo-
libet plenario tofto suo habeant sex acras terre quas de boscho extirpaverint
infra predictas quinque nummatas terre ad faciendum inde commoduiu
suum Reddendo annuatim micbi pro quolibet tofto et sex acris terre illi
adjacentibus duodecim denarios Mando itaque et firmiter precipio ut omnes
homines qui cum mercaturis suis ad vendendum et emendum ad ilium pre-
dictum burgum meum venerint firmam pacem meam habeant et forum exer-
ceant et in bene et in pace redeant Precipio etiam firmiter ut apud Mach
et Karnebuth et Lowdoune et Crossenetone et Lachtalpine tolneium et alie
consuetudines que burgo debentur dentur et recipiantur Prohibeo itaque
firmiter ne quis tolneium aut aliquam aliam consuetudinem quam predicto
bingo meo de racione facere debet ultra divisas predictas asportare presumat
super meam plenariam forisfacturam Si quis vero tolneium aut aliquam aliam
consuetudinem predicti burgi mei ultra predictas divisas asportare presump-
serit precipio firmiter ut omnes homines infra predictas divisas manentes
sint auxiliantes servientibus meis ad adquirendum ius meum et ad capiendum
et attacbiandum ilium qui tolneia aut aliquam aliam consuetudinem ad pre-
dictum burgum meum pertinentem ultra predictas divisas asportaverit vel
asportare contenderit sicut carta domini regis Willelmi patris mei testatur
Testibus Waltero filio Alani senescalli Waltero Olifard * justiciario Laodonie
Ingelramo de Balliol " Henrico de Balliol 3 camerario Henrico de Strivelin
filio comitis David Dunecano filio Gilleberti Johanne de Maccuswele 4 D.
Crauford vicecomite de Are Waltero Biset Apud Are nono die Maij anno
reo-ui nostri nono.
O
1 Died in 1242. Ghron. of Mailros, p. 155. 3 He died in 1246. Crawfurd's Officers of
' Successively Sheriff of Berwick and Sheriff State, p. 260.
of Fife under Alexander II. Chalmers's Gale- 4 Died in 1241. Douglas's Peerage, by Wood,
donia, i. p. 567. vol. ii. p. 312.
8 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Abstract.
Charter by Alexander the Second, King of Scots, granting and confirming
to the Burgh of Ayr all liberties and free customs common to the burghs of
the kingdom, with right to hold a market every Saturday, and exemption
from toll and custom for their burgess goods ; granting also to the same,
five pennyworths of land belonging to the town of Ayr, and bounded as
therein described, together with all other benefits and privileges conferred
by his father King William, and sj)ecified in his charter. Dated at Ayr, 9th
May [1223].
4. Notarial Transumpt of Confirmation by King David the Second of
Charter by King Alexander the Second to the Burgh of Ayr. — [2ith
February 1415.]
In Dei nomine amen Per presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
manifeste quod anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo
quinto decimo indiccione nona mensis Februarij die vicesima quarta pontifi-
catu sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri domini Benedicti divina
providencia pape tercii decimi anno vicesimo tercio in mei notarij pubbci et
testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus probus vir Nicholaus
de Fynwyke prepositus burgi de Are quandam cartam bone memorie quon-
dam David Dei gracia regis Scotorum illustris sigillo suo magno sigillatam
cum circumferencia et armis suis non rasam non abolitam nee in aliqua
parte viciatam michi publice demonstravit et cum debita instancia per me
notarium infrascriptum nomine et ex parte burgensium et communitatis
burgi de Are perlegi requisivit cuiusquidem carte tenor sequitur et est talis
David Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue
clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos quasdam cartas bone memorie quondam
Willelmi et Alexandri regum Scocie predecessorum nostrorum non rasas
non abolitas nee in aliqua sui parte viciatas vidisse dihgenter et intellexisse
tenorem qui sequitur continentes Alexander Dei gracia rex Scottorum (etc.,
vide No. 3, supra) Quasquidem cartas donacionemque et concessionem in
eisdem contcntas in omnibus punctis suis et articulis condicionibus et modis
ac circumstanciis suis quibuscunque forma pariter et effectu in omnibus et
per omnia approbamus ratificamus et pro nobis et heredibus nostris in per-
petuus confirmamus Salvo servicio nostro In cujus rei testimonium present!
ROYAL CHARTERS. 9
carte nostre coufirmacionis sigiHum nostrum precepimus appoui testibus
venerabilibus in Christo patribus AVillelmo episcopo Sancti Andree et Patricio
cpiscopo Brechinensi cancellario nostro Eoberto senescallo Scocie comite de
Stratherne nepote nostro Patricio comite Marchie et Moravie AVillelmo
comite de Douglas Roberto de Erskyn Waltero de Halyburton et David de
Anand militibus Apud Edynburgh decimo die mensis Maii anno regni nostri
tricesimo septimo Quam vero cartam sic monstratam et perlectam predictus
Nicholaus a me notario sub signo publico peciit copiari sumptibus suis et
expensis Acta fuerunt hec in vico communi burgi de Are anno indiccione
mense die et pontificatu premissis presentibus tunc ibidem reverendis et
discretis viris magistro Duncano Petite prebendario ecclesie de Are Eogero
de Lawader vicario eiusdem et decano de Kyle Roberto Adyson vicario de
Colmonell Michaele Multrer Henrico Stephani capellanis Hugone Sellatore
ac Patricio Abayre ballivis dicti burgi Adam de Bowr Patricio DoAvgall
Jolianne Chery Gilberto Askryke Johanne Fabro Johanne Broune Willelmo
de Blencanhop burgensibus de Are et multis aliis testibus ad premissa
vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Willelmus Nigelli clericus Glasguensis dyocesis publicus imperiali
auttoritate notarius premisse carte monstracioui et perleccioni una-
cum prenominatis testibus presens interfui (etc., in forma communi).
Abstract.
Notarial Transumpt, at tbe instance of Nicholas of Fenwick, provost of
Ayr, of a confirmation by David tbe Second, King of Scots, under tbe great
seal, of a Charter granted by King Alexander the Second to the burgh of
Ayr, of date at Ayr 9th May, and ninth year of his reign. The Confirma-
tion is dated at Edinburgh 10th May (1366) ; and the Transumpt was
made on the common street of Ayr on 24th February 1415, William
Neilson being notary.
5. Charter by King Alexander the Second to the Burgh of Ayr, of Alloway,
Gorton, and Carcluie. — [20^ April 1236.]
Alexander Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus toeius
terre sue salutem Sciatis presentes et futuri nos tradidisse ad feodofirinam
burgensibus nostris de Are quinque nummatas terre in Kyle scilicet Auilwey
c
10 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
et Crottun et Gortcloy Tenendaset habendas eisdem burgensibus inperpetuum
de nobis et heredibus nostris libere quiete plenarie Beddendo armuatim
decern libras medietatem ad festum Sancti Martini et medietatem ad Pente-
costen et faciendo forinsecura servitiurn quod pertinet ad dictas terras Ita
quod de vivo boscho in dictis terris non ardebunt nee dabunt nee vendent
nee aliquo modo destruent set solummodo capient quod necessarium est ad
propria edificia sua de Are et ad proprias naves suas de Are faciendas
Testibus Waltero filio Alaui Senescalli justiciario Scocie Waltero Olifard
justiciario Laodonie Johanne By set David de Lyndeseia Waltero Byset
Aichibaldo de Duueglas Adam de Logan Apud Are vicesimo die Aprilis
anno regni domini regis vicesimo secundo.
Translation.
Alexander, by the grace of God King of Scots, to all good men of bis
whole land, greeting : Be it known to you, present and future, that we have
given in fee farm to our burgesses of Ayr five pennyworths of land in Kyle ;
to wit, Alloway and Corton and Carcluie : To be held and possessed by the
same burgesses in perpetuity, of us and our heirs, freely, quietly, fully :
Paying ten pounds yearly, one half at the feast of Saint Martin, and one
half at Whitsunday, and performing the forinsec service which pertains to
the said lands, so that they shall neither burn, nor give away, sell, nor in
any wise destroy, green wood on the said lands, but shall only take what is
necessary for their own buildings of Ayr, and for making their own boats
of Ayr. Witnesses, Walter son of Alan the Steward, justiciary of Scotland,
Walter Olifard, justiciary of Lothian, John Byset, David of Lyndesay,
Walter Byset, Archibald of Douglas, Adam of Logan. At Ayr the 20th day
of April, the twenty-second year of the reign of the lord the king.
G. Notarial Transum.pt of Charter by King Alexander the Second to the
Burgh of Ayr. — [2 ith February 1415.]
In Dei nomine amen per presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
evidenter quod anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo
quinto decimo indiccione nona mensis Februarii die vicesima quarta ponti-
ficatu sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri Benedicti divina provi-
dencia pape terciidecimi anno vicesimo tercio in mei notarii publici et
2t1 &
4P yt ig jjfS
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testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus probus vir Nicholaus
de Fynwyk propositus burgi de Are quandam cartam bone memorie quondam
Alexandra Dei gracia regis Scottorum illustris sub magno sigillo suo sigd-
latam cum circumferencia et armis suis non rasam non abolitam nee in
aliqua parte vieiatam michi publice demonstravit et cum debita instancia
per me notarium infrascriptum nomine et ex parte burgensium et com-
munitatis burgi de Are perlegi requisivit cujusquidem carte sequitur tenor
et est talis Alexander Dei gracia rex Scottorum (etc., vide No. 5, supra)
Quam vero cartam sic monstratam et perlectam predictus Nicholaus a me
notario sub signo imblico peciit copiari sumptibus suis et expensis Acta
fuerunt hec in vico fori burgi de Are sub anno indictione mense die et
pontificatu premissis presentibus ibidem discretis viris magistro Duncano
Petyt prebendario ecclesie de Are Rogero de Laweder vicario de Are Eoberto
Adeson vicario de Colmanell Michaele Multrer Henrico Stepbani eapellanis
Hugone Saddeler patricio Ahayr baltivis burgi de Are Adam de Bowre
patricio Dougall Jobanne Chery Gilberto Askyrk Jobanne Broune Willelmo
de Blencanhop Tboma Haket burgensibus de Are et multis aliis testibus
ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Willelmus Nigelli clericus Glasguensis dyocesis publicus notarius.
etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Transumpt at the instance and expense of Nicholas of
Fenwick, provost of Ayr, of a Charter by King Alexander Second, under
the Great Seal, in favour of the burgh of Ayr, dated at Ayr, 20th April,
twenty-second year of reign (1236). The Transumpt was made in the
market-place of Ayr on 24th February 1415.
7. Transumpt by the Lords of Council of Charter by Alexander the
Second to the Burgh of Ayr. — [lAth March 1593-4.]
At Edinburgh the fourtein day of Merche the yeir of God jm v° fourscoir
threttein yeiris the Lordis of Counsall underwrittin they ar to say Johnne
lord Thirlistane chancellare Alexander lord Urquhart |>resident maister
.1 olmne Lindsay persoun of Menmure maister Williame ^ielvill commen-
datar of Tungland maister Thomas Hammiltoun of Drumcairnie maister
James Elphingstoun of Innernachtie Sir Richard Cowburne younger of
12 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Clerkingtoun secretare Walker pryour of Blantyre Siris Thomas Lyoun of
Auldbar thesaurar Johnne Cowburne of Ormestoun Justice Clerk Alexander
Hay of Eister Kennett Clerk of Eegister Ai-ckibald Dowgles apperand of
Quliittinghame and Andro Weymes of Myrecairnie Anent oure soverane
lordis lettres purchest at the instance of the provest baillies counsall and
communitie of the burgh of Air aganis David Seytoun of Parbroth comp-
trollare to our soverane lord Sir Thomas Lyoun of Auldbar knycht his
hienes thesaurer Sir Robert Melvill of Murdocairnie knycht his deput
maisteris David M'Gill of Cranstoun-Riddell and Johnne Skene his hienes
advocattis and all utheris haiffand or pretendand to have entres in the
mater underwrittin makand mentioun that quhair umquhile Alexander be
the grace of God king of this realme for the tyme of worthie memorie be
his chartour and infeftment under his greit seill gave and disponit in feu-
ferme to the burgessis of the burgh of Air the fyve penny land in Kyle
videlicet Alloway Cortoun and Cairtclowy to be haldin be the saidis
burgessis of him and his airis for evil ffor payment yeirlie of ten pundis the
ane half thah'of at the feist of Mairtemes and the uther half at Witsonday
as the said chartour and infeftment of the dait the twentie day of Aprile
and of bis majesteis regnne the twentie twa yeir at mair lenth proportis
And siklike the said Alexander be the grace of God king of this realme for
the tyme be his uther chartour and infeftment under his greit seill gave and
coufirmit to the said burgh of Air and to the burgessis thairin remanend all
liberteis and frie consuetudis that uther burgessis duelland in uther burghis
within this realme hade and that they suld have in the said burgh of Air
everie Settirday ane mercat day to the burgessis thairof and inhabitantis
dwelland and remanand within the samyn And als gave and disponit to
the said burgh burgessis and inhabitantis thairof all and haill the fyve penn)'
land quhilk pertenit to the toun of Air and divers utheris landis lyand and
boundit as is contenit in the said chartour as the samin of the dait the nynt
day of Maij and of his majesteis regnne the nynt yeir in the self at mair
lenth testifeis Quhilkis twa chartouris and mfeftmentis respective be
ressoun of the antiquitie thairof and intervall of the tyme ar now becum
mutit dym auld and dinicill to be red and understand As alsua the seillis
thairof ar brokin and likewyis the register of the samyn now eftir sa lang
tyme ar nocht extant Quhairfore necesser it is the saidis twa chartouris to
be transumit befoir the lordis of Counsall to the effect the samin may remane
in register and be extant at all tymcs And anent the charge gevin to the
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foirsaid haill speciall persoues defenderis and all vtheris haiffand or pretend -
and to have entres in the said mater to have compeirit befoir the said is
lordis at ane certane day bygane to have herd and sene the saidis twa char-
touris and infeftnientis respective copyit and transsumit in autentik and
dew forme befoir the saidis lordis to the effect the samin may remane in
register and be extant at all tymes in maner underwrittin or ellis to have
allegit ane ressounabUl caus quhy the samin suld not have bene done as at
mair lenth is contenit in the saidis lettres The saidis proveist baillcis
eounsall and communitie of the said burgh of Air eompeirand be Johnne
Halieday thair procuratour And the said Mr. Johnne Skene advocate to
our soverane lord for himself and the said Mr. David M'Gill his college
being personalie present quha lykewyis compeirit as procuratour for the
saidis comptrollar and thesaurar and all utheris haiffand or pretendand to
have entres in this said mater being lauchfullie summond to this actioun oft
tymes callit and nocht compeirit the foirsaidis pairteis eompeirand richtis
ressones allegationes herd sene and understand and the saidis lordis thairwith
being rypelie avysit the Lordis of Counsall hes transsumit and transsumis
the saidis twa chartouris and infeftmentis in autentik and dew forme to the
effect the samin may remane in register and be extant at all tynies ad
futuram rei memoriam And decernis and ordanis the extract and trans-
sumpt thairof subscrivit be the clerk of register to be deliverit to the saidis
perseweris upone thair ressonabill expenssis to be bruikit joysit and usit be
thame as thair awin proper evidentis at thair plesour in tymes cumiug And
als decernis and declairis the samin transsumptis to mak als greit faith in
judgement and out with jugement as the principallis in all tyme euniing
Off the quhilkis chartouris and infeftmentis the tennouris followis Alex-
ander Dei gracia rex Scottorum (etc., vide Nos. 5 and 3, supra). Becaus
the saidis defenderis and all utheris haiffand or pretendand to have entres
in the said mater wer all laufullie summond to have compeirit befoir the
saidis lordis at ane certane day bygane to have herd and sene the foirsaidis
twa chartouris and infeftmentis autentikhe transsumit in maner foirsaid and
decernit to have faith in maner abone mentionat Or ellis to have allegit
ane ressonable caus quhy the samyn suld not have bene done with certifi-
catioun to thame and they failyeit thairin the saidis lordis walde transsum
and decerne in maner foirsaid And they beand laufullie summond to that
effect and eompeirand be the said Mr. Johnne Skene thair procuratour schew
na ressonable caus in the contrair likeas wes cleirlie understand to the
U MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
saidis lorclis And thaireftir the saidis lordis haiffing sichtit sene and
considderit the foirsaidis twa chartouris to be sufficient in the self without
ony kynde of suspitioun and haiffing the said King Alexanderis greit seillis
appendit thairto quha wes the gevar and grantar of the saidis twa chartouris
The saidis lordis of counsall fand the samyn twa chartouris sa famous and
ancient that they decernit the samyn to be transsumit in maner foirsaid and
ordanit lettres to be direct heirupone gif neid beis in forme as effeiris.
Extractum de libro actorum per me Alexandrum Hay de Eister Kennet
clericum rotulorum registri ac consilii supremi domini nostri regis
sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.
(Signed) Alexander Hay.
8. Charter by King Alexander the Second in favour of the Burgh of Ayr,
of the Fishings of Ayr and Doon. — [7th December 1236.]
Alexander Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem Sciatis nos dedisse et concessisse et hac carta nostra
confirmasse burgensibus nostris de Air ad sustentationem pontis et ad
emendationem portus de Air et ad alia communia negotia ville de Air
sustinendum omnes piscarias nostras de Air et Dun quas habuimus tempore
hujus collationis apud Air Tenendas et habendas burgensibus de Air de
nobis et heredibus nostris imperpetuum ita libere quiete plenarie honorifice
sicut alique piscarie ab aliquibus burgensibus in regno Scotie plenius et
liberius tenentur et possidentur Testibus W. Oliphard justiciario Laudonie
W. Cumine camerario de Menteith Rogero filio Glennay Eoberto Cumine
Davide de Lindsay Apud Roxburgh septimo die Decembris anno regni
domini regis vicesimo secundo.
Translation.
Alexander, by the grace of God King of Scots, to all good men of his
whole land, greeting : Wit ye us to have given and granted, and by this
our charter to have confirmed, to our burgesses of Ayr, for sustaining the
bridge and improving the harbour of Ayr, and for promoting other common
affairs of the toun of Ayr, all our fishings of Ayr and Doon which we had
at the time of this grant at Ayr. To be held and possessed by the burgesses
of Ayr, of us and our heirs for ever, as freely, quietly, fully, and honourably
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as any fishings arc held and possessed by any burgesses in the kingdom of
Scotland. Witnesses, W. Olifard, justiciar of Lothian, W. Cumine, cham-
berlain of Menteith, Roger son of Glennay, Robert Cumine, David of
Lindsay. At Roxburgh, 7th December, twenty-second year of the king's
reign.
9. Notarial Transumpt of Charter granted by King Alexander the Second
to the Burgh of Ayr of the Fishing of the Waters of Ayr and Doon. —
[10th March 1454.]
Ijst Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum seu tran-
sumptum cunctis pateat evidenter quod anno incarnacionis dominice mil-
lesimo cccc0 quinquagesimo quarto mensis vero Marcii die decimo indic-
cione tercia pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri
domini Nicholai pape quiuti anno octavo in mei notarii publici et testium
subscriptorum presencia personaliter constituti honorabiles ac providi viri
Johannes Petyt aldermannus burgi de Are Thomas Chepman et Jacobus
Brown ballivi simul pars maxima meliorum atque digniorum burgensium
eiusdem quandam cartam in pergamino scriptam excellentissimi principis
Alexandri Dei gracia quondam Scotorum regis factam communitati tocius
antedicti burgi de piscaria aquarum de Are et de Done per prefatum regem
Alexandrum ac sigdlo ipsius magno in alba cera pendente sigillatam sanam
et integram non cancellatam non abolitam non rasam nee in aliqua ipsius
parte suspectam sed ut michi notario publico prima facie banc cartam
aperuit intuenti omni prorsus vicio et suspeccione carentem michi notario
publico infrascripto tradiderunt perlegendam copiandam seu transsumendam
et in banc publicam formam redigendam Cuiusquidem carte tenor de verbo
in verbum in latinis sequitur et est talis Alexander dei gracia rex Scotorum
(etc., as in No. 8, supra). Post cuius vero carte lecturam pecierunt dicti
aldermannus et ballivi nomine et ex parte tocius communitatis burgi supra-
clicti sibi fieri presens publicum instrumentum seu transumptuni de predicta
carta per me notarium publicum infrascriptum Acta sunt hec in burgo de
Are hora quasi decima ante meridiem sub anno mense die indiccione et
pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem providis viris et discretis
dominis Eduerdo ]\lore Thoma Kennyde et Jacobo Wode capellanis Alexan-
dro More Jacobo More de Sanqwhar Georgio Cambell Johanne Dalrympll
Constantino Dunlop Alano Cunyngham Johanne Multerer de Crag Alexandro
16 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE,
Otterbum Thoma Wdyarnsone Willelmo More Willelmo Brysbane et Willelmo
Chere burgeusibus dicti burgi cum multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis
specialiter et rogatus.
Et ego vero Robertus Kerd presbiter Glasguensis dyocesis (etc., in
comniuni forma).
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument, made at the request of the honourable and prudent
men, John Petyt, alderman of Ayr, Thomas Chepman and James Brown
bailies, together with the greater part of the best and worthiest of the bur-
gesses of Ayr, transuming a charter written on parchment, granted by the
most excellent prince Alexander, sometime King of Scots, under his Great Seal,
in white wax, to the community of the burgh of Ayr, of the fishings of the
waters of Ayr and Doon : the said charter having been examined by Robert
Kerd, notary public, and found to be sound and whole, and free from all sus-
picion, was copied by him in form of public instrument. Done in the burgh
of Ayr about ten o'clock before noon of the 10th of March 1454.
10. Decreet of Transurn/pt of Charter by King Alexander the Second to the
Burgh of Ayr of the Fishings of Ayr and Doon. — [30th July 1540.]
At Edinburgh the penult day of Julij the zeir of God jm vc and fourty
yeris in presens of the lordis of counsale underwrittin thai ar to say vener-
abill faderis in God Alexander abbot of Cambuskynneth Robert abbot of
Kinlos maister Johne Sinclar dene of Restalrig maister Robert Galbraith
persoun of Spott maister William Lamb persoun of Conveth maister Johnne
Lethaine persoun of Kirkcrist maister James Fowlis of Colintoun clerk of
Register maister Thomas Ballenden of Auchnoule justice clerk and maister
Henry Lawder advocat to our soverane lord comperit Alexander Lokart
burges of Air and producit ane charter maid be King Alexander of gud
mynd cmhome God assolze to the burgessis and communite thairof gevand
to thame his fischingis of the watteris of Air and Done for sustentatioun [of
the brijggis and portis thairof and uther commoun werkis of the samyn And
becaus the said charter be lang proces and evill keping wes sumpart auld
and failyeit and micht nocht be esalie turst usit nor occupijt be thame in
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siclik besynes as thai had ado thairwith desyrand thairfor the saidis lordis
to gif command to the clerkis and scribes of court to make ane edict and
putt the samyn upoun the tolbouth dure for transsuming of the said
charter as use is The quhilk desyre the saidis lordis thocht reasonabill and
ordanit ane edict to be maid to the effect forsaid as at mair lenth is contenit
in ane supplicatioun and deliverance gevin be the saidis lordis thairupoun
For the quhilkis the xij day of Junij last bipast with continewatioun of dais
wes be the saidis lordis assignit for transsuming of the said charter and
ordanit all parteis haifand or pretendand to haif entres to the said mater to
compeir the said day with continewatioun of dais in the tolboith of Edinburgh
to heir and se the said charter transsumit actentiklie or ellis to allege ane
reasonabill caus quhy the samyn suld nocht be done with certificatioun to
thame and thai comperit nocht the saidis lordis wald transsume the said
charter and deliver the copy thairof to the provest baillies and communite
of the said burgh and decerne the samyn to be of als greit strenth force
vigour faith and effect as the said principale charter in jugement or utwith
as in ane edict put upoun the said tolboith dure is at mair lenth contenit At
the quhilk day the personis abone writtin with thair foirspekar forsaid com-
perit and producit the said edict of the dait at Edinburgh the first day of
Maij the yeir of God ane thousand five hundreth and fourty yeris quhilk
had remanit upoun the said tolboith dure quhill the said xij day of Junij
last bipast togidder with the said charter Quhairfor the lordis ordanit ane
maissour to pas to the tolboith dur and wyndo of the samyn to call all
pairteis haifand or pretendand to haif entres in the said mater to compeir
and heir and se the said charter transsumitt or ellis to allege ane reason-
abill caus quhy the samyn suld nocht be done with certificatioun to thame
as is abone writtin And becaus nane comperit to say in the contrair the
saidis lordis being avisit with the said charter seing the samyn haill
uncancellat rasit or ony uthir wais suspect outhir in writting or in seill hes
transsumitt and transsumis the said charter and ordanis the samyn to be
registrat in the bukis of counsale and to haif the strenth of thair act and
decreit and decernis the actentik copy thairof to be drawin furtht of the
saidis bukis subscrivit with the clerk of registris hand or his deputis to be
deliverit to the personis forsaidis upoun thair expenss and the samyn to be
of als greit faith strenth vigour and effect as the said principall charter
for the caussis forsaidis Off the quhilk the tennour followis : — Alexander
Dei gracia rex Scottorum (etc., as in No. S, supra).
D
18 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Extractum de libro actorum per me Magistrum Thoniam Marioribankis
cle Ratho, clericum rotulorum registri ac consilii supreme domine
nostre regine sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.
(Signed) Thomas Marioribankis.
Abstract.
Decreet of the Lords of Council for transuming Charter by Alexander the
Second, King of Scots, in favour of the burgh of Ayr, of all the royal
fishings in the waters of Ayr and Doon, to be held of the crown for the
sustentation of the Bridge and the repair of the Port of Ayr, and other
common works of the burgh, dated at Eoxburgh 7th December, 2 2d year
of reicm. The decreet is dated 30th July 1540.
11. Charter by King Alexander the Tliird granting to the Burgh of Ayr
a Yearly Marhet, etc. — \\2th December 1261.]
Alexander Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem Sciant presentes et futuri nos concessisse et hac carta
nostra confirmasse burgensibus nostris de Are ut ipsi ad melioracionem burgi
nostri de Are habeant quolibet anno apud Are nundinas ad festum nativitatis
sancti Johannis Baptiste durantes per quindecim dies sequentes Tenendas
et habendas eisdem burgensibus cum omnibus libertatibus et consuetudinibus
nundinarum adeo libere et quiete sicut alii burgenses regni nostri in aliis
burgis nostris libertates et consuetudines nundinarum liberius et quiecius
habent et possident Volumus eciam et concedimus eisdem burgensibus ut
ipsi liberi sint ab omnimodis capcionibus et prisis per quecunque tarn extra
villam de Are quam infra capiendis exceptis nostris propriis capcionibus et
prisis et Regine spouse nostre Et firmiter prohibemus ne quis eos contra
bane concessionem nostram injuste vexare presumat super nostram plcna-
riam forisfacturam decern librarum Testibus Alexandro Cummyne comite
de Buchane1 justiciario Scocie Patricio comite de Dunbar Eymero de
Maccuswell2 camerario Hugone de Abbirnythyn et Waltero senescallo.
Apud Trauequere duodecimo die Decembris anno regni nostri duodecimo.
1 He was Justiciary of Scotland 1251-1289. Chalmers's Caledonia, i. p. 565.
2 See Douglas's Peerage l>y Wood, vol. ii. p. 312.
KOYAL CHARTERS. 19
Translation.
Alexander, by the grace of God King of Scots, to all good men of his
whole land, greeting : Let those present and to come know that we have
granted, and by this our charter have confirmed, to our burgesses of Ayr,
that for the benefit of our said Burgh they do hold markets at Ayr each
year at the feast of the nativity of Saint John the Baptist, lasting for
fifteen following days : to be held and possessed by the said burgesses, with
all liberties and customs of markets, as freely and quietly as other burgesses
of our kingdom in our other burghs hold and possess freedoms and customs
of markets : We also will and grant to the same burgesses that they be free
from all manner of captions and apprisings, taken by whomsoever, as well
without as within the town of Ayr, except our own proper captions and
those of the Queen our spouse : And we straitly prohibit that no one
presume to vex them unjustly, contrary to this our grant, upon pain of
our full forfeiture of ten pounds. Witnesses, Alexander Cumyne, Earl of
Buchan, justiciar of Scotland, Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, Eymer of Maccus-
well, chamberlain, Hugh of Abbernythyn, and Walter the Steward. At
Traquair, the 12th day of December, in the twelfth year of our reign.
12. Notarial Transumpt of Mandate by King Robert the Bruce concerning
certain privileges granted to the Royal Burghs. — \_2Uh February
1415-16.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat manifeste quod anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo quadrin-
gentesimo quinto decimo indiccione nona mensis Februarii die vicesima
quarta pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri domini
Benedicti divina providencia pape tercii decimi anno vicesimo tercio in mei
notarii publici et testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus
probus vie Nicholaus de Fynwyk prepositus burgi de Are quamdam cartam
bone memorie quondam Roberti Dei gracia regis Scottorum illustris sigillo
suo sigillatam cum circumferencia et armis suis non rasam non abolitam nee
in aliqua parte viciatam michi publice monstravit et cum debita instancia per
me notarium infrascriptum nomine et ex parte burgensium et communitatis
20 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
burgi cle Are perlegi requisivit cuiusquidero. carte tenor sequitur et est talis
Kobertus Dei gracia rex Scottorum justiciariis vicecomitibus prepositis et
eorum ballivis ac ceteris niinistris et fidelibus suis quibuscuuque ad quos pre-
sentes littere perveneriut salutem Quia in ultimo parliamento nostro tento
apud Inchetbor per nos et consilium nostrum extitit ordinatum quod burgi
nostri seu quicunque burgenses nostri de regno nostro non tractentur per
aliquem seu aliquos nisi per camerarium nostrum et ministros suos ad boc
deputatos et quod ad exercitum nostrum venire seu ad aliquos talliagia vel
contribuciones aliquas faciendas per alium seu alios quam dictum camera-
rium et ministros suos ut dictum est non cogantur Vobis mandamus et pre-
cipimus quatenus vos de dictis burgis aiit burgensibus nostris contra banc
ordinacionem nostram nullatenus intromittatis In cuius rei testimonium bas
literas nostras sibi fieri fecimus patentes Datum apud Dunde duodecimo
die Aprilis anno regni nostri septimo Quam vero cartam sic monstratam et
perlectam predictus Nicholaus a me notario sub signo publico peciit copiari
sumptibus suis et expensis Acta fuerunt bee in vico communi burgi de Are
anno indiccione mense die et pontificatu premissis presentibus tunc ibidem
reverendis et discretis viris magistro Duncano Petyt prebendario ecclesie de
Are Rogero de Laweder vicario eiusdem et decano de Kyle Eoberto Adysoun
vicario de Colmanell Micbaele Multrer Henrico Stepbani capellaniis Hugone
Sellatore ac Patricio Ahayre ballivis dicti burgi Adam de Bowr Patricio
Dougall Jobanne Cbery Gilberto Askyrk Jobanne Fabro Jobanne Broune
Waltero de Blencanbop burgensibus de Are et multis aliis testibus ad pre-
missa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Willelmus Nigelli clericus Glasguensis dyocesis etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Transumpt, made at tbe instance and expense of a prudent
man, Nicholas of Fenwick, provost of tbe burgb of Ayr, of a mandate by
King Robert the Bruce for the observance of an ordinance passed in his
parliament held at Inchture, exempting the royal burghs and burgesses
thereof from being compelled to come to the army, or to make any contribu-
tions, except by the authority of the lord chamberlain or his ministers. The
mandate is dated at Dundee, 12th April, seventh year of the King's reign
(1313) ; and the Transumpt was made on the common street of Ayr on the
24th of February 1415-16.
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13. Charter by King Robert the Bruce to Adam called Hakenay of all
that belonged to Henry called Cyser, Burgess of Ayr. — [23d March
1316-17.]
Robertus Dei graeia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue salutem Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra
confirmasse Ade dicto Hakenay omnes terras redditus et burgagia que
fuerunt Henrici dicti Cyser burgensis de Are tarn infra dictum burgum de
Are quam extra cum pertinenciis Tenendas et habendas predicto Ade et
heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate libere
quiete plenarie et bonorifice cum omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus
asiamentis et justis pertinenciis suis Eeddendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris
dictus Adam et beredes sui firmam burgi et faciendo alia servicia inde debita
et consueta In cujus rei testimonium presenti carte nostra sigillum nostrum
precipimus apponi Testibus Bernardo abbate de Aberbrothoc cancellario
nostro Gilberto de Haia Hugone de Ertb David de Berclay et Alexandra
de S1 m militibus Apud Strathurd xxiij0 die Marcii anno regni nostri
decimo.
Abstract.
Charter by Robert King of Scots, granting to Adam called Hakenay all
lands, rents, and burgages, which belonged to Henry called Cyser, burgess
of Ayr, as well within as without the said burgh of Ayr, with tbe per-
tinents ; to hold of the King and his heirs, the said Adam and his heirs
rendering therefor the ferine of the burgh, and doing other services due and
wont. At Strathurd, 23d March, tenth year of reign (1316-17).
14. Cliarter by King Robert the Bruce to the Burgh of Ayr, of the lands
of Allotvay, Corton, and Carcluie. — [20th January 1324-5.]
Robertus Dei graeia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti
carta nostra confirmasse burgensibus burgi nostri de Are quinque denariatas
terre nostri de Auleway Cortoun et Gortloy Tenendas et babendas eisdem
burgensibus et eorum successoribus de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo
1 Original torn.
22 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
et hereditate per omnes rectas metas et divisas suas libere quiete plenarie
et honorifice in unam liberam baroniam cum omnimodis libertatibus
comoditatibus aisiamentis et iustis pertinenciis in omnibus et per omnia
ad liberam baroniam spectantibus seu de iure spectare valentibus in futurum
quoquo modo et per easdem metas et divisas per quas burgenses de Are
predictas terras cum pertinenciis tenere solebant tempore bone memorie
domini Alexandri Dei gracia regis Scottorum illustris predecessoris nostri
ultimo defuncti Reddendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris dicti burgenses
et eorum successores decern libras argenti per annum videlicet centum
.solidos ad festum Pentecostes et centum solidos ad festum Sancti Martini
in hyeme Et faciendo sectam curie coram vicecomite nostro de Are qui
pro tempore fuerit ad singula placita tenenda ibidem debitam et consuetam
Et inveniendo nobis et heredibus nostris per vices in adventibus nostris et
heredum nostrorum apud Are per tres dies et noctes literium pro aula
nostra et camera et focale pro aula nostra camera et coquina sumptibus suis
pro omni alio servicio consuetudine seculari exaccione seu demanda Con-
cessimus eciam eisdem burgensibus et eorum successoribus quod homines
sui predictas terras inhabitantes liberi sint et quieti inperpetuum de omni-
modis prisis talliagiis cariagiis et contribucionibus quibuscunque et quod non
solvant nisi cum predictis burgensibus quando ipsi vel eorum successores
per nos vel heredes nostros cum aliis burgensibus regni nostri ad huiusmodi
prisas talliagia carriagia et contribuciones fuerint onerati Et quod non
transeant ad aliquem exercitum nostrum vel heredum nostrorum nisi cum
dicti burgenses cum aliis burgensibus regni nostri ad exercitum transituri
per nos vel heredes nostros fuerint summoniti Preterea concedimus et hac
presenti carta nostra confirmamus dominicis burgensibus nostris predicti
burgi de Are quod ipsi et eorum successores habeant teneant et possideant
gildam suam mcrcatoriam cum omnimodis libertatibus comoditatibus et
articulis ad gildam de iure pertinentibus adeo libere et quiete plenarie et
honeste sicut aliqui burgenses infra regnum nostrum gildam suam liberius
plenius aut honestius habent tenent seu possident In cuius rei testimonium
presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi Testibus Bernardo
abbate de Aberbrothoc cancellario nostro Duncano comite de Fyfe Patricio
de Dunbar comite Marchie Waltero senescallo Scocie Jacobo domino de
Duglas et Gilberto de Haia constabulario nostro militibus apud Dunferme-
lyn vicesimo die Januarii anno regni nostri octavo decimo.
EOYAL CHAETERS. 23
Abstract.
Charter granted by King Robert the Bruce, under the Great Seal, in
favour of the burgesses of Ayr, of five pennyworth of the King's land
of Alloway, Corton, and Carcluie. To hold to them and their successors,
of the King and his heirs, in fee and heritage, in one free barony, and by
the same boundaries as the burgesses of Ayr were wont to hold the afore-
said lands in the time of Alexander, King of Scots, of good memory, the
King's illustrious predecessor last deceased. Paying therefor to the King
and his heirs ten pounds of silver yearly : that is to say, one hundred
shillings at the feast of Pentecost, and another hundred shillings at the
feast of St. Martin in winter ; and performing one suit of court before the
Sheriff of Ayr at every plea to be heard there ; and finding to the King and
his heirs, on their coming to Ayr, for three days and nights, litter for the
King's hall and chamber, and fuel for his hall, chamber, and kitchen, in
place of all other service, custom, secular exaction, or demand. Granting
also to the said burgesses and their successors that their men inhabiting1 the
aforesaid lands shall be free from all sorts of impressments, imposts, carriage
service, and contributions whatsoever, unless when charged therewith by
the King and his heirs along with the other burgesses of the kingdom. And
that they shall not be called to serve with the army, except when summoned
thereto, with other burgesses, by the King. And further, granting and
confirming to the master burgesses of the said burgh the right of possessing
their merchant guildry with all manner of freedoms which by law belong
thereto. Dated at Dunfermline 20th January, the eighteenth year of the
King's reign (1324-25).
15. Notarial Transumpt of Charter by King Robert the Bruce to the
Burgh of Ayr of the lands of Alloway, Corton, and Carcluie. — [2£tJt
February 1415-16.]
In Dei nomine amen Per presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
evidenter quod anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo quinto
decimo indiccione nona mensis Februarii die vicesima quarta pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri domini Benedicti divina
providencia pape tercii decimi anno vicesimo tercio in mei notarii publici
24 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
et testium subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus probus vir
Nicholaus de Fynwyk prepositus burgi de Are quamdam cartam bone
memorie quondam Eoberti Dei gracia regis Scottorum illustris sub magno
sigillo suo sigillatam cum circumferencia et armis suis non rasam non
abolitam nee in aliqua parte viciatam michi publice demonstravit et cum
debita instancia per me notarium infrascriptum nomine et ex parte buro-en-
sium et communitatis burgi de Are perlegi requisivit cuiusquidem carte
tenor sequitur et est talis Eobertus Dei gracia rex Scottorum (etc. vide
No. 14, supra). Quam vero cartam sic monstratam et perlectam pre-
dictus Nicholaus a me notario sub signo publico peciit copiari sumptibus
suis et expensis Acta fuerunt hec in communi vico buroi de Are anno
indiccione mense die et pontificatu premissis presentibus ibidem discretis
viris magistro Duncano Petyt prebendario ecclesie de Are Boo-ero de
Laweder vicario ecclesie de Are Eoberto Adysoun vicario de Colmanell
Michaele Multrer Henrico Stepbani capellanis Adam de Bowr Patricio
Dougall Jobanne Cbery Gilberto Askekyrk Patricio Ahayr Hugone Sellatore
balbvis dicti burgi Jobanne Fabro Willelmo de Blencankop burgensibus de
Are et multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis speciabter et rogatis.
Et ego Willelmus Nigelli etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Transumpt, at the instance and expense of Nicholas of Fenwick,
provost of Ayr, of Charter by King Eobert the Bruce, in favour of the
burgh of Ayr, of five pennyworth of the King's land of Alloway, Corton,
and Carcluie, as in No. 14, supra. Dated 20th January (1324-5), and
transumed on the common street of Ayr 24th February 1415-16.
16. Protection by King David the Second to the Burgesses of Ayr. —
[28th March 1330.]
David Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue salutem Sciatis nos burgenses burgi nostri de Are terras suas homines
suos et universas eorundem possessiones ac omnia bona sua mobilia et im-
mobilia sub firma paca et proteccione nostra iuste suscepisse Quare firmiter
prohibemus ne quis eis malum molestiam iniuriam seu gravamen abquod
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inferre presumat iniuste super nostram plenariam forisfacturam Concessimus
eciam eisdem ut nullus namos suos aut hominum suorum capiat pro ali-
quibus debito plegiagio vel forisfacto nisi pro eorundcm proprio debito
plegiagio vel forisfacto salvis burgis nostris firmiter inliibentes ne quis
contra banc concessionem nostram ipsos vexare presumat iniuste super
eandem nostram plenariam forisfacturam Mandamus insuper et fir-
miter precipimus justiciariis vicecomitibus prepositis et eorum ballivis
ad quos presentes litere pervenerint ut omnes illos in eorum balliis seu
burgis qui debita debent prefatis burgensibus ad eadem debita eis vel eorum
certo attornato latori presencium iuste et sine dilacione reddenda secundum
quoad ijdem burgenses vel dictus eorum attornatus dicta debita sibi deberi
ab eisdem racionabiliter probare poterunt vel poterit coram eis prout
iustum fuerit compellant ita quod pro eorundcm defectu amplius inde
iustam querimoniam non audiamus In cuius rei testimonium lias literas
nostras perpetuo duraturas sibi fieri fecimus patentes apud Perth vicesimo
octavo die Marcii anno regni nostri primo.
Abstract.
Grant by David the Second, King of Scots, in favour of the burgesses of
Ayr, of his firm protection and peace to them, their men, and all their pos-
sessions and goods, movable and immovable, forbidding any one to injure
them upon the pain of plenary forfeiture : Granting also that neither they
nor their men shall be distrained for any debt, pledge, or forfeit, but for
their own ; saving the King's burgh dues : Commanding therefore justiciars,
sheriffs, provosts, and their bailies, that all in their jurisdictions who owe
debts to the foresaid burgesses be compelled to pay the same to them or
their attorney without delay, according as the said burgesses shall be able
to prove such debts to be owing by the said persons. Dated at Perth
28th March 1330.
17. Charter by King Robert the Third to the Burgesses of Ayr of
the Burgh, Harbour, Fishings, and Mills of Ayr. — [12th September 1400.]
Robertus Dei gracia Rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus totius terre
sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti
carta nostra ad feodifirmam diruisisse ac pro nobis et heredibus nostris
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26 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
imperpetuum confirmasse dilectis et fidelibus nostris burgensibus ac com-
munitati burgi nostri de Are et eorum successoribus ipsum burgum de Are
inhabitantibus burgum nostrum predictum cum omnibus et singulis terris
pertinentibus dicto burgo et burgensibus supradictis una cum portu burgi
supradicti et piscariis eiusdem firmis burgi parvis custumis ac tolloneis
molendinis multuris et eorum sequelis cum curiis et curiarum exitibus ac
ceteris pertinentiis quibuscunque baronia de Alway tantum excepta ut in
carta super hoc dictis burgensibus de predecessoribus nostris confecta plenius
continetur Tenendum et habendum eisdem burgensibus et communitati ac
eorum successoribus de nobis et beredibus nostris in feodo et bereditate
imperpetuum per omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas cum omnibus
et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus et aysiamentis ac iustis pertinenciis
quibuscunque ad dictum burgum spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus
quomodolibet in futurum adeo libere quiete plenarie integre bonorifice bene
et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut aliqui burgenses regni nostri bur-
gum suum in feodo et bereditate bberius quietius integrius et bonorificentius
tenent vel possident Reddendo inde et solvendo annuatim nobis et beredi-
bus nostris predicti burgenses et communitas ac eorum successores apud
Are decern Hbras usuabs monete regni nostri ad duos anni terminos videlicet
ad festa pentbecostes et Sancti Martini in bieme per portiones equales
tantum pro omni alio servicio seculari exactione seu demanda que per nos
vel beredes nostros de dicto burgo cum pertinenciis prescriptis exigi
poterunt vel requiri salvo tamen et excepto servicio nostro debito et
consueto In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre nostrum precepimus
apponi sigillum Testibus venerabilibus in Cbristo patribus Waltero episcopo
Sanctiandree Gdberto episcopo Aberdonensi cancellario nostro carissimo
primo genito nostro David duce Rothsaye comite de Carrik et Atbolie
senescallo Scotie Eoberto duce Albanie comite de Fiff et de Menteth fratre
nostro germano Arcbibaldo comite de Douglas domino Galwidie Jacobo de
Douglas domiuo de Dalketb et Tboma de Erskyn militibus consanguineis
nostris dilectis Apud Irwyne duodecimo die mensis Septembris anno gracie
millesimo quadriugentesimo et regni nostri undecimo.
Abstract.
Charter by King Robert the Third, granting to the burgesses and com-
munity of Ayr, and their successors, the said burgh, with all and sundry
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lands thereto belonging, and to the burgesses aforesaid, together with the
harbour of the burgh and fishings thereof, fermes of the burgh, petty customs,
and tolls, mills, multures, and then- sequels, with courts and exits of court,
and other pertinents whatsoever, excepting only the Barony of Alloway ; as
in the charter granted thereof by the king's predecessors : To hold in fee
and heritage for ever, of the king and his heirs, for the yearly payment at
Ayr of ten pounds usual money of the kingdom, at the terms of Whitsunday
and Martinmas, by equal portions, for all secular service ; saving the king's
service due and wont. Dated and sealed at Irvine 12th September 1400 :
the witnesses being Walter Bishop of St. Andrews, Gilbert Bishop of Aber-
deen, chancellor, the king's firstborn David duke of Rothesay, earl of
Carrick and Athole, Steward of Scotland, Robert duke of Albany, earl of
Fife and Menteith, the king's brother-german, Archibald earl of Douglas
lord of Galloway, James of Douglas lord of Dalkeith, and Thomas of
Erskyn, knights.
18. Confirmation by King James the Second of Decreet regarding Claim
of the Burgh of Irvine for certain Privileges in the Burgh of Ayr. —
[2,7th May 1450.]
Jacobus Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus suis ad
quos presentes litere pervenerint salutem Sciatis nos quasdam literas nos-
tras alias in nostra tenera etate factas et concessas de et super quodam
decreto alias dato in nostro concilio generali apud Striveline tento pro
burgensibus et communitate burgi nostri de Are intellexisse sub hac forma
Jacobus Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus suis ad quos
presentes litere pervenerint salutem Sciatis quod comparentibus in con-
cilio nostro generali tento apud Striveline Hugone Clerc et Alexandro de
Houstoune burgi nostri de Irwine commissariis ex una ac Johanne Multrare
et Andrea Farchare burgi nostri de Are commissariis ex altera partibus et
super dictorum burgorum libertatibus et nonnullorum bonorum arrestacioni-
bus per ministros dicti burgi de Are arrestatorum coram tribus regni nostri
statibus inibi congregatis altercantibus et aliquamdiu litigantibus tandem
prefati burgorum de Are et de Irwine commissarii ex ordinacione trium
statuum et ipsorum mutuo consensu super eorum altercacionibus et ques-
tionibus ac punctis gilde burgi de Are omnes et singulos aliorum burgorum
28 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
nostrorum commissarios in judices elegerunt ac se et burgos predictos de
Are et de Irwine ad standum ordinacioni determinacioni conclusioui et
decreto dictorum commissariorum fideliter et absque fraude bine inde sponte
et voluntarie submiserunt Qui siquidem burgorum commissarii in causis
per prefatos burgorum de Irwine et de Are commissarios coram eis propositis
auditis parcium predictarum racionibus dictarumque causarum meritis cog-
nitis examinatis et attentis et ad plenum discussis pro cedenda inter partes
predictas discordia ac quiete et pace inter eas reformanda et nutrienda
avisarunt determinaverunt concluserunt et finaliter in moduni qui sequitur
decreverunt Cuius decreti tenor de verbo ad verbum sequitur et est talis :
The sewynt day of the moneth of Februare the yere of oure Lorde a thousand
foure hundreth fourty and three in the generale counsell than haldin at
Striveline before the commissaris of the burghis that is to say of Edinburgh
Johne of Dalrympill of Perth Johne of Hadingtoune of Striveline John
Darraugh ande Johne Richardson Paton Lokart and Malcolme Clercson of
Lanark Straty of Mediltoune of Muntros Henry Robertsone of Duncle Wil
of Farle of Coupir John of Benyn and Thomas of Meldrum of Inverkeitking
Andro Nicolsone of Aberdene ande als of Edinburgh forsaide ande Perth
Williame of Libertoune ande Robert Mersare comperit the commissaris of
Are ande Irwin that is to say of Are John Multrare alderman and Andro
Ferchare ande of Irwyn Huchoun Clerc ancle Alexander of Houstoime
ostendande certane articlis and clamys debatabil of thaire fredomys schawand
commissioun on athir party oblisand thame to hald ferme ande stabill per-
petuale tymis to cum quhat the sade commissaris of the lafe of the burghis
thare present sal decrete in that mater In the first as to the clame put
forth be the saide commissaris of Irwine clamand fredome in the toune of
Are upoun the merkate day to stand in the merkate to tap bradeclaith ande
narow walx wyne and irne ter and lynt claith and al uthir smal gudis and
merchandise thir forsaide commissaris thare present has concludit in this
maner that is to say that the saide merchandis of Irwine na of nane uthir
toune audit to cum within the toune of Are nouthir on the. merkate day na
yit nane uthir day of the wolk to tap na gudis of merchandise belangand to
the gild that is to say brade claith ande narow walx wyne ter and irnc lint
claith na yit to by woll hidis na skinnis na yit nane uthir gudis belangand
the gild sauffand anerly on the fare day ande the tyme of it continewand
eftir auld privelegis The quhilke decrete thir commissaris ordanis to remayne
perpetuale tyme to cum to baith the partijs and thaire successours the
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quhilk act is autorisit before the hale generale consel with hale consent and
assent the time forsaide to endure : Quilmsquidem conclusione et decreto
per Hugonem Ker de Dene notarium publicum die septimo mensis Februarii
anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo tercio in concilio
nostro generali predicto tento in pretorio burgi nostri de Striveline coram
tribus regni nostri statibus inibi congregatis perlectis et auditis prefati tres
regni nostri status ad predictorum burgi de Are commissariorum supplica-
ciones et instancias conclusionem et decretum suprascriptum tanquam actum
gestum et factum concilii generalis reputandum auttorizarunt Nosque pre-
dictorum commissariorum decretum cum tribus regni nostri statibus ratum
habentes in omnibus conformiter approbamus et hoc omnibus quorum
interest notum esse volumus per presentes Datum sub testimonio magni
sigilli nostri apud Striveline septimo die mensis Februarii anno Domini
millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo tercio et regni nostri septimo
Quodquidem decretum supradictum ac omnia et singula in eo contenta
nunc in nostra etate legittima approbamus ratificamus et pro nobis heredilms
et successoribus nostris ut premissum est pro perpetuo confirmamus Datum
sub magno sigillo nostro apud Irwyne vicesimo septimo die mensis Maij
anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo octavo et regni
nostri vicesimo secundo.
Abstract.
Confirmation by King James the Second, under the Great Seal, of a
Decreet delivered by the Commissioners of Burghs, in a general council
held at Stirling on 7th February 1443, rejecting a claim preferred by the
Commissioners of the Burgh of Irvine for freedom to sell certain articles in
the market of the Burgh of Ayr ; which Decreet was confirmed by the king-
on the same day, under testimony of the Great Seal ; but as he was then in
his minority this new confirmation is added. Dated at Irvine, 27th May
1458.
19. Confirmation by King James the Second of former Royal Grants to
the Burgh of Ayr, and conferring the Privilege of a Yearly Public
Fair on St. Michael's Day.— [28th May 1458.]
Jacobus Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue
clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos approbasse ratificasse et hac presenti
30 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR
carta nostra confirmasse omnes et singulas infeodaciones donaciones et con-
cessiones factas et concessas per quoscunque predecessores nostros dilectis
et fidelibus nostris preposito ballivis et comrnunitate burgi nostri de Are et
eoruni successoribus eiusdern burgi burgensibus de quibuscunque terris
redditibus molendinis piscariis sive aliis redditibus quibuscunque dictis
burgensibus temporibus retroactis ut premittitur factis et concessis Insuper
pro singulari favore quern gerimus erga dictos burgenses et communitatem
dcdinius et concessimus ac presentis carte nostre tenore danius et concedimus
eisdem burgensibus et communitati facultatem et plenariam potestatem ut
habeant teneant et possideant annuatim pro perpetuo nundinas publicas in
festo beati Micbaelis archangeli et per quatuor dies immediate sequentes
ipsum festum cum libertatibus et privilegiis ad nundinas publicas spectan-
tibus Et volumus nicliilominus quod habeant teneant et possideant eciam
suas alias publicas nundinas in festo nativitatis beati Johannis baptiste et
per octavas eiusdern alias eis concessas cum libertatibus et privilegiis ad ipsas
nundinas spectantibus Tenendas et babendas totas et integras predictas
terras redditus molendina et piscarias cum pertinenciis ac alios redditus
quoscunque per dictos nostros predecessores dicto burgo alias concessas juxta
suas rectas limites et bondas dictis burgensibus et communitati et eorum
successoribus dicti burgi burgensibus unacum dictis nundinis tarn tenendis
in dicto festo nativitatis beati Jobannis baptiste et per octavas eiusdern
quam in dicto festo beati Micbaelis arcbangeli et per quatuor dies ipsum
festum immediate sequentes cum libertatibus privilegiis et consuetudinibus
ad nundinas publicas burgi nostri spectantibus adeo libere quiete plenarie
integre honorifice bene et in pace sicut dicti burgenses et communitas de
dictis suis terris piscacionibus molendinis redditibus ant possessionibus com-
moditatibus libertatibus aut privilegiis suis quibuscunque liberius infeodati
sunt et sicut carte litere et evidencie eis desuper confecte plenius proportant
et testantur Salvis nobis et successoribus nostris juribus et serviciis ante
presentem confirmacionem nobis debitis et consuetis Quare universis et
singulis nostris ligiis et subditis quorum interest vel interesse poterit stricte
precipiendo mandamus ne quis in contrarium dicte confirmacionis nostre
aut libertatis seu privilegiorum nundinarum predictarum quicunque attemp-
tare presumat temporibus profuturis sub omni pena quam erga regiam
incurrere poterit maiestatem In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre
confirmacionis magnum sigillum nostrum apponi precepimus Testibus
reverendo in Cbristo patre Georgeo episcopo Brecbinensi cancellario nostro
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dilectis consancmineis nostris Jacobo domino Livins-stoun magno camerario
uostro Andrea domino Avandale justiciario nostro Alexandro domino
Montgomerre Roberto domino Flemyng magistro Thoma Vaus decano
Glasguensi secretario nostro et Niniano Spot nostrorum compotorum rotula-
tore Apud Irwin vicesimo octavo die mensis Maij anno Domini millesimo
quadringentesimo qninquagesimo octavo et regni nostri vicesimo secundo.
Abstract.
Charter by King James the Second, confirming to the burgh of Ayr all
and sundry infeftments, donations, and grants made to them by any of his
predecessors, of whatsoever lands, rents, mills, fishings, or other rents
whatsoever : And of his singular favour towards the burgesses and com-
munity of the said burgh, giving and granting to them the power of holding
and possessing for ever a public yearly fair on the feast of St. Michael the
archangel, and during four days immediately following the said feast, with
all privileges and freedoms belonging to public fairs : Willing nevertheless
that they should also hold and possess their other public fair, formerly
granted to them on the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist, and
during the octaves thereof. Dated at Irvine 28th May 1458.
20. Charge by King James the Second to the Sheriff of Ayr, to desist from
interfering with the Michaelmas Fair held at the Burgh of Ayr.—
[7th July 1459.]
James be the grace of God king of Scottis til oure schiref of Are and his
deputis greting Forsamekle as we have grantit til oure lovidis the alder-
man bailyeis and communite of oure burgh of Are and til oure saide burgh
a fare to be haldin yerli at the fest of Sanct Michaell with al privelegis and
dewteis pertening thareto nochtwithstanding thare aide previlege of thare
fare at the fest of sant Johnne the baptist yerli And as we ar informit
ye mak you til excers and use the keping of the said new fare with wrang-
wis custumis and distressis in breking and lessing of the saide fare hurt and
preiudice to oure said burgh and skath to the cuntre Oure will is herefor
and we charge yow and stratli commandis that yhe cese and decist and
intromit nocht with the keping of the saide new fare nor that ye tak na
32 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
distressis na custumis in the saide fare the keping of the quhilk we have
committit to the aldirman balyeis and comunite of oure burgh forsaide and
the said fare thai have undirtakin uppoune thare awnne expensis and ar
bundin til ws thareuppoune to kepe yerli as efferis And this ye do undir
al panne and charge that eftir may folow Delivering thir oure letres be
you sene and undirstandin agane to the berare Gevin undir oure signet at
Perth the vij dai of Julij and of oure regnne the xxiij yere.
21. Charter by King James the Second exempting the Tenants of Alio way
from being called as Witnesses in Courts beyond the Burgh of Ayr. —
[9th July 1459.]
Jacobus Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue
clericis et laicis salutem Quia relatione dilectorum comburgensium nos-
trorum burgi nostri de Are informamur quod tenentes et inhabitantes terras
baronie de Alva cum pertinenciis communitati dicti burgi nostri spectantes
temporibus retroactis quam maxime gravati inquietati et dampnificati fuerunt
per deductionem eorum tenendum in testimonium in curiis nostris itinerum
nostrorum justiciarie et camerarie curiis vicecomitum aliisque curiis et locis
in testificacionibus factis penes sumoniciones arrestas attachiamenta et alia
per ofhciarios nostros facta et eciam per cohertacionem ipsorum tenendum
ad eundem infra terras de Carrie et alubi in diversis dominiis baroniis et
locis extra limites dicti burgi nostri de Are contra libertates et privilegia
dicti nostri burgi et burgensium et inhabitancium ipsum nostrum burgum
et tenendum et servitorum suorum in eorum maximum dampnum et
gravamen Nos igitur in observacionem infeodacionis dicti burgi et liber-
tatuum et privilegiorum eiusdem considerantes premissa et dicta dampna
hactenus dictis burgensibus et communitati eorumque tenentibus illata con-
cessimus et tenore presencium concedimus pro nobis et successoribus nostris
dictis burgensibus et communitati dicti burgi nostri de Are et eorum succes-
soribus qui pro tempore fuerint quod dicti sui tenentes et inhabitantes dictam
baroniam suam de Alva per quoscunque ofhciarios aut ligeos nostros minime
cohercentur aut distringentur in futurum ad comparendum tanquam testes in
quibuscunque curiis itinerum nostrorum justiciarie camerarie vicecomitum
aut quibuscunque locis extra limites et bondas dicti burgi vel in quibuscun-
que curiis preterquam in curiis dicti nostri burgi de Are set quod alii nostri
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ligii inhabitantes vicecomitaturn nostrum cle Are capientur et vocentur
temporibus profuturis ad perhibendum testimonium circa summoniciones
arrestas vel huiusmodi facienda juxta usum et consuetudinem in aliis vice-
comitatibus regni nostri usitatam De quibusquidem laboribus et iniustis
vexacionibus ut premissum est usitatis contra libertates et privilegia dicti
burgi burgenses et incolas eiusdem burgi et eorum tenentes de Alva pro
nobis et successoribus nostris exoneramus pro perpetuo Quare universis et
singulis justiciariis camerariis vicecomitibus ahisque officiariis ligiis et sub-
ditis nostris quorum interest vel interesse poterit stricte precipiendo man-
damus ne quis dictos nostros burgeuses aut tenentes vel servientes suos
dicte baronie contra tenorem presencium aliquatenus vexare perturbare seu
inquietare presumat sub omni pena quern competere poterit in bac parte
Datum sub magno sigillo nostro apud Perth nono die mensis Julij anno
domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo nono et regni nostri
vicesimo tercio.
Abstract.
Charter by King James the Second, whereby, on the information by
his lovite fellow-burgesses of Ayr, that the tenants and inhabitants of the
barony of Alloway, belonging to the community of the said burgh, were
very much aggrieved, disturbed, and put to damage by the taking away of
the said tenants for the purpose of giving testimony in the courts of the
itineraries of justiciary, chamberlain, sheriff, and other courts and places, in
regard to summonings, arrestments, attachments, and others, made by the
king's officers, and also by forcing the tenants for the same purpose to the
lands of Carrick and elsewhere in divers lordships, baronies, and places
beyond the bounds of the said burgh of Ayr, against the liberties and
privileges of the burgesses and inhabitants thereof, and of their tenants and
servants, and to their great loss and injury — the king therefore, and for
observance of the infeftment of the said burgh, and freedoms and privileges
thereof, grants to the said burgesses and community, and then' successors,
that their said tenants and inhabitants of the barony of Alloway shall be
for ever exempt from being forced to compear as witnesses in the courts
before mentioned, in any places beyond the bounds of the said burgh, or in
any courts whatever, except those of the burgh of Ayr : But that the other
inhabitants of the sheriffdom of Ayr might in future be taken and called to
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34 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
give testimony concerning summonings, arrestments, or such like, according
to the use and wont in other sheriffdoms of the kingdom. Given under
the great seal, at Perth, 9th July 1459.
22. Instrument on Delivery of the King's Letter forbidding the Sheriff to
interfere with the Fair of St. Michael, belonging to the Burgh of Ayr. —
[28th September 1460.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno ab incarnacione Domini m° cccc0
sexagesimo die vero mensis Septembris xxviij0 indiccione ixa pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini Pii divina providencia pape
secundi anno tercio in mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum presencia
personaliter constituti honorabiles viri Johannes Multrar prepositus burgi
de Ar et ballivi eiusdem cum consensu communitatis eiusdem burgi quandam
literam papiram signeto excellentissimi principis Jacobi regis Scotorum
sigillatam ac ipsius manu subscriptam honorabili ac potenti domino domino
Georgio Cambell militi ac vicecomiti presentabant ac eiusdem litere copiam
de verbo in verbum sibi ministrabant Cuiusquidem litere tenor sequitur in
hec verba James be the grace of God Kyng of Scottis till our shiraff off Ar
and hys deputis gretyng for als mykill as we haff grantit till our lovidis the
alderman bailyeis and communite of our burch off Ayr and tyll our sayd
burche a fayr to be haldyn yerli at the fest of Sant Michaell with all privi-
legis and dewteis pertenyng thareto nocht withstanding thare aid privilegis
of thare fayr at the fest of Sant Jon the Baptyst yerli And as we ar
informit ye mak you till excerse and oysse the kepyng of the said new fayr
with wrangwyss customis and distress in brekyn and lessyng of the said fayr
hurt and preiudice till our said burche and scatht to the contre Our wyll is
herfor and we charge yow and stratly commande that ye sesse and decist
and intromit nocht wyth the kepyng of the sayd new fayr nor that ye tak
na distress na customis in the sayd fayr the kepyng of the qwlk we haff
committit to the alderman balyeis and communite of our burche forsaid
And the said fayr thai haff wndertakyn wpon thare awyn expensis and ar
bondyn till ws tharwpon to kep yerli as afferis and this ye do wnder nil
payn and charge that efter may folow deliveryng thir our letres be you seyn
ROYAL CHARTERS. 35
and wnderstandyn agayn to the berer Gefyn wnder our signet at Pertht the
sewynt day of July and of our regne the xxiij yer Et consequenter post
presentacionem litere regie vicecomiti et copie tradicionem predictus pre-
positus ballivi et communitas antedicti burgi ad crucem accedentes et in
publico proclamantes predictam literam regiam in presencia populi perlegi
faciebant et exonerabant omnes et singulos regis subditos de omni custunia
tholonio ct cyrothecis ballivorum tantum modo minori custuma regia excepta
et inhibuerunt ex parte regis nequis se amplius intromitteret ultra preceptum
regis et mandatum Super quibus omnibus et singulis sic actis factis dictis
et elocutis predictus prepositus et eiusdem burgi ballivi pecierunt a me
notario publico exinde sibi fieri hoc presens publicum instrumentum Acta
fuerunt hec apud crucem eiusdem burgi hora quasi tercia post meridiem
anno mense die indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus nobilibus
et discretis viris Thoma Sprewl de Coldoun Johanne Mvr de Enerothyll
Alexandra Mvr ballivo de Irwyn Johanne Blar clerico studenti Roberto
Hadowy burgensi de Lychtcow Henrico Gyll burgensi Edynburgi Nigello
Wod Roberto Crafurd burgensi Edinburgi et domino Johanne Holmys
capellano cum multis aliis.
Et ego Willelmus Snelle presbyter Glasguensis diocesis publicus auc-
toritate imperiali notarius, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument on the presentation by John Multrar, provost of Ayr, and
the bailies thereof, with consent of the community, to Sir George Campbell,
knight and sheriff, of a letter granted by King James the Second, under
his signet, of date at Perth 7th July 1460, charging the said sheriff not
to interfere with the fair of St. Michael which the King had granted to
the burgh of Ayr, by wrongously exacting custom, and otherwise troubling
the people : Of which letter a copy was formally delivered to the sheriff :
And thereafter the provost and bailies, going to the cross, made public
proclamation of the said royal letter, and caused it to be read in presence
of the people, and discharged all and sundry the King's subjects of all cus-
tom, toll, and bailies' gloves, the petty royal custom alone excepted. Done
at the cross of the burgh at three o'clock afternoon of 28th September
1460.
36 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
23. Letters under the Signet of King James Third in favour of the
Burgh of Ayr and their Tenants of the Barony of Alloway. — [pth
September (1471).]
Jambs be the grace of God King of Scottis to all and sindry our justicis
chalmerlanis shireffis and thair deputis and all utheris our officiaris and
shireffis in that parte liegis and subditis quhani it efferis quhais knawlege
thir present letres sail cum greting Forsamekill as uniquhile our maist
noble progenitour King James the Secound of glide mynd quham God
assoilye for resonable causis and considerationis moving him grantit for
him and his successouris to the buro-essis and communite of our burcht of
Are and thair successouris being for the tyme that than tenentis and
inhabitantis thair barony of Alva suld nocht be cohercit or compellit in ony
tyme cuming to compeir as witnessis in quhatsumevir justice airis chalmer-
lane airis shireff courtis or uther placis outwith the boundis and fredome of
oure said burcht in quhatsumevir courtis bot in the courtis of our said
burcht and dischargeit the burgessis and induellaris of oure said burcht and
thair tenentis of Alva of all sic laubirris chargeis and vexacionis for his
hienes and his successouris for ever as his letres undir his grete sele maid to
thame thairupone proportis Nevertheles it is now humblie menit and com-
plenit to ws be our lovittis the alderman bailyeis counsale and communite
of oure said burcht of Air that thai thair servandis and tenentis of the said
barony of Alva ar daylie summond be oure letres and ofhciaris to compeir
in Edinburcht and uther placis to pas upone assisis and ar compellit be oure
shiref of Air and his deputis to pas upone inquestis and assisis in our shireff
courtis of Air in contrar the privilege of our said burcht and privilege
forsaid with inhibitioun grantit to thair predecessouris and thame be our
said maist noble progenitour and aganis iustice if sa be Oure will is heirfor
and we charge you straitlie and commandis you all and sindry oure justicis
chalmerlanis shireffis and your deputis and all uther oure officiaris and
shireffis in that parte present and to cum liegis and subditis forsaidis that
nane of you tak upone hand to summond arrest or compell the saidis
alderman bailyeis burgessis and communite of oure said burcht of Air thair
servandis or tenentis of thair said barony of Alva to compeir or pas upone
inquestis or assisis befor you in our justice airis chalmerlane airis shireff
courtis or ony uther placis outwith the boundis and fredome of our said
ROYAL CHARTERS. 37
burcht or uther wais bot in oure said burrow courtis according to the said
privilege grantit to thame tliairupone or to do or attempt ony thing in
contrar thairof be ony maner of way in tyme cuming as ye and ilk ane of
you will ansuer to ws thairupone and undir hiest pane and charge that
efter may folow Thir our letres be you and ilkanc of you sene and
understand deliveris thame ao;ane to the berare Gevin undir oure signet
at Edinburgh the fift clay of September and of our regne the xj yere Ex
deliberatione dominorum consilii. Chepman.
24. Sasine, upon Precept from Chancery, in favour of the Burgh of Ayr,
of the Lands and Mills of the Burroufeld. — [6th March 1507-8.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnacionis dominice mdlesimo
quingentesimo septimo mensis vero Marcii die sexto indiccione undecima
pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri Julij
divina providencia pape secundi anno quinto ac regni excellentissimi prin-
cipis Jacobi quarti Scotorum regis illustrissimi anno vicesimo in nostrorum
notariorum publicorum ac testium subscriptorum presenciis personaliter
constituti honorabiles et providi viri Matheus Walles de Crago aldermannus
burgi de Ai'e Georgeus Nesbyte ac Thomas Nele eiusdem burgi ballivi pro
tempore unacum magna conrluencia conburgensium ac communitatis prefati
burgi quoddam sasine preceptum prefati supremi domini nostri regis sub
testimonio magni sigilli eiusdem more cancellarie regie presentarunt ad
manus honorabilis viri David Craufurd de Kerse vicecomitis de Are in hac
parte specialiter constituti Cuiusquidem precepti tenor de verbo in verbum
sequitur et est tabs Jacobus Dei gracia rex Scotorum dilectis nostris con-
sanguineo Johanni domino Cathkert David Craufurd de Kerse Thome Corry
de Kelwod et Johanni Schaw de Haly ac eorum cuilibet coniunctim et divi-
sim vicecomitibus nostris de Are in hac parte salutem Quia pro speciali
favore quern gerimus erga clilectos nostros aldermannum ballivos burgenses
et communitatem burgi nostri de Are et pro utilitate et commodo eiusdem
dedimus concessimus et ad feudifirmam dimisimus hereditarie eisdem totas
et integras terras de Burrowfeld jacentes prope burgum nostrum antedictum
et molendina earundem cum suis pertinenciis jacentes infra bbertatem dicti
burgi nostri de Are et infra viceconntatum nostrum de Are Quequidem
38 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
terre cum pertinenciis fuerunt dictorum aldernianm ballivorum burgensium
et communitatis dicti burgi nostri hereditarie in libero burgagio et feodifirma
et ob alienacionem earundem in manibus nostris recognite fuerunt et lapsis
anno et die post dictam recognicioneni prefatisque terris ad plagium minime
dimissis Et dictis aldermanno ballivis et communitate prefati nostri burgi
ceterisque omnibus ad prefatas terras interesse habentibus seu habere pre-
sumentibus ad instanciam nostram legitime citatis ad audiendum et videndum
se ipsos suas proprietatem et possessionem earundem amisisse et easdem nobis
ob prefatam alienacionis causam in proprietate pertinere decerni decretum
fuit et deliberatum per consilii nostri dominos quod prefati aldermannus
ballivi et communitas dicti nostri burgi ceterique omnes ad dictas terras de
Burrowfeld cum molendinis earundem et suis pertinenciis interesse liabentes
seu habere presumentes suas proprietatem et possessionem earundem amise-
runt nosque manus nostras ad easdem terras et molendina apponere nobiscum
in proprietate permansuras et ad nostre libitum voluntatis disponendas fore
in futurum idem domini decreverunt ex et pro eo quod prefate terre totaliter
alienate fuerunt et nichil inde reservatum ad persolvendum nobis feudifirmam
nobis de eisdem debitam extendentem in integro annuatim ad summam
decern librarum usualis monete regni nostri veluti dicti aldermannus et
ballivi pro se ipsis et tanquam procuratores pro dicta communitate fate-
bantur in presenciis dictorum dominorum ac prout eis clare constabat contra
naturam et condicionem donacionis facte burgensibus inhabitantibus et
remanentibus infra dictam villam de Are continentis in effectu quod dicte
terre eis date fuerunt prout in cartis et evidenciis eis desuper confectis coram
prefatis dominis productis et ostensis latius continetur veluti ipsorum
decretum desuper latum in se plenius proportat ut carta nostra dictis
preposito ballivis burgensibus et conrmunitati desuper confecta in se latius
continet et testatur Vobis precipimus et mandamus quatenus dictis
preposito ballivis burgensibus et conrmunitati vel suis certis attornatis
latoribus presencium sasinam predictarum terrarum et molendinorum cum
suis pertinenciis secundum tenorem dicte carte nostre quam de nobis inde
habent juste haberi faciatis et sine dilacione Et hoc nullo modo omittatis
Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim vice-
comitibus nostris de Are in hac parte committimus potestatem Datum sub
testimonio magni sigilli nostri apud Edinburghe decimo sexto die mensis
Februarii anno domini millesimo quingentesimo septimo et regni nostri
vicesimo Qui quidem David Craufurd antedictus vicecomes de Are per
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predictas literas in hac parte specialiter constitutus precepto ac mandato
regio tanquam obediencie filius volens parere et obedire vigore predict! regii
precepti liereditariam contulit sasinam per deliberacionem terre et lapidis
ut moris est omnium et singularum predictarum terrarum et molendinorum
de Burro wfeld cum suis pertinenciis jacencium prope burgum de Are infra
libertatem dicti burgi de Are et vicecomitatum eiusdem antedictis Matheo
aldermanno Georgio et Thome ballivis dicti burgi pro tempore nomine et
ex parte omnium conburgensium et tocius communitatis predicti burgi de
Are secundum formam et tenorem carte regie illis desuper confecte tenenda-
rum et possidendarum Salvo jure cuiuslibet imperpetuum Super quibus
omnibus et singulis peeiit dictus Matheus aldermannus pro se ac dictis
ballivis conburgensibus et comunitati dicti burgi unum et plura instru-
mentum ac instrumenta publicum et publica a nobis notariis publicis sub-
scriptis sibi fieri Acta erant hec super solum dictarum terrarum de
Burrowfeld burgi predicti juxta duas cruces lapideas bora quasi decima
ante meridiem aut eo circa sub anno mense die indictione pontificatu et regis
regno quibus supra Presentibus ibidem nobilibus ac providis viris videlicet
Jacobo Chawmyr de Gaitgyrtlie Willelmo Wallece filio et herede apparenti
Matbei Wallece de Crago Roberto Campbel de Kilmanache Jolianne Chaw-
myr filio prefati Jacobi Chawmyr Michaele Wallece Jacobi Craufurd fratre
prefati David Craufurd de Kerse et Johanne Gilmene mercatore cum aliis
multis ac diversis testibus ad premissa voeatis pariter et rogatis.
Et ego Patricius Law, etc.
Et ego vero Johannes Fair, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument of Sasine, proceeding on Precept by King James the Fourth,
under the testimonial of the great seal, addressed to John lord Cathcart,
David Craufurd of Kerse, Thomas Corry of Kelwod, and John Shaw of Haly,
sheriffs in that part, and narrating that the king, for the especial favour
which he bore towards the alderman, bailies, burgesses, and community of
Ayr, and for the utility and advantage of the burgh, gave, granted, and set in
feu-ferme to them heritably, all and whole the lands of the Burrowfield, mills
and pertinents thereof, lying within the freedom of the said burgh : Which
lands formerly belonged to the burgh in free burgage and feu-ferme, and
were recognised in the king's hands, on account of the alienation thereof :
40 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
And a year and day having passed since the recognition without the de-
mission of the lands at pledge, the Lords of Council decerned the property
and possession thereof to be lost by the burgh, and to be in the king's hands,
to be disposed of at his pleasure : Because, contrary to the condition of
their gift, and to the tenor of the charters granted to them of the said
lands, as they themselves acknowledged, they had wholly alienated them,
reserving nothing for payment of the feu-ferme due therefrom to the king,
which extended in whole to the yearly rent of ten pounds usual money of
the kingdom : The royal precept directed the aforesaid sheriffs to give sasine
to the said provost, bailies, burgesses, and community, of the said lands and
mills, according to the tenor of the charter granted to them by the king :
Which was done in due form by the aforesaid David Craufurd delivering o
earth and stone of the said lands to Mathew Wallace of Crago, alderman,
George Nesbit and Thomas Nele, bailies of the said burgh, in name of the
burgesses and community thereof, before these witnesses, James Chalmers
of Gaitgirth, William Wallace, son and apparent heir of Mathew Wallace of
Crago, Robert Campbell of Kilmanach, John Chalmers, son of the foresaid
James, Michael Wallace, James Craufurd, brother of the foresaid David
Craufurd of Kerse, and John Gilmene, merchant, with many others. The
Precept is dated at Edinburgh 16th February, and the sasine given on 6th
March 1507-8.
25. Letters by Queen Mary discharging the Sheriff of Ayr from citing
Burgesses of Ayr to his Court. — [16th March 1547-8.]
Marie be the grace of God quene of Scottis to our lovittis Hewe Montfoyd
Robert Lawe our shirems in that part coniunctlie and severalie specialie
constitute greting Forsamekle as our uther letres purchest at the instance
of the provist bailies counsale and communite of our burgh of Air aganis
Hew Campble of Loudoun our shireff principale of Air George Campble of
Bryntwod and Jhone Laing his deputis makand mentioun quhare that the
saidis provest bailies counsale and communite ar infeft of fre borrowaige be
our uniquhile predicessouris als frelie as ony uther burgh within our realme
and hes bene in use in all tymes bigane to sitt upoun all actionis concern-
yng ony nychtbour of our said burgh and personis dwelland within the
ROYAL CHAETEKS. 41
boundis fredome and jurisdictioune thareof And thai nor none of the bur-
gessis of our said burgh compellit to answer before ony juge undir the lordis
of our counsale bot befor the saidis provest and bailies allanerlie Nocht-
theles Leonard Clerk ane of the burgessis of the said burgh hes [cited]
Alexander Lokhert ane uthir of the burgessis of the samin befor our said
shireff of Air and his deputis for the wranguis eiectioun of him furth of the
landis of Maryland lyand within the fredome and jurisdictioun of our said
burgh And swa wald hurt the saidis provest bailies counsale and comruu-
nite of thair previlege expres aganis thair fredome and lovable use of our
burgh And anent the charge gevin to our said shireff and his deputis to
compeir befor the lordes of counsale to heir our letres direct discharging
thaim of all calling or proceding upoun ony burgessis of our said burgh
indwellaris within the fredome and landis thairof Or ellis to allegit ane
ressonable cause quhy the samyn suld nocht be done with certificatioun to
thame and thai falzeit our uther letres wald be direct in maner forsaid as
at mair lenth is contenit in our saidis uther letres quhilkis ar be the lordis
of our counsale with consent of William Hamiltoun of Sanchar knycht
provest of our said burgh and maister James M'Gill procuratour for our said
shireff and his deputis continewit in the samyn forme force and effect as it
is now but preiudice of party unto the xv day of Junii nixt tocum with
continuatioun of dayis as at mair lenth is contenit in ane act made be the
saidis lordis thairupoun Oure will is heirfor and we charge straitlie and
commandis that incontinent thir our letres sene ye pas and in our name and
autorite discharge our said shireff of Air and his deputis of all forthir pro-
ceiding or calling of ony of the saidis burgessis of our said burgh of Air or
indwellaris within the fredome and landis thairof befor thame Dischargeing
thame thairof and of thair offices in that part for the caussis aboun writtin
quhill the said xv day of Junii forsaid eftir the form and tenour of the said
act as ye will answer to ws thairupoun The quhilk to do we committ to
you coniunctlie and severalie our full power be thir our letres delivering
thame be you dewlie execute and indorsate agane to the berar Gevin under
our signet at Edinburgh the xvj day of Merche and of our regnne the fift
yeir.
Per actum dominorum consilii, etc. (Signed) J. Scott.
G
42 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
26. Confirmation by Queen Mary of an Act for the Registration of a Bond
by Sir Hew Campbell of Loudoun respecting the Jurisdiction of the
Magistrates of Ayr. — [6^/t April 1557.]
Maria Dei gracia regina Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus suis ad quos
presentes litere pervenerint salutem Sciatis nos quoddam actum sive de-
cretum per dominos consilii nostri inferius descriptos datum et promulgatum
utique intellexisse sub bac forma At Edinburgh the tbrid day of Aprile
the yeir of God jm vc fiftie sevin yeiris in presens of the lordis of counsale
under writtin that is to say ane reverend fader in God Robert bischop of
Orknay maister Henrie Sinclare dene of Glasgow maister Johne Sinclare
dene of Eestalrig maister Abraham Creichtoun provest of Dunglas maister
Johne Stevinstoun chantour of Glasgow maister William Baillie lord Provand
maister James Scot provest of Corstorphin maister James M'Gill of Rankelour
Nethir clerk of register schir Johne Bellenden of Auchnoule knycht justice
clerk maister Henrie Lauder advocat to oure soverane lady maister Thomas
Marioribankis of Ratho Richart Maitland of Lethingtoun knycht and maister
Johne Gledstanes licenciate in tbe lawis comperit Hew Campbell of Lowdoun
knycht sckiref principale of the schirefdome of Air and Matho Campbell of
Terringzeane his son and appeirand air and gaif in this band and obliga-
tioun underwrittin subscrivit with thair handis and desyrit tbe samyn to
be insert and registrat in the buikis of counsale to have the strenth force
and effect of thair act and decreit in tyme to cum and that leteres be direct
upone thame and athir of thame for fulfilling thairof in all poinctis efter
the forme and tennour of the samyn in maner specifiit thairintill The quhilk
desyre the saidis lordis thocht ressonabill and thairfor hes ordanit and or-
danis the said band and obligatioun to be insert and registrat in the saidis
buikis to have the strenth force and effect of thair act and decreit in tyme
to cum and hes interponit and interponis thair autoritie thairto and decernis
and ordanis letres to be direct upone athir of the saidis personis for fulfilling
thairof in all poinctis in maner thairin contenit Of the quhilk obligatioun
the tennour followis Be it kend till all men be thir present letres ws Schir
Hew Campbell of Loudoun knycht schiref principale of the schirefdome of
Air and Matho Campbell my son and apperand air forsamekill as I the
said Schir Hew belevand that the punischement of slauchteris mutila-
tionis bluidis thiftis spulzeis and uthiris violentis and crymis committit
ROYAL CHARTERS. 43
within the burgh of Air burrowruidis burrofeild and barony of Alloway
pertenyng thairto had belangit and pertenit to my office of schirefschip
(juliairthrow debait and contraversy is movit and yit dependis betuix me
and the pro vest baillies counsall and communitie of the said burgh befoir the
lordis of counsale anent the usurping and using of the saniyn Bot now efter
lang and perfect avisement and consultatioun of divers cunnyng men had
thairintill hes fundin and perfitlie understandis that the provest baillies and
communitie of the said burgh of Air is als frelie infeft in burrowaffe with all
liberteis and privilegiis belangand thairto as ony uthir burgh within this
realrne and hes usit and executit the ordiuar iurisdictioun thairof in pun-
ischement of slauchteris mutilationis bluidis thiftis spulzeis and uthairis
crymes cpihatsumevir committit within thair fredome and bouudis foirsaidis
in all tymes bygane past memor of man Thairfoir we the said schir Hew
and Matho for oure selffis oure airis and successouris schireffis of the said
sehirefdoine be thir presentis renuncis actioun and caus presentlie dependand
befoir the saidis lordis of counsale betuix me the said schir Hew and the
saidis provest baillies and communitie anent the jurisdictioun abone specifiit
and all rycht and tytill that we have or may ask or clame thairto frathyne
forth for evir And mairattour we bind and oblissis ws and oure successouris
nevir to molest truble vex nor inquiete the saidis provest baillies and com-
munitie nor thair successouris in nane tynie tocum in the peciable josing
and using of thair said ordinar jurisdictioun sitting upone slauchteris muti-
lationis bluidis thiftis spulzeis violentis and uthir crymes or caussis quhat-
sumevir nor sail pretend richt or titile thairto in tyme cuming nor in using
of ony utheris thair privilegiis and putting of the samin to executioun
within the boundis of thair said burgh Burrowfeild Burrorudis and barony
of Alloway and fredome thairof nowther in the law nor by the law nor sail
nocht be ourselffis nor na uthir myd persoun in our name procure solist nor
obtene be commissioun infeftment or be ony uthir way at oure soverane
ladyis handis hir grace successouris thair justice chalmerlanis or utheris
ministeris of the lawis quhatsumevir haveand hir graces autoritie and power
present and tocum ony iurisdictioun intromissioun or medling in ony sort be
the way of iustice owther civilie or criminallie with the saidis provest baillies
counsall and communitie and thair boundis and iurisdictioun abone expremit
thair personis and gudis Nor yit sail mak thame stoip Lit hinder or im-
pediment in purchessing of ony new privilegiis liberteis and fredomes power
autoritie or iurisdictioun that thai may obtene at oure said soverane ladyis
44 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
handis or hir graces successouris thair chalmerlanis or ony uthiris thair graces
officiariis liavand power as said is Bot sail help furthir assist and supplie
thame tliairintill at oure gudlie poweris Providing alwyse that it salbe
lessuni to me and my said sone our airis and successouris schireffis principale
of the said schirefdome and oure deputis haveand the use of the keiping of
the heid faris of the said burgh halding yeirlie at the feistis of midsomer
and Michael mes bigane past memor of man to keip the samin siclike in tyme
cuming and to hald courtis for administratioun of iustice That is to say
ane court efter ilkane of the saidis twa faris upone sic faillis and complantis
as salhappin to be committit in the saidis faris like as we have bene in use
of bygane but dirogatioun of the saidis provest baillies and communiteis
allegit ground rycht infeftment and title quhilk thai have to the saidis faris
keiping quhen it sail pleis thame and thair successouris to persew for the samin
as law will The saidis provest baillies counsall and communitie present and
to cum with thair subiectis befoir specifiit merchandis and uthiris strangeris
seymen and marinaris resortand to thair port and watteris with thair ser-
vandis and guclis in the menetyme fra the saidis court and all calling per-
sewing attecheing or unlawing thairinto be ws and oure successouris or
deputis aluterlie exemit thairfra Providing alsua that geif it salhappin (as
God forbid it do) ws our airis successouris freindis servandis or uthiris
landwert men dwelland in the schirefdome of Air being na fremen nor in-
dwellaris within the said burgh burrorudis Burrowfeildis and barony of
Alloway with thair pertinentis befoir rehersit to commit slauchter or
mutilatioun amangis oure selffis within the said burgh or boundis thairof in
ony tyme tocum in that caise it salbe lesum to the saidis provest baillies to
use and exerce thair autoritie and iurisdictioun thairanent conforme to thair
auld use and possessioun That is to say the saidis provest baillies and
communitie and thair successouris sail intromet with sic landward personis
as salhappin to commit the saidis crymes in maner following videlicet to tak
thame to the tolbuith cognosche and decerne upone the wrang and distribu-
lance of the burgh and to tak up sic unlawis as concernes thame thairthrow
and to tak cautioun for forthir distribulance of the said burgh in tyme
cuming as efferis And geif the said cryme beis ane bluid but danger of
slauchter or mutilatioun thay sail suffer the committaris thairof beand
landwart men as said is to depart but forder payment of ony bluidwed bot
payand alanerlie ane unlaw for the wrang and findand cautioun for distribu-
lance in tyme cuming as said is And geif the cryme be slauchter or
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mutilatioun the saidis provest baillies and thair successouris efter thai have
apprehendit the landwertmen committaris thairof and cognosche upone the
wrang and distribulance of the burgh and taikin thair unlawis and cautioun
tkairupone as efFeris We oure aris or successouris or our deputis having
the power and iurisdictioun thairto sail plesandlie ressave furth of the handis
of the saidis provest and baillies for the tyme all sic landwart personis as
salhappin to commit the saidis cryines of slauchter or mutilatioun within
xlviij howris nixt efter the saidis provest and baillies hes cognoschit upone
the saidis distribulance and put ordour thairto and thairefter we sail warrand
the saidis provest and baillies present and to cum at the handis of oure said
soverane ladie hir graces successouris iustices chalmerlanis and all utheris
ministeris of law cpuham it efferis anent the deliverance to ws of the saidis
faltouris for cmhome frathyne furth we salbe haldin to ansuer And geif
we or our successouris schirreffis of the said schirrefdome of Air or our
deputis beis necligent in ressaving of sic landwart personis committaris of
the saidis crymes of slauchter or mutilatioun in maner abone writtin furth
of the handis of the said provest and baillies the saidis faltouris being appre-
hendit and tane be thame and cognitioun taikin of the distribulance of the
toun in maner foirsaid we or our deputis ane or ma being requirit to tak
deliverance of the saidis faltouris the said space of xlviij houris being bipast
in that caise the saidis provest and baillies to puneis the saidis crymes of
slauchter or mutilatioun according to thair jurisdictioun and power as thai
will ansuer to the autoritie or to present the committaris thairof to my lord
iustice or his deputis as be thame salbe thocht maist expedient for the tyme
And this ordour to stand amangis ws tueching the crymes of slauchter and
mutilatioun that salhappin to be committit within the said burgh and
boundis thairof be landwart men in sic maner that we oure airis successouris
and deputis being present within the said burgh and boundis thairof is con-
tentit to assist and concur with the saidis provest and badlies to the taiking
of sic landwart personis as salhappin to commit the saidis crymes thairinto
And the samin being tane be the saidis provest and baillies we nor our suc-
cessouris nor deputis sail have na intromissioun with the saidis personis unto
the tyme the saidis provest and baillies have decernit upone the wrangis
and distribulance of the burgh and tane cautioun thairupone in maner abone
writtin And it sail nocht be lesum to ws oure airis successouris nor
deputis be na way to serche seik or ripe ony hous within the said burgh
and pairtis thairof abone writtin for ony persone or personis committaris of
46 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
the saiclis crymes landwart personis or utheris Bot geif the said provest
ony of the baillies counsale or cornmunitie thair tennentis indwellaris
within the boundis of the said burgh Burrofeild Burrorudis barony of
Alloway or uthiris merchandis alsweill be sey as land strangiaris seymen
marinaris fischearis or uthiris quhatsumevir resorting be sey towart the said
burgh and thair servandis or ony ane of thame salhappin to be party to the
said landwart personis in committing of the saidis crimes of slauchter muti-
latioun or bluid into the quhilk caise the said provest and baillies sail have
the full iurisdiction and punischement of sic landwart personis alsweill as of
ony uthir persoun or personis dwelland within the fredome and jurisdictioun
of the said burgh And the said provest and baillies sail nocht be haldin to
deliver to ws nor our successouris sic landwart men as salhappin to be partie
to ony persone or personis dwelland within the said burgh and boundis
thairof foirsaid or thair adherentis befoir expremit And geif we or ony of
ws our airis or successouris failzeis in the premissis or cummis in the contrar
of ony poinct thairof be stoping prevenyng trubling or impediment making
to the saidis provest baillies counsale cornmunitie and thair successouris in
using brouiking joising or executing of thair said jurisdictioun autoritie and
privilegiis abone specifiit in maner befoir reheirsit owthir be way of deid or
be persewing of thame be the law anent ony thing concerning thair ordinar
jurisdictioun foirsaid owthir be oure selffis or ony interponit persoun of oure
causing command or procuring ony maner of way in sitting upone slauchter
mutilatioun bluid thift spulzeis violentis or uthir crymes or caussis quhat-
sumevir that may rynd to the hurt of the saidis provest baillies counsale and
cornmunitie and thair successouris of thair fredomes and privilegiis in maner
abone writtin In that caise we bind and obleis ws oure airis and succes-
souris foirsaidis to refound content and pay to the saidis provest baillies and
cornmunitie present and to cum the sowme of tua thowsand pund guid and
usuale money of Scotland or evir we be hard in jugement Quhilk sowme
of tua thowsand pundis we be the tennour heirof grantis ws to have ressavit
fra thame at the making heirof in numerat money And attoure we for
oure selffis oure airis and successouris will and erantis that this oure obliga-
tioun nor na clause contenit thairintill salbe preiudiciale to the saidis provest
baillies and cornmunitie nor thair successouris anent thair ground richt
infeftment jurisdictioun and autoritie ony maner of way contenit in thair
infeftmentis maid to thame of befoir And for the mair sure fulfilling of all
and syndrie the premissis we the saidis Hew and Matho my said sone for ws
ROYAL CHARTERS. 47
and our successouris ar content and consentis that this obligatioun be insert
and registrat in the buikis of oure soverane ladyis counsale and to have the
forme strenth and effect of ane decreit of the lordis of counsale and execu-
toriallis to be direct geif neid be thairupone in forme as efferis for keiping of
all the premissis under the pane of rebellioun and putting of ws to the
home and gif we failze to be put to the home In witnes of the quhilk thing
we have subscrivit this obligatioun with oure handis at Edinburgh the
secund day of Aprile the yeir of God jm vc fiftie and sevin yeiris Befoir
thir witnes George Craufurde of Lesnoreis Thomas Stewart of Galstoun
James Lokart youngar of Bar James Bannatyne burges of Air schir Thomas
Eaith chaijjlane and James Millair writtar in Edinburgh and notaris publict
with uthiris divers Sic subscribitur Hew Campbell of Lowdoun knycht
Matho Campbell of Terrinzeane with my hand Extractum de libro actorum
per me magistrum Jacobum M'Gill de Rankelour Nether clericum rotulorum
registri ac consilii supreme domine nostre regine sub meis signo et subscrip-
tione manualibus Quodquidem actum sive decretum ac omnia et singula in
eodem contenta approbamus ratificanius ac pro nobis et nostris successoribus
ut premissum est confirmamus Datum sub testimonio nostri magni sigilli
apud Edinburgh sexto die mensis Aprilis anno domini millesimo quingen-
tesimo quinquagesimo septimo et regni nostri decimo quinto.
Abstract.
Confirmation by Mary Queen of Scots, in favour of the burgh of Ayr, of
an Act of the Lords of Council for the registration in their books of a Bond
by Sir Hew Campbell of Loudoun, sheriff of Ayr, and Mathew Campbell of
Terrinzean his son, to respect the rights of the magistrates of the burgh in
adjudicating on the crimes of slaughter, mutilation, theft, and others, when
committed within their jurisdiction. The Bond is dated 2d, the Act of
Council 3d, and the Confirmation given under the testimonial of the great
seal 6th April 1557.
48 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
27. Letters under the Signet of King James the Sixth confirming to the
Burgh of Ayr the Privilege of Exemption from Attendance on Courts
outside the Burgh.- — [2d November 1574.]
James be the grace of God king of Scottis to all and syndre our justices
chalmerlandis oure shireffis and thair deputtis and all utheris oure officiaris
and shireffis quhatsumevir in that pairt liegis and subditis quhome it
efferis quhais knawlege thir oure letres sail to cum greting Forsamekill as
it is humelie menit and schawine to ws be our lovittis the provest baillies
counsale and communitie of oure burgh of Air now present that quhair
nmquhile our maist nobill progenitour King James the Secund of gude
memorie for ressonabill causes and considerations moving his hienes for
the tyme grantit for him and his successouris to the saidis complenaris
predecessouris alderman provest baillies counsale and communitie of oure
said burgh of Air to thame thair successouris and to thair tennentis
and inhabitantis of our barronie of Allova being for the tyme that thai
suld nocht be cohercit nor compellit in ony tyme cuming to compeir
as witnessis in quhatsumevir justice aires chalmerlane airis shireff courtis
or justice courtis outwith the boundis and fredome of oure said burgh
in quhatsumevir courtis bot in the courtis of the samyn burgh and dis-
chargit the burgessis and indwellaris within the samin and thair tennentis
of Allva of all sic laubouris chargis and vexationis for his hienes and his
successouris for evir as the letres grantit undir oure grete sele to the saidis
complenaris predicessouris and thame schawin to the lordis of our counsale
beris According to the quhilk charter past under the grete seill thair pre-
decessouris and thair tennentis and servandis of the said barronye of Allva
notwithstanding the samin war daylie summonit be letres be deliverance
of the lordis of sessioun for the tyme and officeres to compeir in Edinburgh
and utheris places to pas upoun assissis and inqueistis and war compellit be
our shiref of Air and his deputtis to pas upoun the samin in contrare the
privilege of our said burgh and inhibitioun grantit in the saidis letres under
the grete sele Quhairupoun thai menit thame to the lordis of sessioun for
the tyme and obtenit letres be thair deliverance direct to all and syndrie
justices chalmerlanis schireffis and thair deputtis and all utheris officiaris
and schireffis in that pairt liegis and subdittis quhom it efferit quhais
ROYAL CHAETERS. 49
kuaulege the letres sulci to cum that nane of thame tuik upoun hand to
summond arreist or compell the saidis alderman baillies burgessis and
communetie of oure said burgh of Air thair tennentis and servandis of the
said barronie of Allova quhilkis war the saidis complenaris predicessouris
to compeir or pas upoun inqueistis or assissis befoir the justice in justice
airis chalmerland airis schiref courtis or ony utheris places outwith the
boundis and fredome of our said burgh of Air or utherwayis bot in the
said burrow courtis according to the said previlege grantit to the saidis
complenaris predicessouris thairupoun or to do or attempt ony thing in con-
trare thairof be ony maner of way in tyme cuming as thai and ilk ane of
thame wald answer thairupoun and under all hiest pane and charge that
efter mycht follow As the saidis letres grantit of auld in oure maist nobill
progenitouris tyme King James the secund schawin alsua to the saidis
lordis of our counsale beris According to the quhilk gift under the gret
sele and letres forsaidis grantit thairupoun to the saidis complenaris pre-
decessouris and thame thair successouris and thair tennentis and servandis
of the said barronie of AUowa thai thairfoir on nawayis aucht nor suld
be summonit nor callit to compeir or pas upoun ony inqueistis or assissis
befoir oure justice in oure justice airis chalmerlane airis schiref courtis
or ony uther places outwith the boundis and fredome of oure said burgh of
Ah' or utherwayis bot in oure burrow courtis according to the said previlege
grantit to thair predecessouris thame thair successouris use and possessioim
thairof observit be thame and the saidis complenaris in all tymes of befoir
Nevirtheles the lordis of oure counsale hes laitlie grantit oure utheris letres
be the quhilkis oure officiaris thairin contenit hes summond the saidis com-
plenaris to compeir in Edinburgh and utheris places to pas upoun assissis
and ar compellit be our schiref of Air and his deputtis to pas upoun inqueistis
and assissis in our schiref courtis of Ah* albeit that the merchandis of oure
said burgh of Air ar to pas to said and sua thairby ar hinderit and stoppit
in contrare the previlege specifeit and contenit in the said gift and utheris
letres with inhibitioun thairin contenit grantit to the saidis complenaris
predecessouris and thame be oure maist nobill progenitour as said is aganis
all justice and to thair hevye dampnage and skaith without we and the
lordis of our counsale provide remeid heirto giff sua be Oure will is heirfoir
and we charge yow straitlie and commandis yow all and syndre oure justices
chalmerlandis schireffis and your deputtis and all uthiris oure officiaris and
schireffis quhatsunievir in that pairt present and to cum liegis and subditis
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50 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR
foirsaidis that nane of yow tak upoun hand to summond arreist or compell
the saidis provest baillies counsale and communetie of oure said burgh of
Air or ony ane of thame thair tennentis or servandis of thair said barronie of
Allva to compeir or pas upoun inqueistis or assissis befoir yow in youre
justice airis chalmerland airis schiref courtis or justice courtis or outwith
the boundis and fredome of oure said burgh or uthervvayis bot in oure said
burrow courtis according to the said previlege grantit to the saidis com-
plenaris predecessouris and thame thairupoun or to do or attempt ony thing
in contrare thairof be ony maner of way in tyme cuming as ye and ilkane
of yow will ansuer to ws thairupoun and under all hiest pane charge and
punisment that efter may follow Becaus the lordis of our counsale hes sene
the infeftment abone writtin and auld letres grantit to the effect abone
exprernit of befoir according to justice thir oure letres be yow and ilkane
of yow sene and understand debvering thame agane to the berare Gevin
under oure signet at Edinburgh the secund day of November and of oure
regnne the aucht yeir 1574.
Ex deliberatione dominorum consilii. (Signed) W. Layjstg.
In curia iusticiarie supremi domini nostri regis tenta et inchoata in pre-
torio burgi dc Edinburgh vicesimo sexto die mensis Aprilis anno domini mil-
lesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo quinto per honorabilem et discretum
virum magistrum Thomam Bannatyne justiciarium deputatum iusticiarii
regni generalis specialiter constitutum sectis vocatis et curia affirmata.
Visis et admissis per dictum iusticiarium deputatum.
(Signed) Joannes Bellenden,
Clericus Iusticiarie.
In curia iusticiarie supremi domini nostri regis tenta et inchoata in pre-
torio burgi de Edinburgh vicesimo secundo die mensis Novembris anno
domini millesimo quingentesimo octuagesimo per discretum virum magistrum
Henricum Makcalzane iusticiarium deputatum iusticiarii regni generalis
specialiter constitutum sectis vocatis et curia affirmata, etc.
(Signed) Ludovicus Bellenden,
Clericus Justiciarie.
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28. Act of Registration of Exemption granted by King James the Sixth to
the Burgh of Ayr from attending on Courts other than those of the
Burgh.— [26th April 1575.]
Curia justiciarie supremi donrini nostri regis tenta et inchoata in pretorio
burgi de Edinburgh vicesimo sexto die mensis Aprilis anno domini
millesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo quinto per honorabilem et discretum
virurn Magistrum Tliomarn Bannatyne justiciarium deputatum justiciarii
regni generalis specialiter constitutum sectis vocatis et curia affirrnata.
The quhilk day comperit Johnne Lokart provest of the burght of Air
and Johnne Stewart baillie thairof and desyrit the said justice to admitt ane
exemptioun grantit to the burgessis and inhabitantis of the said burgh
conforme to thair auld privelege of the samin burgh qukilk thai produceit
in jugement to that effect and the said justice eftir reding of the samin
exemptioun thinkand the desyre foirsaid reasonabdl admittit the samin and
ordanit the contentis thairof to be registrat and insert in the buikis of
adjornale quhairof the tennour folio wis James be the grace of God king
of Scottis (etc., as in No. 27, supra).
(Signed) Joannes Bellenden,
Cleric us Iusticiarie.
29. Letters under the Signet of King James the Sixth, enforcing the
Exemption of the Burgh of Ayr from attendance on Courts outside
the Burgh— [10th June 1580.]
Hex. — We understanding divers and sundrie messingeris officiaris of armes
and utheris our schireffis in the executioun of our letres baith criminale and
civile throughout our realme daylie to trubill and molest the inhabitantis of
our burgh of Air and barony of Alloway in summouning thame to compeir
befoir our justice and his deputis at Edinburgh and uther judges of our
realme outwith thair awin iurisdictioun boundis and fredome of our said
burgh and barony forsaid to pas upoun assyissis and inqueistis in our iustice
airis chalmerlane and schireff courtis Notwithstanding the privilege and
exemptioun thairfra grantit to thame be our maist nobill progenitouris of
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52 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
worthie nieniorie ratifiit and confermit be us in our lait parliament haldin at
Stiiviling the xxv day of Julij the yeir of God jm vc lxxviij yeris to the
manifest violatioun thairof and heich contempt of our auetoritie interponit
thairto Thairfoir with arise and consent of our secreit counsale inhibitis
and dischargis all and sindrie our officiaris of amies messingeris and schireffis
quhatsuruevir executouris of our letres in tyme to cum That nane of thame
in any tyme heirefter tak upoun hand to summound ony inhabitant of our
said burgh or barony of Alloway to pas upoun ony inqueistis or assyssis in
quhatsunievir justice or chaLmerlane airis sehireff or iustice courtis out with
the boundis and fredonie of our said burgh and barony foirsaid under the
pane of deprivatioun of thame of thair offices incais they contemptuoushe
efter the sicht heirof proceid in the contrail- of this our will and plesour
And utherwayis to incur our further indignatioun and heich displesour be
thir presentis Gevin under our signett and subscrivit with our hand at
Dundie the tent day of Junii and of our regnne the threttene yeir 1580.
(Signed) JAMES E.
(Countersigned) Eothes.
E. DuXFEEMLIXG.
(Endorsed) Apud Dunde decimo Junii anno etc. lxxx0 sederunt Levenax
Angus Eothes Maxwell Lindesay Dunfemiling provest of Dunde.
Past and subscrivit in counsall. (Signed) Joaxxes Asdeo.
30. Commission of Justiciary in favour of the Provost and Bailies
of Ayr.— [2§th December 1583.]
Jacobus Dei gratia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus suis ad quos
presentes litere pervenerint salutem Sciatis quia nobis nostrique secreti con-
silii dominis intellectum est quod cUverse sunt persone infra burgum nostrum
de Air bondas libertatem et jurisdictionem eiusdem que omnibus temporibus
furtum receptionem furti lie pykrie iiiductionem furti et furoruni bonorum-
que justorum hominum furtivo modo expositionem committunt magne
lesioni diversorum justorum hominum dicti burgi iiihabitantiuni et in
malum exemplum aliorum si remedium opportunum non provideatur
Igitur fecimus constituimus et ordinavimus tenoreque presentium facimus
ROYAL CHARTERS. 53
constituinms et ordinamus dilectos nostros Prepositum et ballivos dicti
burgi nostri de Air coniuuctim et divisim nostros in hac parte Justiciaries
ad effectum subscriptum Dantes concedentes et committentes eisdem nos-
tram plenam potestatem et mandatum speciale omnes et singulas personas
infra dictum burgum nostrum bondas libertatem et jurisclictionem eiusdem
habitantes quas temporibus futuris recenti manu cum furti vel receptione
furti apprehendi contigerit per dictamenta accusandi easque pro dictis
criminibus assise cognitioni ponendi et prout culpabiles seu innocentes re-
perti fuerint justiciam super eis legibus regni nostri conforme ministrandi
et ministrari causandi Et ad hunc effectum Justiciarie curiam vel curias
infra pretorium dicti nostri burgi quoties necesse fuerit statuendi inehoandi
affigjendi tenendi et continuandi sectas vocari faciendi absentes amerchiandi
transgressores puniendi exitus amerchiamenta et eschaetas dictarum curiarum
et personarum in eisdem convictarum petendi levandi et recipiendi et pro
eisdem si necesse fuerit namaudi et distringendi unam dimedietatem earun-
dem nostro usui importandi ac computum in scaccario nostro nobis et nostro
thesaurario nostro nomine inde faciendi Alteramque dimedietatem suis
propriis usibus pro eorum laboribus applicandi Assisas unam vel plures
infra dictum burgum et quatuor dimedietates circumiacentes quamlibet per-
sonam sub pena decern librarum summoniendi premoniendi elegendi et jurare
causandi clericos seriandos adiudicatores et omnes alios officiarios et curie
membra necessaria faciendi creandi substituendi et ordinandi Pro quibus
dicti Prepositus et ballivi respondere tenebuntur Et generaliter omnia alia
et singula faciendi ducendi gerendi et exercendi que in premissis et circa ea
necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet oportuna Firmum atque stabile habentes
et habituri totum et quicquid dicti nostri in hac parte justiciarii coniuuctim
et divisim in premissis rite duxerint seu duxerit faciendum Quare universis
et singulis quorum interest vel interesse poterit stricte precipimus et man-
damus quatenus dictis nostris in hac parte justiciariis coniuuctim et divisim
suis ofheiariis et ministris in omnibus et singulis premissa tangentibus
prompte pareant respondeant et intendant sub omni pena que competere
poterit in hac parte Datum sub testimonio nostri magni sigilli apud
Halyruidhous vicesimo octavo die mensis Decembris anno domini millesimo
quingentesimo octuagesimo tertio et regni nostri decimo septimo.
Per signaturam manibus S. D. N. regis ac dominorum sui secreti consilii
subscriptam.
54 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Abstract.
Commission by King James the Sixth, under the quarter seal, in favour
of the provost and bailies of the burgh of Ayr, conferring upon them the
power of justiciary for the trial and punishment of persons within the bounds
and liberty of the burgh for the crimes of theft, reset of theft, etc. Dated
at Holyrood 28th December 1583.
31. Crown Precept for Charter of Confirmation to Mungo Craufurd of
Drumlaucht of the Lands of Friars Dankeith.- — [2,0th April 15S6.]
Jacobus Dei gratia rex Scotorum Cancellario nostro salutem Quia
ratificavimus approbavimus ac pro nobis et successoribus nostris pro per-
petuo confirmavimus cartam feudifirme donationem et locationem in eadem
contentas factam datam et concessam per prepositum ballivos ac consules
buroi nostri de Air Quintigerno -Craufurde de Drumlaucht veteri possessori
terrarum subscriptarum heredibus suis hereditarie de totis et integris eorum
duabus mercatis terrarum antiqui extentus de Freixis Dalkeith cum per-
tinentiis jacentibus in balliatu nostro de Kyilstewart infra vicecomitatum
nostrum de Air Tenendis de prefatis preposito ballivis et consulibus burgi
nostri de Air suisque successoribus propositis ballivis consulibus ac com-
munitate eiusdem in feudifirma et hereditate prout in dicta carta desuper
confecta preceptum sasine in eadem contentum latius habetur Salvis nobis
et successoribus nostris juribus ac servitiis prefatarum duarum mercatarum
terrarum cum suis pertinentiis nobis et predicessoribus nostris ante banc
nostram confirmationem debitis et consuetis tantum Preterea volumus et
concedimus ac pro nobis et successoribus nostris pro perpetuo decernimus et
ordinamus quod hec presens nostra confirmatio antedicte carte sepefatarum
duarum mercatarum terrarum cum pertinentiis est ac omnibus temporibus
futuris tanti erit roboris fortitudinis et efficatie memorato Quintigerno
Crawfurde suisque predictis pro pacifica possessione et gavisione earundem
hereditarie ac si eadem per nos sub nostro magno sigillo in majori forma
eidem Quintigerno ante sasinam per ipsum de eisdem susceptam data et
concessa fuisset non obstante eadem sasina de eisdem alias capta penes quam
omnesque alios defectus et inconvenientias qui desuper quovismodo sequi
EOYAL CHARTERS. 55
seu succedere poterint pro nobis et successoribus nostris per presentcs pro
perpetuo dispensamus Vobis precipimus et mandamus quatenus cartam
nostram confirmationis nostro sub magno sigillo in majori forma capelle
nostre debita dicto Quintigerno super premissis fieri faciatis Datum sub
nostro secreto sigillo apud Dalkeith ultimo die mensis Aprilis anno Domini
millesimo quingentesimo octuagesimo sexto et regni nostri decimo nono.
Abstract.
Precept by King James the Sixth, under the Privy Seal, addressed to
the. Chancellor, for a Charter of Confirmation to be granted in favour of
Mungo Craufurde of Drumlaucht, confirming the charter of feu-ferme granted
to him by the provost, bailies, and councillors of Ayr, of two merks worth
of land of old extent of Friars Dankeitk, in the bailiery of Kyle Stewart
and shire of Ayr : To hold of the provost and council of Ayr in feu-ferme
and heritage, saving; to the kino- and his successors the rights and services
clue and wont from the said lands. Dated at Dalkeith 30th April 1586.
32. Gift by King James the Sixth to the Burgh of Ayr of certain Imposts
for Maintenance of the Harbour and Bridge of Ayr. — [10th July
1588.]
James be the grace of God king of Scottis to all and sindrie oure liegis and
subdittis quhome it efferis quhais knawlege thir oure lettres salcum greting
Wit ye ws understanding that "Wllliame Cwnynghame of Capringtoun and
Hew Campbell of Terrinzeane being convenit within our burgh of Air upoun
the twentie twa day of Aprile last bypast and sindrie daps preceiding and
having sene and considerit the estait of the harbry seyport and brig of our
said burgh according to the commissioun gevin to thame be act of our par-
liament to the samin effect in and efter conference had with sindrie landit
gentilmen dwelland maist ewest to our said burgh and utheris maist auncient
and best experriencit burgessis and craftismen induellaris thairof thay have
fund and be thair lettre subscryvit with thair handis reportit to ws and
Lordis of our Privie Counsall that the said harbry hevin and brig and
56 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
sindrie uther commoun werkis of our said burgh is presentlie rwynous aud
safar decayit aud fallin doun that gif the samin be not remedit and helpit
in tyme it sail altogidder decay to the grit hurte of our commoun weill of
the haill cuntrey and hinderance of our service cheiflie the tyme of our
oistis raidis and weiris And now it being considerit be ws that the keeping
and reparing of the saidis decayit warkis wilbe swa sumpteous and charge-
abill that the inhabitantis of our said burgh be thameselffis ar not abill to
sustene the charges and expenssis that is necessar to be bestowit thairupoun
in respect of thair grit povertie lois and damnageis sustenit be thame be sey
and utherwyis notour to ws Thairfore we with avise of our saidis Lordis
have gevin and grantit and be thir oure letres gevis and grantis to the
provest bailleis counsall and communitie of our said burgh and to sic as salbe
appointit collectour be thame speciall liecence privilege and full libertie to
rais intromet with and uptak the impost following of the guidis underwrittin
that sail pas and be transportit be the said brig in tyme cuming and beis
bocht in thair mercat during the space of nynetene yeiris nixtocum efter
the dait of thir our lettres That is to say of everie hors and meir twelf
pennyis everie ox and kow sex pennyis everie scheip twa pennyis everie
lamb ane penny everie hors pak of woll twa schillingis everie hors pak of
skynnis and claith twa schillingis everie daiker of hydeis twelf pennyis
everie schip with top at thair incuming within the said harbry threttene
schillingis four pennyis everie bark exceiding twentie twn sex schillingis
viija everie boit fourtie pennyis And sua furth efferand and equivalent of
everie kynd of guidis and marchandice that beis bocht and passis be the said
brio- and bocht in the said mercat and the samin sowmes to apply to the
beating reparing and uphalding of the said harberie heavin and brig and
utheris decayit warkis of our said burgh during the said space With power
to the saidis provest and bailleis and thair collectour to be appointit be
thame as said is to crave ressave intromet with and uptak the said impost in
mauer and during the space foirsaid to the effect abonementionat and gif
neid beis to poind and distrenzie thairfore Quhairfore we charge straitlie
aud commandis yow all and sindrie oure liegis and subdittis foirsaidis that
ye answer obey and mak payment to the saidis provest and badleis and thair
eollectouris of the particular sowmes foirsaidis of the saidis guidis and geir
quhilkis salbe transportit and pas be the said brig and bocht in the said
mercat in maner and during the space abonementionat and that ye mak na
refuse stop nor impediment thairto as ye will ansuer to ws upoun your
KOYAL CHARTERS. 57
obedience Geviu under oure privie seill at Halieruidhous the tent day of
Julij the yeir of God jm vc fourescoir aucht yeiris and of our rignne the
twentie ane yeir.
Per signaturam manibus S. D. N. Begis ac eancellarij subscriptam.
33. Crown Precept of Sasine, in favour of the Burgh of Ayr, of the Burgh
and all its Privileges. — [12th March 1621.]
Jacobus Dei gratia Magne Britannie Francie et Hibernie rex fideique de-
fensor vicecoraiti et ballivis suis de Air necnon dilectis nostris Joanni
Lokhert de Barr et vestruru cuilibet coniunctim et divisim vieecomitibus
vicecomitatus nostri de Air in hac parte salutem Cum perfecte intelligimus
quod prepositi ballivi et consules burgi nostri de Air eorumque predecessores
in continuo usu et pacifica possessione fuerunt curias tarn criminales quam
civiles tenendi et in iisdem procedendi contra quoscunque malefactores infra
dictum nostrum burgum ac bondas et libertates eiusdem cum omnibus
earundem libertatibus immunitatibus et aliis privilegiis Et quod per
specialem contractum et appunctuamentum inter ipsos ab una et vicecomites
de Air ab altera partibus confectum antedicti vicecomites ratificaverunt et
approbaverunt eorum privilegia possessionem usum et consuetudinem dictas
curias tenendi et in eisdem procedendi contra dictos malefactores infra
eorum proprias bondas et renunciaverunt totum jus et clameum que dicti
vicecomites habuerunt habent seu quovismodi ad huiusmodi pretendere pote-
rint Ideoque ratificavinius integras libertates et privilegia per nos nostros-
que dictis prepositis ballivis et consulibus dicti nostri burgi de Air eorumque
successoribus datas et concessas de tenendis curiis infra eorum proprias
bondas unacum omnibus ratificationibus ipsis desuper factis per dictos vice-
comites de Air ullo tempore preterite cum singulis huiusmodi contends
Quodquidem appunctuamentum per quondam nostram charissimam matrem
ratificatum approbatum et confirmatum erat suo sub magno sigdlo de data
sexto die mensis Aprdis anno domini millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo
septimo Sicuti nos nunc ex nostra certa scientia et proprio niotu cum
avisamento predilecti nostri charissimi consanguinei Joannis comitis de Mar
domini Erskin etc. nostri magni thesaurarii et computorum rotulatoris regni
nostri Scotie ac nostrorum commissionariorum dicti regni nostri de novo
dedimus concessimus et disposuimus prefatis preposito ballivis consulibus ac
i
58 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
communitati dicti burgi nostri de Air eorumque successoribus antedictum
burgum de Air cum omuibus et singulis terris baroniis molendinis multuris
sequelis libero portu custumis piscariis annuis redditibus ac aliis juribus
privilegiis et pertinentiis ad idem spectantibus contentis et specificatis in
integris prioribus infeofamentis ac donationibus per nos nostrosque predices-
sores ip>sis eorumque predicessoribus et successoribus desuper concessis in
omnibus punctis Ac ipsos eorumque successores fecimus et constituimus
vicecomites et pacis justiciaries infra predictum nostrum burgum et integras
bondas et metas eiusdem pro perpetuo omnibus temporibus affuturis Ac
pro nobis et successoribus nostris dedimus et concessimus ipsis eorumque
successoribus integras libertates et privilegia ad dicta officia spectantia et
pertinentia unacum escbaetis exitibus et amerciamentis dictarum curiarum
per ipsos levandis utendis et disponendis ad eorum proprios usus prout ipsis
maxime bbitum erit prout in carta nostra desuper confecta latius continetur
Vobis precipimus et mandamus quatenus prefatis preposito ballivis consulibus
et communitati dicti nostri burgi de Air vel eorum certis actornatis latoribus
presentium sasinam totius et integri predicti burgi cum omnibus et singulis
terris baroniis molendinis multuris libero portu custumis piscariis annuis
redditibus officiis vicecomitatus et justiciarie pacis cum omnibus privilegiis
immunitatibus et libertatibus ad easdem spectantibus et pertinentibus secun-
dum formam et tenorem antedicte carte nostre quam de nobis inde habent
juste baberi faciatis sine dilatione et boc nullo modo omittatis ad quod facien-
dum vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim vicecomitibus vice-
comitatus nostri de Air in bac parte antedictis committimus potestatem
Datum sub testimonio nostri magni sigilli apud Quhythall decimo quinto die
mensis Martii anno domini millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo primo regno-
rumque nostrorum annis quinquagesimo quarto et decimo nono.
Abstract.
Precept, under tbe testimonial of the great seal, by King James the
Sixth, addressed to John Lokhart of Barr and his colleagues, sheriffs in that
part of the sheriffdom of Ayr, whereby, on the narrative that the provost,
bailies, and councillors of the royal burgh of Ayr were known to have been
in continual use and peaceable possession of the privilege of holding courts,
criminal as well as civil, and of proceeding therein against all malefactors of
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whatever sort within the bounds and liberties of the burgh : And that, by
special contract and appointment between them, on the one part, and the
sheriff of Ayr on the other, the said sheriffs ratified and approved the said
judiciary privileges, and renounced all right and claim which they themselves
could pretend thereto : Which appointment was ratified, approved, and con-
firmed by the king's late dearest mother, under her great seal, of date the
Gth day of April 1557 : Whereupon the king, of his certain knowledge and
proper motive, with advice of John earl of Mar, and the commissioners of
Scotland, of new granted and disponed to the said provost, bailies, councillors
and community of his burgh of Ayr, the said burgh, with all lands, baronies,
mills, multures, sequels, free harbour, customs, fishings, rents, and other
rights and privileges thereto belonging, contained in all prior infeftments
and gifts granted by his predecessors to the said burgh ; making and ap-
pointing the said provost, bailies, and councillors, sheriffs and justices of the
peace within the burgh and whole bounds thereof for ever, and charging the
sheriffs before mentioned, to whom the precept was addressed, to give sasine
to them of the whole subjects so granted and confirmed, according to the
tenor of the king's charter thereof granted to the burgh. Dated at White-
hall 15 th March 1621.
34. Sasine, on Crown Precept, in favour of the Burgh of Ayr. —
[15*fc October 1621.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnacionis domiuice millesimo
sexcentesimo vigesimo primo niensis vero Octobris die decimo quinto et
regnorum excellentissimi et serenissimi principis nostri Jacobi Dei gratia
magne Britannie Francie et Hibernie regis illustrissimi fideique defensoris
annis quinquagesimo quinto et decimo nono respective in nostrorum notari-
orum publicorum et testium subscriptorum presentiis personaliter accessit
honorabilis vir Johannes Lokhert de Ban vicecomes in hac parte vice-
comitatus de Air per preceptum sasine sub insertum ex cancellaria regia
impetratum ad crucem foralem burgi de Air Necnon ibidem personaliter
comparuerunt honorabiles viri Adamus Eichie prepositus Gulielmus Cun-
inghame et Joannes Stewart ballivi Donaldus Smyth decanus gdde et
Jacobus Makadame thesaurarius dicti burgi de Air pro se ipsis ac nomine et
60 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
vice ceterorum consiilium et corumimitatis eiusdem burgi habentes et tenentes
ia suis manibus quoddam preceptum sasiue ex dicta cancellaria regia einan-
atum pro sasina tribuenda ipsis totius et integri predicti burgi curn omnibus
et singulis terris baroniis molendinis mulcturis libero portu custumis piscariis
annuis redditibus officiis vicecomitatus et justiciarie pacis cum omnibus
privilegiis immunitatibus libertatibus ad easdem spectantibus et pertinentibus
Cuiquidem vicecomiti in hac parte antedicto prefatus Adamus Richie pre-
positus Gulielmus Cuninghame et Joannes Stewart ballivi Donnaldus Smyth
decanus gilde et Jacobus Makadame thesaurarius pro se ipsis ac nomine quo
supra dictum preceptum sasine reverentia qua decuit presentarunt Ipsum
requirendo pro debita executione eiusdem facienda Quiquidem vicecomes
in hac parte idem preceptum sasine in manibus suis accepit ac nobis notariis
publicis subscriptis perlegendum et in vulgari exponendum tradidit Cuius-
quidem precepti sasine tenor sequitur et est talis Jacobus Dei gratia
(etc., as in No. 33, supra). Sic subscribitur Sasina ut a tergo All. Wylie
Post cuiusquidern precepti sasine preinserti perlecturam et in vulgari
expositionem prefatus Joannes Lokhert de Bar vicecomes in hac parte
antedictus virtute eiusdem suique vicecomitatus officii sibi in hac parte
incumbentis statum sasinam hereditariam pariter et possessionem corporalem
actualem et realem totius et integri predicti burgi de Air cum omnibus et
singulis terris baroniis molendinis mulcturis libero portu custumis piscariis
aunuis redditibus officiis vicecomitatus et justiciarie pacis cum omnibus
privilegiis immunitatibus et libertatibus ad easdem spectantibus et perti-
nentibus prefatis preposito ballivis decano gilde et thesaurario dicti burgi
ibidem personaliter presentibus et acceptantibus pro se ipsis ac nomine et
vice ceterorum consulium et communitatis eiusdem burgi presentibus et
futuris per deliberationem terre et lapidis fundi dictarum terrarum ad eundem
burgum spectantium ut moris est et in talibus fieri consuetum secundum
formam et tenorem dicti precepti sasine in omnibus punctis dedit tradidit
contulit pariterque et cum eflectu deliberavit nemine reclamante seu con-
tradicente Super quibus omnibus et singulis dictus Adamus Richie pre-
positus Gulielmus Cuningbame et Joannes Stewart ballivi Donnaldus Smyth
decanus gilde et Jacobus Makadame thesaurarius dicti burgi de Air pro
seipsis ac nomine et vice ceterorum consulium et communitatis eiusdem
burgi a nobis notariis publicis subscriptis petierunt hoc presens publicum
instrumentum unum seu plura Acta erant hec apud crucem foralem dicti
burgi bora deciina matutina sub annis die mense regnisque regis respective
ROYAL CHARTERS. 01
antedictis Presentibus ibidem Gulielmo Cuningbame juniore de Polqubarne
Joanne Luif in Newtonn Gulielmo Young ibidem Joanne Stenestown ibidem
Roberto Reid nuntio Joanne Makcra nuntio Joanne Birnie filio quondam
magistri Gulielmi Biruie ministri apud Air Alano Cuningbame fullone
Jacobo Logane Jacobo Watsoun officiariis eiusdem burgi Georgio Kessane
mercatore ibidem Adamo Makcubene servitore dicti prepositi et Alexandro
Creebtoun incola Edinburgi cum diversis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis
pariterque rogatis.
Et ego vero Joannes Masoun clericus communis burgi de Air auctoritate
regia notarius publicus necnon per dominos consilii secundum tenorem
acti parliament! admissus Quia coram prefatis testibus interfui
omnia prescripta sic fieri vidi scivi audivi ac in notam cepi boc
presens publicum instrumentum manu mea fideliter scriptum feci
subscripsi et signavi in fidem et testimonium veritatis omnium pre-
missorum rogatus et requisitus, etc.
Ita est Alexander Conynghame connotarius, etc.
At Edinburgb the 27 day of November 1621. — Producit be Alexander
Conyngbame writer in Edinburgb and registrat in the builds of
generall registre, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument of Sasine following on tbe Precept, No. 33, supra, which is
therein engrossed, and in terms thereof. The sasine was delivered by tbe
said John Lokhart of Bar, as sheriff in that part, to Adam Richie, provost,
William Cuningbame and John Stewart, bailies, Donald Smyth, dean of
guild, and James Makadam, treasurer, of the burgh of Ayr, at the market
cross thereof, at ten o'clock in the morning of tbe 15th of October 1G21 :
Before these witnesses, William Cuningbame, younger of Polqubarne, John
Love in Newton, William Young there, John Steneston there, Robert Reid,
messenger, John Makcra, messenger, John Birnie, son of the late Mr. Wil-
liam Birnie, minister at Ayr, Alan Cuninghame, fuller, James Logan and
James Watson, officers of the burgh, George Kessane, merchant there, Adam
Makcubcn, servitor of the said provost, Alexander Crechton, indweller in
Edinburgh, and others.
62 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
35. Signet Letters by King Charles the First, for Publication of the Infeft-
ment granted to the Burgh of Ayr by King James the Sixth. — [21st
June 1631.]
Charles be the grace of God King of Great Britanne France and Ireland
defender of the faith to our lovittis John Macra messenger
our shereffis in that pairt coniunctlie and severalie specialie con-
stitute greating Forsamekle as it is humlie meanet and schawin to us be
our lovittis the Proveist Bailies counsall and communitie of our burgh of
Air that quhair our umquhill darest father King James the Sext of eternall
and happie memorie understanding perfytlie that the saidis compleneris and
thair predicessouris have evir bene in use to hald courtis alsweill in materis
criminall as civill aganis quhatsumever malefactouris in our said burgh
boundis and liberties thairof and that be ane special! contract past betuix
the saidis compleneris on the ane pairt and the shereffis of our sherefdome
of Air on the uther pairt the said shereffis ratified and approved the saidis
compleneris thair possessioun use and consuetude of balding of the saidis
courtis and proceiding thairintill within thair awin boundis and renunced
all richt and title quhilk the saidis shereffis could pretend thairto Thairfoir
our said umquhill darest father of happie memorie not only ratified and ap-
proved the saidis complineris thair haill liberties and priviledges gevin and
granted to thame and thair predicessouris be our said umquhdl darest father
and his hienes predicessouris of balding of courtis within thair awin proper
boundis togidder with all ratificationes granted to thame thairupone be our
saidis shereffis of Air in ony tyme bygaine and haill contentis thairof bot
also be his charter under the great seall of the dait at Quhythall the fyftine
day of Marche jm vjc tuentie ane yeris off new gawe granted and disponit
to the saidis compleneris and thair successouris the foirsaid burgh of Air
with all and sundrie landis baronies mylnes multures sequellis frie port cus-
tomes fischingis yeirlie rentes and utheris richtis priviledges and pertinentis
belonging thairto specifeit and continit in the haill prior infeftmentis and
giftis granted be our said umquhill darest father and his hienes predicessouris
to the saidis compleneris and thair predicessouris in all pointis and maid
and constitute thame and thair successouris shereffis and justiciaris of
peace within our said burgh haill boundis and merches thairof for evir
in all tyme coming and gave and granted to the saidis compleneris the
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haill liberties and priviledges pertining and belonging to the saidis
offeices togidder with the eschaetis and amerciamentis of the saidis courtis
to lie uplifted be thame and to be used and disponit upone at thair awin
proper use as they sould best pleas as in the said charter srhawin and
producit to the Lordis of our eounsall and sessioun at niair lenth is con-
tenit And in respect that the foirsaidis liberties and priviledges granted
to the saidis compleneris be the said infeftment ar not as yit suffieientlie
notified to the inhabitantis of our said burgh and leidges dwelling about
thairfoir necessar it is to the saidis compleneris to have publicatioun thai mi
in maner following as is alledgit (Jure will is heirfoir and we charge yow
straitlie and commandis that incontinent thir our lettres sene ye pas to the
niercat croces of our burrowis of Air and and utheris places
neidfull and thair in our name and awthoritie mak dew and lawfull publica-
tioun of the foirsaid infeftment haill liberties and priviledges tharincontenil
to all and sunclrie our leidges and subjectis to the effect they nor nane of
thame pretend ignorance of the samen nor yit presume to come in the con-
trair thairof bot that they give obedience thairto efter the forme and tennour
of the said infeftment in all pointis According to iustice as ye will answer
to ws thairupone The quhilk to do we commit to yow coniunctlie and sever-
alie our full power be thir our lettres delyviring thame be yow dewlie execuit
and indorsat againe to the bearer Gevin under our signet at Edinburgh
the tuentie ane day of Junij and of our regne the sevint yeir 1631.
Ex deliberatione dominorum consilij. (Signed) Holbukne.
Writtin be Geo : Halden my servitour
21 Junij 1631.
(Dorso) Upon the tuenttie thrid day of Junij the yeir of God jm vj°
threttie and ane yeiris I Johnne Macra messenger and ane of the shererris in
that part within constitute past at command of thir oure soverane lordis
lettres withinwrittin raset at the instance of the proveist bailyeis eounsall
and comovnittie of the bruche of Air to the mercat cros of the said bruche
of Air and than upone the said mercat cros I in his hienes name and aw-
thorittie be oppin proclamacioun efter thrie severall oyesses and publict
reidding ower the saidis lettres thairupon maid dew and laufull publicaciounis
of the withinwrittin lettres to all and sindrie oure soverane lordis leidges
and subiectis cpihairby nane of thame micht pretend ignorrance of the
samyne nor yet to presume to cum in the conttrair thairof but that they and
64 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
ewerie ane of tharue gaif obedience thairto conforme to the command and
tennour of our soverane lordis lettres in all pointis and maid intimacioun
and certificacioun to thame and ilk ane of tliame as is within specifeit of the
quhilkis lettres I left and affixt ane just awtentick coppie upon the said
mercat cros of Air beffoir thir witnessis Thomas Nicol Elias Cathcart Gilbert
MaeCalme David M'Gil merchandis burges of Air togidder with the remanent
burges thairof and cunttrie peipil duelling thairabout being ane great mul-
tituid standing about the said cros of Air and for the mair witnessing heirof
to this my execution I have subscryvit the samyne with my hand and signat
is heirto affixt. (Signed) Jo. MacCra, Messgr.
[Execution in the same form, made on the following day, 24th June, is
also endorsed.]
36. Extract Act of Parliament, ratifying the Privileges of the Burgh
of Ayr.— [28th June 1633.]
In the Parliament haldine at Edinburgh vpone the tuentie eight day of
Junij the yeir of God jm vjc threttie thrie yeires oure soverane Lord and
Estatis of this present Parliament having consideratioun of the trew and
thankfull service done to his Majestie and his hienes most nobill progeni-
toris of most blissed memorie be the Brughe and Towne of Air ordaines
ane act to be maid ratifiend and approveand and for his hienes and his suc-
cessoris perpetuallie confirmand that chartour and infeftment of the dait at
Quhithall the fyftene day of March jm vjc tuentie ane yeires gevin and
granted be his majesties vmquhile darrest father King James the Sext of
blissed memorie in favoris of the proveist bailleis counsellouris and com-
munitie of the burgh of Air and thair successoris confirmand to thame thair
first original chartour granted to thame be his hienes most noble predicessoris
vmquhile William King of Scottis of most blissed memorie of the town and
burgh of Air haill priviledgis and immunities thairin conteinit As lykwayes
that chartour and infeftment granted to thame be vmquhile Eobert King of
Scottis quhairby he hes disponit to the burgessis and inhabitantis of the
said burgh of Ah1 and thair successoris the samyn burgh of Air with all and
sindrie landis perteaning thairto and with the port or harberie thairof and
fishingis of the samyne customes mylnes multouris frie faires mercat dayes
and utheris thairin conteanit of the dait the tuelf day of September jm and
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ffowr hundretli yeires togidder with all and sindrie utheris infeftmentis
chartoris donationes and dispositionis quhatsumever maid aud granted be
his majesties said umquhile darrest father or any of his most noble proo-eni-
toris to the said burgh off all and quhatsumever landis baronies mylnes
multeris frie port customes fishingis offices frie faires mercat dayes liberties
and priviledgis quhatsumever conteanit thairintill beirand lykwayes ane
dispensatioun tuiching the generalitie and decerning the samyn to be als
valeid as if everie particular chartour and writt had bene at lenth verbatim
insert thairintill And contening lykwayes thairintill ane new gift be his
majesties said umquhile father in favoris of the said towne of Air of the
samyn burgh with all and sindrie landis baronies mylnes multeris customes
fishingis anuelrentis and utheris richtis priviledgis and pertinentis quhatsum-
ever perteaning thairto and specifeit in thair hail] former infeftmentis and
writtis and makand thame and thair successores heretable shereffis and
justitiaris of peace within the said burgh and haill boundis and merches
tharof forevir in all tyrne thairefter disponing' to thame the haill liberties
and priviledgis belonging to the said offices as in the said chartour under the
greit seale conteaning divers utheris heidis and conditioner at mail- lenth is
conteanit Togidder with all and sindrie utheris charteris infeftmentis eiftis
dispositionis and utheris quhatsumever maid and granted be our said sove-
rane lord or be his hienes said umquhile darrest father or any utheris his
majesties most noble progenitoris Kingis and Queenes of Scotland to and in
favoris of the said burgh and inhabitantis thairof of the samyn or of quhat-
sumever landis baronies mylnes multeris frie portis or berberies customes
fishingis anuelrentis offices of sherefschip and justiciarie utheris offices quhat-
sumever frie faires mercat dayes liberties priviledgis escheitis amerciamentis
and utheris quhatsoever perteaning and belonging thairto or quhairof they
or thair predecessoris have bene or may be in possessioune or anywayes sett
doun and conteanit in thair or any of thair infeftmentis of the said burgh of
quhatsumever daittis tennour or contentis the samyn be of in all and sindrie
heidis articles claussis obleismentis pointis passis circumstances articles and
conditiones of the saniyne quhatsumever specifeit and conteanit thairintill
dispensand with the generalitie abowewrittine and admittand decernand and
declairand the samyne to be als valeid and sufficient and of als greit force
and strenth in all respectis as if everie particular chartour and infeftment
or uther writt wer specialie at lenth verbatim insert thairintill Lykas our
said soverane Lord and Estaitis foirsaidis of this present Parliament wills
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66 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
grantis declaires statutes and ordanes that the saidis provest bailleis coun-
sall and communitie of the said burgh of Air and thair successores sail
peaceablie bruik joyse and posses the foirsaid burgh with all and sindrie
landis baronies mylnes multuris frie portis or barberies customes tholoneis
and otheris particularlie and generallie abowementionat perteaning or that
onywayes may be knowin to perteane and belong thairto at thair plesour as
thair heretage als frielie in all respectis as onie uther Burrowes within this
realme efter the forme and tennour of the infeftmentis particularlie and
generallie abowewrittine granted to thame and thair predicessoris thairanent
perpetuallie in all tyme cuming but ony stop truble or impediment quhat-
sumever to be maid or moved in the contrair be any persone or persones
quhatsumever notwithstanding of any defect or infirmitie if anie be conteanit
in the said infeftmentis and donatiounes or ather of thame quhairanent our
said soverane Lord for his hienes and his successoris with advyse and consent
of the said Estaitis of Parliament hes dispensed and dispenssis ordaining the
foirsaid Act to be ane sufficient supplement of all faultis and defectis gif
anie be conteanit in the saidis infeftmentis and aganes all actione and ques-
tiones quhatsumever that can be made or moved in the contrare And our
said soverane Lord with advyse and consent of the said Estatis decernes and
ordaines this presente Act to be insert and registrate in the buikis of Par-
liament and to have the strenth force and effect of ane law and statute of
Parliament with all executioun to follow thairupone in forme as effeires and
lettres of horning if neid beis to be direct upone ane simple charge of ten
dayes allennerlie.
Extractit furth of the buikis of Parliament be me Sir Johne Hay of
Landis knicht dark of our soverane Lordis Eegistre counsall and
Rollis under my signe and subscriptioune manuell.
(Signed) J. Hay, Cls. Regri.
37. Charter by King James the Seventh, to the Burgh of Ayr, of certain
Duties on Ale and Wine. — [15th January 1687.]
Jacobus Dei gratia niagnas Britanniae Francise et Hibernise rex fideique
defensor omnibus probis hominibus suis ad quos praesentes literee per-
venerint salutem Quandoquidem nos considerantes urbem de Aire unam
esse ex antiquis nostris burgis regalibus hujus nostri regni Scotiae quodque
magistratus et incolse ejusdem juribus regijs et coronas nostras servitio firmi
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semper adhseserunt Nosque itidcm certiores facti annuos reditus et tributa
ad commuuitatem dicti burgi spectantia debitis alijsque incidentibus ejusdem
burgi expensis admodum esse imparia quodque ex portus sui maritimi ruina
ac tumulis arenosis in plurimis fluvij sui locis exurgentibus ac ex sumptibus
in removendo cseno et ejectionibus marinis impensis idem burgum non
parum ad innopiam est redactum atque ad debita persolvenda ob hasce
rationes bactenus contracta aut ea peragenda quae ad mercatores et opifices
dicti burgi melius animandos opprime sunt necessaria sive ad pontem et
templum plateas et portus maritimos aliasque incidentes impensas quas ex-
pendere contigerit communitas sustinendas omnino redditur impar Nos
autem animum addere dictis magistratibus abunde cupidi ut scilicet publica
sua opera in commodum et utilitatem incolarum dictae urbis melius adminis-
trentur et ut in posterum nobis servitia debita praestare validiores reddantur
Noveritis igitur nos ex certa nostra scientia proprioque motu ac potestate
regia dedisse concessisse et disposuisse sicuti per has nostras literas ob
rationes praedictas plurimasque alias causas damus concedimus et disponimus
preposito balivis et consiliariis dicti burgi de Air nomine communitatis
ejusdem impositionem quatuor denariorum monetae Scotiae super unaquaque
pinta cerevisae seu zythi concocti seu importati ac venditi in dicto burgo
cum potestate magistratibus dictam impositionem super cerevisia et zetbo
sive ut supra mentionatur sive per pretium viginti solidorum monetae Scotiae
super unoquoque bolla brasij in dicto burgo seu libertatibus ejusdem concocti
sive in bunc effectum importati exigendi et recipiendi cum potestate itidem
dictis magistratibus summam viginti quinque librarum monetae predictae
super unaquaque dolio (vulgo Tun) vini Gallici ac viginti quinque librarum
super unaquaque cada (vulgo Butt) vini Hispanici importati et venditi in
dicto burgo et libertatibus ejusdem imponendi et exigendi Quasquidem
impositiones super cerevisia ceeterisque liquoribus antedictis absque omni
praejudicio fore ordinarias excisae et annuitati nobis per parliamenti acta
concessae per praesentes declaramus Et praeterea volumus et declaramus
praedictas hasce impositiones ex earum singulas durare et effectum habere
pro spatio novem decern annorum a termino purificationis beataa Virginis
anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo octogesimo septimo a quo tempore
easdem initium capere declaramus Cum plenaria admodum potestate prae-
posito balivis et conciliariis dicti burgi de Air impositiones dictas in rentale
dimittendi sive collectores (pro quibus respondebunt) pro recipiendis et
exigendis impositionibus supra mentionatis ad solvenda debita dicti burgi
68 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
aliasque necessarias et incidentes suas expensas nominandi ac si necesse erit
pro iisdem naniandi et distringendi et generaliter omnia alia peragendi
pro effieaei earundem collectione similiter adeoque libere in quovis respectu
ac magistratus et conciliarii cujusvis burgi regalis in dicto nostro regno
faciunt seu jure facere possunt per donationes seu similis naturae literas
per nos aut serenissimum nostrum fratrem Carolum secundum beatae
memorise ipsis concessas In cujus rei testimonium prsesentibus magnum
sigillum nostrum appendi mandavimus apud aulam nostram de Whytehall
decimo quinto die mensis Januarii anno domini millesimo sexcentesimo
octogesimo septimo regnique nostri anno secundo.
Per signaturam manu S. D. N. regis suprascriptam.
(Dorso) Written to the Great Scale and registrat the eightein day of
Februarii 1687. Jo : Grahame, Dpt.
Sealed at Edinburgh the twentie ane day of February 1687.
J. Hay.
Abstract.
Charter by King James the Seventh, whereby, considering that the
town of Ayr is one of the most ancient of the royal burghs of Scotland,
and that the magistrates and inhabitants thereof have ever adhered to the
regal rights and steadfast service of the crown ; and also on the information
that the rents and customs belonging to the community of the said burgh
are very far from being sufficient for the debts and other incidental
expenses of the same ; and that by the ruin of their seaport, and the sand
heaps arising in many places of their river, and the great expense of
removing the mud and refuse cast up by the sea, the burgh was reduced to
great straits, and was rendered quite incapable of paying the debts which,
on these accounts, had hitherto been contracted, or of doing what was very
necessary for the better encouragement of the merchants and craftsmen of
the burgh, or for sustaining such other incidental expenses as the community
required to lay out for maintaining the bridge, the church, the streets, and
the harbour ; the King, therefore, being desirous of encouraging the said
magistrates so that they may the better promote their public works for the
advantage and utility of the inhabitants of the said town, and that they
may be the more able hereafter to perform the services due to him, granted
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and disponed to the provost, bailies, and councillors of the said burgh of
Ayr, in name of the community thereof, an impost of fourpence of Scots
money upon every pint of ale or beer brewed or imported and sold in the
said burgh ; with power to the said magistrates to exact and take up the
said impost upon ale or beer as aforesaid, or by the price of twenty shillings
Scots upon every boll of malt brewed in the said burgh or liberties thereof,
or imported for that purpose : With power also to them to impose and
exact the sum of twenty-five pounds Scots upon every tun of French wine,
and the same sum upon every butt of Spanish wine, imported and sold in
the said burgh and liberties thereof; which imposts are declared to be
without prejudice to the ordinary excise and annuity granted by Acts of
Parliament to the crown : And further, that the aforesaid imposts shall
continue for the space of nineteen years from Candlemas 1687 onwards.
Dated at Whitehall, 15th January 1687.
38. Letters of Cliarge, at the itistance of the Tacksmen of the Customs of
Ayr, against the Brewers and Vintners of the Burgh. — [20th December
1687.]
James be the grace of God King of Great Britanne France and Ireland
defender of the faith to our lovits messengers our shirrefs
in that part conjunctlie and severallie speciallie constitut greeting Forsua-
meikle as it is humblie meaned and showen to us be our lovits John Fer-
guson merchant burgess of Aire and Joseph Smith late baillie ther that
wher thair was ane Tack made by way of contract dated the fourth day of
November last jm vic and eightie seven years betwixt William Cunynghame
of Brownhill then provost of Aire William Crawford and Adam Osburne
then present baillies William Reid dean of gild and Robert Lesly thesaurer
of the said burgh of Aire with consent of the toune counsell thereof on the
ane part and the compleners on the other part whereby the saids Magistrals
of Aire with consent foresaid did (for payment of the soumes of money
specified in the said Tack and upon the other considerationes therein con-
tained) sett and for them and their successors in office in ferine lett to the
saids compleners equally betwixt them their aires and executors all and
haill twentie shilling Scots money imposed upon and to be exacted out of
ilk boll of malt brewen and to be brewen vented and sold within the said
70 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
burgh and liberties thereof comprehending the Baronie of Alloway and
liberties of the samen being parts and pertinents of the said burgh of Aire
or imported or to be imported within the samen for brewing (all malt to be
brewed be private persones for their own uses allanerly being excepted and
reserved furth of the said tack) As also the soume of twentie fyve pound
Scots money imposed upon and to be exacted out of ilk tun of French wyne
and sicklyke the lyke soume of twentie fyve pound money forsaid imposed
and to be exacted out of ilk butt of Spanish wyne imported and to be im-
ported vented sold and retailled within the said burgh priviledges and
liberties thereof And that for all the dayes years termes tyme and space
of three years next and immediately following the saids compleners their
entrie thereto which is by the said tack declared to have been and begune
upon the first day of October last bypast at six houres in the morneing and
from thence forth to continue and endure untill the first day of October
in anno j™ vic and fourscore ten years exclusive at six houres in the morn-
ing With full power to the saids compleners and their forsaids and their
substituts collectors and deputs in their names not only to uplift the forsaid
twentie shilling Scots monie upon ilk boll of malt brewen and to be brewen
vented sold and retailled within the said burgh liberties and priviledges
thereof abonewrittin (malt to be brewen be privat persones for their own uses
as said is being excepted) att the milnes of Aire and Alloway or otherwayes
as the saids compleners shall think most expedient the ane but prejudice of
the other and lykewayes out of the multure malt itself during the forsaid space
And that the multurers and milners belonging to the saids milnes of Aire
and Alloway take no malt out of the multure chists but when the saids
compleners or ane or another of them shall be present at the outgiving and
measureing thereof that payment may be made of the said twentie shilling
Scots out of ilk boll thereof to be brewen vented and retailed in manner
foresaid accordingly And that the saids multurers milners and their ser-
vants shall duelie and truelie putt in the multure and bannock malt to be
uplifted be them in their chists and that upon oath when they shall be
required thereto And thereby requyreing and ordaineing the milners and ser-
vants at the saids milnes readdily to answer and obey the saids compleners
and give them access and enterance to the saids milnes whenever they should
be called and requyred thereto and to fix locks upon the saids multure
chists if it should be found requisite and necessar And the multurers myl-
lers and their servants to give their oathes that they shall nowayes suffer
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any malt grinded att the foresaids milnes to goe out by night or by clay
after six of the clock at night or before six of the clock of the morneino-
•without consent of the saids compleners had and obtained thereto during the
foresaid space and before the owners or any in their names receave the malt
out of the saids milnes And if the saids compleners or any of them or their
forsaids should seize upon any malt out of the saids milnes comeing in to
the said burgh or liberties thereof grund at any other milnes then the forsaids
milnes of Aire and Alloway the saids compleners are by the said tack author-
ized to seize upon the samen and exact the forsaid twentie shilling and to
detaine the malt whill the ordinary multure be payed And the remainder of
the said malt is thereby declared to belong to the saids compleners equally
betwixt them and to be disposed be the saids compleners accordingly they
paying the multures thereof to the multurers And the owners and importers
of the said grund malt to be punished to the sight and att the discretione of
the magistrats being for the tyme But also with power to the saids com-
pleners and their forsaids to uplift the said twentie fyve pound out of ilk
tun of French wyne and twentie fyve pounds out of ilk butt of Spanish
wyne imported or to be imported vented sold and retailed within the said
burgh and liberties thereof during the space forsaid And sicklyke with
power to the saids compleners and their forsaids to ask crave receave and
uplift the samen from the persones lyable in payment thereof and if need
beis to take their oaths upon the quantities of wynes they should happen to
vent sell or retaill during the space forsaid of the said tack poynd and dis-
trenzie for the samen and generally all and sundrie other things to doe for
the effectual collecting and ingathering thereof sicklyke and alse freely in all
respects as the saids magistrats and counsell of the said burgh or their suc-
cessors in office for the tyme may or can lawfully doe themselves be vertue
of ane gift of the saids impositiones granted to them be Us dated the fyf-
teenth day of January last jm vjc and eightie seven years as the said tack
of the date forsaid insert and registrat in the books of our Thesaurie and
Exchequer and ane decreit of the Lords thereof interponed thereto upon the
twentie eight day of December jm vjc and eightie seven years narrating the
forsaid gift from Us thairintill and contaneing several other heads articles
and clauses in the samen showen and produced to the saids Lords of our
Thesaurie and Exchecpier hes testified For the better collecting uplifting and
ingathering of the Avhich impositiones necessar it is for the saids compleners
to have thir our letters direct at their instance in maner following Our will
72 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
is lierefore and we charge you straitly and command that incontinent thir
our letters seen yee past and in our name and authoritie command and
charge all and sundrie persones brewers ventiners sellars and retaillers and
all others lyable in payment of the forsaid twentie shilling Scots imposed
upon ilk boll of malt brewen vented sold and retailed within the said burgh
of Aire liberties and privileges thereof above specified (excepting as is above
excepted) And alse all and sundrie merchants importers ventiners sellars
and retaillers of French wyne and Spanish wyne and others lyable in pay-
ment of the said soume of twentie fyve pound Scots money imposed upon
aither of the forsaids wynes in manner particularly abovementioned (whose
names with the particulars addebted be them shall be given up to you in
roll) to make payment to the saids John Ferguson and Joseph Smith com-
pleners and their substitutes collectors and deputs in their names of the for-
saids impositiones respective imposed in manner abovewryten within the
bounds above specified from the said first day of October last bypast at six
houres in the morneing and thereafter untill the said first day of October in
the year jm vjc fourscore ten at six houres in the morneing exclusive and that
after the forme and tenor of our said gift tack and decreit forsaid interponed
thereto in all poynts within three dayes next after they be charged be you
thereto under the paine of rebellione and putting of them to our home Wher-
intill if they failzie the saids three dayes being bygone that yee incontinent
thereafter denunce the disobeyers our rebells and putt them to our borne
and escheat and inbring all their moveable goods and gear to our use for
their contemptione and disobedience And immediately after your said de-
nunciatione that you use the haill remanent order prescrybed by the act
of Parliament and ordinance made thereanent And sicklyke that yee in our
said name and authoritie fence arreist appryse compell poynd and distrenzie
the persones lyable therefore as accords of the law according to justice be-
cause the Lords hes sein the Tack above specified registrat as ye will answer
to us thereupon The whilk to doe wee committ to you conjunctlie and
severallie our full power be thir our letters delyvering them be you duelly
execut and indorsat againe to the bearer Given under our signet att Edin-
burgh the twentie day of December and of our reigne the third year 1687.
Ex deliberatione dominorum Scaccarij.
(Signed) Lau : Oliphant.
For Entriken writtin be John Hamiltoun his servitore
29 : Decembris 1687.
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39. Extract Act of Parliament, in favour of the Burgh of Ayr, conferring
Power to levy a Tax for Repair of the Harbour of the Toion of Ayr. —
[16*/t July 1695.]
At Edinburgh the sixteenth day of Julij j"' vjc nynty five years
our soveraign lord considering that the harbour of the toun of Aire is
ruined and lyes in rubbish and that thereby the trade of the forsaid toun is
quite decayed and the inhabitants therof so impoverishit that they are not
able to repaire the said harbour the which is also a great loss to all the ad-
jacent country and also considering that in the late government the magis-
trate who were then imposed upon the burgh did obtaine from the late king
an imposition of tuenty shillings Scots upon each boll of malt which was
brow'n and vended within the said toun and that the same was intirely by
them misimployed and they did also run the said toun in considerable debts
which they are no ways able to satisfie Therfor his majestie with advice
and consent of the Estates of Parliament for enabling the said burgh to
repaire their harbour and pay and satisfie their debts doth grant to the said
burgh and community therof the imposition of one merk upon each boll of
malt to be ground at the milnes of the said toun and that for the space of
ten years commenceing from the terme of Lambmas next to come The which
imposition is to be uplifted and manadged by two to be chosen from the
Toun Council and are to be chosen by the other inhabitants yearly who are
to uplift and employ the same and if need beis to use diligence therefor for
the uses aforsaid at the sight of the magistrate and Toun Council and the
said magistrate Toun Council and managers are yearly to hold compt for
what they shall intromett with by vertue of this Act to the Earl of Cassillis
and the Lord Kennedy his son Mr. Francis Montgomery of Giffen the laird
of Eowallan and William Fullarton of that ilke And in case they shall find
the same to be mismanaged and otherwise imployed than for the uses forsaid
the saids overseers or major part of them are hereby impowered to choice
other managers for rendering the designe of this imposition effectual And
notwithstanding that the forsaid imposition is granted for the space of ten
years yet it is hereby declared that if within the forsaid space the harbour
shall be repaired and the debts of the toun paid that then and in that case
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74 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUKGH OF AYE.
the forsaid imposition shall terminat and the inhabitants shall be no longer
lyable in payment of the same.
Extracted forth of the Eecords of Parliament by George viscount of
Tarbat lord Macleod and Castellhaven etc. clerk to his majesties
Councils Registers and Rolls. Tarbat, Clk Regr.
-&*
40. Extract Act of Parliament, appointing a Yearly Fair to be held
at Ayr. — [31st January 1701.]
Att Edinburgh the thirty one day of Jannuary one thousand seven hundred
and one years our soveraigne lord and Estates of Parliament considering
that the appoynting of fairs and rnercats in convenient places of the king-
dome does greatly tend to the advantage of the trade thereof and advantage
of his Majesty's leidges dwelling at or near the saids places and that it is most
convenient for the good of the royal burgh of Air and for the other ends
abovementioned to appoynt a publick yearly fair to be keipt thereat in
manner underwritten Doe therfor by thir presents appoynt ane publick fair
to be holdine yearly in all tyme comeing at the said Burgh of Air upon the
first Tewesday of Jannuary and the four days immediatly following the same
yearly for buying and selling of all kinds of vendible commodities And have
given and granted and hereby give and grant to the said burgh and magis-
trats town councill and community thereof the right and priviledge of keip-
ing and holding the said one fair therat yearly in all tyme to come and the
haill tolls customes profits and casualties thereof or competent to pertain
thereto with full power to them to cause proclaime and ryde the said one
fair yearly and to make such order thereanent as they think fitt and to exact
uplift and dispose upon the saids tolls customes profits and casualties of the
samen and to do all other things anent the said fair which any haveing
priviledge of keiping fairs within the kingdome lawfully doe or may doe.
Extracted furth of the Records of Parliament by me Mr. Alexander Gib-
sone of Durie one of the deput clerks of Parliament as haveing com-
mission for that effect from Charles earle of Selkirk clerk to the
Parliament and to his Majesty's Counsills Registers and Rolls.
(Signed) Al : Gibsone.
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II.— MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS.
41. Obligation by John Kennedy, Lord qfDunure, that the Reversion of his
Lands of Carcluie and Broomberry-yard shall belong to the Burgesses
and Community of Ayr after his death. — [20th October 1385.]
Universis has literas visuris vel audituris Johannes Kenedy dominus de
Donhower salutem in domino sempiternam Noverit universitas vestra me
teneri et per presentes firmiter obligari burgensibus et communitati burgi
de Are et eorum successoribus quibuscunque quod ego heredes mei vel
assignati nee aliquis vel aliqui nomine meo post decessum meum abquod
jus vel clameum seu possessionem in omnibus et singulis terris de Cortluv
et Byndberyyharde cum pertinenciis vendicabit vel vendicabunt vel vendi-
care valeat vel valeant racione possessionis vite mee in presenti Omnes et
singule predicte terre de Cortluy et de Byndberiyhard cum pertinenciis
predictis burgensibus et eorum successoribus et communitati post mortem
meam libere et integre revertentur et remaneant imperpetuum sine aliqua
contradictione vel reclamatione heredum vel assignatorum meorum ex quo
nullum jus nee possessionem in predictis terris habeo vel habendum nisi
solummodo pro tempore vite mee Item obligo me predictis burgensibus et
communitati quod predictas terras de Cortluy et Byndberiyharde cum
pertinenciis non assedabo nee ad firmam dimittam alicui generoso vel
potenti domino nee cuicunque alii qui dampnum vel gravamen predictis
burgensibus vel communitati valeat inferri aliqualiter infuturum sed predictas
terras husbandis assedabo vel eas ad usum meum proprium tempore meo
retinebo In cuius rei testimonium sigillum meum presentibus est appensum
et gracia majoris testimonii sigillum Gilberti Kenedy militis filii mei et
apparentis heredis apponi feci et procuravi Datum apud Casselys vicesimo
die mensis Octobris anno Domini m° ccc° octogesimo quinto.
76 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Abstract.
Letters of Obligation by John Kennedy, Lord of Dunure, whereby be
becomes bound and obliged to the burgesses and community of tbe burgh
of Ayr and their successors, that neither he nor his heirs or assignees, nor
any one in his name, shall, after his decease, make any claim of right or
possession to the lands of Carcluie and Broomberry-yard by reason of his
possessing them during his life ; but that the said lands shall, after his
decease, freely and wholly revert to the foresaid burgesses and community,
and shall remain with them for ever, without gainsaying or reclaiming on
the part of his heirs or assignees, seeing he has no right nor possession in
the said lands but only during his lifetime : Moreover, he obliges himself
that he shall not set the said lands in tack to any gentleman or potent lord,
nor to any other who might in any way in time to come cause damage or
grievance to the said burgesses and community ; but that he shall set the
said lands to husbandmen, or retain them for his own use during his life-
time. Sealed with his own seal, and for the greater witnessing, with the
seal of Gilbert Kennedy, knight, his son and apparent heir, at Cassillis,
20th October 1385.
42. Notarial Instrument on the Dispute between the Town of Ayr and the
Sheriff in regard to the Power of the latter to Distrain their Goods. —
[l$th January 1417-18.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter quod anno a nativitate Eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo
septimo decimo indiccione duodecima mensis Januarii die decima octava
pontificatus sanctissimi in Cbristo patris ac domini nostri domini Benedicti
divina providencia pape tercii decimi anno vicesimo quarto in mei notarii
publici et testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutes honestus
vir Johannes Pictor ballivus burgi de Are nomine et ex parte burgensium
et communitatis dicti burgi cum plena commissione eorundem publice ostensa
et perlecta nobili viro Hugoni Cambell de Lowdoun vicecomiti de Are con-
questus est quod officiarii sui et ministri de brevi tempore tunc elapso
diversa catalla tarn burgensium quam aliorum hominum suorum in burgo de
Are et territorio eiusdem et infra baroniam suam de Aulway commorancium
abstulerunt minus iuste ipsis ignorantibus pro qua causa De quo facto ipse
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 77
ballivus a dicto vicecomite peciit remedium oportunum et virtutc officii sui
dicta catalla restaurari Ad que ipse vicecomes respondebat quod ex pre-
cepto suo et per literam domini nostri gubernatoris sibi missam dicta catalla
dictorum hominum suorum capta fuerunt pro eorum absencia ab ultimo
exercitu per dictum dominum nostrum gubernatorem generaliter proclamato
quorum una pars deliberata fuit ubi dictus dominus noster gubernator ordi-
navit alia vero dicto ballivo conquerenti ad plegium concessa sub certa
premunicione reintranda Quo audito dictus ballivus concessit quod dicti
bursenses et homines sui antedicti tenentur ad exercitum domini nostri
regis et gubernatoris cum domino Camerario Scocie qui pro tempore fuerit
comparere cum et quando dicti burgenses de Are cum aliis regni burgensibus
ad exercitum per dictum dominum Camerarium literatorie fuerint premuniti
et pro eorum si contingat absencia per dictum dominum nostrum camerarium
et ministros suos tantum compelli et distringi et non per alios officiarios
quovismodo cum universi domini nostri regis burgenses generaliter a vice-
comitum compulsione sint exempti Ac eciam homines dictorum burgensium
de Are in eorum territorio et baronia commorantes per diversos reges Scocie
specialiter sunt previlegiati et ab exercitu exempti nisi dicti burgenses
domini sui generaliter per literas camerarii prout supra sint citati et ut ipsi
burgenses a quacunque compulsione sunt exempti prout in quibusdam
instrumentis dicto vicecomiti ostensis plenius continebatur Qua propter
ipse ballivus a dicto vicecomite dicta catalla sibi peciit restaurari cum ipsa
actio et compulsio dicto domino camerario et ministris suis et non sibi
pertinebat ullo modo Quod ipse vicecomes facere penitus denegavit Tunc
ipse ballivus peciit dicta catalla a dicto vicecomite ad plegium sibi dimitti
ut iuris ordo exigebat cum ipsi nee homines sui super debitum negatum de
iure namari debeant nee compelli et aliud plegium quod primum suum
plegium per ipsum sic inventum fuit virtutis et valoris et quod debuit de
iure dicta plegia per ipsum inventa recipere et dicta catalla sibi ad plegium
concedere quousque ipsa actio iuste foret determinata Tunc ipse vicecomes
maturo proborum consilio avisatus illam partem catallorum tunc presentem
quarn idem ballivus de ante replegiaverat reintrandam sibi ballivo ad
plegium concessit et ipsum ballivum quietum clamavit ab introitu eorundem
nisi a dicto nostro domino gubernatore super hoc aliud haberet in mandatis
Et pro alia parte catallorum tunc absente data ut dixit ubi dominus noster
gubernator ordinavit idem vicecomes unum par cirothecarum sibi ballivo
tradidit ad plegium sub ista condicione restaurandum si per dicti domini
78 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
nostri gubernatoris literas patentes sibi scribatur quod dicti burgenses de
Are et homines sui antedicti sunt liberi a vicecomitis compulsione in hae
parte sin auteni dicta catalla cum dicto vicecomite virtute officii sui remane-
bunt Super quibus omnibus dictus ballivus a me notario sibi publicum
fieri peciit instrumentum dictorum burgensium et communitatis sumptibus
et expensis Acta fuerunt hec in plena curia vicecomitis de Are tenta ibidem
per dictum Hugonem Cambell vicecomitem de Are die Martis die legis
capitali proximo post festum nativitatis Domini sub anno indictione mense
die et pontificatu premissis presentibus tunc ibidem nobilibus dominis
Waltero Senescallo filio et herede apparente domini Murdaci Senescalli
Eoberto de Lile Rocaldo Were militibus Johanne Senescallo domino de
Dernele Thoma Boyde domino de Kylrnernok Alexandro de Montegomeri
Johanne Schaw de Hayle Roberto de Dalrympell de Camerhagane scutiferis
et multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Willelmus Nigelli clericus Glasguensis dyocesis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument narrating that John Painter, bailie of the burgh of
Ayr, on behalf of the burgesses and community thereof, complained to a
noble man Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, sheriff of Ayr, that his officers and
servants had unjustly taken away divers chattels belonging to the burgesses
and their other men dwelling in the burgh and territory of Ayr, and within
their barony of Alloway, they being ignorant of the cause for which this was
done ; for which fact he demanded clue remedy from the said sheriff, and the
restoration of the chattels. To which the sheriff replied that the chattels of
the said men were seized by his command, by virtue of the lord governor's
letter to him, on account of their absence from the last army generally
summoned by the said governor : of which chattels one part was delivered
where the lord governor ordained, and the other was granted to the said
bailie to be re-entered under certain premonition. Whereupon the bailie
acknowledged that the burgesses and their men were bound to attend
the army of the King and the lord governor, with the lord chamberlain
of Scotland for the time being, whenever they, with other burgesses of
the kingdom, were warned thereto by letter from the lord chamberlain,
and that for their absence, if it should happen, they should be compelled
and distrained by the said lord chamberlain and his ministers only, and not
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 70
by any other officers whatsoever, seeing all the burgesses of the King were
exempt from the compulsion of the sheriffs : And further, that the men of
the said burgesses of Ayr, dwelling in their territory and barony, were
specially privileged by divers kings of Scotland, and exempted from the army
unless the said burgesses their masters were cited by letters of the chamber-
lain: and that the burgesses themselves were exempt from every kind of
compulsion, as was more fully contained in certain instruments shown to
the sheriff: Wherefore the bailie demanded from the sheriff that the
chattels be restored to him, seeing the said action and compulsion pertained
to the lord chamberlain and his ministers, and not in any way to him :
Which the sheriff altogether refused to do : Then the bailie recmested
the chattels to be given to him at pledge, as the order of law required,
since of right neither they nor their men ought to be distrained or compelled
for a debt which they denied : And that the pledges found by him ought to
be received, and the chattels given to him at pledge until the action should
be justly determined : Then the sheriff, having taken mature counsel with
prudent men, granted at pledge that part of the chattels then present
which the bailie had before repledged to him, and discharged the bailie
from entering them again, unless he should be otherwise commanded by the
lord governor ; and for the other part of the chattels, then absent, the
sheriff gave to the bailie one pair of gloves at pledge, on condition that it
should be restored if the lord governor should signify by letters patent that
the burgesses of Ayr and their men were free from the compulsion of the
sheriff in that part ; but if otherwise, the said chattels should remain with
the sheriff in virtue of his office : Upon all which the said bailie craved from
the notary, William Neilson, a public instrument, to be executed at the
expense of the burgesses and community. Done in full Court of the sheriff
of Ayr, held in the burgh thereof, on Tuesday, the head day of law next
after the feast of the nativity of the Lord (18th January), 1417-18.
43. Attestation of the Duke of Albany's Warrant to the Community of
Ayr to Straiten the Sandgate. — \_\Qth November 1425.]
Universis presentes literas visuris vel audituris prepositus ballivi et com-
munitas burgi de Are salutem in Domino sempiternam Cum in conspectu
Altissimi opus meritorium reputamus testimonium perhibere veritati et
80 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
precipue ubi occultata veritate iustis et innocentibus minus iuste dampna
inferuntur non moclica Hinc est quod nos predicti testamur quod quondam
Eobertus Dux Albanie et gubernator Scocie secundo anno sue gubernacionis
una cum Johanne senescallo comite de Buchane ac camerario Scocie ac cum
multis aliis regni baronibus et nobilibus in propria persona existens in dicta
villa de Are per requestum tocius communitatis predicte visitavit quoddam
vicum ville predicte vocatum Vicum arene et bene consideravit et intellexit
quod flatus arene indies in dicto vico liabundans ipsum penitus destruxit
et veresimilius videbatur distruere in futurum Unde dictus gubernator
cum consilio dicti camerarii et aliorum baronum ibidem existencium precepit
et licenciavit dicti vici habitatores ipsum vicum arciori et strictiori edifica-
cione constringere et artare usque ad quandam metam quam ipse propriis
manibus fixit in terra ad requestum tocius communitatis et ad dampnum
arene evitandum tucius in futurum Et eciam quod coartacio dicti vici
arene ut premittur arene dampnis consideratis dicte communitati placet et
merito semper placuit manifestius notificari fecimus per inquisicionem
captam de melioribus et magis probis ville nostre comburgensibus Iu
cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus est appensum
anno Domini M° iiij ° xxvmo die x° mensis Novembris.
Abstract.
Testimonial by the provost, bailies, and community of the burgh of
Ayr, bearing witness that the late Eobert Duke of Albany and Governor of
Scotland, in the second year of his governorship, being in proper person in
the said town of Ayr, together with John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and
chamberlain of Scotland, and with many other barons and nobles of the
kingdom, by request of the whole community visited a certain street of the
said town called the Sandgate, and carefully observed that the daily over-
flow of sand in the said street wholly destroyed it, and was like to destroy
it in the future : Wherefore the governor, with advice of the chamberlain
and other barons there present, gave command and license to the inhabit-
ants of the said street to make it narrower by building up to a certain
measure, which he with his own hands fixed in the ground at the request of
the whole community, and for more effectually preventing the damage of
the sand in time to come ; and further, that the straitening of the said
Sandgate, in consideration of the damage of the sand, is, and with good
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 81
reason always was, pleasing to the said community, they have made known
more evidently by an inquest taken of the best and most prudent burgesses
of the town. In witness whereof the common Seal of the burgh is appended
on the 10th of November 1425.
44. Notarial Instrument on the Inquest concerning the narrowing of
the Sandgate. — [9th November 1427.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
manifeste quod anno ab incarnacione Eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo
vicesimo septimo die nono mensis Novembris indiccione sexta pontificatus
sanctisshni in Christo patris ac domini domini Martini divina providencia
pape quinti anno decimo in mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum
presencia personaliter constituti prepositus et ballivi burgi de Are in plana
curia consedentes et requisiti ab habitatoribus cuiusdam vici australis dicti
burgi vocati Vici arene ut eisdem fidelem inquisicionem fieri facerent de
melioribus et magis probis dicti burgi conburgensibus utrum coartacio et
strictior edificacio dicti vici ad viam regiam facta fuerat ex precepto et
speciali mandato quondam Roberti duels Albanie et gubernatoris Scocie una
cum consensu Johannis senescalli comitis de Buchane quondam et camerarii
Scocie et ex consensu dicti burgi communitatis propter communem utilitatem
Unde quindecem de melioribus ville ut premittitur super premissis in
inquisicione positi et magno Sacramento interveniente jurati dixerunt quod
quondam dictus Robertus dux Albanie et gubernator Scocie in secundo anno
sue gubernacionis una cum consensu et consilio Johannis senescalli quoin la in
comitis de Buchane camerarii Scocie et multorum aliorum baronum et
nobilium consilio requisitus per comunitatem dicti burgi pro utilitate
communi personaliter dictum vicum arene visitavit et arene dampno con-
siderate mandavit et precepit habitatores dicti vici ipsum vicum strictiori
edificacione artare usque ad quamdam metam epiam ipse propriis manibus
fixit in terra ut arene flatibus evacuatis et dicto vico strictius et clecencius
edificato et ville ornatus et eiusdem habitatoribus utilitas augeretur Super
quibus omnibus et singuhs premissis dicti vici habitatores a me notario
subscripto suis sumptibus et expensis sibi pecierunt fieri publicum instru-
mentum Acta fuerunt hec in theoloneo dicti burgi hora quasi undecima anno
die mense indiccione et pontificate premissis Testibus nobilibus viris et
providis Reginaldo de Foulartoun domino de Dregarne Adam de Cunyng-
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82 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
liame de Caprintoun Alano senescallo fratre domini de Dernle magistro
Ricardo Petit vicario de Stewynstoun Johanne Pantour Thoma Haket
burgensibus de Are ut predicitur in plana curia cum multis aliis.
Et ego Thomas Haket presbyter Glasguensis diocesis publicus auctoritate
imperiali notarius, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument narrating that the provost aud bailies of the burgh
of Ayr, sitting in open court, were requested by the inhabitants of a certain
south street of the said burgh called the Sandgate, that they would cause a
faithful inquest to be made of the best and most prudent of their fellow-
burgesses whether the narrowing of the said street towards the highway
had been done according to the special mandate of the late Robert Duke of
Albany, Governor of Scotland, with consent of John Stewart, Earl of
Buchan, Chamberlain of Scotland, and by consent of the community of the
said burgh, for the common utility : Wherefore, fifteen of the best of the
town having been put on inquest, and sworn by the great oath, they
declared that the late Robert Duke of Albany, Governor of Scotland,
in the second year of his government, with consent and advice of John
Stewart, late Earl of Buchan, chamberlain, and of many other barons and
nobles, at the request of the community of the said burgh, personally
visited the said street ; and having considered the damage done by the sand,
commanded the dwellers in the said street to straiten it by narrower build-
ing, as far as to a certain stake which he with his own hands fixed in the
ground, so that the blasts of sand being excluded, and the said street built
more narrowly and in better manner, the adornment of the town and
utility of the inhabitants might be increased. Upon which the dwellers in
the said street craved instruments to be made at their expense : These
things were done in the Tolbooth of the said burgh about eleven o'clock on
9th November 1427.
45. Notarial Instrument concerning the Rendering of Accounts by
the Bailies of Ayr.— {17 th November 1429.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
manifeste quod anno ab incarnacione Eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo
vicesimo nono mensis Novembris die xvii indiccione octava pontificatus
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sanctissinii in Christo patria ac domini tlomiui Martini diviua providencia
pape quinti anno decimo tercio in mei notarii publici et testium subseriptorum
presencia personaliter constituti Johannes de Bathcate et Thomas de Carrie
ballivi de Are in anno preterito requisiti et onerati de computo officii sui
reddendo de anno preterito per Henricum Forestarii deputatum camerarii
modo et forma quibus plenius continetur in quodam instrumento accepto
per dictum deputatum super premissis cum melioribus dicti burgi de Are
avisati respondentes dixerunt quod ipsi nunquam ante annum preteritum et
tunc a domino Rege nee camerario super tali computo fiendo onerati nee
requisiti fuerunt Insuper quod ballivi in dicta villa de Are non fuerunt con-
sueti reddere computa sua ante quadragesinium diem post exitum officii sui
Et preterea dixerunt quod non tenebantur reddere computum de baronia
sua de Awl way nisi pro ut ceteri barones regni de baronijs suis Insuper
dicti ballivi dixerunt quod predictis non obstantibus propter placentiam
regis et camerarii ac benevolentiam ipsi voluerunt parare computum suum et
monstrare ipsum domino Regi vel camerario ubi eijs vel eorum alteri melius
placuerit ad bene placitum eorum infra xlt0 dies Super quibus omnibus
et singulis predictis antedicti ballivi a me notario subscripto suis suniptibus
et expensis sibi fieri pecierunt publicum instrumentum Acta fuerunt hec
in villa de Are in pretoreo eiusdem hora quasi xj anno die mensi indiccione
et pontificatu premissis Testibus nobilibus viris et providis Rankino de
Fowlartoun domino de Corsb.y Alexandro de Cragy ballivo terrarum tenipli
Sancti Johannis domino Thoma Crotteche et domino David Glassynwricht
capellanis Macolmo de Qulchone armigero Johanne Litster Johanne Gray
clerico Johanne Bannezour Gilberto Askirk cum tocius curie quam mult is
alijs.
Et ego Thomas Hakete presbyter Glasguensis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument narrating that John of Bathgate and Thomas of
Carrick, bailies of Ayr, being charged to render their account for the past year,
by Henry Forestar, depute of the chamberlain, in the manner and form
contained in a certain instrument accepted by the said depute ; they having
advised with the best men of the burgh of Ayr declared that they were
never before the past year charged or required to make such account, either
by the King or chamberlain : Further, that the baibes in the said town of
84 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
Ayr were not accustomed to render their accounts before the fortieth day
after the expiry of their office : And besides, that they were not bound to
render account of their barony of Alio way but in the same way as other
barons of the kingdom for their baronies : Further, they said that these
things notwithstanding, for the pleasure of the King and the goodwill of
the chamberlain they were willing to prepare their account, and to show it
to the King or the chamberlain wherever it might please them to appoint,
within forty days : Whereupon the said bailies craved this present instru-
ment to be executed at their expense. Done in the Tolbooth of Ayr, about
eleven o'clock on 17th November 1429.
46. Charter by Michael Gray, Chaplain, to Robert Mure of Hawaiian,
of the Lands of Galblare. — [1st January 1430.]
Omnibus banc cartam visuris vel audituris Michael Gray capellanus salutem
in Domino sempiternam Noveritis me concessisse vendidisse et hac pre-
senti carta mea confirmasse nee non et huius presentis carte mee tenore con-
cedes vendere et confirmare totas terras meas de Galblare et totas terras
meas vocatas ly Tenne acrys cum suis pertinenciis jacentes infra territorium
de Are in vicecomitatu eiusdem Ac eciam totum jus et clameum quod ego
dictus Michael Gray heredes mei vel assignati habeo habebunt vel quovis-
modo iuste habere potero vel ipsi habere poterint aliquo iure vel clameo in
futurum Eoberto More de Eowalane pro quindecem marcis bone et usualis
monete regni Scocie mihi in mea urgente necessitate premanibus persolutis Et
de qua quidem summa predicta quindecem marcarum fateor me bene conten-
tatuni et plenarie persolutum Tenendas et habendas omnes et singulas dictas
terras de Galblare et de ly Tenne acrys cum earundem pertinenciis a me et
heredibus meis et assignatis dicto Eoberto More heredibus suis vel assignatis
in feodo et hereditate imperpetuum ita libere quiete pacifice honorifice bene
et in pace sicut ego dictus Michael Gray vel aliqui predecessorum meorum
de burgo de Are liberius quiecius pacificentius et melius in aliquo tempore
ego tenui vel possedi tenuerunt vel possederunt infra dictum territorium de
Are cum omnibus et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus et asiamentis
quibuscunque ad dictas terras de jure vel consuetudine spectantibus seu
juste spectari valentibus aliquo modo infuturum tarn non nominatis quam
nominatis tarn subtus terram quam supra tarn prope quam longe in latitu-
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 85
dine et longitudine Et ego dictus Michael Gray heredes mei et assignati
dictas terras de Galblare et ly Tene acrys cum pertinenciis in omnibus et
per omnia si melius et liberius prescriptum est dicto Eoberto More et
heredibus suis vel assignatis contra omnes homines et mulieres mortales
warandizabimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus In cuius rei
testimonium sigillum meum presentibus est appensum apud Are primo
die mensis Januarii anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo
Coram hiis testibus Patricio Hayre aldermanno de Are Gilberto Askyrk
et Johanne Davidson ballivis de Are Johanne More domino de Caldwel
Johanne More de Sanchare Adam More de Laglane Johanne Chamer de
Gadgart rnagistro Ricardo Petit baccallario in decretis Thoma Haket Johanne
Bannezour Thoma de Crauforde et Johanne Broune burgensibus de Are cum
multis aliis.
Abstract.
Charter by Michael Gray, chaplain, whereby for fifteen merks Scots
paid to him in his urgent necessity in ready money, by Robert Mure of
Rowallan, he sells to the said Robert all his lands of Galblare, and the lands
called the Ten acres lying within the territory of Ayr and shire thereof :
To hold of the said Michael in fee and heritage for ever. Sealed at Ayr,
1st January 1430.
47. Charter by Janet of Cairns and John of Fergushill, to Thomas Scott
of Baillieland, of the Lands of Ilayandhouth and Athyn's Croft. —
[20th July 1433.]
Omnibus banc cartam visuris vel audituris Joneta de Carnys domina unius
partis de Busby et Jhoannes de Fergushyle dominus eiusdem salutem in
Domino sempiternam Noveritis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta
nostra confirmasse dilecto et speciali nostro Thome Scot de Bailyelande pro
suo servicio nobis gratanter impenso totas et integras terras de Hayandhouth
et de Atkynys Croft jacentes in baronia de Largis infra vicecomitatum de
Are cum suis pertinentiis Tenendas et habendas totas et integras terras
predictas predicto Thome et heredibus suis et suis assignatis de nobis et
heredibus nostris et nostris assignatis per omnes rectas metas et di visas suas
antiquas et consuetas in bossis silvis planis viis semitis moris et marrasiis
petariis turbariis pascuis et pasturis molendinis et multuris curiis et eschaetis
earundem aucupacionibus venacionibus et piscacionibus aquis stagnis et
S6 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
vivariis cum calce lapide et carbone cum libero introitu et exitu absque con-
tradiccione huiuscunque et cum omnibus aliis commoclitatibus libertatibus et
asiamentis ac iustis pertinenciis suis quibuscunque tarn nominatis quam non
nomiuatis tarn subtus quam supra terrain tarn procul quam prope ad dictas
terras spectantibus seu quovismodo spectare valentibus iu futurum libere
quiete 1 in feodo et bereditate imperpetuum Eeddendo inde annua-
tim dictus Tbomas et beredes sui et sui assignati nobis et beredibus nostris
de dictis terris de Hayandboutb sedecem denarios usualis monete regni
Scocie et sex denarios de terra de Atkynnys Croft eiusdem monete annuatim
solvendos ad duos anni terminos videlicet penticostes et
sancti Martini in bieme per equales portiones tantum pro omnibus aliis
serviciis secularibus exaccionibus seu demandis quibuscunque de predictis
terris cum pertinenciis per quoscunque exigi poterit vel requiri Et nos vero
dicti Joneta et Jobannes et beredes nostri et nostri assignati totas predictas
terras predicto Thome beredibus suis et suis assignatis contra omnes mortales
warantizabimus aquietabimus et in forma premissa imperpetuum defende-
mus In cuius rei testimonium sigilla nostra predicte carte nostre sunt
appensa Datum apud ecclesiam parocbialem de Largis vicesimo die mensis
Julij anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo tercio Testibus
nobilibus viris dominis Tboma Cambele de Scbalawtbwrake Wilhelmo
Freseel de Knok Patricio Boil de Kelburne et Fynlao de Monfoide cum
multis aliis.
Abstract.
Charter by Janet of Cairns, lady of one part of Busby, and John of
Fergushill, lord of the same, granting to Thomas Scot of Baillieland, for his
service thankfully rendered, the lands of Hayandhouth and Atkyn's Croft, in
the barony of Largs and shire of Ayr : To hold of the granters in fee and
heritage, for the yearly payment of sixteen pennies money of Scotland for
Hayandhouth, and for Atkyn's Croft six pennies of the same money. Dated
at the parish church of Largs, 20th July 1433.
48. Notarial Instrument concerning the right of the Community of Ayr
to hold the Fair of St. Michael. — [29th September 1460.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
evidenter et sit notum quod anno ab incarnacione Domini millesimo quadrin-
1 Illegible.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. s?
gentesimo sexagesimo mensis vero Septembris die penultimo Lndiccione
nona pontificatus sanctissinii in Chxisto patris et domini nostri Pii divina
providencia pape secundi anno tercio in mei notarii publici et testium
subseriptoruni presencia personaliter constitutus Johannes de Dalrpnpill
assertus cliens domini Georgii Cambell militis vicecomitis de Are peciit et
oneravit providos viros videlicet Johannem Multrar aldermannum burgi de
Ar Johannem Cher[y et] Thomam Vilzamson ballivos eiusdem necnon
Alexandi'iim Otterburn et Jacobum Valcar burgenses dicti burgi ad inveni-
endum sibi plegios ad comparendum coram dicto vicecomite in curia
mmdinarum sancti Michaelis archangeli tenenda in crastino earundem Et
tunc dictus aldermannus peciit a prefato cliente qua auctoritate eos oneraret
vel ad huius curiam arrestaret Qui respondit quod nomine et auctoritate
vicecomitis antedicti Ac dictus aldermannus peciit si aliquam ad hoc
faciendum potestatem haberet quod ibidem ostenderet Quam minime fecit
Insuper prefatus aldermannus asseruit custodiam et conservacionem dictarum
nundinarum sancti Michaelis datam et collatam aldermanno ballivis et coni-
munitati burgi antedicti et super huius custodia et conservacione ipsos
asseruit literas habere regias desuper confectas et ad crucem foralem alias
publice proclamatas Publice et expresse inhibendo dicto clienti et aliis
quibuscuuque nomine et auctoritate supremi domini nostri regis in custodia
dictarum nundinarum et curiis earundem se non intromittere eo quod tota
earundem jurisdiccio per regem erat ut asseruit eiis collata Et quod dictum
Johannem Dalrympill non cognovit in huius arrestacionibus dictis nundinis
pertinentibus clientem nee in eisdem potestatem quovismodo habere et quod
sibi vel suis arrestacionibus quantum ad curiam nundinarum prefati alder-
mannus ballivi et burgenses antedicti nullo modo obedirent pro et ex eo
quod nullum alium cognovit nisi tantummodo aldermannum ballivos et
communitatem burgi predict! quoscunque officiarios posse in dictis nundinis
conservandis et curiis earundem tenendis facere aut quovismodo ordinare
et si eos ad dictam curiam nundinarum arrestare presumpscrit ab eodem
cum omni cura declinarent et plegios eidem clienti non invenirent Super
quibus omnibus et singulis sic premissis peciit dictus Johannes Multrar
aldermannus nomine proprio et tocius communitatis per me notarium
publicum infrascriptum sibi presens publicum fieri instrumentum Acta
sunt hec in villa de Are ex parte australi pretorii eiusdem in plains
nundinis sancti Michaelis sepedictis sub anno mense die indiccione et
pontificatu supra dictis Presentibus nobdibus ac providis viria videlicet
8S MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
Thoma Spreule domino cle Coldoun Johanne Mur de Herothill Alexandro
de Conynghame burgense burgi de Erwyne cum multis aliis testibus ad
premissa vocatis pariterque rogatis.
Et ego vero Johannes Kerd presbyter Glasguensis diocesis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument narrating that John of Dalrymple, asserted client
of Sir George Campbell, knight, sheriff of Ayr, required and charged these
prudent men, namely, John Multrar, alderman of the burgh of Ayr, John
Chery and Thomas Williamson, bailies, Alexander Otterburn and James
Walker, burgesses of the said burgh, to find pledges for themselves to
compear before the said sheriff in the court to be held on the day after the
fair of St. Michael the Archangel : The alderman then asked of the said
client by what authority he charged them to such a court ; who replied
that it was by authority of the sheriff : The alderman then demanded that
if he had any warrant to that effect he would show it there : Which he
did not : The alderman further asserted that the holding of the said
fair of St. Michael was granted to the alderman, bailies, and community
of the burgh, by royal letters publicly proclaimed at the market -cross,
expressly inhibiting the said client and others whomsoever from intromit-
ting with the holding of the said fair, because that the whole jurisdiction
thereof was by the King committed to them ; therefore he refused to
recognise the authority of the said John of Dalrymple, or to find pledges
as he had required : Upon all which the said John Multrar, alderman, in
his own name, and in that of the whole community of Ayr, craved this
present public instrument : These things were done in the town of Ayr, on
the south side of the Tolbooth of the same, in the open fair of St. Michael,
on 29th September 1460.
49. Decreet by the Lords of Council in Action betioeen the Burgh of Ayr
and Sir George Campbell of Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr, anent the new
Fair held in the said, Burgh. — [6th October 1460.]
At Edinburgh the sex day of the moneth of October the yere of oure Lord a
thousand four hundreth and sexte before thir lordis of our soveran lordis
counsale undirwritten that is to say a reverend fadir in Criste Andro
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 89
bischap of Glasgw richt worschipful and michty lordis Andro lord Annan-
dale chancelar of Scotland "William erle of Orknay and of Cathnes lord
Sinclar William erle of Erole connestabil of Scotland William lord Bortlrwic
Alan lord Cathkert James lord Hammilton maister John Arous prive sele
maister George Liddale secretare til our soveran lord the King bodely
comperit certane burges of Are for tharne self and as procuratours to the
burges and comonte of the said burgh of Are on the tapart and Sir George
Cambell of Loudon knicht schereff of Are on the tothir part in the caus and
accion of debate betuix the said burges on the tapart and the said schereff
on the tothir part tuiching the clame of bath the said parties of the balding
of the new fair of the said burgh grantit be oure soveran lord qukam God
assolze to the burges of the said burgh Eftir the avais of bath the parteis
foresaid thai being removit and enterit again the said lordis of counsale
decretit and deliverit that for ocht hethirtill schawin be the said burses
before the said lordis the said burges has nocht na keping rewling nor
govirnance of the said fare na that the dewiteis pertenys nocht to thaim as
for the keping of it and has thairfore for the gud of the said burgh ordanit
that the kingis lettres to be given to the said schereff of the keping thairof
enduring the kingis will And thairattour the said lordis has decernit and
ordanit that thair be na unlawis dewiteis nor proffitis taken up be the said
shereff na nane of his behalf of ony thing pretening to the said last faire
and alsa it is ordanit that the said shereff tak na dewiteis in time dimming
bot sic as wes ordanit be the hale parliament and thre estatis to be tane be
the sherems.
50. Instrument on the Agreement between Gilbert Lord Kennedy and the
Burgh of Ayr regarding the Boundaries of the Baronies of Alloivay
and Dalrymple. — [25th April 1475.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno ab incarnacione Domini millesimo
quadringentesimo septuagesimo quinto die vero mensis Aprilis vicesima
quinta indiccione viija pontificatus sanctissimi in Cristo patris et domini
nostri domini Sixti divina providencia pape iiijt; anno iiijto in mei notarii
publici et testium subscriptorum presencia appunctuatum concordatum et
fmaUter erat terminatum inter nobilem dominum Gilbertum dominum Ken-
nedy et Johannem Kennedy filium et heredem apparentem dicti domini
N
90 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
pro se et eorum heredibus in perpetuuni ex parte una et Johannem Multrar
Alanum Boyman et Thomam Makkilkerdy aldermannum et ballivos burgi
de Air cum consensu et assensu comniunitatis dicti burgi pro se et eorum
successoribus ex parte altera quod figure et mete divise inter baroniam de
Dalrumpill pertinentem prefato domino Kennedy ex una et baroniam de
Alloway pertinentem prescriptis aldermanno ballivis et communitati dicti
burgi ab altera servarentur et hereditarie custodientur in forma et effectu ut
sequitur Primo incipiendo ad finem torrentis de Pulraskan ubi porrigit
brachium suum in aqua de Dwyne et sic ab bine per quamdam fossam
lapideam cum certa terra accumulata nuncupata le Hedrig de terris de
Alloway usque le Clowin Stane deinde ascendendo per eandem fossam et
dimidietatem terre nuncupate le Brakanbirst in qua terra est quadam crux
situata wlgariter nuncupata sanct Markis Cors et sic ab bac gradiens versus
orientem ad fossam nuncupatam le Lowchridding et ab bine ascendendo per
communem viam usque petarium de Monyvayn tarn prope quam procull
inbabitantes et tenentes dictam baroniam de Alloway arare vel ad culturam
redigere possunt intigro tamen petario remanente cum baronia de Dalrum-
pille deinde descendendo a dicto petario spacium quoddam per marresium
nuncupatum le Syik inter terras aratas de Kertcloy et communem de Bal-
saracbt versus orientem a dicto marresio et exinde gradiens et iter faciens
per certum solum accumulatum nuncupatum le Hedrig de Bymberizard usque
ad tres magnos lapides inter Bymberizarde et Ballinseracbt existentes supra
communi torrente deinde descendendo per marresium usque torrentem et
ascendendo torrentem usque petarium nuncupatum Kidbalcbis Mowse
deinde a capite dicti torrentis per dictum petarium usque terram communem
monialium ita quod una dimidietas dicti petarii dividetur et remanebit pro
perpetuo cum dicta baronia de Alloway et altera media pars eodem modo
remanebit cum baronia de Dalrumpill Super quibus omnibus et singulis
sic actis factis et elocutis ut prescriptum est idem Johannes Multerar
nomine et ex parte comniunitatis dicti burgi a me notario publico exinde
fieri sibi peciit hoc presens publicum instrumentum sive publica instrumenta
Acta fueruut hec in dictis terris de le Bracanbirst sub anno mense die
indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra bora quarta vel eo circa post meridiem
presentibus bonorabilibus et circumspectis viris Colino venerabili patre
abbate de Corsragruer Jobanne Kennedy de Blarquban Johanne Cbalmir de
Gadgirtbt milite David Blair de Adamton Jacobo Kennedy Jobanne Kennedy
filio et berede ajjparente dicti Jobannis Kennedy de Blarquban Quintino
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 91
Mvr Jacobo Blar Alexandre) Catlikert scutiferis Willelmo Bkemcamhop
Michaele Mason Georgio Quliit Johanne Broun Johanne Rolland et Thoma
Red burgensibus dicti burgi cum multis aliis ad premissa vocatis specialiter
et rogatis.
Et ego vero Robertus Gref presbyter Glasguensis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument, narrating that it was agreed and finally ended be-
tween a noble lord, Gilbert lord Kennedy, and John Kennedy his son and
apparent heir, for themselves and their heirs, on the one part, and John
Multrar, alderman, and Alan Boyman and Thomas Makkilkerdy, bailies of
the burgh of Ayr, with consent of the community thereof, for them and
their successors, on the other part, that the marks and boundaries set
between the barony of Dalrymple, belonging to the said lord Kennedy on
the one part, and the barony of Alloway, belonging to the burgh of Ayr on
the other part, should be preserved and heritably kept in form and effect
as follows : Beginning at the end of the burn of Pulraskan, where it stretches
its arm in the water of Doon, and so from thence along by a certain stone
dyke with some heaped earth, called the Headrig of the lands of Alloway, as
far as the Clowin Stane ; then upwards by the same dyke to the half of the
land called the Brakanhirst, on which land there is placed a certain cross,
called St. Mark's Cross : and so onwards from this, turning towards the east,
to the dyke called the Lowchridding ; and thence upward by the common
way to the peat moss of Monyvayn, — both near and far, those inhabiting
and holding the said barony of Alloway may plough or cultivate ; the
whole peat moss, however, remaining with the barony of Dalrymple : then
going down from the said peat moss a certain space, along by the marsh
called the Syke, between the ploughed lands of Carcluie and the common
of Balsarroch, towards the east from the said marsh, and thence turning and
making way by the headrig of Broomberry-yard, as far as to three large stones
between Broomberry-yard and Balsarroch, above the common burn : then
down the marsh to the burn, and up the burn to the peat moss called Rid-
halch's Moss ; then from the head of the said burn by the said moss as far
as to the common land of the Nuns ; so that one half of the said peat moss
should be divided and remain for ever with the said barony of Alloway, and
the other half in like manner should remain with the barony of Dalrymple.
92 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
Done in presence of the witnesses therein named, on the lands of the
Bracanhirst, about four o'clock afternoon, 25th April 1475.
51. Sasine of the Burgh of Ayr in Annualrent of Five Shillings out of
the Lands of Holmyshill, in exchange with Hugh Wallace of Smiths-
toun for the place of the Walkmill and Salmon Fishing.— {9th March
1488.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnacionis dominice millesimo
quadringentesimo octuagesimo octavo die vero mensis Marcii nona indiccione
septima pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri
Innocencii divina providencia pape octavi anno quinto in mei notarii publici
et testium infrascriptorum presencia personabter constitutus honorabilis vir
Hugo Walles de Smythistoun melioribus via modo forma pariter et effectu
quibus jure potuit seu debuit pure et simpliciter resignavit necnon a se et
suis heredibus ac assignatis imperpetuum sursum reddidit in manibus
providi viri Ade Wischard ballivi pro tempore burgi de Aire per delibera-
cionem unius denarii in manibus eiusdem quinque solidos annui redditus
usualis monete regni Scocie annuatim levandos et percipiendos in festis
sancti Martini in hieme et Pentecostes per equales porciones de omnibus et
singulis terris suis de Holmys Hill cum pertinenciis jacentibus in terretorio
dicti burgi in Kile regis et infra vicecomitatum burgi predicti Quaquidem
resignacione quinque solidorum annui redditus ut premittitur in manibus
dicti ballivi ut predicitur rite peracta antedictus ballivus post resignacionem
eorumdem ex speciali mandato dicti Hugonis Walles statum dedit heredi-
tariam et saisinam necnon et realem et corporalem possessionem antedicti
annui redditus egregio viro Andree Busby aldirmanno dicti burgi tanquam
persone publice nomine et ex parte tocius communitatis ac omnium com-
burgensium dicti burgi sibi et suis futuris successoribus possidendi et levandi
imperpetuum Et hoc nomine puri excambii quinque solidorum feodifirme
expressatorum in quadam carta per dictum aldirmannum Michaelem Mak
Gilroy et Adam Wischard ballivos ac eciam communitatem predictam
sepedicto Hugoni confecta pro loco et sede molendini fullonatorii ly
Walkmyll una cum piscaria salmonum ut luculencius constat in eadem
Pro quaquidem carta dicto Hugoni ut premittitur tradita ipse Hugo sub
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 93
suo deliberabat sigillo anteclictis aldermauno ballivis et communitati unam
cartaru excambii cle clictis quinque solidis annui redditus debita forma
secundum cuius quidem carte tenorem tradidit dictus Adam baUivus saisinam
premissam salvo jure cuiuslibet Super quibus vero resignacione dicti annui
redditus ac eiusdem saisine ceterisque omnibus et singulis pecierunt
prenominati aldermannus ac eciam Michael Mak Gilroy ballivus buroi
predicti nomine et ex parte sui et interesse atque tocius communitatis unum
aut plura instrumentum aut instrumenta publicum seu publica per me
notarium publicum subscriptum sibi fieri Acta erant liec super solum
dictarum terrarum bora quasi octava ante meridiem vel ea circa anno die
mense indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem honora-
bilibus viris Matbeo Walles de Coschogil Johanne Blar de Adamtoun Alano
Catbcart filio et berede apparente Jobannis Cathkert de Carltoun militis
Laurencio Walles Gavino DaLrumpUl Alexandro Eaith Johanne Walker
conburgensibus et Willelmo Thomsoun scutifero cum multis aliis testibus
ad premissa vocatis.
Et ego vero Andreas Makcormyll presbyter Glasguensis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument, narrating that an honourable man, Hugh Wallace of
Smithstoun, resigned an annualrent of five shillings out of his lands of
Holmyshill, in the territory of the burgh of Ayr, in King's Kyle, by delivery
of one penny in the hands of a prudent man Adam Wishart, bailie of the
burgh of Ayr : After which the said bailie, by special mandate of the said
Hugh Wallace, gave heritable infeftment of the aforesaid annualrent to a
distinguished man, Andrew Busby, alderman of the said burgh, as a public-
person, in name and behalf of the community and burgesses of the burgh,
to be possessed and uplifted by them and their successors for ever : And
that in name of pure exchange for five shillings of feu-ferme mentioned in
a charter granted by the said alderman, Michael Mak Gilroy and Adam
Wishart, bailies, and the community foresaid, to the said Hugh, for the
place and ground of the Walkmyln, with the salmon fishing ; for which
charter so granted, the said Hugh delivered under his seal to the said alder-
man, bailies, and community, a charter of excambion of the said five shdlings
of annualrent in due form : These things were done on the ground of the
said lands, about eight o'clock before noon of the 9th day of March 1488.
94 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUKGH OF AYR.
52. Instrument on the Resignation by Margaret White of a Tenement in
Ayr in favour of Sir Arthur Reid, Chaplain. — \l5th October 1490.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnacionis Dominice millesimo
quadriugentesimo nonagesimo die vero mensis Octobris decima quinta
indiccione nona pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri
Sixti divina providencia pape quarti anno septimo in mei notarii publici et
testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constituta provida mulier
Margreta Quhit pure et simpliciter resign avit per fustem et baculum et
sursum reddidit in manibus providi viri Thome Hustoun ballivi pro tempore
burgi de Are suum liberum conjunctum feodamentum ac eciam omne ius
aut clameum que habuit vel habere potuit ad quoddam suum tenementum
cum pertinenciis jacens in burgo de Are inter tenementum Jacobi Vilsoun
ex parte boriali et tenementum quondam Eoberti Kow ex parte australi
Qua resignacione sic facta et per dictum ballivum recepta ipse ballivus more
quo decuit seu debuit statum contulit hereditarium et sasinam de dicto
tenemento cum pertinenciis provido viro domino Arthuro Reid capellano
hereditarie imperpetuum Salvo iure cuiuslibet Super quibus vero omni-
bus et singulis peciit dictus capellanus hoc presens publicum instrumentum
per me notarium publicum subscriptum sibi fieri Acta erant hec super
solum dicti tenementi hora quasi xj ante meridiem vel ea circa anno die
mense indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem Johanne
Daliumpill olim de Lacht Willelmo Blar Alexandro Recht juniore Patricio
Kar Adam Mure seniori Johanne Die et Thoma Stewart cum multis aliis
testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego vero Andreas Makcormyl, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument on the resignation by a prudent woman Margaret White, in
the hands of Thomas Houston, bailie of the burgh of Ayr, of her conjunct
fee of a tenement in the said burgh, situated between the tenement of
James Wilson on the north and that of the deceased Robert Kow on the
south : Which resignation having been received by the said bailie, he gave
and delivered heritable state and sasine of the said tenement to Sir Arthur
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 95
Reid, chaplain. These things were clone on the ground of the said tenement
about eleven o'clock before noon, on the 15th October 1490, before these wit-
nesses, John Dalrymple sometime of Lacht, William Blair, Alexander Recht
younger, Patrick Kar, Adam Mure elder, John Dick, and Thomas Stewart.
Notary, Andrew Makcormyll.
53. Instrument on the Resignation by Sir John Shaw, Chaplain, of an
Annualrent of Six Shillings anal Eightpence, in favour of the Choris-
ters of the Church of St. John, for an Obit Mass for Nicholas M' Ylroye.
\Z0th December 1500.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter quod anno incarnacionis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo
die vero mensis Decembris penultimo indiccione quarta pontificatus sanctis-
simi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri Alexandri divina providencia
pape sexti anno nono et regni Jacobi quarti regis nostri illustrissimi anno
decimo tercio in mei notarii publici et testium subseriptorum presencia
personaliter constitutus circumspectus vir dominus Johannes Schaw capel-
lanus accessit ad suum tenementum jacens in burgo de Air inter tenementum
Ade Conyngham de Caprontoun ex parte boriali ex parte una et tenementum
Willelmi Dregarne ex parte australi ex parte altera Et ibi ob certas causas
ipsum ad hoc moventes sex solidos et octo denarios annui redditus per
denarii deliberacionem ut moris est in manibus providi viri Thome Tayt
ballivi de Ayr pro tempore a se et heredibus suis sursum reddidit pureque
et simpliciter imperpetuum resignavit et hoc in favorem presbiteriorum
coristarum ecclesie parochialis sancti Johannis Baptiste de Ayr et suorum
successorum ibidem Deo serviencium Qua resignacione facta idem ballivus
statum et sasinam hereditariam de dictis sex solidis et octo denariis annui
redditus annuatim de dicto tenemento levandis per denarii tradicionem ut
moris est domino Thome Holland curato de Ayr pro tempore tanquam
principali coriste salvo jure cuiuslibet imperpetuum donavit et hoc pro
exequiis et missa obitus in crastinum per dictos coristas pro salute anime
quondam Nicholai M'Ylroy annuatim in insula sancte Trinitatis dicte ecclesie
celebrandis Super quibus omnibus et singulis peciit dictus dominus Thomas
a me notario subscripto presens fieri instrumentum Acta erant hec super
solum dicti tenementi hora novena ante meridiem vel ea circa sub anno die
96 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
mense indiccione pontificatu et regis regno quibus supra presentibus ibidem
providis viris Johanne Schaw de Haly Coliuo Campbell Micbaele M'Ylroye
Willelmo Dregarne Joliaune Makylcardy Alano Scbaw David Masoune et
Tboma M'Ylroy cum multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et
rogatis.
Et ego vero Johannes Thome presbiter Glasguensis, etc.
Abstract.
Notarial Instrument on the resignation by Sir John Shaw, chaplain, of
an annualrent of six shillings and eightpence out of his tenement situated
in the burgh of Ayr, between the tenement of Adam Cunyngham of Capring-
ton on the north and that of William Dregarne on the south, by delivery of
a penny, in the hands of a prudent man Thomas Tayt, bailie of Ayr, in
favour of the choristers of the church of St. John the Baptist of Ayr, — on
whose behalf Sir Thomas Holland, curate of Ayr, as principal chorister, re-
ceived infeftment from the hand of the said bailie : And this for exequies
and an obit mass on the morrow, to be celebrated once a year by the said
choristers, in the aisle of the Holy Trinity of the said church, for the soul
of the deceased Nicholas M'Ylroy : Done at the said tenement at nine
o'clock in the forenoon of the 30th December 1500.
54. Charter by Sir Andrew Makcormyll1 to the Choristers of the Parish
Church of Ayr, of Twenty Shillings yearly, for the Celebration of his
Anniversary and Obit. — [12th May 1502.]
Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quorum noticias presentes litere
seu carta pervenerint dominus Andreas Makcormyll vicarius de Stratoun
ac Instructor pro tempore studii grammaticalis burgi de Are licet immeritus
salutem in Domino sempiternam Quia per pias elimosinas et missarum
celebraciones continuas ubi Filius pro peccatis nostris Patri offertur credimus
peccata dimitti purgatorij penas demollirj et ab eisdem defunctorum animas
frequencius liberarj Noverit igitur universitas vestra me spiritu fervide
devocionis in hac parte motum unum anniversarium ac perpetuum obitum
in ecclesia parrochiali predicti burgi fundasse pro salute anime mee mei
patris et matris meorumque bencfactorum intencionaliter vivorum et
1 He died 3d April 1507 (Obit Book of Ayr, p. 31).
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 97
defunetorum Pro quo quidem anniversario et exequiis per presbiteros et
choristas chorj de Are pro tempore celebraudo noveritis me dedisse con-
cessisse et hac pi'esenti carta mea confirmasse ac per presentes dare concedere
et imperpetuum coufirmare presbiteris et choristis dicti chorj presentibus
et futuris ac eciam pauperibus viginti solidos annui redditus legalis monete
regni Scocie annuatim levandos in terminis pentichostes et sancti Martini
in hieme per equales porciones videlicet sedecim solidos de toto et integro
tenemento meo cum pertinenciis in dicto burgo inter finem pontis eiusdem
ab una et tenementum Patricii Kare ex parte altera ac eciam quatuor
solidos de toto meo tenemento cum pertinenciis jacente in eodem burgo
inter tenementum Johannis Chapell ab una et tenementum dudum Michaelis
Masoun ex parte altera Quiquidem annuus redditus imperpetuum dis-
tribuetur prout sequitur Et primo Campanarius ibit per plateas more
solito instigando eciam pauperes ut veniant ad missam obitus ad depre-
candum pro anima fundatoris et ad recipiendum suam elimosinam secundum
forinain fundacionis quamobrem kabebit quatuor denarios Interea post
missam obitus ad pauperes tunc presentes in esca et potu ac pecunia octo
solidj ex predictis vigintj solidis per principalem sacerdotem chori cum
concilio decani gilde si interfuerit distribuendi Preterea quia seculares
perspicue explorant facta ecclesiasticorum et e converso volo quod ipse
decanus gilde qui pro tempore fuerit intersit dicte elimosine distribucioni
si voluerit gracia cuius duodecim denarii sibi annuatim ex premissa summa
dabuntur sinautem nicbil Volo eciam quod ad decorem domus Dei clericus
parrochialis vel sacrista pro tempore ter pulset ad exequias et tociens ad
missam obitus pulsa maioris campane Ea propter duodecim denarios habeat
sinautem sex tantum Et quod huiusmodj anniversarii officium annuatim
celebretur ad altare sacri sanguinis in die sanctj Andree quo ad obitum cum
missa obitus et ceteris privatis missis in crastinum Et luminj eiusdem
altaris annuatim sex denarij dabuntur Et quod exequie cum novem
lectionibus ad cultuni Dei boneste annuatim perficiantur Volo eciam quod
a quolibet sacerdote ab exequiis absente quatuor denarii et a missa totidem
subtrahantur absentibus vero ab utraque nicbil debitur Volo eciam quod
sex sacerdotes ad minus ex dicto choro seu hiis deficientibus alii predicto
officio intersint Et quia mora trahit periculum et suffragii dilacio aliquo-
modo auffert meritum ab indigentibus volo quod a quolibet sacerdote
presente die obitus et tunc non celebrante tres denarii subtrahantur
Insuper constituo quod ilia pecunia que ex absencia decani gilde seu ex
o
98 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
negligencia sacerclotum ut predicitur contigerit in ' datur partes
Et una pars in usum pauperum cedat reliqua vero sacerdotibus presentibus
et celebrantibus ut supra * pro perpetuo ordino quod distributor
Elimosine pro tempore et ceterorum ut supra gracia sui fidelis laboris
habeat por l dicte pecunie qui aliis sacerdotibus incumbit
Et ut ipse distributor pro tempore reddat fideliter singula 1 eterne
remuneracionis optat esse particeps Volo eciam quod si contingat ex incuria
sacerdotum vel aliter quod 1 die et tempore prescriptis non
perficiatur quod ilia vice et ceteris vicibus quociens hoc contigerit predicti
1 gantur decanum gilde et meos propinquiores amicos in burgo
et ex dicta summa quatuordecim solidj pauperibus 1 gentur Cetera
do ad suum usum et ecclesie ut eis expedire videbitur pertinere dinoscantur
patronos vero ad buiusmodj fierj faciendas imperpetuum aldirmannum
decanum gilde ballivos et burgenses dicti burgi presentes et futuros pre-
sents carte tenore facio constituo creo et ordino irrevocabiliter imper-
petuum Reservato tamen michi tempore vite mee libero tenemento pre-
dicti annui redditus In cuius rei testimonium buic presenti carte mee
sigillum meum est appensum apud dictum burgum duodecimo die mensis
Maij anno domini millesimo quingentesimo secundo coram biis testibus
Matheo Walles de Crago Roberto Clerc aldermanno dictj burgj Jobanne
Browne Adam Wiscbart ballivo Jobanne Wiscbart decano gilde et Alex-
andro Jobnestoun cum multis aliis, etc.
(Signed) Dominus Andreas Makcormyl,
Notarius Publicus.
Ita est manu propria approbat singula premissa.
1 Original torn.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 99
Abstract.
Charter by Sir Andrew Makcorruyll, vicar of Straiton, and instructor
for the time of the Grammar School of the burgh of Ayr, albeit undeservedly,
whereby, confessing his faith that by pious alms and the celebration of
masses, the Son is offered to the Father for the sins of men, which are on
that account remitted, and the pains of purgatory ended, and the souls of
the dead set free in greater numbers, therefore, being moved by a spirit of
fervid devotion, he founded an anniversary and perpetual obit in the parish
church of the said burgh for the welfare of his own soul, the souls of his
father and mother, and of those who were intentionally his benefactors,
both hving and dead ; for the celebration of which anniversary, and the
funeral rites, by the priests and choristers of the choir of Ayr, for the time,
he granted to them, and also to the poor, twenty shillings of annualrent,
of legal money of Scotland, to be uplifted at the terms of Whitsunday and
Martinmas by equal portions, viz., sixteen shillings from his tenement in
the said burgh, between the end of the bridge thereof on the one side and
the tenement of Patrick Kare on the other : also four shillings from his
tenement in the said burgh, between the tenement of John Chapell and
that of the late Michael Masoun ; which annualrent should be perpetually
distributed thus : First, the bellman should go through the streets, in the
usual manner, to instigate the poor to come to the obit mass to pray for
the soul of the founder and to receive his alms, for which service the said
bellman should have four pence ; while to the poor people then present
there should be distributed, by the principal priest of the choir, with the
advice of the dean of gild, if present, eight shillings, in meat, drink, and
money, out of the foresaid twenty shillings : Further, because the seculars
look sharply after the doings of churchmen, as the latter also do regarding
the conduct of the seculars, he willed that the dean of gild should be present,
if he pleased, at the distribution of the said alms, for which favour twelve
pence should be given to him out of the foresaid sum, but if not present,
nothing : He willed, also, that for the decency of the house of God the
parish clerk or sacristan should toll the great bell three times at the
exequies and as many times at the obit mass, for which he should have
twelve pence, otherwise only six ; and that the office of the said anni-
versary should be celebrated at the altar of the holy blood on St. Andrew's
100 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Day, and the obit, the obit mass, and other private masses on the
morrow ; and. for the light of the same altar six pence should be given
yearly ; and that the exequies should be performed every year in honour-
able manner, with nine lessons for the worship of God ; and that from every
priest absent from the exequies four pence should be deducted, and the
same from those absent from mass ; while the absentees from both should
have nothing : He willed, also, that at least six priests from the choir
should be present at the foresaid office, and failing these, others : And
because delay leads to danger, and the deferring of prayer in some way
keeps back favour from the indigent, he willed that from each priest
present on the day of the obit, and then not celebrating, three pence should
be kept : He further ordained that the money which accrued from the absence
of the dean of gild, or from the negligence of the priests, should be divided
amongst the poor and the priests who were present and celebrating ; and
that the distributor of the alms should have as much of the said money as
the other priests. [The clauses following this are imperfect, owing to the
decay of the parchment, and therefore not translatable.] For all which
purposes he ordained the alderman, dean of gild, bailies, and burgesses of
Ayr to be the patrons of his grant in all time coming ; but reserved to
himself the frank tenement thereof during his lifetime. Dated 12th May
1502.
55. Resignation by Sir Andrew M'Cormyll, Vicar of Straiton, for an Obit
to be said by the Choristers of St. John's Church, Ayr. — \_19th May
1502.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnacionis Dominice millesimo
quingentesimo secundo die vero mensis Maij xix° indictione sexta pontifi-
catus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri Alexandri pape
sexti anno undecimo et regni excellentissimi principis Jacobi quarti
Scotorum regis illustrissimj anno decimo quarto in mei notarij publici et
testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus circumspectus
vir dominus Andreas Makcormile vicarius de Stratoun incola burgi de Aire
pro tempore pure simpliciter resignavit et sursum reddidit ut moris est
imperpetuum quatuor solidos annuj redditus usualis monete annuatim
levandos de tenemento suo cum pertinenciis jacente in dicto burgo inter
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 101
tenementum dudum Michaelis Masoune ab una et tenementum Johannis
Chapell ex parte altera in manibus providi viri Johannis Walcare ballivi pro
tunc dicti burgi ad augmentacionem sedecim solidorum annui redditus prius
donatorum per dictum vicarium pro perpetuo annuo obitu pro ipso annuatim
faciendo secundum tenorem carte sue desuper confecte Qua resignacione
facta predictus ballivus statum contulit et saisinam ac veram possessionem
predicti annui redditus digno viro magistro Eduardo Blayre tanquam
publice persone nomine et ex parte ecclesie sancti Johannis et choristarum
eiusdem presencium et futurorum Insuper predictus ballivus vive vocis
oraculo publice fatebatur se prius recepisse resignacionem per prefatum
vicarium de sedecim solidis ut predicitur annuatim levandis de tenemento
dicti vicarii prope pontem de Aire pro perpetuo explecione dicti annui obitus
secundum tenorem carte sue Super quibus vero omnibus et singulis sic
premissis pecierunt predicti magister Eduardus et dominus Andreas quilibet
pro suo interesse instrumentum vel instrumenta publicum vel publica per
me notarium publicum subscriptum sibi fierj Acta fuerunt hec super solum
dicti tenementi hora quasi prima post meridiem vel ea circa anno die mense
incliccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem providis viris
Roberto Clerk aldermanno Alexandre Johnsone Johanne Wischard Georgio
Neisbit Willelmo Bell dominis Johanne Thomsone notario et Thoma
M'Quhinze capellano cum multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter
et rogatis.
Et ego Patricius Law presbiter Glasguensis diocesis publicus regali
auctoritate notarius, etc.
Abstract.
Resignation by Sir Andrew Makcormyll, vicar of Straiten, inhabitant for
the time of the burgh of Ayr, of four shillings of annualrent to be raised
from his tenement situated in the said burgh, between the tenement of the
late Michael Mason on the one side and that of John Chapell on the other,
in the hands of John Walker, then bailie of the said burgh, for augmentation
of sixteen shillings of annualrent formerly given by the said vicar, for a
perpetual yearly obit for himself, according to the tenor of his charter
granted thereupon : Which resignation having been made, the said bailie
gave state, sasine, and true possession of the foresaid annualrent to a worthy
man Mr. Edward Blayr, as a public person, in name of the church of St.
102 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
John, and of the choristers thereof present and future : Whereupon the
foresaid bailie, with lively voice, acknowledged that he had formerly re-
ceived resignation by the said vicar of sixteen shillings, to be uplifted yearly
from his tenement near the Bridge of Ayr, for the perpetual accomplishment
of the said yearly obit : Whereupon the said Mr. Edward and Sir Andrew
asked instruments for their respective interests. Done on the ground of the
said tenement 19th May 1502.
56. Charter by the Burgh of Ayr to the Convent of the Friars Preachers,
of a Piece of the common land, etc.— [1st October 1531.]
Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Adam Wallace de Neutoune pre-
positus burgi de Are Johannes Kennedy et Leonardus Clerk ballivi dicti
burgi pro tempore et communitas eiusdem salutem in Domino sempiternam
Noverit universitas vestra nos non vi aut metu ductos nee errore lapsos seu
dolo circumventos sed nostra mera et spontanea voluntate utilitateque
nostra undique previsa et pensata ac commodum et favorem nostre reipub-
lice unanimi consensu et assensu omnium nostrum dedisse concessisse con-
firmasse et ad feodifirmam dimisisse necnon per presentes dare concedere
confirmare et hac presenti carta nostra ad feodifirmam nemine nostrum
contradicente dimittere pro nobis et nostris successoribus imperpetuum
circumspecto religioso viro fratri Thome Stevinsone priori fratrum predica-
torum de Are et conventui eiusdem suisque successoribus quamdam peciam
terre communis nostri ad sedem et locum molendini continentem in
longitudine viginti quinque casus oblonge virge ly rudwand computando
quemlibet casum dicte virge ad sex ulnas usualis mensure et in latitudine
occupantem tantum terre communis nostri quantum distat inter aquam de
Are ex parte orientali et quamdam sicam seu fossam jam edificatam super
orientalem partem terrarum de Holmys ex parte occidentali dicte pecie terre
et ex parte altera inchoando in quadam rupe ad descensum et pedem cuius-
dam loci qui dicitur ly Kendee Bank et sic descendendo abhinc per ripam
dicte aque per tantum spacium terre in longitudine ut predicitur Cum
aquarum adductu et deductu ly to laid and away laid in dicta terra unacum
croa sive crois ly cruyse pro piscaria salmonum in dicta aqua et aquarum
statione seu stationibus predicti molendini cum pertinenciis jacentem in
territorio dicti burgi in Kyle et intra vicecomitatum de Are Faciendo
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 103
aquarum stationem ly dammyng dicti rnoleiKliui et locum sive loca dicte
piscarie ly crois in quodam vado antedicte aque vulgariter nuncupate ly stob
akyr furde et prout dicto priori et conventui fratruni predicatorum de Are et
successoribus suis ad asiamentum dicti molendini et piscarie videbitur magis
expediens Que quidem pecia terre fuit prius mei ipsius Ade Wallace pro-
positi antedicti hereditarie Et quam peciam cum sede et loco dicti molen-
dini et piscarie antedicte ego dictus Adam non vi aut metu ductus nee errore
lapsus sed mea spontanea voluntate in manibus dictorum ballivorum in
favorem dicti prioris et conventus fratruni predicatorum de Are antedictorum
sursum dedi ac per fustim et baculum pure et simpliciter resignavi cum jure
et clameo proprietate et possessione Pro certis suffragiis et divinis officiis
videlicet duabus exequiis placebo et dirige cum missa de requie in crastino
una videlicet pro anima quondam Hugonis Wallace de Smythstoune patris
mei annuatim celebranda die xiij° mensis Septembris Et alia die illius
mensis quo contigerit me ab hac luce decedere via universe carnis ingredien-
tem pro anima mea ac pro animabus omnium predecessoruni meorum ora-
niumque fidelium defunctorum per predictum priorem et conventum et
successores suos in dicta ecclesia sua fratrum predicatorum de Are per modum
anniversarum annuatim celebranda et divine agenda imperpetuum Tenendum
et habendum dictum molendinum cum suis sede loco et piscaria predicta
dicto priori et conventui fratrum predicatorum de Are et successoribus suis
de nobis et successoribus nostris in feodifirme more bureali hereditarie im-
perpetuum per omnes rectas metas suas divisas et limitates in maiore et
competenti modo forma et etfectu asiamento utilitate firmis feodo et profi-
cuis cum edificiis aquarum adductu et deductu ac statione prout quovismodo
dicto priori conventui fratrum predicatorum de Are et successoribus suis
magis opportunum videbitur expedire Cum omnibus et singulis libertatibus
commoditatibus edificiis asiamentis ac justis suis pertinentiis quibuscunque
tarn non nominatis quam nominatis tarn subtus terra quam supra terram
tarn procul quam prope ad omnia predicta videlicet peciam terre communis
et piscariam cum pertinenciis spectantibus seu juste spectare valentibus
quomodolibet in futurum cum lapide et cespitibus cum libero introitu et exitu
ad dictum molendinum et piscariam cum pertinenciis per nostras terras
territorium et bondas adeo libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et
in pace sine aliqua revocacione impedimento aut obstaculo quocunque sicut
alique huiusmodi infra regnum Scocie ad feodifirmam liberius et quiecius
dantur conceduntur seu eciam quoquomodo dimittantur Eeddendo inde
104 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
annuatim clictus prior conventus fratrum predicatorum cle Are et successores
sui predicti nobis et successoribus nostris preposito ballivis et communitati
burgi predicti quinque solidos usualis rnonete regni Scocie in festo sancti
Martini in hieme et pentichostes per equales portiones nomine feudifirme
tantum pro omni alio onere exactione questione servicio seculari seu demanda
que de dicto molendino sede et loco eiusdem pecia terre piscaria predictis
cum pertinenciis per quoscunque juste exigi poterunt seu quomodolibet re-
quiri in futurum Et nos vero prepositus ballivi et communitas antedicti
unanimi consensu et assensu omne nostrum predictum molendinum cum sede
et loco eiusdem et suis asiamentis ut premittitur unacum dicta piscaria in
dictis ly cruys cum pertinenciis dicto priori et conventui fratrum predicato-
rum de Are et successoribus suis in omnibus et per omnia ut predictum est
contra omnes mortales varrantizabimus . acquietabimus et presentis carte
nostre tenore imperpetuum defendemus In cuius rei testimonium liuic pre-
senti carte nostre sigillum nostrum commune est appensum apud dictum bur-
gum de Are die primo mensis Octobris anno domini millesimo quingentesimo
trigesimo primo coram hiis testibus Johanne Nelesoune domino Eoberto
Legat presbytero Ricardo Rede Quintino Cwnynghame Bartbolomeo Kil-
patrik et Thoma Broune ballivis dicti burgi Leonardo Clerk Johanne Fullar-
toun comburgensibus dicti burgi et Stephano Prestoune clerico burgali ac
notario publico cum diversis aliis.
Abstract.
Charter by Adam Wallace of Newtoun, provost of Ayr, John Kennedy
and Leonard Clerk, bailies for the time, and the community of the said
burgh, for their utility and the advantage of the commonweal, granting to
a circumspect religious man, friar Thomas Stevenson, prior of the Friars
Preachers of Ayr, and to the convent thereof, a certain piece of their com-
mon land, at the site and place of the mill, containing in length twenty-five
falls lengthways by the roodwand, reckoning each fall of the said rood at
six ells of the usual measure, and occupying in length as much of the com-
mon land as extends between the water of Ayr on the east, and a dyke just
built upon the east side of the lands of Holmes, on the west of the said piece
of ground ; and on the other side beginning at a certain rock at the descent
and foot of the place called the Kendee Bank ; and so downwards by the
bank of the said water, by as much space of ground in length as is aforesaid :
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 105
With the lade to and from the mill in the said ground : Together with the
craves for fishing salmon in the said water, and the dam or dams of water
of the mill, with the pertinents : Lying in the territory of the said burgh,
in Kyle, and within the sheriffdom of Ayr : Making the mill-dam and fish
cruves on the ford of the said water commonly called the Stob Acre Ford, and
as shall seem to the prior and convent most expedient for the convenience of
the said mill and fishing : Which piece of ground belonged to the said Adam
Wallace, provost, in heritage, and was, along with the site and place of the mill
and fishing, resigned by him in the hands of the said bailies, in due form, in
favour of the said prior and convent, for their suffrages and religious offices,
namely, two funeral services, placebo and dirige, with recpiiem mass on the
morrow, — that is to say, one for the soul of the deceased Hugh Wallace of
Smithstoun, father of the said Adam, to be celebrated yearly on the 13th
day of September ; and the other to be celebrated yearly on the day of the
month on which the said Adam should happen to depart this life, going the
way of all flesh, — for his own soul, and the souls of all his predecessors, and
of all the faithful dead ; to be celebrated every year by way of anniversary,
by the said prior and convent, in their church of the Friars Preachers of
Ayr : To hold of the granters in feu-ferme, burgage, for the yearly payment
of five shillings Scots, at the terms of Martinmas and AVhitsunday, by ecpial
portions : Dated and sealed with the common seal of the burgh 1st October
1531.
5 7. Instrument on the Protestation by the Burgesses of Ayr regarding their
Exemption from bearing Witness in any Court outside the Burgh. —
[20th May 1555.]
Vicesimo Maii anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo quinqua-
gesimo quinto.
The quhilk day Robert Dalrimple Archibald Fergushill Robert Rankene
Archibald Nicole and Robert M'Mylleu burgessis of Air being callit to
compeir befoir maister James Makgill of Nether Rankelour clerk of register
and maister Henrie Lauder advocate to our soverane lady commissioneris
constitute be vertew of ane commissioun direct thairupone for exemining of
witnessis in the actioun underwritten to beir leill and suithfast witnessing
insafer as thai knaw or suld be sperit at thame in the actioun persewit be
p
106 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
Blais Sanderis Richard Darrell aud Katherene Wigmoir alias Limmer be
vertew of appellatioun agauis Henrie Worland and Rolland Broun comper-
and produceit ane lettre undir the grete seill berand that oure soverane
ladiis predecessouris for thame and thair successouris exonerit the burgessis
and induellaris of the said burght of Air and thair tennentis of the barony
of Alway fra all compering as witnessis in quhatsumever courtis of justiciarie
chalmerlanerie scheref courtis or utheris outwitht the boundis of the said
burght as the said lettre mair fullelie proportis And thairfoir protestit that
albeit thai comperit at this tym to beir witness in this mater for helping of
strangearis quhame betuix the said caus dependit that thair said comperance
done for sa gude ane respect suld na maner of way prejuge thair said
privilege in tym aiming And that thai on na wis suld be haldin nor com-
pellit to beir witnessing in ony uthir actioun outwitht the boundis foirsaidis
heireftir Quhilk lettre being sene and considerit be the saidis comis-
sionaris thai admittit the samyn with the protestatioun foirsaid And
becaus the said actioun concernit strangearis and wes in point of tinsale
grantit that nochtwithstanding that thai at that tyme being burgessis of
the said burght past and buir witnessing in the said mater that the samyn
on na wis suld prejuge thame nor thair previlege abonespecifiit in ony tyme
cuming Upone the quhilk the said burgessis askit instruments This wes
done in the toubuith of Edinburgh at half houre to twelf or thairby befoir
thir witnessis maister David Borthuik maister Johnne Speiis maister David
Makffill and maister David Maitland with uthiris divers.
Ita est Johannes Johnestoun notarius publicus in premissis requisitus.
58. Decreet by the Lords of Council at the instance of the Burgh of Ayr
against Lord Eglinton anent his Jurisdiction as Bailie Principal of
the Bailiery of Cunningham. — [20th December 1558.]
At Edinburgh the twenty day of December the yeir of God jm vc lviij yeris
the lordis of counsale underwrittin that is to say maister Henrie Sinclare
dene of Glasgou maister Johnne Sinclaire dene of Restalrig maister Abraham
Creichtoun provest of Dunglass maister Johnne Stevinstoun chantour of
Glasgou maister AVilliam Baillie lord Provand maister James Scott provest
of Corstorphin maister James M'Gill of Rankelour nethir clerk of regestre
Siris Johnne Campble of Lundie William Hamiltoun of Sanchair knychtis
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 107
Robert Carnagy of Kynnard Richart Maitland of Letliingtoun knychtis
maister James M'Gill of Rankelour nethir clerk of register maister Henry
Lauder advocat to oure soverane lady and maister Johnne Gledstanis
licentiat in the lawis Anent our soverane ladiis lettres purchest at the
instance of the provest baillies counsale and commontie of the burght of
Air aganis Hew Erie of Eglingtoun baillie principale of the baillierie of
Cuningham Sir Richard Maitland of Letliingtoun knycht and maister
Archibald Craufurd persoun of Eglisehehame his curatouris for thair
interesa and Johnne Muir of Cauldwell baillie deput to the said erle Malie
Craig and Johnne Craig hir spous for his interes Johnne Muir burges of
Irvin ane uthir of the baillies deputis of the said baillierie and all uthiris
the said baillie principalis deputis procuratouris and curatouris gif he ony
lies Makand mentioun that qubair the said provest baillies counsale and
commontie predecessouris and thai ar infeft in fre previlege with fre juris-
dictioun upoun all the nychtbouris and inhabitaris of the said burght
fredome and boundis thairof and conform thairto hes bene in use and
possessioun of replegeing and agane bringing of ony nychtbour and
inhabitant of the said burght attecheit or arreistit befoir ony uthiris jugeis
to the fredome and previlege of the said burght jurisdictioun and courtis
thairof Nochttheles upoun the xj day of October last bipast Archibald
"Wilsoun pewderar induellar and burges of the said burght being attheitit
and arreistit befoir the baillie of Cuningham and his deputis at the instance
of the said Malie Craig the complenaris foirsaidis seDd Robert M'Millane
ane of the baillies of the said burght with sufficient commissioun to replege
thair said nychtbour to thair awin fredome and prevelege quha desyrit the
said Johnne Muir of Cauldwell baillie deput of Cuninghame sittand in
jugement for the tyme to suffer the said Archibald be replegit and to reniitt
him to the jurisdictioun of the said burght and offerit cautioun of collerat
for justice to be ministrat to the said Malie and all uthiris complenand
upoun law Nochttheles the said baillie deput wranguslie refussis to do the
samin and hes partialie and wilfullie procedit forthir in the said mater
aganis the said Archibald to the grete hurt and dampnage of thair pre-
vilegeis inviolablie observit in tymes bipast and anent the charge gevin to
the foirsaidis personis abonewrittin to have cornperit befoir the lordis of
counsale at ane certane day bipast brynging with thame thair precept bill
or clame direct be thame aganis the said Archibald in the said mater to
have bene sene and considderit be the saidis lordis and to have hard and
108 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
sene tliame decernit to have done wrang in thair refusing to suffer the said
Archibald to be replegit be vertu of the saidis provest baillies counsale and
commonities commissioun to thair fredome and jurisdictioun and to admitt
the samin in all tyme cuming and to decist and ceis fra all preceding in the
said mater as jugeis competent thairto and the said actioun to be admittit
to the saidis complenaris jurisdictioun thair to be decydit conform to thair
saidis previlegeis use and possessioun foirsaid or ellis to have allegit ane
ressonable caus quhy the samin suld nocht be done lykeas at mair lenth is
contenit in the saidis lettres The saidis provest baillies counsale and com-
montie of Air comperand be maister David Borthuik thair procuratour and
the said Hew erle of Eglingtoun baillie principale of the said baillierie of
Cunina;ham his saidis tutouris and curatouris and all uthiris the said baillie
principalis deputis procuratouris and curatouris gif he ony hes for thair
interes being all lauchfullie summond to this actioun oftymes callit and
noi lit comperit The lordis ot counsale dischargeis the said baillie prin-
cipale of the bailliery of Cuningham his saidis curatouris and thair deputis
of all proceding in the said mater dischargeing thame thairof arid of thair
uffices in that pairt becaus the said baillie principale his saidis curatouris
and thair deputis and all uthiris his deputis procuratouris and curatouris
gif he ony had for thair interess wer chargit to have comperit befoir the
saidis lordis at ane certane day bipast to have brocht with thame [and]
producit befoir the saidis lordis the said precept or clame direct be the said
baillie and his deputis in the said mater to have bene sene and considerit
be thame to the effect abonewrittin and [thai] being lauchfullie summond
to that effect failzeit thairintill lykeas wes cleirlie understand to the saidis
lordis and ordanis lettres to be direct heirupoun gif neid be in form as
efferis.
Extractum de libro actorum per me magistrum Jacobum M'Gill de
Eankelour Nether clericum rotulorum registri et consilii S. D. N.
regis et regine sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.
Jacobus Makgill.
.MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 109
59. Letters of Charge at the instance of the Magistrates of Ayr against
James Dalrymple, Minister of Ayr, for suspension of Horning raised
by him.— [13th March 1573.]
James be the grace of God king of Scottis to our lovittis Mathow Baird
oure shereffis in that parte conjunctlie and severalie specialie constitute
greting Forsamekill as it is humelie menit and schawin to ws be our lovittis
the provest baillies counsale and thesawrare of oure burgh of Air that
quhair James Dalrimpill minister of Ayr allegeing him to be appoyntit
minister at the kirk of Air and Alloway and to haif assignit to him for the
serving of the cure thairof the sowne of ane hundreth xlix11 vjs viij1' to be
payit as followis That is to say the personage and vicarage of Alloway
liijii yjs viijd the third of Air tertio xxxiiijH iiijs va 3 part d and the remanent
extending to lxj11 xvs xd thrid part d to be payit be the said toun of Air out
of the annuellis obittis and chaiplanreis disponit to the toun hes thairupoun
obtenit our uthiris lettres be deliverance of the lordis of oure counsale and
thairwith causit charge the saidis complenaris to ansuer obey and mak the
said James payment of the saidis sowmes allegeit assignit to him furth of
thair said toun as said is of the lxxiij yeir and siclike yeirlie in tyme
cumming within ten dayis nixt eftir thair charge under the pane of
rebellioun and gif thai failze to put thame to our home and as thai ar
informit intendis of verray malice to cause put thame to our home
wranguslie Considdering it is of veritie that thai being patronis thame
selffis of the saidis annuellis obittis and chaiplanreis extending in the hail]
to lxxvjn ijs off auld befoir the Eeformatioun of religioun gaif and disponit
the same in maner and to the personis following videlicet to Sir Thomas
Raith for all the dayis of his lifetyme yerlie xx markis To Sir Johnne
Sinclare during his lifetyme xx11 The laird of Ley withhaldis and detenis
fra thame yerlie ten markis for qukilk thai haif actioun instantlie depending
aganis him Item thai pay yerlie to James Davidsoun thair redar xx1' To
the clerk of thair sessioun for his stepend and to by paper and ink viij
markis To the pouir lvjs To him that kepis the sessioun dur and hahlis
the kirk clene and in gude ordour ten merkis And to the sangstar that takis
up the psalmes befoir and eftir the precheing ten pundis In the quhilkis
sowmes the saidis complenaris ar far superexpendit attour the saidis
annuellis obittis and chaiplainreis and the saidis personis respective ilkane
110 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
for thair awin parte lies bene in continewall possessioun of the saniyn thir
divers yeiris bigane like as thai ar yit and the saidis complenaris lies bene
onlie in use of payment thairof to thame and the said James Dalrumpill
minister foirsaid nor na uthiris ministeris at the said kirk had nevir posses-
sioun of ony parte of the saidis sowmes in ony tymes bigane nor nevir
chargeit the saidis complenaris thairfoir quhill now Quhairthrow thair
could na assignatioun gif ony be gevin to the said James of the saidis
annuellis obittis and chaiplarireis belonging to the saidis complenaris and
being disponit be thame as said is without thair avise and gift seing thai
man warrand the dispositioun ellis maid be thame and wilbe compellit to
mak the saidis personis payment thairof in tyme cumming And as to the
Freris landis of our said burgh the same ar halelie adjugeit to Charlis
Crawfurde and Willianie Crawfurde his broder and to twa freris and the
saidis complenaris gettis na dewtie thairof as is notourlie knawin In
respect of the quhilkis our saidis uthiris lettres ar wranguslie and evill
purchest and execute upoun thame and audit to be suspendit simpliciter
Oure will is heirfoir and we charge yow that ye lauchtfullie summond warne
and charge the said James Dalrumpill to compeir befoir ws and oure
counsale at Edinburgh or quhair it sal happin ws to be for the tyme the xvj
day of March in the hour of cans with continewatioun of dayis bringing
with him our saidis uthiris lettres purchest be him in the said mater to be
sene and considderit be the lordis of our counsale and to heir and se the
same effect thairof and proces of oure home contenit thairintill be suspendit
simpliciter upoun the saidis complenaris in all tymes cuming for the caussis
foirsaidis and uthiris to be proponit and allegeit be thame in thair names
and upoun thair behalfis the saidis day and place with continewatioun of
dayis and forder to ansuer at thair instances in the said mater insafer as
law will with intimatioun to the said James as efferis or to schaw ane
ressonabill caus quhy the same sould'nocht be done with certificatioun to
him and he failze our saidis uthiris lettres salbe suspendit simpliciter in
maner foirsaid according to justice as ye will ansuer to ws thairupoun The
quhilk to do we commit to yow conjunctlie and severalie our full power
be thir our lettres delivering thame be yow dewle execut and indorsit agane
to the berare Gevin under our signet at Edinburgh the xiij day of Marche
and of our Regnne the sevint yeir 1573 Ex deliberatione dominorum
consilij. (Signed) A. Tod.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. Ill
(Dorso) Upoun the xiiij day of Marche the yeir of God Jm vc lxxiij
yeiris I Mathow Baird ane of the sherefhs in that part within constitute
past at command of thir our soverane lordis lettres and lauchtfullie sum-
mondit warnit and chargit James Dalrumpill within writtin personalie
apprehendit to compeir befoir the lordis of our said soveranis counsale and
sessioun day and place within specifeit in the hour of caus with continewa-
tioun of dayis bringing with him the lettres within mentionat to the effect
within writtin with intimatioun to the said James within specifeit eftir the
forme and tennour of thir our said soveranis lettres in all poyntis and
articlis quhairof I delyverit ane just copy to the said James Dalrumpill and
this I did befoir thir witnessis Mr. Johne Yountr David Neill and James
Greg with uthiris divers and for the mair witnessing to this my executioun
my signet is affixit.
60. Protest of the Burgesses of Ayr for their Privilege of Exemption
from Courts, etc.- — \_2d June 1580.]
Curia justiciarie supremi domini nostri regis tenta et inchoata in pretorio
burgi de Edinburgh secundo die mensis Junii anno domini millesimo quin-
gentesimo octuagesimo per discretum virum magistrum Joannem Grahame
justiciarium deputatum justiciarii regni generalis specialiter constitutum
Sectis vocatis et curia affirmata.
The quhilk day comperit Johnne Lokhart burges of Air for him self and
in name and behalf of the remanent burgessis and inhabitantis of the burgh
of Air and within the baronye of Alloway quho exponit and declarit in
jugement that forsamekle as King James the secund of gude memorie
upoun divers reasonabill caussis and considerationis moving his hienes for
him and his successouris grantit unto the provest baillies counsale aldermen
and communitie of the said burgh thair successouris and to thair tennentis
and inhabitantis of the said baronye of Alloway being for the tyme that
thai suld nocht be compellit in ony tymes cuming to compeir as witnessis
in quhatsumevir justice airis chalmerlane arris scheref courtis or justice
courtis outwith the boundis and fredome of the said burght in quhatsumevir
courtis bot in the courtis of the samin burght as the lettres thairof past
undir the grete seill to schaw beris Quhairupoun thay nocht onelie lies
obtenit lettres be deliverance of the Lordis of Sessioun direct to the said
112 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUKGH OF AYR.
Justice and his deputtis and to all utliiris jugeis officiaris schereffis and
subdittis quhatsumevir for obedience of the samin quhilk is sene and
admittit of befoir in ane justice court haldin in the tolbuith of the said
burght of Edinburgh the xxvj day of Apr)de the yeir of God jm vc threscoir
and fyftene yeris be maister Thomas Bannatyne then justice depute for the
tyrne and subscrivit in dew forme be the clerk of the courtis of the saidis
justiciarie bot als thai have of new obtenit ane command and precept direct
frome our soverane lord unto officiaris of armes messingeris and schereffis
executouris of quhatsumevir lettres criminale or civile within the realme
dischargeing thame of all summoning or arreisting of ony of the inhabit-
antis of the said burght of Air or baronye of Alloway to pas upoun assyssis
or inqueistis in quhatsumevir courtis owtwith thair awin jurisdiction boundis
and fredome of thair said burght and barony foirsaid as the samin of the
dait at Kincardin the xxvij clay of Maij last bipast subscrivit be our said
soveraue lord presentlie produceit with the formal lettres to schaw proportis
And now seing that notwithstanding the fornamit exemptioun lettres and
command direct thairupoun divers and sindrye of the burgessis and inhabit-
antis of the same burght ar summond to this day and place to pas upoun
the assys of William Stewart and uthiris his complicis delatit of certane
crymes contenit in the lettres thairanent expres contrair the tennour and
command of the said exemptioun lettres and precept subscrivit be the
Kingis grace quha cravis and willis the samin to be obeyit in all punctis
The said Johnne Lokhart thairfoir solempnitlie protestit in respect of his pro-
ductioun of the saidis lettres and command foirsaid direct to the officiaris
being sene and considderit be the said justice depute that nane of the
burgessis and inhabitantis of thair said burght of Air nor within the boundis
of the baronye foirsaid be haldin to compeir in this court nor na uthir court
of justiciarie in tymes cuming nochtwithstanding ony summonding or
arreisting maid or to be maid be quhatsumevir officiaris of armes or uthiris
in the contrair And gif thaj or ony of thame beis heireftir callit befoir the
.said justice or his deputtis as being summond be quhatsumevir officiaris of
armes to pas upoun assyssis he protestit na proces of dome and unlaw suld
be pronunceit or putt in adjornale nochtwithstanding thair absence and non
comperance to that effect Protesting alswa for remeid aganis quhatsumevir
officiaris ane or ma that makis or usis ony executioun of summondis and
lettres incontrair the precept and command direct be the Kingis grace
heiranent And heirupoun the said Johnne for him self and in name and
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 113
behalf foirsaid askit actis and instrumentis in the handis of me notar publict
underwrittin and scrybe of the saidis courtis.
Ita est Jacobus Bannatyne notarius publicus ac scriba dicte curie ut
predicitur.
61. Charter by the Burgh of Ayr to Quintin Craufurd of Drumlauch,
of the Lands of Friars Dankeith. — [_9th January 1586.]
Omnibus banc cartam visuris et audituris prejwsitus ballivi et consilium
burgi de Air salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis nos pro specialibus
favore et amore quos habemus et geremus erga dilectum nostrum Quintinum
Craufurd de Drumlaucht antiquum possessorem et assedationem habentem
terrarum subsequentium unanimi consensu et assensu dedisse concessisse et
ad feudifirmam hereditarie dimisisse necnon per presentes dare concedere
et ad feudifirmam hereditarie dimittere prefato Quintino Craufurd antiquo
possessori antedicto et suis heredibus quibuscunque totas et integras nostras
duas mercatas terrarum antiqui extentus de Freris Dalkeyth cum pertinen-
tiis jacentes in balliatu de Kyle Stewart et infra vicecomitatum de Air
Tenendas et habendas totas et integras dictas duas mercatas terrarum
antiqui extentus de Freris Dalkeyth cum pertinentiis prefato Quintino
Craufurd et suis heredibus hereditarie de nobis et successoribus nostris
prepositis ballivis consilio et communitate dicti burgi in feudifirma et
hereditate imperpetuuni per omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas
prout jacent in longitudine et latitudine in domibus edificiis hortis bostis
planis moris marresiis viis semitis aquis stagnis rivolis pratis pascuis et
pasturis molendinis multuris et eorum sequelis aucupationibus venationibus
piscationibus petariis turbariis carbonibus carbonariis cunicubs cuniculariis
columbis columbariis fabrilibus brasinis brueriis et genestis sylvis nemoribus
et virgultis lignis tignis lapicidiis lapide et calce cum curbs et earurn
exitibus amerciamentis eschaetis herezeldis bludewitis et mulierum merchetis
cum communi pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et sin-
gubs libertatibus commoditatibus proficuis asiamentis ac justis suis perti-
nentiis quibuscunque tarn non nominatis quam nominatis tarn subtus terra
quam supra terram procul et prope ad predictas terras spectantibus seu
juste spectare valentibus quornodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie
integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento revocatione con-
Q
114 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
tradictione aut obstaculo aliquali Keddendo inde annuatim dictus Quintinus
et heredes sui nobis et successoribus nostri nostrorumque thesaurariis et
factoribus quatuor bollas farine avenatice et quatuor bollas hordei bone et
sufficientis inter festa nativitatis Domini et purificationis beate Marie
virginis annuatim unacum tredecim solidis et quatuor denariis monete
bujus regni in augmentationem nostri rentalis dictarum terrarum tantum
pro omni alio onere exactione questione demanda seu servitio seculari que
de predictis terris per quoscunque juste exigi poterint quomodolibet vel
requiri. Insuper dilectis nostris Joanni M'Kene ac vestrum cuilibet con-
junctim et divisim ballivis nostris in bac parte specialiter constitutis salutem
Vobis precipimus et firmiter mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate
statim et saisinam hereditariam necnon realem actualem et corporalem
possessionem predictarum duarum mercatarum terrarum antiqui extentus
de Freris Dalkeyth cum ejusdem pertinentiis jacentium ut supra memorato
Quintino Craufurd vel suo certo actornato latori presentium per terre et
lapidis fundi bujusmodi terrarum traditionem ut moris est tradatis et
deliberetis sine dilatione et boc secundum tenorem prescripte nostre carte
Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet conjunctim et divisim ballivis
nostris in bac parte antedictis nostram plenariam et irrevocabilem tenore
presentium committimus potestatem In cujus rei testimonium presentibus
manibus nostris ut sequitur subscriptis sigillum nostrum commune dicti
burgi est appensum apud dictum nostrum burgum de Air nono die mensis
Januarii anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo octuagesimo sexto coram bis
testibus. (Signed) Sr William Stewart prowest of Ayre George Cocbrane
baillie of Ayr James Craufurd baillie of Air David Crauffurd dein off Gild
William Crawford burges of Air.
Abstract.
Cbarter by tbe provost and council of the burgh of Ayr, in favour of
Quintin Craufurd of Drumlauch, of the two mercates of land of old extent
of Friars Dankeitk, in the bailliery of Kyle Stewart and shire of Ayr : To
hold to the said Quintin and his heirs heritably of the granters and their
successors in feu-ferme and heritage for ever, for the yearly rent of four bolls
of meal and four bolls of barley, payable between the terms of Christmas
and Candlemas, with thirteen shillings and fourpence in augmentation of
the rental : Containing precept of sasine, and dated at Ayr the 9th January
1586.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 115
62. Notarial Instrument on Protest for the Burgh of Ayr anent the
Exemption from Passing on Assize. — [2ith July 1587.]
Curia justiciarie suprenii domiui nostri regis tenta in pretorio de Edinburgh
xxiiijto die mensis Julij anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo octuagesimo
septimo per honorabiles viros magistros Joannem Graliame et Willelmum
Oliphant justiciaries deputatos justiciarii regni general is Sectis vocatis et
curia affirmata.
The quhilk day comperit Johnne Lokart burges and auld provest of the
burgh of Air and for him selff and in name and behalf of the provest baillies
and remanent burgessis counsalouris tenentis and communitie of the burgh
of Air protestit that the comperance of certane persounes burgessis of
Air as summond to compeir this day and place and admissioun of thame
upoun the assyis of Robert Jamesoun burges of Air dilatit and accusit of
airt and pairt of the slauchter of umquhile Robert Bannatyne sone to James
Bannatyne burges of Air and David Burnis burges of the said burgh As
also the unlawing of certane utheris persounes burgessis of Air as summond
and nocht comperand upoun the assyis of the said Robert Jamesoun on na-
wyis prejudge the saidis provest bailleis counsell and communitie and
tenentis in thair exemptioun grantit be our soverane lord and his predeces-
souris to thame exemand thame fra all comperance and passing upoun
assyiss quhilk exemptioun is insert and registrat in the buikis of adjornal
Quhairupoun he askit act and instrument of me notar publict underwrittin
clerk of the said court.
Ita est magister Jacobus Bannatyne notarius publicus ac deputatus
ordinarius in officio clericatus justiciarie.
63. Renunciation by David Craufurd of the Barony of Alloway redeemed
by the Magistrates of Ayr. — [7th November 1590.]
I David Crawfurd buries of Air grantis me be the tennour heirof to haif
ressavit fra the handis of William e Knox thesaurer of the burgh of Air in
name and behalf of the provest baillies counsale and communitie thairof the
sowme of four hundreth merkis money of this realme as for the lauchful
redemptioun lowsing outquitting fra me my airis and assignayis of all and
haill ane yeirlie annuelrent of fourtie aught merkis money foirsaid quhilk I
116 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
had yeirlie to be upliftit furth of all and haill thair landis and baronie of
Alloway extending to foirscoir merkland with the corne miln thairof or ony
part of the samyn with thair pertinentis lyand within Kingis Kyle and
sherefdome of Air annaliit and wodsett to me be the saidis provest baillies
eounsall and communitie under reversioun contening the said sowme of four
hundreth merkis Off the quhilk sowme and of all byrun annnellrentis awand
to me of the said annuelrent of all yeris and termes bipast sen my infeftment
to the dait heirof I hald me weill content and payit And for me my airis
executouris and assignayis exoneris and discharges the saidis provest baillies
eounsall and communitie and thair successouris of the samin be thir pre-
sentis for now and evir And thairfoir I haif resignit renuncit frelie
quitclamit discharget and ourgevin and be the tennour heirof resignis
renuncis quitclaims and ourgevis all and haill the said yeirlie annuelrent of
fourty aucht merkis in the handis of the saidis provest baillies eounsall and
communitie as in the handis of my ovirlordis and superiouris thairof with
all richt titill entres kyndnes clame of rycht propertie and possessioun
quhatsumevir quhilkis I had hes or may haif thairto togidder with all
charteris preceptis instrumentis of sasing and all utheris evidentis maid and
deliverit to me thairupoun to remane with thame and than successouris
forevir And grantis the samin annuelrent to be lauchfullie redemit and
quitout fra me my airis and assignayis and the said reversioun to be fulfillit
to me in all pointis conforme to the tennour of the samin And sail warrand
this my renunciatioun and resignatioun at all handis In witnes of the
quhilk thing to thir presentis subscrivit with my awin hand my seill is
appendit at Air the sevint day of November the yeir of God jm vc four-
scoir ten yeris befoir the witnessis George Cochren burges of the said burgh
Nicoll Gardner in Maynholme Williame Rankene Johne Masoun notaris
Patrik Gluver burges of the said burgh Robert Potter my servand and
Niniane Mogerisland in Air. (Signed) David Craufurd Johnne Masoun
notar witnes Williame Renkine noter witnes to the premisses.
64. Extract of Contract betiveen John Kennedy of Baltersane and the
Burgh of Ayr, anent the Fishings of Doon. — [25th April 1593 : Re-
corded 6th March 1606.]
At Edinburgh the sext day of Marche the yeir of God jm vjc and sex yeiris
in presens of the Lordis of Counsall comperit personalie Mr. John Makgill
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 117
procuratour specialie constitute be this underwrettin Contract for Johne
Kennedye of Balterssane on the ane pairt and als comperit personallie Mr.
Isaac Broun procuratour specialie constitute lykwayes for Adame Stewarte
provest of Air George Cochren and Bobert Jamesone bailyeies Bobert Max-
well deane of gild George Maissone Alexander Lokharte of Boo-hall James
Bannatyne Bobert Campbell Bobert Cochrane all burgessis and upone the
counsale of the burgh of Air the tyme of the subscryveing of this underwrettin
contract on the utter pairt and gaiff in the samyne subscryveit with thair
handis desyreing the samyne to be insert and registrate in the buikis of
counsaill to have the strenth of ane act and decreit in tyme tocum and thair
auctoritie to be interponit thairto with lettres and executoriallis to be direct
thairupone in maner thairincontenit The quhilk desyre the saidis Lordis
thocht ressonable and thairfoir hes ordanit and ordanes the said contract to
be insert and registrate in thair saidis buikis and hes interponit and inter-
pones thair auctoritie thairto and decernis and ordanes lettres and executor-
iallis to be direct thairupone in maner thairincontenit quhairoff the tennour
followes At the Burgh of Air the tuentie fyve day of Apryle the yeir of
God jm vc lxxx threttine yeiris it is appointit aggreit and finallie contractit
betuixt the pairt eis underwrettin to witt Johne Kennedye of Balterssane
now heritabill proprietar of the landis of Grenane on the ane pairt Adame
Stewarte provest of the said burgh of Air George Cochren and Bobert
Jamesone bailyeis thairof for thameselffis as magistratis foirsaidis with
speciall advyce and consent of the counsaill and communitie of the samyn
burgh heritable proprietaris of the fischeing underwrettin on the uther pairt
in maner forme and effect as eftir followes that is to say fforsamekill as the
said Johne Kennedie hes presentlie contentit and payit realie and with effect
in nwmerit money to the saidis provest bailyeis and counsale at the making
heirof the sowme of thrie hundreth merkis money of this realme to be be-
stowit to the weill and commoditie of the said burgh quhairoff they hauld
thame weill contentit satisfeit and payit and for thame and thair succes-
somis exoneris quytclames and discharges the said John Kennedie his airis
executoris and assigneis of the samin for evir For the quhilk sowme of
thrie hundreth merkis the saidis provest bailyeis counsaill and commwnitie
of the said burgh for thame and thair successouris sail with all possible
diligence be thair chartour and seasing of fewferme in dew and competent
forme heretablie infeft and seas the said Johne Kennedye of Balterssane and
his airis maill and assignais in all and haill the haill cobill salmont fischeingis
118 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
in the watter niouthe of Dwne lyand within the scherefdome of Air alsweill
in salt watter as in fresche quhair the saidis cobillis of the said Watter of
Dwne wes in use to fische of befoir according to use and wont allanerlie and
na farther Togider alswa with the salmont fischeing of the said Watter
of Dwne upoun baith the sydis of the samyn wattir alsweill of salmont as
uther fisches fra the wattir mouthe and ingres of the said Watter upwart to
the Craigweill of Grenane inclusive quhilk is the marche of the landis of
Grenane allanerlie and na farther To be haldin be the said Johne Kenneclie
his airis maill and assignais foirsaidis of the foirnamit provest bailyeis
counsale and commonitie of the said burgh of Air and thair successouris in
fewferme and heretage ffor the yeirlie payment thairfoir be the said Johne
Kenneclye and his foirsaidis to the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and
commonitie of the said burgh and thair successouris and thesaureris in thair
names of the sowme of tuentye merkis money of this realme of yeirlie few
maill at twa termes in the yeir Witsonday and Mertymes in winter be equale
portiounes And the airis of the said Johne Kenneclye and his successouris
to pay the doubill of the said few maill the first yeir of thair entrie to the
saidis fischeingis allanerlie To the payment of the quhilk yeirlie few maill
of tuentie merkis money foirsaid yeirlie and termelie to the saidis provest
bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair foirsaidis at the termes afoir
expremit in maner as said is the said Johne Kennedye bindis and oblissis
him and his airis maill successouris and assio-uais in the surest maner of
O
oblissing that can be devysit beginnand the first termes payment thairof at
the feist of Mertymes nixtocum with full power to the said Johne and his
foirsaidis to fische the said watter within the boundis foirsaidis on baith the
sydis of the samyn watter and watter mouth thairof abone specifeit alsweill
in fresche watter as salt be bottis cobillis nettis and leastouris at thair
plessour as they sail think expedient for thair commoditie and to set and
fessin thair nettis at everie tyme of fischeing according to use and wont
And the said infeftment to be extendit in dew and ampill forme for the said
Johne and his foirsaidis beritabill bruiting and joising of the foirnamit
cobillis and salmont fischeingis in all tymes cuming And gif it be neidfull
that the said Johne upone his awin expensis may obtene and procure oure
soverane lordis confirmatioun thairupoun in forme as effeiris Under speciall
provisioun and conditioun alwayes lyke as salbe provydit in the said infeft-
ment that in caice of evill and unthankfull payment be the said Johne and
his foirsaidis of the said yeirlie few maill of tuentie merkis swa that thrie
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 119
termes mail] of the samyn salhappin to rin ovir in the ffourt ternie unpayit
to the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thesaureris in
thair names That then and in that caice the foirnamit few chartour and
infeftment of the foirnamit salmont and cobill fischeingis respective abone-
wrettin sail thaireftir be null and expyre of itself and of nane avail] strenth
force nor effect ipso facto but ony declaratioun Lykeas in that caice of evill
payment of the said yeirlie few maill swa that thrie termes thairof rin over
in the fourte termes maill unpayit as said is the said Johne Kennedye for
him his airis maill and successouris cpihatsumever now as than and than as
now renunces quytclames and simpliciter discharges to the saidis provest
bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair successouris perpetualie for ever
all richt tytill entres kyndnes clame of richt propertie and possessioun cpihat-
sumever quhilkis the said Johne or his foirsaidis haid hes or may have to the
saidis salmont and cobill fischeingis abon expremit with thair pertinentis fra
thynefurtht ony maner of way Swa that the saidis provest bailyeis counsale
and commonitie and thair successouris may than enter thairto peceablie bruik
and jois the samyn as thair proper heretage in all tymes thaireftir for evir
as they sail think expedient and the said Johne and his foirsaidis to be
perpetualie secludit thairfra for evir in caice of evill payment as said is And
in caice it salhappin the airis or successouris of the said Johne Kennedye to
be minoris and within the aige of xxj yeiris and thairthrow in thair minoritie
salhappin to let thrie termes maill of the said yeirlie few maill rin over in
the ffourt ternie unpayit to the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and com-
monitie and thair foirsaidis in that caice of thair being minoris quhen it
salhappin nochtwithstanding of thair rynning over of the saidis thrie termes
maill in the fourte ternie unpayit be thame in thair minoritie and les aige
as said is the foirsaid claus irritant maid for expyreing of the said infeftment
in maner foirsaid salbe suspendit upoun the saidis airis and successouris of
the said Johne being minoris as said is during all the tyme of thair minoritie
and les aige allanerlie and na utherwayes And the saidis provest bailyeis
counsale and commonitie and thair successouris sail have na libertie be the
claus irritant nather be way of actioun nor exceptioun to quarrell the said
infeftment for the non payment for the said few maill of ony yeiris and
termes during the minoritie of the said Johnes airis and successouris bot
onlie the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair foirsaidis
to have libertie upoun the said claus irritant aganes the said infeftment
in caice the airis or successouris of the said Johne being of lauchfull aige of
120 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
xxj yeiris compleit failyeis in payment of the said yeirlie few maill be latting
of thrie ternies thairof at ony tyme eftir thair said perfyte aige to rin over
in the fourte terme unpayit as said is without prejudice alwayes to the
saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair foirsaidis anent
the said yeirlie few maill that sal happin to be restand awand to thame in
the tyme of the said Johneis airis and successouris minoritie as said is bot
that the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair foirsaidis
sail have place and actioun aganes the foirnamit airis and successouris thair-
foir to call follow and persew for the samyn and gif neid beis to poind and
distrenyie thairfoir yeirlie and termelie at thair plessour as they sail think
maist expedient And the saidis airis and successouris of the said Johne
Kennedye being cumin to perfyte aige of xxj yeiris the foirsaid claus irritant
sail thaireftir extend aganes thame in caice of evill payment fra thynefurth
of the foirsaid yeirlie few maill be latting of thrie termes maill thairof rin
over in the fourte terme unpayit And that alsweill for the byrwne mailbs
of the samyn gif ony sal happin to be restand awand to be awand unpayit
within thrie termes eftir thair said perfyte aige of xxj yeiris as in all tymes
thaireftir eftir the forme and tennour of the foirnamit claus irritant in all
pointis swa that the said claus of suspensioun of the foirnamit claus irritant
sail nawayes be onye farder extendit bot onlie during the tyme of the
minoritie and les aige of the said Johnes airis and successouris foirsaid crahen
it salhappin thame to be minoris allanerlie as is afoir declairit and na uther-
wayes And farder provyding lykeas salbe lykwayes provydit in the said
infeftment that the saidis provest bailyeis counsaill and commonitie nor
thair successouris sail nocht be astrictit nor oblist in na farder warrandice
to the said Johne Kennedie nor his foirsaidis of the foirnamit cobill and
salmont fischeingis respective abone specifeit with thair pertinentis bot fra
the saidis provest bailyeis counsaill and commoniteis awin deidis bygane
and to cum and fra the deid of thair predicessouris allanerlie and na farther
Exceptand alwayes and reserweand the fact and deid gif ony be maid be the
saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair predicessouris to
the Lairdis of Grenane being than of the surname of Davidsone of the saidis
fischeingis Quhilkis deidis the saidis provest bailyeis counsale and com-
monitie sail nawayes be oblist to warrand na maner of way And the saidis
provest bailyeis counsale and commwnitie and thair foirsaidis sail rnak thair
infeftment cpuhilk they have of the said fischeing patent to the said Johne
and his foirsaidis sa oft as neid beis upone thair requisitioun safar as the
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 121
samyn may be extendit for the said Johne aud bis foirsaidis weill and com-
moditie for bruiking and joising of tbe saidis fiscbeingis in maner abone-
wrettin and tbat nawayes upone tbe expenssis of the said Johne and his
foirsaidis Provydeing alswa lykeas it salbe provydit in the said infeftment
that the samyn infeftment nor this jjresent contract qnhairupoun the said
infeftment is to proceid sail nawayes be hurtfull nor preiudiciall to the saidis
provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie nor thair successouris in na tyme
cuming anent thair corne myln of Alloway myln land myln houssis stans
laid dame and wattirgang of the samyn alredy biggit be thame nor yit anent
ony uther mylnes to be biggit be thame upone the said Watter of Dwne
within the boundis of the fischeingis abone specifeit in ony tyme heireftir
myln houssis stans laidis dames and wattirgangis of the samyn in sic sorte
as they mycht have biggit befoir the dait heirof Nathir yit anent thair
landis and baronie of Alloway nor anent ony utheris thair burrow landis
adjacent to the said Watter na maner of way Nor yit hurtefull to the
inhabitantis of the said burgh thair tennentis and servandis in wascheing
than- claythis at the said watter bot that they sail frelie wasche thairat in
all tyme cuming but molestatioun or impediment als frelie as they wer in
use to do befoir the dait heirof Swa that this present contract nor infeft-
ment to follow heiron sail nawayes be ony farder extendit bot onlie to the
fischeings foirsaidis within the boundis abone specifeit allanerlie and na
farther And attour baith the saidis pairteis discharges utheris of all actiones
quhilkis ather of thame hes intendit or mycht intend aganes utheris anent
the said fischeing ony maner of way befoir the dait heirof And specialie
the said Johne Kennedye for him and his foh'saidis discharges the saidis
provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie of the said burgh thair burgessis
inhabitantis tennentis and servandis of the allegeit actioun of ejectioun
intentit be him aganes thame and now dependant befoir the Lordis of
Counsaill for allegeit ejecting of him furth of the saidis fischeingis and
cobillis thairof and thairfoir renunces and discharges the samyn allegeit
actioun of ejectioun haill actioun proces and effect thairof simpliciter for now
and ever And oblissis him and his foh'saidis that he hes maid na rycht nor
tytill of the said allegeit actioun to ony persone or persones heirtofoh* and
to warrand this his present renunceatioun and discharge thairof at all handis
And heirto baith the saidis pairteis oblissis thame to utheris in the surest
maner of oblissing that can be devysit And for the mair securitie ar con-
tent and consentis that this present contract be actit and registrate in the
E
122 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
buikis of coimsale to have the strenth of ane act and decreit of the Lordis
thairof with lettres and executoriallis of horning poinding and wairding the
ane but prejudice of the uther to be direct heiron and the horning to pas
upone ane simple charge of sex dayes allanerlie And for registrating heirof
niakis and constitutis Maisteris Johne Makgill and Isaac Broun thair pro-
curatouris promittentes de rato etc. In witnes quhairof baith the saidis
pairteis hes subscryveit this present contract with thair handis as followes
day yeir and place abonewrettin beffoir thir witnessis Johne Porterfeild
minister of the said burgh Andro Chalmer of Curraytht Hew Kennedy of
Balbany Anthone Kennedy of Balsarrocht William Campbell in Grenane
Moreis McMirrie of Culteoun and Johne Masoun noter publict Attour the
saidis provest bailyeis counsale and commonitie and thair foirsaidis sail for-
tifie mantein and defend the said Johne Kennedy and his foirsaidis in the
peceabill bruiking joising of the fischeingis abonewrettin according to his
richt thairof abone specifeit within the boundis of the territorie of the said
burgh and fischeingis thairof and that as law will beffoir the witnessis
foirsaidis Sic subscribitur Johne Kennedye of Balterssane Adame Stewart
George Cochrane bailyie Robert Jamesone bailyie Robert Maxwell deane of
gild George Masone Alexander Lokharte of Boghall James Bannatyne James
Craufurd burges of Air Robert Campbell George Hammyltoun George Jame-
sone burges of Air David Craufurd burges of Air Robert Cochrane Ita est
Joannes Masoun notarius publicus scriba commwnis dictj burgj de mandato
consilij et communitatis ejusdem.
Extractum de libro actorum per me dominum Joannem Skene de Currye-
hill militem clericum rotulorum registrj ac consilij S. D. N. regis
sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.
(Signed) Joannes Skene,
Cls. Regrj, etc.
65. Charter to John Kennedy of Baiter sane, of the Fishings on the
Water of Boon.— {25th April 1593.]
Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Adamus Stewart prepositus
Georgius Cochrene et Robertus Jamesoun ballivi burgi de Air necnon con-
silium et communitas eiusdem burgi eternam in Domino salutem Noveritis
nos pro perimplectione unius partis cujusdam contractus initi et confecti
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 123
inter honorabilem virum Joaunem Kennedy de Baltersane nunc bereditarium
possessorem terraruni de Grenane ab una et nos partibus ab altera de data
die vicesimo quinto mensis Aprilis anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo
nonagesimo tertio in libris consilii registrandi necnon pro quadam certa
summa pecunie in dicto contractu specificata nobis per ipsum in pecunia
numerata persoluta cum exoneratione eiusdem imperpetuum necnon pro
augmentatione rentalis dicti nostri burgi dedisse concessisse assedasse
arrendasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim bereditarie dimisisse
et bac presenti carta nostra confirmasse necnon dare concedere assedare
locare et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim bereditarie dimittere et bac
presenti carta nostra confirmare memorato Joanni Kennedy de Baltersane et
beredibus suis masculis et assignatis quibuscunque totas et integras nostras
cymbicularum salmonum piscaturas in ore aque de Dwne jacentes infra
vicecomitatum de Air tam in aqua dulce quam in salsa ubi prefate cymbicule
(vulgo lie cobellis) dicte aque solebant antea piscari secundum sobtam et
consuetam tantum et non ultra Necnon totam et integrant salmonum
piscaturam prefate aque de Dwne ex utroque latere eiusdem aque tam
salmonum quam aliarum piscium ab ore seu ingressu dicte aque de Dwne
sursum ascendendo usque ad illam gurgitem vocatam lie Craigweill de
Grenane inclusive que est marcbia terrarum de Grenane duntaxat et non
ultra Tenendas et babendas omnes et singulas prenominatas cymbicularum
salmonum piscaturas in ore prefate aque de Dwne tam in aqua salsa quam
in dulce necnon prefatam salmonum piscaturam et aliarum piscium prefate
aque ex utroque latere eiusdem aque juxta limites prescriptos cum singulis
suis pertinentiis memorato Joanni Kennedy beredibus suis mascubs et
assignatis quibuscunque de nobis et successoribus nostris preposito ballivis
et communitate dicti burgi de Air in feudifirma et bereditate imperpetuum
per omnes rectas metas suas limites et bondas consuetas prout dicte piscature
jacent in longitudine et latitudine ab ore sive ingressu dicte acque de Dwne
sursum ascendendo ad prefatum Craigweill de Grenane tantum et non ultra
cum libero introitu et exitu ac cum plena potestate in dicta aqua de Dwne
infra limites prescriptos et in ore eiusdem piscandi salmones abosque pisces
quoscunque cujuscunque generis extiterint capiendi trabendi et ad littora
solita et consueta per recbia et cymbas ac alia vasa et instrumenta in illis
officiis debita consueta et necessaria ut moris est pertractandi protrabendi et
deducendi ac de eisdem libere disponendi Cum curbs et earum exitibus infra
terras suas de Grenane tenendis cum omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus
124 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
commoditatibus asianientis ac justis suis pertinentiis quibuscunque tarn non
nominatis quam nominatis ad dictas piscaturas cum pertinentiis spectantibus
seu juste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete integre
bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento obstaculo aut contradictione
quacunque Reddendo inde annuatim dictus Joannes Kennedy heredes sui
masculi et assignati prescripti nobis et successoribus nostris preposito ballivis
et communitati dicti burgi nostrisque tbesaurariis nostro nomine firmam
viginti mercarum usuabs monete regni Scotie ad duos anni terminos festa
videlicet pentechostes et sancti Martini in hieme per equales portiones
nomine feudifirme necnon heredes dicti Joannis duplicando dictam feudifirme
firmam primo anno eorum introitus ad dictas piscaturas prout usus est
feudifirme tantum Et defectu bone et gratuite solutionis prefate feudifirme
viginti mercarum sic quod tres termini eiusdem current in quartum terminum
insoluti nobis aut nostris predictis tunc et in eo casu presens carta et
infeofamentum piscaturarum prescriptarum expirabit et nullius erit roboris
valoris efficacie aut momenti deniceps (ipso facto) absque ullo legis processu
vel judicis declaratione quacunque sic quod dictus Joannes heredes sui et
successores tunc to turn eorum jus titulum clameum amicitiam proprietatem
et possessionem prefatarum piscaturarum cum pertinentiis amittent et
perdent Et in favorem nostrum et successorum nostrorum easdem piscaturas
cum pertinentiis defectu bone solutionis dicte feudifirme ut supra simpliciter
tunc renunceabunt et omnino extradonabunt cum nobis et successoribus
nostris postea pro perpetuo permansuras et per nos et successores nostros de
hinc adeo libere utendas gaudendas et disponendas ac si dictus Joannes
nullum unquam titulum clameum aut possessionem ad easdem habuisset
absque contradictione quacunque Et in casu si contigerit heredes vel
successores dicti Joannis esse minores et pupillos infra etatem viginti unius
annorum et in ipsorum minoritate contigerit tres terminos prefate feudifirme
in quartum terminum currere non solutos nobis vel nostris predictis
nihilominus et non obstante prefata non solutio in dicta eorum minoritate
per spacium antedictum prefata clausula irritata facta penes expirationem
hujus presentis infeofamenti ut predictum est super prefatis heredibus et
successoribus dicti Joannis existentibus minoribus ut supra in suspentione
erit durante toto tempore eorum minoritatis tantum et non alias sic quod
nos prefati prepositus ballivi consilium et communitas dicti burgi nee
successores nostri nullam libertatem per prefatam clausulam irritatam habe-
bimus neque per modum actionis vel exceptionis contradicere presentem
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 125
infeofameutum pro non solutione prefate feudifirme de aliquis annis et
terminis durante minoritate dictorum hcredum et successorum prefati
Joannis sed saltern libertatem habebimus super prefata clausula irritata
contra hujus infeofamentum in casu si lieredes vel successores dicti Joannis
existentes legittime etatis viginti unius annorum complete contigerint
deficere in gratuitu solutione prefate annualis feudifirme per spaciurn trium
terminorum in aliquo tempore post eorum perfectam etatem in quartum
terminum non solute ut predictum est Absque prejudicio tamen nobis et
nostris predictis quoad prefatam feudifirmam nobis debentem in dicta eorum
minoritate et quoad nostram actionem eiusdem feudifirme pro hujusmodi
repetitione et recuperatione de omnibus annis et terminis tunc in ipsorum
minoritate insolutis sed licitum erit nobis nostrisque predictis propter eandem
preteritam feudifirmam prosequendi prout de jure congruit et si necesse
fuerit pro hujusmodi namandi et distriugendi prout nobis nostrisque antedictis
videbitur magis expedire et oportunum Et prefati lieredes et successores
dicti Joannis existentes legittime etatis viginti unius annorum tunc et
immediate postea prefata clausula irritata confecta penes expirationem
presentis infeofamenti defectu solutionis dicte feudifirme ut predictum est
contra eos sortitur effectum si ipsos contigerit deinceps deficere in gratuitu
solutione prefate feudifirme per spaciurn trium terminorum in quartum non
solute ut supra Et hoc non solum pro prefata preterita feudifirma restante
non soluta tempore dictorum eorum minoritatis si hujusmodi feudifirma
forte contigerit esse non soluta nobis nostrisque predictis infra tres terminos
post ipsorum perfectam etatem antedictam sed etiam omni tempore tunc
affuturo secundum formam et tenorem prefate clausule irritate et contractus
supra scripti in omnibus prout in eodem contractu latius continetur Proviso
etiam quod hoc presens carta et infeofamentum non prejudicet aut gravamen
aliquod ferat nobis vel successoribus nostris in aliquo tempore affuturo
quoad nostrum molendinum granarium de Alloway terras molendinarias
domos stationem aqueducta et cursu lie dam laid et wattirgang eiusdem
Neque quoad aliqua alia molendina per nos vel successores nostros super
prefatam aquam de Dwne infra bondas prescriptas imposterum edificanda
domos stationem aque ductu et cursu lie dames laidis et wattirgangis eiusdem
adeo libere ut edificare potuissemus ante diem date presentium Neque
quoad nostras terras et baroniam de Alloway vel aliquas alias nostras terras
burgales dicte aque adjacentes quascunque et etiam absque prejudicio inhabi-
tancium dicti nostri burgi de Air nostrorumque tenentium et servitorum
126 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
quorumcunque in lavatione ipsorum vestimenta apud dictam aquam onmi
tempore affuturo adeo libere et sicuti solebant antea lavari ante diem con-
fectionis presencium Et nos vero prefati prepositus ballivi consilium et
communitas dicti burgi de Air et successores nostri totas et integras prefatas
nostras cymbicularum salmonum piscaturas in ore prefate aque de Dwne
tarn in aqua dulce quam in salsa ubi prefate cymbicule prius antea solebant
piscari ut supra Necnon totam et integram prefatam piscaturam salmonum
et aliarum piscium quoscunque dicte aque de Dwne ex utroque latere eiusdem
ab ore seu ingressu huiusmodi aque sursum usque ad prefatam gurgitem
vocatam Craigweill de Grenane inclusive et non ultra cum suis pertinentiis
memorato Joanni Kennedy suis heredibus masculis et assignatis quibus-
cunque in omnibus et per omnia forma pariter et effectu ut premissum est a
nostris propriis et nostris predicessoribus factis preteritis et futuris duntaxat
et non ultra contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus acquietabimus et imper-
petuum defendemus sal vis tarn en et reservatis hiis factis (si qui sint) per pre-
decessores nostros dominos de Grenane predicessoribus dicti Joannis de pre-
fata piscatione confectis A quibus factis nulla tenus warrantizare tenemur
In cujus rei testimonium presentibus manibus nostris necnon manu nostri
clerici communis nostro nomine ut sequitur subscriptis sigillum commune
dicti nostri burgi presentibus est appensum apud eundem burgum die
vicesimo quinto mensis Aprilis anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo
nonagesimo tertio coram his testibus Joanne Porterfeild ministri dicti burgi
Andrea Chalmer de Corraithe Hugone Kennedy de Balcamie Antone
Kennedy de Balsarroch Willelmo Campbell in Grenane Morisio McMurrie de
Culteoun et Joanne Masoun notario publico.
Hec est vera copia carte suprascripte per me notarium publicum subscrip-
tum diligenter copiata et collationata de verbo in verbum nil addito
vel remoto quod substantiam rei variare aut mutare potest sed cum
principali in omnibus concordans Teste meis signo et subscriptione
manualibus Et in majorem rei testificationem prefatus Joannes
Kennedy de Baltersane presenti copia manu sua propria subscripsit.
(Signed) Jhone Kenedy off Balterssane.
Ita est Joannes Masoun nottarius publicus.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 127
Abstract.
Notarial copy of Charter by Adam Stewart, provost, George Cochran
and Eobert Jameson, bailies, and the council and community of the burgh
of Ayr ; whereby, in implement of contract between them on the one part,
and an honourable man, John Kennedy of Baltersane, now heritable posses-
sor of the lands of Grenane, on the other part, of the same date ; and for a
certain sum of money specified in the said contract, paid to them for
augmentation of the rental of the burgh, they gave, granted, and let at
feuferme, to the said John Kennedy and his heirs-male and assignees, all
and whole their fishings of coble salmon in the mouth of the water of Doon,
within the shire of Ayr, as well in fresh as in salt water, where the said
cobles were formerly used in fishing, according to use and wont, and no
further : Also all and whole the salmon and other fishings on both sides of
the Doon, from the mouth or inlet thereof as far as to the whirlpool called
the Craigweill of Grenane, inclusive, which is the march of the lands of
Grenane, but not beyond : To hold of the granters and their successors in
feuferme and heritage for ever, with free ingate and outgate, and with full
power to fish in the said water of Doon within the bounds aforesaid, and in
the mouth thereof, to catch and drag salmon and other fishes of whatever
kind, and draw them to the shore according to use and wont, by means of
nets and boats, and other vessels and instruments, aud freely to dispose of
them : With courts and their exits, to be held within the lands of Grenane,
and with all other freedoms and advantages belonging to the said fishings :
For the yearly payment of twenty rnerks in name of feuferme, the heirs of
the said John Kennedy doubling the amount for the first year of their entry
thereto : With the condition that the effect of the Charter should cease in
the event of three terms running on to the fourth without payment of the
feuferme, except in the case of minors so failing to pay over such a period,
in which event this irritant condition should be suspended : Providing also
that the right granted by this Charter should not in any way, or at any
time in future, occasion any prejudice to the granters or their successors in
regard to their grain mill of Alloway, the mill lands, steading, and lade
thereof, nor to any other mills by them or their successors to be afterwards
built upon the said water of Doon within the aforementioned bounds ; nor
in regard to their lands and barony of Alloway, or any other of the burgh
128 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
lands whatsoever adjacent to the said water : And also without prejudice of
the inhabitants of the burgh of Ayr and their tenants and servants in wash-
ing their clothes at the said water, as freely as they were accustomed to do
in time past : Dated at the said burgh, and sealed with the common seal
thereof, before the witnesses therein named, on the 25th of April 1593.
66. Renunciation by Janet Wallace to the Magistrates of Ayr of an
Annuity of Six Bolls of Malt now redeemed by them. — [lSth May
1594.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me Jonet Wallace relict of
umquhile David Craufurd burges of Air and conjunct fear with him of the
annuelrent eftirspecifeit and David Craufurd sone and air at the leist apper-
and air to the said umquhile David proprietar and fear thairof forsamekill
as we haif presentlie ressavit fra the handis of George Jamesoun provest
Adame Johnestoun and David Fergushill baillies of the burgh of Air for
thameselffis and in name and behalf of the counsall and communitie of the
samin the sowme of twa hundretht merkis money of this realme as for the
lauchfull redemptioun fra ws and ather of ws our airis and assignais of all
and haill ane yeirlie annuelrent of sex bollis malt quhilkis we had yeirlie to
be upliftit furth of all and haill the corne milnis of the burgh of Air over
and nethir miln landis mulcturis and suckin thairof and thair pertinentis
lyand within the Burrowfeild thairof sauld annaliit and wodsett be the
provest bailbes counsall and communitie of the said burgh to the said
umquhile David and to me the said Jonet than his spous and our airis and
assignayis under reversioun contening the said sowme of twa hundreth
markis Off the quhilk sowme in lauchfull redemptioun as said is and of all
byrun fermes annuellis and proffettis of the said annuelrent of all yeris and
termes bipast sen our infeftment to the dait heirof I the said Jonet as con-
junct fear foirsaid and the said David my sone for his entres as fear foirsaid
haldis ws weill content satisfeit and payit And for ws our airis executouris
and assignais exoneris quitclamis and discharges the saidis provest baillies
consall and communitie of the said burgh and thair successouris of the samin
forevir And thairfoir we haif resignit renuncit frelie quitclamit discharget
and ourgevin and be the tennour heirof resignis renuncis frelie quitclamis
discharges and ourgevis all and haill the said yeirlie annuelrent of sex bollis
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 129
malt fra ws our aim and assignais to the saidis provest baillies eounsall and
communitie and tliair successouris and in thair handis and favouris our our-
lordis and superiouris tliairof with all richt titill entres clame of richt
propertie and possessioun quhatsumevir quhilkis we or ony of ws or our
foirsaidis had hes or may haif thairto togidder with all charteris preceptis
instrumentis of sasing and all uther evidentis maid and deliverit to ws and
the said umquhile David thairupoun to remane with the saidis provest
baillies and communitie and tliair foirsaidis as lauchfullie redemit forevir
And grantis the said annuelrent lauchfullie redemit fra ws and aythir of
ws and our foirsaidis and the said reversioun fulfillit to ws in all pointis
confonne to the tennour thairof And bindis and oblissis ws and ayther of
ws our airis and assignais to warrand this our present Renunciation to be
gude valid and effectuall to the saidis provest baillies and communitie and
thair forsaidis and to renew ratifie and appreif the samin sa oft as neid beis
And consentis that the samin be registrat in the buikis of eounsall or toun
buikis of Air ad perpetuam rei memoriam with executoriallis to pas heiron
as efferis In witnes quhairof to thir presentis subscrivit with our handis
as followis our seillis ar heirto hungin at Air the xviij day of May the yeir
of God jm vc foirscoir fourtene yeris befoir thir witnessis Quentene Craufurd
of Drumlaucht William Knox William Fergushill David Bannatyne burgessis
of Air Johnne Gardner and Johue Masoun notaris publict in quhais handis
instrumentis were tane confonne heirto.
(Signed) Jonet Wallace with my hand at the pen
led be the notaris underwitten.
Ita est Joannes Masoun notarius publicus de mandato dicte Jonete
scribere nescientis Ita est Joannnes Gardner conotarius publicus de
mandato dicte Jonete scribere nescientis David Craufurd Quenten
Craufurd of Drumlaucht vitnes.
67. Renunciation by Quintin Craufurd of Drumlauch, in favour of the
Burgh of Ayr, of the Lands of Friars Danheith. — [30th June 1599.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me Quentene Craufurd of
Drumlaucht for divers plesouris gratitudes and gude deidis done to me be
my weilbelovitis the provest bailleis counsale and communitie of the burgh
of Air my ourlordis and superiouris of the landis eftirspecifeit and for divers
s
130 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
utheris gucle caussia and considderationis moving me to haif resignit renuncit
frelie quitclamit dischargit and ourgevin lyk as be the tennour of thir pre-
sentis for me my airis and assignais I resigne renunce frelie quitclame dis-
charge and simpliciter ourgif to the saidis provest bailleis counsale and
communitie of the said burgh of Air and thair successouris and in thair
favouris as in the handis of my ourlordis and superiouris all and haill the
twa merkland of auld extent of Freiris Dalkeyth with the pertinentis lyand
within the baillere of Kyle Stewart and sherefdome of Ayr togiclder with the
infeftment charter and sasing of few ferme and conflrmatioun following
thairupone maid to me of the saidis landis be the saidis provest bailleis
counsale and communitie of the said burgh haill effect force and strenth
thairof with all that hes followit or may follow upone the samin and with
all richt titill entres clame of richt propertie and possessioun quhatsumevir
quhilkis I my airis or assignais had lies or may haif to the said twa merkland
of Freiris Dalkeytht with the pertinentis Eenunceand the samin for me
and my foirsaidis in the favouris of the saidis provest bailleis counsale and
communitie of the said burgh of Air and thair successouris simpliciter to
remane with thame and thair foirsaidis in all tyme cuming ad perpetuam
remanentiam And bindis and oblissis me be thir presentis my airis succes-
souris and assignais to warrand this my present resignatioun and renuncea-
tioun to be gude valeid and effectuall of itself and to be unhurt be my deid
in ony sort And that becaus the saidis provest bailleis counsale and
communitie hes ressavit in rentell Williame Craufurd my lauchfull sone
during his lyftyme in all and haill thir landis underwrittin to witt in all and
haill the fourtene schilling twa pennieworth of land in Lytill Cortoun
sumtyme occupyit be umquhile Johnne Law and now occupyit be Johne
Hooeoun In all and haill the sextene schilling land in Mekill Cortoun
siclyk sumtyme occupyit be the said umquhile Johnne Law in Cortoun and
now occupyit be Adame Neill In all and haill the ane equall half of the
four merkland and aucht schilling four pennie worth of land in Carcluy
sumtyme occupyit be Johnne Law sone of umquhile Thomas Law in Carcluy
and now occupyit be Adame Laucheland and in all and haill the ane equall
half of the fyve schilling land in Carcluy sumtyme occupyit be umquhile
William Law thair and nowr occupyit be the said Adam with thair perti-
nentis lyand within the baronie of Alloway Kingiskyle and sherefdome of
Air berand alwyis reservatioun of my awin lyfrent thairof and that in
satisfactioun and contentatioun of my heretabill richt and tytill of the said
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 131
twa merklaud of Freiris Dalkeyth as the rentell maid be the saidis provest
bailleis eounsale and communitie to my said sone thairupone of the dait the
nyntene day of Juuij the yeir of God jm vc fourscoir nyntene yeiris instant
at lenth beiris And last for the mair securitie heirof I am content and
consentis that thir presentis be actit and registrat in the builds of eounsale
or toun buikis of the said burgh of Air ad perpetuam rei memoriam with
executoriallis to pas heiron in forme as efferis And for registring heirof
makis and constitutis Johnne Makgrane burges of Ayr my procuratouris
promittens de rato etc. In witnes quhairof (thir presentis writtin be George
Masoun sone lauchfull to Johnne Masoun commoun clerk of Air) I haif sub-
scryvit the samin with my awin hand and hungin my seill heirto at Air the
last day of Junii the yeir of God jm vc lxxx nyntene yeiris before thir wit-
nessis William Campbell sone naturell to umquhile William Campbell
younger of Skeldoun Andro Mure Johnne Ross marineris Johne Masoun
William Renkene notar Joseph Smyth my servand and the said George
Masoun writter heirof (Signed) Quentin Craufurd of Drumlaucht
William Campbell vitnes Andro Mure vitnes Johne Ross witnes Williame
Rankene noter vitnes Johnne Masoun witnes George Masoun witnes.
68. Suspension at the instance of the Magistrates of Ayr, against the
Collector-General, anent the Dues of the Chaplainry of the Rood Altar
in the Kirk of Ayr.— [20th June 1600.]
At Edinburgh the twenty day of Junii the yeir of God Jm sax hundrith
yeiris the Lordis off counsall wnderwritten thay ar to say Johnne erle of
Montrose chancellar Alexander lord Fyvie president Alexander maister of
132 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Elphinstoun thesaurar to oure soverane lord Sir James Elpliinstoun of
Berntoun knicht his hienes secretar Mr. Thomas Hammiltoun of Drumcarne
his hienes advocat Williame commendatar of Tungland Johnne commendatar
of Halyrudhous Edward commendatar of Kinlos Archibald Dowglas of Quhit-
tinahame Sir Johnne Cokburne of Ormestoun knicht Justice dark Sir David
Lindsay of Edzeall knicht Sir Richart Cokburne younger of Clarkintoun
lord privie seill Mr. Johnne Prestoun of Fentounbernis Mr. Johnne Skene
dark of his hienes register Androw Weymes of Myrcarane Mr. Peter Rollok
bischope of Dunkelden and Maister David Makgill off Cranstoun Riddell
anent oure soverane lordis lettres purchest at the instance of David Fergus-
hill provest Alexander Lockhart and Peter Cwnynghame bailleis of the
burghe of Air aganis Sir George Home of Wedderburne knicht collectour
generall to our soverane lord for the tyme Makand mentioun that quhair
the said defender hes causit charge the saidis compleneris be vertew of
lettres direct in his favouris as collectour and comptroller foirsaid upon ane
act of secreit counsill maid in his favouris for intromissioun of all restes of
the saidis offices generallie aganes all and sindrie fewaris fermeraris tenentis
takismen parochinaris and utheris addettit in payment of the mailles fermes
teyndis and utheris dewteis of his hienes foirsaid collectorie and comp-
trollarie and sa chargeing the saidis provest and bailleis of the said burgh of
Air in speciall to mak payment of the chaiplanrie of the Ruid alter in the
kirk of Air extending to four pund aucht schillingis ten penneis twa pairt
pennie yeirlie off the cropes and yeiris of God Jm vc fourscoir fyve fourscoir
sax lxxxvij lxxxviij lxxxix lxxxx lxxxxj lxxxxij lxxxxiij lxxxxiiij yeiris
within certane space under the pane of horning lykas the saidis compleneris
ar surelie informit Johnne Scherar messinger executour of the saidis lettres
intendes of verie malice to caus put the saidis compleneris to the home
maist wranguslie and unjustlie considering it is of veritie that umquhile
Marie Quene of Scotis his majesteis darrest mother of maist excellent
memorie be hir grace charture and infeftment under the great seill off the
dait the fourtene day of Aprile the yeir of God Jm vc thriescoir sewin yeiris
gave grantit and disponit to the provest bailleis counsall and communitie of
the said burghe of Air and thair successouris forever all and sindrie landis
tenementis houssis kirkis chapallis ortchyairdis yairdis aikeris croftis annuel-
rentis mylnes fischeingis fruitis dewteis proffeitis emolumentis fermes
almoushoussis daill silver obeit silver and all uther yeirlie dewtie quhatsum-
ever that pertenit to ony chaplanrie alterage or prebendarie foundit be
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 133
quhatsumever patroun within ony kirk chapell or college within the libertie
and parochin of the said burgh of Air and that for the sustentatioun supplie
mentinance and intertenement of the rninistrie hospitalitie and pure et ad
alios pios vsos as in the infeftment grantit to thame and thair predicessouris
thairupon schawin to the lordis of counsall at mair lenth is contenit Beiring
also ane speceall discharge to all oure said soverane lordis coniptrolleris
present and to cum thair collectouris and factoures of all craveing ressaveing
or uplifting of ony pairt of the dewteis foirsaidis of ony yeires and termes
bygane Be vertew quhairoff the saidis cornpleneris and thair predi-
cessouris has bene in continuall use and possessioun of the maillis fermes
teyndis and dewteis of all the saidis alterages chaplanreis and prebendareis
foundit and doittit be quhatsumever kirkis chapellis and colleges within the
said burghe and parochin thairoff and speceallie of the said chaplanrie of
the ruid for the intertenement of thair ministrie hospitall and pure but pay-
ment of ony thrid or dewtie thairfoir to oure soverane lordis comptrolleres
collectoures and utheris his hienes officeris of estait In respect quhairoff
the saidis generall lettres quhairwith the saidis cornpleneris ar chargeit to
the effect foirsaid audit and sould be simpliciter suspendit upon thame
speceallie becaus thay haif fundin cautioun for payment to the said Sir
George Home for payment of the thrid of the said chaplanrie of the cropes
and yeiris of God abon writtin gif the saidis lordis of counsall sail find that
he audit to do the samin And anent the charge gevin to the said defender
to haif compeirit befoir the lordis of counsall at ane certane day by past
bringand with him the saidis pretendit generall lettres and act quhairupon
the samin was grantit to have bene sene and considerat be the saidis lordis
and to have hard and sene the samin effect thairoff and all panes contenit
thairintill bene simpliciter suspendit upon the saidis cornpleneris in tyme
dimming for the caussis foh'said lykas at mair lenth is contenit in the saidis
lettres The saidis cornpleneris compeirand be Maister Alexander King thair
procuratour and oure said soverane lordis collectour compeirand be Maister
Jolinne Nicolsoun his procuratour the richtis ressounes and allegatiounes of
the saidis pairteis hard sene and understand and thairwith being ryplie
advyset the lordis of counsall suspendis the saidis lettres purckest be oure
said soverane lordis collectour aganis the saidis cornpleneris in the said
mater simpliciter and decernes the samin lettres effect thairoff and process
of horning contenit thairintill to ceis in tynie cumming and that in respect of
the ressoun and caus abonwrittin sufhcientlie verifeit and provin in presens
134 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
of the saidis lorclis and siklyk the saidis lordis ordanes the saidis provest
bailleis eounsall and conimunitie of the said burgh of Air to big up and
repair thair hospitall betuix and the twentie day of Junii nixtocum in the
yeir of God Jm sax hundreth and ane yeiris and ordanes lettres to be direct
to the effect foirsaid gif neid beis in forme as effeiris Extractum de libro
actorum per me magistrum Johannem Skene clericum Rotulorum Registri
ac consilii S. D. N. Regis sub meis signo et subscription manualibus.
(Signed) Joannes Skene,
Cls. Regri, etc.
69. Decreet in favour of the Burgh of Ayr anent the Account rendered
by the Burgh to Exchequer. — [16th July 1601.]
At Edinburgh the fyiftein day of July the yeir of God jm sex hundreth and
ane yeiris the Lordis Auditouris of our soveran Lordis Cheakker
underwrittin thay ar to say Jhone erll of Montrois Lord Graham etc.
chancellare Alexander Lord Fywie president of the Colledg of Justice Sir
James Elphingstoun of Barntoun knycht his hienes secretar Sir Jhone
Cokburne of Ormistoun knycht Justice Clerk Sir Richert Cokburne
of Clerkyntoun younger Lord Privie Seall Maister Jhone Skein clerk of
his hienes register Maister Georg Young archidiacone of Sanct Androis
anent the supplicatioun gewin in befoir the Lordis Auditoris of his
hienes chekker be the provest baillies counsaill and communitie of the
buro-h of Air makand mentioun that quhair conforme to the ordour yeirlie
observit be the saidis Lordis and preceptis of chekker direct to the burrowis
of this realme the saidis complenaris hes comperit befoir the saidis Lordis
and hes awaytit be the space of thir fyiftein dayis bypast for making of the
burrow compt of thair said burghe ut antea ffor payment to his majestie
yeirlie in chekker conforme to the comptis maid be tham of befoir be the
rollis of the soume of Tuentie pundis money usuall of this realme as for the
burrow maillis of the said burghe landis and baronie of Alua with pertinentis
Nochttheles Maister Jhone Skein dark of his hienes register upoun ane
pretext that he hes found out ane charter writtin upoun the back of ane of
the Rollis gewin and grantit be King Robert the secund to the provest
baillies and inhabitantis of the said burghe of all and haill the said burghe
and landis of Alua with the pertinentis ffor payment yeirlie to him and his
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 135
successouris decern libras argenti Quhilk charter the saidia complenaris
knawis uocht nathir yit hes acceptit the samyn nor yit bruik thay thair said
burghe and landis foirsaidia be wertew thairof bot thay bruik and joys the
samyn be wertew of wtheris thair rychtis and in speciall the rychtis char-
teris and infeftmentis respective underwrittin gewin and grantit to the said
burghe of Air be umquhill King "William umqubill King Alexander and
umquhill King Robert the third Kingis of Scotland of niaist worthie
memorie ffor payment yeirlie for the burrow maillis thairof landis and
baronie of Alua with the pertinentis abonevrittin of the sowme of Tuentie
pundis usuall money of this realnie lang befoir ony anuexatioun maid of the
burrow madlis of the burrowis of this realme to the crown and conforme
thairto hes evir bein in use past memorie of man to mak the comptis of the
said burghe for payment yeirlie of the said sowme of xxffi money forsaid
thairfoir (as be the inspectioun of the comptis mair cleirlie will appeir)
wrangouslie refuissis to mak the saidis coniplenaris compt conforme to the
rollis preceding without ane command of the saidis Lordis to that effect
desyring thairfoir the saidis Lordis Auditouris of Chekker to haif considera-
tioun of the premissis and to gif command to the said clerk of register and
his deputtis clarkis of the chekker to caus forme and mak the burrow compt
of the said burghe of Air conforme to thair comptis maid be the rollis be the
provest baillies and inhabitant-is thairof preceding thay payand yeirlie for
the burrow maillis thairof landis and baronie of Alua with the pertinentis
the sowme of Tuentie pundis usuall money of this realme this present yeir
and siclyk yeirlie in tymcuming conforme to thair evidentis and rychtis re-
spective abonewrittin and comptis of chekker maid be tham be the rollis of
befoir as said is lyk as at mair lenth is contenit in the said supplicatioun
The saidis provest baillies counsaill and communitie of the said burghe of Air
comperand be Jhone Lokart thair prelocpuitour maister Thomas Hamiltoun
of Drumcarne his hienes advocat being personalie present and Sir David
Murray of Gospartic knycht his majesties comptrollar comperand be Robert
Arnot of the Newtoun of Faukland his deputt The said Jhone Lokart pre-
loquutour forsaid producit ane charter and infeftment under the gryt seall
maid gewin and grantit be wmquhill King William of worthie memorie to
the saidis provest and baillies of the said burghe of Air landis and libertie
thairof for payment yeirlie for ewerie toft and sex aikeris of land adjacent
thairto of the sownie of xijd money of the dait at Laneren the tuentie ane
day of May Ane wther infeftment gewin and grantit to tham be King
136 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
Alexander of worthie memorie of thair said burghe landis of Aluay Corktonn
and Garcloy with the pertinentis payand thairfoir yeiiiie the sowme of ten
pundis at martimes and vitsonday be equall portiounis of the dait at Air the
tuentie day of Apryll and of his hienes regne the xxij yeir Ane wther char-
ter gewin to tham be wmquhill Alexander lykwayis King of Scotland of all
and haill the said burgh landis and libertie of the samen ffor payment
yeirlie for ewerie toft and sex aikeris of land adjacent thairto of the said
sowm of xijd of the dait at Air the nynt day of Maii and of his hienes reigne
the nynt yeir Ane wther infeftment gewin and grantit to the said burgh
be wmquhill King Kobert the third of the landis and liberties thairof pay-
and thairfoir yeirlie to him and his successouris of the sowm of Ten pundis
usuall money of this realme of the dait at Irving the tuelft day of September
the yeir of God jm iiijc yeiris and of his hienes reigne the xj yeir as the
foirsaidis charteris and infeftmentis respective abonewrittin of the daittis
respective abonespecifiet in thamselfis mair amplie proportis The pairties
rychtis reasounis and allegatiounis being hard sein and understand and
thairvithe being ryplie advysit The Lord is Auditouris of our soveran
Lordis chekker ordanis the dark of register and his deputtis clarkis of chek-
ker to caus forme and mak the said burrow compt of the said burghe of Air
this present yeir and yeirlie in tymcuming thay payand for the burrow
maillis thairof and landis of Alua abonewrittin withe the pertinentis pertening
thairto the sowm of Tuentie poundis usuall money of this realme conforme
to the burrow comptis of the said burghe maid be tham and thair predices-
souris of befoir thir dyverss and syndrie yeiris bypast past memorie of man
be the rollis of chekker and thair foirsaidis infeftmentis maid gewin and
grantit to tham be the saidis Kingis of Scotland befoir ony act of annexa-
tioun of the burrow maillis of the burrowis of this realme to the crowne
Nochtwithstanding the productioun of the said charter writtin vpoun the
back of the roll maid and gewin to the said burghe be wmquhill King
Robert the secund berand payment yeirlie for the burrow maillis of the said
burghe decern Libras argenti And ordanes lettres to be direct heirvpoun gif
neid beis in forme as effeiris.
Extractum de libro actorum dominorum auditorum scaccarij per me
Magistrum Joannem Skein clericum rotulorum registri ac consilij
S. D. N. regis sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.
Joannes Skene,
Ck. Regrj.
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70. Disposition by Robert Wallace of Holmstoun and Jean Blair his
SjMitse, to the Burgh of Ayr, of an Acre of Land. — [20th November
1602.]
Be it kencl till all men be thir present lettres me Robert Wallace of Holmistoun
and Jeban Blair my spous with ane consent and assent that forsamekill as
we haif presentlie ressavit actuallie in numerit money to the intent of thir
presentis fra Alane Osburne thesaurer of the burgh of Air in name and
behalf of the provest bailleis counsale and communitie therof the sowme of
twa hundreth merkis in gude and usuale numerit money of this realme
quherof we hald ws weill content satisfeit and payit and for ws our airis
successouris and assignais exoneris quitclaims and discharges the said Alane
Osburne in name and behalf foirsaid and all utheris quhome it effeiris of the
samin be thir presentis for now and evir Thairfore to haif sauld annaleit
and disponit as be the tennour heirof with ane consent and assent we sell
annalie and dispone to the provest bailleis counsale and communitie of the
said burgh of Air and to thair successouris perpetuallie without reversioun
redemptioun or regres quhatsumevir all and haill ane aikir of land of our
twa merkland of Holmistoun upoun the east pairt thairof nixt and contigue
adiacent to the said burghis come miln callit the Ovirmiln and quhilk is
presentlie laid af designit merchit and meithit round about be me to thame
lyand within the Burrowfeild of the said burgh and shirefdome thairof And
to that effect sail resignne renunce and simpliciter overgif lykas be the ten-
nour of thir presentis we with ane consent and assent resignne renunce and
ourgif fra ws our airis and successouris perpetuallie all and haill the said aikir
of land abone designit merchit and meithit as said is in the handis of the saidis
provest bailleis counsale and communitie of the said burgh of Air our ovir-
lordis and superiouris thairof with our haill rycht titill clame entres and
possessioun of the samin to remane with thame and thair successouris and
to be peceablie bruikit joysit usit and disponit upoun be thame as thair
proper heretage heretablie in all tyme cuming ad perpetuam rei remanentiam
Thair entrie thairto to be instantlie at the dait heirof And siclyk we haif
sauld and disponit and be the tennour heirof sellis and disponis to the saidis
provest bailleis counsale and communitie and thair foirsaidis the teindis of
T
138 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
the said aikir of land during all the tyme and space sa lang as we our airis
or successouris or ony in our name ceding to our utilitie and commoditie hes
richt or titill to the teindis of the said twa merkland of Holmistoun be tak
or utherwayis or sail happin to bruik and joyse the samin teindis ony maner
of way in ony tyme cuming Quhilk aikir of land with the pertinentis and
heretabill richt thairof heirin disponit resignatioun and alienatioun of the
samin abone specefeit we oblise ws our airis successouris and assignayis to
warrand to the saidis provest bailleis counsale and communitie and thair
successouris in all tyme cuming aganis all dedlie And that thai sail half
sufficient richt and titill to the said aikir of land with the pertinentis als-
weill thai nocht infeft as infeft sasit as nocht sasit heretablie and irredema-
billie in all tyme cuming for evir And forder I the said Jeane Blair hes
gevin my great bodelie aith in presens of the notaris and witnessis eftir
specefeit that I am not compelled nor coactit heirto And gif neid beis sail
compeir befoir ony juge ordinar and gife my great bodelie aith of new that
I am not compelled heirto na maner of way And last for the mair securitie
we ar content and consentis that thir presentis be actit and registrat in the
buikis of counsale or toun buikis of Air to haif the strenth of ane act and
decreit of the lordis of counsale or provest and baillies of Air with lettres
and executoriallis of horning upoun ane sempill charge of sex dayis poinding
and warding the ane but preiudice of the uther to be direct heiron And for
reoistrinf heirof makis and constitutis our procuratouris in uberiori consti-
tutionis forma promittentes de rato etc. In witnes of the quhilk thing
(thir presentis writtin be George Masoun sone to Johnne Masoun clerk of
Air) we haif subscrivit the samin with our handis as followis Our seillis ar
affixt At the burgh of Air the tuentie day of November the yeir of God
im sex hundreth twa yeiris befoir thir witnesses Williame M'Kerell of Hilhous
shireff clerk of Air James Blair burges of Air the saidis Johnne Masoun and
Georo-e Masoun Provyding alwayis that we be nocht astricted in na vvair-
andice of the teindis of the said aikir of land bot sa lang as our present
richt thairof may wairand the self And gif we or our successouris sail
obtene ony forder richt of the teindis of the said twa merkland nor we pre-
sentlie haif in that cais the saidis provest bailleis counsale and communitie
sail haif the teind of the said aikir of land during the tyme of our richt swa
procurit they payand thairfore pro rata efferand to the said aikir as we pay
for the rest of the said land Befoir the witnesses foirsaidis with William
Stevein in Mayboill and George Cochren (Signed) Bobert Wallace off
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS.
139
Holmistoun Jeine Blaire Wm M'Kerrell witnes James Blair witnes Johnne
Masoun notar witnes G. Masoune witnes Williame Stevin witness George
Cochrane witnes.
71. Extract of Charter by the Burgh of Ayr to John Cunningham, his
Wife, and Son, of the Roodland, etc. — [22d September 1607.]
The just extract of the Charter maid to the pro vest baillies and counsale
of the burgh of Air superiouris of the landis underwrittin maid be tham
thareof to John Cuningham of Rudeland Jonet M'Adam his spous and
Mr. William Cuninghame thair sone insert and registrat in the toun buikis
of this burgh quharof the tennour followis at Air the xxij day of Sej)tember
1607 yeiris.
Omnibus banc cartam visuris vel audituris jorepositus ballivi consules et
communitas burgi de Air superiores terrarum et prati subscripti eternam
in Domino salutem Noveritis nos dedisse concessisse arrendasse locasse
et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim hereditarie dimisisse et hac presenti
carta confirmasse Necnon dare concedere arrendare locare et ad feudifirmam
seu emphiteosim hereditarie dimittere et hac presenti carta nostra confirmaxe
probo viro Joanni Cuninghame de Rudeland et Jonete Makadame sue
spouse eorumque alteri diutius viventi in vitali redditu pro omnibus
ipsorum vite diebus necnon magistro Willelmo Cuningham ipsorum filio
legitimo primo genito suis heredibus et assignatis hereditarie totam et
integram illam petiam terre vocatam Rudeland extendentem ad unain mer-
catam terre antiqui extentus vel ea circa per quondam Adamum Cuningham
in Potterhill patrem dicti Joannis et nunc per prefatum Joannem et suos
110 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
subtenentes occupatam cum pertinentiis jacentem in territorio lie Burrow-
feild dicti burgi inter has metas subscriptas videlicet inter terras de
Carwilkin ex orientali terras de Lochfergus ex australi et terras de
Knoksouel ex boreali et orientali partibus Necnon totam et integram
illam petiam prati vocati Drummylismedow cum glebario ac terris arabilibus
infra eundem quibus dictus quondam Adamus occupabat et nunc per
dictum Joannem et suos subtenentes occupatam jacentem in territorio dicti
burgi de Air inter has metas subscriptas videlicet inter terras de Holmishill
ex boreali terras de Duphoilburne ex australi et terras de Gawblair ex
orientali et occidentali partibus Quequidem terre de Eudeland cum
prefato prato de Drummylismedow cum earundem pertinentiis perprius
dicto Joanni Cuninghame hereditarie pertinuerunt et quas ille non vi aut
metu ductus nee errore lapsus compulsus seu coactus sed sua mera pura
libera et spontanea voluntate per fustem et baculum in manibus nostris
tanquam in manibus domini sui superioris earundem apud dictum burgum
de Air die instanti sursum reddidit pureque et simpliciter resignavit ac
totum jus et clameum proprietatem et possessionem que et quas in et ad
easdem habuit habet seu quovismodo habere poterit Renunciando eisdem
pro se et heredibus suis imperpetuum in favorem ipsiusmet et prefate sue
spouse necnon dicti magistri Willelmi sui filii suisque prescriptis Tenendam
et habendam totam et integram prefatam petiam terre nuncupatam Rudland
extendentem ut supra necnon dictam petiam prati vocatam Drummylis-
medow cum glebario ac terris arabilibus infra eiusdem solitis et consuetis
memoratis Joanni Cunyngham et Jonete M'Adam sue sponse eorumque
alteri diutius viventi in vitali redditu necnon prefato magistro Willelmo
Cunyngham eorum filio suis heredibus et assignatis de nobis et succes-
soribus nostris preposito ballivis consilio et communitati prefati burgi in
feudifirma et hereditate seu emphiteosi hereditarie imperpetuum Per omnes
rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas prout jacent in longitudine et latitudine
in domibus edificiis bostis planis moris merresiis viis semitis aquis stagnis
rivolis pratis pascuis et pasturis aucupationibus venationibus piscationibus
petariis turbariis columbis columbariis silvis nemoribus et virgultis lignis
lapicidiis lapide et calce cum communi pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum
omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus proficuis asiamentis ac
iustis suis pertinentiis quibuscunque tarn non nominatis quam nominatis tarn
subtus terra quam supra terram procul et prope ad dictas terras cum prato et
glebario antedictis cum pertinentiis spectantibus seu juste spectare valentibus
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. Ml
quomodolibet in futurum libcre quiete plenarie integre bene et in pace
sicuti dictus quondam Adamus easdem terras cum prato predicto occupabat
sine aliquo iinpedimento revocatione aut obstaculo quocunque Reddendo
inde annuatim clicti Joannes Cunningham et Joneta M'Adame eius sponsa
in vitali redditu necnon dictus Magister Willelmus Cuningham eorum filius
heredes sui et assignati nobis et successoribus nostris summam quadraginta
solidorum monete huius regni tanquam firmam antiquam pro dictis terris
cum prato predicto prius solvi solitam et consuetam Necnon summam
duodecim denariorum in augmentationem rentalis clicti burgi plusquam
vnquam dicte terre cum prato antedicto prius nobis aut predicessoribus
nostris soluerunt seu dederunt extendentes in integro ad quadraginta
solidos et duodecim denarios usualis monete regni Scotie ad duos anni
terminos festa fidelicet penthecostes et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales
portiones nomine feudifirme unacum aliis servitiis et divoriis tenentium
et possessorum dictarum terrarum et prati debitis et consuetis sicuti et
eodem modo ut alteri tenentes et occupatores terrarum nostrarum dicti
nostri Burrowfeild faciunt et facere tenentur Necnon heredes dicti magistri
Willelmi duplicando dicte feudifirme summam primo anno eorum introitus
ad dictas terras et pratum prout usus est feudifirme pro omni alio onere
exactione questione demanda seu servitio seculari que de dictis terris cum
prato per quoscunque iuste exigi poterint quomodolibet vel requiri Et
nos vero prefati prepositus ballivi consules predicti burgi de Air et successores
nostri totam et integram predictam petiam terre nuncupatam Rudeland
extendentem ut supra Necnon dictam petiam prati vocatam Drummylis-
medow cum glebario ac terris arabilibus infra eundem solitis et consuetis
memoratis Joanni Cuningham et Jonete M'Adam sue sponse eorumque alteri
diutius viventi in vitali redditu necnon prefato magistro Willelmo Cuning-
ham eorum filio suis heredibus et assignatis in omnibus et per omnia forma
pariter et effectu ut premissum est contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus
aequietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus Salvo jure cuiuslibet In cuius
rei testimonium huic presenti carte nostre ex chyrographo Georgii Masoun
notarii manibus nostris ut siq^ra subscriptis sigillum commune dicti nostri
burgi est appensum ajjud eundem burgum xxij0 die mensis Septembris anno
Domini millesimo sexcentesimo septimo coram his testibus Jacobo Wallace
nuntio in Air Thoma Kirk Thoma Galloway seriandis ibidem et Joanne
Masoun scriba communi eiusdem burgi ac notario publico sic subscribitur
Adame Stewart George Masoun baillie Thomas Mirrie baillie William
H2 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Cuninghani baillie Dun cane M'Adam dene of gild Donnald Smyth thesaurar
George Cochren John Osburne George Gibsoun Petir Hammiltoun Hew
Kennedy John Jamesoun David Fergushill.
Extractum de libro actorum curie burgi de Air per me Joannem
Masoun clericum communem eiusdem burgi sub meis signo et
subscriptione manualibus. J. Masoun.
[Sasine was given in terms of Charter.]
Abstract.
Extract of Charter granted by the Magistrates and community of the
burgh of Ayr, as superiors, in favour of an honest man, John Cuningham of
Rudeland, and Janet M'Adam his wife, and the survivor of them, in life-
rent, and Mr. William Cuningham their firstborn son, his heirs and assignees
heritably, of that piece of land called Rudeland, extending to one mercate
of land of old extent, or thereby, occupied by the deceased Adam Cuning-
ham in Potterhill, father of the said John, and now by the. latter and his
sub-tenants, lying in the territory of the Burrowfield of the said burgh,
between the lands of Carwilkin on the east, lands of Lochfergus on the
south, and lands of Knocksoul on the north and east : Also of that piece of
meadow called Drummylsmedow, with the glebe and arable land within the
same, which the said deceased Adam used to occupy, and now occupied by
the said John and his sub-tenants, lying in the territory of the burgh of
Ayr, between the lands of Holmshill on the north, lands of Duphoilburne
on the south, and lands of Galblare on the east and west : Proceeding on
resignation thereof by the said John Cuningham, by staff and baton, in the
hands of the granters, of whom they were to hold in feuferme, for the
yearly rent of forty shillings, and twelve pence in augmentation of rental,
with dupkcand in the first year of their entry thereto. Dated at Ayr the
22d September 1607, and subscribed by Adam Stewart, provost, George
Mason, Thomas Mirrie, and William Cuningham, bailies, Duncan M'Adam,
dean of guild, Donald Smyth, treasurer, and others.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 143
72. Renunciation by Barbara Jameson, to the Burgh of Ayr, of Four
Shops under the Tolbooth.—[lith Hay 1611.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me Barbara Jamesoun dochter
and air of umquhile Johnne Jamesoun burges of Air that fforsamekill as I
and Johnne Lokhert of Barr my tutour testamentar for his enteres in my
name and behalf lies presentlie ressavit in numerat money at the dait heirof
fra the handis of George M'Calmont thesaurer of the burgh of Air in name
and behalf of the provest baillies counsale and communitie thairof the sowme
of thrie hundreth pundis glide and usuale money of this kingdome of Scot-
land as for the lauchfull redemptioun lowsing and outquitting fra me the
said Barbara dochter and air foirsaid my airis and assigneis and my said
tutour for his enteres of all and haill the said burghis four laych silleris and
buithis under the tolbuyth thairof with thair pertinentis cpihilkis wer heir-
tofoir annaliit and wodsett be the provest baillies counsale and communitie
of the said burgh to umquhile Johnne Jamesoun my grandschir umquhile
George Jamesoun his sone my gudschir umquhile Bobert Jamesoun his
brother germane and to my said umquhile fader be particuler actis and
sasingis following thairnpoun redemabill and under reversioun allwyis con-
tening in haill the said sowme of thrie hundreth pundis videlicet ane hun-
dreth merkis money upoun ilkane of thrie buithis of the four buithis
foirsaidis and the sowme of ane hundreth pundis quhilk my said umquhile
grandschir had lyand in wodsett upoun the fourt buith of the samin Off
the quhilk sowme of thrie hundreth pundis money in lauchfull redemptioun
of the samin four haill buithis and silleris as said is I as dochter and air
foirsaid and my said tutour in my name and behalf for his enteres haldis us
weill content satisfeit and payit and for us our airis successouris and assigneis
exoneris quittclamis and simpliciter discharges the saidis provest baillies
counsale and communitie of the said burgh and thair successouris of the
samin be thir presentis for now and evir and grantis and declaris the
saidis four silleris and buithis to be lauchfullie redemit lowsit and outquitt
fra me the said Barbara as dochter and air foirsaid my airis and assigneis be
payment to my said tutour of the sowme abonewrittin and the saidis rever-
sionis to be fulfillit to us in all pointis conforme to the tennour of the samin
And thairfoir to haif resignit renuncit frelie quittclamit discharget deliverit
and for evir ouergevin lyk as be the tennour heirof I and my said tutour in
144 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
my name and takand the burding in an upoun him for me for bis enteres
resignis renuncis frelie quittclamis dischargeis deliveris and for evir ouirgevis
fra me my airis and assigneis to tbe saidis provest baillies counsale and
communitie of the said burgh of Ayr and to thair successouris and in thair
favouris All and sindrie the foirnamit four laych silleris and buithis under
the tolbuyth of the said burgh with thair pertinentis quhairintill my said
umquhile fader and his predicessouris foirsaidis with my selff wer infeft and
sasit in maner foirsaid togidder with all richt titill enteres kyndnes clame of
richt properte and possessioun quhatsumevir quhilkis I as dochter and air
foirsaid my airis or assigneis had lies or may haif thairto and with all char-
teris preceptis instrumentis of sasing actis contractis and all utheris evidentis
maid and deliverit to me and my foirnamit predicessouris thairupoun to
remane with the saidis provest baillies counsale and communitie and thair
foirsaidis as lauchfullie redemit for evir Lyk as I the said Johnne Lokhert
of Bar as tutour and cautioner for me the said Barbara be thir presentis
bindis and oblissis me and her conjunctlie and severalie our airis successouris
and assigneis to warrand this present Benunciatioun to be gude valeid and
effectuall to the saidis provest baillies counsale and communitie and thair
foirsaidis at the said Barbarais handis hir airis and all utheris quhom it
efferis and to cans hir at hir majoritie and perfyte age to ratine and appreif
this present renunciatioun and gif neid be than to roak lauchfull and new
renunciatioun of the saidis buithis in dew and sufficient forme and to renew
reiterat ratifie and appreif the samin sa oft as neid beis ay and quhill the
samin [be] siker and sure to the saidis provest and baillies and thair foir-
saidis be advise of men of law And for the mair securitie I and my said
tutour ar content and consentis that thir presentis be actit and registrat in
the buikis of our soverane lordis counsale and sessioun or toun buikis of Air
to haif the strenth of ony ane of thair actis and decreittis respective with
lettres and executoriallis of horning upoun our sempil charge of sex dayis
poinding or warding the ane but prejudice of the uthir to be direct heiron
And for registering heirof makis and constitutis
our procuratouris promitten de rato etc. In witnes of the quhilk thing thir
presentis writtin be Jhonne Masoun toun clerk of Air subscrivit be me the
said Johnne Lokhert tutour foirsaid for my self and in name of me the said
Barbara as burdenar for me our seillis as affixit at Air the fourtene day of
May the yeir of God jm vjc ellevin yeiris befoir thir witnessis maister George
Dunbar minister of Air George Masoun kit baillie thairof Adam Herbert
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 145
skipper burges tbair Mathew Mortoun Thomas Kirk officiaris tliair and the
said Joknue Masouu etc. with George Masouu notar his sone etc. (Signed)
Johxne Lokhartt off Barr Mr. Geo : Dunbar witnes Jobnne Masoun wit-
nes George Mason witnes Adame Harbart witnes G. Masoun notar witnes.
73. Act of Privy Council, empowering the Burghs on the West Const
to cure Herring. — [31st July 1612.]
At Edinburgh the last day of July the yeir of God jra vic and twelf yeiris
anent the supplicatioun presented to the Lordis of Secrete Counsell be the
proveist baillies counsell and inhabitants of oure burrowis of Air Irrewing
Glasgow Dunbartane and utheris frie burrowis upoun the west seyis of this
realme makand mention that quhair thair is ane Act of Secrete Counsell
maid and sett down that na hering sail be maid saltit packit or peillit be
ony marchantis or uther personis for carying and transporting thairof forth
of this realme at ony port burgh or uthar pairt upoun the west seyis of this
realme befoir the first day of October yeirlie under the paine of confiscatioun
thairof as the Act maid thairanent at mair length proportis According to
the quhilk Act thair hes bene certane searchouris and commissioneris ap-
pointit yeirlie thir sindrie yeiris bygane for searching and apprehending of
all hering quhilk hes bene maid saltit peillit and packit befoir the said first
day of October yeirlie and for confiscatioun thairof be the quhilk searcheing
and confiscatioun not only hes the taking and slaying of hering bene alto-
gidder stayit and hinderit to the grate hurt of [his] Hienes haill lieges in
quhais favouris the said Act wes thought to haif bene maid bot also the
haill takeris and slayeris of the said hering ar thairby become sa altogiddar
depauperated and poore in default of marchantis to buy and tak the same af
thair handis in dew tyme that that traffecque and calling of the taking of
hering and traffecqueing thairwith quhilk wes the speciall commoditie of the
head burrowis of the west seas is altogider decayit and left of as is notour
to the Lordis of Secrete Counsell quhilk hes broght grite skaith to the haill
lieges of that pairt of the countrey sua that of all necessitie and for the weill
of the saidis lieges the said Act to be dischargit abrogatit and rescindit and
libertie grantit to the haill burrowis for making salting packing and peilino-
of hering as thay wer wount to do befoir the making of the said Act but
prejudice to the lieges of the countrey to mak and salt hering for furnessing
u
146 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
of thameselffis and for thair awne use in dew tynie as they best can and
most cormnodiouslie may be had Humelie desyring thairfoir that thay may
haif ane Act of Counsell past and exped in thair favour in manner and to
the effect following lyk as at mair length is conteineit in the said supplicatioun
quhilk being red hard and considerat be the saidis Lordis and they finding
the desyre thairof to be ressounable Thairfoir the saidis Lordis hes given
and grantit and be vertew of this Act gevis and grantis libertie and licence
to the marchantis and friemen of the frie burrowis of the west seyis of this
kingdome to mak salt pak and peill hering at sic tymes and seasonis as the
same may be commodiouslie haid and tane at ony tyme befoir the first day
October in this present yeir of God jm vie and twelf yeiris and yeirlie thair-
eftir ay and quhill they be dischairgit be new warrant to be gevin to that
effect without pane cryme skaith or danger to be incurret be thame thair-
throw in thair personis or goodis notwithstanding quhatsumevir act maid in
the contrair quhairanent the saidis Lordis dispenss be thir presentis With
conditioun and provisioun alwise that the lieges of the countrey be preferrit
and first servit for thair awne necessar provisioun and useis.
Extractum de libris actorum Secreti Consilii S. D. N. regis per me
Jacobum Prymrois clericum eiusdem sub meis signo et subscriptione
manualibus. (Signed) Jacobus Prymrois.
74. Procuratory of Resignation by Mr. William Birny, Minister of Ayr,
in favour of the Burgh, of Blaclfriars Lands, etc. — [29th January
1614.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me maister Williame Birnye
minister at Air ffor the speciall luif and favour I haif and beir to my weil-
belovit flok the provest baillies counsale and communitie of the burgh of
Air and for divers utheris gratitudes plesouris and gude deidis done be
thame to me to haif maid constitut and ordanit lykas be the tennour heirof
I mak constitut and ordane rycht honorabill and my weilbelovittis
and ilkane of thame coniunctlie and severallie my verray
lauchfull undoubtit and irrevocabill procuratouris actouris factouris speciall
and generall erand beraris and messingeris to the effect underwrittin gevand
sjrantand and committand to thame and ilkane of thame coniunctlie and
severallie as said is my veray full fre plane power speciall commandiment
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 147
expres bidding and charge for me and in my name and upoun my belmlff
to compeir befoir our soverane lord the kingis majestie my immediat supe-
riour of the landis mylnis fischingis tenementis annuelrentis and utheris
eftirmentionat or befoir his majesteis commissioneris havand his hienes
power and commissioun at quhatsumevir day or dayis place or places con-
venient and thair with all condigne reverence humilitie and obedience to
resignne surrander and be staff and bastoun purelie and simplie ouirgif All
and sindrie the landis milnis fischingis tenementis annuelrentis and utheris
underwrittin They ar to say all and haill the rowme place and stance of
the Blak freir Kirk within the burgh of Air of auld wes situat and foundit
with the tenementis of land houssis biggingis orcheardis and yardis auld
and new foundit and biggit within the precink of the dykis wallis and
merches thairof sumtyme occupiit and possessit be the saidis freris All and
haill the Ovir and Nethir milnis of the said burgh of Air miln landis astrict
multuris suckin and knaveschip of the samin houssis biggingis yardis and
thair pertinentis All and haill the Twa cruiffis for taking of salmond situat
upoun the dam of the said Nethir miln Item the landis of Castelhill the
landis callit the Freirlandis now occupiit be Johnne Burnis the landis of
Marielandis occupiit be Johnne Campbell the landis of Nevinsland the
twenty four aikeris of arabill land or thairby callit the Freris aikeris occupiit
be Alexander Craufurd of Kers George Angus of Brighous Johnne M'Mar-
tene burges of Air and thair subtennentis All and haill the landis of Kude-
landis occupiit be Johnne Cunninghame and his subtennentis All and haill
the landis callit the occupiit be Campbell in Gaitsyde
togidder with all and sindrie annuelrentis males and dewities dotit and
gevin to the saidis Blak freris and quhilkis pertenit to thame and that thai
wer in use of auld to uptak and ressave furth of quhatsumevir tenementis
or landis lyand within the burgh of Air all lyand within the libertie and
fredome of the said burgh of Air and sherefdome of the samyn And als all
and haill the landis callit the Freris Dalkeyth houssis biggingis yardis and
all thair pertinentis lyand within the baillierie of Kylestewart and sheref-
dome of Air with all utheris landis tenementis annuelrentis and utheris
quhatsumevir quhilkis appertenit to the saidis sumtynie Blackfreres predi-
catouris of Air or Grayfreris thairof competent unto me or quhairunto I naif
richt in the handis of our said soverane lord as in the handis of my immediat
superiour thairof or his hienes commissioneris abonewrittin having his hienes
commissioun and power in speciall favouris and for new and heretabill
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infeftment to be maid gevin and granted of the samyn be our said soverane
lord to the saidis provest baillies counsale and communitie of the burgh of
Air and thair successouris in dew and competent forme as efferis Quhilkis
all and sindrie the foirnamit landis milnis fischingis tenementis aikeris
annuelrentis and utheris particulerlie befoir expremit with all and sindrie
thair pairtis pendicles and pertinentis I the said maister Williame Birnye
be thir my present lettres of procuratorie and resignatioun for me my airis
and assignayis resignne surrander and be staff and bastoun simpliciter ovir-
gif in the handis of our said soverane lord my immediat superiour of the
samin and Lis hienes commissioueris in speciall favouris of the said provest
baillies counsale and communitie of the said burgh and thair successouris
heretabillie forevir to the effect abonexpremit Farder for the caus foirsaid
I haif gevin grantit assignit and disponit lyk as be the tennour of thir pre-
centis for me my airis and assignayis I gif grant and dispone and frelie
assigne-to the saidis provest baillies counsale and communitie and thair
successouris perpetuallie for evir all richt titill entres clame of rycht propertie
and possessioun alsweill petitour as possessour actioun and instance cpxhilkis
I or my foirsaidis had hes or ony wyis may haif clame or pretend to the
foirsaidis landis milnis fischingis and utheris abonespecifeit with the perti-
nentis or ony pant thairof males fermes proffeitis and dewiteis of the samin
be vertew of my gift and donatioun thairof of quhatsumevir yeiris and
termes bygane or tocum be ressoun of nonentrie escheit forfaltour recogni-
tioun disclamatioun bastardie purprestour alienatioun of the haill or maist
pairt reductioun of infeftmentis retouris and sasingis or be vertew of the
act of annexatioun or for nocht lauchfull confirmatioun of the auld infeft-
mentis thairof or for nocht registering of the samyn in the builds of registrie
of new augmentations or be vertew of ony fault defect impediment or
imperfectioun of the samin or be ressoun of the nullitie expyring diminisching
of the rentell or be vertew of quhatsumevir actis of perliament utheris actis
and constitutionis of this realme or be ony uther maner of titill or rycht for
quhatsumevir caus or occasioun bygane preceding the dait heirof turneand
disponand and transferrand the samyn my haill rycht actioun titill and
instance thairof in the favouris of the saidis provest baillies counsale and
communitie of Air and thair successouris simpliciter be thir presentis for
now and evir And finallie surrogattis and substitutis thame and thair
foirsaidis in my full rycht and place of my gift and donatioun of the saidis
landis milnis annuclrentis and utheris abonespecifeit simpliciter forevir
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 1-l'j
actis instruments and docmnentis thairupoun to ask lift and rais als oft as
neid beis and generallie all and quhatsumevir utlier tliingis necessar in the
promissis and quhilkis to the office of procuratorie be the lawis and praetik
of this realme is knawin to pertene to do exerce and use siclik and als frelie
and largelie in all respectis as I mycht haif done myselff gif I wer personalie
present haldand and promittand to bald all and quhatsumevir thingis my
saidis procuratouris or ony of thame conjunctlie and severallie as said is in
the premissis richteouslie sail leid to be done fferme and stabdl etc. In
witnes off the quhilk thing to thir my lettres of Resignatioun (writtin be
Johnne Masoun toun clerk of Air) I haif subscrivit the samyn with my
awin hand and hes thairto appendit my seill at the burgh of Air the twenty
nyne day of Januar the yeir of God jm vjc fourtene yeris befoir thir witnessis
Williame Stewart brother to my Lord Uchiltrie Alexander Schaw of Clauch-
fyn and the said Johnne Masoun with Johnne M'Ara officer (Signed) W.
Birnie M. Ayre William Stewart witnes Alex1' Schaw witnes Johnne
Masoun witnes.
75. Extract of Assignation by Neil Montgomery of Langshmv, to Mr.
William Birnie, Minister at Ayr, of Tack of the Teincls of the Kirk
of Alloway. — [10th November 1614 ; Registered Scl July 1615.]
At Edinburgh the thrid day of Julij the year of God jm vjc and fyfteine
yeiris in presens of the Lordis of Counsall compeirit Maister Johne Sande-
landis procuratour for Neill Montgomrie of Langschaw and Neill Montgomrie
his lauchfull sone and gaif in the assignatioun underwritten desyring
the samen to be insert and registrat in the buikis of Counsall to haif the
strenth of ane decreit of the Lordis thairof with lettres and executoriallis
to be direct thairupoun in maner contenit thairintill. The quhilk desyre
the saidis Lordis thocht ressonabill and thairfoir hes ordanit and ordanis
the said assignatioim to be insert and registrat in thair saidis buikis of
counsall decernis the samen to haif the strenth of thair decreit with lettres
and executoriallis to be derect thairupoun in maner specifeit thairintill
quhairof the tennour followis Be it kend till all men be thir present
lettres me Neill Montaonirie of Langschaw ffor ane certane sowme of
money payit and delyverit to me at the making heirof fra Maister "Williame
Birnie minister at Air quhairof I bald me weill contentit satisfiet and thank-
150 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
fullie payit renuuceand the exceptioun of not numerat money and all otheris
exceptionis and objectionis of the law that can or may be proponit or alledgit
in the contrair to haif thairfoir sauld annaleit transferrit assignit renuncit
demittit and overgevin lykas be the tennour heirof I for my self and
takand speciall burdeine in and upoun me for Neill Montgomrie my lauchfull
sone and we baith with ane mynd consent and assent sellis annaleis trans-
feris assignis renuncis demittis and forevir overgivis fra us our airia
executouris and assignayis to and in favouris of the said Maister Williame
Birnie his airis and assignis quhatsumevir all richt tytle interes kyndnes
clame of richt possessioun with tak and rentell quhatsumevir quhilkis
ather I or my said sone or ony of us had hes or ony weyes may
haif clame or pretend in and to the personage and viccarage teyndis of the
Kirk of Allaway and parochine thairof ather be the Dispositioun and Assig-
nation of Johne Gib servitour to our Soverane Lord the Kingis Majestic
or utherweyes and the said Maister Williame Birnie and his foirsaidis to
entir presentlie to the possessioun thairof collect ingadder uplift and resave
the samen personage and viccarage teyndis of the Kirk of Allaway foirsaid
fruites rentis and emoluments thairof baith for the crope and yeir of
God jm vjc thretteine yeiris now and in tyme cuming use and dispone
thairupoun at thair pleasour as they all think expedient. And forder I
for myself and takand burding in and upoun me for my said sone as said
is and we baith with ane consent and assent lies maid constitute and ordauit
and be thir presentis makis constitutis and ordanis the said Maister
Williame Birnie and his abonewrittin our varie lauchfull undouttit and
irrevocabill cessionaris assignayis procuratouris and donatouris in rem
suam in and to the Lettre of Tak and Assedatioun of the said Kirk of
Alloway maid to me and my said sone thairof be the said John Gib of
the dait the day of the yeir of God jm yjc ane yeiris and in
and to all lettres of inbibitionn and arreistment maid at our instances
upon the samen And siclyk in and to all utheris takkis rentallis and
utheris securaties quhatsumevir that ather I or my said sone or ather of
us or our foirsaidis hes of the foirnamet Kirk of Alloway personage and
viccarage teiudis thairof ony maner of wey surrogatand and be thir presentis
substitutand the said Maister Williame Birnie and his abonewritten in our
haill richt title and place of the samen forevir with full powre to the said
Maister Williame and his foirsaidis to collect ingadder uplift and ressave
the samen be vertew of the tak befoir mentionat to his awin use utilitie
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 151
and commodatie and to gif discharges ycirlie upoun the ressait thairof and
gif neid beis to call follow and persew yeirlie theirfoir as accordis of the
law l and aerie thairanent at his
pleasour siclyk and als frilie in all respectis as I or my said sone or ony of
us or our foirsaidis micht haif done our selffis befoir the making of this
present renunciatioun and assignatioun quhilk I the said Neill Montgomrie
of Langschaw obleissis me my airis executouris and assignayis to warrand
to the said Maister Williame Bii'nie and his foirsaidis at all handis quhat
be my fact or deid or be the fact deid or occasioun of the said Neill
Montgomrie my sone in ony sort that is to say that nathir I nor yit the
said Neill my sone nor nane of us hes done nor sail do nathing to the
hurt and prejudice thairof na maner of wey And forder I the said Neill
Montgomrie elder of Langschaw obleissis me and my foirsaidis be the
tennour heirof to warrand this present renunciatioun dispositioun and
assignatioun to be guid valid and effectual] to the said Maister Williame
Birnie and his foirsaidis at the handis of the said Nedl Montgomrie my
sone his airis and assignayis and to caus the said Nedl Montgomrie my
sone and his abonewrittin to ratine appreif and subscryve the samen
quhenevir he or they beis desyrnit to that effect and to renew thir
presentis gif neid beis ay and quhill the said Maister Williame Bimie
and his foirsaidis find him self sickker and suir anent the premissis be
advyse of men of law And last for the mair securatie I and my said
sone are content and consentis that thir presentis be registrat in the
buikis of counsall commissaris buiks of Glasgow or toun builds of Air
to haif the strenth of ane act and decreit of ather of the judges thairof
with lettres and executoriallis of horning upoun ane semple charge of
sex dayes allenarlie poynding and warding the ane but prejudice of the
uther to be derect heiron and for registering heirof constitutis Maister
Johne Sandelandis our lauchfull procuratouris Promitten de rato, etc. In
witnes qnhairof (wryttin be George Masoun notar) I and my said sone hes
subscrivit the samen with our handis at Air the tent day of November
anno jm vjc fourteine yeiris befoir thir witness to the subscriptione of
the said Neill Montgomrie elder to witt Josias Stewart of Bonitoun
Williame Stewart his brother Williame Montgomrie of Brigend and the
said George Masoun attour I the said Williame Montgomrie elder obleissis
me and my foirsaidis to delyver to the said Maister Williame Birnie and
1 Ork'inal torn.
152 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
his foirsadis the foirsaid Lettre of Tak sett to me and my said sone be
the said Johne Gib of the takis abonespecifeit undischargit or lacerat
in ony sort and that betuix this and the twantie fyve day of December
nixtocum to be useit and keipit be him as his proper evident in tyme
cuming Subscrivit day yeir and place and befoir the witnessis foirsaidis
Sic subscribitur Langshaw N. Montgomry Josias Stewart of Bonytoun
witnes William Stewart witnes G. Masoun notar witnes Johne Dunbar
witnes Mr. Roger Melvine witnes.
Extractum de libro actorum per me dominum Alexandrum Hay de
Quhitburgh militem clericum rotulorum registri ac consilii S. D. N.
regis sub meis signo et subscription manualibus.
(Signed) Alexe- Hay,
Cls. Regrj.
76. Disposition by John Birnie to John Kennedy of Balbcg, of the Teinds
of the Kirk of Alloway.— [27th March 1623.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me Johne Birnie sone and air
lawfullie servit and retourit to umquhile Mr. William Birnie minister at
Air that forsamekle as the said umquhile Mr. William my father wes (be
vertew off the lettres of Renunciatioune dispositioun and assignatioun maid
gevin and subscryvit to him be umquhile Neill Montgomerie off Langschaw
elder for himself and takand speciall burdeine in and upon him for Neill
Montgomerie his sone and thay bayth with ane advyse and consent) maid
and constitute cessionar assignay donatour and procurator in rem suam in
and to ane lettre of tak and assedatioune off the Kirk of Alloway personage
and vicarage teynds thairof and perochine of the samyn fruits rents emolu-
ments and dewteis thairof sett to the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie of
Lang-schaw elder and his said sone be Johne Gib servitour to our soveraine
lords the Kingis Majestie off the dait the day of the
yeir of God jm vic and yeirs And in and to all lettres of inhibitioune
and erreistment maid at the instances off the saids Neill Montgomerie
elder and younger upon the samyn And sicklyke in and to all richts tacks
rentalls and wther secureiteis quhatsumevir that they or ether of thame or
thair predicessors had of the said Kirk of Alloway personage and vicarage
teynds thairof ony maner of way And not only wes my saids umquhile
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 153
father maid and constitute cessionar and assignay and procurator in rem
suam in and to the said lettres off tack and wthers abone writtin thairinto
contenit bot in lyke maner the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie of Lang-
schaw elder and his said sone be the saids lettres off renunciatioune disposi-
tioune and assignatioune sauld annaleit transferrit renuncit dimittit and for
evir over gaiff fra thame thair airs executors and assignayes to and in favour
of the said umquhile Mr. Williame Birnie my father his airs and assignayes
all richt tytle entres clame off richt kyndnes possessioune with tack and
rentall quhatsumevir quhilks they or ether of thame had hes or ony wayes
may haif ask clame or pretend to in and to the foirnamit teynds of the said
kirk and parochin thairof ether be the dispositioune off the said Johne Gib
or ony wther maner of way quhatsumevir and specialise the personage viccar-
age teynds of the said kirk and parochin fruits rents emoluments and
dewties of the saruyn of the cropt and yeir of God jm vjc threttene yeiris
and in all tyme tharefter wse and dispone thairupone at his and his foirsaids
pleisour as they suld think expedient and be the saids lettres surrogat and
substitute my said umquhile father and his foirnamitts in thair full richt as
the saids lettres of assignatioune renunciatioune and dispositioune maid to
my said umquhile father heiving speciall and particular clauss of warrandice
and wthers heids and articles thairin mentionat in the selff mair fullie pro-
portis and quhilks ar of the daitt at Air the tent day of November the yeir
of God jm vjc fourtene yeirs and insert and registrat in the buiks of Counsell
and Sessioun and ane decreit of the Lords thairof interponit thairto wpon
the thrid day of July the yeir of God jm vjc fyftene yeiris be vertew of the
quhilkis richts tytles and securities maid and grantit to my said umquhile
father of the saids teynds and wthers abonespecifit and now competent to
me as sone and air foirsaid lawfullie servit and retourit as said is and inhibi-
tiouns and arreistment raisit thairupon I obtenit decreit againes the peroch-
inars of the said Kirk of Alloway and perochin thairoff for spoliatioune off
the teynds of the said perochin bayth personage and viccarage befoir the
comissar off Glasgow the cropts and yeirs off God mentionat in the samyn
decreit as the decreit abonewryttin the sextene day of Marche the yeir of
God jm yjc twentie twa yens in the selff mair fullie proports And now in
considiratioune that Johne Kennedy in Ballbege hes presentlie peyit and
actuallie delyverit to me ane certane sowme off money at the making heirof
to the performyng of my leasume effairs and bussines quhairof I grant the
resaitt and discharges him thairoff for ever And for wthers pleisours grati-
x
154 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
tudes and guid deids done and to be done be the said Johne to me Thairfor
witt ye me as sone and air forsaid and haiffend undowted ricbt to the
foirnamitt richts tytles and securiteis of the saids personage and viccarage
teynds of the Kirk and perochine abonewryttin fruits rents emoluments and
dewties thairof abonementionat to haiff dimittit transferrit and forevir over-
gevin lykeas I be the tenour herof dimittis transferris and forever overgeves
fra me my airs and assignayes to and in favours of the said Johne Kennedy
his airs executors and assignayes the foirnamitt tack richt and tytle sett be
the said John Gib to the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie off Langschaw
elder and his sone and thair said renunciatioune dispositioune and assigna-
tioune of the samyn maid in favors of my said umquhile father And the
foirnamitt decreit obtenit at my said instance befoir the comissar of Glasgow
againes the peroschionars of the said Kirk and peroschine of Alloway as air
to my said umquhile father and successor to him in the saids richts and
securities together with all richt tytle entres clame off richt propertie and
possessioune actioune or instance quhatsumever quhilk I ever had hes or
may haif ask clame or pretend to haiff in and to the saids personage and
viccarage teynds off the said Kirk and peroschine fruits rents and emoluments
of the samyn and to the saids richts tytles and securiteis thairof abone-
wryttin Surrogating and substituting him and his foirsaids in my full
richt tytle and place thairoff with power to the said Johne Kennedy and his
abonewryttin to sett tacks and assedatiounes off the saids personage and
viccarage teynds and wthers abone rehersit conforme to the saids richts and
securiteis rais inhibitiounes and arreistments wpon the samyn call follow
and persew thairfor befoir quhatsumevir judge or judges competent within
this realme sentences and decreits to obtene and recover thairwpon and the
samyn with the decreit abonewryttin to caus be putt to dew executioune
and to transact compone and aggrie with the peroschinaris and wthers ad-
dettit in peyment off the saids teynds and wtheris abone rehersit thairanent
acquittances and discharges in his awin name to giff subscryve and delyver
thairwpon quhilks sal be als effectual! and sufficient as giff I had gevin and
subscryvit the saymen myselff And to do everie thing requisite in the pre-
misses that I might haif done myselff befoir the making hereoff and quhilk
dispositioune and translatioune abonewryttin I bind and oblis me my airs
executors and assignayes to warrand to the said Johne Kennedy and his
foirsaids to be guid vallid and effectuall at all hands fra my awin proper fact
and deid and fra the fact and deid of my said umquhile father that is to say
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 155
that he nor I nor ether of us hes done nor sail do nathing in hurt and pre-
iudice hereof at na tyme bygane present or to cum And speciallie sail
warrand the sainyn at the hands of all wthers the airs and executors off my
said umquhile father and binds and obleiss me and my foirsaids that giff
thir presents be not ane sufficient securitie to the said Johne Kennedy and
his foirsaids anent the premisses that I sail reiterat and renew the samyn
to him and thame toties quoties wpon ten dayis warnyng ay and quhill he
and his foirsaids be sufficientlie securit thairintill be the advyse off men of
law keipand the heids and substance abonewryttin And last for the rnair
securitie I am content and consents that thir presents be insert and regis trat
in the buiks of Counsell and Sessioune sherref or borrow court buiks off Air
or commissar buiks off Glasgow and that lettres of poynding warding and
hornying the ane but prejudice of the wther may be direct heir wpon wpon
ane simple charge of sex dayes allenarlie and to that effect constituts
my procurators promittens de rato In witnessing quhairoff
wrytin be Alexander Purveyance notar I haif subscryvit thir presents with
my hands at the burche of Air the twentie sevint clay off Marche the yeir
of God jm vjc twentie thrie yeirs befoir thir witnessis James Blair proveist
of Air John Cunyngham off Milnequarter baillie thairof Patrick Davidsoune
sone in law to the said proveist and the said Alexander Purveyance notar
Attour it is speciallie aggreit and provydit be conditioune of thir presentis
that the said Johne Kennedy releve me and my foirnamitts off the prebend-
arie dewteis addettit furth of the said Kirk off the yeii-s of God jm vjc
twentie jm vjc twentie ane and vj° twentie twa yeirs And sicklyke off the
kings taxatioune addettit furth thairof the saids yeirs Befoir the wit-
nessis abonewryttin Johne Birnie with my hand James Blair witnes
John Cuningham witnes Patrick Davidsone witnes Alexr Purveyance notar
witnes.
77. Disjwsition by John Kennedy of Balbeg to Mr. Andrew Millar,
Minister of Ayr, of the Teinds of Alloway. — [30th November 1630.]
Be it kend tdl all men be thir present letters me Johnne Kennedie of
Balbeg that forsamekill as umquile Mr. WiUiam Birnie sumtyme minister
at Air wes (be vertew of the letteres of renunceatioun dispositioun and
assignatioun maid gevin and subscrivit to him be umquhile Neill Montgomerie
156 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUKGH OF AYR.
of Langshaw elder for himself and takand burdene in and upon him for
Neill Montgomerie his sone and thai baith with ane advyse and consent)
maid and constitute cessionar assignay donatour and possessor in rem
saam in and to ane letter of tak and assedatioun of the Kirk of Alloway
personage and viccarage teindis therof and perrocheoun of the samen fruitis
rentis emoluments and dewiteis therof sett to the said umquhile Neill
Montgomerie of Lan°;shaw elder and his said sone be Johnne Gib servitour
to our soverigane lord the kingis majestie of the dait the day
of the yeir of God jm vic and yeiris And in and to all
lettres of inhibitioun and arreistment maid at the instance of the saids
Neill Montgomerie elder and younger upoun the samen And sicklyk in
and to all otheris takis rentellis and other securities whatsomever that thai
or ather of thame or thair predecessors had of the said kirk of Alloway
personage and viccarage teindis therof any maner of way And nocht
onlie was the said umquhile Mr. Williame Birnie maid and constitute
cessionar and assignay in and to the said letter of tak and otheris above-
written thairin contenit bot in lyk maner the said umquhile Neill Mont-
gomerie of Langshaw elder and his said sone be the saids letteres of re-
nunceatioun dispositioun and assignatioun sauld annaleit transferrit renunsit
demittit and for evir overgaiff fra thame thair airis executors and assignayis
to and in favours of the said umquhile Mr. Williame Birnie his airis and
assignayis all right tytill entres claime of right kyndnes possessioun with
tak and rentell whatsomevir quhilkis thai or ather of thame had lies or
any wyis may have ask clame or pretend in and to the foirnamit teindis
of the said kirk and perrocheoun therof ather be the dispositioun of the
said Johnne Gib or ony other maner of way whatsomevir and speciallie
the personage and viccarage teindis of the said kirk and perrocheoun fruitis
rentis emolumentis and dewiteis of the samen of the crop and yeir of God
jm vic threttene yeiris and in all tyme thaireftir use and dispone there-
upoun at his and his foresaids plesour as thai suld think expedient And
be the saids lettres surrogat the said umquhile Mr. Williame Birnie and his
foirnamittis in thair full right and place therof as the saids lettres of
assignatioun renunciatioun and dispositioun maid to the said umquhile
Williame bearing speciall and particular clauss of warrandice and otheris
heidis and articles therein mentionat in the selff mair fullie proportis
quhilkis are of the dait at Air the tent day of November the yeir of God
jm v[c fourtene yeiris And insert and registrat in the buikis of Counsale
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 157
and Sessioun and ane Decreit of the Lordis therof interponit therto upoun the
thrid day of July the yeir of God jm vic fyiftene yeiris Be vertew of the
whilkis rightis tytillis and securiteis maid and grantit to the said umquhile
Mr. Williame Birnie of the saids teindis and otheris above specifeit Johnne
Birnie sone and air lawfullie servit and retourit to the said umquhile Mr.
William Birnie obtenit decreit aganis the perrockinaris of the said Kirk of
Alloway for spoliation of thair teindis of the said perrocheoun personage
and viccarage befoir the comissar of Glasgw the croppis and yeiris of
God mentionat in the said decreit as the samen decreit the sextene day of
Merche the yeir of God j™ vic twentie yeiris mair amplie proportis Lykas
the said Johnne Birnie sone and air servit and retourit to his said umquhile
father as said is be his lettres of translation in dew forme of the dait at
Air the twentie sevin day of Merche the yeir of God jm vic twentie thrie
yeiris demittit and transferrit to and in favors of me the said Johnne
Kennedy in Balbeg my airis executors and assignayis the foirnamit lettre
of tak right and tytill of the saids teindis of the foirsaid perrocheoun of
Alloway sett be the said Johnne Gib to the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie
of Langshaw elder and his said sone togidder with the said renunceatioun
dispositioun and assiguatioun of the samen maid in favours of the said
umquhile Mr. Williame Birnie his father and the foirnamit decreit pronuncit
at his instance befoire the said comissioner of Glasgw aganis the perro-
chinaris of Alloway and surrogat me and my foirsaids in his full right tytill
and place of the saids personage and viccarage teindis of the said kirk and
perocheoun fruitis rentis and emolumentis of the samen and of the rightis
tytillis and securities therof above written as in the saids lettres of transla-
tioun maid to me be the said Johnne Birnie off the dait above specifeit at mair
length is contenit And now I the said Johnne Kennedy in Balbeg for
diverss respectis certane gude causs and considerationis moving me my
awin weill and utilitie sene and considerit Thairfoir witt ye me havand
undoutit richt to the foirnamit tytillis richtis and securities of the saids
personage and viccarage teinds of the Kirk and perrocheoun abovewritten
fruitis rentis emolumentis and dewiteis therof abovementionat to have
transferrit disponit renuncit demittit and forevir overgevin lykas be the
tennour herof I with speciall advyse consent and assent of the richt
honourabill James Kennedy of Blairquhan for all richt and tytill entres or
claime of richt he hes or ony wyis may pretend to the personage and
viccarage teindis of the said Kirk of Alloway transferris disponis renuncis
153 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
demittis and for evir overgevis fra us our airis and assignayis to and in
favors of Mr. Andro Millar present minister at Alloway and to his
successors ministeris at the Kirk of Alloway serving the cure therof the
foirnamit lettre of tak richt and tytill of the foirsaids personage and
viccarage teindis of the said Kirk of Alloway sett be the said Johnne Gib
to the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie of Langshaw elder and his said
sone with thair said renunceatioun dispositioun and assignatioun of the
samen maid in favours of the said umquhile Mr. Wilham Birnie and with
the translatioun therof above specifeit maid to me the said Johnne Kennedy
in Balbeo; be the said Johnne Birnie his sone and air above-written toeddder
with all richt tytill entres clame of richt propertie possessioun actioun
and instance whatsomevir whilks I the said Johnne Kennedy or the
said James Kennedy of Blairquhen or any of us evir had hes or may
ony wyis clame or pretend to have in and to the saids personage and
viccarage teindis of the foirsaid Kirk and perrocheoun of Alloway fruitis
rentis and emolumentis of the samen and to the richtis tytillis and securiteis
thereof abovementionat or to any other of the samen whatsomevir com-
petent to us in ony sort Surrogatand and be thir presentis substituand
the said Mr. Andro and his above written in my full richt tytill place and
entres of the samen for evir with full power to the said Mr. Andro Millar
swa lansr as he servis the cure of the ministerie at the said Kirk of
Alloway and to his successors Ministeris at Alloway serving the cure
therof to intromet with uplift and ressave the saids personage and
viccarage teindis and otheris above rehersit of this instant crop and yeir
of God jm vic and threttie yeiris and yeirlie herefteir in all tyme coming
use and dispone thairupoun at his and his foirsaids plesour as thai sail
think expedient and to sett takis and assedationis of the samen teindis
personage and viccarage fruitis rentis and emolumentis of the foirsaid
Kirk and perrocheoun of Alloway conforme to the richts and securiteis
thairof abone rehersit raiss inhibitions and arreistmentis upoun the samen
call follow and persew thairfoir befoir whatsomevir judge or judges com-
petent within this realme decreittis and sentences thairupoun to obtene
and recover and the samen to caus be put to dew executioun compone
transact and aggrie with the perrochinaris and others adettit in payment
of the saids teindis and otheris foirsaids acquittances and discharges to gif
subscryve and delyver thairupoun qwhilk salbe als effectuall and sufficient
as gif I had gevin and subscryvit the samen myself and to do everie thing
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 159
anent the premiss requisit to be done or that I micht have done myself
befoir the making heirof qwhilk translatioun dispositioun and demissioun
abone written I the said Johnne Kennedy in Balbeg and with me the said
James Kennedy of Blairquhen and he and I baith with ane consent and
assent bindis and obliss us our airis executors and assignayis conjunctlie
and severallie to warrand to the said Mr. Andro Millar and his abone written
fra our awin proper factis and deidis bygane present and to cum allanerlie
and na forder that is to say that we or our foirsaids hes done nor sail do
nothing to the hurt and prejudice therof na maner of way Lykas for his
forder securitie we have presentlie delyverit to him the foirsaid tak sett be
the said Johnne Gib to the said umquhile Neill Montgomerie as said is togidder
with the remanent richts tytillis and securiteis thereof abone mentionat to
be usit and keipit be the said Mr. Andro and his successors ministeris at
Alloway as thair proper evidentis in all tyme coming And it is declairit
and speciallie provydit be express conditioun of thir presentis that the said
Mr. Andro Millar sail during his service of the cure at the Kirk foirsaid
and his successors succeedand to him thairin releiff and warrand me the
said Johnne Kennedy and my foirsaids anent the prebendarie dewitie and
King's taxatioun gif anie beis and siclyk anent the ministeris stipend baith
for this instant crop and yeir of God jm vic and threttie yeiris and in tyme
coming And last for the mair securitie we the saids John Kennedy and
James Kennedy of Blanquhen ar content and consentis that thir presentis
be insert and registrat in the buikis of Counsale and Sessioun comissar
buikis of Glasgw or shireff court buikis of Air to have the strength of ane
act and decreit of ather the juges therof with lettres and executorialis of
horning upoun ane sempill charge of sex dayes poinding and warding the
ane but prejudice of the other to be direct heiron And for registring
heirof makis and constitutis our procuratouris promittentes
de rato In witnes wherof thir presentis (written by George M'Calmount
servitour to George Masoun toun clerk of Air) we have subscryvit the samen
with our hands at Cwnnyng park the last daye of November the yeir of
God jm vic threttie yeiris befoir thir witnesses James Blair lait proveist of
Air Johnne Osburne lait baillie therof Johnne M'Lure notar burges of the
samen the saidis George Masoun and George M'Calmount John Kennedy
Blairquhane James Blair witness Johnne Osburne witness Johnne M'Clure
notar witness G. Masoune witness George M'Calmount witness.
160 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
78. Sasine in favour of James Millar, Burgess of Ayr, of a Back Tenement
of Land in the said Burgh. — [20th December 1632.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnationis dominice millesimo
sexcentesimo trigesimo secundo mensis vero Decembris die vigesimo anno-
que regni supremi domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia magne Britannie Francie
ct Hibernie regis fideique defensoris octavo in mei notarii publici et testium
subscriptorum presentia personaliter comparuit Johannes Lokhart nauclerus
burgensis burgi de Air existens in statu et sasina hereditaria tenementi
posterioris subscripti cum domibus horto et pertinentiis eiusdem unacum
Sibilla Boswell eius sponsa super fundum eiusdem Et ibidem pro observa-
tione unius partis cuiusdam contractus initi et confecti inter eos ab una et
Jacobum Myllar pellionem burgensem dicti burgi partibus ab altera de data
presentium totum et integrum eorum posterius tenementum terre cum
domibus horto et pertinentiis eiusdem cum libero introitu et exitu in et ad
idem jacens infra dictum burgum inter anterius tenementum terre nunc
Roberti Gordoun burgensis ac ballivi dicti burgi et orientali tenementum
terre olim quondam Thome Kennedy de Bargeny ex australi et tenementum
terre nunc Henrici Osburn burgensis dicti burgi ex boreali et communem
viridam seu campos dicti burgi ex occidentali partibus ab una et altera in
manibus honorabilis viri Donaldi Smith unius ballivorum dicti burgi pro
tempore unanimi consensu et assensu per fustim et baculum ut moris est
pure et simpliciter resignaverunt et extradonarunt et hoc in favorem prefati
Jacobi Myllar heredum suorum et assignatorum ac pro nova sasina dicti
Jacobo et suis predictis desuper tradenda et conferenda Qua resignatione
sic facta idem ballivus virtute eiusdem ac vigore sui officii statum et sasinam
hereditariam pariterque possessionem corporalem actualem et realem totius
et integri posterioris tenementi terre predicti cum domibus horto et perti-
nentiis jacentis et bondati ut supra cum libero introitu et exitu prefato
Jacobo Myllar ibidem personaliter presenti et acceptanti per terre et lapidis
fundi eiusdem ut moris est traditionem secundum formam et tenorem pre-
dicti contractus in omnibus dedit contulit tradidit et deliberavit Salvo jure
cuiuslibet Tenendum de supremo domino nostro rege in libero burgagio pro
servitio burgi solito et consueto Super quibus omnibus et singulis premissis
prefatus Jacobus Myllar a me notario publico subscripto sibi fieri petiit hoc
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 161
presens publicum instruineiitum unum seu plura Acta erant hec super fun-
dum dicti posterioris teuementi terre cum pertinentiis horam circiter primam
a meridie sub anno die mensis et regis regno quibus supra presentibus ibidem
Johanne Bosuall Jobanne M'Calmount mercatoribus Jacobo Reid medico
burgensi dicti burgi et Adamo M'Cubin serjando dicti burgi testibus ad
premissa vocatis pariterque rogatis.
Et ego vero Alexander Purveyance, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument of Sasine proceeding on contract between Jobn Lokbart,
shipmaster, burgess of Ayr, and Sibilla Boswell his spouse, on one part ; and
James Millar, skinner, burgess of the same burgh, on the other, in implement
whereof tbe said Jobn Lokhart and his spouse resigned their back tenement
of land, with houses, yard, and pertinents, lying in the said burgh, between
tbe fore tenement of land now belonging to Robert Gordon, burgess and
bailie thereof, on the east, the tenement formerly belonging to the deceased
Thomas Kennedy of Bargany on the south, and the tenement of Henry
Osburn, burgess, on the north, and the common green of Ayr on the west,
in the bauds of an honourable man, Donald Smith, one of the bailies of tbe
burgh, in favour of the said James Millar and his heirs : Whereupon tbe
said bailie gave infeftment of the said back tenement to the said James
Millar, by delivery to him of earth and stone of the ground thereof : To bold
of the king in free burgage, for the usual burgh service : Done, in presence
of tbe witnesses therein named, on the ground of the said back tenement,
about one o'clock afternoon of the 20th of December 1632.
79. Extract Act of the Toivn Council of Ayr, for infefting James Hunter
and his Sons in Three Acres of the Dogland. — [29th December 1640.]
Apud burgum de Air vigesimo nono die mensis Decembris anno Domini
millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo being convenit in counsell Johne
Osburne proveist Adam Ritchie baillie Gilbert Ritchert baillie Jobn Ken-
nedy deane of gdd Robert Dook thesaurer John Stewart Donald Smitb
Johne Fergussone procurator fischall Williame Hunter Johne Crawford
Gilbert M'Calmont James Miller.
Y
162 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
The quliilk clay the counsell ordaine ane of the baillies and thair clerk
to go to the ground of the thrie aikeris of land callit the Dogland and thair
upone Adame Ritchie baillie his resignatioun to infeft and sease James Hunter
in Cortoun in lyfrent for all the dayis of his lyftime and Johne and Robert
Hunteris his sonnes thair airis and assigneyis heretablie and irredemablie
thairintill under the reversioun provisioun and conditioun mentionat and
contenit in the lettres of dispositioun made be the said Adam Ritchie to
them thairupone The said James Hunter alwayis paying of compositioun
to the thesaurer in name and behalff of the toune the sowme of ffiftie merkis
Scottis money.
Extractum de libro consilii dicti burgi per me Quintinum Kennedy
clericum communem ejusdem sub hac mea subscriptione manuali.
(Signed) Q. Kennedy, Cls.
80. Assignation by John Kennedy of Balbeg to John Macadam, of the
Teinds of the Parish of Ayr. — \lith and 15th December 1647.]
Be it kend till all men be tkir present lettres we Johne Kennedie of Balbeg
cessioner and assignay lawfullie maid and constitute be Josias Stewart
sumtyme styleit of Bony toune Thomas Kennedy of Bargenie and James
Kennedie of Blairquhen as takesmen of the teindis of the parochine of Air
in and to the samyne and takis thairof eftermentionat Forsomekill as urn-
quile Johne Gib ane of the groomis than of his Majesties bedchamber as
haveing power and commissioun for his Majestie be his hienes gift of the
datte the third day of July jm vic twelf yeiris to sett takis of the teindis of
the haill Kirk of the Chappell Royall of Sterling to and for the space and in
maner mentionat in the said gift be his lettre of take subscrevit with his
hand with consent of umqvihill Alex1' Erie of Dumfermeling Chancellar of
Scotland Sir Thomas of Byreis Lord Secretar and Sir Williame
Oliphant of Ncwtoune Lord Advocat of the daite the sext day of Julii
jm y^c anc| thirttecne yeiris Set in tak and assiddatiouns to the said Josias
Stewart his airis and assigneyes all and sundrie the teind sheaves and otheris
teindis alswcill personage and vicarage fruitis rentis emolumentis dewties
whatsumevir pertaining and belonging to the saide kirke and parochine of
Air being ane of the kirkes of the saide Chappell Royall of Stirling for the
spaice and yeiris of nyneteene yeiris thairin mentionat efter his cntrie thairto
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 1G3
declarit thairby to be and begin at Lambmes in the said yeir of God jm vic'
and tbirteene yeiris foi' tbe yeirlie payment of the sowme of ane hundreth
pownds money of this reallme as the old accustamed dewtie payabbill for the
saidis teindis with sex shilling-is aught pennies in augmentatioun of the
rentall therof precishe at Lambmes yeirlie as the said take and assedatioun
in itself at mair length proportis Lyik as upon the sext day of December
jm vic twentie twa yeiris the Commissionars of Parliament appoynted than
for the setteling of the takis of teindis and provisioune of kirkis and niinis-
teris serving the cure therat within the realme having decernit to be payit
yeirlie to the minister than present and to cum serveing the cure at the
saide Kirk of Air furth of the saids teindis of the parochin therof the sowme
of fyve hundreth nierkis of money yeirlie by and attour the said yeirlie take
dewtie above written of ane hundreth puudis sex shillingis aught pennies
money forsaid reservit to be payit to the prebendar of the said Chappell
Royall of Stirling They in recompence and requyteall of the said burdin and
augmentatioun imposed upoun the saidis teindis of the saide parochin of
Air and takesmen therof above namitt mair nor the formerlie take dewtie
of the samyne above mentionat according to the power and warrand given
to thame and containit in the act of Parliament bearing thair commissioune
addit to the space and yeiris of the forsaid take the space of thrie lyferentis
and thrie nynteen yeiris farther of the haul teindis personage and vicarage
of the said parochin of Air and to take beginning at the ishe and exjayreing
of the yeiris of the take above specifeit And tharfor sett and in tak and assi-
datioun lett to the said Thomas Kennedie of Barganzie and James Kennedie
of Blairquhen or aither of thame to whom the right of the forsaid take per-
tainit or to thair airis and assigneyis or to that persone or persones to
whome the right of the said take should happin to pertaine the tyme of the
expyring therof and to thair airis and assigneyis all and sundrie the saidis
teindis sheaves alswell personage as vicarage fruitis rentis emolumentis and
dewties whatsumevir is pertaining and belonging to the said parochin and
Kirk of Air whilk is ane of the Kirkis of the said Chappell Royall of Stir-
ling during all the dayis space yeiris and termes of the saidis thrie lyfe-
rentis and thrie nynteen yeiris respective and successive efter otheris
beginnand the enterie of the forsaid eiked take and eiked yeiris of proroga-
tioun thairof immediatlie efter the ishe and expyring of the space and
yeiris above written of the forsaid other tak above declarit and fra thyne
furth to continue and endure ay and whill the forsaid eiked space and
164 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE,
prorogatioun of thrie lyferentis and thrie nynteen yeiris be fullie and
eonipleitlie outrun successive and respective efter the expyreiug of the
space and yeiris of the other tak above declarit as said is Peyand thairfor
yeirlie to the minister serveing the cure at the said Kirk of Air at the
terme above mentionat the said sowme of fyve hundreth merkis of money
forsaid And als payand yeirlie at the samyn terme to the prebendar of the
said Chappell Royall of Stirling the said sowme of ane hundreth pundis sex
shillingis aught pennies as take dewtie as the said decreit and take of pro-
rogation of the daitte the said sext day of December jm vic twentie twa
yeiris in itself also at mair length proportis In and to the quhilkis takes of
the saidis teindis baith personage and vicarage of the saidis parochine of
Air and the samyne teindis alsweill personage as vicarage fruitis rentis
emolumentis and dewteis whatsumevir is pertaining and belonging to the
said parochine and Kirk of Air for the yeir of God *
takeing beginning and continuallie for all space and yeiris of the forsaidis
takis thairefter The saidis Josias Stewart Thomas and James Kennedie or
aither of thame to whome the right of the forsaidis takis and prorogatioun
perteinit be thair lettre of assignatioun subscrivit with thai handis or aither
of thame as said is of the daite the : day of x the
yeir of God 1 yeiris maide and constitute me my airis
executors and assignayis thair very lawfull imdowbtit and irrevocabill ces-
sionaris assignayes donators and full procurators in rem suam veluti cum
dispositione libera with full power to me and my forsaidis to aske crave
uplift intromet with and receave the forsaidis teindis baith personage and
vicarage of the said paroche Kirk and parochin of Air fruitis rentis emolu-
mentis and dewties whatsoever pertaining and belonging thairto fra the
heretoris fewaris lyferentaris fermeris tennentis takismen possessoris and
occupiers and otheris addebttit and in use of payment thairof for the forsaid
yeir of God l beginning thairto And yeirlie and ilk yeir
in all tyme thairefter dureing the space and yeiris containit in the take
above declarit And to raise cawse serve and execute inhibitiounes ane or
mae thairupoun yeirlie call follow and persew thairfor yeirlie as accordis of
the law transact compone and agree thairanent And upoun my ressait of
payment and satisfactioune of the samen to give and subscribe acquittances
and discharges quhilk is declarit to be als sufficient to the receaveris as my
saidis cedentis or aither of thame haveand right as saide is had given and
1 Blank in original.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 1C5
subscribed the samyne thameselfis Lykeas they thairby surrogatt and sub-
stitute me and my forsaidis in the full right and place thairof And of all
actioune instance and executioun competent or that may be competent to
thame or aither of thame thairby forever with warrandice alwayis in maner
mentionat in the said assignatioun as the samyne of the daitte forsaid con-
taining diverss and sundrie otheris heidis articles clawss and conditiounes
in itself mair fullie proportis And now sieing Johne M'Cadame notar in-
duellare within the bruche of Air at making herof hes reallie and in effect
contentit peyit and delyverit to me certaine greit sowmes of moneys to the
doeing out redding and performeing of my onerous and leisum affairis
Quharof I hald me weill contentit satisfyit and payit and for me my airis
executors and successoris exoneris qwytclamis and simpliciter discharges the
said Johne Makadame his airis executors successoris thairof forever renunce-
and be thir presents the exceptioune of non numerate money aith of pairtie
and all other exceptioun of law that can be proponit or alledgit in the con-
trail- Thairfor witt ye me with speciall advyse and consent of Anna Stewart
relict of umquhill James Kennedie of Blairwhen for all right tittill entres
kyndnes clame propertie and possessioun quhilk she had hes or ony wayis
may have clame or pretend in and to the forsaidis teindis takis and rightis
thairof above mentionat to have sauld assignit transferrit and disponit and
be the tennor heirof with consent forsaid settis assie;nes transferris and
disponis to and in favoures of the said Johne M'Kadame notar induellare in
the bruche of Air as is befoire desingit his airis executoris assignayis and
successoris all and sundrie the saidis teindis alsweill personage as viccarage
of the said Kirk and parochin of Air fruitis rentis emolumentis and dewties
whatsumevir pertaining or belonging thairto for the crope and yeir of God
yeiris tacking beginning and yeirlie and continuallie
in all tyme thairefter dureing the space and yeiris of the takis and proroga-
tioun above mentionat As also all the saidis lettres of takis and proroga-
tiounes with the forsaid lettre of assignatioune maid and grantit to me
thairof haill heidis articles clawss and conditiounes of the samen all actioun
instance and executioun competent or that may be competent to me thairby
with all that hes followit or may follow thairupoun With full power to the
said Johne M'Kadam and his foresaidis to aske crave intromet with uplift
and receave all and sundrie the saidis teindis alsweill personage as vicarage
of the said paroche Kirke and parochin at Air fruitis rentis emolumentis
1 Blank in original.
166 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
and dewties whatsumevir pertaining and belonging thairto of the said crope
and yeir of God 1 yeiris and yeirlie in all tyme therafter
dureing the haill space and yeiris of the takis and prorogatiouns above
rehersit fra the heretors fewars lyferentaris fermoreis tennentis tacksmen
occupyeris possessoris and utheris addebtit and in use of payment thairof
and to raise and cawse serve and execut inhibitiouns ane or mae thairupon
yeirlie Call follow and persew thairfor as accordis of the law Transact corn-
pone and agrie thairanent And upoun his ressaitte of payment and satisfac-
tioun thairof in haill or in pairt to give and subscribe acquittances and
discharges quhilk shall be alls sufficient to the receivers as I had given and
subscribed the sanryne myself Surrogattand and substituand the said Johne
M'Kadam and his forenamites in my full right tittill place propertie and
possessioun thairof forever Quhilk translatioun abovewritten I bind and
obliss me and my forsaidis to warrand to the said Johne M'Kadame and his
fornamites fra my awin proper fact and deid allanerlie To wit that I neither
have done nor shall doe in hurt and prejudice thairof Provyding alwayis as
it is heirby especiallie provydit that the said Johne M'Kadame and his for-
saidis pay yeerlie to the Minister serveing the Cure at the said Kirk of Air
at the terme above mentionat the said sowme of fyve hundreth merks
money and alls to the said prebendar of the said Chappell Royall of Stirling
the said sowme of ane hundreth pundis sex shillingis aught pennies money
forsaid yeerlie at the said terme as auld tak dewtie and augmentatioun
allotted to be payed to thame furth of the saidis teindis conforme to the
takis and decreit of prorogatioun above mentionat and that they relieve
me and my forenameits yeirlie efter the yeir ' entering and
beginning therto And sicklyke yeirlie in all tyme cuming sua long as he
and his forsaidis bruikis enjoyis and possesses the rights and benefices of
the saidis takis and teindis above declarit Upoun the quhilk provisioun
thir presents ar grantit and na utherwayis And for the mail- securitie I am
content and consents that thir presentis be insert and registrat in the builds
of Cownsell and Sessioun to be containit thairin ad futuram rei memoriam
And gif neid beis that executorialls lettres of horneing poynding and others
necessar may pass upoun ane simple charge of sex day is onlie And to that
effect maikis and constitutes my procuratoris pro-
mittere de rato In witnessing wherof I as also the said Anna Stewart in
takin of her consent to the premissis have subscribed thir presents with our
1 Blank in original.
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handis Written be Robert Neilsone in Edinburgh att Mayboolle the fowr-
tein day of December and at Staitoune the fyfteine day of the said December
the yeir of God jm vic and fowrty sevine yeires befor thir witnesses William
Maxwell of Munreith Mr. Alexr Kennedy lawfull sonne of umquhill James
Kennedy of Blairquhainne and David Weir in Maybooll inserter of the dait
and witnesses and Thomas M'AValter in Mayboll and Georg Knadie mer-
chant in Stratoune (Signed) Johne Kennedy Anna Stewart David
Weir witnes W. Munreith witnes M. A. Kennedie witnes Tho : Mackwalter
witnes George Kennedy witnes.
81. Extract Decreet of Reduction at the instance of Mr. William Adair,
against Kennedy of Blairquhan, etc., anent the Teinds of Ayr. — [24th
February 1648.]
Att Edinburgh the twentie fourt day of February the yeir of God
jm Tjo fourtie eight yeiris the Lordis of Counsell underwrittin they are
to say Johne earle of Loudoun lord Talringzean and Mauchleine etc. high
ChanceUar of Scotland Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer knight president
of the College of Justice Sir Alexander Gibsone of Durie knight Clerk of
Register Sir James Leirmont of Balcomie knight Sir George Halyburton
of Fodderance knight Sir James M'Gill of Cranstoun-Riddell knight Sir
Johne Hope of Craighall knight Sir Johne Scott of Scottistarbet knight
director of our soveraigne lords Chancellarie Sir James Carmichaell of that
Ilk knight threasaurer deput Sir Johne Hamiltoun of Orbestoun knight
justice clerk Sir Johne Leslie of Newtoun knight Sir Archibald Johnestoun
of Warriestoun knight advocate to our soverane lord Sir Adame Hepburne
of Humbie knight Sir Alexander Falconer of Halkertoun knight Sir James
Lockhart of Lea knioht Sir Alexander Belschis of Toftis knio-ht Archibald
marquis of Argyle and Johne earle of Crawfuird and Lindsay lord Parbroith
and thesaurer principall of Scotland Archibald lord Angus and Johne lord
Balmirinoch In the actioun and caus of reductioun and improbatioun
persewit at the instance of Sir Archibald Johnestoun of Warriestoun knight
advocat to our soveraine lord for his hienes entres in the mater efter
specifeit als at the instance of master Williame Adair minister and persone
at the Kirk of Air quhairunto the teinds great and small personage and
viccarage are now mortified and disponed as also as haveing right be progres
168 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
to the saidis teincls personage and viccarage from maister Williame Sempill
prebender of the prebendrie callit Air primo quhilk is ane of the prebendries
of his majesties Chappell Eoyall of Stirling qukairunto the saids teinds
great and small personage and viccarage and othair teinds fruits rentis
emolumentis and dewties of the said kirk and parochine of Air lyand
within the dyocie of Glasgow and schirreffdome of Air perteinit of old and
are now mortified and disponed to the said kirk and ministeris serveing
the cure thairat in all tyme cuming in maner at length specifeit in the
mortificatioun and uthair rightis grantit to the said maister Williame Adair
persewer thairupone and thairby haveing sufficient good and undoubtit
right in and to the haill teinds great and small personage and viccarage of
the said kirk and parochine of Air and consequentlie right and entres to
remowe all impedimentis whilkis may anywayis stope trouble or molest
the said Mr. "Williame Adair and his successouris ministers at the said kirk
of Air in the peaceable useing bruiking and joyseing of the saids teindis
and uplifting thairof and useing and disponeing thairupon at thair pleasure
in tyme cuming againes Josias Stewart sometyme of Bonytoun now of
Eemistoun pretendit taksman of the teinds great and small of the said kirk
and parochine of Air Johne Kennedie of Balbeg his cessioner and assignay or
othairwayis haveing right thairto David M'Alexander of Drumochreme James
Kennedie eldest sone and air of the first marriage to umquhile James Kennedie
of Blaquhen John Kennedie now of Blaquhen eldest sone and appeirand air of
the second marriage to the said umquhile James Kennedie of Blaquhen Anna
Stewart his relict and mother to the said Johne pretendit taksman thairof
Thomas Kennedie eldest sone to umquhile Thomas Kennedie sometyme of
Barganie James Gibb of Carriber sone and air to umquhile Sir John Gibb
ane of his Majesties bedchalmer and the tutors and curators of sua many
of them as are minors iff they any have for thair entress and all utheris
haveand or pretendand to have entres in the mater underwritten tutching
the bringing with them exhibiting and produceing befoir the saidis Lordis
of Counsell and Sessioun of ane pretendit commissioun alledged grantit be
■his Majesties umquhile darest father of blessed memorie to umquhile Johne
Gibb ane of the groomes of his Majesties bedchalmer under his hienes privie
seall of the dait at the Manor of Oattlands the thrid day of Julii jm vic and
twelf yeiris granting power and comissioun to the said umquhile Johne Gib
to set takis of the teinds personage and viccarage and haill fruits rentis and
emolumentis of the haill kirks of the Chappell Royall of Stirling Provyding
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 169
alwayis the saidis takis were set with expres advyse and consent of umquhile
Alexander earle of Dumfermeling lord Fyvie high Chancellare of Scotland
for the tyme umquliile Sir Thomas Hamiltoun of Byres knight secreater and
umquliile Sir Williame Oliphant of Newtoun knight his Majesties umquliile
darest fatheris advocat for the tynie And als with this speciall provisioun
that the saids taks wer set hot onlie for the space of nyneteine yeiris and no
longer and without diminutioun of the old rentall in maner at lenerth
specifeit in the said pretendit comissioun with ane pretendit tak and
assedatioun following thairupone alledgeit grantit be the said umquhile Johne
Gibb with consent foirsaid to the said Josias Stewart and to his airis and
assignayis qukatsomever of all and sundrie the teirjd scheaves and uthairis
teindis alsweill personage as viccarage fruits rents emolumentis and dewties
whatsomever perteining and belonging to the said Kirk and parochine of
Air for the space of nynteine. yeiris efter his entrie quhilk was at Lambmes
jm vic and eighteine yeiris for payment yeirlie of ane hundreth punds
money as the alledged accustomed old dewtie with sex shillings eight
pennyes in augmentatioun of the rentall of the said Kirk preciselie at
Lambmes everie yeir And releivand the said umquhile Johne Gibb of all
taxatiounes and uthair impositiones imposit or that sould be imposit upon
the saids teinds in maner specifeit in the said pretendit tak and assedatioun
quhilk is of the dait att Ayr the sevint day of July jm vic thretteine yeiris
quhairunto the comon seall of the Chappell Eoyall of Stirling is appendit
togidder with the pretendit assignatioun grantit be the said Josias Stewart
to the said John Kennedie of Balbeg of the said tak daitit the tent day of
Junii jm vic twentie one yeiris Togidder also with the pretendit translatioun
of the said pretendit tak and assignatioun alledgeit grantit to the said Johne
Kennedie of Balbeg with consent of the said umquhile James Kennedie of
Blairquhan to the said umquhile Andrew M' Alexander of Drummochren
daitit the twentie tua day of Junii jm vic twentie nyne yeiris with the
pretendit decreit and act of prorogatioun alledgeit maid and givin be the
Commissioneris appoyntit for plantatioun of kirks daitit the sext day of
December jm vic twentie tua yeiris prorogating the foirsaid pretendit tak
and assedatioun for the space of thrie lyferentis and thrie nyneteine yeiris
efter the expyreing of the yeiris conteinit in the said tak togidder with all
and sundrie uthair pretendit taks assedatiouns and prorogatiouns thairof
and uthair rights whatsomever alledgeit grantit be the prebendar or taksman
of the said prebendarie of Air primo be whatsomever othair persone or per-
z
170 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
sones to the saids defenderis or any of them or thair predicessors and
authors to whom they have succeidit or may succeid jure sanguinis or
uthairwayis whatsomever aither mediatlie or imediatlie and introduceit or
conceaveit in thair or any of thair favors directlie or indirectlie in any soirt
off and concerneing the foirsaids teinds great and small personage and
viccarao;e and uthair teinds fruitts rentis emoluments and dewties of the
said kirk and parochine of Air or prebendarie foirsaid off whatsomever dait
or daits tenors or contentis the samyn be of to be seine and considerit be
the saids Lords of Counsell and Sessioun and to hear and sie the samyn
reduced retreatit rescindit cassit annullit decerned and declaired to have
beine from the beginning to be now and in all tyme comeing null and of
nane awaill strength force nor effect with all that lies followit or may follow
thairupon And to make no faith in judgment nor out of the same in tyme
comeing And als to hear and sie the samyn civillie and lawfullie improven
per testes insertos et omni alio modo cpio de jure and decerned to be improven
and being sua improved the saidis defenderis falsefieris fengyeiris and
devvseris of the saids writts useris and produceris thairof as lawfull and
trew writts and evidentis aught and sould be punischt in thair persones
and goods to the terror of uthairs to eschew the comitting of the lyk in
tyme comeing And sicklyk to hear and sie it fund and declaired that the
saids teinds great and small personage prebendarie and viccarage and
uthairis fruitts rentis emolumentis and dewties of the said kirk and parochine
of Air perteines to the said persewer and his successors ministeris at the
said kirk To be intrometit with upliftit used and disposed upon be them of
the cropt and yeir of God jm vic fourtie four yeiris and of all yeiris and
termes sensyne and yeirlie and termelie in tyme comeing for the reassones
and causes following In the first becaus all taks maid and set be persones
wha hade na right to set the same are null and aught and sould be reduced
And lykwayis all comissiounes grantit to any persone or persones for
seting of takis of teinds by these who had no power to grant any such
comissioun are null and aught and sould be reduced And trew it is that his
Majesties said umquhile father hade no power or right to grant the said pre-
tendit comissioun to the said umquhile Johne Gib to set taks of the foirsaid
teinds of the said kirk of Air and uthairis thairin mentionat Becaus the
saids teinds of the said kirk of Air being ane of the kirks of the Chappell
Royall of Stirling belongit to the prebendaries of Air and be the lawis and
practique of this kingdome no persone lies right to teindis belonging to anie
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 171
benefice or right or power to set taks of the same bot the titular and bene-
ficed persone And his Majesties said mnquhile father being only patrone
could nather set taks of the teinds of the said kirk nor grant ane comissioun
to that effect Bot the titular and incumbent for the tyme iff any was hade
onlie right to the teinds and power to set takis And if the said benefice
wes vaikand his Majestie as patrone had onlie right to present ane titular
and no right aither to the teinds or to set taks of the samen or to grant ane
comissioun for that effect And thairfoir the said comissioun beino- erantit
be his Majesties said umquhile father haveing noe power to grant the samen
as said is and consequentlie the said takis set be the said umquhile Johne
Gibb be vertew thairof the said Johne nather being titular nor haveing
power to set the said tak is null and ought to be reduceit Secondlie all
takis set be vertew of ane comissioun bearing ane expres provisioun and
limitatioun that the taks set be vertew thairof sould be without diminitioun
of the rentall iff the said tak be set contrair to the said provisioun with
diminitioun of the rentall the samen are null and aught to be reduced And
true it is that the said pretendit comissioun grantit be his Majesties said
umquhile father to the said umquhile Johne Gibb gives onlie power to the
said Johne Gibb to set taks without diminutioun of the rentall And never-
theles the said pretendit tak set be the said umquhile Johne to the said Josias
Stewart is set with diminutioun of the rentall in sua far as the same is set
for the sowme of ane hundreth punds sex shillings eight pennyes quhairby
the rentall of the said kirk of Air and teindis personage and viccarage
thairof exceidit the said dewtie and extendit to the sowme of sevine scoir
thretteine merkis being the old dewtie for which the saids teinds wes set
lans; before the said comissioun and tak And thairfoir the said tak aught
to be reduced with all that lies followit thairupon Thirdlie all decreits of
prorogatioun are null and aught to be reduceit when all parties haveing
necessarie intrest to be callit to hear and sie the samen grantit are not callit
And true it is that the said pretendit decreit of prorogatioun wes givin
without calling the prebendar and titular of the said teinds for the tyme
viz. Andrew Couper wha being titular thair could be no tak or prorogatioun
grantit of the saids teinds unles he hade beine callit And lykwayis the said
prorogatioun wes grantit without calling of his Majesties said umquhile
father his thesaurer and advocat for the tyme wha behoveit to have bene
callit for his Majesties intrest being patrone and haveing grantit the said
comissioun for seting of the foirsaid tak Nather wes the said umquhile
172 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Johne Gibb callit to bear and sie tbe said prorogatioun albeit be bade ane
necessarie intrest to be cited haveing botb ane rigbt to the saids teinds
dureing bis lyftyme and baveing set tbe said tak confornie to tbe foirsaid
comissioun And tbairfoir tbe said decreit with all tbat bes followit
tbairupon is null and aught to be reduced Fourthlie all prorogatiounes
maid of anie taks of teinds in favors of any persone not haveing right
to the saids takis the tyme of tbe prorogatioun are null and voyde
And true it is that the said pretendit prorogatioun is grantit in favors
of umquhile Thomas Kennedie of Barganie and James Kennedie of Blair-
quhan or aither of them baveing right to the said tak And true it is
that nather of the saidis pereones hade right to the saidis takis for the tyme
And tbabfoir the said prorogatioun with all that bes followit thairupone
is null and ausdit to be reduced And lastlie all and sundrie the foirsaids
pretendit taks assedatiounes prorogatiounes thairof and uthair rights what-
somever particularlie and generallie above specifeit callit for to be produceit
as said is and reduced and improven alledged maid and granted to the saids
defenderis or thair predicessors or any of them or conceaved or used in
thair or any of thair favouris off and concerneing the foirsaids teinds great
and small personage and viccarage and uthair fruits rentis emolumentis and
dewties of the said kirk and parochine of Air and prebendarie foirsaid are
altogedder fals and fengzied in themselffis falslie forgeit simulat and
devysed be the saids defenderis or thair predicessors or be some uthairis
of than' causeing and comanding Lykas tbe said persewer with concourse
of our soveraigne lordls advocat for his hienes entres offeris them to improve
the same or ane or uthair of them per testes insertos et omni alio modo quo
de jure And tbairfoir the saids defenderis and the tutors and curators of
sua many of them as are minors iff they any have for thair entres and all
uthairis haveing or pretending to have entres in the said mater to have
compeirit befoir the saids Lordis of Counsell and Sessioun at ane certane
day bygane to have heard and seine the saids pretendit takis assedatiounes
and prorogatiounes thairof and uthair rights particularlie and generallie
abone specifeit callit for to be produceit as said is reduceit retreatit rescindit
cassit annulit decerned and declaired to have beine from the beginning to
be now and in all tyme comeing null and of nane awaill strength force nor
effect with all that hes followit or may follow thairupone And als to have
beine civillie and lawfullie improven per testes insertos et omni alio modo
quo de jure And decerneit to mak no faith in judgement nor outwith in
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 173
tyme cuming And to have heard and seine it fund and declaired that the
saids teinds great and small personage prebendarie and viccarage and uthair
fruits rents emolumentis and dewties of the said kirk and parochine of
Air perteines to the said niaister Williame Adair persewer and his succes-
souris ministeris at the said kirk to be intrometit with upliftit useit and
disponeit upon be them of the cropt and yeir of God jm vic fourtie four
yeiris and of all yeiris and cropts sensyne and yeirlie in tyme comeing at
thair pleasure, for the reassones and causses abone writtin as at mair length
is conteinit in the principall summondis raisit in the said mater actis lettres
and haill remanent' process led and deduced thairintill of before The said
Sir Archibald Johnestoun of Warriestoun knight his majesties advocat for
his hienes entres in the said mater compeirand personallie And the said
maister Williame Adair the uthair persewer forsaid compeirand be maister
Johne Nisbet his procurator quha for instructing the poyntis of the said
summondis produceit ane Charter of mortificatioun grantit be our soveraine
lord in favors of the ministeris presentlie serveing the cure at the said
Kirk of Air quhairby his Majestie for the causses thairin conteinit lies
givin grantit and disponeit foundit mortified and confirmed to the saids
ministeris serveiug the cure at the said kirk and thair successouris
ministeris thairat all and haill the teinds personage and viccarage of the
said paroche kirk and parochine of Air with the haill fruits rents provents
emoluments proffeits and dewties whatsomever with the manse and gleib
thairof and that in als full and ample forme and maner as the samyne
perteinit to the deanes and prebenderis of the said Chapped Eoyall of
(Stirling or uthair persones serveing the cure at the said kirk befoir or
efter the erectioun of the said Chapped Royall or annexatioun of the said
kirk to the same whither under the distinctiones of primo or secundo or
of the office of prebenderie or be whatsomever uthair way right or title as
the samyne under his hienes great seall of the dait att Haniptoun Court
the thrid day of November jm vic fourtie sevine yeiris at mair length bearis
Item the precept of saising following thairupone under the testimoniall
of his hienes great seall of the samen dait Item the instrument of saising
following thairupone bearing the said Mr. Williame Adair present minister
at the said Kirk of Air for himself and his successouris serveing the cure
at the said kirk in all tyme cuming to have beine upon the eight day of
December jra vi° fourtie sevine yeiris foirsaid dewlie and lawfullie infeft and
saisit be vertew of the said Chartour of mortificatioun and precept of saising
174 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUKGH OF AYR.
following thairupone in all and sundrie the saids personage and viccarage
teinds of the said paroche kirk and parochine of Air with the haill fruitts
rentis prevents emolumentis proffeits and dewties thairof with the manse
and gleib of the samyn as the said instrument of saising under the signe
and subscriptioun manuell of Williame Mitchell notar publict registrat in
the general! register of saisings by Mr. Francis Hay keiper deput thairof
upoun the threttene day of the said moneth and yeir with the decreit con-
forme obtainit at the instance of the said maister Williame Adair thair-
upone befoir the Lords of Counsell upon the first day of Januar last bypast
jm yjc and fourtie eight yeiris at mair lenth beans Item ane presen-
tatioun srantit be our said soveraine lord for himself and as father tutor
guyder and lawfull administrator to his darest sone the Prince to and in
favors of maister Williame Sempill ane of the regents of the college of
Glasgow quhairby he nominats and presents the said Mr. Williame to all
and haill that prebenderie callit Air primo quhilk is ane of the prebenderies
of the Ckappell Royall of Stirling and to the teinds great and small alsweill
personage as viccarage thairof and uthair fruits teinds rents emoluments and
dewties of the said kirk and parochine of Air lyand within the dyocie of
Glasgow and shreffdome of Air vacand in his Majesties hands for himself
and as administrator to his said darest sone and at his Majesties gift and
presentatioun be deceis of umquhile Robert Colquhoun last prebender or
any uthair way And als makand and constitutand the said Maister Williame
Sempill undoubtit prebender of the said prebenderie giveand grantand and
disponeand to him the samyn prebenderie with the saids haill teinds great
and small both personage and viccarage and uthair fruits rents emoluments
and dewties whatsomever belonging thairto and that of the cropt and yeir
of God jra vic fourtie four yeiris and yeirlie and termelie thairefter dureing
all the dayis of his lyftyme as the samyn of the dait the twenty eight day
of Apryll jm vic fourtie sex yeiris under his hienes privie seill with the
decreit conforme obtenit at the instance of the said Maister Williame thair-
upon extract forth the books of Counsell upon the fourteine day of Decem-
ber jm vic fourtie sevine yeiris also at mair length bearis And sicklyk
produced ane assignatioun maid and granted be the said Maister Williame
Sempill to and in favouris of maister James Sempill minister at Carmichael
quhairby he hes maid and constitute the said maister James his airis and
donatours his undoubtit cessioneris and assignayis in and to the foirsaid gift
of prebenderie haill tenour and contents thairof and all that hes followit or
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 175
may follow thairupon as the samyn of the dait the sevinteine day of July
jm vic fourtie sex yeiris extract furth of the buiks of Couusell upon the last
day of July jm vic fourtie sevine yeiris lykwayis at mair length bearis Item
ane translatioun maid and granted be the said maister James Sempill to and
in favours of the said maister Williame Adair of the foirsaid gift of pre-
bendrie and assignatioim foirsaid maid to him thairof be the said maister
Williame Sempill and all that hes followit or may follow thairupon daitit
the nynteine day of August jm vic fourtie sevine yeiris Item ane dimissioun
maid and granted be the said maister Williame Sempill quhairby he maks
constituts and ordaines maister Johne Henderson and Johne Douglas mais-
seris befoir the Lords of Exchecker or any ane of them his undoubtit pro-
curators to compeir befoir our said soveraine lord the kings majestie or
befoir the saids Lords of Exchecker his majesties comissioneris whatsomever
day and place convenient and thair to resigne renunce surrander dimit
overgive and delyver fra him all and haill the foirsaid prebenderie haill
teinds great and small personage and viccarage and uthairis fruits rentis
emoluments and dewties thairof in the hands of our said soveraine lord as
undoubtit patrone of the samyne ad perpetuam remanentiam to be useit
and disponed upon be his majestie as he sould think expedient Whilk
dimissioun is daitit the last day of July jm vic fourtie sex yeiris registrat in
the buikis of Counsell the fourteine day of December jm vic fourtie sevine
yeiris Item the instrument of dimissioun following thairupon quhairby the
said maister Johne Henrysone procurator foirsaid resigned renunced sur-
randered dimited overgave and delyverit the foirsaid prebenderie teinds
fruitts and rentis thairof to the handis of the saids Lordis of Exchecker his
hienes comissioneris as in the handis of our said soveraine lord undoubtit
patrone thairof ad perpetuam remanentiam or uthairwayis to be disiJoned
upon be his majestie as he sould think expedient as the same under the
signe and subscriptioun manuall of Johne Sempill notar publict in lyk rnaner
at mair length bearis And thairefter declaired that he past pro loco et
tempore from improbatioun of the writts and evidents above and efter-
mentionat produceit be the saids defenderis procurators efter nameit in
maner eftermentionat and insisted onlie at this tyme for reduction of the
saids writts and evidents produceit in maner underwritten and that he
insisted for improbatioun of the haill remanent writts and evidentis partial -
larlie and generallie above writtin callit for to be produceit and whilkis are
not produced in maner efter specifeit And for verifieing of the first reassone
176 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
of reductioun abone writtin repeatit the said maister Williame Adair persewer
his chartour of mortificatioun above mentionat grantit to him be our said
soveraine lord under his hienes great seall And als repeatit the said Comis-
sioun and tak abone mentionat produceit be the saidis defenderis procuratoris
in maner underwrittin All bearing the said Kirk of Air to be ane of the
kirks of the said Chappell Eoyall of Stirling and the saids teinds personage
and viccarage of the said kirk to perteine to the saids prebenderis thairof
as thair patrimonie Item for verifieing of the second reassone repeatit the
foirsaid Comissioun grantit be his hienes umquhile darest father to the said
umquhile Johne Gib bearing the said exprest limitatioun and provisioun
that the taks set be vertew thairof sould be without diminution of the
rentall And als repeated the said tak set be the said umquile Johne Gib to
the said Josias Stewart conteining the said yeirlie tak dewtie of ane hun-
dreth pundis with sex shillings eight pennyes in augmentatioun of the
rentall And sicklyk produceit ane extract furth of the books of assumptioun
bearing the old rentall dewtie of the said kirk and teinds befoir the granting
of the said comissioun and setting of the said tak to have beine sevine scoir
thretteine merkis And sua the old rentall is diminished in the sowme of
threttie thrie schillings four pennyes yeirlie Item for verifieing of the said
third reassone of reductioun repeated the foirsaid decreit of prorogatioun
bearing that nather the said umquhile Andrew Couper wha wes prebendar and
titular for the tyme nor his hienes umquhile darest fatheris thesaurer nor
advocat for the tyme nor the said umquhile Johne Gib comissioner foirsaid
was cited nor called to the giveing thairof And als produceit ane gift of
prebenderie grantit be his majesties said umquhile darest father under his
hienes privie seall of the dait the twentie nynt day of Januar jm vjc nynteine
yeires in favour of the said umquhile Andrew nominatand and appoyntand
the said umquhile Andrew Couper prebender and presentand him to all and
haill the said prebenderie callit Air primo quhilk is ane of the prebendaries
of the said Chappell Eoyall of Striviling and to the saidis teinds great and
small personage and viccarage thairof haill fruits and rents of the samen
togidder with ane uthair gift of prebenderie grantit be his majesties said
umquhile darest father of the samyne prebenderie callit Air primo and of the
saidis teinds great and small personage and viccarage fruits and rentis
thairof under his hienes privie seall of the dait the sevinteine day of Novem-
ber jm vic threttie yeiris to Robert Colquhoun as vacand in his majesties
handis be deceis of the said umquhile Andrew Couper then last prebender
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 177
Quhairby it is evident and cleir that the said umquhile Andrew wes prebender
at the said prebenderie fra the said twentie nynt day of Januar jm vic nyn-
teine yeiris to the tyme of the said gift grantit to the said Eobert Colquhoun
as vacand in his majesties handis throw deceis of the said umquhile Andrew
Couper as said is And for verifieing of the said fourt reassone of reductioun
repeatit the foirsaid decreit and act of prorogatioun grantit be the Comis-
siouneris of Parliament for plantatioun of Ivirkis in favours of the saids um-
quhile Thomas Kennedie of Barganie and James Kennedie of Blairquhan
quhairby the foirsaid tak of the saids teinds set be the said umquhile Johne
Gib to the said Josias Stewart is prorogat for the space of thrie lyfrents
and thrie nyneteine yeiris efter the expyreing and outruning of the saids
yeiris conteinit in the said tak in maner at length mentionat in the
said prorogatioun of the dait the sext day of December jm vic twentie
tua yeiris albeit the said Thomas Kennedie of Barganie and James
Kennedie of Blairquhan nather hade nor produceit any right in thair
persones to the foirsaid tak of the sadis teindis And the saids defenderis
eompearand be maister David Heriot thair procuratour quha for satis-
fieing of the productioun craveit be the said principall summondis in
ane pairt produced the foirsaid comissioun maid and grantit be his
hienes said umquhile father of blissed memorie to the said umquhile Johne
Gibb one of the groomes of his hienes bedchalmer under his majesties privie
seall of the dait tenour and contentis abovewritten Bearing provisioun that
the saidis takes and assedatiounes to have beine set be him sould be with
advyse of the saids umquhile earle of Dumfermeling chancellar umquhile sir
Thomas Hamiltoun of Byres knight clerk of register and umquhile maister
William e Oliphant of Newtoune his Majesties advocat for the tyme and not
to endure above nynteine yeiris and to be without diminitioun of the
rentall as the same extract furth of the register of his hienes privie seall
under the signe and subscriptioun manuel of maister Johne Drumond deput
to sir Adame HejDburne of Humbie knight ane of the senatours of the College
of Justice Keiper of the said register at ruair length bearis. Item the
foirsaid tak and assedatioun maid and grantit be the said umquhile Johne
Gib comissiouner foirsaid with consent foirsaid to the said Josias Stewart his
arris and assignayis whatsomever off all and sundrie the sadis teind sheaves
and uthairis teinds alsweill personage as viccarage fruits rentis emolumentis
and dewties whatsomever perteining and belonging to the said kirk and
parochine of Air for the space of nyneteine yeiris ether his entrie quilk was
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178 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
at Lambmes jm vic eighteine yeiris for payment yeixlie of the said sowrue
of ane hundreth pundis as the old accustomat dewtie used to have beine
payit for the said kirk with sex shilling eight pennyes in augmentatioun of
the rentall of the said kirk preciselie at Lambmes everie yeir and releiveand
the said umquhile Johne Gibb of all taxatiounes and uther impositiounes
imposed or that might be imposed upon the said teinds as the said tak of
the dait att Ayr the said sevint clay of July jm vic thretteine yeiris
quhairunto the comon seall of the said Chappell Royall of Stirling is
appendit at mair length bearis Item the foirsaid decreit and act of proro-
gatioun maid and givin be the saids comissiouneris appoyntit for plantatioun
of kirks of the dait the said sext day of December jm vic twentie tua yeiris
prorogating the foirsaid tak and assedatioun for the space of thrie lyfrentis
and thrie nyneteine yeiris after the expyreing and outruning of the yeiris
above writtine thairin conteinit And upon the productioun of the foirsaids
writts the said defenderis procuratours askit instrumentis and opponed the
saids writtis produceit as said is to the haill reassones of reductioun above
writtin quhairupon lykwayis the said perseweris procuratours askit
instrumentis and thairby granted the productioun craveit be the said
principal! sumondis to be satisfied pro tanto Quhairupon the saidis pairties
compeirand thair rights reassones and allegatiounes togidder with the
writts and evidents abone and efter mentionat produceit for verifieng of the
saids reassones of reductioun being at length heard seine and considerit be
the saids Lords and they thairwith being rypelie advysed The Lordis of
Counsall reduces retreatis rescinds casis and annullis the foirsaid pretendit
commissioun alledged granted be his hienes umquhile darest father of blissed
memorie to the said umquhile John Gibb togidder with the foirsaid
tak set be the said umquhile Johne Gibb to the said Josias Stewart with
the decreit and act of prorogatioun thairof above mentionat of the daits
tenours contentis abone written Decerns and declaires the same to have
beine from the begining to be now and in all tyme cuming null and of
nane awaill strength force nor effect with all that hes followit or may
follow thairupon. And als decreitis decernes and delyveris all and sundrie
the remanent writtis and evidentis particularlie and generallie above
mentionat callit for to be produceit in maner foirsaid and not produceit as
said is to mak na faith in judgement nor outwith the same in tyme comeing
And finclis and declairis that the saidis teinds great and small personage
prebenderie and viccarage and uthairis fruits rentis emolumentis and dewties
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 179
of the said kirk and parochine of Air perteines to the said perscwer and
his successors ministeris at the said kirk to be intrometit with upliftit useit
and disponeit upon be them of the cropt and yeir of God jm vic fourtie
four yeiris and of all yeiris and termes sensyne and yeirlie and termelie in
tyme cuming at thair pleasure for the reassones and causs abovewrittin Becaus
the poyntis of the said sumonds and reassones of reductioun abovewrittin
being fund relevant to the saids Lords and admitit to the said perseweris
probatioun efter that the saids defenderis wer all lawfullie sumond to have
compeirit befoir the saids Lordis to have heard and seine decreit givin in the
said mater in maner abonewrittin and hade compeirit be thair said procuratour.
The said persewer than instantlie verified the poyntis of the said sumonds and
first second and third reassones of reductioun abovewrittin be productioun
of the writts and evidents above mentionat thairin exprest of the daits
tenours and contentis abovewrittin repeated and produceit as said is. And
the said fourth reassone being negative proveit the self sufficientlie in
respect thair wes nothing produceit be the saidis defenderis procuratour
foirsaid to verifie that thair wes any right of the said tak standing in the
persones of the saidis umquhile Thomas Kennedie of Barganie or James
Kennedie of Blairquhan the tyme of the granting of the said prorogatioun
And thairfoir as also becaus the saidis defenderis compeirand and be thair
said procuratour as said is failzeit to exhibit and produce any of the
remanent writts and evidents particularlie and generallie callit for to be
produceit as said is (except the saids Comissioun tak of the saids teinds set
to the said Josias Stewart and decreit of prorogatioun thairof fra improba-
tioun quhairof the said perseweris procuratour past as said is) as wes cleirlie
understand to the saids Lordis they gave thair decreit and sentence in the
said mater in maner foirsaid.
Extractum de libro actorum, etc.
82. Tack by Mr. William Adair, Minister at Ayr, to the Magistrates
thereof, of the Superplus of the Teinds, etc. — [26th February 1648.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me maister Williame Adair
minister at Air and prebendar of the prebendarie of Air primo and thairby
having right to the teinds persounage and viccarage of the said parochine
of Air fforsaineikle as the commissioners of Parliament appointit ffor
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valuatione of teinds and plantatione of Kirks lies be thair decreit of the
daitt the tuentie fyft day of Februarie jm vjc ffourtie aught yeiris givin in
foro contradictorio converted the soume of ffyve hundreth merks quhilk
was payable to me out of the teinds of the parochine of Air as ane pairt of
my stipend ffor serving the cuir thatiat in fyve chalders victuall and hes
added and eiked thairto thrie chalders and aught bolls victuall and aught
bolls victuall ffor the comunione elements of the qualite contenit in the
valuatione and hes decernit and ordanit the saidis aught chalders victuall
and ane half and half ane chalder victuall ffor the comunione elements to
be the constant stipend of the said Kirk of Air and be in full contentatione
and sattisfactione to me and my successours of any farder provisione or
augmentatione we or any of ws sould have out of the teinds of the said
parochine be the mortificatione mentionat in the said decreit or utherwayes
and the superplus of the teinds to redound and acres to the proveist bailies
and counsell of the said toune of Air Lykas the saidis comissioners hes be
thair said decreit decernit and ordanit me and my successours titulars of
the teinds persounage and viccarage of the said parochine of Air to sett
taks ane or mae to the proveist bailies and counsell of the said burghe of
Air of the superplus of the saidis persounage teinds and of the haill
viccarage and small teinds of the said paroche as sail be most expedient
ffor securinsr of the said toune thairintill and that ffor caussis at lenthe
mentionat and sett doune in the said decreit in the self mair amplie
proportis and I being maist willing to obtemper and obey the foirsaid
decreit and ordinans Thairfor witt ye me the said maister Williame
Adair minister at the said Kirk of Air and titular of the teinds thairof
persounage and viccarage baith great and small to have sett and in tak
and assedatione lettin lykas I be the tennor heirof sett and in tak and
assedatione ffor the maill and dewtie underwrittin let to the present
proveist bailies counsell and comunitie of the said burght of Air and thair
successours ffrom tyme to tyme all and haill the superplus of the persounage
and teind scheaves of the said paroche and parochine of Air and valued
teind bolls thairof quhilk is over and above the saidis aught chalders and
ane half chalder victuall appointit ffor my stipend and half chalder victuall
ffor the comunione elements according to the locallite thairof aggried upone
betuixt thame and me togither with the haill viccarage and small teinds of
the said parochine of Air and that during all the dayes tyme yeiris and space
of thrie yeiris nixt and imediatlie ffollowing thair entrie thairto quhilk is
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 181
and begins to the said superplus personnage teinds at Michaelmas nixtocuin
or sooner qulien the cornes and cropt sail be separat fFrom the grand or
at the tennis appointit ffor payment of the saidis valued teind bolls and
to the said viccarage and small teinds at Larnbes nixtocum and swa ffurth
to enduir and to be peacablie bruiked joysit collected ingathered usit and
disponit upone be the saidis proveist bailies and counsell of the said burght
of Air present and wha sail happin to be ffor the tyme during the haill
yeiris tyme and space of the saidis thrie yeiris with all proffite and comodite
quhatsumevir pertining and belonging thairto with ffrie ische and entrie
ffrilie quietlie weill and in peace but ony revocatione or againe calling
quhatsumevir The quhilk tak and assedatione abovewritten of the said
superplus teind scheaves and valued teind bolls abovewrittin mair nor the
saidis nyne chalders victuall appointit to me ffor my stipend and comunione
elements according to the locallitie foirsaid and of the haill viccarage and
small teinds abovewrittin I bind and obleis me to warrand aquiet and
defend to the saidis proveist bailies counsell and comunitie of the said
burght of Air present and wha sail happin to be ffor the tyme guid valid
and sufficient in all and be all things as is befoir rehearsit ffra my awin
proper fact and deid allenerlie that is to say I have done nor sail doe
nothing that may be hurtfull or preiudiciall heirunto With power to thame
to teind leid collect ingather mell and intromett with the foirsaid superplus
teind scheaves and valued teind bolls abovewrittin (mair nor the foirsaids
nyne chalders victuall) and haill viccarage and small teindis abovewrittin
ffra the heritours liferenters tenents possessors and occupyers of the lands
within the said parochin of Air and uthers subject and addebtit in payment
of the saidis teinds persounage and viccarage and to serve inhibitiones if
neid beis yeirlie thairupone call ffollow and persew thairfor as accords befoir
quhatsumevir judgis competent ather spirituall or temporal! within this
realme and to insist in the persuit thairof unto the finall end and decisione
of the samen and obtining of decreitis thairintill and being obtenit the samen
to lawfull executione caus be put compone transact and aggrie thairanent
aquitances and discharges to grant give subscrive and delyver quhilks
I will be thir presents be all sufficient to the receavers as if I had subscrivit
and delyverit the samen myself and with libertie to obtine the said tak
prorogat be the saidis commissionars of Parliament and generalize all and
sundrie uthers things doe rise hant and exerce siclyk and alsfrilie in all
respects and conditiones as I might have done myself befoir the making
182 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
heirof etc. Payand thairfor yeirlie the saidis proveist bailies counsell and
coniunite of the said burght of Air to me and my successours titulars of
the teinds of the said parochine and ministers serving the cuir at the said
kirk the soume of sex schillings aught pennies money yeirlie at the feist of
beginand the fflrst yeiris payment thairof at the feist and
terme of and swa ffurth yeirlie thairefter during the yeiris of
the said tak and relivand me and my successours of all taxatiounes annuities
and uthers dewties quhatsumevir imposit or to be imposit upone the said
superplus teind scheaves and viccarage teinds abovewrittin be quhatsumevir
persone or personis And ffor the mair secuiritie I am content and consents
thir presents be insert and registrat in the buikis of Counsell and Sessioune to
have the strenthe of ane decreit of the lordis thairof that lettres of horning
and uthiris neidfull upone ane chairge of ten dayes may be direct and
constituts my procuratouris etc. In witnes quhairof
(writtin be Johne Masoun servitour to Harie Osburn wretter to his majesties
signet) I have subscrivit thir presentis with my hand at Edinburgh the
tuentie sext day of Februar jm vjc ffourtie aught yeiris befoir thir witnessis
Alexander Fergusone of Kilkerane Hew Kennedie sone to umquhill James
Kennedie of Blairquhan the saids Harie Osburne and Johne Masoun with
maister David Watsone also servitour to the said Harie Osburne (Signed)
William Adair Hew Kennedie witnes H. Osburne witnes Jo. Masoun
witnes Mr. Da. Watsone witnes.
83. Assignation by John Kennedy of Blairquhan to Anna Stewart his
Mother, of a Decreet against the Town of Ayr. — [llth July 1648.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres me Johne Kennedy of
Blairquhan foirsamekle as I obteanet ane decreit befoir the Lords of Coun-
saill and Sessioun upon the day of jm vic fourtie sevin yeiris
againes the toune of Air for payment to me of the sowme of twa thousand
merkes money of this realme as for the teynds dew to me furth of the
aikeris of lands lyand within the liberties of the said toun togethir also
with certane byroun dewties dew for the saids teynds furth of the saids
lands and aikeris as in my decreit granted to me thairupon of the dait
foirsaid at length is conteinett And foirsamekle as the said action and
richt altho it wes persewit at my instance againes the persounes specifeit in
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 183
the said decreit yet I considder and acknowledge that Anna Stewart Lady
Blairquhan my mother had guid and undoubtit richt in lyfrent to the saids
teynds conform to hir richts made to hir thairof be my umquhile father hir
husband And considering that I am now of purpose to go out upon this
present service and expeditoun thairfoir wit ye me to have made constitut
and ordainet and be thir presentis maks constitutes and ordaines the said
Anna Stewart my mother hir airis executors and assignayis my verie lawfull
undowted and irrevocable cessionaris asssignayis donatours and procuratours
in rem suam cum dispositione libera in and to the foirsaid contract and
in and to the annual rent of the said sowme of two thousand markes money
tkairin conteinett And in and to all uthir sowmes of money thairin
conteinett as for the byroun dewties restand awchtand unpeyit for the
saids teyndes Substituteand and surrogattand the said Anna and hir
foirsaids in my full richt place and power of the said decreitt and all sowmes
of money quhatsomevir thairin conteinett with all actioun instance persuit
proffeit benefit or commoditie competent to me thairby veluti cum disposi-
tione libera And with full power to the said Anna my mother and hir
foirsaids to uplift reseive and intromett with the annuel rent of the said
sowme of tua thousand merkes money and the propertie of the haill sowmes
of money conteinett in the said decreit fra the persounes obleist for payment
thairof And if neid beis to put the said decreit to all dew execution
againes thame aither personallie or reallie compone transact and aggre
thairanents acquitances and discharges to give and grant thairupon quhilks
I declair sal be als sufficient as I had grantit the samyn myself befoir the
making heirof and I have delyverit to hir the foirsaid decreit to be vsett be
hir as hir awin evident in all tyme cuming And consents that thir presentis
be insert and reoistrat in the buiks of Counsall and Sessioun thairin to rernane
ad futuram rei memoriam And constitutes my
procurators In witness quhairof (wryttin be Johne Shaw notar in Meyboill)
I have subscryvet the samyn with my hand att Meyboill the ellevint of
July the yeir of God jm vic fourtie aucht yeiris befoir thir witnesses Mr.
James Gibsoune Schoolmaister at Meyboill and the said Johne Schaw
Johne Kennedy Mr. Ja : Gibsone witness J. Schaw witness.
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84. Disposition by John Kennedy, Son of James Kennedy of Blairquhan,
in favour of Mr. William Adair, of the Teinds of the Parish of Ayr.
— [2d January 1649.]
Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres we Johne Kennedy lawful
sone to umquliile James Kennedy of Blairquhan and Agnes Stewart relict
of the said umquhile James my mother for our severall richtis and entresis
and baithe with ane consent and assent and als with the expres advyse and
consent of Johne M'Adam notar in Air as haveand richt be translatioun
proceidand fra Johne Kennedy of Balbeg in maner eftermentionat and sua
I the said Johne M'Adame for myself and my richt tytill and interest
Forsamekill as the said Johne Kennedy of Balbeg be his lettres of transla-
tioune subscryvit with his hand of the daittis upon the fourteine and fyf-
teine dayis of December the yeir of God jm vic fourtie sevin yeiris grantit
be him in favouris of the said Johne M'Adame makand mentioune that
quhair umquhile Johne Gib ane of the gromes than of his majesties bed-
chalmer as haveand power and comissioune from his majestie be his hienes
gift of the dait the third day of Julij jm vic twelff yeiris to set takis of the
teindis of the hadl kirkis of the Chapped royall of Stirveling for the space
and in maner mentionat in the said gift be his lettre of tak subscryvit with
his hand with consent of umquhile Alexander earle of Dumfermling chan-
cellour of Scotland and utheris of the dait the sext day of Julij jm vic thret-
teine yeiris sett in tak and assedatioune to Josias Stewart sumtyme stylit
of Bonytoun his airis and assignayis all and sindrie the teind schaves and
utheris teindis alsweill persouneage as vicarage fruitis rentis emolumentis
and dewtyis quhatsumever perteineing and belonging to the paroche kirk
and parochin of Air beand ane of the kirkis of the said Chappell royall of
Stirling for the space and yeiris of nynteine yeiris thairin mentionat eftir
his entrie thairto declairit thairby to be and begin at Lambas in the yeiris
of God jm vic thretteine yeiris for the yeirlie payment of the sowme of ane
hundreth pundis money of Scotland as the old accustomed dewtie payabill for
the saidis teindis with sex schillingis aucht penneyies in augmentatioun of
the rentall thairof preceislie at the Lambas yeirlie as the said tak and asse-
datioune in the self at mair lenth proportis Lykas upoun the sext day of
December jm vic twentie tua yeiris the Comissionaris of Parliament appoyntit
for settiling of the takis of teynds and provisioune of kirkis and ministeris
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 185
serveing cuir thairat within this realm haveing deccrnit to be payit yeirlie
to the minister than present and to cum serveing the cuir at the said Kirk
of Air furth of the saidis teyndis of the paroch tharof the sowme of fyve
hundrethe merkis monie yeirlie by and attour the said yeirlie tak dewtie
abone written of ane hundrethe pundis sex schillingis aueht penneyis money
forsaid reservit to be payit to the prebendar of the said Chappell royall of
Stirling They in recompence and requytall of the said burding and aug-
mentatioune imposit upoun the saids teyndis of the pareochin of Air and
takismen thairof abone mentionit mail nor the former tak dewtie of the
samyn according to the powar and warrand givein to them and conteined
in the act of Parliament beirand thair comissioune added to the space and
yeiris of the said tak the space of thrie lyfrentis and time nynteine yeiris
farder of the haill teyndis persouneag and vicarage of the said parochin of
Air ane tak beginning at the isch and expyreing of the yeiris of the tak
abone specifeit And thairfoir sett and in tak and assedatioune latt to Thomas
Kennedy of Bargany and James Kennedy of Blarquhen or ather of thame
to quhom the right of the said tak perteined or to thair airis or assignayes
or to that persoune or persounes to whom the right of the said tak sould
happin to perteine the tyme of the expyreing tharof and to thair airis and
assignayis all and sindrie the saids teind scheaves alsweill persouneage as
vicarage fruitis rentis emolumentis and dewties quhatsumever perteining
and belonging to the said parochin and kirk of Air quhilk was ane of the
kirkis of the Chappell royall of Stirling dureing all the dayis space yeiris
and termis of the saids thrie lyfrentis and thrie nynteine yeiris respective
and successive eftir utheris beginand the entrie of the foirsaid eikit tak and
eikit yeiris of prorogatioune immedaitlie eftir the isch and expyreing of the
space and yeiris of the foirsaid uthir tak abone declairit And fra thyn furthe
to continew and indure ay and quhill the foirsaid eikit space and proroga-
tioun of thrie lyfrentis and thrie ninteine yeiris be fullie and complitlie out-
run successive and respective eftir the expyreing of the space of the uther
tak befoir declaired Payand thairfoir yeirlie to the minister serveing the
cuir at the said Kirk of Air at the terme abone mentionat the sowme of fyve
hundrethe merkis money foirsaid And als payand at the foirsaid terme
yeirlie to the prebendar of the said Chappell royall of Stirling the said
sowme of ane hundrethe pundis sex shillingis aucht penneyis of tak dewtie
as the said decreit and tak of prorogatioune of the dait foirsaid in the self
also at rnair lenth bearis In and to the quhilkis takis of the saidis teyndis
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186 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
baith persouneag and vicarage of the said parochin of Air and the samyn
teyndis alsweill persouneag as vicarage fruitis rentis and dewtyis whatsum-
ever perteining and belonging to the said parochin and kirk of Air for the
cropt and yeir of God jm vic yeir taking begining and continew-
allie for all space and yeiris of the saidis takis thaireftir The said Josias
Stewart Thomas and James Kennedyis or ather of tham to whom the richt
of the foirsaidis takis and prorogatioune perteined be thair lettres of assign-
atioime subscry vit with thair handis of the dait the day of
jm vic yeiris maid and constitute the said John Kennedy of
Balbeg his airis executouris and assignayis thair verie lawfull cessiounaris
procurators and donatours in rem suam cum dispositione libera with ampill
powar and surrogat and substitute the said Johne Kennedy of Balbeg and
his foirsaidis in thair full right and tytill thairof in maner at length deducit
in the narrative pairt of the saidis lettres of translatioune of the dait foirsaid
quhairby for sowmes of money and uthairis causis specifeit thairin the said
Johne Kennedy of Balbeg with consent of me the said Anna Stewart sauld
assignit transferrit and dispouned to and in favouris of me the said Johne
M'Adame my airis assignayis and successouris all and sindrie the saidis
teyndis persouneage as vicarage of the said kirk and parochin of Air
fruitis rentis emolumentis and dewtyes quhatsumever perteineing and
belonging tharto for the cropt and yeir of God jm vic yeiris
taking the begining and yeirlie and continewallie in all tyme cuming
dureing the space and yeiris of the takis and prorogatioune abone mentionat
As also all the saidis takis and prorogatiounes with the foirsaidis lettres of
assignatioune maid and grantit to the said Johne Kennedy of Balbeg
thairof with ampill powar and warrandyce fra his awin proper fact and
deid as in the saids lettres of translatioune of the dait foirsaid maid and
grantit be the said Johne Kennedy of Balbeg in favouris of me the saids
conteineand diverse uthiris heidis and clausses at mair length
is conteined And siclyk forsamekill as thair was ane decreit obteined at
Edinburgh the twentie fyft day of Februar the yeir of God jm vic fourtie
aucht yeiris last bypast in presens of his Majesties comissioners of Parlia-
ment appoyntit for valuatioune of teyndis and plantatioune of Kirkis at the
instance of Mr. AVilliam Adair abone namit persoune and minister of the
said burgh of Air within the presbeterie tharof aganis us the saidis Johne
Kennedy Anna Stewart and Johne Kennedy of Balbeg and utheris nominat
thairintill anent the settilling of ane competent augmentatioune of the
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 187
stipencl of the said Kirk in a dispositiounc grantit be the said Mr. "William* ■
Adair and his successouris serveing the cuir at the said Kirk of Air and
paroche thairof (with ane sufficient modificatioune for furnischeing the
comunioun elementis to the said minister and his successouris to be imployet
for that use) and ane constant localitie settilled and designed thairanent
Be vertew quhairof the saidis judgis comissiounaris haveing decerned and
ordayned ane constant locall stipend with the modificatioune for furnische-
ing of the comunioun elementis to the said minister and his successouris
serving cuir at the said burgh Kirk and paroche thairof payabill be the
severall heritors lyfrentaris takismen and utheris expreslie designit thairin
respective furth of the teindis great and small of the landis aikeris of land
and utheris designit therein And ordayned ane stipend and provisioune
of aucht chalderis and ane half of victuall and half ane chalder of victuall
for the comunioun elementis to be yeirlie locallie payit be the heri-
touris and utheris conteined in the said decreit and thair successouris
ilk ane of thame respective for thair awn partis as is particularlie devydit
thairin And the said quantitie of nyne chalderis victuall to stand and
continew as ane constant stipend and provisioune of the said Kirk of Air
in maner at length deducit and sett doune in the said decreit Lykas the
saidis comissiouneris to the effect the toune of Air might be the moir abill
to beir the burding of ane colleague minister and of ane thousand merkis
money foirsaid of yeirlie stipend ordayned us the takismen haveing right to
the teindis of the said parochin to denud ourselves of our right of our takis
in favouris of the said Mr. William Adair persewar And in recompens
thairof the saidis comissiounaris ordayned the proveist baillies and counsall
of the said toune of Air to content and pay to me the said John Kennedy
sone lawfull to the said uniquhile James Kennedy of Blairquhan the sowme
of tua thousand merkis money of Scotland in satisfactioune to me and
utheris of our ris;ht of the takis of the teindis thairof And decerned the
takisman and all utheris haveand or pretendand to have entres to the
teindis great and small of the said parochin to rest fullie satisfied in regaird
of the said sowme of tua thousand merkis And ordayned the said Mr.
Williame Adair persewar to grant takis ane or ma of the superplus of the
saidis persouneag teindis and also the haill vicarag teyndis of the said
paroch to the proveist baillies and counsall of Air and thair successouris
for payment yeirlie of sex schillingis audit penneyis of tak dewtie and
ordayned prorogatioune of the said tak to be grantit at the productioune
188 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
thairof as in the said decreit of the comissiounaris for valuatioune of
teyndis and plantatione of Kirkis of the dait foirsaid conteineand diverse
and sindrie uther heidis articles and ordinances at mair length is conteined
And now becaus the present proveist and baillies of the said burghe of
Air for themselfis and in name and behalf of the counsall thairof and for
tham and thair successouris proveistis baillies and counsall of the samyn
hes contentit and payit to me the said Johne Kennedy in whais favouris
that ordinance of the said decreit is conceavit all and haill the said sowme
of tua thousand merkis money foirsaid ordayned to be payit to me in maner
and for the causses specifeit thairin and that with the advyse and consent
of the said Anna Stewart my mother and of the said Johne M'Adame for
any richt and entres be translatioune flowand fra the said Johne Kennedy
of Balbeg qukairof I grant the resait Lykas we and ilk ane of us for us our
airis executoris and assignayis exoner quytclame and simpliciter dischairge
the saidis proveist baillies and Counsall of the said burghe of Air and thair
successouris proveist baillies and Counsall of the samyn be thir presentis for
now and ever renunceand the exceptioune of non remunerat money and all
uther exceptiounes and objectiounes can be propouned or alledgit in the
contraire Thairfoir witt ye me the said Johne Kennedy for myself with
the expres advyse and consent of the said Anna Stewart my mother and
us baith with ane consent and assent and als with consent of the said
Johne M'Adame haveand rycht be translatioun proceidand fra Johne
Kennedy of Balbeg abone namit in maner befoir repettit and I for myself
and my richt and entres in that respect to have dimitted renimced dis-
chargit and simpliciter overgivein and be the tenor heirof (in speciall
corroboratioune of the said decreit in obedience and for fortificatioune of
the samyn and of the takis of the super plus of the teinds persouneage and
vicarage of the said parochin of Air and decreit of prorogatioun followand
thairupoun over and above the localities designit to the ministeris serveing
cuir at the Kirk of the said burghe of Air and paroche thairof and thair
successouris ministeris serveing cuir thairat and for furnisching of the
comuuioun elementis eikand richt to richt) dimittis renunces dischargis and
simpliciter ovirgives fra us and ilk ane of us and our foirsaidis for our
severall richtis and entresis to and in favouris of the said Mr. Williame
Adair and his successouris ministeris serveing cuir at the Kirk of Air all
and haill the super plus of the teindis persouneag and vicarag of the said
parochin of Air dew and payabill be the heritouris and utheris lyabill in
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 189
payment tkairof, and that of all croptis and yeiris of God since the dait
foirsaid of the said decreit of the said comissiounaris for valuatioune of
teindis and plantatioune of Kirkis and yeirlie and ilk yeir in all tyme
cuming heireftir with all richt takis tytill and possessioun that we or any
of us or our foirsaidis had have or may have or clame to the teindis
persouneag and vicarage of the said paroch of Air so far as concerned the
super plus thairof over and above the ministeris localities and for furnische-
ing the Comunioun elementis as is abone exprest designit and appoyntit
to that end be vertew of the said decreit efter the forme and tenor thairof
To the effect the samyn super plus of teinds persouneag and vicarage over
and abone the said localities designit be decreit for plantatioune of the
said Kirk of Air being once consolidat and establisched in the persoune
of the said Mr. Williame Adair and his successouris serving cuir thairat
the takis tytill and richt maid and grantit promittit or provydit to be maid
and grantit be him or thame in favouris of the proviest baillies and
counsall of the said burghe of Air and thair successouris proveist baillies
and counsall thairof and decreit of prorogatioune followand thairupoun may
stand gud valid and effectual to them for bruiking and useing the samyn
super plus fruitis rentis emolumentis and dewties since the dait of the said
decreit and yeirlie and ilk yeir in all tyme thareftir Quhilkis we for us
and ilk ane of us and our foirsaidis according to our severall interests hes
ratifiet and approvein and heirby ratifies and approves eftir the forme and
tenour thairof in all poyntis admittand the generalitie tharof to be als
sufficient as the particularis war insert heirintill Quhairanent we for us
and our foirsaidis dispenses for evir Quhilk dimissioun exoneratioune
renunciatioune and ratificatioune abone written we bind and oblis us and
ilk ane of us respective and our foirsaids to warrand acquyet and defend to
the said Mr. William Adair present minister and his successouris serveing
cuir at the said kirk and paroch tharof and to the saids magistrate and
counsall present and to cum for thair exoneratioun of the said sowme of
tua thousand merkis gud valid and sufficient in all and be all thingis as
is abone exprest to the effect abone written conforme to the said decreit
takis granted be him and prorogatioune followand thairupoun And that
for all factis and deids done or to be done be us or any of us or our
foirsaidis in any tyme bygane or to cum allanarlie That is to say that
Ave nor nane of us nor ours abone writtin hes not maid nor sail not mak na
uther dimissioune renunciatioune assignatioun tytill or richt in favouris of
190 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
ua uthers persoune nor persounes that can be hurtful or prejudicial! tharto
in any sort And finallie we bind and oblise ws respective and our forsaids
to reiterat renew and mak ovir againe thir presentis to thaise in whais
favouris the samyn is conceaved als oft and how oft as neid beis be advyse
of men of law keipand the effect and substance abone writtin And for
the mair securitie we ar content and consent thir presentis be insert and
registrat in the buikis of Counsall and Sessioune to have the strength of
ane act and decreit that letters and executoriallis of horning be ane simpill
ehairg of sex dayis warding or poynding but prejudice of uthers may pas
heirupoun And thairin to remayn ad futuram rei memoriam And that
executoriallis neidfull may direct in dew forme as effeirs And to that effect
constitutis our procurators promittentes de rato, etc. In
witnes quharof (writtin be Williame Mitchell toun clerk of Air) we have
subscryvit thir presentis with our handis as followis att the said burghe of
Air the secound day of Januar and elevint day tharof the yeir of God
jm vic fourtie nyne yeiris befoir thir witnesses respective viz. to the sub-
scriptioune of me the said Johne Kennedy subscryvit be me at Air the
said secound day of Januar and yeir of God foirsaid before Johne Schaw
sone to Quentein Schaw of Grimett and the said Win. Mitchell wrytar
heirof And to the subscriptioune of us the said Anna Stewart and John
M'Adani subscryvit be us at Air the said elevint day of Januar and yeir
of God foirsaid befoir Williame Montgomerie of Brigend Francis Muir of
Penyglen and the said William Mitchell (Signed) Johne Kennedy Anna
Stewartt John M'Adame W. Montgomery witnes Johne Schaw witnes
Francis Muir witnes Williame Mitchell witnes.
85. Sasine in favour of the Burgh of Ayr, of the Yards belonging to the
Kirk of St. Katherine in Ayr.— [25th March 1653.]
In the name of God be this present publict instrument to everie man be
it knowin that in the year of God jm vic fyftie thrie yearis upoun the
twentie fyve day of the monethe of March in presence of me notar publict
and witnesses underwrittin compeared Johne Fergussoun kit baillie burges
of Air as procurator and actorney speciallie constitute for Johne Lockhart
only lawfull sone and air at the least appearand air to deceast Alexander
Lockhart younger merchand burges of Air procreat betwixt him and
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 191
Katharine M'Calmont his spous being upoune the ground of the peices of
land or yairdis particulate underwrytin And thair schew and produced
ane lettir of Dispositioune and Eesignatioun ad remanentiarn maid granted
and subscryved be him the [said] Johne Lockhart younger with consent
of his mother and of Alexander Lockhart elder his guidsire and thay for
thame selffis and thair respective richtis of lyfrent in favours of the
maoistratis counsall and comonunitie of the toun of Air for the comoun
use thairof of the dait the twentie tua day of March instant wharby and
for the sowme of tua hundreth pundis money Scottis peyed and delyvered
to tham be William Fergussoun present thesaurer and collector of the
tounes comoun rent be thair order furth of the samyn whairof they grantit
the recept in maner thairin exprest they sauld and dispouned in favouris
of the magistratis and counsall present or to cum succeiding magistratis
and counsall representing the body and comunitie of the toune for the
comoune use thairof but reversioun all and haill these said yardis with the
priviledgis and pertinentis formerlie belonging thairto formerlie designed
and boundit as followis To wit ane peice of land lyand on the east pairt
of the kirk of auld callit sanct Kathrenis Kirk the virgin within the burghe
of Air betwixt the kirkyaird thairof of auld thaireftir being the landis of
Johne Blair now of Thomas Daviesoune on the northe and ane pairt and
the comoune way that tendis to the wattir of Air by the well on the southe
and uther pairtis As also that uther yard and peice of land lyand abone
the said well betwixt the landis sumtyme of Johne Wallace of Cragy
thairefter of George Angus and last of Edward Wallace of Sewaltoune
deceast on the southe and uther pairt and the said comoune way that goeth
by the well to the wattir of Air on the northe and utheris pairtis quhair-
intill the deceast Alexander Lockhart younger died last vest and sased as
of fie And that the samyn Johne Lockhart is nerrest and lawfull air to
his deceast father thairintill and that he is of lawfull aige And that the
samyn be the former richtis wes haldin of the magistratis counsall and
communitie of the said burghe superiors thairof for ane certain yearlie few
dewtie being in haill nyne schdliugis sex penneyis money Scottis for the
mekd yard and thrie schillingis for the littill yard as ane instrument of
saseing givein to the said umquhile Alexander Lockhart his father of the
dait the eleveint day of November jm vic threttie four yeiris under the
signe and subscriptioune of deceast George Massoune toun clerk for the
tyine hes testified being schawin and produced as said is Thairfoir James
192 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
Campbell in Air baillie in that pairt speciallie constitute for the bettir
establischeing of the possessioune of the sam and according to the befoir
repeitted richt gave and delyvered to the said John Lockhart youngar as
sone and air to his deceast father stat saseing and possessioune corporall
actuall and reall of all and haill the said tua peicis of land or yairdis with
the priviledgis and pentinentis boundit and lyand as said is in the handis
of the said Johne Fergussoune as actorney to the said Johne (whais power
was cleirlie knowin to me notar publict and witness undirwrytin) be
delyverance of eard and staine thairof as use is eftir the forme and tenor of
his umquhile father his infeftment and saseing and former infeftmentis and
saseingis of the samyn Quha being sua reallie infeft the befoirnamed
Johne Fergussoun procurator and actorney respectivlie befoirnamed be
vertew of the letter of procuratorie and resignatioune conteined in the
saidis letteres of Dispositioune of the dait foirsaid with all humilitie and
condigne reverence resigned surrendered upgave and overgave all and
haill the saidis tua peicis of land and yardis with the priviledgis and
pertinentis used and wount designed boundit and lyand as said is in the
handis of the counsall and comunitie of the said burghe representing the
sam to be applyed be thame to the most pious and convenient use they sail
appoynt for the benefite of the said burghe And entered to for that effect
be delyverance of stalf and bastoune as the maner is in the handis of the
befoirnamed William Fergussoun thesaurer in thair name and behalf And
to abyd and remain for ever consolidat and establisched with thame and
thair successouris magistratis and counsall of the said burghe present and to
cum representing the samyn communitie and whole body thairof to the
effect abonewrytin Upoun the which all and sindrie the premisses the saidis
Johne Fergussoune as actorney and procurator as als the said Williame
Fergussoune as thesaurer and in name and behalf of the Toune asked and
requyred instrumentis ane or ma in the handis of me notar publict under-
subscryvand Thir thingis wer done upoune the ground of the saidis peicis
of land at ten houris befoir non or thairby day moneth and year of God
foirsaid befoir thir witnesses William Campbell merchand George Masoune
cowpar Johne Reid flescher and Ninian Lawrie smith burgesis of the said
burgh called and requyred to the premisis And I for sowth Johne M'Adame
clerk within the dyosie of Glasgow and notar publict etc.
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 193
8G. Commission to the Sheriff's of Ayr to grant Heritable Rights within
the Burgh until Magistrates should be appointed. — \2d March 1G54.]
At Edinburgh the second day of Marche jm vjc fiftie four yeares The
quhilk day anent the supplicatioun givin in and presentit befoir the Com-
missioneres appoyntit for administratioun of justice to the people in Scot-
land be the burgessis and inhabitantes within the burghe of Air and utheres
heretouris within the tennendrie therofF mentioneing that throw the want
of magistrates as formerlie wount to be within the burghe of Air the saidis
petitioneres ar greatlie prejudgit in passeing of infeftmentes of resignatioun
and confirmatioun and by entering of airis be cognitioun upon the ground
hesp and staple and utherwayes accordeing to the forme used within the
burghe quhich in ane short tyme will bring the saidis petitioneres to ane
great confusioun in not haveing ane formall rightis to ther landis and houssis
within the libertie and territorie of the said burghe Beseekand therfore the
saidis commissioneres to tak the premissis to ther serious consideratioun
and to give ordour and warrand to the shereff of Air and his deputtis
present and who shall happen to be for the tyme to give infeftmentes and
saiseinges to all pairtis haveand interes be receaveing of resignationes
granteing of confirmationes entering of aires by precepts of clare constat
cognitioun upon the ground hesp and staple and utherwayes as is in use
within the burghe and that unto such tyme and ay and quhill the burghe
of Air be settled in ther magistrate with Proveist and Bailyies and they in
ane capacitie to doe the samyn as heirtofoir they wer in use as the said
supplicatioun beares Quhilk supplicatioun being hard red seine and con-
sidderit by the saidis commissioneres and they being therwith weell and
ryplie advysed the saidis Commissioneres thought the samyn reassonable
and thairfore they have givin and grantit and be thir presentis the saidis
Commissioneres gives and grantes full power warrand and commissioun to
the shereffes of Air principallis or ther deputtes and who shall happen to
be for the tyme to give infeftmentes and saisingis to all pairties haveing
interes within the burghe of Air and to all heretouris within the territorie
theroff be receaveing of resignationes granteins: of confirmationes entering
of airis by precepts of clare constatt cognitioun upon the ground be hespe
and staple and utherwayes as was in use formerlie within the said burghe
of Air and that unto such tyme and ay and quhill the said burghe of Air
2 c
194 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
be setled in ther said magistracie with Proveist and Bailyies as they wer
formerlie and they in ane capacitie to doe the samyn as heirtofoir they wer
in use to doe And als the saidis Commissioneres declaires that such infeft-
mentes and seasinges swa to be givin and grantit be the saidis shereffes
principallis or deputtes and thair clerk shall be als valeid and sufficient to
the receaveris thairoff as if they had beine givin and grantit be the Proveist
and Bailyies of the said burghe of Air in any tyme befoir And to the
effect foirsaid the saidis Commissioneres declaires thir presentis to be ane
sufficient warrand uuto the tyme foirsaid.
Registrat and extracted by me being within a sheit of paper.
(Signed) Jo. Spreule.
87. Act of the Town Council of Ayr, infavour of John Neil, etc., for in-
fefting him in the Lands of CarricJcstoun. — \_22d January 1656.]
Air the twentie tua day of Januarij the year of God jm yjc fyftie sex
yearis Quhilk day in presence of the Proveist Baillies and Counsall of this
burghe being ordinarly conveined in Counsall within the tolbuith of this
burohe anent ane suppbcation presentit befoir them be John Neill in
Nethertoun of Alloway desyring that they wold enter receave and confimie
him in all and haill the landis of Carrickstoun extending to ane fourtie
penny land of auld extent with housses biggings yards and pertinents theirof
extending to sevin aikers of land or thereby And all and haill the portioun
of the lands of Sandiefurd which perteined sumtynie to umquhile John
M'Clure with the pertinents designed and lyand in maner mentionat in the
rightes and securities of the same and that upon the resignation of James
Montgornerie of Clonayes with consent of Marie Craufurd his spous and
upon his awin resignatioun in favoris of himself his airis and assignayes and
of Elizabeth Cunyngham his present spous in lyfrent during all the dayes
of her lyfetyme in als farre as concernes the yeirlie rent of ten holies beir
peyabill furth of the saids lands and in favoris of John Neill younger his
sone his airis and assigneyes under the reservatiounes reversiouns provisiones
and conditiones mentionat in ane lettre of donation maid and grantit be the
said John Neill elder in favoris of his wyfe and sone with the lettre of dis-
positioun grantit be the said James Montgornerie as the saniyn beires In
the cmhilk supplicatioun the said John Neill offerit such resonabill composi-
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 195
tion as the Magistrats and Counsell sould modifie The desyre quhairof
being read sein and considerit be the Magistrats and Counsall and they
therewith well advysit they ordain and appoynt ane of the baillies of this
burgh furth with all convenience to passe to the ground of the saids landis
and to receave the said resignatioun or resignationes of the saids lands and
to give infeftment and saseing thairupon efter the forme and tenor of the
saids rightes and dispositiounes and uther securities concerning the premisses
past theiranent The said John Neill payand ane hundreth merks of com-
positioun to the tounes thesaurer for the use of the toun Whairunto the
said John Neill condischendit as ane act maid thairupon of the daitt of thir
presentis will testifie.
Extract furth of the Counsall buikes of the said burgh be me William
Mitchell notar publicat and comoun clerk of the same under my
signe and subscription manuall. W. Mitchell.
88. Allotment of Seats in the Parish Church of Ayr. — \_10th March 1656.]
At Air the Tent day of Merche 1656 the persons underwrittin wer
convenit by ane act of the Toun Counsell off the dait the nynteine
of Februar last for placing and devycling the pewis among the per-
sons following in the severall places off the church as is eftir devydit.
Conveined
William Cuninghame provest
Jhone Crawfort Deane of Gild
Jhone Fergusson and Gilbert M'Calmont baillies
Jhone Osborne Hew Kennedy lait provestis
Thomas Blair
Matthew Crawfort deacon conveiner
George Cochrane Master of Work and
Theophilus Eankine
Followis the persons names who ar to have the pewis
On the eist syd off the pulpitt nearest the watter
196
MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
1. Mr. William Adair minister and
successour minister vpon the first
2. Jhone Fergusson baillie
3. Mergret Bannatyne
4. Eelict Adam Mitchell
5. James Kelso
6. Elisabeth Mirrie
7. Jhone M'Cletchie
8. Matthew Reed
9. George Watt
On the west end of the kirk befoir the craftis loft the first ouster pew
4. Alexander Osborne
1. Jhon Osborne
2. Robert Kelso
3. Mathew Crafort
5. Holmstoun
6. JohnM'Callan
John M'Alexander
On the left syd of the yle nearest the watter
1. William Cuningham pro vest
2. Gilbert M'Calmont baillie
3. Thomas Blair
4. Jhon Hunter
5. Jhon Blakwood
11.
6. Jhon Cuningham tresurer
7. George Cochrane
8. Robert Cuningham
9. Abr. Ros
10. Archibald Anderson
David M'Walter
On the west syd of the pulpitt
1. Mr. William Ecclis minister and
successor to enter at the foir-
breist of the portell dor
2. Hew Kennedy to enter at the
gavill of the portell to the west-
wardis
3. James Cochrane
4. Jhone Kennedy Barleiff
5. Theophilus Rankine
6. Mr. William Cambell
7. Mr. Thomas Winzett
8. Mergret Cochrane
9. Hew Wallace
10. John Mason mason
On the richt syd of the yle nearest the Toun
1. Robert Gordone
2. Jhon Crafort
3. George Angous
4. Jhone Leslie
5. Adam Livinston
6. William Cambell
7. James Cargill
8. John Paterson
9. George Morton
10. William Fergusson
11. Ma: Drups
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Under the magistratis loft the ouster pewes
1. Adam Masson
2. John Ma.sson
3. Richard Sloce
4. Thomas Garven
5. Andro Cochrane
6. George Greir
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Conforme to the afoirsaid ordour cache partie hes acceptit conforme to
the foirsaid division and that willinglie and the samen to be recordit in the
Tounis builds and every man to build with expedition and who failles his
seatt is to be givin to another Witnes our handis day and dait foirsaid
(Sic subscribitur) AVilliame Cwnynghame provest Hew Kennedy Johne
Osborne Johne Fergussone Thomas Blair Theophilus Rankine G. M'Calmont
George . . . (torn off)
Air the ellevint day of Merche 1656 beeng convened the pairties under-
writtin To witt : —
William Cuningham provest
Jhone Fergussone baillie
Gilbert M'Calmont baillie
Jhone Osborne lait provest
Hew Kennedy lait provest
George Cochrane
Thomas Blair
Mathew Crawfort
1. The foimamit pairties considdering that the rest of the church is
recpusit to be pewit hes thairfor ordanit that any frieman within this burgh
shall have libertie to build a pew of the same wood as the rest of the pewis
provyding alwyse that no man be admittit who dois not mak vp his con-
tribution to the church to be Twelf pundis Scottis and dois pay the thrie
pund of flewring and buildis the pew in maner foirsaid with this declaration
that whosoevir contributis farder or hes contribute shal be preferrit according
to his contributing And ordanis Thomas Blair to take up the contribution
and George Cochrane the thrie lbs for hWring
2. They appoint the provest Jhone Osborne Thomas Blair and George
Cochrane to aggrie with workmen for building the pewis in the best maner
and that they be each 4 foot high and two foot four insh wyd and all to be
alyk in heicht and breid without respect of persons and all the foirfrontis
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and gavellis of wanscott and all of on work and to begin at the provest to
be a paterne and that no person presume to naill wpon the frontis or gavillis
thair stules or chyres under the pane of ten pundis besyd the brekking of
thair chyres (Sic subscribitur) Williame Cwnynghame provest Hew Ken-
nedy Johne Fergussone Gilbert M'Calmont George Cochrane Thomas Blair
Johne Osborne.
Air the 12 March 1656 within the Kirk being conveined
William Cuninghame proveist
Johne Fergussone baillie
Johne Crawfurd deane of gild
Johne Osborne
James Cochrane
The magistratis and counsall conveined with theise wha hes the saittes
appoynted to thame by former order did meit this present day in the Kirk
and they have unanimouslie condiscendid and choysit Johne Osburne Johne
Crawfurd Johne Fergussone Gilbert M'Calmont Thomas Blaire Theophilus
Rankein and Georg Cochrane master of werk to settill and aggrie uniformelie
with Johne Huntar and Johne Merchell wrichtis or any utheris for building
of all the pewis and saittis within the Kirk and what they conclud and
aggrie uponne everie persoune oblidges tham to pey the sam at the founda-
tione laying thairof (Sic subscribitur) Williame Cwnynghame Johne Fer-
gussone Gilbert M'Calmont Johne Osburne Johne Craufurd Thomas Blair.
89. Precept from Chancery for infefting William Lin as heir to his father,
Fergus Lin of Large. — [Ath March 1659.]
Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of Ingland Scotland and
Ireland and dominions thairto belonging to Andro M'Dowell of Leffnollis
superiour of the lands underwrittin etc. and his baillies greeting Forasmuch
as be ane Inquisitioun made befoir Captane Edward Harman shirreff deput
of the shirrefdome of Wigtoun at our fathers command and retoured to our
chancellarie it is fund and made knowne that the deceist Fergus Lin of
Large father to William Lin now of Large beirer heirof died last vest and
seased as of fie in peace in all and haill the ane merk land of Ashindarroch
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 199
otherwayes called Boyesmark of auld extent with the pertinents thairof
lyand within the parochin of Insh and shirrefdome of Wigtoun and that
the said William Lin now of Large is neirest and lawfull air to the said
deceist Fergus Lin his father of the lands abonewrittin with the pertinents
lyand as said is and that hee is of lawfull age and that the samen are
holden of yow and your successors immediatlie in cheeff And the said
William Lin now of Large having raised precepts furth of our chancellarie
in our said deceist fathers lyftyme whairupoun no diligence wes used be
him the tyme of our said deceist father lyffe Thairfoir wee be vertew of
ane ordour and warrand of our councell in Scotland command and strictlie
charge yow that (the said William Lyn now of Large doing to yow what
hee is justlie bund to doe of the law) yee give to him or his certane
actorney beirer heirof seasine of the lands abonwrittin with the pertinents
lyand as said is without delay Reserving everie persouns just right thairof
as accords and this onnawayes yee leave undone Givin at Edinburgh the
twintie fourth day of March 1659 Be warrand of the ordour of the
Councell in Scotland.
90. Instrument of Sasine in favour of John Neill, of a Rood of Land
in the Burgh of Ayr. — [9th October 1667.]
In Dei nomine amen Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnationis Dominice millesimo
sexcentessimo sexagessimo septimo mensis vero Octobris die nono regnique
supremi domini nostri Caroli secundi Dei gratia Magne Brittanie Francie
et Hibernie regis fideique defensoris anno decimo nono in mei notarij publici
subscribentis et testium subscriptorum presentia personaliter comparuit
Joannes Masoun scriba communis burgi de Air mediatis superior rode terre
horrei et horti subscriptorum existentium super fundo ejusdem aliorum-
que subscriptorum et ibidem quia sibi clare constabat et evidenter notum
erat per authentica documenta et instrumenta coram illi palam producta
visa et perlecta quod quondam David Neill burgensis dicti burgi pater
Joannis Neill latoris presentium obiit ultimo vestitus et sasitus ut de feodo
ad fidem et pacem quondam charissimi S. D. N. regis beate memorie in tota
et integra ista roda terre horreo et horto ejusdem cum suis pertinen-
tiis jacentibus in predicto burgo in (lie fauld) sive crofta terre quondam
200 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
Georgij Masoun scribe communis dicti burgi in ilia venella ejusdem vulgo
vocata lie Foull vermeil inter rodam terre et borreum quondam Eoberti
Boill aurigie nunc Joannis Boill aurigie sui filij ex australi ab una et borreum
et rodam terre perprius Tbome Kilpatrick de Carrickfergus deinde beredum
quondam WilKelmi M'Qubaill pellionis nunc Andree Broun textoris dicti
burgi spectantem ex boriali partibus ab una et alijs Et quod dictus Joannes
Neill est legittmius ac propinquior beres prefati quondam Davidis Neill sui
patris Et quod est legittime etatis Ideoque prefatus Joannes Masoun tan-
quam dominus ac superior rode terre borei et borti aliorumque prescriptorum
statum sasinam bereditariam pariter et possessionem corporalem actualem
et realem totius et integre prefate rode terre cum borto borreo et suis perti-
nentiis bmitate et jacentis ut supra memorato Joanni Neill tanquam filio
legittimo ac propinquiori beredi dicti quondam Davidis Neill sui patris
personaliter presenti et acceptanti per terre et lapidis fundi ejusdem ut moris
est traditionem secundum formam et tenorem antiquorum infeofamentorum
in omnibus punctis suis propriis manibus tradidit contulit pariter et deliber-
avit salvo iure cujuslibet Tenenda de dicto Joanne Masoun superiore
ejusdem beredibus suis et assignatis in feudi firma et bereditate pro
solutione eis inde annuatim summe quatuor mercarum monete bujus regni
Scotie ad duos anni terminos festa viz. pentbecostes et sancti Martini in
hyenie per equales portiones una cum gallina annuatim in mense Januarij
nomine feudifirme Necnon beredes assignati et successores dicti Joannis
Neill solventibus dicto superiori et suis prescriptis duplicandum predicti
feudifirme pro predicta roda primo anno eorum introitus ad dictam rodam
terre prout usus est feudifirme hac cum provisione tamen quod si contigerit
dictum Joannem Neill veil suos prescriptos in grata solutione annuatim
prefate feudifirme deficere sic quod duo termini in tertium current non
soluti tunc et in eo casu presens infeofamentum et sasina immediate postea
expirabit annullabit et nullius erit roboris nee effectus deinceps si nunquam
datum veil concessum fuisset absque ullo legis processu veil declaratura
quacunque et si ulla declaratura necesse fuerit desuper babenda prepositus
et babvi dicti burgi de Air pro tempore existentes conjunctim et divisim
judices erunt competentes ad buiusmodi declaraturam predicte partes et boc
nunc admissi non obstante quarumque legis actae veil statutorum regni in
contrarium proponendarum secundum tenorem prioris infeofamenti ejusdem
Super quibus omnibus et singubs premissis prenominatus Joannes Neill a
me notario publico subscribente instrumentum seu instrumenta unum sive
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 201
plura sibi fieri petiit Acta erant hec super fundo dicte rode terre horas inter
secundam et tertiam post meridiem sub anno die mense regnique S. D. N.
regis annis quibus supra presentibus ibidem magistro Joanne Mitchell stu-
dente divinitatis Willielmo Ferguson Joanne Dinsheith et Willielmo Gal-
loway textoribus ac conburgensibus dicti burgi testibus ad premissa vocatis
pariterque rogatis.
Et ego vero Patricius Murdoch clericus Glasguensis diocesis notarius
publicus, etc.
Abstract.
Instrument of Sasine, given by John Mason, common clerk of the burgh
of Ayr, with his own hands, to John Neill, as heir to his father, the de-
ceased David Neill, burgess of Ayr, in one rood of land, with barn and
yard thereof, lying in the said burgh, in the fauld or croft of land which
belonged to the deceased George Mason, common clerk of Ayr, in that
vennel commonly called the Foull vennel, between the rood of land and
barn of the deceased Eobert Boyle, carter, now of John Boyle, carter,
his son, on the south, and the barn and rood of land formerly belong-
ing to Thomas Kilpatrick of Carrickfergus, afterwards to the heirs of the
deceased William M'Quhaill, skinner, and now to Andrew Broun, weaver,
of the said burgh, on the north : To hold of the said John Mason, superior,
and his heirs, in feu-ferme and heritage, for payment of four merks yearly
at Whitsunday and Martinmas, in equal portions, together with a hen in
the month of January, in name of feu-ferme, doubling the payment in the
first year of the entry of each heir : Providing also, that if the feu-ferme
was not paid for two terms, running on to the third, the infeftment should
be null : And if any necessity arose for declarator thereupon, the provost
and bailies of Ayr should be competent judges. Done on the ground of the
said rood between two and three o'clock afternoon on 9th October 1667.
91. Extract of the Armorial Bearings of the Burgh of Air. —
[5th September 1673.]
To all and sundrie whom it effeirs I Sir Charles Araskine of Cambo knight
baronet Lyon King of Armes considering that be severall acts of parliament
alseweell of our dread soveraigne lord Charles the Second be the grace of
2 D
202 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
God king of Scotland England France and Ireland defender of the faith as
of his majesties royall predicessors especiallie be the tuentie one act of the
third session of this current parliament I am impowered to visit the wholl
armes and bearings within this kingdome and to distinguish them and
matriculat the same in my books and registers and to give extracts of all
armes expressing the blazoning of the armes under my hand and seall of
office and which Eegister is be the for-cited act ordained to be respected
as the true and unrepealable rule of all armes and bearings in Scotland to
remaine with the Lyons office as a publict Register of the kingdome Ther-
fore conforme to the power given to me be his sacred Majestie and according
to the tenors of the saids acts of Parliament I testifie and make knowen
that the armes of old belonging to the Royall Burgh of Air and now
confirmed be me are matriculat in my said publict Register upon the day
and dait of thir presents and are thus blazoned videlicet The said Royall
Burgh of Air gives for ensignes armoriall gules a castle triple towred
argent betuixt ane holy lamb staff cross and banner of St. Andrew in the
dexter fesse and in the sinister the head of John the Baptist in a charger
proper under all in the base the sea azure Which armes above blazoned I
declare to have been and to be the true and unrepealable signes armoriall
of the Burgh Royall abovenamed In testimonie wherof I Lave subscryved
this extract with my hand and have caused append my seall of office therto
Given at Edinburgh the fyft day of September and of our said soveraigne
Lords reigne the tuentie fyft year 1673.
(Signed) Ch. Araskine Lyon.
92. Tack by the Magistrates of Ayr to John Ferguson and Joseph Smith,
of the Duties on Ale and Wine. — [Ath November 1687.]
Att the Burgh of Air the fourth day of November jm vjc and fourscoire
seven yeirs It is appointed aggried and finally contracted and ended betwixt
the parties following to witt Williame Cunynghame of Brown Hill present
provest of the said burgh of Air William Craufurd and Adame Osburne
present baillies William Reid dein of gild and Robert Leslie theasorer of
the said burgh with consent of the Toune Councill therof undersubscryve-
and on the ane pairt and John Fergusson merchand burges of the said
burgh and Joseph Smith lait baillie there on the uthere pairt in maner
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 203
forme and effect as eftir followes That is to say Forsuameikle as his
Majestie by his letter of gift past under his great seall of this kingdom
of the dait the fyfteinth day of January last bypast hes (for the reasones
and causs therin contined) given granted and disponed to the proveist
baillies and councill of the said burgh of Air in name of the committie
therof ane impositione of four pennies Scots money upon everie pynt of
aile and drinking beir with power to the saids magistrats to exact the saide
impositione upon call and drinking beir aither as is before mentioned or at
the raite of twintie shilling Scots upon ilk boll of malt broune within the
said burgh or liberties therof or imported within the same for breuing
As also with power to the saids magistrats to impose and exact twinty
fyve pounds money forsaid upon every tunn of French wyne and the like
soume of twinty fyve pounds upon every butt of Spanish wyne imported
sold vented and retailed within the said burgh and liberties therof and
that for the space of nyntine yeirs commencing from Candlemas last
jm vjc anc[ eighty seven yeirs with full power to the saids provest baillies
and councill to ferme the saids impositiones or to appoint collectors for
whom they shall be answerable for uplifting and exacting the impositiones
abovementioned and if neid beis to poynd and destreinzie for the samen
and generallie to doe all uthere things for effectual! inbringing therof
sicklike and alse freilie in all respects as the magistrats and councill of anie
uthere burgh royall within this kingdome does or may lawfullie doe be
vertew of gifts or letters of the like nature granted to them be his majestie
or his royall brother king Charles the Second of ever blessed memorie as
the said letter of gift of the dait foresaid more fully beirs Likeas the saids
magistrats and councell by there act and obleisment of the dait the twinty
eight day of June last bypast having taken to there consideratione that
they had procured the gift abovementioned from his Majesty and that the
said William Cunyngham provest had borrowed the soume of fyve hundreth
pounds sterling money upon his oune private credit for payment of the said
gift and which accordingly he hes payed for the said gift and for defraying
the necessar charges and expenss therof And the saids magistrats and
counsel! being most willing that the said William Cunpighame should be
relived of the said soume sua payed be him in procuring the said gift in
maner above specified therefore the saids magistrats and counsell haith fullie
band and obleist them and there successors in office to pay to the said
William Cunynghame his airs executors or assignies the said soume of
204 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
fyve hundreth pounds sterling money forsaid and that at the terme of
Mertimes next to come with annual rent therefore from the terme of
Whitsunday last bypast with the soume of ane hundreth pounds money
forsaid of liquidat expenss in caise of failzie and annual rent for the said
principall soume during the not payment therof efter the said terme of
payment as the said Act and obleisment of the dait forsaid also more fullie
proports And in like maner the saids magistrats and counsell there uther
act and obleisment daited the seventh day of October last bypast having
laken to there consideratione the said act made be them in favours of the
said William Cunynghame for payment of the forsaid soume of fyve
hundreth pounds sterling money and annual rents therof and that at there
airnest desyre the said Eobert Leslie thesaurer had made payment to the
said William Cunynghame of the samene And they being most willing
and desyreous that the said Eobert Lesbe should be reimbursed of the
forsaid soume so necessarlie expended for the good and utility of the said
buro'h thairfore the saids magistrats and counsell faithfullie band and obleist
them and there successors in office to pay to the said Robert Leslie the
forsaid soume extending to the soume of sex thousand pound Scots money
at the said terme of Mertimes nextocome with the annual rent therof fra
the said term of Witsunday last bypast to the terme of payment above-
written and therefter during the not payment therof and consented that
all executione necessar might pass thereupon in maner therein mentioned
as the said act and obleisment in itselfe more at length beirs And sicklike
the said magistrats and counsell by there uther act daited the twinty fyfth
day of October last bypast having again taken to there considerationes that
the said Robert Lesbe had advanced and payed the forsaid soume of fyve
hundreth pound sterling money expended in procuring the forsaid gift with
the annual rent therof fra Witsunday last bypast and the said Robert
Leslie having intimat to the magistrats and counsell that he would have
his forsaid money debursed be him in maner forsaid and that at the said
terme of Mertimes nextocome precislie and being most willing and desyreous
that the said Robert Leslie should be satisfied and repayed of the samene
so necessarlie expended for the weill utilitie and advantage of the said
burgh and having no uther way for speidie advancing of the samen but by
making the roping efter specified did think expedient for his more speidie
and sure payment therof that the foresaids impositiones should have been
roped upon Frayday next therefter being the twinty eight day of the said
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 205
moneth of October last for so many yeirs as should be thought fit for
payment of the said principal! soume and annual rent therof and of the
soume of ane thousand merks yeirly for repairing and upholding the kie
and harborie of Air and manteining uther publiek works of the said burgh
and therfore ordained the forsaids impositiones to be roped accordingly
within the Tolbooth of Air upon the said twintie eight day of October last
at ten hours in the foirnoon and ordained the same roping to be publicklie
intimat through the said burgh be edict and tuke of drum And for the
better incuradgment of the ropers of the same the magistrate and councell
were to assigne to them the tack diuty of the saids impositiones confined
in the tack past betwixt the saids magistrats and counsell and Hendry
Smith William Hunter James Kennedy and Andrew Hannay dated the
threttie day of May last and that fra the first of October last to the first
of Aprile nextocome as the said Act also more fully proports According to
the whilk act and ordinance the said roping wes seaverall tymes be edict and
tuke of drum publicklie intimat through the said burgh of Air And
accordingly upon the said twinty eight day of October last bypast the
magistrats councill and comunitie of the said burgh being convined within
the Tolbooth therof for expeading and effectuating the saide roping att the
earnest requist and desyre of the comunity of the saide burgh the saide
roping wes by the magistrats and councell therof continued untill the second
day of November instant whilk wes likwayes sevearell tymes publictly inti-
mat through the saide burgh be edict and tuke of drum upon the whilk
second day of November instant the saids magistrats counsell and comunity
being again convined within the Tolbooth of the saide burgh for roping of
the saide impositiones for payment of the forsaid principall soume of fyve
hundreth pound sterling money with the annual rent therof fra the saide
terme of Witsunday last bypast and of the soume of three hundreth pounds
Scots money of debt contracted be the magistrats and counsell of the saide
burgh there predicessors for the tyme for the vse of the comon affairs of the
saide burgh with yeirs annual rent therof dew to the seamans box
of the saide burgh and of the soume of tuo hundreth pounds Scots money
furder necessarlie expended be the saide Eobert Leslie upon the affairs of
the saide burgh and for the weill and utilitie therof extending in haill to
the soume of Ten thousand and four hundreth merks Scots money and also
for the payment of the soume of ane thousand merks Scots money yeirlie
in maner efterspecified for reparatione and upholding of the kie and harborie
206 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYE.
of the saide burgh of Air and uther publict works therof And efter dew
lawfull and publict roping of the saids impositiones the saide impositione of
twinty shilling Scots money exacted and uplifted and to be exacted and
uplifted out of ilk boll of malt broune and to be broune sold vented and
retailed within the saide burgh of Air and liberties therof and barronie of
Alloway and liberties therof (all malt to be broune be privat persones for
their oun uses allenerlie and not to be retailed in haill or in part being ex-
cepted furth herof ) And also the forsaide impositione of twinty fyve pounds
Scots money forsaid imposed upon and to be exacted out of ilk tunn of
French wyne and the like soume of twinty fyve pounds money forsaid im-
posed upon and to be exacted out of ilk butt of Spanish wyne and that for
the space of three yeirs fra the first of October last at sex hours in the
morning to the first of October jm yjc and fourscoire ten yeirs exclusive at
sex hours in the morning wes by act of the saids magistrats counsell and
comunitie then present roped and in ferme sett to the saids John Fergusone
and Joseph Smith equallie betwixt them for payment and satisfactione to
the said Eobert Leslie of the forsaid extended soume of Ten thousand and
four hundreth rnerks money forsaide advanced and payed be him in maner
and for the use behove and utilitie forsaid and of the forsaid soume of ane
thousand merks yeirly for reparatione of the said kie and harborie of Air
and uthers the touns works as the said act in itselfe more fullie proports
And seing the saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith hath contented
satisfied and payed the said Robert Leslie off the forsaid extended soume of
Ten thousand and four hundreth merks money abovewritten wherewith he
holds him weill content satisfied and pleised with full exoneratione therof
for ever renunceand be these presents all exceptiones and objectiones of the
law whatsomever that can be proponed or alleadged in the contrair any
maner of way Thairfore the saids provest baillies dein of gild and theasorer
with consent of the said toune counsill of the said burgh undersubscryvand
hes sett and in ferme lettin and be thir presents for them and there succes-
sors in office setts and in ferme letts to the saids John Ferguson and Joseph
Smith equallie betwixt them there airs and executors all and haill the twinty
shilling Scots money imposed upon and to be exacted out of ilk [boll] of
malt broune and to be broune vented and sold within the said burgh and
liberties therof comprehending the barronie of Alloway and liberties of the
same being parts and pertinents of the said burgh of Air or imported or to
be imported within the same for brouing (all malt to be brewed be privat
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 207
persones for there own uses allenerly being excepted and reserved furth of
this present tack) as also the soume of twinty fyve pounds Scots imposed
upon and to be exacted out of ilk tunn of French wyne and sicklike the like
soume of twinty fyve pounds money forsaid imposed and to be exacted out
of ilk butt of Spanish wyne imported and to be imported vented sold and
retailed within the said burgh priviledges and liberties therof and that for
all the dayes yeirs termes tyme and space off three yeirs next and immedi-
atlie following there entrie therto whilk is hereby declared to have bein and
beginne upon the said first day off October last bypast at six hours in the
morning and from thencefurth to continew and endure untill the first day
of October in anno jm vjc and fourscore ten yeirs exclusive at six hours in
the morning with full pouer to the saids John Fergusone and Joseph
Smith and there forsaids there substitute collectors and deputs in there
names not only to uplift the forsaid twinty shdling Scots money out of ilk
boll of malt broun and to be broune vented sold and retailed within the said
burgh liberties and priviledges therof abovewritten (malt to be broune be
privat persones for there own uses as said is being excepted) att the milnes
of Air and Alloway or utherwayes as they shall think most expedient the
ane but prejudice of the uthere And likwayes out of the multure malt itselfe
during the forsaid space And that the multurers and milners belonging
to the saids milnes of Air and Alloway take noe malt out of the multure
chist but when the saids taksmen or ane or aither of them shall be present
at the outgiving and measuring therof that payment may be made of the
said twinty shilling out of ilk boll therof to be broune vented and retailed
in maner forsaid accordingly and that the saids multurers milners and there
servants shall dewlie and trewlie put in the multure and bannock malt to
be uplifted be them in there multure shifts and that upon oath when thev
shall be requyred therto and theirby requyring and ordining the milners
and servants at the saids milnes reddilie to answere and obey the saids taks-
men and give them access and entrance to the saids milnes whenever they
shall be called and requyred thereto and to fix locks vpon the saids multure
chists if it shall be found requisite and necessar And the multurers milners
and there servants to give there oathes that they shall nowayes suffere anie
malt ground at the forsaids milnes to goe out by nyht or by day efter six
of the clock at night or before six of the clock in the morning without con-
sent of the saids tacksmen had and obtined thereto during the forsaid space
and that before the ouners or anie in there names receave the malt out of
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the saids milnes And if the saids tacksmen or any of them or there forsaids
shall seize upon anie malt coming in to the said hurgh or liberties therof
ground at anie uthere milnes then the forsaids milnes of Air and Alloway
they are hereby authorised to seise upon the same and to exact the forsaid
twinty shilling and to detein the malt quhill the ordinar multure be payed
and the remander of the said malt is heirby declared to belong to the saids
tacksmen equallie betwixt them and to be disposed off be them accordingly
they paying the multure therof to the multurers and the ouners and im-
porters of the said ground malt to be punished to the sight and at the dis-
creatione of the magistrats being for the time But also with power to the
saids tacksmen and their forsaids to uplift the said twinty fyve pound out
of ilk tunn of French wyne and twinty fyve pounds out of ilk butt of Spanish
wyne imported or to be imported vented sold and retailed within the said
burgh and liberties therof during the space forsaid And sicklike with power
to them and there forsaids to ask crave uplift and receave the same fra the
persones lyable in payment therof and if neid beis to take . . . (torn) upon
what quantities of wynes they shall hapen to vent sell or retaille during the
space forsaid of this present tack poynd and destreinsie for the same And
generallie all and sundrie uthere things to doe for the effectual collecting
and ingathering therof sicklike and alse freilie in all respects as the saids
magistrats and counsell of the said burgh or there successors in office for the
time may or can lawfullie doe themselves be vertew of the said gift And
for there furder and better securitie anent the premiss the saids magistrats
and counsell be thir presents for them and there successors in officio sells
assignes and dispones from them and there forsaids to and in favours of the
saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith equallie betwixt them and there
abovewritten the forsaid letter of gift and haill benefite of the same together
with all right benefite and intrest they or there successors in office have or
may pretend therto during the said space of three yeirs fra there entrie
forsaid and surrogats and substituts them and there forsaids in the full right
title and place therof in uberiori dispositionis et assignationis forma (reserv-
and and exceptand allwayes all malt to be breued be private persones for
there oune use alenerly during the said space in maner above reserved)
Quhilk Tack and dispositione above writen the magistrats and counsell binds
and obliss them and there successors in officio to warrand acquyte and defend
the samen to be good valeide effectuall and sufficient to the saids John
Fergusone and Joseph Smith and there forsaids for there collecting of the
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 209
said twinty shilling out of ilk boll of malt ground and to be ground at the
saids milnes and to be vented and retailed in maner forsaid and for collecting
and uplifting the said twinty fyve pound out of ilk tunn of French wyne and
the like soume of twinty fyve pounds out of ilk butt of Spanish wyne im-
ported and to be imported vented sold and retailed within the said burgh and
liberties therof during the space above mentioned and for using and dispos-
ing upon the said gift for that effect during the said space at all hands and
against all deidlie as law will and that under the penaltie of three thousand
merks Scots money to be payed be the saids magistrats and councell and
there successors in office to the saids John Ferguson and Josejjh Smith
equallie betwixt them and there forsaids in case of tailzie and that by and
attour performance of the haill premiss And hes instantlie delivered to
them the forsaid gift to be keiped and used be them for there securitie
anent the premiss during the space forsaid And furder in regarde the
forsaid tack of the saids impositiones past betwixt the saids magistrats and
councell on the ane pairt and the saids Andrew Smith Wm. Hunter
James Kennedy and Andrew Hannay on the uther pairt of the da.it the
said thretty day of May last doeth not expyre untdl the first day of Aprile
nextocome and to the effect the saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith
may the better receave the benefite therof during the standing of the said
tack the saids magistrats and councell conform to the forsaid act dated
the said twinty fyfth of October last be thir presents for them and there
successors in officio maks constituts and ordaines the saids John Fergusone
and Joseph Smith equallie betwixt them and there forsaids there very
lawfull cessioners and assignees in and to the soume of ane thousand eight
hundreth and ten merks Scots money and that as the thrid termes payment
of the soume of seiven thousand tuo hundreth and fourty merks money
forsaid being the tack dewty contined in the forsaid tack past betwixt the
saids magistrats and counsell and the saids Hendry Smith AVm. Hunter
James Kennedy and Andrew Hannay and whilk thrid termes payment is
payable upon the first day of Januarij nextocome And also in and to the
soume of uther ane thousand eight hundreth and ten merks money forsaid
as the fourt termes payment of the said tack dewty payable upon the first
day of Aprile also nextocome and in and to the soume of
of liquidat penalty for ilk ane of the saids tuo termes failyre contined in
the said tack haill effect and tenor therof with all that lies followed or may
follow thereupon for now and ever And that in sua far allenerlic as
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210 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
concernes or may be extendit to the tuo termes moyeties above assigned
yet restand of the said tack dewty and liquidat penalties above specified in
case of failyie (And also excepting and reserving furth of the said tua
termes tack dewty the twinty shilling oiit of ilk boll of malt to be brewed
be privat persones for there oune use allenerlie whilk is to be allowed be
the saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith as payable in the first end of
the saids tuo termes duetie conforrae to the bills to be given in be them
under the hands of the privat brewers quhilk they are to depone to have
bein applyed for there oune use and non therof to have bein vented nor
retailed if neid beis) Surrogateand and substitueand the saids John
Fergussone and Joseph Smith and there forsaids (under the reservatione
forsaid) in there full right title and place of the premisses with power to
them and there forsaids to ask crave uplift and receave the tuo termes
tack diwty (under the reservatione forsaid) and termlie failyies above
assignit and if neid beis to call charge and pursew therfore as accords in
law decreits and sentances ane or moe before whatsomever judge or judges
competent to obteine and the same with the said tack to all maner of dew
executione cause be putt compon transact and aggree thereanent acquittances
and discharges to give grant subscryve and deliver and generallie to doe
everie othere thing necessar for recoverie therof sicklike and also freilie in
all respects as the saids Magistrates and Counsell or there successors in
office might have done themselves or may or can doe Quhilk assignatione
abovewritten the saids magistrats and councell binds and obleiss them and
there successors in office to warrand acquyt and defend the same to be
good valeid and sufficient to the saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith
and there forsaids fra there oune proper facts and dieds allenerlie That is
to say they have not done nor sail doe ane fact or deed that may anie
wayes be hurtful or prejudiciale heirunto in any sort and hes instantlie
delivered to them the forsaid tack to be keiped and used be them for there
recoverie of the forsaids tuo termes tack diwtie (under the reservatione
forsaid) and liquidat penalties in caise of failyie as there oun proper
warrants and evidents at there pleisure For the whilk cause and tack
abovewritten the saids John Fergusone and Joseph Smith binds and obliss
them conjunctlie and severallie there airs executors successors and intro-
metters with there goods and geir whatsomever thankfullie to content pay
and delyvere to the saids magistrats and councell and there successors in
office or to there theasorer in there names yeirly to be applyed for
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 211
reparatione and upholding the Kie and Harborie of Air and uther publict
works of the said burgh all and haill the soume of ane thousand merks
Scots money and that yeirlie during the space of the said tack at tuo
termes in the yeir on the first day of February and the first day of June
be equale portiones beginnand the first termes payment theroff upon the
first day of February nextocome and sua furth termlie therefter duriug the
space forsaid of this present tack But langer delay with the soume of ane
hundreth pounds Scots money forsaid of liquidat penaltie for ilk termes
failie And also the saids John Fergussone and Joseph Smith binds and
obleiss them conjunctlie and severallie and there forsaid to deliver the
forsaid letter of gift unvitiat uncancellt and undestroyed to the saids
magistrats and counsell or there successors in office being for the tyme and
that at the expyrie of the said tack to be thereafter ust and disposed
upon be them and there successors in office as they shall think expedient
for ingathering of the saids impositiones during the space of the said gift
that shall be therefter to runn And lastlie the saids John Fergusone and
Joseph Smith obliss them and there forsaids to relieve uthers pro rata of
the haill premisses and of all coast skaith dammadge intrest and expenss
aither of them or there forsaids shall hapen to sustine or incurr throw
default of uthers And for the more securitie both parties are content and
consents thir presents be insert and registrat in the books of Counsell and
Sessione or anie uthers competent to have the strength of ane act and
decreet that letters of horning and uther executoriallis necessar on ane
charge of sax days only may pass heirupon And constituts
there procurators In witness quherof (writen be Eobert Glasgow wryter in
Air) both parties have subscribed thir presents with there hands place day
moneth and yeir of God abovewritten before thir witness Alexander
M'Dermite toun clerk deput of Air and the said Robert Glasgow (Signed)
Will. Cunynghame Proveist William Craufurd baillie William Reid D. G.
Robert Leslie thresr Thomas Cathcart Adam Coutert Henry Smith William
Hunter William Robin John Clark Andrew M'Clelland Ralph Holland James
Kennedy dicken convener Thomas Inglis John Fergussone Joseph Smith
A. M'Dermeit witnes Robert Glasgow witnes.
(Dorsu) We Joseph Smith hut badly of Air and John Fergusson
merchand there considering that Sir William Wallace of Craigy knight
barronet present proveist Adam Osburn and Thomas Mdlikin baillies
212 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
Patrick Blaire clein of gild and George Andersone threasaurer and remanent
councellers of the said burgh have made payment and satisfaction to Robert
Leslie late threasaurer therof of the within written soume of ten thousand
and four hundreth merks obleist to have been paid be us to him in manner
mentioned in the within written Tack therefore and for ane certain soume
of money presently payed and delivered to us be the saids magistrats and
councell quherwith (renuncing all exceptiones in the contrare) we rest well
satisfied and pleisit and discharge them therof and for certaine uther onerous
causs moveing us theirto wit ye us to have renunced simpliciter upgiven
overgiven and delivered lykeas be thir presents we renunce simpliciter
upgive overgive and delyver from us our airs executors and all uthers our
assigneys to and in speciall favours of Sir William Wallace of Craigy
knight barronet present proveist Adam Osbume and Thomas Millikine
baillies Patrick Blaire dein of gild and George Andersoune thresaurer of
the said burgh and remanent councellors therof and their successors in
office all right title interest claime of right propertie and possessione
alswell petitor as possessor which we or either of us or our forsaids had
hes or any wayes may have ask crave claime or pretend to the within
written impositiones imposed by his Majesty upon malt French and Spanish
wynes imported broun vented sold and retailed within the said burgh of
Air and liberties therof be vertew of the within written Tack set us be the
late Magistrats and Councell of the said burgh and doe heirby for us our
airs executors and successors exoner quyteclainie and simpliciter discharge
the saids present Magistrats and their successors in office and all uthers
whom it effeirs of the haill obleissments clauss and conditiones conceaved
be the late magistrats and councell in our favours be vertew of the within
written Tack and of all action instance and persuite and executione com-
petent or that may be competent to us or aither of us or our forsaids against
them or their forsaids be vertew of the said Tack any manner of way be
thir presents forever Whilk renunciatione and discharge abovewritten we
faithfullie bind and obleidge us and our forsaids to warrand to be good valid
efi'ectuall and sufficient to the saids present magistrats and their successors
in office in all and be all things as is above written att all hands and against
all deadlie as law will consenting to the registration e heirof in the books of
Councill and Sessione or in any uther register competent therein to remaine
ad futuram rei memoriam and constitutes our procurators
In witnea wherof written be John Reid servitor to Mr. John Cockburn
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 213
shirreff clerk of Air we have subscribed thir presents with our hands at Air
the twenty seventh day of March jni vjc fourscore eight years before thir
witness Alexander M'Dermeit town clerk deput of the said burgh of Air
and Robert Hunter ane of the ordinar officers therof and John Hunter
officer there (Signed) Joseph Smith John Fergusone Al. M'Dermeit
witnes John Hunter witnes.
93. Decreet at the instance of the Magistrates of Ayr, against the Salmon
Fishers on the Water of Air, for the Bent thereof — \_l7th June 1715.]
At the burgh of Ayr the seventeenth day of June jm viic and fifteen years
anent the Summonds and action raised and pursued before William Fer-
guson of Auchinblaine sheriff deput of the sheriffdome of Ayr and James
Dalrymple sheriff substitute of the said sheriffdome at the instance of John
M'Clerie present thesaurer of the burgh of Ayr for himself and as assigney
aftermentioned against Robert Wilson in Newtoun upon Ayr James Wilson
his son Alexander Walker fisher in Newtoun John Gemmill fisher there
John Reid late baylie in Newtoun James Wight fisher there David Kerr and
John Nisbit fishers there William Hunter late baylie there Mathew Hunter
Henry Wylie and William Leggat fishers there mentioning That where the
magistrates and councill of the said burgh have undoubted right and privi-
ledge of Salmond fishing at the mouth of the water of Ayr and have been
in immemorial possession thereof by setting the same to the persons after-
mentioned and others in Newtoun upon Ayr and uplifting by their thesaurers
twelve pounds Scots money yearly out of each Salmon Coble with which
Coble rents the saids thesaurers are yearly charged in their equees And
true it is and of verity that the persons underwritten owners and proprietors
of salmond cobles and fishers therein have by allowance of the saids magis-
trates and councill and as having right from them employed their cobles in
fishing of salmond at the mouth of the said water the years aftermentioned
and have acknowledged the saids magistrates and councill their right of
Salmond fishing and have been in use of payment of rent to their thesaurers
for former years vizt. Robert Wilson in Newtoun upon Ayr and James
Wilson there his son owners of one coble the years jm viic and ten eleven
and jm viic and twelve to twelve pound money forsaid as the rent of the
said coble the saids years The complainer has right by three assignations
21-4 MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
granted by William Smith John Kennedy and Thomas Richart late the-
saurers of the said burgh all dated the seventh of January last Alexander
Walker and John Gemmill fishers in Newtoun and the saids Robert and
James Wilsons owners of the said coble at least fishers therein the years
jm yijc anc[ thretteen and this current year jm' viic and fourteen John Reid
late baylie in Newtoun James Wight David Kerr and John Nisbit fishers
there have employed another coble in the said salmond fishing the year
jm viic and thirteen and this current year jm viic and fourteen William
Hunter late baylie in Newtoun Mathew Hunter Henry Wylie and William
Leggat fishers there have employed a third coble the said year jm viic and
thirteen and this current jm viic and fourteen and that twelve pound as the
rent payable by the forenamed persons furth of each of the said cobles yearly
the years above mentioned is yet' resting and no part thereof payed and
therefore in all law equity and reason the saids Robert and James Wilsons
ought and should severally and conjunctlie make payment to the complainer
as having right by assignation in manner foresaid of the said twelve pound
as the rent of the said coble yearly the years jm vii° and ten eleven and
jm viic and twelve foresaid and they and the other persons above named
ought and should each sett of partners and owners severally and conjunctly
make payment to the complainer as thesaurer of the said burgh for the year
jm v^c anc[ thirteen and this current jm viic and fourteen of their respective
rents being twelve pounds out of each coble for the said year jm viic and
thirteen and jm vii° and fourteen the termes of payment of the same being
always first come and bygone which they refuse to do And anent the charge
given to the saids defenders to have compeared before the sheriff of Ayr
and his deputs to have heard and seen decreet and sentence given and pro-
nounced against them in the said matter conforme to the desire of the saids
summonds or then to have alleadged ane reasonable cause in the contrair
why the same should not be done with certification as effeired as in the said
pe'rsewers lybelled summonds at more length is conteined The said persewer
compearing by John Hunter wryter in Ayr his procurator who for instruct-
ing of the saids lybelled summonds produced the three principall assigna-
tions above mentioned of the dates tenors and contents above specified and
the saids defenders compearing by James Hunter wryter in Ayr his procu-
rator the rights reasons and allegations of the said persewer and defenders
being at lenth heard seen and considered by the said sheriff deput and he
therewith with the debate underwritten of both parties prosecutors circum-
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 215
duction aftermentioned against the said William Hunter Mathew Hunter
Henry Wylie and William Leggat being well and ripely advised decerned
and ordained and hereby decerns and ordaines the saids William Hunter
Mathew Hunter Henry Wylie and William Leggat severally and conjunctly
to make payment to the persewer as thesaurer of the said burgh of the said
soume of twelve pounds Scots money yearly the saids years jm viic and
thirteen and jm viic and fourteen conforme to the laws and daily practique of
this kingdome observed in the like caices in all points and that because the
time of the first disput of the said action epihich was upon the tenth day
of August last the said James Hunter procurator foresaid for the defenders
alleadged there could be no proces there being no active title in the person of
the magistrates or of the persewers produced and there was nothing of sett
lybelled To quhich it was answered by the said persewers procurator that it
consists with the defenders knowledge that the magistrates of Ayr have
undoubted right to the fishing of the water of Ayr and are in constant pos-
session of uplifting twelve pounds Scots out of each coble yearly and that
the defenders have been in use of payment of twelve pounds yearly for
severall years bygone and also have promised payment to the magistrates
or theasaurers all which is offered to be proven by the defenders oaths and
that the defenders have fished with their cobles in the water of Ayr the
years lybelled To which it was replyed by the said defenders procurator
that the defenders were not obliged to depone upon the alleadgiance of the
persewers and the magistrates right but the same ought to be aliter instructed
and albeit the defenders have fished with their cobles as is alleadged yet
seeing there is no right or title produced there could be no proces unless it
be alleadged that their so fishing was by a sett from the magistrates or the
persewer To which it was duplyed by the said persewers procurator that
he opponed his former answer and further added that the defenders have so
far owned the magistrates their right that they have supplicat them for free-
dome and immunity for payment of twelve pound the first year that any
new coble is built and put in the water and obleist themselves for making
payment of twelve pound yearly thereafter and offered to prove the same
by the defenders oaths and by Kobert Wilson's oath that he had taken
obligation from his partners John Love and Kobert MTlhage to relieve him
of their proportions of the said twelve pound payable out of their coble to
the town of Ayr To which it was triplyed by the said defenders procurator
that esto the alleadged petition to the magistrates and councill were true
216 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYR.
and that Eobert Wilson had gotten the obligation alleadged upon yet these
are no evidence or instruction of the magistrates or persewers title to the
fishing lybelled and though they were yet the defenders are not oblidged to
depone thereupon being wrytes in record Quhich lybel and debate being
upon the thirteenth day of the said moneth of August considered by the
said sheriff deput he found it relevant for the defenders to depone whether
or not it consists with their knowledge that the magistrates of Ayr and their
thesaurer have right to the fishing lybelled and are in the possession of up-
lifting twelve pounds Scots out of each coble yearly and that they have
been in use of payment thereof and that they have promised payment
to the magistrates or thesaurer and that they have so far owned the
magistrates right that they have supplicat them for freedome and
immunity from payment of the twelve pounds Scots the first year a
new boat was put in the water and oblidged themselves for the twelve
pounds yearly thereafter And found it relevant likeways to be proven by
Eobert Wilson's oath that he has taken obligatione from his partners to re-
lieve him of their proportions of the said twelve pound payable out of their
coble to the toun of Ayr and assigned the twenty clay of the said moneth of
August for the defenders to depone And the said action being again the
said day called in presence of the said sheriff deput the persewer passed
from Eobert Wilson's oath as to his having taken obligatione from the part-
ners for relief And the said Eobert Wilson being put upon oath and
interrogat deponed that the magistrates of A)'r have been in use of uplifting
twelve pounds Scots out of severall of the cobles (as he hath heard the
owners of the cobles say) and deponed they were never in use of uplifting
any out of his boat nor obliged to pay more than twenty shillings Scots
yearly furth of the same and deponed he never promised payment of more
than the twenty shillings Scots yearly furth of the same nor did he ever
supplicat the magistrates for freedome and immunity the first year he put
his boat in the water which was the truth as he should answer to God
Alexander Walker defender being put upon oath and interrogat deponed
that he has a part of Eobert Wilson's boat which he bought from said
Eobert and that he never supplicat the magistrates for freedome and im-
munity the first year of putting the coble in the water nor did he ever
promise payment of any rent to the magistrates or theasurers of Ayr for
the said boat but that he doubts not but the magistrates may have right to
the fishing which was the truth as he should answer to God John Eeid
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 217
defender being put upon oath and interrogat deponed that he knows not
what right the magistrates of Ayr hath to the fishing lybelleil but lie and
James Wight and David Kerr and John Nisbit their servants have a boat
on the water of Ayr the years lybelled and that their servants payed the
twelve pounds Scots of rent to the toun till the year jm viic and thirteen
and acknowledged that he supplicat the toun for freedome and immunity at
his putting down his boat after it was repaired which was the truth as he
should answer to God James Wight defender being put upon oath and
interrogat deponed he knows not what right the magistrates of Ayr has to
the fishing lybelled and that he hath a part of bay lie Reid's boat but knows
not what is payable yearly out of the said boat to the toun of Ayr and that
he never suj)plicat the magistrates of Ayr for freedome and immunity from
a year's rent which was the truth as he should answer to God David Ker
defender being put upon oath and interrogat deponed that he is not pro-
prietor of any boat and negative to the haill other interrogators except that
the owners of the boat he served in keeped off him his proportion of the
dues of the boat but knows not whether or not any of it was payed to the
toun of Ayr which was the truth as he should answer to God As their
oaths and depositions extant in process bears And the saids William and
Mathew Hunters Henry Wylie and William Leggat being afterwards called
by ane officer of court at the barr to have compeared and given their oaths
of verity in manner foresaid they failzied therein as was clearly understood
to the said sheriff substitute who therefore circumduced against them And
the said action being again called upon the fourth day of February last in
presence of the said sheriff deput the same was continued until the twenty
second day of the said moneth of February at which time the said action
being again called in presence of the said sheriff deput the saids personess
procurator continued Robert Wdson and his partners and craved sentence
against baylie John Reid who upon oath has acknowledged he supplicat the
magistrates of Ayr for freedome and immunity from paying twelve pounds
for his coble the first year his boat was put down after it was repaired
(which imports necessarily his acknowledging the magistrates right) and the
paying the quantity of rent lybelled by his partners and servants and against
William Hunter and his partners who are circumduced against To quhich
it was answered by the said defenders procurator upon the first day of March
last that the several points in the Interlocutor being sustained complexly if
proven to make the defenders lyable in payment of the rent lybelled the
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218 MUNIMENTS OF THE BUEGH OF AYE.
failzieing to prove any of them gives ground of absolvitor to the defenders
But so it is that the persewer failzies to prove the magistrates right to the
fishing lybelled or their being in possession of uplifting of twelve pounds
Scots out of each coble yearly or that the defenders have been in use of
payment thereof or promised payment or oblidged themselves for the same
all that is acknowledged by the said John Reid is that there was twelve
pound payed out of his boat and that he applyed to the magistrates for
freedome the first year after reparatione but not proven from what that
freedome was and all that Robert Wilson acknowledges is tbe payment of
twenty shillings Scots The rest depone negative and therefore craved ab-
solvitor for even that payment from John Reid's boat and his supplicating
for freedome does not constitute a right in the magistrates to the fishing
lybelled and use of doing wrong or paying what is not due will not warrand
or be ground for continueing therein without some other title especially
where the use of payment or possession is not proven to be immemorial or
past fourty years And in Mongo Campbell's process before this same court
against the representatives of Agnes Boswal for the rent of her possession
of ane tenement in Ayr proces was refused till he should produce his right
thereto albeit it was expressly lybelled that she had made part payment to
the persewer and had his receipt thereof which was offered to be proven to
be in the defenders hands and that certainly is more convincing and proba-
tive than all that is acknowledged in this process Quhich depositione of
the said John Reid being upon the fifteenth day of the said moneth of March
considered by the said sheriff deput he found that he has acknowledged
that he and his servants have been in use of payment to the toun of Ayr of
twelve pounds Scots yearly Thereafter the said James Hunter procurator
foresaid for the saids defenders produced our Sovereign Lords Letters of
advocatione raist at the instance of the saids John Reid James Wight David
Kerr and John Nisbit which are dated and signet at Edinburgh the seventh
day of March jm viic and fifteen years advocating the foresaid action and
cause from the said sheriff of Ayr and his deput to the Lords of Councill
and Session as only judges competent thereto and that for the reasons and
causes therein contained Quhich advocatione being considered by the said
sheriff deput he admitted the same Thereafter the said James Hunter
alleadged payment of the soumes lybelled for William Hunter and craved
absolvitor for Robert Wilson except for the twenty shillings Scots and
craved a day might be assigned to him to condescend on his manner of
MISCELLANEOUS MUNIMENTS. 219
probatioue and to prove accordingly To quliom the said sheriff deput as-
signed the first current day of June instant for that effect And the said
action being again called upon the tenth day of the said moneth of June in
presence of the said sheriff deput the said William and Mathew Hunters
Henry Wylie and William Leggat failzied to prove payment of the saids
soumes Wherefore the said persewers procurator craved sentence against
them Against which it was objected by the said defenders procurator
that there could be no sentence against them in regard of their being
hindered and precluded of their benefite of fishing in the water be-
cause of stones and other things laid therein conforme to ane instru-
ment of protest produced bearing the said John Reid and John Love
sheriff officer and fisher in Newtoun to have compeared at Ayr the first
day of August jm viic and thirteen years in presence of the said James
Hunter nottar and two witnesses and past to the personal presence of
Mongo Campbell present baylie of Ayr and there protested that they
and partners fishers in the said burgh of Newtoun might not only be free
from paying ane coble rent for the salmont fishing in the water of Ayr this
season to the magistrates and town councill of Ayr but also that the saids
magistrates might be liable to them for damages sustained by them in the
loss of their fishing the said year in the said water occasioned through
laying ane considerable quantity of large stones in several heaps and places
in the said water opposite to the Key which were laid there in Aprile then
last and have continued there since and are yet there by the magistrates
order and allowance at least connivance by which the saids fishers are
deprived and hindered of their fishing Upon which the saids John Reid and
John Love asked and took instruments for themselves and partners in the
hands of the said James Hunter wryter in Air nottar to the said instrument
as the same signed by him and two witnesses bears To which it was
answered by the said persewers procurator that the defenders having
failzied to instruct payment nothing could hinder sentence and seperatini
alleadged that the instrument produced could not be respected not being
taken by William Hunter and the partners in his boat To which it was
replyed by the said defenders procurator that he opponed the instrument
bearing that John Reid and John Love for themselves and partners fishers
of the burgh of Newtoun made the protest to one of the magistrates
and offered to prove by the persewers oath who was present that the water
of Ayr was incommoded and thereby the defenders precluded the fishing by
220
MUNIMENTS OF THE BURGH OF AYR.
which the defenders were prejudged of the benefite of the fishing they had
not only from the toun of Ayr bu* from other masters Quhich protest
and debate thereon being considered by the said sheriff deput he repelled
the instrument and alleadgiance thereon for exeeming the defenders from
payment of rent in so far as it is not taken by the defenders neither is the
protest taken till the fishing is whole over And in regard of the defenders
failzing to prove payment circumduced against them and gave his decreet
and sentence against them in the said matter in manner forsaid Attour
decernes the saids William and Mathew Hunters Henry Wylie and William
Leggat to make payment to the said persewer of the soume of four pound
sixteen shilling Scots money of expenses of plea and ordains all executione
necessar to pass hereupon after a charge of fifteen days only (hereby
warranted to be given) is given and duely expired and in the meantime to
arriest in comniuni forma.
Extracted by me.
Jo : Gaiednek,
Clerk Deput.
Unties
Aberdeen, burgh of, 28, 29.
Aberdeen, Gilbert, bisbop of, 26, 27.
Abernetby (Abbirnythyn), Hugh of, 18, 19.
Adair, Mr. William, minister of Ayr, 167, 190,
196.
Adyson, Robert, vicar of Colmonell, 9, 20,
24.
Ahayre, Patrick, bailie of Ayr, 9, 20, 24.
Airth (Erth), Hugh of, knight, 21.
Alan the Steward, 7, 10.
Albany, Robert, duke of, xxx., 26, 27, 80, 81,
82.
Ale, duties on, 67, 68, 69, 70-73, 202-212.
Alexander II., King of Scots, xxvi., xxvii.,
xxviii., 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18,
135, 136.
Alexander III., King of Scots, xxvii., 18, 19,
22, 23 ; his Queen, 18, 19.
Alexander VI., Pope, 95.
Alloway, the Kirk of, 109, 149, 150-159.
Alloway (Auilwey), lands of, xxvii., 9, 10, 12,
21-24, 32, 134, 136.
Alloway, barony of, xx., 26, 32, 33, 36, 43,
48-52, 76-84, 90, 91, 106-112, 116, 121,
130, 134-136.
Alloway, the mills of, 70, 71, 121, 125, 127,
206-209.
Alloway, parish of, xx., xxvii.
Alloway, tenants of, xxxi., 33, 36, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 78, 111, 112.
Alpin, King, xxiii.
Anand, Sir David of, 9.
Anderson, Archibald, 196.
Anderson, George, treasurer, 212.
Andrew, bishop of Glasgow, 88, 89.
Andrew (Andro), John, clerk of Council, 52.
Angus, earl of, 52.
Angus, Archibald, lord, 167.
Angus, George, of Brighouse, 147.
Angus, George, 196.
Annandale, Andrew, lord, 89.
Arbroath (Aerbrothoc), Bernard, abbot of, 21,
22.
Ardrossan, xxv.
Argyll, Archibald, marquis of, 167.
Army, exemption from serving in, 77-79.
Arnot, Robert, of Newton of Falkland, 135.
Arous, Mr. John, keeper of Privy Seal, 89.
Ashindarroch, lands of, 198.
Ashkirk (Askryke), Gilbert, burgess of Ayr, 9,
20, 24, 83, 85.
Atkyns croft, lands of, 85, 86.
Avandale, Andrew, lord justiciar, 31.
Ayr, armorial bearings of, 201, 202.
Ayr, the bay of, xxiii.
Ayr, the Blackfriars' Kirk of, 147.
Ayr, bridge of, xxvii., xxviii., 14, 16, 18, 55, 56,
67, 68, 101, 102.
Ayr, burgh of, xix., 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19,
21, 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41,
48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 57-61, 65, 67, 68, 69,
73, 74, 78, 89, 106, 111, 112, 113, 145,
193.
Ayr, the burgh lands of, xix., xx., xxi., 26, 27,
30, 31, 41, 43-47, 64, 65, 132-134.
Ayr, burgesses of, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18,
19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
37, 41, 48, 51, 52, 53, 76, 77, 78, 89, 98,
100, 106, 115.
Ayr, the church of, 67, 68, 95, 96, 101, 102,
109, 132, 162-179, 190, 195-198.
Ayr, choir of, 97, 99.
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INDEX.
Ayr, community of, xxx., 5, 8, 11, 12, 24, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37, 43-47, 48, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73,
75, 76, 80, 81, 82, 89, 108, 115, 121, 128,
130.
Ayr, common street of, 9, 20, 24, 68.
Ayr, yearly fair at, on St. John's Day, xxxii.,
18, 19, 30, 31, 34.
Ayr, yearly fair at, in January, xxxiii., 74.
Ayr, St. Michael's fail- at, xxxii., 32, 34, 87-89.
Ayr, fishings of the, xxvii., xxviii., 14-18, 30, 31,
59, 62-65, 102, 104, 132, 133, 213-220.
Ayr, the five penny lands of, 1, 3, 5, 8, 9,
(Alloway) 10, 12, 22, 23.
Ayr, the Grammar School of, 96, 99.
Ayr, harbour of, xxvii., xxviii., xxix., 14, 16, 18,
26, 27, 55, 56, 58, 59, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68,
73, 205, 211.
Ayr, the hospital of, 132, 133, 134.
Ayr, the king's new castle at, 1, 3.
Ayr, the kirkyard of St. Katherine's of, 191.
Ayr, market on Saturday at, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 12.
Ayr, market-cross of, 35, 59, 61, 63, 64.
Ayr, market-place of, 11.
Ayr, freedom of market of, 28, 29, 64, 65.
Ayr, mills of, 26, 27, 37, 38, 39, 40, 58, 59,
62, 64, 65, 70, 71, 73, 102, 104, 105, 132,
133, 206-8.
Ayr, Nether mill of, 147.
Ayr, Over mill of, 137, 147.
Ayr, the parish of, xix., xxi., 132, 133, 162-179.
Ayr, quay of, 205, 211.
Ayr, provost and council of, 4, 12, 34, 42-47,
48, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70,
73, 98, 100, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 134,
193, 195-198.
Ayr, the river of, xix., xxi., xxiii., 15, 16, 67, 68,
191, 196, 213-220.
Ayr, the Rood altar of, 132, 133.
Ayr, the sheriff of, xxxi., xxxii., 22, 23, 57, 58,
59, 62, 76, 77, 78, 79, 116, 193.
Ayr, sheriffship of, 42-47, 65.
Ayr, tolbooth of, 53, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88, 194,
205.
Ayr, town of, xix., xxi., 1-8, 18, 38, 66, 68,
109, 213-220.
Ayrshire, boundaries of, xxiv., xxv.
Baillie, Mi\ William, lord Provand, 42, 106.
Baird, Mathew, 109, 111.
Balliol, Henry of, chamberlain, 7.
Balliol, Ingelram of, 7.
Balmerino, John, lord, 167.
Balsaroch, common of, 90, 91.
Bannatyne, David, 129.
Bannatyne, James, burgess of Ayr, 47, 115,
117, 122.
Bannatyne, Margaret, 196.
Bannatyne, Robert, 115.
Bannatyne, Mr. Thomas, justiciar depute, 50,
51, 112.
Bannezour, John, 83, 85.
Barclay (Berelay), David of, knight, 21.
Bathgate, John of, bailie of Ayr, 83.
Beer, duties on, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72.
Bell, William, 101.
Bellenden, Sir John, of Auchnoule, knight,
justice-clerk, 42, 50, 51.
Bellenden, Ludovic, clerk of justiciary, 50.
Bellenden, Mr. Thomas, of Auchnoule, justice-
clerk, 16.
Bellisle Burn, the, xx.
Belschis, Sir Alexander, of Tofts, 167.
Benedict XIIL, Pope, 8, 10, 19, 23, 76.
Benyn, John of, commissioner for the burgh of
Cupar, 28, 29.
Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, 21, 22.
Bimie, John, son of Mr. William Birnie, 61,
152-159.
Birny, Mr. William, minister of A}rr, 61, 146-
152.
Bisset (Byset), John, 10.
Bisset (Biset), Walter, 7, 10.
Blackfriars' Kirk of Ayr, 147.
Blair, David, of Adam ton, 90.
Blair, Mr. Edward, 101, 102.
Blair, James, burgess of Ayr, 138, 139; provost,
155, 159.
Blair, James, esquire, 91.
Blair, Jean, wife of R. Wallace of Holmstoun,
137, 138, 139.
Blair, John, student, 35.
Blair, John, of Adam ton, 93.
Blair, John, 191.
Blair, Patrick, dean of guild, 212.
Blair, Thomas, 195-198.
Blair, William, 94, 95.
Blakwood, John, 196.
INDEX.
223
Blantyre, Walter, prior of, 12.
Blencanhop, William of, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20,
24.
Blencanhop (Bkemcamhop), William, burgess of
Ayr, 91.
Boghesken, xxii., 2, 3, 6.
Boill, John, carter, 200, 201.
Boill, Robert, 200, 201.
Borthwick, Mr. David, 106, 108.
Borthwick, William, lord, 89.
Boscho, William of, clerk to the king, 2, 4.
Boswal, Agnes, 218.
Boswall, John, merchant, 161.
Boswell, Sibilla, wife of John Lockhart, 160,
161.
Bower (Bowr), Adam of, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20,
24.
Boyd, Thomas, lord, of Kilmarnock, 78.
Boyesmark, lands of, 199.
Boyle (Boil), Sir Patrick, of Kelbume, 86.
Boy man, Alan, bailie of Ayr, 90, 91.
Brakanhirst, land of, 90, 91, 92.
Brechin, George, bishop of, 30.
Brechin, Patrick, bishop of, 9.
Brisbane, William, burgess of Ayr, 16.
Broomberry-yard (Byndberiyharde), lands of, 75,
76, 90, 91.
Broun, Andrew, weaver, 200, 201.
Broun, Mr. Isaac, 117, 122.
Broun, James, bailie of Ayr, 15, 16.
Broun, John, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20, 85, 91,
98.
Broun, Rolland, 106.
Broune, Thomas, bailie, 104.
Bruce, Robert the, King of Scots, 19, 20, 21,
23, 24.
Buchan, John, earl of, 80, 81, 82.
Burns, David, burgess of Ayr, 115.
Burns, John, 147.
Burrowfield of Ayr, xx., 37-47, 128, 137, 140,
142.
Burrow roods of Ayr, 43-47.
Busby, Lad}', of part of, 85, 86.
Caithnes, William, earl of Orkney and, 89.
Caird (Kerd), Robert, notary, 16.
Cairn, xxv.
Cairns (Carnys), Janet of, 85, 86.
Cambuskynneth, Alexander, abbot of, 16.
Campbell, , in Gaitsyde, 147.
Campbell, Colin, 96.
Campbell, George, burgess of Ayr, 15.
Campbell, George, of Bryntwood, 40.
Campbell, Sir George, of Loudon, knight, sheriff
of Ayr, 34, 87, 88, 89.
Campbell, Hew, of Loudoun, sheriff of Ayr, 40,
42, 43, 47, 76, 78.
Campbell, Hew, of Terrinzeane, 55.
Campbell, James, in Ayr, 192.
Campbell, John, of Marylands, 147.
Campbell, Sir John, of Lundie, 106.
Campbell, Mathew, of Terrinzeane, 42, 43, 47.
Campbell, Mongo, 218, 219.
Campbell, Robert, of Kilmanach, 39, 40.
Campbell, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 117.
Campbell, Sir Thomas, of Sehalawthwrake, 86.
Campbell, William, merchant in Ayr, 192, 196.
Campbell, Mr. William, 196.
Campbell, William, in Grenane, 122, 126.
Campbell, William, younger of Skeldon, 131.
Campbell, William, his natural son, 131.
Carcluie (Cortluy), lands of, 10, 12, 21, 23, 24,
75, 76, 90, 91, 130, 136.
Cargill, James, 196.
Carlisle, xxiv.
Carmichael, Sir James, of that ilk, 167.
Carnbuth (tide Karnebuth).
Carnegie, Sir Robert, of Kinnaird, 107.
Carrick, lands of, 32, 33.
Carrick, Thomas of, bailie of Ayr, 83.
Carrickstoun, lands of, 194.
Carstairs, xxiv.
Carwilkin, lands of, 140, 142.
Cassillis, the earl of, 73.
Cassillis (Casselys), place of, 75, 76.
Castlehill, lands of, 147.
Cathcart, Alan, lord, 89.
Cathcart, Alan, son of John Cathcart of Carlton,
93.
Cathcart, Alexander, esquire, 91.
Cathcart, Elias, merchant burgess of Ayr, 64.
Cathcart, John, lord, 37, 39.
Cathcart, John, of Carlton, knight, 93.
Cathcart, Thomas, 211.
Chalmer, Andrew, of Curraytht, 122, 126.
Chalmers (Chawmyr), James, of Gaitgirth, 39, 40.
Chalmers, John, son of James Chalmers of Gait-
girth, 39, 40.
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INDEX.
Chalmers, John, of Gadgirth, knight, 85, 90.
Chamberlain, the Lord High, 77, 78, 79.
Chapel Royal, the, 162-179, 184-190.
Charles I., King, 62, 160.
Charles II., King, 68, 199, 201, 203.
Chepman, Thomas, bailie of Ayr, 15, 16.
Chepman, clerk of Council, 37.
Chery, John, bailie of Ayr, 87, 88.
Chery, John, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20.
Chery (Chere), William, burgess of Ayr, 16.
Clark, John, 211.
Clerk (Clerc), Hugh, 27, 28, 29.
Clerk, Leonard, burgess of Ayr, 41 ; bailie, 102,
104.
Clerk, Robert, alderman of Ayr, 98, 101.
Clerkson, Malcolm, commissioner for the burgh
of Stirling, 28, 29.
Clowin Stane, the, 90, 91.
Cochrane, Andrew, 197.
Cochrane, George, bailie of Ayr, 114, 116, 117,
122, 127, 138, 139, 142, 195-198.
Cochrane, James, 196.
Cochrane, Margaret, 196.
Cochrane, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 117, 122.
Cockburn, Mr. John, 212.
Cockburn, Sir John, of Ormiston, justice-clerk,
4, 12, 132, 134.
Cockburn,- Sir Richard, younger of Clerkington,
4, 11, 132, 134.
Colquhoim (Qulchone), Malcolm of, esquire, 83.
Colquhoun, Robert, prebender of Ayr, 174, 176,
177.
ColviUe (ColeviU), Thomas of, 2, 4.
Conynghame, Alexander, burgess of Irvine, 88.
Conynghame, Alexander, notary, 61.
Corry, Thomas, of Kelwod, 37, 39.
Corstorphin, the provost of, 42.
Gorton (Crottun), lands of, xxii., xxvi., 1, 3, 6,
10, 12, 21, 23, 24,136.
Corton, Little, 130.
Corton, Meikle, 130.
Cossinkon Hill, xxiv.
Couper, Andrew, 171, 176, 177.
Coutert, Adam, 211.
Cragy, Alexander of, bailie of the Temple lands
of St. John, 83.
Craig, John, 107.
Craig, Malie, 107.
Craigwell, the, of Grenane, 118, 123, 127.
Crawford, David, of Kerse, 37, 38, 39.
Crawford, Robert, burgess of Edinburgh, 35.
Crawford, Thomas of, 85.
Crawford, John, 161.
Crawford, William, bailie of Ayr, 69.
Crawford, William, burgess of Ayr, 114.
Crawford, Alexander, of Kerse, 147.
Crawfurd, Mr. Archibald, parson of Eaglishame,
107.
Crawfurd, Charles, 110.
Crawfurd, David, burgess of Ayr, 128, 129.
Crawfurd, David, son of above, 128.
Crawfurd, David, dean of gild, 114, 115, 116.
Crawfurd, David, sheriff of Ayr, 7.
Crawfurd, George, of Lesnoreis, 47.
Crawfurd, James, brother of David Crawfurd of
Kerse, 39, 40.
Crawfurd, James, burgess of Ayr, 122.
Crawfurd, John, dean of gild, 195-198.
Crawfurd, John, earl of, 167.
Crawfurd, Marie, spouse of James Montgomery,
194.
Crawfurd, Mathew, deacon convener, 195-198.
Crawfurd, Mungo, of Drumlauch, 54, 55.
Crawfurd, Quintin, of Drumlauch, 113, 114,
129, 131.
Crawfurd, Reginald of, 2, 4.
Crawfurd, William, bailie, 202, 211.
Crawfurd, William, son of Quintin Crawfurd of
Drumlauch, 130.
Crawfurd, William, 110.
Crechton, Alexander, in Edinburgh, 61.
Crichton, Mr. Abraham, provost of Dunglas, 42,
106.
Cromwell, Richard, Protector, 198.
Croseneton (Crosenecon), xxiii., xxiv., 2, 3, 7.
Cross, St. Mark's, 90, 91.
Crosses, two stone, in the Burrowfield, 39.
Crossragwell (Corsragruer), Colin, abbot of, 90.
Crotteche, Sir Thomas, chaplain, 83.
Cumin, Robert, 14, 15.
Cumin, W., chamberlain of Menteith, 14.
Cumnock, New, parish of, xxiv.
Cumyn, Alexander, earl of Buchan, justiciar of
Scotland, 18, 19.
Cuningham, Adam, in Potterhill, 139-142.
Cuningham, John, of Rudeland, 139-142, 147.
Cuningham, John, treasurer, 196.
Cuningham, Robert, 196.
INDEX.
Cuninghame, Alan, fuller, 61.
Cuninghame, bailiery of, xxiv., xxv., xxvi., 107,
108.
Cuninghame, William, provost of Ayr, xxix.,
195-198.
Cunningham, William, bailie of Ayr, 59, 60, 61,
142.
Cunningham, William, of Capringtoun, 55.
Cunningham, younger of Polquharne, 61.
Cunningham, Mr. William, 139-142.
Cunning Park, the, xxi., 159.
Cunyngham, Alan, burgess of Ayr, 1 5.
Cunyngham, Elizabeth, spouse of James Mont-
gomery, 194.
Cunyngham, John, of Milnequarter, 155.
Cunynghame, Adam, of Caprington, 81, 95, 96.
Cunynghame, Peter, bailie of Ayr, 132.
Cunynghame, Quintin, bailie, 104.
Cunynghame, William, of Brownhill, provost of
Ayr, 69, 202-211.
Cupar (Coupir), burgh of, 28, 29.
Curtecan, xx.-xxii., 1, 2, 3, 6.
Curtecan Burn, the, xx., xxi., xxii.
Cyser, Henry called, burgess of Ayr, 21.
Dalkeith, 55.
Dalmellington, xxii., xxiii.
Dairy, xxv.
Dairy mple, barony of, 90, 91.
Dalrymple, Gavin, burgess of Ayr, 93.
Dairy mple, James, minister of Ayr, 109-111.
Dalrymple, James, sheriff -substitute of Ayr,
213.
Dalrymple, John of, commissioner for the burgh
of Edinburgh, 28, 29.
Dalrymple, John, burgess of Ayr, 15, 87, 88.
Dalrymple, John, of Lacht, 94, 95.
Dalrymple, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 105.
Dalrymple, Robert of, of Camerhagane, 78.
Dankeith, Friars, lands of, 54, 55, 113, 114,
129-131, 147.
Darraugh, John, commissioner for the burgh of
Stirling, 28, 29.
Darrell, Richard, 106.
David IL, King of Scots, xxxii., 8, 9, 24, 25.
Davidson, James, reader, 109.
Davidson, surname of, 119.
Davidson, John, bailie of Ayr, 85.
Davidson, Patrick, 155.
2
Davidson, Thomas, 191.
Dick (Die), John, 94, 95.
Dinsheith, John, weaver, 201.
Dogland, the, 162.
Dook, Robert, treasurer, 161.
Doon, the low bridge of, xx.
Doon, the channel of, xxi.
Doon, fishings of, xxvii., xxviii., 14-18, 118-127.
Doon, river of, xix-xxii., xxiv., 90, 91, 118-
128.
Dougall, Patrick, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20, 24.
Douglas, Archibald of, 1 0.
Douglas, Archibald, of Whittinghame, 4, 132.
Douglas, Sir Archibald, apparent of Whitting-
hame, 12.
Douglas, Archibald, earl of, 26, 27.
Douglas, James, lord of, 22.
Douglas, James of, lord of Dalkeith, 26, 27.
Douglas, John, macer, 175.
Douglas, William, earl of, 9.
Dregarne, William, 95, 96.
Drogheda, xxx.
Drummond, Mr. John, 177.
Drummylismedow, the, 140, 142.
Drumnesauel, xxiii., 2, 3, 7.
Drups, Ma: 196.
Dufhat, xxii., 2, 3, 7.
Dufloch, xxiii., 2, 3, 7.
Dumfries, xxiv.
Dunbar, Mr. George, minister of Ayr, 144.
Dunbar, Patrick, earl of, 18, 19.
Dunbar, Patrick of, earl of March, 22.
Dunbartane, burgh of, 145.
Duncan, son of Gillebert, 7.
Dundee, 20, 28, 29, 52.
Dundee, provost of, 52.
Dunfermline, 22, 23.
Dunfermline, Alexander, earl of, 162, 169, 177,
184.
Dunfermline, R., bishop of, 52.
Dunglas, the provost of, 42.
Dunlop, Constantine, burgess of Ayr, 15.
Duphoilburne, lands of, 140, 142.
Ecclis, Mr. William, minister of Ayr, 196.
Edinburgh, city of, xxxii., 4, 9, 11, 16, 28, 29,
36, 38, 42, 48, 49, 51, 88, 106, 110.
Edinburgh, tolbooth, 17, 106, 115.
Eglington, Hew, earl of, 107, 108.
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226
INDEX.
Elphinstone, Alexander, master of, 4, 132.
Elphinstone, Sir James, of Barneton, secretary,
4, 132, 134.
Elphinstone, Mr. James, of Innernachtie, 11.
Errol, William, earl of, 89.
Erskine (Araskine), Sir Charles, of Cambo, 201,
202.
Erskine, Sir Robert, of, 9.
Erskine (Erskyn), Sir Thomas of, 26, 27.
Erth, Hugh of, knight, 21.
Fabeh, John, burgess of Ayr, 9.
Fair, John, notary, 39.
Falconer, Sir Alexander, of Halkerton, 167.
Farchar, Andrew, burgess of Ayr, 27, 28, 29.
Farle, Will, of, commissioner for the burgh of
Dundee, 28, 29.
Fenwick (Fynwyke), Nicholas of, provost of Ayr,
8, 9, 11, 19, 20, 24.
Fergushill, Archibald, burgess of Ayr, 105.
Fergushill, David, burgess of Ayr, 128 ; provost,
132, 142.
Fergushill, John, of, 85, 86.
Fergushill, William, 129.
Ferguson, John, merchant burgess of Ayr, 69,
72, 161, 190, 192, 195-198, 202, 206-
211.
Ferguson, William, 191, 192, 196, 201.
Ferguson, William, of Auchinblaine, sheriff-
depute of Ayr, 213.
Fergusone, Alexander of Kilkerane, 182.
File, Duncan, earl of, 22.
Flemyng, Robert, lord, 3 1 .
Fletcher, Sir Andrew, of Innerpeffer, 167.
Florence, bishop elect of Glasgow, xix., 2, 4.
Forestar, Henry, depute chamberlain, 83.
FoulVennel, the, 200, 201.
Foulis, Mr. James, of Colinton, clerk-register, 1 6.
Freseel, Sir William, of Knok, 86.
Friars' Acres, the, 147.
Friars Dankeith (Dalkeith), lands of, 54, 55,
113, 114, 129, 130, 131, 147.
Friars' lands of Ayr, the, 110, 147.
Friars Preachers of Ayr, xxxiii., 102, 104, 105,
147.
Fullarton, John, burgess of Ayr, 104.
Fullarton, Rankin of, laird of Corsby, 83.
Fullarton (Foulartoun), Reginald, of Dreghorn,
81.
Fullarton, William, of that Ilk, 73.
Fyvie, Alexander, lord, 4, 131, 134.
Gaitstde, 147.
Galblare, lands of, 84, 85, 140, 142.
Galbraith, Mr. Robert, parson of Spott, 1 6.
Galloway, xxiv.
Galloway, Thomas, sergeant, 141.
Galloway, William, weaver, 201.
Gardner, John, notary, 129, 220.
Gardner, Nicol, in Maynholme, 116.
Garven, Thomas, 197.
Gemmill, John, fisher, 213, 214.
Gib, James, of Carriber, 168.
Gib, John, servant to the king, 150, 159, 162-
179, 184-190.
Gibson, Mr. Alexander, of Durie, 74, 167.
Gibson, George, 142.
Gibson, James, schoolmaster at Maybole, 183.
Gilmene, John, merchant, 39, 40.
Glasgow, Andrew, bishop of, 88, 89.
Glasgow, burgh of, xxv., 145.
Glasgow, Robert, writer, 211.
Glassynwricht, Sir David, chaplain, 83.
Gledstanes, Mr. John, 42, 107.
Glover, Patrick, burgess of Ayr, 116.
Gloves given to bailie of Ayr, in pledge, 79.
Gordon, Robert, burgess and bailie of Ayr, 160,
161, 196.
Gortcloy. (See Carcluie.)
Grahame, John, depute clerk, 68, 111, 115.
Gray, John, clerk, 83.
Gray, Michael, chaplain, 84, 85.
Grayfriars, the, of Ayr, 147.
Greg, James, 111.
Greir, George, 197.
G reive (Gref), Robert, notary, 91.
Grenane, lands of, 117, 118, 123, 127.
Grenane, lairds of, 119, 126.
Gyll, Henry, burgess of Edinburgh, 35.
Hadinqtodn, John, of, commissioner for the
burgh of Perth, 28, 29.
Hadoway, Robert, burgess of Linlithgow, 35.
Hakenay, Adam called, 21.
Halden, George, writer, 63.
Halket (Hakete), Thomas, notary, 82, 83, 85.
Halliday, John, procurator for burgh of Ayr, 5.
Halyburton, Sir George, of Foderance, 167.
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227
Halyburton, Sir Walter, of, 9.
Hamilton, George, 122.
Hamilton, James, lord, 89.
Hamilton, John, writer, 72.
Hamilton, Sir John, of Orbeston, 167.
Hamilton, Peter, 142.
Hamilton, Mr. Thomas, of Drumcarne, 4, 11,
132, 135.
Hamilton, Sir Thomas, of Byres, 162, 169, 177.
Hamilton, William, of Sanquhar, knight, 41.
Hamilton, Sir William, of Sanquhar, 106.
Hampton Court, 173.
Hannay, Andrew, 205, 209, 211.
Harman, Captain Edward, 198.
Hay, Sir Alexander, of Easter Kennet, clerk-
register, 12, 14.
Hay, Alexander, of Quhitburgh, 152.
Hay, Mr. Francis, 174.
Hay, Gilbert, of, knight, 21 ; constable, 22.
Hay, Sir John, of Lands, 66, 68.
Hayandhouth, lands of, 85, 86.
Havre, Patrick, alderman of Ayr, 85.
Hedrig, the, of Alloway, 90, 91.
Hedrig, the, of Broomberry-yard, 90, 91.
Henderson, Mr. John, 175.
Hepburne, Sir Adam, of Humbie, 167, 177.
Herbert, Adam, skipper, 144.
Heriot, Mr. David, 177.
Herring, Act anent the curing of, 145.
Hogdoun, John, 130.
Holburne, , clerk of Council, 63.
Holland, Ralph, 211.
Holmes (Holmys), Sir John, chaplain, 35.
Holmes, lands of, 102, 104.
Holmeshill, lands of, 92, 93, 140, 142.
Holmestoun, lands of, 137, 138.
Holmstoun, the laird of, 196.
Holyroodhouse, 53, 54, 57.
Holyroodhouse, John, commendator of, 4, 132.
Home, Sir George, of Wedderburn, 132, 133.
Hope, Sir John, of Craighall, 167.
Houstoun, Alexander of, 27, 28, 29.
Houstoun, Thomas, bailie of Ayr, 94, 95.
Hugh, clerk to King William the Lion, 2, 4.
Hunter, James, writer in Ayr, 214-218.
Hunter, James, in Corton, 162.
Hunter, John, his son, 162.
Hunter, John, 196, 198.
Hunter, Robert, his son, 162.
Hunter, John, writer in Ayr, 214.
Hunter, Mathew, fisher, 213-220.
Hunter, William, 161, 205, 209, 211, 213-220.
Inch, parish of, Wigtonshire, 199.
Inehture (Inchethor), parliament held at, 20.
Inglis, Thomas, 211.
Innocent VIII., Pope, 92.
Inverdon, xx., 1, 3, 6.
Inverkeithing, burgh of, 28, 29.
Inverpolcurtecan, xx., 1, 3, 6.
Irvine, burgh of, xxv.,xxvi, 26, 27, 29, 31, 145.
James I, King of Scots, 83, 84.
James II., King of Scots, xxxi., 27, 29, 31, 32,
33, 36, 48, 49, 111.
James III., King of Scots, xxxi., 36.
James IV., King of Scots, 37.
James VI., King of Scots, xxviii., 48, 51, 54,
55, 57-59, 62, 64, 150.
James VII., King, xxix., 66, 68, 69.
Jameson, Barbara, 143, 144.
Jameson, George, 143.
Jameson, John, 142, 143.
Jameson, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 115, 117, 122,
127, 143.
John's chapel, tenement of, 97, 99, 101.
John, St., yearly fair of, at Ayr, 18, 19, 30, 31,
34.
Johnston, Adam, bailie, 128.
Johnston, Alexander, 98, 101.
Johnston, Sir Archibald, of Warriston, 167, 173.
Johnston, John, notary, 106.
Kar, Patrick, 94, 95, 97, 99.
Karnebuth, xxiii.-xxv., 2, 3.
Katherine, St., the church of, in Ayr, 191.
Kelso, James, 196, 205.
Kelso, Robert, 196.
Kendee Bank, the land of, 102, 104.
Kennedy, Mr. Alexander, 167.
Kennedy, Anthony, of Balsarach, 122, 126.
Kennedy, Gilbert, knight, 75, 76.
Kennedy, Gilbert, lord, 89, 90, 91.
Kennedy, Hew, of Balkany, 122, 126.
Kennedy, Hew, 142, 182, 196.
Kennedy, James, 90, 211.
Kennedy, James, of Blairquhan, 157-159, 161-
179, 184-190.
228
INDEX.
Kennedy, James, 205, 209.
Kennedy, John, of Balbeg, 153-159, 162, 168,
184, 186.
Kennedy, John, bailie of Ayr, 102, 104 ; dean
of gild, 161.
Kennedy, John, of Baltersan, xxviii., 126, 128.
Kennedy, John, Barleiff, 196.
Kennedy, John, of Blarquhan, 90, 168, 182,
184-190.
Kennedy, John, his son, 90.
Kennedy, John, lord of Dunure, 75, 76.
Kennedy, John, son of Gilbert lord, 89, 91.
Kennedy, the lord, 73.
Kennedy, Quintin, common clerk of Ayr, 162.
Kennedy, Thomas, of Bargany, 160, 161, 162,
163-179, 184-190.
Kennedy, Thomas, his son, 168.
Kennedy, Thomas, chaplain, 15.
Ker, Hugh, of Dene, notary, 29.
Kerd. (See Caird.)
Kerr, David, 213-218.
Kessane, George, merchant in Ayr, 61.
Kilbirnie, xxv.
Kilpatrick, Bartholomew, bailie, 104.
Kilpatrick, Thomas, of Carrickfergus, 200, 201.
Kincardin, 112.
King, Mr. Alexander, 133.
King's Kyle, district of, 92, 93, 116, 130.
Kirk, Thomas, serjeant, 141, 145.
Kirkcudbright, xxii.
Knadie, George, merchant in Straiton, 167.
Knoksoul, lands of, xxiii., 140, 142.
Knox, William, treasurer of Ayr, 115, 129.
Kow, Robert, 94, 95.
Kyle, district of, xxii., 10, 12, 102, 104,
105.
Kylestewart, bailiery of, 54, 55, 113, 114, 130,
147.
Kynloss, Edward, commendator of, 4, 132.
Kynloss, Robert, abbot of, 16.
Lachtalpin, xxiii., xxiv., 2, 3, 7.
Laicht Castle, xxiii., xxiv.
Laing, John, 40.
Lamb, Mr. William, parson of Conveth, 16.
Lanark, town of, 2', 4, 28, 29, 135.
Lanarkshire, xxiv.
Largs, barony of, 85, 86.
Largs, parish church of, 86.
Laucheland, Adam, 130.
Lauder, Mr. Henry, King's advocate, 16, 42,
105, 107.
Lauder (Lawader), Roger of, vicar of Ayr, and
dean of Kyle, 9, 20, 24.
Law, John, 130.
Law, Patrick, notary, 39, 40, 101.
Law, Thomas, 130.
Law, William, 130.
Lawe, Robert, 40.
Lawrie, Ninian, smith, 192.
Layng, W., clerk of council, 50.
Learmonth, Sir James, of Balcomie, 167.
Legat, Sir Robert, priest, 104.
Leggat, WiRiam, fisher, 213-220.
Lennox (Levenax), earl of, 52.
Leslie, John, 196.
Leslie, Sir John, of Newton, 167.
Lesly, Robert, treasurer of Ayr, 69, 202, 204-
211, 212.
Lethame, Mr. John, parson of Kirkchrist, 16.
Ley, the laird of, 109.
Liberton, William of, 28, 29.
Liddale, Mr. George, secretary, 89.
Lile, Robert of, knight, 78.
Lin, Fergus, of Large, 198, 199.
Lin, William, his son, 198, 199.
Lindsay, David of, 10, 14, 15.
Lindsay, Sir David, of Edzell, 4, 132.
Lindsay, Mr. John, parson of Menmure, 11.
Litster, John, 83.
Livingston, Adam, 196.
Livingston, James, lord high chamberlain, 31.
Lochfergus, lands of, xxii., 2, 3, 7, 140, 142.
Lockhart (Lokart), Alexander, burgess of Ayr,
16 ; bailie, 132, 190, 191.
Lockhart, Alexander, of Boghall, 117, 122.
Lockhart, Sir James, of Lee, 167.
Lockhart, John, son of Alexander Lockhart,
merchant of Ayr, 190, 192.
Logan, Adam of, 10.
Logan, James, officer of Ayr, 61.
Lokart, Paton, commissioner for the burgh of
Stirling, 28, 29.
Lokbart, Alexander, burgess of Ayr, 41.
Lokhart, James, younger of Bar, 47.
Lokhart, John, provost of Ayr, xxxii., 51, 111,
112, 115, 135.
Lokhart, John, skipper, 160, 161.
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229
Lokhart, John, of Bar, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 143,
144, 145.
London, Robert, of, son of King William the
Lion, 2, 4.
Loudoun, John, earl of, 167.
Love, John, fisher, 215-219.
Love (Luif ), John, in Newtoun, 61.
Lowchridding, march dyke of, 90, 91.
Lowdoun, xxiii., xxiv., 2, 3, 7.
Lowdoun Hill, xxiv.
Lyon, Sir Thomas, of Auldbar, treasurer, 12.
M'Adam, Duncan, dean of gild, 142.
Makadam, James, treasurer of Ayr, 59, 60, 61.
M'Adam, Janet, wife of John Cuningham of
Rudeland, 139-142.
M'Adame, John, notary, 165, 166, 184, 192.
M 'Alexander, Andrew, of Drummochren, 169.
M'Alexander, David, of Drumochren, 168.
M' Alexander, John, 196.
M'Ara, John, officer of Ayr, 149.
MacCalme, Gilbert, merchant, 64.
M'Callan, John, 196.
M'Calmont, George, 143, 159.
M'Calmont, Gilbert, 161, 195-198.
M'Calmont, John, merchant, 161.
M'Calmont, Katharine, 191.
Makcalzeane, Mr. Henry, justiciar depute, 50.
M'Clelland, Andrew, 211.
M'C'lerie, John, treasurer, 213.
M'Cletchie, John, 196.
M'Clure, John, 194.
Makcormyll, Andrew, notary, 93, 94, 95 ; vicar
of Straiten, 96-101, 102.
Makcra, John, messenger, 61, 62, 63, 64.
Makcuben, Adam, 61.
M'Cubin, Adam, Serjeant, 161.
M'Dermite, Alexander, town-clerk depute, 211,
213.
M'Dowell, Andrew, of Leffnollis, 198.
M'Gil, David, merchant in Ayr, 64.
M'Gill, Mr. David, of Cranston-Riddell, 4, 13,
106, 132.
M'Gill, Mr. James, of Rankelour-Nether, clerk
of register, 42, 47, 105, 106, 107, 108.
M'Gill, Sir James, of Cranston-Riddell, 167.
Makgill, Mr. John, 116, 122
MakGilroy, Michael, bailie of Ayr, 92, 93.
M'llhage, Robert, fisher, 215.
M'Kene, John, 114.
M'Kerrell, William, of Hilhouse, 138, 139.
Makkilkerdy, Thomas, bailie of Ayr, 90, 91.
M'Lure, John, notary, 159.
M 'Marten, John, 147.
M'Mirrie, Morris, of Culteon, 122, 126.
M 'My lien, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 105, 107.
M'Quhaill, William, skinner, 200, 201.
M'Quhinze, Thomas, chaplain, 101.
M' Walter, David, 196.
M'Walter, Thomas, in Maybole, 167.
Makylcardy, John, 96.
M'Ylroy, Nicholas, 95, 96.
MTlroy, Thomas, 96.
Mach, xxiii., xxv., 2, 3, 7.
Magrane, John, 131.
Maich Burn, the, xxv.
Maitland, David, 106.
Maitland, Richard, of Lethington, knight, 42.
Maitland, Sir Richard, of Lethington, 107.
Mar, John, earl of, treasurer, 57, 59.
March, Patrick, earl of, 9, 22.
Marjoribanks, Mr. Thomas, of Ratho, 18, 42.
Mark's, St., Cross, 90, 91.
Martin V., Pope, 81, 83.
Mar}-, Queen of Scots, xxxi., 40, 42, 47, 132.
Maryland, lands of, 41, 147.
Mason, Adam, 197.
Mason, David, 96.
Mason, George, bailie of Ayr, 141, 142, 144.
Mason, George, burgess of Ayr, 117, 122, 131,
138, 139, 141, 142, 192.
Mason, Michael, 91, 97, 99, 101.
Masoun, George, town-clerk of Ayr, 159,191,200.
Masoun, John, 182, 196.
Masoun, John, 197.
Masoun, John, clerk of Ayr, 116, 122, 126,
129, 131, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 145,
149, 199, 200.
Mauchline, xxv.
Maxwell, Eymer of, chamberlain, 18, 19.
Maxwell (Maccuswele), John, of, 7.
Maxwell, lord, 52.
Maxwell, Robert, dean of gild, 117, 122.
Maxwell, William, of Munreith, 167.
Maybole, parish of, xxi.
Mearns Moor, xxv.
Mediltoune, Straty of, commissioner for the burgh
of Lanark, 28, 29.
230
INDEX.
Meklrum, Thomas of, commissioner for the burgh
of Cupar, 28, 29.
Melville, Sir Robert, of Murdocairnie, 4, 12.
Melville, Mr. William, commendator of Tung-
land, 11.
Merchell, John, wright, 198.
Mersar, Robert, commissioner for the burgh of
Perth, 28, 29.
Michael, St., fair of, at Ayr, 32, 34, 87, 88.
Millar, Mr. Andrew, minister of Alloway, 158,
159.
Millar, James, burgess, 160, 161.
Millar, James, writer in Edinburgh, 47.
Milliken, Thomas, bailie, 211, 212.
Mirrie, Elizabeth, 196.
Mirrie, Thomas, bailie, 141, 142.
Mitchell, Adam, relict of, 196.
Mitchell, Mr. John, student of divinity, 201.
Mitchell, "William, notary, 174, 190, 195.
Mogerisland, Niniane, 116.
Monedamdereg, xxii., 2, 3, 6, 7.
Monemethonac, xxii., 2, 3, 7.
Monfoide, Sir Finlay of, 86.
Montfoyd, Hew, 40.
Montgomerie, James, of Clonayes, 194.
Montgomery, Alexander, lord, 31.
Montgomery, Alexander of, 78.
Montgomery, Mr. Francis, of Giffen, 73.
Montgomery, Neil, of Langshaw, 149-154.
Montgomery, Neil, younger of Langshaw, 149-
154.
Montgomery, William, of Brigend, 151, 190.
Montrose, burgh of, 28, 29.
Montrose, John, earl of, chancellor, 4, 131, 134.
Monyvayn, Moss of, 90, 91.
Moray, Patrick, earl of, 9.
Morton, George, 196.
Morton, Mathew, officer of Ayr, 145.
Mossend farm, xxii.
Mosshill, farm of, xxii.
Muir, Francis, of Pennyglen, 190.
Muir, John, burgess of Irvine, 107.
Multerer, John, of Crag, burgess of Ayr, 15.
Multrar, John, burgess of Ayr, 27, 28, 29 ;
provost, 34, 35, 87, 88, 90, 91.
Multrer, Michael, chaplain, 9, 20, 24.
Murray, Sir David, of Gospertie, comptroller, 4,
135.
Mure, Adam, of Laglane, 85.
Mure, Adam, elder, 94, 95.
Mure, Alexander, bailie of Irvine, 35.
Mure, Alexander, burgess of Ayr, 15.
Mure, Andrew, mariner, 131.
Mure (More), Edward, chaplain, 15.
Mure, James, of Sanquhar, burgess of Ayr, 15.
Mure, John, laird of Caldwell, 85, 107.
Mure, John, of Enerothyll, 35; of Herothill, 88.
Mure, John, of Sanquhar, 85.
Mure, Quintin, esquire, 90, 91.
Mure, Robert, of Rowallan, 84, 85.
Mure, William, burgess of Ayr, 16.
Neil, John, in Netherton of Alloway, 194, 195.
Neil, John, younger there, 194.
Neill, Adam, 130.
Neill, David, burgess of Ayr, 111, 199, 200.
Neill, John, his son, 199, 200.
Neilson, Robert, writer in Edinburgh, 167.
Neilson (Nigelli), William, notary, 9, 20, 24,
78, 79.
Nelson, John, 104.
Nesbit, George, 101.
Nesbit, George, bailie of Ayr, 37, 39, 40.
Nesbit, John, fisher, 213-218.
Nesbit, Mr. John, 173.
Nether Mill, the, of Ayr, 147.
Nevinsland, lands of, 147.
Newbattle, Mark, lord of, 4.
Newtoun upon Ayr, 213-220.
Nicholas V., Pope, 1 5.
Nicholson, Mr. John, 133.
Nicol, Archibald, burgess of Ayr, 105.
Nicol, Thomas, merchant burgess of Ayr, 64.
Nicolson, Andrew, commissioner for the burgh
of Inverkeithing, 28, 29.
Niel (Nele), Thomas, bailie of Ayr, 37, 39, 40.
Nith, river, xxiv.
Nuns, common land of the, 90, 91.
Oatlands, manor of, 168.
Ochiltrie, lord, 149.
Olifard, Walter, justiciar of Lothian, 7, 10, 14.
Oliphant, Laurence, clerk of Council, 72.
Oliphant, Mr. William, justiciar-depute, 115.
Oliphant, Sir William, of Newtoun, 162, 169,
177.
Orkney, Robert, bishop of, 42.
Orkney, William, earl of, 89.
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231
Osborne, Alexander, 196.
Osburn, Henry, 160, 161, 182.
Osburne, Adam, bailie of Ayr, 69, 202,211,212.
Osburne, Allan, treasurer, 137.
Osburne, John, 142, 159 ; provost of Ayr, 161,
195-198.
Osburne, John, 196.
Otterburn, Alexander, burgess of Ayr, 16, 87,
88.
Overmill of Ayr, xxiii., 137, 147.
Painter (Pictor), John, bailie of Ayr, 76, 78.
Paisley, xxv.
Pantour, John, burgess of Ayr, 82.
Paterson, John, 196.
Patrick, bishop of Brechin, 9.
Perth, 25, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35.
Petit, Mr. Richard, vicar of Stevenston, 82, 85.
Petite, Mr. Duncan, prebendary of Ayr, 9, 20, 24.
Petyt, John, alderman of Ayr, 15, 16.
Philip de Valoniis, chamberlain, 2, 4.
Pius II., Pope, 34, 87.
Polleclevan, xxii., 2, 3, 7.
Polleclonecrangali, xxiii., 2, 3, 7.
Pollemulin, xxiii., 2, 3, 7.
Pont, Timothy, xxi.
Porterfield, John, minister of Ayr, 122, 126.
Potter, Robert, 116.
Preston, Mr. John, of Fentonbams, 4, 132.
Prestoun, Stephen, burgh clerk of Ayr, 104.
Primrose, James, clerk of council, 146.
Pulraskan, the burn of, 90, 91.
Purveyance, Alexander, notary, 155, 161.
Raith, Alexander, burgess of Ayr, 93.
Raith, Sir Thomas, chaplain, 47, 109.
Ranken, Robert, burgess of Ayr, 105.
Ranken, William, notary, 116, 131.
Rankine, Theophilus, 195-198.
Recbt, Alexander, younger, 94.
Reed, Mathew, 196.
Reformation, the, 109.
Reid, Sir Arthur, chaplain, 94, 95.
Reid, James, doctor, 161.
Reid, John, 212.
Reid, John, bailie in Newtoun of Ayr, 213-
219.
Reid, John, flesher, 192.
Reid, Richard, bailie of Ayr, 104.
Reid, Robert, messenger, 61.
Reid (Red), Thomas, 91.
Reid, William, dean of gild, Ayr, 69, 202, 211.
Remiston, 168.
Renfrewshire, xxv.
Restalrig, the dean of, 42.
Richardson, John, commissioner for the burgh
of Stirling, 28, 29.
Richie, Adam, provost of Ayr, 59, 60, 61.
Ridhalch's Moss, 90, 91.
Ritchert, Gilbert, bailie, 161.
Ritchie, Adam, bailie, 161, 162.
Robert I., King of Scots, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24.
Robert II., King of Scots, xxvi., xxx., 134, 136.
Robert III., King of Scots, 25, 26, 135, 136.
Robert de Londoniis, son of King William the
Lion, 2, 4.
Robert, Steward of Scotland, 9.
Robertson, Henry, commissioner for the burgh
of Montrose, 28, 29.
Robin, William, 211.
Roger, son of Glennay, 14, 15.
Rolland, John, 91.
Rolland, Thomas, curate of Ayr, 95, 96.
Rollok, Mr. Peter, bishop of Dunkeld, 4, 132.
Roman road, xxii., xxiv.
Roodland, the, 139-142, 147.
Rood Altar, the, in Church of Ayr, 132.
Ros, Abraham, 196.
Ross, John, mariner, 131.
Rothes, earl of, 52.
Rothesay, David, duke of, 26, 27.
Rowallane, the laird of, 73.
Roxburgh, 14, 15, 18.
Rutherglen, xxiv.
Salmon Cruives of Ayr, 147.
Sanders, Blais, 106.
Sandelands, Mr. John, 149, 151.
Sandgate of Ayr, xxx., xxxi., 80-82.
Sandheaps in Ayr, 67, 68, 80-82.
Sandiefurd, lands of, 194.
Schaw, Alexander, of Clauchfyn, 149.
Schaw, John, 190.
Schaw, Sir John, chaplain, 95, 96.
Schaw, Quintin, of Grimett, 190.
Scherar, John, messenger, 132.
Scot, Thomas, of Baillielands, 85, 86.
Scott, J., clerk of Council, 41.
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INDEX.
Scott, Mr. James, provost of Corstorphine, 42,
106.
Scott, Sir John, of Scotstarvet, 167.
Selkirk, Charles, earl of, 74.
Sellator, Hugh, bailie of Ayr, 9, 20, 24.
Sempill, Mr. James, minister at Carmichael,
174, 176.
Sempill, John, notary, 174.
Sempill, William, prebendar of Ayr, 168.
Sempill, Mr. William, regent of Glasgow, 174.
Senescallus, Alan, 7.
Seneacallus, Robert, Steward of Scotland, 9.
Senescallus, Walter, son of Alan, 7.
Senescallus, Walter the, of Scotland, 22, 78.
Seton, David, of Parbroth, comptroller, 12.
Shaw, Alan, 96.
Shaw, John, of Haly, 37, 39, 96.
Shaw, John, notary in Maybole, 183.
Shaw, John, of Hayle, 78.
Sinclair, Mr. Henry, dean of Glasgow, 42, 106.
Sinclair, Mr. John, dean of Restalrig, 16, 42, 106.
Sinclair, Sir John, 109.
Sixtus IV., Pope, 89, 94.
Skene, Mr. John, clerk register, 4, 6, 12, 13,
122, 132, 134.
Slaphouse Burn, the, xx.
Sloce, Richard, 197.
Smith, Henry, 205, 209, 211.
Smith (Faber), John, burgess of Ayr, 9, 20, 24,
160, 161.
Smith, Joseph, bailie of Ayr, 69, 72, 202, 206-
211.
Smyth, Donald, dean of gild of Ayr, 59, 60, 61 ;
treasurer, 142, 161.
Snelle, William, notary, 35.
Spens, Mr. John, 106.
Spot, Ninian, comptroller, 31.
Spreule, John, 194.
Sprewl, Thomas, of Coldoun, 35, 88.
St. Andrews, Walter, bishop of, 26, 27.
St. Andrews, William, bishop of, 9.
St. John's, parish church of Ayr, xxviii., 95, 96,
101, 102.
St. Mark's cross, 90, 91.
St. Michael's fair at Ayr, 32, 34, 87, 88.
St. Ninian's of Whitherne, xxviii.
Stenestoun, John, in Newtoun, 61.
Stephenson (Stephani), Henry, chaplain, 9, 20,
24.
S m, Alexander of, knight, 21.
Steven, William, in Maybole, 138, 139.
Stevenson, Mr. John, chantor of Glasgow, 42,
106.
Stevenson, Thomas, prior of the Friars Preachers,
102, 104.
Stewart, Adam, provost of Ayr, 117, 122, 127,
141, 142.
Stewart, Alan, brother of the lord Darnley, 82.
Stewart, Anna, relict of James Kennedy of
Blairquhan, 166, 167, 168, 183-190.
Stewart, John, bailie of Ayr, 51, 59, 60, 61, 161.
Stewart, John, earl of Buchan, 80-82.
Stewart, John, lord, of Darnley, 78.
Stewart, Josias, of Boniton, 151, 152, 162, 164-
179, 184.
Stewart (Senescallus), Murdach, knight, 78.
Stewart, Thomas, of Galstoun, 47.
Stewart, Thomas, 94, 95.
Stewart (Senescallus), Walter the, 18, 19, 22, 78.
Stewart, William, 112.
Stewart, Sir William, provost of Ayr, xxix., 114.
Stewart, William, brother of lord Ochiltrie, 149.
Stirling, burgh of, 28, 29.
Stirling, chapel royal of, 162-179, 184-190.
Stirling, general council held at, 27-29.
Stirling, parliament at, 52.
Stirling (Strivelin), Henry of, son of earl David,
7.
Stob Acre Ford, the, 103, 105.
Strathearn, Robert, earl of, 9.
Strathurd, 21.
Syik, the moss of, 90, 91.
Tarbat, George, viscount of, 74.
Tayt, Thomas, 95, 96.
Tenne Acres, the lands of, 84, 85.
Thirlestane, John, lord chancellor, 11.
Thomson, John, notary, 96, 101.
Thomson, William, esquire, 93.
Tod, A., clerk of Council, 110.
Traquair (Trauequere), 18, 19.
Trinity, the Holy, aisle of, in parish church of
Ayr, 95, 96.
Tungland, William, commendator of, 4, 132.
Urqdhart, Alexander, lord president, 11.
Valonis, Philip of, 2, 4.
INDEX.
233
Valonis, William of, 2, 4.
Vaus, Mr. Thomas, dean of Glasgow, 31.
Wallace, Adam, of Newton, 102, 103, 104,
105.
Wallace, Edward, of Shewalton, 191.
Wallace, Hew, 196.
Wallace, Hugh, of Smithstoun, 92, 93, 103, 105.
Wallace, James, messenger, 141.
Wallace, Janet, relict of David Craufurd, 128,
129.
Wallace, John, of Cragy, 191.
Wallace, Laurence, burgess of Ayr, 93.
Wallace, Mathew, of Coschogil, 93.
Wallace (WaUes), Mathew, of Crago, alderman
of Ayr, 37, 39, 40, 98.
Wallace, Michael, 39, 40.
Wallace, Robert, of Holmstoun, 137, 138.
Wallace, William, son and apparent heir of
Mathew Wallace of Crago, 39, 40.
Wallace, Sir William, of Cragy, 212.
Walker, Alexander, fisher, 213-216.
Walker (Valcar), James, burgess of Ayr, 87, 88.
Walker, John, burgess of Ayr, 93 ; bailie, 101.
Walkmill, the, of Ayr, 92, 93.
Walter, bishop of St. Andrews, 26, 27.
Walter, the king's chaplain, 2, 4.
Walter, son of Alan the Steward, 7, 10.
Watson, David, 182.
Watson, James, officer of Ayr, 61.
Watt, George, 196.
Weir, David, in Maybole, 167.
Wemyss, Andrew, of Myrecairnie, 4, 12, 132.
Were, Rocaldo, knight, 78.
White (Quhit), George, 91.
White, Margaret, 94.
Whitehall (Quhythall), 58, 59, 62, 69.
Whitheme, St. Ninian's of, xxviii.
Wight, James, fisher, 213-217.
Wigmoir, Katherine, alias Limmer, 106.
Wigtonshire, lands in, 199.
William, bishop of St. Andrews, 9.
William, chaplain to the king, 2, 4.
William the Lion, King of Scots, xix., xxiii.,
xxxii., 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 64, 135.
William III., King of Scots, 73, 74.
Williamson, Thomas, burgess of Ayr, 16 ; bailie,
87, 88.
Wilson, Archibald, burgess of Ayr, 107.
Wilson, James, 213-218.
Wilson, James, 94, 95.
Wilson, Robert, in Newtoun upon Ayr, 213-218.
Wine, imposts on, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 203-
212.
Winzett, Mr. Thomas, 196.
Wishart, Adam, bailie of Ayr, 92, 93, 98.
Wishart, John, dean of gild, 98, 101.
Wod, Niel, 35.
Wood. (See Boscho.)
Wood (Wode), James, chaplain, 15.
Worland, Henry, 106.
Wylie, Alexander, notary, GO.
Wylie, Henry, fisher, 213-220.
Young, Mr. George, archdean of St. Andrew-.
134.
Young, Mr. John, 111.
Young, William, in Newtoun, 61.
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