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CHARTERS

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Elbbey of Crosraguel

VOL, IL

EDINBURGH
PRINTED FOR THE AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY ARCHZOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

MDCCCLXXXVI

Printed by R. & R. Clark

FOR

r P DAVID DOUGLAS, EDINBURGH

LIBRARY
JUL 22 1980

AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY
ARCHAOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

President,
Tue EARL or STAIR, K.T., LL.D., V.P.S.A. Scot., Lord-Lieutenant
of Ayrshire and Wigtonshire.

Victe-Presidvents,
Tar DUKE or PORTLAND.
THe MARQUESS or BUTE, K.T., LL.D., F.S.A. Scot.
Toe MARQUESS or AILSA.
THE EARL or EGLINTON anp WINTON.
THE EARL or GALLOWAY.
THE EARL or GLASGOW, F.S.A. Scot., Lord Clerk Register of Scotland.
Tue LORD HERRIES, Lord-Lieutenant of the Stewartry.
TuE Ricut Hon. Sm JAMES FERGUSSON, Bart., M.P., K.C.M.G., LL.D.
Tue Ricut Hon. Sir J. DALRYMPLE-HAY, Bart., C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S,
Sm M. SHAW-STEWART, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire.
Sir ANDREW AGNEW, Bart., of Lochnaw.
Str WILLIAM WALLACE, Bart., of Lochryan.
Stir WILLIAM J. MONTGOMERY-CUNINGHAME, Barr., V.C., of Corsehill.
Sir HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Bart., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot.
R. A. OSWALD, Esq., of Auchincruive.

Hon, Secretaries for Ayrshire,

R. W. COCHRAN-PATRICK of Woodside, LL.D., F.S.A., Hon. Sec. S.A. Scot.
Tue Hon. HEW DALRYMPLE, F:S.A. Scot. (for Carrick).
J. SHEDDEN-DOBIE of Morishill, F.S.A. Scot. (for Cunninghame).
R. MUNRO, M.D., M.A., F.S.A. Scot.

Hon, Secretaries for Galloway,

THE Rev. G. WILSON, Glenluce, C.M.S.A. Scot.
Str HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Barr., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot.

Treasurer,
C. G. SHAW, Esq., County Buildings, Ayr.

Council, .

Tue Hon. HEW DALRYMPLE, F:S.A. Scot.

Sm HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Bart., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot.
CoLtonEL HUNTER-WESTON of Hunterston, F.S.A.

F. T. R. KENNEDY of Dunure.

J. MACDONALD, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot., Glasgow.

R. MUNRO, M.D., M.A., F.S.A. Scot., Kilmarnock.

R. WYLIE, Castle Pen, Kilwinning.

J. SHEDDEN-DOBIE of Morishill, F.S.A. Scot., Beith.

R. D. MURDOCH, Ayr.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

List of Members, 1886.

AFFLECK, John, Union Bank, Glasgow.

Agnew, Alexander, 11 Reform Street, Dundee.

AGNEW, Sir Andrew, Lochnaw, Stranraer.

AGNEW, R. Vans, of Barnbarroch, Wigtonshire.

Arisa, Marquess of, Culzean Castle, Maybole.

AITKEN, A., Solicitor, Stranraer.

ALEXANDER, General Sir Claud, of Ballochmyle, Bart., Mauchline.
ALEXANDER, Dr,, Dundonald.

ALEXANDER, Hugh, Bank Street, Irvine.

ALLAN, Rev. William, Manse of Mochrum, Port-William.
ALLIson, R. A., Scaleby Hall, Carlisle.

Aston, Charles, Redhouse, Ayr.

ANDERSON, J., Carthgale, Kilmarnock,

ANDERSON, W., 149 West George Street, Glasgow.
AnpDREWS, David, Solicitor, Girvan.

ANTIQUARIES, Society of, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.
ArRmoovr, John, jun., Architect, Irvine.

ARMSTRONG, R. B., 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh.
ArtTuor, J. F., C.S.1, Lochside House, New Cumnock.
ArtHur, M., 9 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow.

Ayr, Burgh of.

BAILEY, J. Lambert, Banker, Ardrossan.

Barrp, J. G. A., of Adamton, Wellwood, Muirkirk.
BARBER, James, Architect, Dumfries.

BARTLEMORE, J., of Bourtrees, Paisley.

Baxter, D., Ladyburn, Kilkerran, Maybole.
Buarr, Archibald, Surgeon, Dalry, Ayrshire.
Buair, Captain, of Blair, Dalry, Ayrshire.

Buatr, Lady Hunter-, Blairquhan, Maybole.

Buarr, Rev. D. Oswald Hunter-, 0.8.B., St. Benedict’s Monastery,
Fort Augustus.

Buarr, F. C. Hunter-, F.S.A. Scot., 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh.
BoRLAND, J., Chemist, Kilmarnock.

BoswE1., P. C. D., of Garrallan, Cumnock.

Bowlg, J. H., Union Bank, Coatbridge.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

Boyp, Colonel Hay, of Townend, Symington.

Boyp, D. A., Seamill, West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

Boyt, Captain, of Shewalton, The Pavilion, Ardrossan.
BrisBang, C. T., of Brisbane, Largs.

Brown, A. J. Dennistoun, of Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire.
Brown, D., Banker, Maybole.

Brown, D., Townend Cottage, Dalry.

Brown, George, Burnside, Irvine.

Brown, J. Oswald, Orangefield, Monkton.

Brown, J. T., Gibraltar House, Edinburgh.

Brown, Miss, of Lanfine, Newmilns.

Brown, Robert, Underwood Park, Paisley.

Browne, Rev. A., The Manse, Beith.

Bucuanay, A., of Curriehill, Edinburgh.

Bure, Marquess of, Mountstuart, Rothesay.

CAIRD, Sir James, K.C.B., 3 St. James’ Square, London, S.W.
CarRNEY, William, 4 Park Grove Terrace, West, Glasgow.
CALDWELL, James, Craigielea, Paisley.

CAMERON, John, National Bank, Whithorn.

CAMPBELL, Colonel Sir A., Bart., of Blythswood, M.P., 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.
CAMPBELL, Captain W. H., Treesbanks, Kilmarnock.
CarFraE, Robert, 77 George Street, Edinburgh.
CarMENT, J., LL.D., 32 Albany Street, Edinburgh.
CarRICK, Joseph, Merlewood, Sale, Cheshire.
CARRUTHERS, David, Market Lane, Kilmarnock.
CHALLoNER, N. B., Royal Bank, Kilmarnock.
Curistiz, William, Royal Bank, Irvine.
Comriz, Alexander, Accountant, Dalry.
Conway, Rev. James, Springburn, Glasgow.
Cooper, Mrs. A. F., of Failford, Tarbolton.
CoPLAND, James, General Register House, Edinburgh.
Cowan, Hugh, St. Leonards, Ayr.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

CrAvFuRD, E. H. J., of Auchenames, West Kilbride.
CrAwrFurpD, T. Macknight, of Cartsburn, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh.

CRICHTON, James Arthur, Sheriff of The Lothians and Peebles,
13 Nelson Street, Edinburgh.

Crum, A., of Thornliebank, Glasgow.
CUNINGHAME, John, Ironmaster, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

CunINcHAME, Sir W. J. M., Bart., V.C., of Corsehill, Kirkbride
House, Maybole.

CUNINGHAME, W. ©. S., of Caprington, Kilmarnock.
Currig, Dr., Hydropathic Establishment, Skelmorlie.
CurTHBeErT, Alex. A., 14 Newton Terrace, Glasgow.

DALRYMPLE, C., New Hailes, Musselburgh.
DALRYMPLE, C. E., Kinellar Lodge, Aberdeenshire.
DALRYMPLE, Hon. Hew, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer.
DALRYMPLE, Hon. North, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer.
DALRYMPLE, Hon. Robert, Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy.
Day, Robert, yr., 3 Sydney Place, Cork.

Dick, G. G., 3 Barns Street, Ayr.

Dicks, James, Town Clerk, Irvine.

Dickigz, Hugh, Rector, Academy, Kilmarnock.

Dickigz, James, 13 Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.C.
Dickie, James, London Road, Kilmarnock. .

Dickson, George, Sheriff-Substitute of Galloway, Auchendoon,
Newton-Stewart.

Dickson, T., General Register House, Edinburgh.
Dosstx, Robert, M.D., 3 Wellington Square, Ayr.
Dosir, J. Shedden, F.S.A. Scot., of Morishill, Beith.
Dona.pson, J., Sunnyside, Formby, near Liverpool.
Doveuas, David, 154 Castle Street, Edinburgh.
Dovetas, J. C., M.D., Whithorn, Wigtonshire.
Dove.as, W. D. Robinson, of Orchardton, Castle Douglas.
Drew, James, Doonhill, Newton-Stewart.

Duncan, James Dalrymple, 211 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Dunwop, David, Solicitor, Ayr.

Duwnuop, W. H., of Annanhill, Kilmarnock.

Duntop, W. H., of Doonside, Solicitor, Ayr.

Dunn, John, Solicitor, Castle-Douglas.

LIST OF MEMBERS. ix

EASTON, John, C.A., 41 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow.
105 EauinTon 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, James M., Observer Office, Ayr.

110 Fercusson, Right Hon. Sir James, Bart., K.C.M.G., of Kilkerran,
M.P., Maybole.

FINLAY, John, Greenfield, Alloway, Ayr.
FLEMING, James, Wood Lane, 28 Broomielaw, Glasgow.
FLEMING, James, Kilmory, Skelmorlie.
FLint, John, 2 Montgomerie Terrace, Ayr.
115 Forsytu, John, Teacher, Castle-Douglas.
Foster, W. K., 45 Leinster Gardens, Hyde Park, London, W.
Franks, Augustus W., British Museum, London.
FRASER, Gordon, Bookseller, Wigton.

Fraser, W., W.S., Deputy Keeper of the Records, 32 Castle Street,
Edinburgh.

120 GALLOWAY, Earl of, Galloway House, Wigtonshire.
Garpner, Alexander, Publisher, Paisley.
GARDNER, William, Shawl Manufacturer, Paisley.
Gepprs, G. H., 142 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
GEMMELL, Thomas, Banker, Ayr.
125 GEMMELL, William, 150 Hope Street, Glasgow.
GILLESPIE, William, Solicitor, Castle-Douglas.
Gitmour, A., Solicitor, Irvine.
Gitmovr, Allan, Woodend, Kilmarnock.
GirvAN, J. Graham, 186 West George Street, Glasgow.
130 GLAscow and GaLLoway, Bishop of, Ayr.
Guascow, Earl of, Crawford Priory, Cupar-Fife.
Guascow, R. B. Robertson, of Montgreenan, Kilwinning.
Gorpon, A. J., Factor, Kirkcudbright.
GouniE, Robert, Solicitor, Ayr.
135 Grauwaw, J., of Broadstone, Stranraer.
Gray, G., Clerk of the Peace, Glasgow.
GREENWELL, Rey. Canon, Durham.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.

Grete, T. C., Rephad, Stranraer.
Gururiz, Arthur, J.P., Ardrossan.

140 HAMILTON, Alexander, Solicitor, Irvine.

Hamitton, Captain, of Pinmore, Girvan.

Hamiuron, Frank §., Cairnhill, Kilmarnock.

Hamiuton, George, Ardendee, Kirkcudbright.

Hamitton, H. M., 10 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London.
145 Hamitron, J., Town-Clerk, Kilmarnock.

Hamitron, J. G., Orchard Hill, Kilmarnock.

Hamitton, J. Wallace, of Cairnhill, Kilmarnock.

Haminton, John, of Sundrum, Ayr.

Hamitton, Mrs. M. C., 13 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham.
150 Hannan, A., Cairnsmore, Bellahouston, Govan.

Harper, M. M‘L., British Linen Company Bank, Castle-Douglas.

Hay, Captain J. F. Dalrymple, Craigenroch, Glenluce.

Hay, Right Hon. Sir John C, Dalrymple, Bart., of Park, Wigton-
shire.

Henry, David, Architect, Church Square, St. Andrews.
155 Herrtss, Lord, Kinharvey, New Abbey, Dumfries.
Horne, Robert R., 150 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Hosack, James, Ellerslie, Kirkcudbright.
HovuLpsworta, William, Mt. Charles, Ayr.
Howatson, Charles, of Glenbuck, by Lanark.
160 Hume, Archibald, of Auchendolly, Dalbeattie.
Hunter, Andrew, Ayr.
Hunter, David, Sea Tower, Ayr.
Hunter, E. A., Newark Castle, Ayr.
Hunter, Mrs., of Hunter, Clifford Lodge, Largs.
165 Hurcuison, Graham, of Balmaghie, Castle Douglas.

IRVINE, Burgh of.

JOHNSTON, D., 160 West George Street, Glasgow.

JOHNSTON, T. B., Geographer to the Queen, 9 Claremont Crescent,
Edinburgh.

Jonas, A. C., 4 St. James’ Crescent, Swansea.

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LIST OF MEMBERS. xi

KAY, R. M., Clydesdale Bank, Ayr.
Kerru, Rey. W. A., Burham Vicarage, Rochester.

KENNEDY, Captain Clark, of Knockgray, Henbury, Wimbourne,
Dorset.

KENNEDY, F. T. R., of Dunure, Ayr.

KeEnnepy, J. Murray, yr., of Knocknalling, Dalry, Galloway.
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.

Kine, H. B., Commercial Bank, Kilwinning.

Kina, Walter, Paisley.

Kinna, James G., Heron Cottage, Newton-Stewart.

KirkcupBricHt Musrvum, per George Hamilton, Ardendee, Kirk-
cudbright.

KirkHope, Thomas, Writer, Ardrossan.
Knox, R. W., of Moor Park, Kilbirnie.

LAING, Alexander, LL.D., Newburgh-on-Tay.

Lamp, J. B., Architect, Paisley.

LANDSBOROUGH, Rev. D., Kilmarnock.

LEADBETTER, Thomas, Westerhouse, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh.
Leck, Henry, of Hollybush, Ayr.

LrvinesTon, Rev. N., D.D., Free Church Manse, Coylton, Ayr.
LockHart, John, Sheriff-Clerk Depute, Ayr.

Lonpon Liprary, 12 St. James’ Square, London, S.W.
LorraInE, Dr., Castle Douglas.

Low, Rev. W. F., B.D., Edgehill Manse, Kilmarnock.

M‘ALISTER, J., Surgeon, Kilmarnock.

M‘Catt, James, 6 St. John’s Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow.

M‘CatL, James, Monreith Arms, Port-William.

M‘CatLum, Robert, Town Chamberlain, Ayr.

M‘Cutery, William, Balminnoch, Kirkcowan.

M‘CLELLAND, A. S., 115 St. Vincent St., Glasgow.

M‘Connacuig, J. A., C.E.,12 Victoria Road, Kensington, London, W.

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LIST OF MEMBERS

Monnet, William, of Knockdolian, Girvan.

M‘Cosu, James M., Solicitor, Dalry.

M‘Cussn, W. F., Solicitor, 5 Alloway Place, Ayr.

M‘Cut.ocn, Thomas, Founder, Kilmarnock.

M‘Cutocn, David, Beech Grove, Kilmarnock.

M‘Ewen, Robert F., of Bardrochwood, 20 Buckingham Terrace,
Edinburgh.

M‘Frm, Alexander, Banker, Whithorn.

MGrnpon, D., 92 George Street, Edinburgh.

M‘Grezon, William, Draper, Stranraer.

M‘Gricor, Dr. A. B., 19 Woodside Terrace, Glasgow.

M‘Harrig, George W. Gordon, Corsemalzie, Whauphill, Wigton-
shire.

M‘Harriz, Wm. J., Torhousemuir, Wigton.

Manner, W. D., Solicitor, Irvine.

M‘Keruik, P. H., 26 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, London, W.
M‘KeErre.L, R. M., of Hillhouse, Dundonald.

M‘Kerrow, Dr., Ayr.

M‘Kir, J., Publisher, Kilmarnock.

M‘MickinG, Gilbert, 55 Princes Gate, London, 8.W.
MacarTHuR, Lady, 27 Princes Gardens, London, 8.W.
MacponaLp, A. G., The Crescent, Ardrossan.

MacponaLp, J., LL.D., 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Kelvinside,
Glasgow.

Macponatp, J. C. R., W.S., Dumfries.

Macpovatt, James, of Logan, Stranraer.

Macpowat., Henry, younger, of Garthland, Lochwinnoch.
MACFARLANE, Dr., Kilmarnock.

Macerecor, P. Comyn, of Brediland, Paisley.

MacksEAn, J. A., Maryfield, Paisley.

Macxenzig, Alexander, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley.
MACKENZIE, James, Solicitor, Stranraer.

Macks, Daniel, of Knockgerran, Girvan.

Macxig, Robert, Draffen House, Stewarton.

Mackinnon, William, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Mac eon, Rev. W.,5 Thirlestane Road, Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh.

MacrHERSON, Professor Norman, Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway,
2 Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh.

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LIST OF MEMBERS. xiii

Macrorig, William, Solicitor, Ayr.

Marruews, Rev. G. D., D.D., Quebec.

MAXWELL, Mrs., of Carruchan, Dumfries.
MAXWELL, Francis, of Gribton, Dumfries.
MAXWELL, Sir Herbert Eustace, Bart., M.P., of Monreith, Whauphill.
MaxweEL., J. H., Editor, Castle Douglas.
MAxwELL, W. H., of Munches, Kirkcudbright.
MAXWELL, Wellwood, of Kirkennan, by Dalbeattie.
Mercer, John, C.E., Ayr.

Mippiemas, W., Town-Clerk’s Office, Kilmarnock.
MiuER, Robert, Alloway Cottage, Ayr.

Mimroy, Dr. A., Kilwinning.

MircHELL, Dr. A., 34 Drummond Place, Edinburgh.
MITCHELL, J. O., 69 East Howard Street, Glasgow.
MITCHELL LipraryY, Ingram Street, Glasgow.
Montcomerti®, J. C., Dalmore, Stair.

Moors, J. Carrick, of Corsewall, Stranraer.

Morris, A. Pollok, of Craig, Kilmarnock.

Morris, James A., A.R.LB.A., 16 Adamson Road, St. John’s Wood,
London, N.W.

Morton, John M. M., of Belmont, Ayr.

Monro, Dr. R., Kilmarnock.

MURCHLAND, Charles, Publisher, Irvine,
Murvocu, John, Architect, Ayr.

Morvocu, J. B., Barclay, Langside, Glasgow.
Morpocu, R. D., Fairfield Lodge, Ayr.

Murray, David, 169 West George Street, Glasgow.
Murray, William, Barns Park, Ayr.

Mutter, W., of Meiklelaught, Ardrossan.

NICOLSON, Sheriff, Greenock.

OLIVER, Rev. J., Belhaven, Dunbar.
OswALD, R. A., of Auchineruive, Ayr.

PARLANE, James, Rusholme, Manchester.
PATERSON, John, of Knowehead, Irvine.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

PATERSON, Sheriff Orr, Ayr.

Paton, Hugh, Seedsman, Kilmarnock,

Paton, James B., Merchant, Ayr.

Paton, Robert, Gartferry, Ayr.

Paton, Theophilus, of Swinlees, Dalry.
Patrick, Miss Cochran-, Ladyland, Beith.
Patrick, R. W. Cochran-, of Woodside, Beith.
Patrick, W. Ralston, of Trearne, Beith.
Pup, Rev. George, Saltcoats.

PICKEN, James, Hillhouse Lodge, Fenwick.
Potxock, J., Victoria Works, Beith.

PotLock, John, Town-Clerk, Ayr.

PoLLock, William, Solicitor, Ayr.

PotioK, R. M., of Middleton, Ayr.

Porteous, J. S., Oakbank, Maybole.
PorTLAND, Duke of, per J. H. Turner, The Dean, Kilmarnock.

RAFF, James, 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow.
Ramsay, Dr., Lochwinnoch.

Ramsay, R., Greendyke Street, Glasgow.

Rem, Charles, Lily Mount, Kilmarnock.

Rew, H. G., Stationery Office, London.

Rew, J. G., Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, 12 Bel-
grave Place, Edinburgh.

REID, William, junior, 3 County Place, Paisley.
RENNIE, Thomas, Banker, Maybole.

Ross, George, 17 Scott Street, Garnethill, Glasgow.
RoBERTSON, Rev. W. B., Westfield, West Calder.
Ross, James, 11 Langlands Street, Kilmarnock.
Ross, Alexander M., Town-Chamberlain, Paisley.
Rowat, William, St. Margaret’s, Paisley.

RuSssELL, William D., of Maulside, Dalry, Ayrshire.

SCOTT, John, Hawkhill, Greenock.
Sepy, R. B., M.D., Port-William.
SHaw, Charles G., Ayr.

Sianer Liprary, Edinburgh.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

Situ, Rev. George Muir, 6 Clarendon Place, Stirling.
SOMERVELL, James, of Sorn, Mauchline.

Starr, Earl of, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer.
STEELE, Ex-Provost, Ayr.

STEPHEN, William, 31 Sandgate Street, Ayr.

STEVENSON, Allan, Architect, Ayr.

STEVENSON, T. G., 22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh,
STEVENSON, William, Witch Road, Kilmarnock.

Stewart, H. G. Murray, of Cally, Gatehouse.

Stewart, J., Heathfield, Irvine.

Stewart, J. Leveson D., 61 Linden Gardens, Bayswater, London, W.
Stewart, Mark J., M.P., Ardwell, Wigtonshire.

Stewart, Sir Michael Shaw, Bart., of Ardgowan, Greenock.
STEWART, Robert Hathorn Johnston, Glasserton, Whithorn.
Stoppart, James H., Glasgow Herald Office, Glasgow.
Stoppart, R. R., Lyon Clerk-Depute, Edinburgh.
StrrRuTHERS, A. W., 3 Barns Terrace, Ayr.

Sturrock, Arthur, British Linen Company Bank, Kilmarnock.
SrurRocK, J., junior, Solicitor, Kilmarnock,

SturRocK, Provost, M.P., Kilmarnock.

Symineton, G., Banker, Glenluce.

TAYLOR, Mrs. William, London Road, Kilmarnock.
THomson, Rev. J. H., Free Church Manse, Hightae, Lockerbie.
Topp, Hugh, Solicitor, Stranraer.

TROTTER, Robert de Bruce, M.D., Perth.

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.

VERNON, Hon. G. R., Auchans, Dundonald.
Vivian, A. P., St. James St., Buckingham Gate, London, 8,W.

WALES, James, of Buckstone, Rawdon, Yorkshire.
Watker, Alex., Wine Merchant, Kilmarnock.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

Watker, J., 74 Bath Street, Glasgow.
WALuace, Charles, Dally, Kirkcolm, Stranraer.
340 WALLACE, Sir William, Lieut.-Col., of Lochryan, Stranraer.
Watet, Duncan, 15 Billiter Street, London.
Warrack, Rev. Alexander, Free Church Manse, Leswalt, Stranraer.
Watson, J., Wallace Bank, Kilmarnock.
Wer, William, of Kildonan, Portland Ironworks, Kilmarnock.
345 Weston, Col. Hunter-, of Hunterston, West Kilbride.
Wuu1amson, Walter, Solicitor, Beith.
Witson, Rev. G., Free Church Manse, Glenluce, Wigtonshire.
Witson, R. Dobie, 38 Upper Brook Street, London, W.
Woop, Adam, Portland Villa, Troon.
350 Wricut, Hugh, of Alticry, Port-William.
Wvrur, R., Kilwinning.

YOUNG, David, Town-Clerk, Paisley.

PREFACE

Tuts collection comprises all the documents at present known
to exist relative to the history of Crosraguel Abbey. The
Chartulary or Register of the Monastery, which was quoted by
several writers of last century, and was actually in the pos-
session of the Earl of Cassillis in 1729, has been irretrievably
lost ; and when I commenced some years ago to collect and
edit these Charters, the only materials at hand were a few
worthless legends, to be sternly discarded by the historian.
The present collection will, it is hoped, be found to contain
much that is entirely new to our local history, and to give a
tolerably complete narrative of the fortunes of the Abbey,
with many glimpses at its interior economy, for a period of
over 350 years. There are many gaps in the sequence of
events, notably during the latter part of the fourteenth, and
earlier part of the fifteenth centuries. Yet those were the
dark ages in our national history, and few monasteries can
boast of many memorials of that stormy period, save sacrilege,
plunder, and oppression. The cream of the collection is un-
doubtedly the series of muniments from the charter chest of

the Marquess of Ailsa at Culzean, to whose courtesy in allowing
VOL. I. .

xviii PREFACE.

the documents to be printed the Association is much indebted.
Looking to the fact that the private collections throughout
the country constitute an almost unexplored mine of historical
wealth, we cannot too highly commend Lord Ailsa’s public-

spirited example.

The Charters themselves are printed, as usual, without the
old contractions, which only serve to puzzle and fail to instruct.
I have endeavoured to weave them into a continuous narrative
in the Introduction, which, with the Explanatory Notes, will
enable the reader, it is hoped, to follow with ease and interest
the fortunes of an opulent Ayrshire Abbey from its foundation
to its fall.

Engravings are given of many of the most important among
the charters, seals, and royal autographs ; and the reproduc-
tion of several old prints of the Abbey will be found to be
of interest.

In conclusion, I must express my thanks to those who have
at all times given me generous assistance in the work, which
has been essentially a labour of love; especially to Mr. Cochran-
Patrick ; to the Rev. J. Cameron Lees, D.D., St. Giles, Edin-
burgh; to Mr. Joseph Bain, London; to Lord Talbot of
Malahide ; to M. Bruel, Archéviste Publique, Paris; to Mr.
Thomas Dickson, of the Register House; to the Rev. Walter
Macleod ; to Mr. Vans Agnew of Barnbarroch ; to the Rev.
J. F.S. Gordon, D.D.; to the Keepers of the various Public
Libraries ; and to many others. A special meed of praise is

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due to Mr. James Morris, F.S.A. Scot., for the care and skill
which he has displayed in executing the drawings of the
existing ruins of the Abbey buildings, and for his valuable
remarks on their architectural history.

F. C. HUNTER BLAIR.

BLAIRQUHAN, MAYBOLE, April 1886.

CONTENTS: OF VO. 1,

INTRODUCTION :

THE History oF THE ABBEY

§ 1. Lhe Foundation of the Abbey .

§ 2. The Abbey under the Bruces

§ 3. The Abbey under the first Stewarts

§ 4. The Abbacies of Colin, David, and Robert
§ 5. The Abbey under William Kennedy

§ 6. The Abbey under Quintin Kennedy

§ 7. Allan Stewart the Commendator

§ 8. The later history of the Abbey .

. THE REGALITY OF THE ABBEY .
Hi

THE CONVENTUAL SEAL.

ALLUSIONS TO CROSRAGUEL BY ANCIENT WRITERS

. THE ORDER OF CLUNY IN SCOTLAND

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Bull of Honorius III. confirming to the Monks of Paisley the Lands . bse
and Southblane [1225] , :

Confirmatio Alexandri regis Scotie, de tribus ecclesiis de Karryc, videlicet de Tornbir’,
de Stratton’, et de Dalmakeran, et de donatione denariate terre de Crosragmol,
et de Sut’blan in Carrek [5th August 1236]

Scriptum de Crosragmol [15th August 1244] :
Contra Abbatem de Crosragmol [6th February and 11th June 1265]

Bull by Clement IV., i a to the Monks of mid the Lands id cbebiis
[1269]

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Appendix I. (Bagimonts Roll). Tazatio Beneficiarum Preter Prelacias Scotie in
decima parte eorundem—Anno MCCLXXV. ;
Donatio ecclesie Sancti Querani in Kentyir per Alexandrum de Hyle [circa 1286]

Letter from Henry de Percy, at Sc to Sir James Dalileghe [25th July
1306] : : ; : : :

Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [4th June 1324].
Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [1324] .
Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [20th July 1327]
Gifts to Crosraguel from the Royal Purse [1329-30]

Charter by Marjory de Montgomery to John Kennedy, of the Lands of Cassillis in
Carrick [not dated : circa 1360] . : :

Instrumentum visitationis et resignationis Abbatie de Crosragmol [27th September
1370]

Allusion to Abbot Roger in Fordun [1370]

Charter by Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, to John Kennedy of Dunure, of
the lands of Treuchane and Kenethane [no date: circa 1370] 3

Confirmacio Monasterti de Crosragmer [14th November 1374]
Confirmacio Abbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer [14th November 1374]
Confirmacio Monasterii de Corsragmer [14th November 1374]

Indenture between Thomas Fleming and John Kennedy of Dunure, for the Wadset
to the latter of the lands of Cumbernauld [16th February 1374] .

Charter by John Kennedy of Dunure to the Baie of 8. =e of ee [1st
March 1383-4] : s

Charter by King Robert the Third, granting to the Monastery of Crosraguel certain
Churches and Lands [24th August 1404} ; : :

Report on Crosraguel, in the Archives of the Abbey of Cluny [1405] .

Charter of John M'Gillelane to Fergus Kennedy of Bomonyn, of the sas aid of
the Barony of Glenstyncher [18th March 1415-6]

The Abbot of Crosraguel Ambassador to Ireland [1429]

Indenture between Lord Kennedy and his Son, and Gilbert airs of eave
[15th September 1465] 3 E :

Renunciatio subsidii Roberti episcopi Glasguensis [24th September 1487]
The rebuilding of Crosraguel by Abbot Colin [1480-90]

Instrumentum Abbatis et Conventus de Pasleto, inter eosdem et Magistrum David
Cunyngham decanum ruralem ad instantiam eorum excitatum [31st January
1489-90]

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Instrument of Resignation by Duncan Fergusson of Knockgarron in favour of John
Fergusson his Son, ¢ the lands of ere and ae sein oe
1490]

Charter by Colin Abbot if eine to John Feieen ‘ice Agnes nadie his
Wife of the Lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron [27th August 1490]

Precept by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John Fergusson and his Wife
in the lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron [29th August 1490] .

Consistorial Act relating to the election ss Robert nied to the Abbacy me
November 1491] :

Charter by Robert, Abbot of Crosraguel, to John Foun, y a pation of the lands
of Alticaple [26th May 1492]

Decision by the Lords Auditors in the Action by the Abbot of Cru ei
Thomas Kennedy of Bergany, [26th June 1493]

Decreet of Transumpt by the Official of Glasgow, of two Charters, obtained at the
instance of John Fergusson [12th December 1500] ‘ ‘

Precept by David Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John poe in the land ee
Altichapel [2d November 1501] :

Decree by the Lords of Council in an action by Abbot David ney, John Hamilton
[12th March 1501] . : ‘

Abbas de Pasleto [3d September 1509]

Facultas concessa ab Andrea Archiepiscopo Sanctiandree, legato a latere, de non
visitando Monasterium de Pasleto nec er aliud ‘eidem 'subjectum [5th
February 1515] 2 : ‘

Acts relating to the election of William Tidy [1520]

Charter by Sir James Douglas to the Earl of Cassillis of his house at Mayol
[20th December 1520] : : 7 :

Precept by Abbot William for infefting Niel Fergusson in the lands sé ees
and Altichapel [14th February 1523-4]

Instrument of Sasine proceeding on the aforesaid Precept [21st one 1523-4]

Surrender by Duncan, and Investiture of Niel Fergusson, of the lands of Knock-
garron, etc, by William Abbot of Crosraguel [7th July 1523]

Rental of Paisley Abbey .

Resignation by Niel Fergusson of Dein and Knockgarron into the hands
of William Abbot of Crosraguel [6th February 1526]

Procuratory by Niel Fergusson, appointing William Abbot of Crosraguel his
Procurator in his action [17th May 1527] :

Contract between the Earl of Cassillis and William Abbot of Crosraguel, his Tutor,
and James Kennedy of Blairquhan [28th May 1528] 7

Contract between William Abbot of Crosraguel and Mr. James Kennedy, Chamber-
lain to the Earl of Cassillis [29th January 1528] : :

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Slaughter—Deadly Feud [1528].

Letter of Reversion by David Kennedy of Pennyglen to William Abbot 7 mining
of the lands of Altichapel [1529] :

Licence to William Abbot of cad to pass pecine seas on his prin (8
April 1530]

Signature by James V. to William Abbot ¥ ce [12th April ae

. Copy of the Deed of Settlement of Egidia Blair, Lady Row, who lived in Carrick, in

the County of Air, executed on the 31st August 1530

Letter of Assedation by William Abbot of Crosraguel to James Kennedy of Blairquhan

Letter by Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the eet is the Abbot of Crosraguel he
July 1536] . :

Letter by Henry, Bishop of ie to the Abbot o ii i ue December
1536] : : :

Discharge by William Abbot of pista to the Earl of Cassillis a February
1539] ‘ ;

The Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis [23a March 1544- 5]

The Abbot of Crosraguel not to set the Fruits of the Abbey to the Earl of Cassillis
or James Gordon of Lochinver [22d November 1546] : :
The Contribution of Crosraguel Abbey to the General Taxation of the Church [1456 % ]
Discharge by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis ¢ all the os

of the late Abbot William [1st February 1548]

Gift by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the nonentries of
certain lands [19th May 1548] ,

Testamentumquondam reverendissimi patris et domini Gavini snslbeptoon Glasguensis
ac monasterti Insule missarum fae Commendatarti Sa bay 31st May
1548]

Letter of Escheat to Quintin Abbot of Clear [9th March 1550]

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel, to Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis
[10th March 1552] . : : :

Acquisition of the Lands of Glenluce Abbey by Gilbert Earl of Cassillis [1560]
Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to David suc of ne
[28th March 1560] . :

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of ne to John Kip f the
lands of Clonlicht [30th March 1560] ; :
Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis sf the

Teinds, etc., of the Church of Straiton [9th July 1560] .

Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel condemned by the General las ~ the Kirk (2r th
December 1560] :

The Valuation of the Abbacy of Groeraijudl (1561).

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Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel denounced Rebel for Siac scRs of the Third y his
Benefice [1561] ;

The Partial Destruction of Crosraquel Abbey sane

The three days’ disputation between Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel and John Kno,
on Maybole Green [28th September 1562] : : :

Letters of Citation for the Confirmation of the Commission of Bailiery t ia tide
granted to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis [2d October 1562]

Contract between Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel and Sir Hew Kennedy rani the
Salmon fishings in the River Girvan [19th January 1562]

' Assedation by Quintin Abbot: of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the whole

Benefice of the Abbey [8th April 1564]
Discharge by Abbot Quintin to the Earl of Cassillis of 350 merks er July ve
The reported Death by poison of Abbot Quintin Kennedy [22d August 1564] .

Gift to George Buchanan the Historian of a Yearly Pension iii the Rents of Cros-
raguel [9th October 1564] : ; :

Action by Mr. George Buchanan, Pensioner of Shae ee the Earl of
Cassillis [16th October 1564]. : :

Gift by Queen Mary to Allan Stewart of the Abbacy of Crosragquel [19th July ine)

Apostolic Letters by John Archbishop of S. Andrews to Allan Abbot of clash a
[26th September 1565] :

Instrument of Institution of Allan Stewart as Abbot to ae u 6th December
1565] :

Contract between Allan Abbot of Ancuueat and James Stewart of Cardonald 200
December 1565] ; : : :

Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart for five years, of certain
lands in the regality of the Abbey [dated 156-] ‘ :

Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of the teind sheaves of
the Churches of Kirkoswald, Girvan, and Dailly (dated 156-] ‘

Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of certain lands in feu- ed
[dated 156-] .

Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart 2 certain lands in as
farm [dated 156-] . : :

Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl ue Cassillis of the whole
benefice of the Abbey [dated 156-] :

Letter of Tack by Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scots, to Gilbert Earl a
Cassillis, of the Abbacy of Crosraguel for 19 years [1566] ‘

Gift by Pope Pius the Fifth to Mr. Allan Stewart 7 the A gis of acho
June 1566]. ;

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Precept of Sasine by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel for saab Janet Wallace in
certain lands [8th February 1567] :

. Report on Crosraguel by a Committee of the General oe [23d July $67)

Agreement between Allan Abbot of Crossaguel and Mr. George Buchanan regarding
the latter’s Pension [28th April 1568] : ;

Letter of Charge at the instance of Allan Abbot of Crosraguel [28th Toes 1569]
Renunciation by James Stewart to Allan Abbot of Crosraguel [8th May 1569]
Instrument of Resignation by James Stewart [18th August 1569]

Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a charter granted by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel
to David Kennedy of Pennyglen [1st September 1569] :

Charter by Abbot Allan to David Kennedy of Balserroch [1st September 1569]
Charter by Abbot Allan to William Kennedy of Brunston [1st September 1569]
Discharge by George Buchanan to the Earl of Cassillis [12th September 1569]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I.

CROSRAGUEL ABBEY. After an Etching by John Clerk of Eldin . Frontispiece
Map oF THE REGALITY OF CROSRAGUEL . ; . Between pages Wiii-lix -
. CHARTER BY MALcoLm or CARRICK To JoHN KENNEDY
OF DUNURE . 3 ; : : ; x 26-27 ~
INDENTURE BETWEEN THOMAS FLEMYNG AND JOHN Wi,
KENNEDY OF DUNURE : ; : ; Pa 30-31
CHARTER BY JOHN M‘GILLELANE To FreRGus KENNEDY
OF BoMUNYNE 3 ; ; ‘ ; a 40-41 4
. CHARTER BY Sir JAMES DouGLAS To THE EARL oF CASSILLIS oe 68-69%
LetTeR BY HeEnRy, BIsHop oF GALLOWAY, TO THE ABBOT
OF CROSRAGUEL ‘ F 3 : F To face page 98 =

CHARTER BY QUINTIN ABBOT OF CROSRAGUEL TO THE :
EARL OF CASSILLIS” . : , . Between pages 106-107 /—

INTRODUCTION

I. THe History or THE ABBEY.

Tue Abbey of S. Mary of Crosraguel has not hitherto been
widely known in Scottish history for two reasons ; (1) the loss
of the Chartulary and the consequently scattered condition of
the Charters and other documents, which have been collected
from many different sources, and are now printed together for
the first time ; (2) the fact that its Abbots did not, with few
exceptions, play as important a part in public affairs as the
heads of other monastic establishments. Yet they were men
held in high honour in their own country. Many of them, as
we shall find, sat in the various Parliaments of three hundred
years ; some of their number were from time to time members
of the Privy Council, Commissioners of State, Royal Ambas-
sadors, and high legal functionaries ; and under their rule the
Abbey was a centre of light to the surrounding districts. The
monks of Crosraguel were the agriculturists and the school-
masters of the time. Constant instances occur in these papers
of the care which they devoted to farming, to the working of
the coal-heughes, to the cultivation of woods, orchards,

gardens ; to the development of the fine arts, such as music
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xxii INTRODUCTION.

and architecture ; to philosophy, science, theology, and other
literary pursuits. Without doubt they did much to keep alive
in the hearts of the country people a knowledge of right and
wrong in very stormy times.

We shall find two leading features in tracing the history of
Crosraguel from its foundation ; first, a continuous endeavour
on the part of Paisley Abbey to retain its superiority over its
dependent house ; secondly, a lasting connection between the
Abbey itself and the great House of Kennedy, whose dominant

influence was humorously expressed in the old saw :—

“From Wigton to the toun of Ayr,
Port Patrick and the cruives of Cree ;
Man need not think for to byde there,
Unless he court with Kennedie.”
The Kennedies were maternally descended from the old Earl
of Carrick who founded the Abbey, and two of the family were

Abbots themselves.

§ 1. The Foundation of the Abbey.—1200-1268.

The golden age of Scottish ecclesiastical architecture,
inaugurated by David the First, the “sair sanct for the
Crown,” continued long after that monarch’s death, and until
the country was deluged with the Wars of Independence.
King David’s barons and their successors emulated their
sovereign’s example in founding churches and monasteries
throughout the land. And thus we find that at the close of
the twelfth century one Duncan, Earl of Carrick, to whom the
whole country of Carrick had been apportioned by William

@P ~teteBitewn 4th

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the Lion, granted some of his lands there to the Abbey of
Paisley, under certain conditions ;' namely, that the monks
of Paisley should found a monastery in Carrick after their
own Order of Cluny, and that these possessions should at once
be handed over to the new community. On the same terms

Earl Duncan granted to Paisley the patronage of the churches “

of Straiton, Dailly, and S. Oswald of Turnberry;? and
entrusted to its care the books, vestments, and other articles
necessary for the use and adornment of the future monastery.*

The monks of Paisley evaded the conditions of this muni-
ficent grant. The Church of Turnberry was confirmed to them
by Florence, the Bishop-elect of Glasgow, in 1202 ;* twenty-
three years later, Honorius III. confirmed to their use the
lands of Crosraguel and Southblane ;* and in 1236 they ©
received a confirmatory grant of the churches of Turnberry,
Straiton, and Dalmakeran, from Alexander the Second.
Meanwhile they built at Crosraguel a cell or oratory, where
they had service performed by some of their own community
for many years, enjoying all the while the wealthy emoluments
of the Carrick lands.’

In 1244 the Earl appears to have suddenly awoke to the
manner in which his munificent endowments were being
misapplied. He accordingly complained to the Abbey of
Paisley. William de Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow, was
appointed arbiter in the matter ; and the “Scriptum de Cors-
ragmol”*® records his decision. The Paisley monks were

Vol. i. pp.1-10. * Vol. i pp.2,5. 8 Voli. p.5 (note). + Vol. i p. 2 (note).
5 Vol. ip. 1 8 Vol. i. pp. 2-3. 7 Vol. i. pp. 6-10. 8 Vol. i. pp. 3-6.

xxiv INTRODUCTION.

forthwith to erect a monastery at Crosraguel, to be governed
by an Abbot, who should be elected by the monks, and be free
from the jurisdiction of the Abbot of Paisley. With one
exception—that the Abbot of Paisley should visit the younger
house once a year with a moderate retinue, and should correct
any irregularities which he found therein. Further, the lands
held in Carrick were to be ceded for ever to the house of
Crosraguel for the yearly payment of ten marks of silver.

Such was in effect the Charter of foundation; and Earl
Duncan himself superintended the erection of the church and
the surrounding buildings.' He died in 1250, and other hands
completed the work. He was a great benefactor to the Church.
He had granted his lands of Maybottle to the monks of Mel-
rose, and the parish church of Maybole to the Cistercian
Nunnery of North Berwick.’

Duncan was succeeded in the earldom by his son Nigel,
who figures in history as a leader of the English party, and as
a Regent of the kingdom after the Roxburgh Convention in
1255. Like his father he was a generous patron to Crosraguel,
and granted to the monastery various lands from his earldom
of Carrick.’

Before long, the old disputes as to the conflicting rights of
Paisley and Crosraguel to the Carrick lands broke out afresh.
The Paisley monks were dissatisfied with the decision of the
Bishop of Glasgow, and in 1265 they appealed to the Papal
Court for a restitution of their former privileges.* Clement the

1 Vol. i. p. 5 (note). 2 Chart. Melrose; Paterson’s Ayrshire, ii. p. 367.
3 Vol. i. pp. 17-18. 4 Vol. i. pp. 6-10.

INTRODUCTION. XXV

Fourth issued a Papal commission, consisting of three church-
men of high rank, to summon witnesses for the hearing of the
case, and to terminate it by judgment within the year. From
the charters which follow this appeal’ it is clear that the com-
mission decided in confirmation of the Scriptum of 1244. True
that in later years Crosraguel and Southblane were enume-
rated among the possessions of Paisley in Papal bulls,” but they
were confirmed in many subsequent charters to Crosraguel.’
The Abbey had thus obtained a firm hold over its property,
and was at length in a position of prosperity and power.

§ 2. The Abbey under the Bruces.—1268-1370.

Crosraguel is for the next hundred years inseparably asso-
ciated with the fortunes of the family of Bruce. The origin of
their settlement in Carrick is well known. In 1268 a young
knight, Robert de Brus, son of the Lord of Annandale, was
riding through the domains of Marjory Countess of Carrick,
the daughter of Earl Nigel. There he encountered the fair
owner of the Castle of Turnberry, and was led off by her to the
castle. They were married within a month, and the issue of
their romantic love was the great King Robert. The Countess
Marjory had herself been a great benefactress to Crosraguel ;°
and we find that Robert de Brus, who acquired the earldom
in right of his wife, followed her pious example in making
grants of land to the Abbey. The Castle of Turnberry was

1 Vol. i. p. 10, et passim. 2 Vol. i. p. 10. 8 Vol. i. pp. 15-16, e¢ passim.
* Tytler, vol. i p. 70; Barbour’s Bruce. 5 Vol. i. pp. 17-18. 6 Vol. i. pp. 17-18.

xxvi INTRODUCTION.

now literally a tower of defence to the monks in these
troublous times.

In the year 1275, the Pope sent an Emissary named
Boiamund da Vicci into Scotland to collect the tenth of all
ecclesiastical benefices to defray the cost of the great Crusade
to the Holy Land.'!' The tax was sternly enforced, according
to the “True Value” of the livings, though the clergy strove
hard to have it raised on the “antiqua taxatio.” They resisted
it tooth and nail, among them doubtless the Abbot of Cros-
raguel, who had to contribute £53:6:8,;* other churches in
Carrick, dependent upon the Abbey, being also taxed. The
total amount collected was £7195.

After the calamitous death of Alexander the Third and the
accession of the Maiden of Norway in 1286, a powerful party of
barons was formed against the young Queen. They met at
the Castle of Turnberry in September, when one Patrick was
Abbot of Crosraguel,® and drew up the famous covenant for
mutual protection. Abbot Patrick was on intimate terms
with these malcontent nobles. He witnessed a charter* by
one of the signatories to the covenant, Alexander Lord of the
Isles ; among the other witnesses being Robert Bruce and his
son, the future King Robert the First. Patrick is the first

abbot of whom any record is preserved. We do not find his ~

name among those present at the meeting of the Scottish
Estates at Brigham in 1290, when the celebrated treaty was
concluded confirming to the people their ancient rights. Still

1 Statuta Ecclesice Scoticane, p. \xvii.; Tytler, vol. i. p. 70; Lees’ Paisley Abbey.
2 Vol. i p. 11. &: Vol: ‘i. pp; 12-13; £\Noiit,spe 12:

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more important is it to relate that no Abbot of Crosraguel
figured at the Parliament of Berwick in 1296, when multitudes
of Scotchmen of every rank, whose names fill thirty-five skins
of parchment, flocked at the peril of their lives to swear fealty
to Edward.

During the next ten years, memorable for the heroic efforts
of Wallace to free his countrymen from the English yoke, and
culminating in his execution and the subsequent coronation of
Robert Bruce, little is known of Crosraguel. .A new figure
has appeared upon the scene. Henry de Percy, nephew of
Surrey, and one of Edward’s bravest generals, was appointed
Keeper of Galloway and the Sheriffdom of Ayr in 1296. The
country was now dominated by the English party, and in 1306
Percy was again despatched into Carrick. He held the Castle
of Turnberry all that year. On St. James’ Day we find him
writing from the very Abbey of Crosraguel’ to Sir James
Dalileghe for two engines of war; and it is marvellous how
Crosraguel escaped the fate of Dunfermline, Paisley, St.
Andrews, Kelso, and countless other monasteries, at the sacri-
legious hands of the English soldiery. The gifts to the Abbey
in 1329 from the royal purse” prove that the old buildings of
Earl Duncan had not remained intact. But the tide soon
turned. The Bruce landed at Turnberry with a few faithful
followers. The men of Carrick rose in a solid mass and
fought in his favour. Percy evacuated the royal castle ;
and a series of hardly-fought successes, culminating in the
decisive field of Bannockburn, put an end to all hopes on the

1 Vol. i. pp. 13-14. 2 Vol. i. pp. 18-19.

xxviii INTRODUCTION.

part of England of accomplishing the conquest of her sister
country.

Yet in these stirring times the Earls of Carrick did not
forget their Abbey. In 1306 King Robert conferred the earl-
dom on his brother, the gallant Edward, whose gifts to Cros-
raguel of Dalchorane, Corale, and Hackethinvach we find duly
confirmed by royal charter in 1324." The King was himself
lavish in his benefactions to the Abbey. In spite of the thun-
derings of the Court of Rome, the Scottish clergy knew him to
be their friend, and never deserted him. And in the last five
years of his eventful life, when peace was partially restored,
we find him bestowing many lands upon the Church. We have
three Crown Charters to Crosraguel in his reign. By the first,
which is dated 1324,’ he granted to the Abbey the lands of
Dungrelach, where in a later day the monks built a mill, which
was a source of great profit. By the second of the same date *
he erected all the Abbey lands into a free barony, implying
not only the highest and most privileged tenure of land, but a
vast jurisdiction over the inhabitants. The concomitant privi-
leges of the barony included the sac e¢ soc, the right of judging
in litigious suits; tholl et teme, the exaction of toll and the
bonds of mutual warranty; furca et fossa, the “gallows and
pit,” or the right of capital punishment in certain cases; infang-
thef et outfangthef, the right to punish a thief when caught
with the “fang,” either within or without the Abbey’s juris-
diction. These pertinents of the barony belonged de jure to
the Crown, and the grant of them was a mark of special

So Voleuspal 6: 2 Vol. i. pp. 14-15. 3 Vol. i. pp. 15-16.

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favour. By the third Crown Charter, dated 1327, the King
confirmed to the Abbey the lands granted by the previous
Earls of Carrick.

A few months after David the Second had commenced his
ill-starred reign, the Abbot of Crosraguel received the King’s
Penny for three years for the repair of his monastery, amount-
ing to £100:1:10.2 The Parliament of the previous year
had ratified the taxation of the country for the payment of
the indemnity of £20,000 to England. This was termed the
Contribucio pro pace, and was to be levied according to the
tenth penny of the rents for three successive years. Sir
Malcolm Fleming, the bailie for Carrick, collected over £430,
from which the sum above mentioned was returned to the
Abbot of Crosraguel.

We know little of the Abbey for the next thirty years
amid the turmoil of the English wars. About 1360 we have
the Abbey seal attached to the charter of Marjory Mont-
gomery *—ten years before the death of the last of the royal
Bruces.

§ 3. The Abbey under the first Stewarts.—1370-1460.

The Charters of this period relate chiefly to the domestic
history of the monastery. The Abbots of Paisley had never
relaxed one iota from their control over Crosraguel, as laid
down in the old decree of Bishop William, and we have in
1370 an interesting episode arising from the connection. The

t VoL L pe 3%, 2 Vol. i. pp. 18-20. 8 Vol i. p. 21. * Vol. i. pp. 22-5.
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xxx

then Abbot of Paisley paid frequent visits to his dependent
house, and to his sorrow, we are told, found many “faults and
defects” among the community. These appear to have arisen
from the inability of their aged Abbot, Roger of Dunfermline,
to regulate their conduct. The notarial instrument prosaically
narrates how the Superior of Paisley summoned the Cros-
raguel fraternity to appear before him on a certain Wednes-
day ; how the monks appeared in their own monastery with
their venerable Abbot; how that worthy old man, after the
reading of the citatorial letter, resigned into the hands of the
Abbot of Paisley the whole dignity of the Abbot of Cros-
raguel; and being pressed for his reason, he replied that,
“owing to age and weakness he was unable to rule the flock
committed to him by God as behoved the office of a good
shepherd ; and that he desired rather to be entirely stripped
of the honour of the prelacy, than under the name of a pastor
to allow his flock to be devastated by the ravening wolf.”
The whole story is a pathetic one, and reminds one strangely
of the tale of Abbot Boniface in Zhe Monastery. On the
resignation of Abbot Roger, who returned to his former home
at Dunfermline, Nicolas, one of the monks, and possibly the
prototype of the Father Eustace of Walter Scott, was elected
in his place.’

Nicolas was undeniably an able and energetic man.
During the visit of Robert the Second to Carrick in 1374
the Abbot prevailed upon the King to ratify, at the parish
church of Kirkoswald, the three Crown Charters of Robert the

1 Vol. i p. 26.

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First.! In the lawless districts of Carrick these charters of
confirmation must have been literally worth their weight in
gold to the monks. It is not clear how long Abbot Nicolas
ruled at Crosraguel. He witnesses several charters of the
period, notably a most interesting deed by Jahn Kennedy of
Dunure to the Chapel of S. Mary of Maybole*—remarkable for
the fines to be levied upon the presbyters for non-attendance
at mass—and another charter (not in this collection) by
Roland Kennedy of Blairquhan in 1390.3

We might almost hope that Nicolas lived to see the
great Crosraguel Charter of 1404, signed by Robert the Third.*
This was the climax of all preceding grants, the Charter in
liberam regalitatem seu regalam, the confirmation of all the
Abbey lands and other property to be for ever in a free regality.
Among them we find the churches of Kirkoswald, Straiton,
Dailly, Girvan, and Kirkcudbright or Ballantrae ; the chapels
of Kirkdamdie and Chapel Donnan ; the various lands granted
by previous benefactors, and the island of Ailsa Craig. The
Abbot of Crosraguel was created absolute sovereign over his
whole territory. The grant of regality gave to him all that
the Crown had to give, even to the guatuor puncta coronce,—the
jurisdiction in cases of murder, fire-raising, rape, and robbery.
Not even the mother house of Paisley enjoyed this last privi-
lege ; and the conferring of so high an honour upon Crosraguel
was a living proof of the interest which the royal descendants
of the old Earls of Carrick took in the welfare of the Abbey.

In the year 1405 the Abbey of Cluny sent a deputation to

1 Vol, i. pp. 28-30. 2 Vol. i. pp. 33-6. 8 Univ. Library MSS. (Dr. Laing’s collection),
* Vol. i. pp. 37-40.

xxxii INTRODUCTION.

visit all the houses of the Order in England and Scotland.
The deputation appears to have visited Crosraguel, and to
have mentioned in its report,’ preserved in the National
Archives at Paris, that ten was the regular number of the
inmates of the monastery.

We cannot doubt that the monks enjoyed peace and pros-
perity during the brilliant reign of James the First. The
Abbot at this period was a man in high favour at Court, for
we find him despatched as Special Ambassador to Ireland in
1429, to bring back from the Prince of Connaught the head
of the rebel Donald Balloch.2, And we have the Conventual
seals appended at Crosraguel to a remarkable charter which
was drawn up there in 1415.° These are glimpses, in an obscure
period of history, of the high position which the Abbey con-
tinued to occupy.

§ 4. The Abbacies of Colin, David, and Robert.—1460-1520.

In the year 1460 one Colin was elected Abbot of Crosraguel.
He was an important figure in its history. His first care was
to restore the buildings of his Abbey, which had been shattered
by the violence of the English; and Father Hay (quoting
apparently from the lost Chartulary) describes him as spending
whole days in superintending the work of restoration.* Abbot
Colin’s work was doubtless a great one. To him we probably
owe the richly designed chapter-house and other monastic

1 Vol. i. p. 40. 2 Vol. i. p, 42. 3 Vol. i. pp. 40-42.
* Vol. i. pp. 45-6.

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buildings of the same period ; and the restoration of the greater
part of the church. His taste for architecture found him
favour with that patron of the fine arts King James the Third,
and he was a constant attendant at the various Parliaments
of that monarch’s reign. Twice in 1478,’ when the subsidy of
20,000 marks was granted to the King; three times in 1481,’
when energetic measures were adopted in view of a war with
England ; in December 1482,’ when the supreme power was
usurped by Albany as Lieutenant-General of the kingdom ;
and twice in 1485.4. So far back as 1465 he was appointed
arbiter, with Lord Cathcart and others, in the event of any
disputes regarding certain dowries of the Kennedy family ;°
and in 1477 he witnessed an Act of the Great Seal. He
obtained many special privileges for his monastery. Among
others an important renunciation of any right of episcopal
visitation within the monastic precincts.’ In his time, too,
occur the first series of writs relating to the Fergussons of
Knockgarron *—full of interest for the information they afford
us on the solemn methods of transfer of land from father to
son in early times, by resignation and subsequent infeftment
through bailies specially appointed for the purpose by the
lord of the regality.

In the last year of Abbot Colin’s life a charter was signed
by the Abbot and five of the monks to one of these Fergussons,’
and the first mention is made of the Chapter House.” He

1 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii. pp. 115, 120. 2 Tbid., pp. 133-6. 3 Tbid., p. 142a.
* Ibid., pp. 166-9. 5 Vol. i, p. 43. 8 Reg. Mag. Sigilli, vol. ii. p. 270.
7 Vol. i. pp. 43-5, 8 Nos. 29, seg. 9 Vol. i. pp. 53-4. aE bos

XXXiV INTRODUCTION.

died in 1491,1 and Robert de Quintfort or Whytefoord, a
brother of Whytefoord of that Ik,? and previously cellarer in
the monastery of Paisley,’ was elected to the vacant Abbacy.
He took no part in public affairs, and his rule at Corsraguel
was brief and colourless. Yet he watched over the interests
of his Abbey with a jealous eye, and when the Laird of Bar-
gany in 1493 usurped a portion of the decime garbales of the
regality—the most precious privilege that a monastery enjoyed
—Abbot Robert summoned him before the Lords Auditors of
Causes and Complaints in Edinburgh.*

He was succeeded by David, perhaps the David Chalmer
mentioned in a charter of 1492° as being one of the Community.
He witnessed an Act of Privy Seal in 1498.° In his time the
Fraternity were much disquieted by the appearance of one John
Hamilton, who pitched his sacrilegious tent at the very gate
of the Abbey, occupying four dwelling-houses, a smithy, an
orchard, and a yard. And as Hamilton stoutly refused to
give up his occupancy, the Abbot obtained a decree from the
Lords of Council ordaining this troublesome neighbour to quit
before term day.’ But Abbot David did more for Crosraguel
than this. From the Archbishop of Glasgow he obtained a
confirmation of all the spiritual rights of the Abbey. And
in 1515, when the Archbishop of St. Andrews was delegated
by the Pope to visit every monastery in Scotland, and to
punish the “excesses and enormities of the brethren dwelling

1 Vol. i p. 54. 2 Vol. i, p. 47 (note). 8 Vol. i. p. 47.
* Voli p. Oi. 5 Vol. i. p. 56. 8 Reg. Mag. Sigilli, vol. ii. p, 523.
Nola: pi.63; 8 Vol. i. p. 64.

INTRODUCTION. XXXV

“ therein,” the Abbot of Crosraguel obtained a special dis-
pensation from any inspection of so equivocal a nature.! The
fact that the Archbishop bound himself by oath never to visit
or reform the monastery of Crosraguel speaks volumes for the
excellent discipline which had been maintained under the rule
of its late abbots, in an age when the luxury and indolence of
the clergy had passed into a byword.

§ 5. The Abbey under William Kennedy.—1520-1547.

During the forty years preceding the Reformation, the
monks of Crosraguel enjoyed the immediate protection of the
Earls of Cassillis; and two eminent members of this family
were abbots during the period. In 1520, William, brother to
the second earl, was elected to the vacant office.2 Jealous of
their ancient rights, the Abbot and Convent of Paisley pro-
tested in vain against the election, which they refused to
confirm as vicars of the mother house of Cluny.’ William
was duly elected, and retained the Abbacy until his death in
1547. We may notice here how the abbots were appointed
at Crosraguel. By their ancient Charter of foundation the
monks had full power given to them to elect their own abbots.‘
We have instances of this in 1370, when Nicolas succeeded
Abbot Roger,’ and again in 1491 ;° though in the latter case
the election was confirmed by the Pope.’ Towards the close
of the fifteenth century, the right of election was gradually

1 Vol. i. pp. 65-7. 3, Voki. p. 68; 3 Thid. * Vol. i. pp. 3-6.
5 Vol, i. p. 26. 6 Vol. i. p. 54, 7 Ibid.

XXXVi INTRODUCTION.

wrested from the clergy by James the Third, although he had
previously passed an Act in their favour ;* and’ in 1550 the
right of appointment to the vacant benefices belonged solely to
the Crown. Thus, although William Kennedy was elected in
1520 by his own monks,” Abbot Quintin was in 1550 appointed
by the Crown ;* and in 1565 we find the actual gift of the
Abbacy by Queen Mary to Allan Stewart.’

Abbot William was a man of influence and ability. While
devoting a great portion of his time to the duties of monastic life,
to the encouragement of literature among his little community,
to the erection of many beautiful buildings within the Convent
walls, and to the management of the vast landed estates
belonging to the Abbey,—he yet continued to take an active
part in the political events of the day. During the twenty-
seven years of his Régime, he was eight times present in the
National Parliament.’ He was twice a Commissioner of State,®
once a Commissioner for the discussion of the ‘“‘ Dooms,”” and a
member of the Privy Council. Besides the Abbacy of Cros-
raguel he held for many years the Commendatorship of the
opulent Abbey of Holywood. He was an intimate friend of
Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow, and of Henry, Bishop
of Galloway; while his position as “Tutour” to the young
Earl of Cassillis brought him into contact with all the leading

men of the time.

Among the charters of this period are three writs of great

1 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii. 2 Vol. i. p. 68. 3 Vol. i. p. 103.
‘Voli p. 141. © Acta Par. Scot., vol. ii. pp. 308, 321, 335, 339, 410, 468, 471, 598,
6 Ttid., pp. 409, 470. 7 Ibid., p. 410.

8 Register of the Privy Council, vol. i. pp. 33, 39, 60, 67. a2. Vol: tape i9:

INTRODUCTION. XXXVii

interest relating to Knockgarron,’ showing the ancient solem-
nities of the former surrender of land by the owner on bended
knees, within the monastic chapter-house, and the subsequent
delivery to the heir by the symbolical staff and baton. A
charter full of interest to the archzeologist occurs in 1520,”
being a grant of land by Sir James Douglas, a prebendary of
the church of Maybole.

On the assassination of the second Earl of Cassillis in 1527,
the young earl, then in his 12th year, was placed under the
guardianship of the Abbot; who for eleven years watched
over his nephew’s interests with paternal care. Many instances
occur at this period of the thoughtfulness which he displayed
in his dealings with the Kennedies of Blairquhan, and in pro-
viding for the widow of the murdered earl. In 1528 he was
summoned before the Secret Council,’ together with nearly
every member of the clan Kennedy, for the slaughter of the
Laird of Lochfergus, but he appears to have been acquitted.
He attended the great meeting of the Scottish Estates in
the same year, when the attainder was passed upon the
Douglases.*

In April 1530 Abbot William obtained a royal license or
“saufgarde” to pass to France and other places beyond seas
on his pilgrimage to Rome,’ whither many of the Scottish
prelates were now going, to keep in favour with the Papal
Court at the cry of “Breakers ahead.” In this year, too, a
learned monk of Crosraguel died, named Michzeus, the author of

1 Vol. i. pp. 71-80. 2 Vol. i. p. 68. ® Vol. i. p. 88.
* Acta Parl. Scotia, vol. ii. p. 321, 5 Volsi p; 91.
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xxxviil INTRODUCTION.

many theological treatises." The monks also lost a great bene-
factress, and the Abbot a personal friend, in the death of
Egidia Blair, Lady Row of Baltersan. By her will, which is
preserved,” she appointed the Abbot her executor, bequeathing
to the monastery twenty pounds, and directing her body to be
buried at Crosraguel, in S. Mary’s aisle. Recent excavations
at the Abbey have discovered her tomb, and prove her instruc-
tions to have been literally carried out. Through her decease
the Abbey gained a royal signature to the gift of her land
of Row.

Abbot William must have returned from his pilgrimage in
1532, for we find him attending the Parliament of that year
which instituted the College of Justice.? In 1534 he leased
the parsonage fruits of the church of Straiton to James Ken-
nedy of Blairquhan*—the first instance of a lease in these
documents—and in 1535 he was again in Parliament.’ Two
valuable letters, facsimiles of which are given, were written to
him by Henry, Bishop of Galloway, in 1536,° regarding the
churches of Inch and Leswalt, which had been let to the young
Earl of Cassillis.

On the earl attaining his majority in 1538, the Abbot
was relieved from the tutorship, and discharged his former
ward from all the duties incidental to the various lands.’ This
young nobleman had profited by his uncle’s excellent training,
and took a prominent part in the stirring events of the day.

? Hay’s Scotia Sacra (MSS., Adv. Lib.), p. 87. 2 Vol. i. pp. 92-6.
3 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii. p. 335, # Vol. i. pp. 96-7. 5 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii. p. 339.
6 Vol. i pp. 98-9. 7 Vol. i p. 99.

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INTRODUCTION. XXxix

He was taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss and con-
veyed to England, where he embraced the Reformed religion.
The Abbot was meantime appointed Commissioner for holding
the Parliament after that crushing defeat,’ and his vote is
recorded as having been cast for Arran as governor of the
kingdom. But troubles appear to have arisen around his own
monastery. The long-continued absence of the earl, and his
second departure into England, evoked a letter in 1544 from
the aged prelate,” wherein he entreats him to return home, for
there were “mony cummeris and veray grit trublis now, and
mony unfreindis and fewer freindis.” The Scottish clergy
were in fact beginning to realise that the old Church was in
danger. Doubtless it was this sense of insecurity that prompted
the Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar, to deposit in 1546
all his treasure and personal effects in the hands of his friend
the Abbot of Crosraguel. The Archbishop’s will,’ which is
printed here in full, discloses an enormous amount of wealth
to have been entrusted to the Abbot’s keeping. Richly em-
broidered vestments, gold and silver goblets, jewels of the
rarest kinds, a valuable library, and nearly four thousand
pounds in money, formed the nucleus of the Prelate’s property ;
and the entrusting of them to the care of Abbot William is
a sure sign of the high estimation in which he was held by
a great man like Gavin Dunbar.

We find that the Abbot was busy and energetic to the
last. In 1546 a Lord Commissioner for holding the Parlia-

1 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. ii, p. 409. 2 Vol. i. pp. 100-1. 3 Vol. i. pp. 108-116.

xl INTRODUCTION.

ment which attainted the murderers of Cardinal Beaton ;'
elected a member of the Privy Council in the same year ;* in
the winter of 1546 at St. Andrews, busily concerned with the
domestic affairs of his Abbey; and in the spring of 1547
present at the last Parliament of his life? He had spent it
well, in the service of his monastery, his country, his sovereign,
and his church; and, in an age when the lives of all the
Scottish prelates were not perhaps emblems of perfection, it is
notable that not a breath of slander sullied the blameless life
of William Kennedy.

§ 6. The Abbey under Quintin Kennedy.—1547-1564.

During the next seventeen years—a period fraught with
momentous consequences to Scotland—the monks of Cros-
raguel were ruled by the most ardent champion of the Estab-
lished Church. Distinguished as a historian, a theologian,
and a scholar, famed for his piety and his courage in resisting
the steady current of Reformed opinion, Quintin Kennedy was
emphatically a man abreast of his age. He was born in
1520,‘ the year of his uncle’s election to the Abbacy of Cros-
raguel. His father was the second Earl of Cassillis, his
mother Lady Isabel Campbell. He received his early educa-
tion at St. Andrews, his name occurring among the students
incorporated in 1540 at S. Salvator’s College. Thence he

1 Acta Parl. Scot., ii. p. 470. ° Register of the Privy Council, vol. i. p. 33.
8 Acta Parl. Scot. ii. p. 598.
Mackenzie’s Lives of the Scotch Writers, iii. 57; Wodrow Society’s Miscellany.

INTRODUCTION. xli

proceeded to Paris to complete his studies, where he gained
the friendship of his future antagonist, John Davidson, who
in 1563 spoke of the “auld Parisiane kyndnes that was betuix
us.” On his return from France he was appointed by his
uncle the Abbot to the vicarage of Girvan.’ ' He never was
Prior of Whithorn, as Mackenzie, with his usual inaccuracy,
has stated. On the death of his brother Thomas at the battle
of Pinkie he was presented to the benefice of Penpont,? and
he succeeded his uncle in the Abbacy of Crosraguel in the-
autumn of 1547.’

The Earl of Cassillis had been entrusted by the monks
with the guardianship of their monastery on the death of
Abbot William ;* and the first act of the new superior was to
discharge the Earl of “all sums of money, goods, and gear,”
intromitted with by him during his guardianship,’ and to
acknowledge the faithfulness with which he had executed his
trust. There were now eight brethren in residence at Cros-
raguel, with their Abbot Quintin and their Sub-Prior Robert
MacEwen.’ They lost about this time from their number one
Gilbert Macbrayar,’ who is recorded as having made many
sumptuous additions to the Abbey buildings. Quintin
Kennedy was probably the first Abbot to occupy the stately
mansion to the south-east of the cloister.

Quintin was thrice present at the Privy Council in 1548,°
and bore his part in the discussions which followed the defeat

? Mackenzie’s Lives, p. 60. 2 Thid. 3 Vol. i. p. 103.
* Ibid. 5 Vol. i pp. 102-5. SVolisp. Lvs
7 Hay’s Scotia Sacra (MSS., Adv. Lib.), p. 87. 8 Register of the Privy Council, ii. 60-7.

xlii INTRODUCTION.

of the Scottish forces at Pinkie. During the next ten years
he was too busily engaged with his theological studies to pay
much attention to affairs of State, though he was at the
Parliament of 1554, and signed the bond “warranting the
Duke of ChAtelherault from meddling with the Royal Purse.” ?
The following is a complete list of his works :*—

(i.) “A Compendius Tractive conform to the Scripturis of Almychtie God,
Ressoun, and Authoritie, declaring the nerrest and onlie way to establishe
the Conscience of ane Christiane manne in all matters concerning
Faith and Religioun.”

The manuscript is in the Auchinleck Library. The work
created an immense sensation at the time that it was pub-
lished ; and in his reply to it John Davidson acknowledged
that by its means “mony persons were movit to continew
still in their auld superstitioun and idolatrie, who otherwise
would have embraced the sincere and trew religioun of Christ
befoir these dayis, gif it had been suppressit in its infancie.”

(ii.) “De Publico Ecclesize Sacrificio.”

(iii.) “Contra errores Germanorum in Fidei capita quatuordecem defensa contra
Georgium Sophocardium.”

(iv.) “ Responsio ad Joannis Davidsoni opus.”

(v.) “De vetitorum abstinentia.”

(vi.) “ De illicito Presbyterorum matrimonio.”

(vii.) “De cultu imaginum.”

(viii.) “ Palinodia Willexio reddita, xxix ; Martii, MDLXII.

(ix.) “Querimonia super Knoxii fraude et impietate.”

1 Acta Parl. Scotia, ii. p. 603.

2 From Mackenzie’s Lives. (Cf. also Wodrow Miscellany ; M‘Crie’s Life of Knoz ;
Paterson’s Ayrshire, vol. ii., etc.)

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(x.) “ Oratio pro obedientia supremis potestatibus habita die ultimo Augusti,
MDLXII.”
(xi.) “De preesentia corporis in Sacramento altaris.”

He also wrote a learned work on the “Judge of Contro-
versies”” in eighteen chapters, giving a detailed history of the
Church Councils from early times.

In these ten years before the Reformation many import-
ant charters occur relating to the Abbey lands. In 1552 we
find a lease by the Abbot to the Earl of Cassillis of the teinds
of Straiton church for the annual payment of £80 ;' another
to David Kennedy of Pennyglen of the lands of Baltersan and
Knockronald ;? a third to one John Kirkpatrick of the lands of
Clonlicht.2 We have also a singular agreement between the
Abbot and Sir Hew Kennedy of Girvanmains, by which Sir
Hew was, under certain conditions, to pay to the Abbot and
his successors 180 salmon yearly from the Water of Girvan.’

On the establishment of the Reformed religion by the
Parliament of 1560, Abbot Quintin displayed marvellous
energy in defence of his monastery. A zealous supporter of
the policy of the Queen Regent, and himself supported by the
powerful protection of Cassillis, he was fortunate in preserving
Crosraguel from the fate of others among the Scottish monas-
teries. Yet we find his name among those condemned by the
first General Assembly of the Reformed Church,° together with
the Earls of Cassillis and Eglinton, the Laird of Kirkmichael,
and the parishioners of Maybole, Girvan, Kirkoswald, and

1 Vol. i. pp. 117-18. 2 Vol. i. pp. 119-21. 8 Vol. i. pp. 121-3.
* Vol. i. pp. 136-7. 5 Vol. i. pp. 124-5.

xliv INTRODUCTION.

Dailly. Notwithstanding the stringent enactments of the
new Parliament, in Ayrshire and Galloway the new doctrines
were long in taking root among the mass of the country
people; and the influence of Abbot Quintin was mainly
devoted to opposing them.

In 1561 the death-knell of the ancient monasteries was
sounded. From Inverness and Elgin in the north, to Dryburgh
and Whithorn in the south, the work of iconoclasm proceeded
with ruthless violence. On the passing of the Act of Privy
Council that “Tdolatrie and all monumentis thairof suld be sup-
pressit throughout the haill realme,” the Earls of Arran, Glen-
cairn, and Argyle, were despatched to the West to carry out the
behest of the Congregation. We are told that they cast down
Failfurd, Kilwinning, and “ a part of Crosraguel.”’ How large
a part that was, the shattered ruins of the once stately edifice
are a silent witness. Abbot Quintin and his powerful patron
could save the Abbey from total destruction, but they were
unable to stem the torrent of popular feeling which had
been aroused by the eloquence of Knox.

In this year, 1561, the Privy Council ordained that the
annual revenues of every benefice in the kingdom should be
calculated,” out of which the Catholic clergy were to pay one-
third to the Queen, and to keep the remainder to themselves.
The valuation of Crosraguel was given in at £409 :13:4/
from which £100 was to be paid to the Crown. The actual

1 Vol. i. pp. 126-7.
* Tytler, vol. v. p. 344; Asswmption of the Benefices (MSS., Adv. Lib.); and infra,
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value of the benefice was undoubtedly greater. In 1275 the
Abbey was valued for Bagimont’s Roll at £533 : 6: 8,' and in
1564 the whole benefice was leased to the Earl of Cassillis for
700 marks, or £466:13:42 Yet the Abbot stoutly resisted
the payment of the “Third,” and he even incurred the pains
of “horning” for refusing to deliver it to the Crown.’ To the
day of his death he worked hard to keep alive in his country-
men the old attachment to the Catholic faith. His famous
disputation with John Knox at Maybole, a full account of
which is given in the text,‘ lasting three days, and terminating
with little definite result, proved him to be an antagonist
well worthy of the Reformer’s steel. He also challenged
Willock to a controversy at Ayr in 1559, and sent a whole
cartload of books to the market-place there to overwhelm
him. Willock waited until ten in the morning for his opponent,
who on his arrival found the preacher flown, and nailed a
protest to the market-cross.’

Quintin died at Crosraguel on the 22d of August 1564.°
There is no authority for the statement that he met his end
by poison.” He was undoubtedly among the greatest and best
of the Catholic clergy, and a worthy successor to Abbot
William. He devoted the greater part of his life to combating
the doctrines of the Reformers, a task for which his noble birth,
his great talents, and his scholarly attainments eminently
fitted him. He was not canonised at his death.* He earned

t Vol.iip. 11. % Vol. i pp. 137-8. 3 Voli. p. 126. 4 Vol. i. pp. 128-30 (note).
° M‘Gavin’s Life of Knox, p. 529. 8 Vol. i. p. 139. 7 Ibid.
8 He has been confused with S. Kinetus of Eremita, a saint of the 6th century.
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xlvi INTRODUCTION.

the esteem both of those who agreed and who differed with
his opinions ; and the epigram on his life by one of the latter,
Archbishop Adamson, is worth recording :—"
“Vee mihi quod dederam Pape nomenque fidemque,
Vee mihi quod Christi strenuus hostis eram !

Vee vobis, Papistee omnes, nisi tempore vite
Vos Christum amplexi Pontificem fugitis.”

§ 7. Allan Stewart the Commendator—1565-87.

The Reformation was now an accomplished fact. The old
order had changed, giving place to the new. The Catholic
religion existed only on sufferance. Many of the monasteries
had already succumbed to the force majeure of fire and sword.
The inmates of these ancient sanctuaries had fled from their
homes, and administered the offices of religion at the peril of
their lives ; while a general scramble for the wealthy property
of the Church ensued among the great nobles. Crosraguel, as
we have already seen, had been rescued from total extermina-
tion by the Abbot and the Earl of Cassillis, who was at that time
a zealous Catholic. On the 6th of July 1561, the Primate of
Scotland had issued a Commission consisting of Thomas Hay,
Abbot of Glenluce, John, Abbot of New Abbey, and two
canons of Glasgow Cathedral, to confirm to the earl the office
of Heritable Bailie of the Regality of Crosraguel,? which had
been granted to him by the forethought of Abbot Quintin in
1559. The ceremony had been solemnly performed by the Com-
missioners in the church of Maybole on the 4th October 1562,’

Mackenie’s Lives, iii. p. 63. 2 Vol. i. pp. 130-6. 8 Vol. i. p. 132.

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in the presence of the Abbot and Convent at the time of High
Mass; and three months before his death Abbot Quintin had
followed the universal example then prevalent of leasing the
whole benefice to the Earl for the annual payment of 700 marks.’

The monks fled in every direction on the devastation of
the monastery. We find, however, that they gradually re-
assembled, and in Crosraguel they continued to lead their
regular life until at least 1592?—a later period, probably,
than in any monastery in Scotland. _

There was no Abbot for the first year after the death of
Quintin Kennedy. On the 9th of October 1564 the Queen
rewarded the literary talents of the celebrated George
Buchanan by conferring on him under a Gift of Privy Seal a
pension of five hundred pounds from the Abbey lands.*? He
also received the whole temporality of the Abbey, with the
monastic buildings. The Earl of Cassillis had taken posses-
sion of the latter since the Abbot’s decease, and Buchanan
had to obtain letters from the Privy Council ordaining the
Earl to surrender the “ Place.” *

On the 19th of July 1565 we have a gift of the Abbacy
by Queen Mary to Allan Stewart,> brother to the Laird of
Cardonald, in Renfrewshire, who was one of her staunchest
adherents. Allan Stewart, though a man of good family and
education, was totally unfitted to cope with the difficulties in
which he found himself placed. Of a grasping and avaricious
nature, and a character weak and vacillating, he took a con-
tinuous but inconsistent part in the fierce feuds which deso-

1 Vol. i pp. 137-8. ‘Vol. ii. p. 67. 8 ‘Vol. i. pp. 139-40. Vol. i. pp. 140-1.
5 Vol. i, pp. 141-3.

xlviii INTRODUCTION.

lated the shire of Ayr. He made the alienation of the vast
landed possessions of the Abbey the main object of his life.
. We have a mass of charters, leases, and other documents
signed by him, which are full of the greatest interest for the
information they give us of the extent of the Abbey Regality,
the different tenures of the various lands, the many forms of
“reddendo,” the ancient names and values of the farms in
Carrick, the details regarding the fishing, the hunting, the
woods, the coalpits, the mills of the monks, with their various
occupations and pursuits. Allan Stewart should rightly be
styled Commendator, as he was not of the Cluniac order,
though a priest and master of arts. The gift of the Abbacy
to him was a purely secular grant, and might with equal effect
have been made to a layman in commendam. Yet he was
duly confirmed to the Abbacy by the Archbishop of St.
Andrews in his threefold capacity as Primate of Scotland,
Legate a latere, and Superior of Crosraguel as Abbot of
Paisley. And in further ratification we have the Papal
grant by Pius the Fifth in 1566.’

The instrument of Abbot Allan’s canonical institution is a
valuable document,’ giving several references to the church
and other buildings ; while the loneliness of the place may be
seen from the circumstance that none of the fraternity were
present save Sir Michael Dewar, afterwards the Sub-Prior.

We now come to a long string of charters and leases signed
by the Abbot in favour of James Stewart and the Earl of
Cassillis.* Into the legal aspect of these transactions, or into

1 Vol. i pp. 143-6. 2 Vol. i. pp. 175-7. 8 Vol. i. pp. 136-40. 4 Nos. 85-90.

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the number of times that the Commendator contradicted him-
self in these indiscriminate grants of his property, it is un-
necessary to enter. Their main interest centres in their
historical value. Most of them are signed by the Abbot and
four of the monks. They are not dated beyond 156-; and
as they were in the Abbot’s possession in 1570,’ we may infer
that James Stewart never received them.

In February 1566 the Earl of Cassillis, a man capable at
times of courageous and heroic action, though possessed of a
violent and impulsive temper, which led him into acts of great
cruelty and oppression, obtained a lease of the Abbacy from
the Queen and Henry Darnley, free from all rent.2 This
virtually annulled the grant of the previous year to Allan
Stewart, and led to the complications which followed. Four
parties were interested in the Abbacy—the Abbot, Cassillis,
Buchanan, and the Laird of Cardonald. Buchanan, though
he styled himself “Pensionarius de Crosraguel,”* had great
difficulty in drawing his pension regularly ; and in April 1568
he disposed of it “to Allan Stewart for the yearly payment of
£500.”* In the following January he assigned it to Cassillis,
complaining that it had been “restand owand” to him for
several years past.” By this assignation the earl agreed to
pay him the sum of 980 marks. And in 1573 Buchanan finally
sold his pension to the Laird of Bargany for the annual sum
of £400.° He was glad to be freed from the burdens of col-
lecting it, even at a considerable pecuniary loss. We do not

1 Vol. ii. p. 12. 2 Vol. i. pp. 173-5. 3 Reg. Epis. Brechinensis.
* Vol. i pp. 179-82. 5 Vol. ii pp. 1-2. 8 Vol. ii. pp. 29-32,

] INTRODUCTION.

know that he ever resided at Crosraguel, though for many
years he had the exclusive right to the possession of the
buildings.

Allan Stewart began to get into bad odour with his neigh-
bours about the year 1569. In that year he was put to the
horn for the murder of certain gentlemen at Langside ;’ and
Thomas Kennedy obtained letters of caption against him, and
detained him in his mansion of Bargany.? The Abbot, how-
ever, secured his liberty by royal letters of relaxation in the
January of 1570. He had previously granted many of the
Abbey lands to the Lairds of Pennyglen and Brunston,’® who
had rendered him substantial aid against his many enemies in
that lawless district. They had paid him large sums to be
spent on the repair of the Abbey buildings; but the Abbot’s
avarice proved too strong for his intentions to restore them,
for the repairs were never even commenced.

The climax of this unhappy man’s misfortunes arrived in
the autumn of 1570. The “ Roasting of the Abbot” has been
exaggerated by many writers. The original documents, com-
prising the Abbot’s complaint to the Privy Council and Ban-
natyne’s overdrawn account, are given in full for what they
are worth.* The Earl took undeniably cruel and violent
measures to compel the Abbot to ratify documents which he
had previously signed, and which he now refused to acknow-
ledge. But there is a vein of exaggeration pervading the
whole story; and those who compare the signature of the

2 Volvi pad 82: 2 [bid. 8 Vol. i. p. 186, seg. 4 Vol. ii. pp. 2-9.

INTRODUCTION. li

“half-roasted hand”* with the same autograph of a slightly
later date? will hardly detect a difference. It is of greater
interest to notice how the whole of Carrick was stirred at the
tyranny of the Earl. The siege of Dunure® and the release
of the tortured prelate ;* the summoning of Cassillis before
the Privy Council in Edinburgh ;° the sureties on the Earl’s
part never to molest the Abbot, under the penalty of two
thousand pounds ;° the annual payment by the Earl to the
Abbot by way of solatium for his injuries,’ on the latter sur-
rendering to him the place, orchard, wood, and four-merk land
of Crosraguel, with the key of the principal tower of the
Abbey—all these are full of interest and characteristic of the
time. The final pacification was effected by Lord Boyd, to
the satisfaction of all parties concerned. The Abbot surren-
dered to the Earl a number of charters of the Abbacy, his
own provision to the Commendatorship, and “all other evi-
dents that he had of the same,” in return for 5100 marks—an
enormous sum of money in those days. Owing to this agree-
ment we have many of the Abbey charters preserved in the
Culzean charter-chest, and since its date most of the landed
property of the Abbey has remained with the Cassillis family.

The feuds which arose between Cassillis and the Laird of
Bargany through the Abbot’s imprisonment were partially
pacified by a decree of the Privy Council in 1572.° Bargany
had held the Castle of Dunure, where the unfortunate Allan

Y Vol; isp. 173 2 Vol. ii. p. 55. 3 Vol. ii. pp. 7-8. “Vol? tip. 9:
& Vol. depart. 8 Vol. ii. ip. 8. 7 Vol. ii. pp. 9-10. 8 Vol. ii. pp. 11-15.
9 Vol. ii. pp. 21-3.

lii INTRODUCTION.

had been “roasted,” until April in 1571, when the Earl was
relaxed from his horning; and in 1572 the Council passed
a special Act thanking him for his dutiful service. In the
following July we have a letter from the Regent to Cassillis,
bidding him come at once to Leith, and to bring some money
to satisfy Buchanan’s pension.’. The poet-historian had been
clamouring in vain for payment.

Amongst the other deeds of this period we find a renuncia-
tion by the Laird of Bargany of all right to the Abbey lands,’
and a writ by James Stewart to the same effect. The Earl
was therefore at this time sole proprietor of the regality. We
have also some further charters by the Abbot to him, in
return for large sums of money,* with a lease or assedation
of the Manor Place.*

Allan Stewart was, in fact, ready to dispose of the last
shred of his property to the most willing buyer. John
Kennedy of Pennyglen,’ the Lairds of Baltersan,’ Balserroch,*
and others, all received charters from what had formerly been
one of the most extensive ecclesiastical territories in Scotland.
These numerous alienations had one peculiar result — that
when the Act of Annexation was passed in 1587, there was
nothing at Crosraguel left to annex except the buildings of
the monastery.

Allan Stewart died in the autumn of 1587. He had spent
most of his life at Crosraguel, drawing up deeds for the disposal

1 Vol. ii. pp. 26-7. 2 Vol. ii. pp. 32-5. 3 Culzean Muniments. * Vol. ii. pp. 35-56.
5 Vol. ii. p. 42. ® Vol. ii. pp. 43-6. 7 Vol. ii. pp. 46-8. 8 Vol, ii, pp. 57-8.
9 Acta Parl. Scot.

INTRODUCTION. liii

of the Abbey lands, and his leisure hours in partaking in
the many feuds which at that time desolated the country.
He took little interest in affairs of State. He was twice present
in Parliament at the close of his life—in October 1579 and
July 1582.1 His visits to the metropolis were principally
connected with the various lawsuits in which he was embroiled.
It is marvellous that so weak a man could have kept his
monastery together in an age of tumult; but the fact remains
that the monks of Crosraguel were leading as regular and
holy a life in the year of their Abbot’s death as in the days of
Abbot Patrick. One of their number was actually censured by
the General Assembly in 1587? for profaning the Sacraments.
An interesting episode in the same year was the capture of
Lord Maxwell at the Abbey gate, after he had raised the
standard of revolt as a loyal Catholic upon the execution of
his Queen.’

§ 8. The later History of the Abbey.—1587-1650.

The death of Abbot Allan and the Act of Annexation
took place in the same year. King James had thus an
important benefice in his gift, and he decided to confer the
Commendatorship of Crosraguel upon John Vaus, eldest son
of Sir Patrick Vaus of Barnbarroch* Sir Patrick had
rendered yeoman service to the Court in going to Denmark
as Special Ambassador, and also as Senator of the College of
Justice.” The gift of the Abbacy to his son was thus a signal

1 Acta Parl, Scot., vol. iii, pp. 127, 427. 2 Vol. ii. p. 58. 8 Vol. ii. pp. 59-60.

* Vol. ii. pp. 61-3. 5 V. Mr. Vans Agnew’s Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus, passim.
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liv INTRODUCTION.

mark of royal favour. Sir Patrick had considerable trouble
in collecting the rents of his benefice,—or rather the feu-
duties, as most of the lands had been already disponed to
Cassillis.. We have a notice of the “poor men in the Abbey
yairds,” in 1589,’ which alludes to the aged retainers of the
Abbey who had been pensioned off; and a very remarkable
reference to the “monks” who were still in residence at
Crosraguel in 1592.

In that year Sir Andrew Melvill of Garvok, who had been
Master of the Household to Queen Mary, and had accompanied
his unhappy sovereign to the scaffold, received a ratification
of a yearly pension of 400 marks and 8 chalders of oats from
the Abbacy. This was afterwards confirmed to him by Act
of Parliament in 1597.*

Sir John Vaus had a comparatively brief tenure of the
Manor Place of Crosraguel. In 1603 he received a note from
the King, requesting him to sign a demission of the place and
monastery in favour of his “darrest sone ” Prince Henry,
without prejudice, however, to his rights to the rents and
duties of the Abbacy.. King James intended to have it
restored as a future residence for the young Prince, but there
is no historical evidence that Prince Henry ever actually
lived there. Sir John resigned or sold the Commendatorship
shortly after this demission, for in 1616 one Peter Hewatt
was installed in the Abbacy.°

Mr. Hewatt, who has been described as “a man fit for

1 By several charters, supra. 2 Vol. ii. p. 64. 8 Vol. ii. p. 67.
4 Vol. ii. pp. 66-8. 5 Vol. ii. p. 69. 6 Vol. ii p. 72.

INTRODUCTION. ly

making trubles,’’ enjoyed the profits of Crosraguel for at
least thirty years. He was Commissioner of State in 1617,?
and in the same year he convened the church vassals of
the Abbacy for the payment of a national tax.’ On the
28th of June an Act was passed annexing the whole benefice
of Crosraguel, both spirituality and temporality, to the
Bishopric of Dumblane ;* the emoluments of which were at
that time insufficient to support a bishop. The vested interests
of the Abbacy were, however, secured to Mr. Hewatt, who
was granted his own liferent, with all the other duties belong-
ing to the Abbey lands. He also secured a ratification of the
teinds of the new church of Ballantrae,* which had just been
erected at considerable cost by the Laird of Bargany. The
annexation of the Abbacy of Crosraguel to the Bishopric of
Dumblane was ratified by the Parliament ot 1633,° and eight
years later a special Act was passed in favour of Peter Hewatt,
the Commendator.’ By virtue of this, Mr. Hewatt was, in
consideration of his advanced age and his inability to support
himself and his family, confirmed in the rent of the Abbacy
during his life; with the additional proviso that his family
should enjoy it for nineteen years after his decease. He had
meanwhile been a minister in Edinburgh, but lost his living
there in the religious turmoil at the metropolis during the
early part of the seventeenth century, when he had even
suffered imprisonment. He died in 1650.8

The revenues of Crosraguel were therefore enjoyed by the

1 Vol. ii. p. 72 (note), 2 Acta Parl. Scot., vol. iv. p. 523. 3 Ibid., p. 583.
* Vol. ii. pp. 71-4. 5 Vol. ii. pp. 70-1. 8 Vol. ii. pp. 75-6.
7 Vol. ii. pp. 76-8. 8 Sprott’s Liturgus.

lvi ' INTRODUCTION.

Bishop of Dumblane for a few years. On the final overthrow
of Episcopacy in 1689,' all that remained of them, consisting of
a small property in land, and the patronage of the five churches
of Straiton, Ballantrae, Dailly, Kirkoswald, and Girvan, were
annexed to the Crown, together with the buildings and “ pre-
cincts” of the Abbey. Since the recent Act of Parliament
abolishing Church patronage, the sole relic of the great Regality
of Crosraguel is the small plot of ground, enclosing the ruins
of what was one of the simplest, yet one of the most beautiful,
specimens of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Within its
walls the royal Bruces had attended the ministrations of Holy
Church. Through three and a half centuries of the dark ages
of Scottish history it had nurtured generations of pious and
learned men in a part of the country where the sword was
ever more in fashion than the pen. There are many breaks
in the chain of continuous events. Yet in bringing these
memorials of the Abbey’s history to a close, the Editor would
gladly hope that they may be still connected by those who
in time coming may complete the story of Crosraguel.

Il.—Tue REGALITY OF THE ABBEY.

Tue territorial estates of the Abbots of Crosraguel were of
the largest extent. The greater part of Carrick, or Ayrshire
south of the Doon, owed allegiance to them ; and from Elsberry
Head to Ballantrae, and inland to the parish church of Straiton
and the mountainous district which borders upon Kirkcud-
brightshire, were to be found at one time lairds, yeomen, and

1 Acta Parl. Scot.

INTRODUCTION. lvii

farmers, subject to the royal power with which the monks
were invested. The Regality of Crosraguel extended over
eight of the parishes of Carrick—Girvan, Dailly, Straiton,
Ballantrae, Kirkoswald, Maybole, Kirkmichael, and Barr—
the last being in medieval times represented by the Chapel
of Kirkdominie or Kirkdamdie. Over the first five of these
churches the monks enjoyed exclusive rights.'_ Their property
was divided into two separate portions; (1) the temporality,
or the revenue derived from lands and other secular sources ;?”
(2) the spirituality, consisting of the teinds and other emoluments
accruing from the ecclesiastical dues of parish churches.*
The teinds were again subdivided into the teind sheaves, or the
decimee garbales,* consisting of the tenth sheaf taken from every
harvest field ; and the vicarial teinds, or decime font, of which
hay was the principal feature, and which was gathered with
the yearly tithes of stock, lambs, calves, and other produce.
This subdivision of Church property in early times was well
exemplified in the case of Crosraguel. Of the five churches
belonging to the Abbey, over which they could exercise their
right of patronage, the monks appointed a vicar, who enjoyed
the lesser teinds, to Girvan,® Ballantrae,® and Straiton ;” while
they appropriated to themselves all the revenues of Dailly and
Kirkoswald, and appointed a chaplain to serve the cure at
those churches. The rectorial or greater teinds were in all
cases enjoyed by the Abbot as parson impersonce.
1 Vol. i pp. 3-12, 37-40, 97, 117, 123, 126, 140, 156.
* Vol. i. pp. 140-1, 150, 180, 184. 8 Ibid. pp. 140-1, 150, 184.

* Vol. i. pp. 57, 156, 166; vol. ii. p. 11. ® Vol. i. pp. 49, 52, 156.
8 Vol. ii. p. 70. 7 Vol. i. pp. 52, 117. 8 Vol. i: pp. 94, 156.

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INTRODUCTION.

The accompanying map will give a fair idea of the extent
of the Regality of the Abbey ; and the following are among
the principal places mentioned in these charters as being

included in it.

whom the locality is familiar.

Auchenaicht
Auchennaddie
Auchentrunnocht
Easter Auchinblane
Auchtinnaik
Abbotshill

Ailsa Craig
Altichappell
Balchristen
Balserroch
Baltersan
Balkennay
Broadmeadow
Brunstoun
Crosraguel
Caldwellstoun
Chalmerstoun
Chapel Donnan
Chlachrybeg
Chlauchries Keyoch
Clenacketh
Clonlicht
Craigoth

Corale
Crosraguel Mains
Dalchorane

Dalelong
Dalquharran
Dunmurthy
Drumbane
Drumcaldilthey
Drumgarloch
Drumgorlan
Dungrelach
Drummorchy
Drummunthey
Drumrachney
Drumfern
Easter Duneyn
Wester Duneyn
Dumkeynen
Dunnefyne
Frisselton
Glenord
Glenlowie

’ Hackethinvach

Karnestoun
Kirkdin
Knockgarron
Knockbrek
Knockin
Knockranald

The names will be recognised by those to

Littlestoun
Leffynen

Lady Row’s Meadow
Lokistoun
M‘Cubenstoun
M‘Caythriestoun
M‘Gowenstoun
M‘Kinniestoun
M‘Morriestoun
M‘Stephastoun
Maltmansland
Maltmanstoun
Maxwellstoun
Mochrum Hill
Mossyde
Quarrelhill
Riddinrid
Slabraicht
Smethistoun
Snade
Straitoun
Southblane
Trudonag
Trave
Yellowlie

These lands all differed in their annual rental, in their mode of

cultivation, and in their natural fertility. The most valuable
were the farms on the banks of the Girvan and the Doon ; the
poorest were the moorland hills in the parish of Straiton and

round the Chapel of Kirkdamdie.

They varied again, from

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INTRODUCTION. lix

the pennylands of Crosraguel and Southblane to the sixteen-
merk lands and the forty-shilling lands of old extent, such as
Duneyn, Knockgarron, and Lokistoun. Into the vexed question
of the origin and meaning of these valuations we need not
enter. Suffice it to say that the best authorities agree that
the amount expressed something like 14 per cent of their real
value at the time of the Reformation.’

In the absence of the Chartulary or any Rental book we
have to glean all the details regarding the management of
these vast landed estates from the charters themselves. The
monks were excellent farmers and good landlords. Their
tenants were free from all military service, and had thus more
leisure for agriculture and gentle. pursuits than their neigh-
bours, who held of the great barons of Cassillis, Blairquhan, and
Culzean, and who, as vassals, were liable at the shortest notice
to be summoned to arms. The tenantry of Crosraguel con-
sisted of the cottars,? who occupied a croft and paid a small
rent for it; and the farmers, who paid it chiefly in grain? A
third class of vassals were the yeomen or small lairds of such
places as Knockgarron,’ Pennyglen,’ Balserroch,’ or Clonlicht,’
who held land in the regality, and were thus subject to the
authority of the Abbot. An incident of their tenure was
their annual attendance at the court held by him on the lands
of Auchinblane,® where they were with the other tenantry to
renew every year their allegiance to their feudal superior.

1 V. Cosmo Innes’s Antiquities, and Mr. Vans Agnew’s Life of Sir Patrick Waus.
2 Vol. i. p. 120. 3 Vol. i. p. 120; vol. ii. pp. 64-5.
* Vol. i. pp. 48-56, 71-6. 5 Vol. ii. pp. 43-6.

6 Vol. i. p. 189. “Vol 4p: 178. 8° Vol iy pp:b1,,192, 197.

Ix : INTRODUCTION.

Some of the “ feu-duties” or “feu-mails” due to the Abbey
from those to whom lands were granted, are worthy of record.
Thus, for a ten-merk land of old extent, the reddendo was 36
bolls bere, 2 dozen and 2 capons ;' for a four-merk land, 80
bolls horse corn ;? for the merk land of Straiton, £3:6:8;
and 12 capons,’ or sometimes 12 moor-fowl ;* for the salmon-
fishings at the mouth of the Girvan, 3 dozen salted salmon
between the feasts of the Nativity and Purification ;° for the
whole fishing of the river, 180 salmon a year.°

The fishings in the Water of Girvan were thus a valuable
property. The monks do not appear to have had any right to
those on the Doon or the Stinchar; nor had they any fish-
ponds in the immediate proximity of the Abbey itself.

Other sources of large revenue to the monks were the
mills, the coalpits, and the woods. Their two mills are the
subject of constant allusion in these charters. One stood on
the stream which still flows past the gateway ;’ the other
at Drumgarloch, about two miles distant, on the sea.’ To one
or other of these mills all the tenants were bound, and we have
frequent notices of the mu/tures, or the grain paid the miller ;? the
sucken ;‘° and the sequels, or petty dues."! The tenants were all
termed suckeners, and are spoken of as being thirled to the mills,

The monks were from the earliest times diligent workers of
the coalpits at Yellowlee and other places in the neighbour-
hood ;” and the “coal-heughes”™ and “ coal-pottis” are

1 Vol. ii p. 41. sik 0) re one 812 3 Vol. ii. p. 41. © Voli p, 161.
5 Vol. ii. p. 41. 8 Vol. i. p. 136. 7 Vol. i. pp. 154, 171; vol. ii. p. 18,
8 Vol. i pp. 154, 166, 171. 9 Vol. i. pp. 166, 171, 192. WVOles ps ie

1 Vol. i. pp. 166,192. 12 Voli p.154. 13 Vol.i. pp. 154,166,195. 4 Voli p. 195.

INTRODUCTION. lxi

enumerated in several of the charters. We do not find that
they were actually worked before the sixteenth century in
Carrick, though in other parts of Scotland coal was a source
of wealth so far back as the thirteenth... The wood was
another valuable pertinent of the Abbacy. In early times the
country round the monastery consisted of one large forest, and
we have frequent reference to the woods and wood hag,? or
annual wood cutting, the benefits of which were enjoyed by
the monks. They had also “ brewlands”* and “ brewhouses” *
near the Abbey, and appear to have emulated the legendary
example of their brethren of Failfurd in brewing good ale.
Over the vassals in their Regality the monks could exercise
an almost boundless jurisdiction. From the date of the great
charter by Robert the Third in 1404 until the Reformation,
the Abbots of Crosraguel were, from the extent of their pos-
sessions, the importance of their office, and the almost royal
power with which they were invested, the greatest personages in
all Ayrshire ; and no history of the county could be complete
which failed to recognise the civilising and controlling force of
the Regality. We have seen how the third Earl of Cassillis was
appointed Heritable Bailie of the Abbey by one of the Abbots
in 1562.° This office, with all its lucrative adjuncts, descended
in the Cassillis family until the passing of the Act abolishing
heritable jurisdictions in 1747. The Earl of Cassillis of that
day claimed £12,100 as compensation for the loss of income
from their abolition, including £1000 for the Lordship of the

1 'V. Mr. Cochran-Patrick’s Records of Mining in Scotland, p. 1.
2 Vol. i. p. 195. 3 Vol. i. p. 195. * Vol. i. p. 195. SOVOlsdsep. AL S2.
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lxii INTRODUCTION.

Regality of Crosraguel, and was awarded £1800 by the Parlia-
mentary Commissioners.’

III. THe ConventTuaAtL SEAL.

Tue Common Seal of Crosraguel was singular in retaining the
same impression throughout the existence of the monastery,
though the matrix was replaced once or twice. The design
was a rich one, of delicate workmanship, displaying a figure of
the Virgin with the Infant Jesus in her arms, sitting within a
richly panoplied niche. The background is diapered, and in the
base there is a group of four monks praying. The circumscrip-
tion is :—
SIGILL’V : BEATE MARIE DE CROSREGMEL.

It was a single seal, without the reverse impression found in

other cases. The earliest impression preserved is attached to

a charter (No. 13) dated about 1360, from the Culzean Muni-
ments, an engraving of which is given here.

1 Parliamentary Paper in Reg. House, Edinburgh.

INTRODUCTION. Ixiii

The Conventual Seals attached to others of these charters so
late as 1573 agree in every particular with this specimen, from
which we may assume that the same matrix was in use so
long as there were charters to sign and abbots to sign them.

An engraving is given in Laing’s Catalogue’ of another
Crosraguel Seal, taken from a charter by the abbot and con-
vent in 1546, from General Hutton’s Collections. This is
identical with the others ; but we must notice that the allusion
to the Crosraguel Seal appended to the citatory letter from
Abbot John of Paisley in 1370,’ gives a slightly different cireum-
scription, namely : Sigillum Abbatis Monaster de Crosragmol.
This may, however, be only a clerical error. No instance
occurs of a Crosraguel Abbot affixing his private seal to any
letters or documents, as was frequently the case elsewhere.

Many of the other seals engraved are of exceptional interest ;
notably those of Malcolm de Carrick in 1370 ;° of James Stewart
of Cardonald in 1571;* and of the Official General of the
Diocese of Glasgow in 1500 ;° which are all in fine preserva-
tion, and characteristic of their different dates.

IV. Axuusions To CRosRAGUEL By ANCIENT WRITERS.

Tue following curious notices of the Abbey have been gleaned
from some writers of the past and previous centuries. Mr.
Abercrumbie, the Episcopal minister of Maybole at the close
of the seventeenth century, thus alludes to it :°—

1 Supplemented Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Plate xii. Fig. 8.

2 Vol. i. p. 23. 5 Vol. i. ‘p. 27. * Vol. ii. p. 21. 5 Vol. 1 p. 61.
® Description of Carrick, in Pitcairn’s History, p. 167.

lxiv INTRODUCTION.

“Tn this countrey Religion has had the influence upon the people to dispose them
to the founding and endowing many places for devotion ; for though there be but one
monasterie in all this country, viz. Crossraguel, within two myles of Mayboll, westward ;
which, besyd other revenue, enjoyed the tythes of these five parishes, viz. Kirkoswald,
Dailie, Girvan, Ballantrae, and Straton; which enjoyed the jurisdiction of Regality
within itselfe, to which all its vassals and tenants were answerable; yet were there
also seyerall other pious foundations and dotations. There is the Munkland, ane 100
merkland of old extent, which is an appendage of the Abbacy of Melrose, and had a
separate Jurisdiction of its owne, for ministring justice to all the vassals and tenants
thereof. The Laird of Ardmillan, one of the vassals, was Heretable Bailie ; and upon
the parcelling of his fortune, was acquired by Kennedy of Grange.”

The parish of Ballantrae is of a great extent. Though the people be not numer-
ous, the Clachan is pretty populous. The patron hereof is the King, and the Lord
Bargany pretends mightily to it ; but upon examination it will be found to belong to
the Abbacy of Crosseragwell.

The parish of Daillie lyes in length east and west on both sides of Girvan; more
populous than spacious. The patron hereof is the Bischop of Dumblain, in the right
of the Abbacy of Crosseraguel.

The parish of Kirkoswald is pretty populous, because of the coast syde whereof it
consists, and is all the pleasure thereof ; for the place of the churche’s situation is very
obscure and unpleasant, being ’twixt two hills at the end of a bogue and marish. The
Patron hereof is the Bishop of Dumblain, in the right of the Abbacy of Crosseragwell.
The fabrick of which abbey stands within the parish. The monks were of the Cister-
cian order. The situation thereof is no ways pleasant. The fabrick of the church is
entire, without a roofe. Much of the building is demolished, yet there be two towers
still standing entyre in ther walls. It stands about midway ’twixt Mayboll and Kirk-
oswald. The houses of the gentry residing in this parish are The Cove, Thomastowne,
Beltersan, and Balsarach, and Thrave. The two last are obscure countrey dwellings ;
but Beltersan is a stately, fyne house, with gardens, orchards, parks, and woods about
it; lying from Mayboll about ane myle’s distance.”

The following is an amusing version of the foundation of the
abbey from an old Advocates’ Library MS.2—

1 Cf. vol. ii. p. 70. ° Description of Carrick, from Pitcairn, p. 184.

INTRODUCTION. Ixv

“ Nixt Galloway lyis Carrick ; the name fra king Carrataik, quha buildit of auld
ane towne thairin; the quhilk wes efter his name callit Carrik. Sum thinkis that
this cuntry wes nemmit this way efter the Queine Carramantis ; quha remaynit in the
sam pairtt, efter the death of her husband Eugeneus, quha wes bureyit quhair now the
Abbay of Corsragwell stands; quhilk scho builditt, for luiff of hir husband.”

And we have the following from an ancient description of
Carrick from Sir James Balfour’s Collections.’—

“Two monasteries are seatted in this Prouince ; Corsreguall, sometyme a Cell of
the Abbey of Paisley, founded by Duncane Mack-oneill, Earle of Carrike in anno
salutis 1246; and the College of Maybole, founded by Sir Gilbert Kennedy, Laird of
Dunure, for a buriall-plaice.

AILLSEY INsULA.?

“Tn this Iylland there is the ruines of ane old Castell and Chapell,’ possest by
the Earls of Cassillis, quo holds the same of the Abbey of Corsreguall. It is not
much above a myle in circumference, being one hard and solide rocke, having one its
tope a fontaine of cristaline vatter.”

Bishop Lesley * has but one reference to Crosraguel :—

“Supra Galdiam Siluria est, gens olim ut et nunc bellicosissima, quam Tacitus
scribit Romanis ipsis infestam atque rebellem semper fuisse. Ejus partes tres nume-
rantur, Caricta situ primo, deinde Kyla, cui adjacet Cunninghamia ; in his tribus, sicut
et in Cludisdalia superiore et inferiore illis promissis magna est et nobilium et populi
seges: Comites, Reguli (quos Milords dicimus) Equites, Barones, Nobilesque alii
plurimi. Carictam a Carictonia numerosissima quondam illi civitate dictam putant :
arces multe splendide, arte naturaque munite: pagi frequentes sed multo frequenti-
ores (ut ubique apud nos) ville: agrorum fecunditas his omnibus fere par: pascua
uberrima, unde casei optimi, et butyri magna copia: triticum rarius ; cresceret tamen
felicissimé plurimis in locis, si sibi queestini existimantes futurum in id incumberent
agricole. Littora ubique pisculenta ut et fluvii, lacus, et amnes: sylve rare; in
utraque tamen Cludisdalia frequentiores: monasteria rariora: habet tamen Caricta
monasterium Crucis Regalis.”

1 'V. Pitcairn’s History, p. 186. 2 Ibid. p. 189.
8 V. Vol. i. p. 38 (note). * De Rebus Gestis, p. 9.

Ixvi INTRODUCTION.

V. Tue Erymouocy or “ CROSRAGUEL.”

THE origin of the name remains buried in obscurity. It appears
in these charters under no less than forty-one different forms,
the most frequent being Crosraguel, Crossraguel, Crossragwell,
Corsragwell, Crocereguall, Corsregal, Corsragal, Crosragmer,
Crosragmol, Crucis Regalis, Corsragull, Croceragwell, and
Crosragin. From so varied a medley of readings it is difficult
to extract a satisfactory derivation; but it is something to
know that the greatest etymologists of our day have agreed in
demolishing the hitherto accepted theory that it signifies
“Cross-royal.” Upholders of this derivation have pointed
with great plausibility to the church of the parish, which is
dedicated to S. Oswald, the Northumbrian martyr-king ; and
they maintain that a cross was erected at this spot after his
death. They also ingeniously compare “ Cros-oswalde,” the
Welsh form of Oswestry or Oswald’s tree, where he was buried.
This is sheer guess work.

The oldest known form of the name is “ Crosragmol,” in the
Bull by Honorius III. to the Abbey of Paisley in 1225.1 Again
it appears under that form in the Scriptum of Crosraguel in
1244,’ and again in 1265.2 In 1286 we have “ Crosragal,”! and
the letter of Henry de Percy is dated from “Crosraguel” in
1306.° In the charters of Robert the First “Crosragmer”
appears,’ from which time onwards we find every variety
of spelling. But not until 1547-8, in a discharge by

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INTRODUCTION. Ixvii

Abbot Quintin to the Earl of Cassillis, do we find the
Latinized form “Crucis Regalis,”’ which is a purely arbitrary
derivation of the name. It was the fashion at that period to
give high-sounding Latin names in place of the old Saxon or
Celtic ; Vallis Lucis being another case in question. What
“Glenluce” meant is hard to say ; but it certainly had nothing
to do with a “vale of light.” After 1565 the form “Crucis
Regalis” is almost invariably given by the scribes in the Latin
Charters, and has led to the popular interpretation.

Professor Skeat, in a communication to the Editor, says that
it is clear that “‘Crossraguel” cannot mean “ Crossregal” or
“Crux Reguli.” While suggesting that it is a question for a
Celtic scholar, he mentions the Gaelic reachdmhor, “fine,” or
“beautiful.” In corroboration of this the minister of Glassford
in Lanarkshire mentions a farm of Hiecorseknowe in his parish,
the ancient name being Crossraguel.

Professor Rhys, of Jesus College, Oxford, writes: “ ‘Cross
Raguel’ would seem to construe as a Celtic name, meaning
‘Raguel,’ which I have searched for in vain. The form
‘“Ragmer’ might be explained in Welsh by supposing it to be
the same as ‘ Rhagfyr,’ ‘December, which is supposed to mean
‘foreshortened.’ I may also mention ‘rhagwel, a look in
advance.” From the extensive view which the Abbey com-
mands over the surrounding country, this last might be tenable.

Lastly, Professor Donald Mackinnon, of Edinburgh, writes :
“* Raguel’ (‘ragmol,’ ‘ragmer’), from its position may be either
an adjective qualifying ‘cross, or a proper name. I do not

1 Vol. i. p. 103.

Ixviii INTRODUCTION.

know any Gaelic adjective that would represent ‘Ragmol.’
‘Regal’ certainly would not... and I am nearly as certain
that ‘reachdmhor’ cannot represent ‘ragmol’. . . I am
strongly inclined to consider it a proper name. Very rarely
would a cross be described by an epithet, and all the Highland
crosses were erected in memory of a person of note either for
his piety or his power. But, besides, ‘ Ragmol’ and ‘ Ragmer’
are not Gaelic names that I know of. They look like Norse
names.” At this Mr. Vigfusson, of Oxford, has kindly sug-
gested “ Rognvald,” the same as Ranald, Ronald, or Reginald;
but this has also been questioned on etymological grounds.

After carefully sifting all the evidence, the Editor, without
attempting to step in and explain where so many greater
scholars have failed, is much disposed to regard the termina-
tion as the proper name of some hero, either Celtic or Scandi-
navian, who had fallen in battle near the spot. It seems
impossible to identify the original form, and we might not be
much the wiser if we knew it. Sir Herbert Maxwell has, just
before going to press, given a valuable reference from the
Annals of the Four Masters, under the year 743. It runs as
follows :—

Anarccac abb Muicinyi
Re3Zuil, do badadh

i.e. “Arasgach, Abbot of Muicinis-Reagail (or Reguil) was
drowned” ; Muicinis-Reguil being the Hog island of 8. Riaguil
or Regulus. This would appear to be very strong evidence in
favour of the derivation from Cross-Reguli, or the Cross of 8S.

1 Vol. i. p. 344, ed. 1851.

ass

INTRODUCTION. lxix

Regulus ; but it must be a question for the etymologist of the
future to decide.

VI. Tue OrnperR or CLUNY IN SCOTLAND.

Tue Cluniac order was founded in the year 940, when the Duc
d’Aquitaine erected the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy for a
reformed order of Benedictine monks. The Duke Bernon and
his brother Odo were the first Abbots. Their object was to
perfect and renovate the order of S. Benedict, which had
fallen into decay; and before long the Cluniacs became so
celebrated that they fairly eclipsed the Benedictines. “In
the twelfth century,” writes Dr. Lees,’ “they had nearly 2000
monasteries in allegiance to the Abbey of Cluny. It was the
greatest of all abbatial churches, equal to Cologne in beauty,
vaster than 8. Peter’s in magnificence ; though three scanty
fragments alone stand to attest the remains of what De Thou
called the most beautiful monastery in Christendom. No
bishop could intrude within the precincts of the monastery,
or exercise any jurisdiction over it. At one time the Abbot
of Cluny received £2000 from English Cluniac houses alone.”
The charters of the mother house are many thousand in
number, and at the downfall of the monastery they were con-
veyed to the National Library at Paris, where they are now
being edited by M. Bruel, the Archéviste Publique.

The Cluniacs were Benedictines according to the spirit of
their Rule. Their chief peculiarities were:—Two solemn
masses every day, and on private sacred days no labour was

1 Abbey of Paisley.
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lxx INTRODUCTION.

allowed except out of the hours of divine service. Every day
each alternate choir offered their hosts. Communion extended
to all three days before Easter. Constant silence was enforced
in the daytime, and it was almost death to violate it before
prime ; hence we trace the use of signs among them. From
the Ides of November the seniors attended meditation in the
church; after matins the juniors studied singing in the Chapter.
Manual labour was accompanied by a repetition of the Psalms.
Strangers were not admitted after compline, nor was leave of
refection granted to monks after that time, if absent from the
common table. Their manual labour (says Udabrinus) was
to shell unripe beans, to weed in the garden, and to bake bread
in the bakehouse. They also differed from the Benedictine
order proper in matters of ritual. They prepared the bread
for Holy Communion differently,’ washing the wheat carefully,
and having the bread itself made by the priests. Their dis-

cipline was of the strictest nature, and one of their duties was
to learn the Psalter by heart.?

Guyot de Provins,’ in his satire on the different religious
orders, thus speaks of the Cluniacs :—“ When you want to
sleep they wake you; when you wish to eat they make you
fast. The night is spent in praying in the church, the day in
labour. No repose is taken save in the refectory ; and what
is to be found there? Rotten eggs, beans with their pods on,
liquor fit for oxen (bo%sson des beufs). For. the wine is so poor
that one might drink of it for a month without intoxication.”

1 Mabillon’s Dict. des ordres Religieuses, ii. 306.
2 Maitland’s Dark Ages, p. 336. ® Quoted by Fosbrooke, British Monachisms, p. 107.

INTRODUCTION. xxi

And Brunellus alludes to their extreme asceticism in the same
caustic vein :—"
“Esse niger monachus si forte velim Cluniaci,
Ova fabasque nigras cum sale seepe dabunt.
Surgere me faciunt media de nocte volentem
Amplius in calido membra fovere thoro ;
Quodque magis nollem, vellent me psallere sursum,
Et geminare meos in diapente tonos.”

Not many years after its institution the order relapsed
greatly from its former severity, and Peter the famous Abbot
of Cluny complained to the Pope that his brethren “ despise
God, and having passed all shame eat flesh all days of the
week except Fridays; not only in secret but in public; and
that one must beat the bushes for them with great multitudes
of hunters, and chase pheasants and partridges and ringdoves,
for fear the servants of God perish with hunger.” ?

Yet the order of Cluny remained great and powerful until
the last century, when it succumbed to the violence of the
French Revolution. One of the largest houses of the order in
France was the Monastery of La Charité. Thence there came
a colony of monks to the Abbey of Wenlock in Shropshire,
which was among the earliest of the English Cluniac houses.
And when Walter, the first Steward of Scotland, determined
to erect a monastery of the order at Paisley, on the banks of
the River Cart, it was to Wenlock that he sent for those who
were first to lead the religious life in the new monastery.
We have already seen how the Abbey of Crosraguel practically

1 Maitland’s Dark Ages, p. 294.
® Lib. vi. Ep, 7, from Emillianne’s History of the Monastical Orders, p. 91.

Ixxii INTRODUCTION.

owed its existence to the mother house of Paisley; and we
are thus enabled to trace its direct descent from the Abbey
of Cluny through the Monasteries of La Charité, Wenlock, and
Paisley. A Scottish monk differed in no respect from those
resident in other monasteries of the same order ; and the monks
of Crosraguel would closely resemble their brethren in England
or in France. The monastic habit was a black gown with
large wide sleeves and a black cowl, over a white garment.

There were only two other monasteries of the order in
Scotland, namely, at Renfrew and Iona; the latter being a
development of the early Christian brotherhood established by
S. Columba.

The following were the services in the Church of a Cluniac
monastery :—Matins at 12 a.m.; Prime at 6; Tierce at 9;
Sext at 12 p.m.; Nones at 2 or 3; Vespers at 4; Complines at
7. The brethren retired to rest at 9 o’clock.

The community of a large Cluniac Abbey would include the
following :—The Abbot, whose power extended over the whole
- community; the Prior, whose office appears to have been
delegated to a sub-prior at Crosraguel; the Cellarer; the
Precentor ; the Kitchener; the Seneschal; the Sacrist,; the
Almoner ; the Novice Master ; the Porter ; the Refectioner ; the
Chamberlain ; the Monks ; the Novices ; the Lay brethren.

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CHARTERS

THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

1. Bull of Honorius III, confirming to the Monks of Paisley the Lands
of Crosragmol and Suthblane.—{1225, |

Honorius* episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Wilelmo * abbati
monasterii sancti Jacobi apostoli et sancti Mirini confessoris de Passelet
ejusque fratribus tam presentibus quam futuris regularem vitam professis
imperpetuum. Religiosam vitam eligentibus apostolicum convenit pre-
sidium, ne forte cujusdam temeritatis incursus aut eos a proposito revocet,
aut robur, quod absit, sacre religionis infringat. Eapropter dilecti in
Domino filii vestris justis postulationibus clementer anuimus, et monasterium
sancti Jacobi apostoli et sancti Mirini confessoris de Passelet in quo divino
mancipati estis obsequio sub beati Petri et nostra protectione suscipimus et
presentis scripti privilegio communimus: In primis siquidem statuentes ut
ordo monasticus qui secundum Deum et beati Benedicti [regulam] atque
institutionem Cluniacensium fratrum in eodem monasterio institutus esse
dinoscitur, perpetuis ibidem temporibus inviolabiliter observetur. Preterea
quascunque possessiones, quecunque bona idem monasterium impresentiarum
juste ac canonice possidet aut infuturum, concessione pontificum, largitione
regum vel principum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis modis, prestante

1 Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, pp. 411-12. 8 William, the first Abbot of {Paisley from
2 Honorius III. was a special benefactor to 1225 until at least 1248, who obtained many
Paisley, having issued the commission promoting Papal Bulls conferring special privileges on his
it from a Priory to the dignity of an Abbey, Monastery.—Reg. Mon. Passelet, and Dr. Lees’

—fReg. de Passelet, p, 8; Lees’ Paisley Abbey, p. Abbey of Paisley, pp. 60-63; v. also Dr, Gor-
58, don’s Monasticon, p. 567.

VOL, I. B

CHARTERS

THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

1. Bull of Honorius IIL., confirming to the Monks of Paisley the Lands
of Crosragmol and Suthblane.—{ 1225, ]*

1 Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, pp. 411-12. 8 William, the first Abbot of | Paisley from
2 Honorius III, was a special benefactor to 1225 until at least 1248, who obtained many
Paisley, having issued the commission promoting Papal Bulls conferring special privileges on his
it from a Priory to the dignity of an Abbey, Monastery.—Reg. Mon. Passelet, and Dr. Lees’

—feg. de Passelet, p, 8; Lees’ Paisley Abbey, p. Abbey of Paisley, pp. 60-63; v. also Dr, Gor-
58, don’s Monasticon, p. 567.

VOL, I. B

2 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Domino, poterit adipisci, firma vobis vestrisque successoribus et illibata
permaneant ; in quibus hee propriis duximus exprimenda vocabulis:— ...
Ex dono nobilis viri Duncani comitis de Carreik totam terram de Crosrag-
mol et Suthblan, cum pertinentiis suis .. .

ABSTRACT.

Bull by Pope Honorius III. to the Abbot and Convent of Paisley, con-
firming to them their sundry rights, privileges, and lands; amongst the
latter, the whole land of Crosragmol and Suthblane, by the gift of Duncan,?
Earl of Carrick. Dated 1225.

2. Confirmatio Alexandri regis Scotie, de tribus ecclesiis de Karryc, vide-
licet de Tornbir’, de Stratton’, et de Dalmakeran, et de donatione
denariate terre de Crosragmol, et de Sut blan in Carrek.—[5th August
1236.]?

Alexander Dei gratia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus totius
terre sue salutem. Sciant presentes et futuri nos concessisse et hac carta
nostra confirmasse donationem illam quam Duncanus filius Gilberti comes
de Carrek fecit caritatis intuitu Deo et sancto Jacobo et sancto Mirino de
Passelet et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus et imperpetuum servituris, de
ecclesiis de Turnbere, de Straton et de Dalmakeran cum omnibus earundem
justis pertinentiis ; Et preterea de quinque denariatis terre de Crosragmol
et de Sutblan, per rectas divisas suas: Tenendam et habendam eisdem
monachis in liberam, puram et perpetuam elemosinam, ita libere, quiete,
plenarie et honorifice sicut carta predicti Duncani inde plenius confecta
eisdem monachis juste testatur, salvo servitio nostro. Testibus Alexandro
episcopo Moraviensi, Philippo de Mubray, Rogero Avenel,’ David Marscall’,*

1 The original gift of Earl Duncan is not
preserved in the Paisley Register. Duncan,

of the gift, v. No. 3.

created first Earl of Carrick by Alexander IL,
succeeded his father Gilbert in the Carrick
portion of Galloway in 1185. His deed must
have been dated prior to 1202, as it was con-
firmed to the monks of Paisley by Florence,
Bishop elect of Glasgow from 1202-1207.—
Paterson’s Hist. of Ayrshire, ii. pp. 1, 303-5;
Gordon’s Scotichronicon, ii. p. 477; Reg. Epis.
Glas, p. xxv.; Chron, Aberbr. For the conditions

2 Registrwm Monasterti de Passelet, p. 427.

3 Son of Gervase Avenel, in Eskdale, died in
12438, and buried in Melrose Abbey.—Chart.
Melrose, No. 97; Chron. Mel., 207; Chart.
Arbroath, No. 138.

* David de Keth, joint Mareschal with his
nephew Hervei de Keth,—Rymer’s Fed., i.
241; Astle’s MSS.; Diplom. Scotie, No. 6;
Chalmers’ Caledonia, i. 519.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 3

Wilelmo de Lyndesay,! Wilelmo de Mar’, Adam de Logan, apud Edinburg
vicesimo quinto die Augusti, anno regni domini Regis xxii.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Alexander the second, King of Scots, whereby he grants
and confirms the gift which Duncan, the son of Gilbert, Earl of Carrick,
made to God and St. James and St. Mirin of Paisley, and the monks there
serving God, and to serve for ever, of the churches of Turnberry,? Straiton,?
and Dalmakeran,‘ with all their right pertinents ; and also of the five penny
land of Crosragmol and of Sutblan, by their right marches; to be held by
the said monks in free, pure, and perpetual alms, as freely as the charter of
the said Duncan bears ; reserving the king’s service. Witnesses: Alexander
bishop of Moray, Philip of Mubray, Roger Avenel, David the Marischal,
William of Lyndesay, William of Mar’, Adam of Logan. At Edinburgh,
25th August, 22d year of king’s reign [1236].

3. Scriptum de Corsragmol.—{ 15th August 1244. ]°*

Vilelmus® permissione divina ecclesie Glasguensis minister omnibus
Christi fidelibus tam presentibus quam futuris presentes litteras inspecturis
vel audituris eternam in Domino salutem. Noverit universitas vestra quod
cum inter nobilem virum Duncanum comitem de Karrec ex parte una et
Abbatem et conventum de Passelet ex altera, super domo religiosa ordinis
de Passelet in Carrik apud Corsragmol fundanda, et super bonis que dicti
Abbas et monachi ex collatione predicti Comitis possederunt in Karrec,

1 Lord of Lamberton, in Berwickshire-—Chart.
Newbotle, No. 10; Chalmers, i, 508.

2 i.e. S. Oswald of Turnberry, or Kirkoswald.
In 1227 Walter, Bishop of Glasgow, decided
that the vicar should have 100 shillings yearly
if the altarage should not be sufficient.—Chart.
Lennox, ii. 170; v. also Paterson’s Ayrshire, p.
285. The old church was in use till 1777.

8 §. Cuthbert of Straiton, the patronage of
which was conferred by John de Carrick upon
the Bishop of Glasgow. V. Chalmers, iii. 536,
and Chart. Glas., p. 225. (Value in 1275, £40
per annum ; in 1562, £60.) It was, however,
confirmed to and always held by the Abbey of

Crosraguel from 1244 to 1617, when it was
annexed to the Bishopric of Dumblane, with the
other four churches, V. No. 56, infra.

4 St. Michael of Dailly or Dalmakeran, the
meadow of St. Keran, a Scoto-Irish Saint. Cf.
Kilkerran, in Carrick and Cantyre. The name
seems to have been changed early in the sixteenth
century,

5 Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 424,
6 William de Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow,
1233-1258, formerly Rector of Edelstone, a

prebendary of Glasgow, and Chancellor to
Alexander IT.

4 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

coram nobis questio moveretur, tandem partes se nostre ordinationi voluntate
spontanea subjecerunt. Nos vero Deum habentes [pre ]oculis, in favorem
et augmentum religionis et ordinis, de unanimi consensu partium et assensu
capituli Glasguensis, ordinavimus in hunc modum, Videlicet quod in predicto
loco ad honorem Dei et beate Virginis Marie domus religionis construatur
de monachis ordinis de Passelet, qui ibidem perpetuis temporibus habeant
[habitent ?], plenaria gaudeant libertate, et libere possint per electionem
canonicam abbatem perficere qui ad monasticam vitam transire volentes
libere possit ad monachalem habitum et professionem recipere et omnia
facere que de jure pertinent ad abbatem ; ita etiam quod dicta domus de
Corsragmol a potestate et jurisdictione Abbatis et conventus de Passelet in
omnibus sit exempta, nisi tantum in ordinis recognitione ; quam sic duximus
declarandam. Ut monachi de Corsragmol in ordine et habitu et aliis
regularibus observantiis domui de Passelet penitus conformentur, et ut Abbas
de Passelet qui pro tempore fuerit dictam domum de Corsragmol visitet }
semel per annum cum moderata familia et sine expensarum gravamine ; in
qua visitatione si quid arduum vel grave invenerit corrigendum, ut maturius
et consultius cuncta procedant, per nos et successores nostros una cum ipso
visitatore canonice corrigatur. Ordinavimus etiam ut omnia dicta bona
que aliquando in Karree Abbas et conventus de Passelet possederunt in
usus dicte domus de Corsragmol cedant perpetuo; Solvendo domui -de
Passelet decem marcas argenti annuatim ad Pentecosten. Et si aliquo
tempore dicti Abbas et monachi de Passelet vel dictus Comes seu heredes
sui vel Abbas et monachi de Corsragmol contra ordinationem nostram in
aliquo venire voluerint, nos et successores nostri ipsos ad observationem
omnium predictorum, de plano et absque strepitu judicii, monitione pre-
missa, contravenientes per censuram ecclesiasticam compellamus. Ita quod
eis non valeat quantum ad supradicta infirmanda aliquod impetratum vel
impetrandum, vel aliquod juris canonici vel civilis remedium, vel aliquod
privilegium ordinis Cluniacensis competens vel competiturum, vel specialiter
beneficium restitutionis in integrum, vel aliquod statutum vel statuendum.
Et in hujus rei testimonium nos et capitulum Glasguense et dictus Comes
de Carrek presens scriptum sigillis* nostris roboravimus. Actum apud
Glasgw quintodecimo Kalendas Augusti anno gratie M°CCexliiiie

1 For an instance of this visitation, v. infra, found in Gordon’s Monasticon, p. 479, from the

No. 14. Melrose Charters.
_ ? An engraving of this Bishop’s seal is to be

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 5

TRANSLATION.
Writ of Corsragmol.

William, by the permission of God minister of the Church of Glasgow,
to all the faithful in Christ as well present as to come that shall see or hear
these present letters, greeting in the Lord: Know all of you that when
there was a question moved before us between a noble man Duncan Earl of
Carrick? on the one part, and the Abbot and convent of Paisley on the other
part, concerning a religious house of the order of Paisley in Carrick to be
founded at Corsragmol, and concerning the property which the said Abbot
and monks possessed in Carrick from the gift of the foresaid Earl, the
parties at length of their own free will submitted themselves to our ordi-
nance: Now we having God before our eyes, in favour of and for the
increase of religion and order, with the unanimous consent of the parties
and with the assent of the Chapter of Glasgow, have ordained after the
manner following ; to wit, that in the aforesaid place to the honour of God
and the blessed Virgin Mary there shall be erected a religious house of
monks of the order of Paisley, who shall dwell there in all times to come
and enjoy full liberty, and may freely appoint by canonical election an
Abbot, who may freely receive to the monastic habit and profession those
wishing to pass into the monastic life, and may do all things which of right
pertain to an Abbot to do; so also that the said house of Corsragmol may
be exempt in all things from the power and jurisdiction of the Abbot and
Convent of Paisley, save only in recognition of the order, which we think
fit to be declared in this manner: That the monks of Corsragmol in order
and habit and other regular observances shall wholly conform to the house
of Paisley, and that the Abbot of Paisley who shall be for the time shall
visit the said house of Corsragmol once a year with a moderate retinue and
without heavy expense; in which visitation if he shall find anything hard
or serious to be corrected, in order that all things may proceed with the
more mature and advised deliberation, it shall be corrected canonically by

1 Father Hay (Scotia Sacra: MSS. in Advo-
cates’ Library, Edinburgh) tells us, but with-
out giving his authority for the statement,
that Duncan even ‘“‘ecclesiam et officinas mon-
astice religioni competentes a primo fundamento
erexit, Libros, vestimenta, et alia ordinis
necessaria contulit Pasleto matri ecclesie, non-

dum nata filia, ut semel monachi cum abbate eo
transmissi per se donationes acceptarent” (p.
277). If this be reliable, the building of the
Church and Monastery must have been com-
menced between the date of this writ (1244) and
1250, the year of Earl Duncan’s death.—Reg.
Ep. Glas.

6 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

us and our successors together with the said visitor: We ordain also that
all the said property which the Abbot and convent of Paisley have pos-
sessed at any time in Carrick they shall yield for ever to the uses of the
said house of Corsragmol, they paying to the house of Paisley ten merks
silver! yearly at Whitsunday: And if at any time the said Abbot and monks
of Paisley or the said Earl or his heirs or the Abbot and monks of Corsrag-
mol wish in any thing to come in contrary of our ordinance, we and our
successors may compel by ecclesiastical censure the contraveners to the
performance of all the foresaids plainly and without strife of law, first giving
them an admonition ; also, that nothing shall be of avail to them in the way
of impairing the above mentioned, either as an impetration made or to be
made, or any remedy of canon or civil law, or any privilege competent or
that shall be competent to the Cluniac order,’ or specifically the benefit of
restitution in integrum, or any statute present or to come: And in witness
hereof we and the Chapter of Glasgow and the said Earl of Carrick have
confirmed the present writ with our seals. Done at Glasgow on the 15
Kal, August (18th July) the year of grace 1244.° .

4. Contra Abbatem de Crosragmol.—[ 6th February and
11th June 1265. ]*

Clemens episcopus servus servorum [Dei] venerabili fratri Episcopo
Dunblanensi.et dilectis filiis Abbati monasterii de Driburg,® Sanctiandree
diocesis, et Magistro Rogero de Derby precentori ecclesie Aberdonensis,
salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Sua nobis dilecti filii Abbas et
conventus monasterii de Passelet, Cluniacensis ordinis, Glasguensis diocesis,
petitione monstrarunt quod cum quondam Duncanus comes de Karric jus
patronatus ecclesie Sancti Oswaldi de Turnbery et quarundam aliarum
ecclesiarum terras possessiones et alia bona et ipsum spectantium in Glas-
guensi diocesi eis intuitu pietatis in perpetuam elemosinam contulisset ;

1 For references to this annual payment, v. 5 This John, Abbot of Dryburgh, appears to
Nos. 23, 46, infra. have been celebrated as a peacemaker. He
2 V. Introduction. assisted at a compromise between the monks of
8 Thus Crosraguel was a genuine Abbey, and Kelso and their tenants about 1246, and in the
not a mere cell of Paisley, as it had been, and previous year at the settlement of the dispute

as Dalmulin continued to be.—V. Meg. de Passe- between the Priory of St. Andrews and the

let, p. 24; Lees, p. 56. Convent of Haddington regarding the teinds of
* Registrum Monasterit de Passelet, p. 422. Stephinston.—Reg. Prior. S. Andree, p. 329.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 7

constructo in ipsis possessionibus quodam oratorio in quo idem Abbas et
conventus fecerunt per multa tempora per quosdam de suis monachis
deserviri ; postmodum dicto Comite asserente quod ipse ipsarum patronatus
jus, terras, possessiones et bona predicta eisdem Abbati et conventui sub ea
conditione contulerat ut in dictis possessionibus construeretur monasterium
ordinis supradicti, cui ecclesie, terre, possessiones et bona assignarentur
predicta, et movente super hiis ipsis Abbati et conventui questionem ;
tandem partes ordinationi bone memorie Glasguensis Episcopi, loci diocesani,
super hiis se totaliter submiserunt, eisdem Abbate et conventu renun-
ciantibus beneficio restitutionis in integrum et omni juris auxilio canonici
et civilis et litteris a sede apostolica impetrandis; dictus vero Episcopus,
de partium ipsarum et capituli Glasguensis assensu, ordinavit quod in—
hujusmodi possessionibus construeretur monasterium quod Crosragmol
voca{re|tur, de monachis monasterii supradicti, qui sibi per canonicam
electionem libere possint abbatem eligere, et quod predictum monasterium
taliter construendum a potestate et jurisdictione Abbatis et conventus dicti
monasterii de Passelet in omnibus sit exemptum, nisi in ordinis et habitus
conformatione et observatione, et quod Abbas de Passeleto qui pro tempore
fuerit predictum monasterium de Crosragmol semel visitet annuatim.
Ordinavit etiam quod omnia bona que aliquando Abbas et conventus
predicti monasterii de Passelet habuerunt in Karric perpetuo cederent in
usus predicti monasterii taliter construendi, et quod Abbas et conventus
qui essent pro tempore in hujusmodi monasterio eisdem Abbati et conventui
de Passelet, pro omnibus predictis, singulis annis decem mercarum sterling-
orum annuum redditum solverent, et quod ipse Episcopus et successores
sui partes ad observationem ordinationis hujusmodi possent de plano et
sine strepitu judicii, monitione premissa, per censuram ecclesiasticam
coartare ; Quare dicti Abbas et conventus monasterii de Passelet nobis
humiliter supplicarunt ut cum hujusmodi ordinatio redundet in ipsius
monasterii de Passelet lesionem enormem, providere super hiis ipsis per
beneficium restitutionis in integrum paterna solicitudine curaremus.
Ideoque discretioni vestre per apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus,
vocatis qui fuerint evocandi, si vobis constiterit prefatum monasterium de
Passelet ex ordinatione hujusmodi enormem sustinere jacturam, eo et dictis
Abbate et conventu adversus ordinationem eandem, hujusmodi renuncia-
tionibus ac instrumentis super hoc confectis et aliis premissis nequaquam
obstantibus, sicut justam fuerit in integrum restitutis, audiatis causam, et

8 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

eam infra annum judicio, vel concordia si de partium voluntate processerit,
terminare curetis, facientes quod decreveritis per censuram ecclesiasticam
firmiter observari; alioquin causam ipsam instructam vel non instructam
remittatis ad apostolice sedis examen, prefixo partibus termino peremptorio
competenti quo per se vel procuratores ydoneos, cum omnibus munimentis
et rationibus suis causam hujusmodi contingentibus apostolico se conspectui
representent, facture ac recepture super hiis quod ordo dictaverit rationis.
Testes autem qui fuerint nominati, si se gratia, odio vel timore subtraxerint,
per censuram eandem, appellatione cessante, cogatis veritati testimonium
perhibere; non obstante si aliquibus a sede sit indultum eadem quod
interdici, suspendi vel excommunicari non possint per litteras apostolicas
non facientes plenam et expressam de indulto hujusmodi mentionem, sive
qualibet alia dicte sedis indulgentia per quam effectus presentium impediri
valeat vel differri, et de qua in nostris litteris fieri debeat mentio specialis.*
Diem vero prefixionis hujusmodi et quicquid feceritis in premissis nobis per
vestras litteras harum seriem continentes fideliter intimetis. Quod si non
omnes hiis exequendis potueritis interesse, duo vestrum ea nichilominus
exequantur, Datum Perusii viii Idus Februarii pontificatus nostri anno
primo.
De eodem.

Clemens episcopus servus servorum Dei, et cetera de verbo ad verbum

primo.

ABSTRACT.

Letters by Pope Clement [the Fourth] directed to the Bishop of
Dumblane, the Abbot of the Monastery of Dryburgh of St. Andrews diocese,
and Master Roger of Derby, precentor of the Church of Aberdeen ; whereby,
on the narrative that his beloved sons the Abbot and convent of the
Monastery of Paisley, of the Cluniac Order of the diocese of Glasgow, had
shown to him in their petition that whereas the deceased Duncan Earl of
Carrick had bestowed on them in perpetual alms the right of patronage of
the Church of St. Oswald of Turnbery and of sundry other churches, and
the lands, possessions, and other goods belonging to him in the diocese of

1 These Papal commissions were the fore- —Reg. de Passelet, and C. Innes’ Scottish Legal

shadowing of trial by jury in Scotland, One of Antiquities, p. 214, where the details are given,
the earliest recorded was the case of Monachkeran. This was 42 years before, in 1223.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 9

Glasgow ; there was built in the said possessions a certain oratory, in which
the said Abbot and convent for many years caused service to be given by
some of their monks; afterwards, on the said Earl asserting that he had
bestowed the right of patronage, lands, possessions, and goods aforesaid to
the said Abbot and convent under this condition that there should be
constructed in the said possessions a monastery of the Order abovesaid, to
which the churches, lands, possessions, and goods aforesaid should be
assigned, and he moving a question upon these things against the Abbot
and convent, the parties at length submitted themselves to the ordinance
of the Bishop of Glasgow, diocesan of the place, and the Abbot and convent
having renounced the benefit of restitutio in integrum, and all benefit of law,
canon and civil, and letters purchased from the apostolic see, the said Bishop,
with assent of parties and of the Chapter of Glasgow, ordained that a
monastery should be erected in the said possessions, which should be called
Crosragmol, of monks of the foresaid monastery, who might freely choose an
Abbot by canonical election; and that the foresaid monastery so erected
should be in all things exempt from the power and jurisdiction of the
Abbot and convent of the said Monastery of Paisley, except in conformity
in order, habit, and observance, and that the Abbot of Paisley for the time
being should visit the foresaid Monastery of Crosragmol once a year: He
ordained also that all the goods which the Abbot and convent of the fore-
said Monastery of Paisley sometime had in Carrick, they should grant for
ever to the uses of the foresaid monastery so to be erected, and that the
Abbot and convent for the time being in such monastery should pay an
annual rent of ten merks of sterlings every year to the Abbot and convent
of Paisley for all the foresaids ; and that the said Bishop and his successors
might compel the parties to observe the said ordinance, on premonition
being given, by ecclesiastical censure, without noise of law. Wherefore the
said Abbot and convent of the Monastery of Paisley have humbly supplicated
the Pope that forasmuch as this ordinance redounded to the enormous
hurt of the said Monastery of Paisley, he should with paternal solicitude
provide upon these matters by the benefit of restitutio in integrum. There-
fore the Pope charges the said Bishop of Dumblane, Abbot of Dryburgh,
and Mr. Roger of Derby, that having summoned those who ought to be
summoned, if they find that the foresaid Monastery of Paisley by the
said ordinance has sustained enormous loss, notwithstanding the renuncia-

tions and instruments thereon, etc., they shall hear the cause, and terminate
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it by judgment within a year, even if it shall have proceeded by voluntary
goodwill of parties ; causing what they should decree to be strictly observed
by ecclesiastical censure ; otherwise to remit the cause, instructed or not
instructed, to the decision of the apostolic see, prefixing a peremptory
competent term, in which, by themselves or suitable procurators, with all
muniments and reasons pertaining to the cause, they shall present them
for apostolic inspection; and to compel witnesses to bear witness to the
truth by the same censure, notwithstanding of any indulgence, ete. Dated
at Perugia, 8 Ides of February, first year of Pontificate [6th February 1265 |.’

Of the same.

Another letter in the same terms by Pope Clement the Fourth. Perugia,
3 Ides June, first year of Pontificate [11th June 1265].?

5. Bull by Clement IV., confirming to the Monks of Paisley the
Lands of Crosragmol.—{ 1269. |®

Clemens episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis abbati monasterii
sancti Jacobi et sancti Mirini confessoris de Passelet eisque fratribus tam pre-
sentibus quam futuris regularem vitam professis imperpetuum. . . . Preterea
quascunque possessiones, quecunque bona idem monasterium impresentiarum
juste et canonice possidet aut infuturum, concessione pontificum, largitione
regum vel principum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis modis, prestante
Domino poterit adipisci, firma vobis vestrisque successoribus et illibata
permaneant. In quibus hee propriis duximus exprimenda vocabulis:— . . .
Ex dono quondam Duncani comitis de Karric totam terram de Crosragmol
et Sutheblan cum pertinentiis suis . .

1 Similar cases of a Papal commission in
Scotland may be found in the Advocates’ Library
MSS. Bib. Cott., Tit. xix., empowering the Abbots
of Arbroath, Lindores, and the Prior of May,

2 There is no direct evidence as to the result
of this commission, but it appears merely to
have confirmed the “Scriptum” of Crosraguel.
The learned editor of the Register of Paisley

to finish a controversy between the Prior and
Bishop of St. Andrews; and in the Register
of Paisley, pp. 8-10, where Honorius III. ap-
pointed the Bishop of Glasgow and the Abbots
of Kelso and Melrose to decide as to the pro-
motion of Paisley Priory to the dignity of an
Abbey in 1219,

and Dr. Lees have too hastily assumed that it
reserved the patronage of the churches of Turn-
berry, Straiton, and Dailly to Paisley, whereas
we know from charter No. 22, infra, that they
were confirmed to Crosraguel.

8 Registrum Monasterti de Passelet, p. 308,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 11

ABSTRACT.

Bull by Clement IV., confirming to the monks of Paisley sundry lands
and churches ; among others the whole land of Crosragmol and Southblane
in Carrick, with their pertinents, by the gift of Duncan, Earl of Carrick.

Dated 1269.1

6. Appendix I. (Bagimont’s Roll). Taxatio Beneficiarum Preter Prelacias
Scotie in decima parte eorundem.—Anno MCCLXX V.?

In Decanatu de Carrik.

Prepositura de Mayboll, iiij lib.

Vic. de Mayboill,
Vic. de Kirkmichell,
Vic. de Stratton,
Vic. de Innertig,
Vic. de Girven,

Vic. de Colmonell,

v lib. vj sol. viij den.
iij lib. vj sol. viij den.
iiij lib.

liij sol. iiij den.

liiij sol. iiij den.

iiij lib.

Inbellus taxationum seu contributionum spiritualitatis conceparum

S.D.N. Regi per prelatos et clericos Regni Scotia.

Glasguensis diocesis.—Crossragwell, liij lib. vj s viij d.*

1 These lands appear to have been inserted in
the Bull either in error or from the wish of
Paisley to retain them if possible, as we see from
three crown charters (Nos, 10, 18, and 22),
that they were the property of Crosraguel, in
accordance with the “ Scriptum.”

2 MSS. Adv. Lib., 31, 2, 5, pp. 11-20.

3 Boiamund or Bagimont da Vicci, appointed
by the Pope (in consequence of the decision of the
Council of Lyons in 1274) to collect the tenth of
the revenue of all Church Lands in the kingdom
of Scotland to pay the expenses of the expedition
to the Holy Land, raised the tax according to

the Verus Valor, not the Antiqua Tazatio as the
clergy desired. The amount collected in Scot-
land was £7195 sterling. Crosraguel was valued
at £533:6:4, the same as Balmerino. The
most opulent abbey was Arbroath, valued at
£4000. The original Roll is still in the Vatican
archives, and the fragment of it remaining was
copied by Theiner. There are now two copies
of it in Scotland, that by Habakkuk Bisset in
1622, and the Libellus alluded to above. V,
Statuta Ecclesie Scoticane, p. lxx. Theiner’s
Vet. Mon., p. 104; MSS. Adv. Lib., p. 31, 2, 5,
and 25, 5, 1; Harl. MSS., No, 4613.

12 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

7. Donatio ecclesie Sancti Querani in Kentyir per Alecandrum de Hyle.
[Circa 1286. ]*

Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris vel audituris Alex-
ander de Hyle, filius et heres domini Engusii filii Dovenaldi domini de
Hyle, salutem in Domino sempiternam: Noverit universitas vestra me
inspexisse et palpasse cartam domini patris mei, non rasam, non abolitam,
nec in aliqua parte sui vitiatam vel reprehensibilem, in hec verba: Omnibus
Christi fidelibus tam presentibus quam futuris, Engus filius Dovenaldi,
eternam in Domino salutem. Sciatis me, intuitu pietatis, et pro salute
domini mei Alexandri illustris regis Scotie, et cetera omnia de verbo ad
verbum ut prescribitur usque illuc, habentis jus patronatus in ecclesiis.
Hane siquidem donationem concessionem et confirmationem, ratam et
firmam habere volens imperpetuum, eam sigillo meo duxi roborandam, et
nichilominus ex habundanti, ut omnis materia controversie tollatur de cetero,
predictis monachis prenominatam ecclesiam sicut scriptum est in omnibus
do, concedo, et presenti scripto meo confirmo: Et ne ceca depereat oblivione
aliquo tempore quod per me pia devotione gestum est et recognitum,
presens scriptum sigillo meo una cum sigillo domini Laurencii Dei gratia
Ergadiensis episcopi, et domini Roberti Brus’ comitis de Carric, gratia
majoris testimonii, roborari procurayi: Hiis testibus, Domino Patricio Dei
gratia abbate monasterii de Crosragal, domino Roberto Brus’ comite de
Carric, Roberto filio ejusdem et herede, domino Roberto Anglico milite,
domino Maricio vicario de Aran, Patricio clerico de Kentyir, domino
Nicholao monacho de Crosragal, et aliis.

ABSTRACT.

Confirmation by Alexander of Hyle, son and heir of Engus, son of
Donald lord of Hyle,? of a charter which he had inspected and handled,

1 Registrwm Monasterii de Passelet, p. 128.
2 ¢e. Lord of the Isles. This charter is not

witness this charter, present at the convention,
but also Engus son of Donald Lord of the Isles,

dated, but we may perhaps assume that it was
signed at the time of the convention of the
Scottish barons at the Earl of Carrick’s Castle
of Turnberry in Sep. 1286. We know from
Rymer’s Federa (ii. p. 488) that not only were
Robert Bruce the Earl and his son Robert
(afterwards King Robert I), both of whom

and Alexander his son. Again, the proximity of
the Abbey of Crosraguel which is only a few
miles from the castle, and the fact that both
the Abbot and one of his convent witnessed the
grant, point to the same conclusion (v. Tytler’s
Hist. i. 75).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 13

granted by his father in favour of the Monastery of Paisley, for the weal
of his lord Alexander, illustrious King of Scotland, and of Alexander his
son, and for the weal of the granter and his heirs, giving to the said abbey
the church of St. Queran, in his land which is called Kyntire: which charter
the said Alexander confirms with his seal: but nevertheless, more amply,
and that all matter of controversy may be taken away, he gives and con-
firms the said church to the monks of the said abbey: but lest the fact of
his doing so in pious devotion should at any time sink into blind oblivion,
he procures the corroboration of the confirmation with his own seal, and
also with the seal of Laurence, bishop of Argyll, and that of Sir Robert
Brus, earl of Carrick, for greater witnessing. The witnesses being Patrick,
abbot of Crosraguel, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick, Robert, his son and
heir, Sir Robert Inglis, knight, Sir Maurice, vicar of Arran, Patrick,? clerk of
Kintyre, Sir Nicholas, monk of Crosragwel, etc.

8. Letter from Henry de Percy,’ at Crosraguel, to Sir James Dalileghe.—
[25th July 1806. ]*

Henry de Percy Gardein en les parties de Cardoil/ a Sire James Dali-
leghe saluz. Nus vous maundoms en la fei ge vous devez a nostre seignor
le Rey/ qe hastivement veues cestres lettres vous facez venyr deus engyns a
Garvan en Carrik e les facez carier en batz ge peussent auxi ben venyr par
nages cum par vent. E mout nous merveiloms de coe qe vitailes ne nous
venent solom coe qe nous vous chargagames en sustenaunce del host/ par
quei nous maundoms qe vous les nous facez hastivement venyr sicom vous

1 The first Abbot of whom we have any men-
tion, Abbot Patrick does not appear to have
figured at the “ Parliament” of Brigham in July
1290 (Rymer’s Federa, ii. 471-2), nor did any
Abbot of Crosraguel, to the lasting credit of the
abbey, sign the Ragman Rolls in 1296,—Cal. of
Documents relating to Scotland.

2 These two ecclesiastics, Sir Maurice and the
clerk, may have brought the Bishop’s seal over
to Turnberry with them.

° Henry Percy was appointed keeper of Gal-
loway and the Sheriffdom of Ayr in 1296 ; and
in 1306 he was again despatched into Carrick
after the coronation of Robert Bruce. He held

Turnberry Castle all that year, and Bruce’s
estate of Carrick was in fact given to him by
Edward I. He was at Turnberry when Bruce
effected his memorable landing from Arran in
the spring of 1307, and evacuated the castle
shortly afterwards.— Rymer, i. pt. ii. p. 982;
Matt. of West. p. 454; Tytler, vol. i. pp. 93,
128-30; Hemingford, p. 224; Barbour, pp.
83-4, 95,

* Exchequer Miscellanea (Army), Public Re-
cord Office. The date is not given, but is
known from the circumstances to be 1306.
The seal on the letter is that of a lion rampant
under a parchment cover.

14 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

amez le honur nostre seignor le Rey/ e le profyt de tot le host. E ne lessez
sicom vous vous volez sauver de damage/ e sur quaunt ge vous poez forfere
devers nostre seignor le Rey/ qe cest maundement ne facez si penyblement/
e si hastivement qe nous vous peussoms gre saver/e temonyer vostre bon
service a nostre Seignor le Rey. LEscrite a Crosraguel le jour seint Jake
[25th July].

ABSTRACT.

Letter from Henry de Percy from Crosraguel’ to Sir James Dalileghe,
bidding him send two engines to Girvan in Carrick with all speed, and
complaining of the non-appearance of the provisions for the sustenance of
the army. St. James’ Day, 1306.?

9. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer.—| 4th June 13824.]§

David ‘ dei gracia Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue clericis et laicis salutem. Sciatis nos pro salute anime nostre et pro
salute animarum omnium antecessorum et successorum nostrorum dedisse
concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Deo et beate Marie
Virgini et religiosis viris abbati* et monachis de Crosragmer ibidem Deo
servientibus et inperpetuum servituris totam terram de Dungrelach® cum
omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus aysiamentis et justis pertinenciis in
omnibus et per omnia ad eandem terram spectantibus seu de jure spectare

1 We may infer that a great portion of the
Abbey was destroyed at this time. Fordun
writes “Hoe in anno sciz 1307 Anglici com-
busserunt monasterium de Pasleto,” while the
Abbeys of Kelso and St. Andrews were also
destroyed.

2 An interesting sequel to this letter is printed
in the Calendar of Docwments relating to Scotland,
in the Record Office, in the form of a letter from
Edward I. to Sir James Dalilegh, wherein the
King expresses great pleasure at his letter report-
ing that he has sent two engines to Sir Henry
de Percy at Lochdoon (sic), and desires that all
necessaries may be sent there in aid of his busi-
ness, (No. 1818.)

3 Registrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No. 58.
The original of this charter is not preserved,
and was probably among the fourteen (out of

fifteen) missing Rolls of Robert I.’s reign, which
were lost in the removal of the Public Records
to England in 1651. The above is copied from
the charter of confirmation by Robert II. (v.
No. 17, infra, and Reg. Mag. Sigilli, Ed., 1814,
p. x. Introd.) The same applies to charters 10
and 11, infra, which are copied respectively
from Nos. 18 and 19.

4 This is evidently a mistake, as the names
of the witnesses prove that it must have been
Robert I.

5 We have no Abbot mentioned by name
from now till 1370. V. No. 14, infra.

® Dungrelach, or Drumgarloch, near the sea,
about 2} miles south of Turnberry Castle (com-
pare Nos. 22, 86, 89, 105, 106, 112, 113,
infra). Drumgarloch Mill is frequently men-
tioned in these charters,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 15

valentibus in futurum quoquo modo ‘Tenendam et habendam eisdem
religiosis et eorum successoribus inperpetuum in liberam puram et perpe-
tuam elemosinam et vnam liberam baroniam. In cuius rei testimonium
presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi Testibus venerabili-
bus patribus Willelmo et Willelmo Sanctiandree et Dunkeldensis Dei gracia
ecclesiarum episcopis Bernardo abbate de Abberbrothoc cancellario Scocie
Waltero senescallo Scocie Jacobo domino de Douglas Alexandro Fraser
camerario nostro et Malcolmo Flemyng militibus Apud Berwycum super
Twedam quarto die Junii anno regni nostri octavo decimo.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by David [Robert] King of Scots, granting to the abbot and
monks of Crosraguel his whole land of Dungrelach: To be held in pure
and perpetual alms-gift for the weal of his soul, and of the souls of all his
ancestors and successors. Dated at Berwick on Tweed 4th June, 18th
year of his reign (1324).

10. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer.—{ 1324. ]}

Robertus Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem Sciatis nos pro nobis et heredibus nostris caritatis
intuitu concessisse inperpetuum religiosis viris abbati et monachis monas-
terii de Corsragmer ordinis Cluniacensis quod omnes terras quas ipsi tenent
de nobis et antecessoribus nostris in comitatu de Carryk videlicet quinque
denariatas terre de Corsragmer et de Suthbarne unam denariatam terre que
vocatur Clenacheth unam denariatam terre que vocatur Balecristen Lorkan’
duas denariatas terre cum dimidia de tenemento de Dunnefyne unam
denariatam terre ecclesie de Kyrkoswald una cum universis terris ecclesiarum
suarum parochialium ad ipsos pertinentibus de cetero habeant et pacifice
teneant de nobis et heredibus nostris in liberam baroniam cum furca et fossa
cum tol et theame soc et sac outfangandthef et infangandthef libere quiete et
honorifice cum omnimodis libertatibus pariter aysiamentis et commodis ad
liberam baroniam in regno nostro Scocie de jure vel consuetudine spec-
tantibus seu spectare valentibus in futurum quoquomodo Preterea tres
denariatas terre videlicet denariatam terre de Dalchorane denariatam terre

1 Registrum Magni Sigillt, Roll ii. No. 59.

16 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

de Corale et denariatam terre de Hachethneuach quas predicti Religiosi
ex donacione quondam Edwardi fratris nostri tenent eisdem in liberam
baroniam perpetuo possidendas prout in omnibus superius prescriptum est
concedimus et confirmamus In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre
sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi ‘Testibus venerabilibus in Christo patribus
Willelmo et Willelmo Sancti Andree et Dunkeldensis ecclesiarum Dei gracia
episcopis Bernardo abbate de Abberbrothoc cancellario nostro Waltero
senescallo Scocie et Jacobo domino de Douglas militibus Apud Berwycum
super Twedam anno regni nostri octavo decimo.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Robert King of Scots, in favour of the abbot and monks of
the Monastery of Crosraguel, of the Cluniac order, that all the lands which
they held of the king and his ancestors in the earldom of Carrick, namely,
five pennies of the land of Crosragwel and of Suthbarne, one penny of the
land called Clenacheth, one penny of the land called Balecristen! Lorkan’,
two pennies and a half of the tenement of Dunnefyne,? one penny of the
land of the Kirk of Kirkoswald, together with the whole lands of their
parish churches belonging to them, should thenceforth be held of the king
and his heirs in free barony, with gallows® and pit, toll, theme, sock and
sack, outfangthief and infangthief,* with all advantages and freedoms per-
taining by law or custom to a free barony in the Kingdom of Scotland ;
and further, three pennies of land, namely, one of Dalchorane,® one of Corale,®
and one of Hachethnevach,’ which the aforesaid religious men held by the
gift of the deceased Edward, the king’s brother, to be possessed by them
for ever in free barony. Dated at Berwick upon Tweed in the 18th year
of the king’s reign (1324), before these witnesses: William Bishop of St.
Andrews, William Bishop of Dunkeld, Bernard Abbot of Arbroath, chan-
cellor, Walter Steward of Scotland, and James Lord Douglas, knights.

1 Balchrystine on the sea, 1} miles north of is still an extensive building, on the margin

the castle of Culzean. of the Girvan (v. Paterson’s Ayrshire, ii. 175).

2 Duneyne or Dinhame, near the Brockloch; The first laird of Dalquharran of whom we have
v. Index for other allusions. any mention is Gilbert Kennedy, in 1474.

8 The Gallow Hill of the Abbey stood about 8 Probably the later Quarrel or Quarrelhill,
2 miles to the north, beyond Mochrum Hill. N.W. of Dalquharran.

* For an explanation of these terms, v. 7 de, Auchennaich, on the Girvan, between

Cosmo Innes’ Scottish Legal Antiquities, pp. 55-9. Dalquharran and Bargany; v. several charters
5 Apparently Dalquharran. The old castle infra, and Index.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 17

11. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer._[20th July 1327.]}

Robertus Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem. Sciatis nos divine caritatis intuitu et pro salute anime
nostre et pro salute animarum antecessorum et successorum nostrorum
concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse religiosis viris abbati et
conventui de Crosragmer omnes et singulas ecclesias terras redditus et
possessiones quos et quas iidem religiosi habent ex donacionibus conces-
sionibus et infeodacionibus Duncani? Nigelli® et Edwardi*t comitum de Carric
ac eciam venerande memorie domini Roberti de Bruys’ patris nostri et domine
Mariorie® matris nostre et omnium aliorum nobilium ac Christi fidelium regni
nostri Tenendas et habendas eisdem religiosis et eorum successoribus in
liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam adeo libere quiete pure integre et
honorifice cum omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus rectitudinibus aysi-
amentis et ceteris pertinenciis suis sicut carte eorundem religiosorum liberius
quiecius plenius purius integrius et honorificencius in se proportant et tes-
tantur et prout dicti religiosi usi sunt tempore bone memorie domini
Alexandri Dei gracia regis Scottorum illustris predecessoris nostri ultimo
defuncti. Mandamus insuper et firmiter precipimus justiciariis vicecomitibus
prepositis et eorum ballivis ac omnibus et singulis ballivis comitatus de
Carric quod prefatos religiosos vel eorum successores aut homines eorundem
contra hane concessionem et confirmacionem nostram nullatenus gravare
vexare seu aliqualiter inquietare presumant. In cuius rei testimonium
presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum precepimus apponi Testibus venera-
bilibus in Christo patribus dominis Willelmo Johanne Willelmo Gilberto
Sanctiandree Glasguensis Dunkeldensis et Sodorensis ecclesiarum episcopis
Bernardo abbate de Abberbrothoe cancellario nostro Thoma Ranulphi comite
Moravie domino vallis Anandie et Manie nepote nostro Waltero Senescallo
Scocie Jacobo domino de Douglas Gilberto de Haya constabulario nostro et
Roberto de Keth marescallo nostro apud Cambuskyneth xx™° die Julii anno
regni nostri vicesimo primo.

1 Registrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No. 60. v. Note on No. 9.
2 1185-1250. 8 1250-6. 4 1306-18. 5 1268-92.
§ 1256-68: Robert Bruce, Lord of Annan- In 1292, on the death of the Countess, he re-

dale, acquired the earldom of Carrick in right of _ signed the earldom in favour of his son the future
the Countess Marjory, whom he married in 1268. King, in accordance with the old law of Scotland.

VOL. I. D

Carric

18 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, whereby, in view of divine
charity, and for the salvation of his soul, and the souls of his ancestors and
successors, he grants and confirms to the religious men, the abbot and
convent of Crosragwel, all and sundry the churches, lands, rents, and
possessions which they had by the gifts, grants, and infeftments of Duncan,
Nigel, and Edward, earls of Carrick, and also of Sir Robert Bruce his father,
and Lady Marjory his mother, of venerated memory, and of all other nobles
and faithful in Christ, of his kingdom: To be held in free, pure, and per-
petual alms, freely, quietly, purely, wholly and honourably, with all their
freedoms, rights, and easements, according to their charter thereof, and as
they were wont to enjoy the same in the time of Alexander, of good
memory, illustrious King of Scots, who last deceased: charging all justi-
ciars, sheriffs, and other officers to beware of contravening the terms of this
grant. Given under the king’s seal at Cambuskenneth, 20th July [1327].

12. Gifts to the Abbot of Crosraguel from the Royal Purse.—{ 1329-80. |}

I. Compotum domini Malcolmi Fleming, senescalli domus domini regis,?
redditum apud Neubotill, xvj die Januarii, anno gracie millesimo trecen-
tesimo vicesimo nono, de receptis suis et expensis in dicta domo, a vicesimo
die Februarii ultimo preteriti usque in decimum diem Januarii ultimo
preteriti, ipso die incluso.

Compotum ejusdem domini Malcolmi de ballia comitatus de Carrik.

Summa hujus recepti, ccccxxx ti viijs. ixd. et xiiij marti. De quibus,
abbati de Corsragmer, per decimum denarium tocius comitatus de Carric, de
tribus terminis infra tempus compoti, pro fabrica® monasterii sui, per literam
regis sub magno sigillo, per computantem presentandam in proximo com-
poto, ch. xxiid.

1 Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. i. p. 258. 8 Crosraguel had probably had its full share
2 ie, David II., who had succeeded his father, of plunder and desecration, as we find Henry
Robert Bruce, in the preceding June. Percy there in 1306 (v. ante, No. 8).

ree Bg” & -S

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 19

TRANSLATION.

Account of Sir Malcolm Fleming, steward of the king’s house, rendered
at Newbottle on 16th January 1329-30, of his receipts and expenses in the
said house from 20th February last to 10th January, inclusive.

Account of the said Sir Malcolm of the bailiery of the earldom of
Carrick,

Sum of this receipt £430:8:9, and 14 marts. Of which to the Abbot
of Crosraguel, by the tenth penny of the whole earldom of Carrick' for three
terms within the period of the account, for the repair of his monastery, by
the King’s letter under the great seal, to be presented by the compter in
next account, £100 223d.

II. Compotum Johannis de Twynhame? provisoris domini regis in
Galwidia, redditum apud Sconam vij°® die Augusti, anno gracie, etc. xxix.,
de receptis suis et expensis, usque in diem presentis compoti.

Abbati de Corsragmer, ex dono regis, per literam suam de precepto, et
ipsius abbatis de recepto, vj celdras.

Idem onerat se de viij celdris iij bollis farine receptis de vicecomite de
Wigtown et de xx celdris iij bollis. Summa recepti, xxviij celdre vj bolle.
De quibus Abbati de Crasragmer, ex dono regis per literam, x celdras.

TRANSLATION,

Account of John of Twynhame, purveyor to the King in Galloway,
rendered at Scone 7th August 1329, of his receipts and expenses to date of
account.

1 From a Roll, in which twelve of the Sheriffs rents.—Ezxchequer Rolls, Introd. p. ev. The
and the bailies of Crail and Kinross gave account amount to be raised was £20,000.—Instrument
of the payments received by them at Whitsun- in Gen. Reg. House, Edinburgh ; Tytler, vol. i. p.
day 1328, we find that the contributio pro pace 182.
was to be levied for three successive years, 2 Eachequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. i. p. 153.
according to the tenth penny, old extent, of the

Frumentum

Farina

20 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

To the Abbot of Crosraguel, by the gift of the King, in his letter of
precept, and receipt of the said abbot, six chalders.

The same burdens himself with eight chalders and three bolls of meal
received from the earldom of Wigtown, and with twenty chalders and three
bolls. Sum of the receipt 28 chalders 6 bolls. From which, to the
Abbot of Crosraguel, from the gift of the King by letter, 10 chalders.

13. Charter by Marjory de Montgomery to John Kennedy, of the Lands
of Cassillis in Carrick.—{ Not dated :* curea 1360.]?

Omnibus hane cartam visuris vel audituris Marioria de Mundegumry*
consanguinea ac heres Christiane de Mundegumry salutem in Domino
sempiternam Noverint quod ego in mea pura et legitima viduitate non vi
nec metu conducta set pura et spontanea mea voluntate dedi ac vendicionis
titulo concessi ac vendidi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi, necnon dono
et concedo titulo quo supra et per eandem cartam meam confirmo Johanni
Kenedy‘ hereditarie omnes terras que me hereditario iure contingunt infra
feodum militare de Castlys in comitatu de Carric infra vicecomitatum de
Are et totum ius et clameum quos habeo vel habere potero pro me vel meis
heredibus in toto vel in parte ipsius feodi militaris de Castlys. Tenendas
et habendas eidem Johanni heredibus et assignatis suis de superioribus
dominis feodi supradicti qui pro tempore fuerint in feodo ac hereditate per
omnes rectas et antiquas metas et divisas suas adeo libere quiete plenarie
integre et honorifice in bostis planis pratis pascuis et pasturis moris maresiis
viis semitis aquis stagnis multuris molendinis et eorum sequelis aucu-

1 This charter was confirmed by David II.
about 1361-2 (Reg. Magni Sigilli, 27, 39), and
must have been dated after the death of Malcolm
Earl of Wigton in 1359 (Chalmers, iii. p. 380).

2 Muniments from the Charter Chest of the
Marquess of Atlsa, at Culzean Castle. No, 5.

8 The lands of Cassillis had been held by the
Montgomeries since 1328 at least (Paterson, ii.
274).

4 The Historie of the Kennedyis gives this
version of the transaction: “At quhilk tyme
the said landis [of Castlys] fell to ane lass, And
the Laird of Dalrumpill her nyteboir, come to

hir hous of Cassillis, and persewit hir be force
to have her in mariage ; the quhilk scho wald
not condescend to, bot descendit the hous.
And at this tyme the Laird of Donour that than
was, he cuming by and perseiffing the samyn,
sett wpone the Laird of Dalrumpill and slew
him, and releissit the lady, and tuik hir with
him to his hous of Donour; quhair under
promeis of mariage he made hir to resign hir
landis in the Kingis handis in favoris off him :
but I cannot reid that ewer he marrayit hir to
his wyff.” However, like all the stories of this
Historie against the Cassillis family, this must
be taken cum grano salis.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 21

pacionibus piscacionibus et venacionibus terris cultis et non cultis et cum
omnibus aliis libertatibus commoditatibus aysiamentis et iustis pertinenciis
tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam sub terra quam supra terram ad
dictas terras et feodum militare spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus
in futurum sicut ego Marioria predicta aut antecessores mei quicunque
quibuscunque temporibus retroactis dictas terras aut dictum feodum
militare de Castlys cum pertinenciis liberius tenui seu possedi tenuerunt
seu possederunt Faciendo superioribus dominis predictarum terrarum seu
supradicti feodi militaris predictus Johannes heredes sui et sui assignati
servicium de predictis terris et de predicto feodo militari de Castlys cum
pertinenciis debitum et consuetum Et ego Marioria predicta et heredes mei
omnes predictas terras de Castlys cum pertinenciis eidem Johanni Kenedy
heredibus suis et suis assignatis contra omnes homines et feminas warantiz-
abimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus. In cuius rei testi-
monium presenti carte mee sigillum meum est appensum et ad maiorem
huius rei securitatem et evidenciam pleniorem sigilla communia monasteril
de Crosseragwell' et burgi de Are una cum sigillis Thome Flemyng comitis
de Wygtona et domini Duncani Wallays militis tune vicecomitis de Are
presenti carte mee gracia testimonii apponi procuravi Testibus venerabilibus
in christo patribus Johanne Dei gracia abbate de Pasleto et Roberto abbate
de Kyllewynnyne Alano [Sen ]escallo Maleolmo Sawelsone Willelmo de
Echlys Patricio filio Symonis Finlao de Keris cum multis aliis.

1 At this period the seal of the grantor was see Reg. Epis. Glas, 251, 438; Chart. Kelso,
thought insufficient without those of respectable 30, 131; Chart. Newbottle, 54; Reg. de Passelet,
strangers ; for other instances of this custom 217.

22 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Marjory of Montgomery, cousin and heir of Christian of
Montgomery, in her pure widowhood, in favour of John Kennedy, of all
the lands belonging to her in heritage, within the military fee of Cassillis,
in the earldom of Carrick and shire of Ayr. To hold of the lords superiors
of the said fee, in fee and heritage, to the said John, his heirs and assignees,
for the service due and wont. Sealed with the granter’s own seal, and for
the greater security and fuller evidence she procured the common seals of
the monastery of Crosraguel and of the burgh of Ayr, respectively,
together with the seals of Thomas Flemyng, Earl of Wigton, and Sir
Duncan Wallace, Knight, then Sheriff of Ayr, to be set to the charter, for
the sake of testimony, before these witnesses, the venerable John Abbot of
Paisley, and Robert Abbot of Kilwinning, Alan Stewart, Malcolm Saulsone,
William of Echles, Patrick son of Symon, Finlay of Kerse,’ ete.

14. Instrumentum visitationis et resignationis Abbatie de Crosragmol.—
[27th September 1370. ]?

In Dei nomine, Amen: Anno a nativitate ejusdem M°CCC*lxx°, die vero
xx°vii? mensis Septembris, indictione octava, pontificatus sanctissimi in
Christo patris et domini nostri domini Urbani divina providente clementia
-pape quinti anno octavo, apud abbatiam de Crosragmol, ordinis Cluniacensis,
Glasguensis diocesis, in mei notarii publici et testium infraseriptorum pre-
sentia, religiosi viri domini Johannes* et Rogerus abbates monasteriorum de
Passelet et Crosragmol ordinis Cluniacensis ut asserunt, dicte Glasguensis
diocesis, personaliter constituti, prefatus dominus Johannes Abbas de
Passelet petiit sibi exhiberi quamdam litteram citatoriam dicto Abbati de
Crosragmol per ipsum primitus destinatam ; quam litteram sic sibi traditam
ibidem publice legi fecit ; cujus tenor talis esse dinoscitur. Johannes Dei
gratia abbas monasterii de Passelet Abbati monasterii de Crosragmol
salutem in omnium Salvatore. Quia alias visitavimus statum monasterii

1 The Castle of Keirs in Straiton parish 1383 (Eglinton Charters II. 2. Reg. de
passed afterwards into the Shaw family. Passelet, p. 208. Dr. Lees’ Paisley Abbey, pp.

2 Registrum Monasterti de Passelet, p. 425, 108-115).
8 John, Abbot of Paisley from circa 1361-

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vestri unacum monachis ibidem ad tune existentibus, et plura delicta ad
defectus invenimus, que quidem delicta sive defectus propter diversas
causas ad plenum non correximus ; quapropter vobis precipimus firmiter et
mandamus quatenus moneatis seu moneri faciatis omnes commonachos
vestros tam infra monasterium quam extra existentes ubicunque poterunt
reperiri, quod compareant coram nobis apud monasterium vestrum de Cros-
ragmol die Veneris proxima ante festum Sancti Michaelis archangeli
proximum futurum, hora capituli, ad audiendum et perficiendum ea que ad
officium nostrum pertinere noscuntur. Et vos domine Abbas citamus per
presentes quod intersitis dictis die et loco ad audiendum et perficiendum
ea que ad officium nostrum pertinere noscuntur ut predicitur. Et in sig-
num hujus mandati nostri per vos plenius executi reddite nobis presentes
dictis die et loco sigillo vestro signatas.. Datum sub sigillo nostro apud
monasterium nostrum de Passelet die lune in festo Sancti Niniani anno
Domini MeCCC*lxx®. Que littera fuit sigillata duobus sigillis oblongis de
cera alba; in primo sigillo’ continebatur ymago cujusdam abbatis ad quod-
dam altare celebrantis, baculum pastorale in manu suo tenentis, in cujus
circumferentia scriptum fuit, SIGILLUM ABBATIS MONASTERII DE
PASSELET. In secundo sigillo sculpta fuit ymago beate Marie filium
ejus in manu sua tenentis, in cujus circumferentia scriptum fuit SIGILLUM
ABBATIS MONASTERII DE CROSRAGMOL. Post cujus littere lecturam,
prefatus dominus Rogerus ipsius monasterii de Crosragmol, in presentia
sui conventus, non vi, dolo aut circumventione qualicunque inductus ut
mihi apparebat, omnem dignitatem ac prelationem status abbatis monasterii
de Crosragmol antedicti, quas usque tunc gubernaverat, in manus ipsius
domini Abbatis de Passelet tunc presentis, sua libera, pura et spontanea
voluntate, pure et simpliciter, sine cujuscunque conditionis adjectione,
extunc resignavit. Quesitus tune ab eo causam ipsius resignationis, dixit
quod senio ac debilitate gravatus, infirmitate corporea sic continue vexa-
batur quod gregem a Deo sibi commissum, eorum terras et possessiones ac
alia bona temporalia, prout incumbit officio boni pastoris, ad eorum utili-
tatem regere non valebat: mallet enim ut dixit honore prelatie se prorsus
eximere quam sub nomine pastoris lupo rapaci gregem desolatum dimittere
devorandum, Quibus causis sic per ipsum ostensis ac [per] predictum

1 The seal of Abbot George Shaw of Paisley, sponds with this description (v. Laing’s Scottish
taken from a deed in the Chapter House at Seals, vol. i. p. 197, and Dr. Lees’ Paisley,
Westminster dated circa 1490, closely corre- p, 140),

24 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

dominum Abbatem de Passelet et ejus consilium rationabilibus judicatis,
ipsam resignationem liberam et spontaneam in manibus suis sic factam
recepit, ipsum dominum Rogerum ab ipso officio abbatis Crosragmol tunc
penitus absolvendo, ipsis monachis dicti monasterii de Crosragmol precepit
ut aliquem diem certum pro futuro pastore eis eligendo inter se statuerent,
ne ecclesia diu vidueretur pastore in spiritualibus et [in] temporalibus
patiatur detrimentum. Acta sunt hee anno, die, mense, indictione, ponti-
ficatu et loco predictis; Presentibus religiosis viris et dominis, Alano
monacho monasterii de Passelet, Wilelmo et Nicholao’ monachis monasterii
de Crosragmol, ac discretis viris et dominis Wilelmo Adison, Rogero Garland,
rectoribus ecclesiarum de Luss et de E’glisham, Glasguensis diocesis, et aliis
ad premissa vocatis et specialiter rogatis.

Et ego Nicholaius de Burn clericus Glasguensis diocesis, publicus
apostolica auctoritate notarius, premissis dicte littere lecture, resig-
nationi, testium receptioni et aliis prout supra scribuntur et recitan-
tur, unacum prenominatis testibus presens interfui, eaque sic fieri
vidi, audivi, et interlinere horum vocabulorum, tune et abbatis,
insertorum inter lineas decimam octavam et decimam nonam et
vicesimam tertiam et vicesimam quartam approbo, quia ipsa manu
propria scripsi; ideo presens instrumentum manu propria scripsi et
signo meo solito et consueto signavi rogatus, in fidem et testimonium
premissorum.

ABSTRACT,

Notarial Instrument on the visitation by John, Abbot of Paisley, of the
Cluniac order, and diocese of Glasgow, of the Abbacy of Crosraguel, of the
same order and diocese, narrating that on the 27th day of September, in
the year 1370, at the Abbey of Crosraguel, compeared the said John
Abbot of Paisley, and Roger Abbot of Crosraguel, in presence of Nicholas
Burn, notary, and the witnesses there present; and that the said Abbot
John requested to be shown to him a citatory letter formerly addressed by
him to the said Abbot Roger; which letter having been accordingly
delivered to him, he caused it to be publicly read, of which the tenor was
to the following effect :—That the said Abbot John, having visited and
inspected the state of the Monastery of Crosraguel, with the monks there

1 Afterwards Abbot. (v. No. 14.)

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residing, found many faults and defects, which, for various reasons, he did
not fully correct: but charged the said Abbot Roger to warn all his fellow-
monks, as well within as outside of the monastery, to compear before him

there on the Friday next before the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel then -
following, at the hour of chapter, to hear and to do those things which
belonged to his office: and cited the said Abbot Roger himself to be present
at the same time and place, and to return the letter sealed with his seal,
in token of his having fully executed the charge; which letter was dated
at the Abbey of Paisley on Monday, in the Feast of St. Ninian, 1370, and
sealed with two oblong seals of white wax, in the first of which was con-
tained the image of an abbot holding a pastoral staff in his hand, and on
the circumference the inscription, ‘‘ Sigillum Abbatis Monasteriu de Pas-
selet;” on the second seal was graven the image of St. Mary holding her
Son in her hand, and on the circumference was written, ‘“ Sigillum Abbatis
Monasterit de Crosragmol.” After the reading of which letter the said
Abbot Roger, of his free will, purely and simply, and without condition,
resigned, in presence of his convent, all dignity and prelacy of the state of
Abbot of Crosraguel, which he had till then governed, in the hands of
the said Abbot of Paisley. Being then asked by the latter as to the reason
of the said resignation, the said Roger replied that, being oppressed with
age and weakness, he was so constantly troubled with bodily infirmity as
to be unable to rule the flock committed to him by God, and their lands
and possessions, and other temporal goods, to their profit, as behoved the
office of a good shepherd ; and that he desired rather to be entirely stripped
of the honour of the prelacy, than under the name of a shepherd to expose
his desolate flock to be devoured by the ravening wolf. Which causes, so
set forth by him, having been judged reasonable by the said Abbot John
and his council, he received the resignation thus freely made in his hands,
and then altogether absolved the said Roger from the office of Abbot of
Crosraguel; commanding the monks to fix among themselves a day for
the election of their future pastor, lest the church, through the want of a
shepherd, should suffer loss in things spiritual and temporal.

1 Regarding an Abbot’s election, v. Introduction.

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26 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

15. Allusion to Abbot Roger in Fordun.—{ 1370. }?

Anno MCCLXX.? . . Rogerus abbas de Corsraguel curam suam reliquit,
et reversus est apud Dunfermelyn unde venit. Post quem electus est
Nicholaus ejusdem domus monachus. . . .

16. Charter by Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, to John Kennedy of
Dunure, of the Lands of Treuchane and Kenethane—{No date.
Circa 1870. ]*

Omnibus hane cartam visuris vel audituris Macolmus filius Rolandy de
Carryc salutem in domino sempiternam Noveritis me dedisse concessisse et
hac presenti carta mea pro me et heredibus meis inperpetuum confirmasse
Johanni Kenedi domino de Donnowyr pro consilio suo et auxilio mihi
impensis et impendendis illas duas denariatas terre cum pertinenciis que
vocantur Treuchane et Kenethane jacentes infra parochiam de Kyremychel
Munterduffy in comitatu de Carric infra vicecomitatum de Are quarum
predictarum duarum denariatarum terre cum pertinenciis totum jus et
clameum quod Murdacus filius Sowerl habuit seu habere potuit in eisdem
pro se et heredibus suis mihi resignavit per fustum et baculum sursum
reddidit et coram pluribus fide dignis quietum clamavit inperpetuum
Tenendas et habendas predicto Johanni et heredibus suis de me et heredibus
meis per suas rectas metas et divisas in feodo et hereditate libere quiete
integre plenarie honorifice bene et in pace in boscis et planis in viis et
semitis in moris et mariscis in pratis et pascuis in venacionibus et aucupa-
cionibus in stagnis et aquis in molendinis et multuris cum omnibus aliis
iustis suis pertinenciis libertatibus commoditatibus et aysiamentis tam non
nominatis quam nominatis ad predictas terras pertinentibus vel in futurum
de iure pertinere valentibus inperpetuum sine aliquo retinemento Reddendo
inde annuatim dictus Johannes et heredes sui mihi et heredibus meis in
festo sancti Michaelis Arcangeli apud Kyremichel Munterduffy in Carric
unum par alborum calcarium‘ nomine libere firme si petantur tantum modo
pro omni alio servicio consuetudine exaccione vel seculari demanda varda

1 Fordun a Goodall, lib. x. cap. xxvii. * Other blench duties were a pair of gloves,

2 Should be MCCCLXX, as is proved by the Ae ties ee ae eae: day’s work,
preceding Instrument No. 14. ; Geis se, 6, quoted by C.

Innes). The legal value of a pair of white
3 Culzean Muniments, No. 8. spurs was 20s.

” aaa

‘

ARRICK TO JOHN KENNEDY OF DUNURE.

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relevio maritagio et secta curie que dictis terris exigi poterint vel torqueri
in futurum Ego vero Macolmus et heredes mei totas predictas duas
denariatas terre de Treuechane et Kenechane cum pertinenciis predicto
Johanni et heredibus suis prout melius et liberius prescriptum est contra
omnes homines et feminas warantizabimus acquietabimus iuste defendemus.
In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte mee sigillum est appensum Hiis
testibus Johanne Senescalo comite de Carric dompno Nicolao abbate de
Crosragwel Gilberto Kenedy Johanne filio Henrici Johanne filio Alexandri
Ade filio Thome et multis alts.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Malcolm son of Roland of Carrick,’ to John Kennedy,’ lord of
Dunure, for his counsel and aid, of those two pennyworths of land which
are called Treuchane and Kenethane, lying within the parish of Kirkmichael
Munterduffy,’ in the earldom of Carrick and shire of Ayr; of which lands

1 This Malcolm de Carrick does not appear
elsewhere, nor his father Roland. He must
have been the fourth in direct descent from Sir
Roland de Carrick, who had the grant of the
Kenkynol from Neil, second Earl of Carrick,
and may have been brother to Mary de Carrick,
who married the John Kennedy mentioned in
the charter. By this marriage the two distinct
families of Kennedy and De Carrick were
merged into one (v. Paterson’s Hist. of Ayrshire,
ii, 313).

2 The grant of the Kenkynol was confirmed
to John Kennedy by King Robert II. in 1372
(Culzean Muniments).

8 Originally the parish was Kirkmichael of
Gemilstoun (Paterson, ii. 277; MS. Monastice,
20; Chalmers, iii. 534), but part of the property
was called Kirkmichael Muntercasduff or Mun-
terduffy, the name of the clan of which John
M‘Kennedy was leader (Robertson’s Index to
Charters, p. 57).

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the whole right and claim which Murdac son of Sowerl had, he resigned
and surrendered by staff and baton, to the said Malcolm before many
faithful witnesses: To hold to the said John and his heirs, of the granter
and his heirs, in fee and heritage, for the yearly rent of a pair of white
spurs, in name of blench ferme, at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel,
at Kirkmichael Munterduffy. Sealed before these witnesses, John Stewart,
Earl of Carrick, Sir Nicolas Abbot of Crosraguel, Gilbert Kennedy,? John son
of Henry, John son of Alexander, Adam son of Thomas, and many others.

17. Confirmacio Monasterii de Corsragmer.—_{14th November 1374. ]*

Robertus Dei gracia Rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem. Sciatis nos cartam recolende memorie domini avunculi
et predecessoris nostri domini David‘ regis Scottorum illustris de mandato
nostro visam lectam inspectam et diligenter examinatam intellexisse ad
plenum sub hac forma. David Dei gracia, (etc., wt supra, No. 9). Quam-
quidem cartam in omnibus punctis 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
perpetuum confirmamus salvo servicio nostro. In cuius rei testimonium
presenti carte confirmacionis nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum
Testibus etc. apud Kirkoswald xiiij*e die Novembris anno regni nostri tercio.

ABSTRACT.

Confirmation by Robert II., King of Scots, of a charter granted by his
uncle and predecessor of worthy memory, the illustrious David, King of
Scots, to the abbey of Crosraguel, of the lands of Dungrelach, in free alms
gift, and one free barony (vide Charter, confirmed supra, No. 9). Confirmed
at Kirkoswald* 14th November in third year of reign (1374).

1 Afterwards King Robert III. mistake, either in the original charter or in the

2 Son and heir of John Kennedy, the copy in the lost Register of the Great Seal.
grantee, 5 The king may have been staying at the

3 Registrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No, 58. royal castle of Turnberry, which remained with

4 Should be his grandfather King Robert, the Crown until 1482, when it was acquired by
as was shown in note on No. 9; a singular John Lord Kennedy (Paterson, ii. 363).

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18, Confirmacio Abbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer.—
[14th November 1374. ]%

Robertus Dei gracia Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue salutem, Sciatis nos cartam recolende memorie domini regis
Roberti de mandato nostro visam lectam inspectam et diligenter examinatam
intellexisse ad plenum sub hac forma Robertus, (etc., vide Charter, No. 10,
supra). Quam quidem cartam in omnibus punctis 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 inperpetuum confirmamus salvo servicio nostro. In cuius rei testi-
monium presenti carte confirmate nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum
Testibus, etc. Apud Kyrkoswald xiiij*® die Novembris anno regni nostri
tercio.

ABSTRACT.

Confirmation by Robert II., King of Scots, of a charter granted by King
Robert the First, to the abbey of Crosraguel, granting to them all the
lands which they held of the king and his ancestors in the earldom of
Carrick, to be held in free barony, ete. Confirmed at Kirkoswald 14th
November, third year of reign (1374).

19. Confirmacio Monasterii de Crosragmer.—[14th November 1374. ]?

Robertus Dei gracia Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius
terre sue clericis et laicis Sciatis nos cartam recolende memorie domini regis
Roberti de mandato nostro visam lectam inspectam et diligenter examinatam
intellexisse ad plenum sub hac forma, Robertus (etc., as in No. 11, supra).
Quamquidem cartam in omnibus punctis articulis condicionibus et modis ac
circumstanciis suis quibuscunque forma pariter et effectu in omnibus et per
omnia approbamus ratificamus et pro nobis heredibus et nostris inperpetuum
confirmamus salvo servicio nostro. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte
confirmacionis nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum Testibus, etc.,
apud Kyrkoswald xiiije die Novembris anno regni nostri tercio. (1374.)

1 Registrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii, No. 59. 2 Ibid. No. 60.

30 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Confirmation by Robert II., King of Scots, of charter granted to the
monastery of Crosraguel, by King Robert the Bruce (No. 11 supra). Con-
firmed at Kirkoswald 14th November, third year of reign (1374).

20. Indenture between Thomas Fleming’ and John Kennedy of Dunure,
for the Wadset to the latter of the Lands of Cumbernald._[16th
February 1374-5. ]?

Anni gracie millesimi tricentesimi septuagesimi quarti die Veneris
decimo sexto die mensis Februarii apud Are facta fuit hee convencio et
confirmata inter prenobiles viros Thomam Flemyng nepotem et heredem
quondam domini Malcolmi Flemyng comitis de Wygtona ex una parte et
Johannem Kenedy dominum de Donhowere ex altera parte videlicet quod
antedictus Thomas Flemyng ex mera libera voluntate sua racione eciam
ulterioris comodi concessit inpignoravit et hac presenti indentura (pignori
super subscriptis condicionibus firmiter obligavit totas terras suas de Cum-
byrnald cum pertinenciis in baronia de Leynne infra vicecomitatum de
Dunbretane dilecto amico suo et speciali) prenominato Johanni Kenedy
domino de Donhowere pro centum et viginti mercis bone monete auri
et argenti supradicto Thome Flemyng manuatim pacatis et persolutis.
Tenendas et habendas predicto Johanni et heredibus suis ab ipso Thoma
antedicto et heredibus suis totas dictas terras de Cumbyrnald cum omnibus
suis libertatibus, comoditatibus aysiamentis et suis iustis pertinenciis in
omnibus et per omnia ad ipsas terras de Cumbyrnald spectantibus seu
quoquo modo medio tempore spectare valentibus libere quiete integre
honorifice bene et in pace sine contradictione vel impedimento sepedicti
Thome vel heredum suorum in perpetuum, quousque ipse supra dictus
Thomas Flemyng vel heredes sui de corpore suo legitime procreati seu pro-
creandi, predicto Johanni Kenedy vel heredibus suis centum et viginti

1 Succeeded his grandfather Malcolm, the this charter will hardly enhance his reputation
great Earl of Wigton, about 1359. Whether for thrift (v. Robertson’s Index, p. 134 ; Pater-
he merited the title given him by Chalmers son’s Lands and their Owners in Galloway, p.
of the ‘‘dissipated Earl,” for disposing of his 24; Chalmers, iii. 380).
earldom in 1371 to Sir A. Douglas, is perhaps 2 Culzean Muniments, No. 15.
questionable, but the transaction mentioned in

;
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mercas bone monete auri et argenti in uno festo Sancti Martini in yeme
apud Dunhowere pro deliberacione dictarum terrarum de Cumbyrnald ad
proprium usum Thome Flemyng vel ad proprium usum heredum suorum
prescriptorum persolverit vel persolverint. Et quod ipse Thomas antedictus
pro se et heredibus suis ex libero dono concessit et dedit antedicto Johanni
Kenedy et heredibus suis pro concilio suo et beneficiis sibi et suis impensis
et impendendis omnes firmas redditus utilitates et comoda provenientes ex
dictis terris de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis durante toto presentis im-
pignoracionis tempore; item concordatum est inter premissos nobiles
Thomam et Johannem, et pro se et heredibus suis utriusque partis condi-
cionaliter confirmatum quod nec ipse Thomas Flemyng nec heredes sui
impignorabit vel impignorabunt alienabit vel alienabunt deliberabit vel
deliberabunt ipsas terras premissas de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis, in
manus vel ad usum aliorum vel alicuius preter tantummodo ad proprium
usum ipsius Thome vel ad proprium usum heredum suorum premissorum
extra manus predicti Johannis Kenedy vel usum aut heredum suorum nec
dictus Johannes Kenedy vel heredes sui alienabit vel alienabunt istam
impignoracionem terrarum de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis aliquibus vel
alicui racione specialitatis vel comodi dummodo dictus Thomas vel heredes
sui ipsas terras de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis per premissam solucionem
in omnibus ut premissum est deliberabit vel deliberabunt Similiter con-
cordatum est inter premissos Thomam Flemyng et Johannem Kenedy pro
se et heredibus suis quod facta solucione premissa prefacto Johanni Kenedy
vel heredibus suis per dictum Thomam Flemyng vel heredes suos premissos
ut premittitur; ipse Thomas Flemyng et heredes sui premissi habebunt
libere a dicto Johanni Kenedy et heredibus suis ex tune dictas terras de
Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis in proprios usus, nullis impedimento vel
contradiccione eis super inde inponendis per dictos Johannem Kenedy vel
heredes suos. In quorum omnium premissorum testimonium sigilla pre-
missarum parcium presenti indenture alternatim sunt apposita anno die et
loco supradictis Testibus reverendo patre dompno Nicholao abbate de
Crosraguell, provido viro Johanne More prebendario ecclesie de Are dominis
Nicholao de Knocdoliane et Gilberto Kenedy militibus Johanne filio
quondam Henrici Adam filio quondam Thome de Carryk Johanne de
Monthagv Johanne de Moravia burgensibus de Are et multis aliis.

32 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Indenture between the right noble men, Thomas Flemyng, grandson
and heir of the deceased Sir Malcolm Flemyng, Earl of Wigton, on one
part, and John Kennedy, Lord of Dunure, on the other part, to the
effect that the said Thomas Flemyng, of his mere free will and for his
further advantage, granted in wadset to his beloved and special friend the
said John Kennedy, all his lands of Cumbernald in the barony of Lenzie,
within the shire of Dumbarton, for one hundred and twenty merks of good
money, in gold and silver, paid in hand to the said Thomas: To hold to
the said John and his heirs until the said Thomas Flemyng, or the heirs of
his body, lawfully gotten or to be gotten, shall pay to the said John
Kennedy or his heirs one hundred and twenty merks of good money, of
gold and silver, at the feast of St. Martin in winter, at Dunure, for deliver-
ance of the said lands of Cumbernald to the proper use of the said Thomas
or his heirs; and that the said Thomas, for himself and his heirs, granted
and gave to the said John, for his counsel and good deeds done and to be
done to him and his, all the fermes, rents, and advantages arising from the
said lands, during the time of the wadset. It was also agreed that neither
the said Thomas nor his heirs should wadset, sell, or deliver the foresaid
lands into the hands, or for the use of any other persons or person, except
only to himself or his heirs; nor should the said John Kennedy or his
heirs sell the wadset of the said lands to any one for the sake of specialty
or advantage; but that the said Thomas or his heirs should deliver the
lands by the aforesaid payment ; which being made to the aforesaid John
Kennedy or his heirs, by the said Thomas or his heirs, they should then
have the lands again freely from the said John Kennedy and his heirs.
Sealed by the said parties interchangeably, at Ayr, on Friday the 16th of
February 1374-5, before these witnesses, the reverend father Sir Nicholas
Abbot of Crosraguel;' a prudent man, John Mure, prebendary of the
Church of Ayr; Sir Nicholas of Knokdolian,? and Sir Gilbert Kennedy,
knights; John son of the deceased Henry, Adam son of the deceased
Thomas of Carrick, John of Montagu, John of Moray, burgesses of Ayr,
and many others.

1 Elected in 1370, v. ante, No. 15. of Knockdolian Hill.

2 Probably a Kennedy. Knockdolian barony 3 Son of John Kennedy of Dunure. He had
was not acquired by the Grahames till the 15th also a charter from Thomas Fleming of the town
century. The old castle still stands at the foot of Kirkintilloch in 1370 (Culzean Charters).

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21. Charter by John Kennedy of Dunure to the Chapel of
St. Mary of Maybole.\—{1st March 1383-4. |?

Omnibus hoe scriptum visuris vel audituris Johannes Kennedy dominus
de Donnowyr salutem in omnium salvatore Quia in litteris sanctissimi in
Christo patris et domini nostri domini Clementis divina providencia pape
septimi venerabili in Christo patri domino Waltero Dei gracia episcopo
Glasguensi directis continebatur cum clausula si est ita capella beate Marie
virginis de Mayboyl® fundata quatenus fundacionem constructionem insti-
tucionem ordinacionem et dotacionem predictas auctoritate apostolica rati-
fices approbes et confirmes, etc. Hine est quod ego prescriptus Johannes
virtute ipsarum literarum apostolicarum statuo et ad perpetuam rei
memoriam per presentes firmiter ordino quod unus presbitriorum in pre-
scripta capella institutorum sit prepositus in ipsius capelle gubernacione ut
in cartis meis inde confectis liberius continetur qui curam aliorum habeat
et cui ceteri eiusdem capelle presbiteri obediant ut juris est in licitis et
honestis Item ordino quod idem prepositus habeat totas terras de Barlach ¢
Barcley® et totas terras de superiori Balemaclawnathan® videlicet de Archy-
lone et Ardowrag Reddendo inde annuatim ad duos anni terminus videlicet
penthecostes et Sancti Martini in yeme uni presbiterorum infrascriptorum
viginti solidos argenti bone monete pariter habeat ac unam mercatam
terrarum de Kynach. Item ordino quod secundus in eadem capella pres-
biter institutus habeat tres mercatas terrarum de Mayboyl una cum
molendino inibi situato unam mercatam terre dictam Knokneby sex
mercatas terre de Trewchan duas mercas cum dimidia annui redditus
de Inferiori Balemaclawnathan Similiter cum una mercata terrarum de
Kynach Item ordino quod tercius in eadem presbiter institutus habeat

1 The charter by John Kennedy founding the
chapel is given in full in the charter of con-
firmation by Robert II. (Reg. Magni Sigilli, 82,
282), dated at Dunure 29th Nov. 1371, and
granting to the chapel, juzta cimiterium ecclesie
parochialis de Mayboyl, the lands of Balmaclew-
hane, Barrecloych, Treuchane, and Barrclach,
for the sustenance of the chapel, a clerk, and
three chaplains. The charter of confirmation
is dated at Dundonald, 4th Dec. 1371.

2 Culzean Charters, No. 19.

3 The collegiate church of Maybole was one
of the first founded in Scotland ; thirty-five of

VOL. I.

these miniature cathedrals were erected between
1392 and 1545 (v. Chalmers, i. 844 ; Laing’s
MSS., in the Univ. Lib.) The fabric of the church
was entire when Abercrummie wrote, about 1680,
adjoining the parish church.—M‘Farlane’s Coll.
Adv. Lib.

4 Barloch or Barlach, a sheet of water one
mile east of Maybole. The farm of Barloch
still exists.

5 Over and Nether Barcley are north and
south of Barcley Hill, above Kirmichael.

6 Barclanachan, a large house on the site of
the modern mansion of Kilkerran.

34 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

quatuor mercatas terre de Pyngynglyn’ tres mercatas terre de Knyletey-
cowyn tres mercatas terrarum de Mayboyl? et unam mercam cum dimidia
annui redditus de Inferiori Balemaclawnathan ac viginti solidos a preposito
dicte capelle ut prescribitur percipiendis simul cum una mercata terra-
rum de Kynach* Et sic ipsorum successoribus seriatim ut prescribitur
ordino premissas capellanias una cum prescripta prepositura succedere ac
pro perpetuo applicari Item ordino unam mercatam terrarum de Kynach
premisse capelle viciniorem ad sustentacionem unius clerici pro provisione
eiusdem capelle prepositi ac aliorum inibi institutorum Item ordino quod
omnes presbiteri in eadem capella fundandi tum eidem preposito in licitis et
honestis obediant tum jam fundati Item ordino quod presbiteri omnes inibi
instituti sive alia beneficia habeant sive non continuam in eadem faciant
residenciam nisi racionabilis causa interveniat et cum prepositi licentia ex-
cusentur Item ordino quod presbiteri ibidem instituti cotidie celebrent dum
ad hoe fuerint dispositi ac si quis in missis celebrandis prescriptorum de-
ficerit nisi sit racionabilis causa per prepositum licenciatum volo ipsum fore
in amerciamento quatuor denariorum tociens quociens in huiusmodi obser-
vanciis defecerit Quamquidem pecuniam volo fore dispositam per eiusdem
capelle prepositum ad predicte capelle sustentacionem Item ordino ut omnes
presbiteri eiusdem capelle in eadem intersint omnibus horis canonicis tum
dominicis diebus quam duplicibus seu festivis ac si quis in huiusmodi diebus
a vesperis matutinis magna missa aut secundis vesperis absens fuerit pre-
scriptorum presbiterorum volo ipsum fore in amerciamento quatuor de-
nariorum quociens in huiusmodi serviciis se distulerit exhibere Item ordino
quod si quis prescriptorum a prima tercia sexta nona complitoriis absens
fuerit quod sit in amerciamento unius denarii pro unoquoque Item ordino
quod si quis premissorum ferialibus diebus a magna missa absens fuerit
quod sit in amerciamento unius denarii pro unoquoque defectu Item ordino
quod in fine cuiuslibet mensis plena satisfactio fiat de predictis amerciamentis
et quod de eisdem per prepositum inter se et bene ministrantes disponat
Item ordino ac per presentes firmiter volo et approbo quod suprascripte
terre de Athylenne et Ardowrag sint unius et eiusdem libertatis racionibus
et per omnia sicut et alie terre eiusdem capelle prout in cartis meis de

1 Pennyglen, two miles north-west of May- longed to this collegiate church.—Chalmers, iii.
bole. The Kennedys of Pennyglen were of some 495,
importance in the sixteenth century. — Vide 3 Kynach or Kenethan, and Treuchan, were
Index. conveyed to John Kennedy by charter No. 16
2 The ground on which Maybole stands be- supra.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 35

eiusdem capelle fundacione melius ac liberius continetur Item ordino
quod omnes eiusdem capelle presbiteri ad hee omnia et singula facienda
corporaliter jurent Et quamdiu huiusmodi juramentum distulerint exhibere
ac eiusdem capelle preposito obedienciam facere recusaverint tam diu ip-
sorum beneficiorum fructus cum sepescripto preposito integre remaneant
In quorum omnium testimonium sigillum meum una cum sigillo domini
Gilberti Kennedy filii et heredis mei presentibus sunt appensa Datum
apud Cassillis primo die mensis Marcii anno Domini millesimo tricentesimo
octogesimo tercio. Testibus venerabilibus in Christo patribus dominis
Waltero et Johanne Glasguensi et Dunkeldensi episcopis reverendis in
Christo patribus Nycholayo et Johanne monasteriorum de Crosragin et
Kylwynyn abbatibus, Johanne Henrici domino de Culyagan Thoma
Kennedy domino de Geyltrew domino Willelmo Woudcok presbitero et
multis aliis.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by John Kennedy lord of Dunure, whereby, in virtue of apo-
stolic letters of Pope Clement Seventh, addressed to Walter bishop of Glasgow,
for ratification of the foundation of the chapel of St. Mary of Maybole, the
said John appoints and ordains that one of the presbyters in the said
chapel shall be provost’ in the government thereof, as in his charters granted
thereupon was more fully contained ; the said provost to have the oversight
of the other presbyters, who shall obey him, as of right, in things lawful
and honest: ordaining also that the provost shall have the whole lands of
Barlach, Barcley, and Over Balmaclawnathan, namely, of Archylone and
Ardowrag, paying therefor yearly to one of the presbyters twenty shillings
of good money: also he shall have one mercate of the lands of Kynach:
Ordaining further, that the second presbyter instituted in the said chapel
shall have three mercates of the lands of Maybole, together with the mill
therein situated; one mercate of land called Knokneby; six mercates of
the land of Trewchan ; two merks and a half of annualrent of Lower Bal-
maclawnathan; and likewise one mercate of the lands of Kynach: And
the third presbyter to have four mercates of the land of Pennyglen; three
mercates of Knyleteycowyn ; three mercates of Maybole ; and one merk and
a half of annualrent of Nether Balmaclawnathan, and twenty shillings to

1 Sir David Robertson was provost about 1490 (Acta Auditorum, 185); and Walter Kennedy in
1525,—Chalmers, iii. 495.

36 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

be received from the provost of the chapel, as aforewritten; with one
mercate of the lands of Kynach ; and so to their successors in their order:
Also granting one mercate of the lands of Kynach, next to the said chapel,
for the maintenance of one clerk for the provision of the chapel, the provost,
and the others therein instituted: He further ordains that all presbyters
to be founded in the chapel, as well as those already founded, shall obey
the provost in things lawful and honest ; and that all the presbyters, whether
they have other benefices or not, shall make continuous residence, unless a
reasonable cause shall intervene, and they be excused by permission of
the provost; also that they shall celebrate daily, when disposed thereto ;
and if any one fails to celebrate mass, unless upon reasonable cause, or the
allowance of the provost, he shall be amerced in four pence for each
default ; the money to be disposed by the provost for the support of the
chapel: Further, that they shall be present in the chapel during all
canonical hours, as well on Lord’s days as on double or festival days; and
whoever shall on such days be absent from vespers, matins, high mass, or
second vespers, shail be amerced in four pence for each occasion of absence :
and if any one shall be absent from the first, third, sixth, ninth complines,
he shall be amerced in one penny for each fault; a similar penalty being
incurred from absence from high mass on festival days; ordaining also that
these fines shall be fully paid at the end of each month, to be disposed of by
the provost between himself and those presbyters who served well: The
granter further ordains that the aforesaid lands of Athylenne and Ardow-
rag shall be as free in all respects as the other lands of the said chapel,
as in his charters concerning the foundation thereof was more amply con-
tained. The presbyters are further ordained to swear bodily to observe
all and sundry the rules above mentioned: and so long as any of them
violate their oath, and refuse to give obedience to the provost of the said
chapel, the fruits of their benefices shall wholly belong to the provost :
In witness whereof, the seal of the granter, together with that of Sir Gilbert
Kennedy his son and heir, are appended at Cassillis, Ist March 1383-4:
The witnesses being Walter Bishop of Glasgow, John Bishop of Dunkeld,
Nicholas Abbot of Crosraguel, John Abbot of Kilwinning, John Henryson
Lord of Culyagan, Thomas Kennedy Lord of Geyltrew, Sir William Wood-
cok, presbyter, and many others.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 37

22. Charter by King Robert the Third, granting to the Monastery of
Crosraguel certain Churches and Lands.—| 24th August 1404. |}

Robertus Dei gracia rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos caritatis intuitu et pro salute ani-
marum omnium antecessorum et successorum nostrorum ac specialiter anime
nostre carissimeque consortis nostre Anabelle regine Scocie et filii nostri
David quondam ducis Rothesaye comitis de Carryk ac omnium fidelium
defunctorum dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse
religiosis viris abbati et conventui monasterii de Corsragwell ac monachis
ibidem Deo servientibus et imperpetuum servituris in regaliam et liberam
regalitatem omnes terras suas subscriptas videlicet ecclesiarum sancti Os-
waldi de Turnebery? sancti Cuthberti de Stratoun sancti Cuthberti de
Innergarvane® sancti Cuthberti de Innertig* et sancti Michaelis de Dalmul-
kerane® Item duas denariatas terre capelle sancte Trinitatis de Kildomine®
Item tres mercatas terre ex dono Johannis Henrici Item quinque denariatas
terre de Corsraguell et de Southblane Item unam denariatam terre de
Channacheth Item unam denariatam terre que vocatur Balekirstenlorcane
et totam terram de Dumkeynen Item denariatam terre de Clachrybeg Item
denariatam terre de Achenacht Item denariatam terre de Dallochorane Item
denariatam terre de Corrale Item quinque denariatas terre de Drumgrelach
Item quinque marcatas terre de Snade’ et unam marcatam terre in tenemento
de Donemurthy* Item viginti solidatas terre de Drumcaldilthey et Drumfern®

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 26. This charter
is among the missing rolls in the Great Seal
Register.

2 i.e, Kirkoswald,

8 Or Girvan, apparently granted to Cros-
raguel ab initio, John, vicar of Girvan, swore
fealty to Edward in 1269 (Chalmers, iii. 538-9 ;
Paterson, ii. 244 ; and Ragman Rolls).

4 ie. Ballantrae, The full name of Kirkeud-
bright-Innertig, from the influx of the river Tig,
first called Ballantrae in 1617 (v. No, 132
infra ; and ef. Chalmers, iii. 543 ; and Paterson,
ii. 80).

5 Or Dailly, v. note on No. 2. The patron-
age of these five churches rested with Crosraguel
antil 1617, when they were annexed to the

Bishopric of Dunblane (v. Nos. 1383 and 135
infra).

6 In the parish of Barr, on the Stinchar ;
called at various times Kildinine, Kildamnie, and
Kirkdamdie. The ruins of the chapel still exist,
but the date of its erection is unknown. The
celebrated “ Kirkdamdie Fair” has from time
immemorial been held at this place on the last
Saturday of May, but is now little more than a
gathering of farmers in the neighbourhood.

7 Snade lies half-way between Dalquharran
and the coast.

8 Dunmurthy, near Kirkdamdie, in Barr
parish. ‘

® Drumfern or Drumfairn, near the sea, four
miles south of Girvan.

38 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Item viginti solidatas terre capelle sancti Donnani de Cragach’ Item decem
solidatas terre Johannis Makcubeyn in tenemento de Trudonag? Item viginti
solidatas terre de Drumrachney? et de superiori dominio illius tenementi Item
insulam de Ilysay*cum pertinenciis Tenendas habendas et possedendas omnes
et singulas prenominatas terras cum pertinenciis eisdem abbati et conventui
et eorum successoribus pro perpetuo in liberam regalitatem seu regaliam ut
predicitur in feodo et hereditate ac in puram et perpetuam elemosinam
inperpetuum cum furca fossa sok sak tholl theme infangtheif outfangtheif
et cum quatuor punctis spectantibus ad coronam® et cum omnibus et singulis
libertatibus commoditatibus et asiamentis ac justis pertinenciis quibuscunque
ad regaliam seu liberam regalitatem spectantibus seu juste spectare valenti-
bus quomodolibet in futurum adeo libere et quiete plenarie integre honorifice
bene et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut aliqua regalia seu regalitas libere
per nos vel predecessores nostros reges Scocie aliquibus personis infra regnum
nostrum vel monasterio seu loco pio liberius conceditur seu donatur
Faciendo inde continue et cotidie pro salute nostra et animarum omnium
predictorum celebrari in monasterio predicto unam missam cum speciali
collecta pro nobis per unum monachum ydoneum ad certum altare dicti

1 Chapel-Donan, on the lands of Craigoch, with intention of delivering it to the Spaniards ;

near the coast, about two miles N.N.E. of Girvan.
St. Donan was a Scottish saint of the ninth
century (Chalmers, iii. 539), and his feast was
celebrated on April 9. Cf. Kildonan.

2 Tradonag, on the Girvan, near the modern
Crosshill.

8 Near the Girvan, one mile north-east of
Dalquharran.

4 i.e, Ailsa Craig, There is an old castle
on the Craig of an early date, which may
or may not have belonged to the abbey. The
Rev. Mr. Lawson, in his little work on Cros-
raguel, mentions that the Hamilton arms are
carved on one of the walls, which would in-
dicate that the castle was built by one of the
Hamilton family in Arran. There is no evi-
dence of a Hamilton having been abbot of Cros-
raguel, nor is it likely that he would have
cut his own bearings on an abbatial edifice.
Ailsa was, and is, in Dailly parish, from being
part of the barony of Knockgarron, which was
itself in the regality of Crosraguel (see note on
No. 29). In 1597 a daring Catholic baron,
Barclay of Ladyland, seized and fortified Ailsa

but he was driven into the sea by Mr. Andro
Knox, minister of Paisley. He could not have
had time to build the castle, as has been sug-
gested, and it is, moreover, of much more ancient
date (v. Spottiswood, p. 445; MS. State Paper
Office, quoted by Tytler, iii. 309). The Marquis
of Ailsa holds the Craig to this day by paying
a lordship of solan geese to be laid down at the
door of Fairlie House every year (Paterson, p.
246),

5 Crosraguel was now for the first time granted
the regality over its lands, even to the four
“puncta corone,” t.e. murder, fire-raising, rape,
and robbery, which were usually reserved.
Robert Bruce granted them with the earldom of
Moray to his nephew, and Robert IT. to his son
David, Earl Palatine of Strathearn (Scottish
Legal Antiquities, pp. 40, 60 ; Reg. Mag. Sigilli,
p. 85, iv. 294, p. 88, No. 306). The points of
the crown were not granted to Paisley Abbey
until 1488 by James IV. (Reg. de Passelet, p.
84), though Robert III. granted them their
lands in Ayrshire, Peebles, and Roxburghe, in
a barony of regality.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 39

abbas et conventus et eorum successores inperpetuum una cum aliis oracionum
suffragiis devotarum In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre nostrum
precepimus apponi sigillum Testibus reverendis in Christo patribus Hen-
rico episcopo Sanctiandree Gilberto episcopo Abirdonensi cancellario nostro
Roberto Duce Albanie comite de Fiffe et de Mentheith fratre nostro ger-
mano Henrico de Sancto Claro comite Orgadie Jacobo de Dowglas domino
de Dalkeith et Johanne de Maxwell patre militibus apud Linlithcu vicesimo
quarto die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quarto et
regni nostri anno quinto decimo,

Hee est vera copia principalis carte Regalitatis monasterii de Corsrag-
well copiata et collationata per me dominum Georgium Blaire
capellanum ac notarium publicum nil addito aut mutato quod sensum
variaret aut significacionem mutaret teste mea subscriptione manuali.

Ita est Georgius Blair’ capellanus ac notarius publicus manu propria
scripsit.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by King Robert the Third, on the ground of charity and for
the safety of the souls of all his ancestors and successors, and specially of
his own soul and that of his beloved consort Anabella, Queen of Scotland,
and of his son David, sometime Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and of
all the faithful dead, granting and confirming to the abbot and convent of
Crosraguel, and the monks there serving God, in perpetuity, all their lands
following, that is to say, of the churches of St. Oswald of Turnberry, St.
Cuthbert of Straton, St. Cuthbert of Innergarvane, St. Cuthbert of Innertig,
and St. Michael of Dalmulkerane: Also the two penny land of the chapel
of the Holy Trinity of Kildomine, two mercates of land doted by John
Henry, five penny lands of Crosraguel and Southblane, one penny land
Channacheth, one penny land called Balekirstenlorcane, and the whole land
of Dumheynen, a penny land of Clachrybeg, of Achenacht, of Dallochorane,
and Corrale, respectively, five penny lands of Drumgrelach, five merk land
of Snade, and one merk of land in the tenement of Donemurthy: Also
twenty shilling lands of Drumcaldilthey and Drumfern, twenty shilling
lands of the chapel of St. Donnan of Cragach, ten shilling lands of John
Makcubyn in the tenement of Trudonag, twenty shilling lands of Drum-

1 Sir George Blair was notary public in 1529 (v. No. 52, infra).

40 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

rachney and of the over lordship of the same tenement: Also the island of
Ilysay, with the pertinents; To be holden, had, and possessed, all and
sundry the aforenamed lands, by the said abbot and convent for ever, in
free regality, in fee and heritage, and in pure and perpetual alms, with
gallows and pit, sok, sak, tholl, theme, infangthief, outfangthief, and with
the four points pertaining to the crown: Performing therefor, continually
and daily, one mass for the soul of the king, and for the souls of all those
before mentioned, to be celebrated in the said monastery by one qualified
monk, at a particular altar, with a special collect for the king, together with
other offerings of devout prayers. Sealed with the king’s seal, and dated
at Linlithgow 24th August 1404.

23. Report on Crosraguel, in the Archives of the Abbey of Cluny—{1405. ]?

“‘Dénombrement des abbayes, prieurés, et maisons réligieuses dépendant
médiatement ou immédiatement des abbayes et ordre de Cluny, tant en
Angleterre qu’en Ecosse (sans date, mais de l’écriture d’environ 1490).”

Item abbatia de Crossagmel Glasguensis diocesis que immediate est
subiecta abbatie de Passeleto in qua erant anno Domini M°IIII° quinto X
monachi.

24. Charter by John M‘Gillelane to Fergus Kennedy of Bomonyn, of the
Upper Half of the Barony of Glenstyncher.—[{18th March 1415-16. ]?

Omnibus hane cartam visuris vel audituris Johannes M‘Gillelane filius
et heres quondam Ingerami M‘Gillelane? dominus dimidietatis terrarum
superioris baronie de Glenstanchere que vulgariter nuncupatur Dalecarne ‘

1 From the Fonds Moreau: Chartes de Cluny:
No. 283, in the Bibliothtque Nationale at Paris;
an immense collection of Cluny charters now
being edited by Monsieur Bruel. Mr. Madan,
of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, has kindly sent
me an extract from the Bibliotheca Cluniacensis
of Andreas Quercetanus in that library, printed
in 1614, in precisely the same words as the
above. It appears that there-was a visitation of
the English and Scotch abbeys of the Cluniac
Order in 1405 by the mother house. From the

papers at the end of the volume it is evident
that ten was the complete establishment of the
monastery (v. Nos. 64, 65, 68, etc. infra).

2 Culzean Muniments, No. 32.

8 When the M‘Gillelanes acquired Dalecarne
does not appear. Ingram M‘Gillelane was a

proprietor in Forfarshire in 1373 (Reg. Magni
Sigilli, p. 116, 13).

* Dalecharne lies on the Stinchar, 4 miles
N.E. of Kirkdamdie.

CHARTER BY JOHN M’¢

ANE TO FERGUS
| =
|

PALLOWAY Aacu Ascoc™ 1684

KENNEDY OF BOMUNYNE.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL, 41

dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta mea pro me et heredibus meis ac
successoribus imperpetuum confirmasse carissimo amico meo Fergusio Kenedy
domino de Bomunyne? pro suis benemeritis consilio et auxilio michi multi-
pliciter impensis ac pro quadam certa pecunie summa quadraginta librarum
bone et usualis monete auri et argenti regni Scocie michi in mea magna
et urgente necessitate bene cognita pre manibus plenarie et integre per-
soluta totas et integras terras meas dimidietatis superioris Baronie predicte
de Glenstenchere? cum pertinenciis jacentes in comitatu de Carric infra
vicecomitatum de Are Tenendas et habendas omnes et singulas prenominatas
terras predicte dimidietatis superioris Baronie de Glenstenchere cum per-
tinenciis predicto Fergusio et heredibus suis vel suis assignatis de domino
comite de Carric et heredibus suis in feodo et hereditate imperpetuum per
omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas in boscis planis moris marresiis
viis semitis aquis stagnis pratis pascuis et pasturis molendinis multuris
et eorum sequelis aucupacionibus venacionibus et piscariis cum curiis
eschetis et curiarum exitibus petariis turbariis et carbonariis lapide et calce *
ac cum omnibus et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus et aisiamentis ac
iustis pertinenciis quibuscunque ad predictas terras dimidietatis predicte
superioris Baronie cum pertinenciis spectantibus seu iuste spectare valen-
tibus quomodolibet in futuram libere quiete plenarie integre et honorifice
bene et in pace sine aliquo retinemento vel revocamento imperpetuum
Faciendo domino comiti de Carric et heredibus suis predictus Fergusius et
heredes sui vel sui assignati de predictis terris dimidietatis superioris
baronie predicte cum pertinenciis servicia debita et consueta.

Et ego vero predictus Johannes M‘Gillelane et heredes mei omnes et
singulas prenominatas terras dimidietatis superioris baronie predicte
cum pertinenciis predicto Fergusio et heredibus suis vel suis assignatis
in omnibus et per omnia ut suprascriptum est contra omnes homines
et feminas warantizabimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defend-
emus. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte mee sigillum meum
apposui et ad maiorem huius rei securitatem et notoriam evidenciam

1 Bomunyne or Buckmonyn in the earldom Kennedies, p. 9).
of Lennox was granted to Gilbert de Carrick in 2 Lord Kennedy acquired this Upper Barony
1290 by Malcom Earl of Lennox (Rymer’s of Glenstyncher in 1450 (Paterson, ii. 325).
Federa, i. 3; Chart. Lennox, 70p), and Sir 3 “ Coalpits, stone, and limestone.” — (C.
Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure granted it in 1393 Innes),
to John son of Fergus Kennedy (Hist. Acc. of the

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42 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

sigillum commune monasterii de Corsreguale predicte carte mee
cum magna instancia apponi procuravi Apud Corsreguale decimo
octavo die mensis marcii anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo
quinto decimo Testibus nobilibus et potentibus viris Alexandro
Kenedy domino de Ardstenchere! Johanne de Cathkert domino
eiusdem domino Johanne de Hamiltoun domino de la Rosse milite
Johanne Kenedy de Dalfask Alexandro de Hamiltoun et Alano de
Cathkert cum multis aliis.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by John M‘Gillelane, son and heir of the deceased Ingram
M‘Gillelane, lord of the half of the Over Barony of Glenstyncher, commonly
called Dalcarne, in favour of his very dear friend Fergus Kennedy, lord of
Bonumyne, for his valuable counsel and help oftentimes given to the said
John, and for the sum of forty pounds of good and usual money of gold and
silver, of the kingdom of Scotland, fully paid to him in his great and urgent
necessity, of all and whole the lands of the half of the Over Barony of
Glenstyncher, in the earldom of Carrick and shire of Ayr: To hold of the
Lord Earl of Carrick in fee and heritage for ever; doing therefor, the said
Fergus and his heirs, the services due and wont. Dated and sealed with
the granter’s seal, and for greater security and notour evidence, with the
common seal of the monastery of Crosraguel, procured by the said John
with great instance, at Crosraguel 18th March 1415.

25. The Abbot of Crosraguel Ambassador to Treland.—a.D. 1429,.?

A parliament haldin at Perth the 6 of Marche this zeire. This zeire,
Odo prince of Conaghte in Irlande sends Donald Balloches head to the
King with his awin ambassador the Abbot of Corssreguall.*

1 The first so designed in records, Pitcairn know that on the flight of Donald Balloch to
says that Hugh Kennedy, who was distinguished Ireland in 1429, Odo Prince of Connaught by
in the Battle of the Beaux in 1421, was of Ard- secret treaty with James I., sent him the rebel
stynchar (Historie of the Kennedyis, p. 80). chieftain’s head. We may presume from this

2 Sir James Balfour’s Annals of Scotland, vol. eee i wee Soren} core ibid ik
i. p. 159. this mission. But Balfour is proverbially in-

accurate (Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ii.
3 Balfour is our sole authority for this We 20; Buchanan’s Hist., x. chaps, xxxiii.-iv.)

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 43

26. Indenture between Lord Kennedy and lis Son, and Gilbert Kennedy
of Bargany.*

Indenture between Gilbert Lord Kennedy, and John Kennedy his son,
on the one part, and Gilbert Kennedy of Bergany* on the other part,
agreeing to sundry marriage dowries,‘ etc.: by which they agree mutually
to support one another, and in the event of a dispute they agree to refer
to Lord Cathcart, Colin Abbot of Crosraguel,® Alexander Kennedy, and
others. Dated 15th September 1465.

27.—Renunciatio subsidii Roberti episcopi Glasquensis.—
[24th September 1487. ]°

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno ab incarnatione Domini MeCCCC*
lxxx° vii? die vero xxiiij mensis Septembris indictione quinta, pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri Innocentii divina
providentia pape octavi anno quarto, in nostrorum notariorum publicorum
et testium subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus reverendus in
Christo pater ac dominus Robertus Dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus
Glasguensis,’ ob amicitiam cordialem, caritatem et dilectionem et alia suam
paternitatem moventia, palam asseruit suamque mentem ut infrascribitur
exposuit et declaravit se contentum esse quod venerabilis in Christo pater
Georgius abbas de Pasleto® et ejusdem loci conventus, ordinis Cluniacensis,
Glasguensis diocesis, ac etiam religiosus vir Colinus abbas de Corsraguel
cum cella sua, ejusdem diocesis, pertinenti dictis abbati et conventui,’ ac

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 92.

2 Created first Lord Kennedy in 1456, ap-
pointed one of the six regents of the kingdom
in 1466.

3 Succeeded his father Thomas Kennedy, the
first laird of Bargany, in 1460.

4 The indenture was that David eldest son
heir of John Kennedy should marry Marion
daughter of Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany ; and
that Thomas, Gilbert’s son, should marry Kath-
erine, daughter of John Kennedy.

5 T have not been able to ascertain what was
this Colin’s surname,

6 Registrwm Monasterit de Passelet, p. 349.

7 Robert Blacader, 1484-1508, appointed first
Archbishop of Glasgow circa 1498 (Reg. Epis,
Glas., passim).

8 George Shaw, originally Rector of Mynto,
Abbot of Paisley 1473-1498, who added greatly
both to the spiritual and temporal welfare of his
monastery, and erected many of the monastic
buildings (v. Reg. de Passelet, pp. 84, 154, 351,
etc. ; and Chamberlain Accounts),

9 Note here how the Abbey of Paisley re-
asserts its superiority over Crosraguel, and com-
pare Nos, 3 and 41.

44 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

eorum monasteria et loca cum suis libertatibus, immunitatibus et privilegiis,
universis futuris temporibus integraliter et pacifice remanerent ita libere,
quiete et honorifica pace sicuti tempore recolende memorie Andree olim
episcopi Glasguensis et aliorum predecessorum suorum priscis temporibus
remanserunt, suisque privilegiis, immunitatibus et libertatibus gavisi sunt,
non obstantibus bullis apostolicis et processibus desuper fulminatis aliisque
per ipsum reverendum patrem in contrarium habitis, et in Romana curia per
eundem impetratis, super subsidii caritativi solutione, visitatione et procura-
tionum exactione ac aliis impetrationibus quibuscunque: Quibuscunque
impetrationibus et bullis omnibus ac processibus desuper fulminatis, in
quantum prefatos abbatem de Pasleto et suum conventum ac abbatem de
Corsragwel et suam cellam prefatis abbati et conventui pertinentem ac suos
successores eorumque loca et monasteria seu privilegia ordinis Cluniacensis
ac dirigationem eorundem quovismodo tangere viderentur, idem reverendus
pater Robertus episcopus Glasguensis, ex sua mera liberalitate et pro bono
pacis et concordie, expresse et voluntarie renunciavit: protestando tamen
quod dicte sue bulle et impetrationes quo ad alios salve et illesse ac in suo
robore permanerent. Super quibus omnibus et singulis dictus venerabilis
pater Georgius abbas de Pasleto, pro se et suo conventu ac dicto abbate de
‘Corsragwel et sua cella, a nobis notariis publicis infrascriptis petiit sibi fieri
unum et plura publicum et publica instrumentum et instrumenta. Acta
erant hee in ecclesia Glasguensi, loco capitulari ejusdem, hora xi ante
meridiem vel eo circa, sub anno, die mense, indictione et pontificatu quibus
supra: presentibus ibidem venerabilibus et circumspectis viris magistris
Johanne Crechton precentore, Martino Wanne, cancellario, Gilberto Rerik
archidiacono, Patricio Leythe canonico ac officiali Glasguensi et Ricardo
Gybson notario publico, testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego Johannes Aurifabri artium magister, in decretis bacallarius,
presbiter Glasguensis diocesis, publiciis imperiali et regia auctori-
tatibus [notarius | (ete., in forma communi).

Et ego Johannes Reston, presbiter Glasguensis diocesis, ete.

Et ego Johannes de Thornton, Glasguensis diocesis presbiter, ete.

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument narrating that Robert Bishop of Glasgow compeared
personally in presence of notaries public and other witnesses, in the chapter

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 45

of the church of Glasgow, and openly declared that, on account of the hearty
friendship, charity, and affection which animated him, he was content that
George Abbot of Paisley and the convent of the same place, of the Cluniac
order and diocese of Glasgow, and also Colin Abbot of Crosraguel, with
his cell of the same diocese, pertaining to the said abbot and convent, and
their monasteries and places, with their freedoms, immunities and privileges,
should remain in all time coming, wholly and peaceably, as they remained
in the time of Andrew formerly Bishop of Glasgow, and in the earlier times
of his other predecessors, in regard to the payment of charitable subsidy,
visitation, and exaction of the procurations, and other impetrations what-
soever, and should enjoy their privileges, immunities and freedoms, not-
withstanding the apostolic bulls and processes fulminated thereon, and
others held by the said bishop to the contrary, and impetrated by him in
the court of Rome: which impetrations, bulls, and processes, in so far as
they might seem in any way to touch the aforesaid Abbot of Paisley and
his convent, and the Abbot of Crosraguel and his cell, their successors,
places and monasteries, or the privileges of the Cluniac order, and the
government thereof, the said reverend father, bishop of Glasgow, of his mere
liberality, and for the good of peace and concord, expressly and willingly
renounced : protesting, however, that the said bulls and impetrations, as to
others, should remain whole and sound, and in proper force: whereupon,
the said George Abbot of Paisley for himself and convent, and for the said
Colin Abbot of Crosraguel and his cell, craved instruments from the notaries
public, viz., Mr. John Goldsmith, John Reston, and John of Thornton:
These things were done in the place aforesaid, at eleven o'clock before noon,
on 24 September 1487, in presence of these witnesses, Mr. John Crichton,
precentor, Mr. Martin Wann, chancellor, Gilbert Rerik, archdean, Patrick
Leyth, canon and official of Glasgow, and Richard Gibson, notary.

27a. The rebuilding of Crosraguel by Abbot Colin.—{1480-90. |?

Colinus abbas de Crosragmol. Cum ad ecclesiam jamdudum ab immani
hostium furore dirutam et pene eversam animum adjecisset, effecit ut
ingentes lapidum acervi hinc inde educti muris compingendis et miro
ordine ad Templi restaurationem coaluerint ; et ne quid operarum incuria

1 Hay’s Scotia Sacra MSS. in Adv. Lib. Edinburgh, p. 280.

46 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ad structure perfectionem deesset, ipse inter ceementarios aliosque opificos,
dies integros transigebat.'

TRANSLATION.

Colin abbot of Crosraguel, having set his heart on the restoration of
his church, which had now been long in ruins from the fury of savage
enemies, and was almost completely overturned, caused huge blocks of stone
to be brought thither, and to be united for the repair of the sanctuary by
strengthening the walls in an admirable style. And that no accuracy of
detail should be wanting in the completion of the edifice he spent whole
days amongst the masons and the other artisans.

28. Instrumentum Abbatis et Conventus de Pasleto, inter eosdem et Magis-
trum David Cunyngham? decanum ruralem, ad instantiam eorwm
excitatum.—{ 81st January 1489-90. |

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunc-
tis pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno Dominice incarnationis
M°CCCColxxxix, die vero ultimo Januarii, indictione octava, pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini nostri Innocentii divina
providentia pape octavi anno quinto, in mei notarii publici et testium sub-
scriptorum presentia circumspectus clericus magister David Cwnygham,
decanus ruralis‘ decanatus Christianitatis de Ruglen, equitans in visitatione
dicti decanatus, veniens ad monasterium de Pasleto, Glasguensis diocesis,
accessit personaliter ad portam dicti monasterii et petiit introitum et se
cum familiaribus tune ibidem secum existentibus in dicto monasterio recipi.
Et interim comparuit discretus et religiosus vir dominus Johannes Mouss
tune camerarius dicti monasterii, missus a venerabili patre Georgio per-
missione divina abbate dicti monasterii de Pasleto et conventu ejusdem,
ordinis Cluniacensis et diocesis Glasguensis antedicte, et asseruit, quod dicti

1 For this account Father Hay has evidently 4 «The Rural desis jurisdiction was made up
drawn upon the Abbey Register, which must of a delegation of the general pastoral authority
then have been in his possession. Many of the of the Bishop and of the jurisdiction of the
Abbey buildings are to be assigned to this date. Archdeacon, which that judge exercised in its

2 Afterwards Official General of the diocese, highest form in the Curia Christianitatis (Cosmo

Archdeacon of Argyll (v. infra No. 36). Innes’ Scotch Legal Antiquities, p. 188).
3 Registrum Monasterti de Passelet, p. 351.

_—

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 47

abbas et conventus noluerunt recipere ipsum decanum ratione visitationis
aut ex debito, ex et pro eo quod ipsi abbas et conventus sunt exempti et
privilegiati ab omni visitatione quorumcunque ordinariorum, et etiam ecclesie
sue et loca ubilibet sunt constituta, ut clare patet intuentibus exemptiones
et privilegia sua eis de huiusmodi visitationibus et multis aliis a diversis
summis pontificibus indulta et concessa. Et sic dictus decanus, videns
quod non poterat tune recipi in dicto monasterio ratione visitationis,
contentus extitit recipi in eodem ex favore dictorum abbatis et conventus.
Super quibus omnibus et singulis supranotatis idem dominus Johannes
Mouss a me notario publico infrascripto sibi fieri petiit ex parte dictorum
abbatis et [conventus| unum seu plura publicum seu publica instrumentum
seu instrumenta. Acta erant hee apud portam dicti monasterii, hora tertia
post meridiem, sub anno die mense indictione et pontificatu supranotatis,
presentibus ibidem probis et discretis viris, videlicet domino Roberto Quhyt-
furd! monacho ac tune cellerario dicti monasterii, magistro Henrico Newton,
domino Cuthberto Mulykyn et Johanne Makquhen layco, cum multis aliis
testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis [Alexander Clugston,
notarius |.

ABSTRACT,

Notarial Instrument narrating that a circumspect clerk, Mr. David
Cunyngham, rural dean of the deanery of the christianity of Ruglen, riding
upon Visitation of the said deanery, and coming to the monastery of Paisley,
of the diocese of Glasgow, went personally to the gate of the said monastery
and demanded admission, and that himself and the servants there present
with him should be received in the said monastery: and that in the mean-
time there compeared a discreet and religious man, Sir John Mouss, then
chamberlain of the said monastery, sent by a venerable man, George abbot
thereof, and asserted that the said abbot and convent would not receive the
dean by way of visitation or of right, because they were exempted from
all visitation of whatsoever ordinaries, and also their churches and places
wherever constituted, as was clearly evident to every one who looked at

1 Most probably the Robert de Quintfort or 138; C. Innes’ Scotch Legal Antiquities, p. 170;
Whitefoord who was elected Abbot of Crosraguel and compare Nisbet’s Heraldry, i. p. 235). ‘* The
in 1491 (see No, 32 infra). The “cellarer” oldest branch of this family [Whitefoord] is
had more to do than his name implies. He Whitefoord of Blairquhan, who took up his resi-
was usually accountant and cashier as well (vy. dence with his brother, who was Abbot of Cros-
Dr. Lees’ Paisley Abbey, p. 11; Monasticon, p. raguel in the reign of King James IV.”

48 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

the exemptions and privileges granted to them by several chief pontiffs :
and so the said dean, seeing that he could not be received in the said
monastery by reason of visitation, was content to be received therein by
the favour of the abbot and convent: upon all which the said Sir John
Mouss craved instruments of Alexander Clugston, notary. These things
were done at the gate of the monastery, at three o'clock afternoon, on 31st
January 1489-90, in presence of Sir Robert Whytefurd, monk, and then
cellarer of the said monastery, Mr. Henry Newton, Sir Cuthbert Mulykyn,
and John Makquhen, laymen, with many other witnesses, specially called to
the premises.

29. Instrument of Resignation by Duncan Fergusson of Knokgarron, in
favour of John Fergusson his Son, of the lands of Knokgarron and
Alticaple.—[ 27th August 1490. ]*

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno Incarnacionis dominice mille-
simo quadringentesimo nonagesimo die vero mensis Augusti xxvij° indic-
cione octava pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini domini
nostri Innocencii divini providencia pape octavi anno septimo in mei notarii
publici et testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus
Duncanus Fergusson de Knokgarrain? pureque ac simpliciter per fustem et
baculum * a se sursum reddidit et imperpetuum resignavit ut moris est
in manibus venerabilis in Christo patris Colini abbatis de Corsraguel et
conventus eiusdem monasterii reverencia qua decuit omnes et singulas
quadraginta solidatas terrarum suarum de Knokgarrain et Altycapill
antiqui extentus cum suis pertinenciis quibuscunque jacentes in comitatu
de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Are Ita quod sibi domino abbati et
predicto conventui post huius resignacionem liceat de eisdem terris libere
disponere Et precipue, in favorem Johannis Fergusson filii et heredis ap-
parentis dicti Duncani si dignarentur sibi Johanni easdem terras hereditarie
tribuere Super quibus vero omnibus et singulis sic premissis petiit pre-
dictus venerabilis pater hoc presens publicum instrumentum per me

1 Oulzean Muniments, No. 156. south-east of Bargany, and comprised Ailsa Craig
2 Little is known of the previous lairds of in its Barony.
Knockgarron, It lies in Dailly parish, 2 miles 3 V. No, 16,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 49

notarium infrascriptum sibi fieri Acta erunt hec in loco capitulari! dicti
monasterij hora xij* in meridie vel ea circa anno die mense indiccione et
pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem Johanne Fergusson fratre dicti
Duncani Duncano Kirkpatrik Johanne Fergussoun filio dicti Duncani
domino Thoma M°Ylhauche vicario de Gerwane? et Johanne Wischard filio
et herede apparente Ade Wischard burgensis de Are cum multis aliis
testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.

Et ego vero Andreas M*Cormy]* presbyter Glasguensis diocesis publicus
imperiali auctoritatibus et regali notarius Quia predictarum ter-
rarum resignacionem ceterisque omnibus et singulis dum sic ut
premittitur dicerentur agerentur et fierent una cum prescriptis
testibus interfui Haque omnia et singula sic fieri scivi et audivi
ac in notam cepi Ex qua hoc presens publicum instrumentum mea
manu scriptum confeci signoque et nomine meis solitis et consuetis
hic me subscribente signavi rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testi-
monium omnium premissorum. ANDREAS MaAKcorMYL.

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument upon the resignation by Duncan Fergusson of
Knokgarron, by staff and baton in the hands of the venerable Colin Abbot
of Crosraguel, and convent of the monastery thereof, with due reverence,
of his forty shilling lands of Knokgarron and Altycaple, lying in the
earldom of. Carrick and shire of Ayr: So that it should be lawful to the
said abbot and convent, after the resignation, to dispose freely of the said
lands, and especially in favour of John Fergusson, son and apparent heir of
the said Duncan, if they should please to bestow the said lands upon him.
Done in the chapter-house of the said monastery, about noon, on the 27th
day of August 1490, before these witnesses: John Fergusson, brother of the
said Duncan, Duncan Kirkpatrick, John Fergusson son of the resigner, Sir
Thomas M‘Ilhauch, vicar of Girvan, and John Wishart, son and apparent heir
of Adam Wishart, burgess of Ayr. Andrew M‘Cormy] is notary.

1 The first mention of the chapter-house. provided only a curate or chaplain to the churches
2 Girvan rejoiced in a vicar like Straiton and of Dailly and Kirkoswald (v. Paterson, vol. ii.
Ballantrae, who received part of the revenues, and Chalmers iii. pp. 532-544).
as settled by the Bishop of Glasgow. The Abbey 8 Vicar of Straiton.

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50 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

30. Charter by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel, to John Fergusson and Agnes
Kennedy his Wife, of the Lands of Alticaple and Knokgarron.—
[27th August 1490. ]?

Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes litere pervenerint
salutem in Domino sempiternam. Sciatis nos Colinum permissione divina
abbatem Monasterii de Corsraguel et eiusdem loci conventum dedisse con-
cessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse necnon et dare concedere
et hac presenti carta nostra confirmare dilectis nostris Johanni Fergusson
filio et heredi apparenti Duncani Fergusson hereditarie et Agneti Kennedy
sue sponse in coniuncto infeodamento ac eorum alteri diutius viventi et
heredibus inter ipsos de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu eciam pro-
creandis pro suis bene meritis nobis multipliciter impensis omnes et singulas
quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Alticappell et Knockgarrane antiqui
extentus cum pertinenciis jacentes in parochia sancti Michaelis de Daly in
comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Are Quequidem terre cum
pertinenciis prius fuerunt dicti Duncani Fergusson hereditarie Et quas-
quidem terras cum pertinenciis antedictus Duncanus non vi aut metu ductus
nec errore lapsus seu dolo quovis circumventus sua mera et spontanea
voluntate in manibus nostris et eiusdem loci conventus in loco nostro
capitulari per fustem et baculum ut moris est sursum reddidit pureque et
simpliciter resignavit imperpetuum Tenendas et habendas omnes et singulas
prefatas quadraginta solidatas terrarum antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis
prefato Johanni hereditarie et Agneti Kennedy sue sponse in coniuncto
feodamento eorumque alteri diucius viventi et heredibus suis inter ipsos
de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu eciam procreandis quibus forte
deficientibus quod absit heredibus dicti Duncani quibuscunque de nobis et
successoribus nostris in capite in feodo et hereditate imperpetuum per
omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas prout jacent in longitudine et
latitudine in viis semitis pratis molendinis multuris et eorum sequelis cum
curlis eschaetis et eorundem exitibus herezeildis bludewitis et merchetis
mulierum cum silvis moris marresiis cum pascuis et pasturis venacionibus
aucupacionibus piscacionibus aquis stagnis fabrilibus brasinis pistrinis cum
carbonibus carbonariis turbariis petariis vivariis et genestis cum lapide et
calce cum libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus et aliis et singulis

1 Culzean Muniments, No, 157

apa

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CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 51

libertatibus commoditatibus asiamentis ac justis suis pertinenciis quibus-
cunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam subtus terra quam supra
terram tam prope quam procul ad antedictas terras spectantibus cum per-
tinenciis seu juste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum adeo libere
quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retinemento aut
obstaculo quocunque sicut dictus Duncanus aut aliquis predecessorum suorum
predictas terras cum pertinenciis tenuit seu possedit tenuerunt seu possederunt
aliquibus temporibus retroactis Reddendo inde annuatim dictus Johannes ac
eciam Agnes sua sponsa eorumque alter diucius vivens et sui heredes inter
ipsos de corpore suo legitime procreati seu procreandi quibus forte defici-
entibus quod absit heredes prefati Duncani quicunque nobis et successoribus
nostris duodecim denarios usualis monete regni Scocie nomine albe firme +
in festo sancti Michaelis archangeli in predicta ecclesia de Daly si petantur
ac eciam viginti solidos bone et legalis monete annui redditus annuatim
solvendos in festo Penthecostes et sancti Martini in hieme per equales
portiones moderno conventui et suis successoribus imperpetuum in dicto
pro annuali anniversario cum placebo dirige et missa in crastino bis in anno
annuatim celebrando videlicet in crastino sancte Katherine virginis et in
crastino apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi pro salute anime quondam famosi
viri et bone memorie scilicet Magistri Fergusii Fergusson dudum ecclesiarum
de Wanfra? et Kirkbride * rectoris et dudum earundem conquestoris Et pro
suorum amicorum parentum benefactorum ac omnium fidelium defunctorum
animorum salute una eciam cum tribus sectis ad tria placita capitalia in
nostra curia de Corsraguell* Et hoc tantum pro omni alio onere exactione
questione servicio seculari aut demanda que de dictis terris cum pertinenciis
per quoscunque juste exigi poterint in futurum seu requiri Et nos vero pre-
dicti Colinus abbas et conventus ac eciam successores nostri dicti Monasterii
antedictas quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Altycappil et Knokgarrayne
antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis predicto Johanni et Agneti sue sponse et
eorundem diucius viventi et heredibus suis inter ipsos legitime procreatis seu
procreandis quibus forte deficientibus heredibus dicti Duncani quibuscunque
in omnibus et per omnia ut premissum est contra omnes mortales waranti-
zabimus acquietabimus et presentis carte tenore imperpetuum defendemus

1 For other blench duties, y. note on No. Urr, in the modern parish of Kirkpatrick Dur-

16. ham, Kirkcudbrightshire (Imperial Gazetteer of
2 Wamphray, in Upper Annandale, near Scotland).
Moffat, among the Dumfriesshire hills, 4 For explanation of the Abbey court, v.

3 The old church of Kirkbride stood on the Introduction.

52 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

In cuius rei testimonium huis presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum com-
mune est appensum apud prefatum Monasterium vicesimo sexto! die mensis
Augusti anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo coram hiis
testibus Hugone Wallace de Smythistoun? Thoma Davidsone de Grenane?®
Johanne Davidsone dominis Thoma M‘Kilhauch vicario de Gerwan Andrea
M‘Cormyll vicario de Stratoun ac notario publico Roberto Browniswald
clerico cum multis aliis.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel, and the convent of that place,
in favour of John Fergusson, son and apparent heir of Duncan Fergusson,
and Agnes Kennedy his spouse, in conjunct fee, and to the survivor of
them, and the heirs procreated or to be procreated between them, of all
and whole the forty shilling lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron, of old
extent, in the parish of St. Michael of Dailly, earldom of Carrick and shire
of Ayr; which lands formerly belonged in heritage to the said Duncan
Fergusson, and were by him freely resigned in the hands of the abbot of
the convent in the chapter-room thereof: To be held by the said John and
Agnes, and their heirs aforementioned, whom failing (which God forbid !),
by the heirs whomsoever of the said Duncan, of the granters and their
successors in chief, in fee and heritage for ever, for the yearly payment to
the abbot and convent of twelve pennies Scots money, in name of blench
ferme, at the feast of St. Michael the archangel, in the church of Dailly, if
required; And also of twenty shillings good and legal money of annualrent,
to be paid at the feasts of Whitsunday and Martinmas in winter, by equal
portions, to the present convent and to their successors for ever, for an
anniversary to be celebrated yearly, twice in the year, with placebo, dirige,
and morning mass, to wit, on the mornings of St. Katherine the virgin and
of the apostles Philip and James, for the weal of the soul of a sometime
famous man and of good memory, namely, Mr. Fergus Fergusson, lately
rector of the churches of Wamfray and Kirkbride, and sometime conqueestor
of the same ; and for the weal of the souls of their friends, relations, bene-

1 So in copy; but should be ‘ septimo.’ and Esquire to John, Lord of the Isles, in 1475.
2 One mile W.S.W. of Cassillis, afterwards It remained with the Davidsons until 1572,
the property of a Kennedy (Retours). when it was sold to one Reid, and subsequently

8 Greenan near Ayr, the lands having been . acquired by the Earl of Cassillis (Paterson, ii.
feued to John Davidson father to this Thomas, 435; Oulzean Muniments, and Mason’s Notes).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 53

factors, and of all the faithful dead ; together with three suits at the three
head pleas in the granter’s court of Crosraguel; and this only for every
other burden, exaction, asking, secular service, or demand which might be
justly exacted or required by any from the said lands. Dated at the
foresaid monastery, and sealed with the common seal thereof, on 27th
August 1490, before these witnesses: Hugh Wallace of Smythstoun, Thomas
Davidson of Grenan, John Davidson, Sirs Thomas M‘Ilhauch, vicar of Girvan,
Andrew M‘Cormyll, vicar of Straiton and notary public, Robert Brownswald,
clerk, with many others.

31. Precept by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John Fergusson
and lis Wife in the lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron.—{ 29th
August 1490. |*

Colinus divina paciencia abbas monasterii de Corsraguel et conventus
eiusdem dilectis nostris domino Johanni Cathkert de Carltoun wmiliti,
Hugoni Kennedy, Gilberto M‘Cormyll, Jacobo Bard, et Johanni Fergussoun,
coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter constitutis
salutem Quia dedimus et concessimus hereditarie Johanni Fergussoun filio et
heredi Duncani Fergusson hereditarie et Agneti Kennedy sue sponse in con-
iuncto infeodamento eorumque alteri diucius viventi et heredibus inter ipsos
legitime procreatis seu procreandis quibus forte deficientibus heredibus dicti
Duncani quibuscunque quadraginta solidatas terrarum antiqui extentus de
Altycappil et Knokegarrayne cum pertinenciis jacentes in comitatu de Carric
et infra vicecomitatum de Are Quequidem terre prius erant prefati Duncani
hereditarie Et quas vero terras cum pertinenciis antedictus Duncanus in
manibus nostris in nostro loco capitulari pure et simpliciter resignavit et
sursum reddidit imperpetuum. Quare vobis precipimus et firmiter manda-
mus coniunctim et divisim quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum et
saisinam realem et corporalem possessionem omnium et singularum terrarum
cum pertinenciis predicto Johanni et Agneti sue sponse vel suis certis actor-
natis latoribus presentium deliberetis et haberi faciatis secundum tenorem
carte sue quam de nobis inde habet Et hoc nullo modo omittatis ad quod
faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim nostram plenariam
ac irrevocabilem tenore presencium committimus facultatem. Scriptum sub

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 158.

54 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

nostro sigillo communi apud prefatum nostrum monasterium xxix® die
mensis Augusti anno Domini M°CCCC? nonagesimo.

ABSTRACT.

Precept by Colin Abbot of the Monastery of Crosraguel, and the con-
vent thereof, addressed to Sir John Cathcart of Carleton, knight, Hugh
Kennedy, Gilbert MeCormyll, James Baird, and John Fergusson, conjunctly
and severally, as their bailies in that part, for infefting John Fergusson,
son and heir of Duncan Fergusson, heritably, and Agnes Kennedy his spouse,
in conjunct infeftment, and the survivors of them, and the heirs lawfully
begotten or to be begotten between them, whom failing, the heirs of the
said Duncan whatsoever, of the forty shilling lands of Alticaple and
Knockgarron, resigned in the granter’s hands by the said Duncan. Dated
and sealed with the common seal of the monastery on 29th August 1490.

32. Consistorial Act relating to the election of Robert Whyteford to the
Abbacy.—[ 7th November 1491.]?

Consistorial Acts.

Corsraguel : 1491. Nov. 7.
“Robert de Quintfort.? Die 7° Nov. 1491, referente Card: Alerien.
S. D. N. providit de persona Fratris Roberti de Quintfurt, B. Marie de
Corsraguel, Glasguen. diocesis, vacanti per obitum D™ Colini, illius ultimi
possessoris extra Romanam curiam defuncti.”—Vatican.

34. Charter by Robert, Abbot of Crosraguel, to John Fergusson, of a
portion of the Lands of Alticaple.—{ Dated 26th May 1492.]*

Universis sancte matris filiis ad quorum noticias presentes litere per-
venerint salutem Sciatis nos Robertum paciencia divina monasterii de
Corsraguel et eiusdem loci conventum dedisse concessisse et hac presenti
carta nostra confirmasse necnon per presentes dare concedere et hac presenti

1 Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland, 2 V. note on No. 28,

and Ireland, 1400-1875, by W. Mazitre Brady. 3 Culzean Muniments, No. 161.
Rome, 1877. Vol. i. p. 170.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 55

carta nostra confirmare dilecto nostro Johanni Fergusson filio et heredi
apparenti Duncani Fergusson de Knokgarrayne et heredibus pro suis bene-
meritis nobis multipliciter impensis totam et integram dimidiam mercatam
terrarum de Altycappill antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis propius et
vicinius adiacentem terris de Knokgarrain ex parte occidentali earundem
jacentem in parochia de Daly in comitatu de Carrick et infra vicecomitatum
de Are Quequidem terre cum pertinenciis prius fuerunt Dougalli Makcuben
de Trewdunnak hereditarie et quasquidem terras cum pertinenciis idem
Dougallus non vi aut metu ductus nec errore lapsus seu dolo circumventus
set sua mera et spontanea voluntate utilitateque sua prius visa et pensata
per suum procuratorem ad hoe specialiter constitutum vigore autentici in-
strumenti procuratoria forma instrumenti ceterisque legitimis aliis documentis
per fustem et baculum in manibus dudum famose memorie Colini pre-
decessoris nostri abbatis eiusdem monasterii et conventus eiusdem in loco
capitulari sursum reddidit pureque et simpliciter a se et suis heredibus
resignavit imperpetuum Et prout tenore et serie unius instrumenti resigna-
cionis earundem nobis clare innotescit et luculenter constat Tenendam et
habendam antedictam dimidiam mercatam terre de Altycappill antiqui ex-
tentus cum pertinenciis prefato Johanni Fergussoun heredibus suis et
assignatis de nobis et nostris successoribus in feodo et hereditate imperpetuum
per omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas prout jacent in longitudine
et latitudine in boscis planis moris marresiis viis semitis aquis stagnis
rivulis pascuis pasturis molendinis multuris et earum sequelis aucupacionibus
venacionibus piscacionibus petariis turbariis carbonariis brueriis et genestis
silvis pratis virgultis lapide et calce fabrinis pistrinis brasinis cum curiis et
eorum exitibus amerciamentis bludewitis herezeldis et merchetis mulierum
cum communi pastura et libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et
singulis libertatibus commoditatibus asiamentis ac justis suis pertinenciis
quibuscunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam sub terra quam supra
terram tam prope quam procul ad dictas terras cum pertinenciis spectantibus
seu jure spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum adeo libere quiete
plene integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retinemento vel obstaculo
quocunque sicut dictus Dougallus vel aliquis predecessorum suorum ante-
dictas terras cum pertinenciis tenuit seu possedit tenuerunt seu possederunt
Faciendo inde annuatim dictus Johannes heredes sui et assignati nobis et
nostris successoribus de illa parte terre proporcionaliter seruicium debitum
et consuetum de terris de Altycappill prius totaliter existentibus dicti

56 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

resignantis tantum pro omni alio onere exaccione questione servicio seculari
sive demanda que de dicta dimidia mercata terre cum pertinenciis per
quoscunque iuste exigi poterint in futurum seu requiri Et nos vero antedictus
Robertus abbas et conventus eiusdem loci et successores nostri prefatam
dimidiam merecatam terre de Altycappill antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis
dicto Johanni Fergussoun heredibus suis et assignatis in omnibus et per
omnia ut predictum est contra omnes mortales warantizabimus acquieta-
bimus et presentis carte tenore imperpetuum defendemus In cuius rei
testimonium huic presenti carte nostre sigillum commune est appensum
apud prefatum monasterium vicesimo sexto die mensis Maii testibus Johanne
Kennedy de Culzane' Georgeo Kennedy de Atyquyn? Georgeo Craufurd
Thoma Kennedy Johanne Fergussoun Fergusio Fergussoun circumspectis
viris et clericis magistris David Blair et Roberto Mure prebendariis collegii
de Mabole anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo secundo
Sequuntur subscriptiones abbatis et conventus Robertus abbas de Corsraguel
Et ego Johannes Losk concedo ad omnia in litera contenta Jacobus Kirk-
patrick manu propria Et ego Matheus Thomsoun manu propria Mauricius
M‘Ewyn manu propria David Chalmer manu propria, ete.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Robert Abbot of Crosraguel, in favour of John Fergusson,
son and apparent heir of Duncan Fergusson of Knokgarran, for his good
services abundantly rendered, of all and whole a half mercate of the lands of
Altycaple, of old extent, next adjacent to the lands of Knokgarran, on the
west side thereof; lying in the parish of Dailly, earldom of Carrick and
shire of Ayr: which lands formerly belonged to Dougal MacCuben of
Trewdonnak, and were resigned by him, by staff and baton, into the hands
of Colin of famous memory, sometime abbot of the said monastery: To
hold of the abbot and convent in fee and heritage, for the service due and
wont. Dated at the monastery of Crosraguel 26th May 1492.

1 The first of the Kennedies of the Cove or Kennedy of Dunure, grandfather of this witness.
Culzean was John, second son of Sir Gilbert 2 Situated 2 miles east of Maybole.

a. ate

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 57

35. Decision by the Lords Auditors in the Action by the Abbot of Crosraguel
against Thomas Kennedy of Bergany.—[26th June 1493.]*

26 June 1493. Anent the actioun and cause persewit be the abbot
and convent of Corsragwell aganis Thomas Kennydy of Bergany for the
wrangwis uptakin and withhalding fra the said abbot of the teynd schaiffis
of the Manys of Gervane of v yeris bigane, extending to xij chalderis and
viij bollis of mele and ber as wes allegiit, and of the teynd schavis of the
Manys of Bergany of twa yeris bigane, extending in the hale to xxviij
bollis of mele and ber as wes likewise allegiit, and for costis and scathis
baith the saidis partiis beand present be thaimeself and the procuratouris,
it wes allegiit be the procuratour of the said Thomas that the said teyndis
of Gervane wer pait, except five chalderis and that the Lord Kennydy
suld werrand him anent the said five chalderis and alse anent the said
teyndis of Bergany The Lordis therfore ordinis him to haf lettrez to call
his said werrand agane the viij day of October nixt tocum with continuation
of days, and assignis the samyn dais with continuation of dais to the said
Thomas to preif the payment of the remanent of the said vitales of Gervane,
and ordinis him to haf lettrez to summond his witnes and the partiis ar
summond apud acta, and contenewis the said matter in the meyntyme but
preiudice of partij.

ABSTRACT.

Decision by the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints in the action
raised by the Abbot of Crosraguel against Thomas Kennedy of Bergany
for the wrongous uptaking of the teind sheaves of the Mains of Girvan
and Bargany, ordaining Thomas Kennedy to call his warrant again on the
8th of October next. 26th June 1493.

36. Decreet of Transumpt by the Official of Glasgow, of two Charters
(Nos. 30 and 34 ante), obtained at the instance of John Fergusson.
—{12th December 1500. ]?

In Dei nomine, Amen: Universis et singulis presentes literas siue presens
publicum instrumentum inspecturis lecturis pariter et audituris David

1 Acta Dominorum Auditorum, p. 183. 2 Culzean Muniments, No. 172.
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58 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Cunynghame archidiaconus Ergadiensis prepositus ecclesie collegiate de
Hamyltoun?! ac officialis Glasguensis generalis? salutem in Domino sempi-
ternam Noveritis quod nos ad instanciam probi viri Johannis Fergussoun
filii et apparentis heredis Duncani Fergussoun de Knokgarrain ad videndum
et audiendum quasdam cartas per venerabiles in Christo patres Colinum
permissione divina quondam abbatem monasterii de Corsraguell et Robertum
eadem permissione olim abbatem dicti monasterii ac conventum eiusdem
dicto Johanni factas sigilloque communi dicti monasterii et subscripcionibus
manualibus dictorum abbatum et conventus roboratas et subscriptas trans-
sumi copiari exemplari et in publicam transsumpti formam redigi mandari
decretumque et auctoritatem nostram ordinariam desuper interponi omnes
et singulos coniuncte vel divisim sua interesse habentes seu habere putantes
per literas nostras patentes ad instar edictorum publicorum in valvis
ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis die quadam solempni publice affixas ut
moris est peremptorie ad certum terminum competentem horam diem et
locum inferius videlicet designatum citari fecimus cum intimacione quod
siue in huismodi citacionis termino comparere curavissent sive non nos
nichilominus ad dictas cartas transsumendum copiandum exemplandum et
in publicam transsumpti formam redigendum prout iustum foret ad dicti
Johannis instanciam procederemus ipsorum sic citatorum absencia seu
contumacia non obstante quibuscunque Tenor vero literarum nostrarum
et mandati sequitur in hunc modum Mandat dominus officialis Glasguensis
citari tenoreque presentis scripti per edictum publicum in valvis huius
ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis tanquam in albo pretoris affixum citat
omnes et singulos sua coniuncter vel divisim ad infrascripta interesse
habentes seu habere putantes quod compareant coram eo eiusve commissariis
pluribus aut uno in hac ecclesia metropolitana Glasguensi loco consistoriali
eiusdem die sexta post diem affixionis presentis edicti in valvis dicte
ecclesie si dies ipsa iuridica sin autem proxima die iuridica inde sequenti
hora causarum consueta ante meridiem ad videndum et audiendum unam
cartam* confectam per quondam Robertum permissione divina abbatem

1 Founded in 1462 by the first Lord Hamil-
ton, for a provost and eight prebendaries. George
de Graham was the first provost (Hamilton of
Wishaw’s Acc. of Lanarkshire, and Hamilton
Papers).

2 In the dioceses of St. Andrews and Glasgow,
the jurisdiction of the Bishop in law as well as

practice in the Episcopal Court was administered
by the “Official General,” instead of the Arch-
deacon. The greater part of the law business
of Scotland, both civil and ecclesiastical, came
before the courts of these officials (v. Scotch Legal
Antiquities, p. 181).

3 No. 30 supra.

fre

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 59

monasterii de Corsraguel et eiusdem loci conventum sigillo eorundem
communi roboratam factam Johanni Fergussoun filio et heredi apparenti
Duncani Fergussoun de Knokgarrane et heredibus suis super una dimidia
mercata terrarum de Alticapill antiqui extentus cum pertinentiis propius et
vicinius adiacente terris de Knokgarrane ex parte occidentali earundem
jacente in parochia de Daly et comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum
de Ayr Et similiter unam aliam cartam? confectam per quondam Colinum
permissione divina dicti monasterii de Corsraguel abbatem et eiusdem loci
conventum sigillo eorundem communi roboratam factam hereditarie dicto
Johanni Fergusoun et Agneti Kennedy sue sponse in coniuncto feodamento
et eorum alteri diucius viventi et heredibus inter ipsos de corpore suo
legitime procreatis seu procreandis super quadraginta solidatis terrarum de
Alticappill et Knokgarrane antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis jacentibus in
parochia sancti Michaelis de Daly in comitatu de Carrik et infra vice-
comitatum de Ayr, etc., transsumi copiari publicari ac prefati domini officialis
auctoritate aut suorum commissariorum plurium aut unius in publicam
transsumpti formam redigi mandari Cuiquidem transsumpto ad futuram rei
memoriam tanta et talis fides poterat adhiberi sicut ipsis literis originalibus
si in medium producerentur et hoc ad instanciam dicti Johannis Fergussoun
vel ad opponendum verbo aut scriptis si quid opponere velint quare predicte
carte ut premissum est transsumi copiari et publicari non deberent cum
intimacione publica et expressa quod siue ipsi sic citati dictis termino et
loco comparere curaverint sive non Et nichil contra premissa apposuerint
prefatus dominus officialis aut eius commissarii ad dictas cartas ut premissum
est transumendum et copiandum procedent seu procedet justicia mediante
Ipsorum sic citatorum absencia seu contumacia in aliquo non obstante
Datum sub sigillo officii officialatus dicti domini officialis apud Glasew die
quinto mensis Decembris anno Domini, ete., quingentesimo In quibus-
quidem hora die et loco comparens coram nobis pro tribunali sedentibus
venerabilis vir dominus Robertus Ross archipresbyter de Dunbar procurator
et procuratorio nomine dicti Johannis Fergussoun de cuius procurationis
mandato legitimo constabat documento predictas literas citatorias debite
executioni demandatus nobis presentavit Quibus de mandato nostro receptis
et publice perlectis vocatisque diversis vicibus omnibus et singulis in eisdem
citatis et minime in oppositum comparentibus Idem dominus Robertus
nomine procuratorio quo supra ipsorum sic citatorum vocatorum et non

1 No. 34 supra,

60 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL,

comparencium contumacias accusavit quos contumaces per nos decerni
debita cum instancia postulavit et in penam contumacie eorundem duas
cartas quarum tenores inferius sunt inserte exhibuit ipsasque cartas trans-
sumi copiari exemplari et in publicam transsumpti formam redigi cum
interposicione decreti quod huiusmodi transsumpto tanta fides in iudicio
et extra daretur sicut ipsis cartis originalibus data sit et adhibita seu
daretur et adhiberetur si in medium producerentur Post quarum quidem
cartarum exhibitionem nos David Cunynghame officialis supra dictus dictos
citatos vocatos non comparentes contumaces prout cuncto erant decernimus
et in penam contumacie eorundem dictas cartas recepimus vidimus auscul-
tavimus palpavimus diligenterque examinavimus et inspeximus et per
notarios publicos infrascriptos publice perlegi fecimus Et quia post dili-
gentem auscultacionem inspectionem et examinacionem huiusmodi cartarum
in pergameno scriptarum sigillo communi dicti monasterii et subscriptioni-
bus dicti abbatis et conventus roboratarum et subscriptarum ut premissum
est eas fore sanas et integras non viciatas non cancellatas non abrasas non
abolitas nec in aliqua sui parte suspectas set omni prorsus vicio et suspicione
carentes comperimus ipsasque ad prefati procuratoris instanciam et requisi-
cionem per subscriptos notarios publicos transsumi copiari exemplari et in
publica transsumpti formam redigi ad futuram rei memoriam mandavimus et
jussimus pariter et decernimus Quarumquidem cartarum tenores sequuntur
de verbo ad verbum Universis, etc. (as in No. 30, except that there is
added at the end this clause: ‘“Sequuntur subscripciones dicti abbatis et
conventus Ego Colinus abbas consentio et ratifico antedictam teste manu
propria Ego Jacobus Kirkpatrik consentio et ratifico antedictam teste
manu propria Ego Mauricius M‘Ewyn consentio et ratifico antedictam
teste manu propria Ego Nicolaus M‘Lewill consentio et ratifico antedictam
teste manu propria Ego Matheus Thomsoun manu propria Ego dompnus
David Chalmer consentio et ratifico antedictam teste manu propria.”) [Then
follows No. 34, the copy of which is made from this transumpt.] Post
que omnia et singula suprascripta nos David Cunynghame officialis ante-
dictus presens transsumptum siue instrumentum publicum cum artis
originalibus prescriptis diligenter auscultari et collacionari fecimus Et
quia post diligentem auscultacionem examinacionem et collacionem com-
perimus presens transsumptum cum ipsis cartis originalibus prescriptis in
omnibus et per omnia concordare et in nullo discrepare ad instanciam dicti
domini Roberti procuratores dicti Johannis Fergussoun auctoritate ordinaria

——

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 61

qua fungimur in hae parte decrevimus et presencium per tenorem decerni-
mus quod presenti transsumpto sive instrumento publico detur et adhibeatur
plena fides in judicio et extra et ubique locorum necnon talis et tanta qualis
et quanta ipsis literis originalibus prescriptis data sint et adhibita ac daretur
et adhiberetur si in medium in ipsorum originali forma producerentur In
quorum omnium et singulorum fidem et testimonium premissorum presentes
literas seu hoc presens publicum instrumentum sive transsumptum per
notarios publicos subscriptos de mandato nostro desuper publicato subscribi
et publicari sigillique officii nostri jussimus et fecimus appensione communiri
Datum et actum in ecclesia metropolitana Glasguensi antedicta loco sessionis
nostre ad iudicia reddendum solito et consueto duodecimo die mensis
Decembris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo indiccione . . . (sic)
pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Alexandri
divina providencia pape sexti anno . . . (sic) presentibus circumspectis et
discretis viris magistris et dominis Laurencio Wallace Jacobo Neilsoun Wil-
lelmo Blak Johanne Pariss David Brountoun presbyteris et Gilberto Benyng
clerico cum diversis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego Johannes Bigholme presbyter Sanctiandree diocesis, ete.

Et ego Martinus Graham presbyter Glasguensis diocesis, etc.

Et ego Willelmus Kennide artium magister ac presbyter Glasguensis
diocesis, etc.

62 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Decreet of transumpt obtained at the instance of John Fergusson, son
and apparent heir of Duncan Fergusson of Knokgarron, by means of Sir
Robert Ross, archpresbyter of Dunbar, as procurator for the said John, from
David Cunynghame, archdean of Argyll, provost of the collegiate church
of Hamilton, and official-general of Glasgow, of two charters (Nos. 30 and
34, ante), with all the usual formalities. Done in the metropolitan church
of Glasgow, in the place where the said David usually sat to deliver judg-
ment, on 12th November 1500.

37. Precept by David Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John Fergusson in
the land of Altichapel._{2d November 1501. ]*

David permissione divina abbas monasterii de Corsraguell et conventus
eiusdem dilectis nostris Dugallo M‘Crynnyll Duncano Kennedy Gilbert
M‘Cormyll et Johanni Cauldwell ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter
deputatis salutem Quia dedimus et concessimus hereditarie dilecto et fideli
nostro Johanni Fergusson totam et integram dimediam mercatam terrarum
antiqui extentus de Alticapyll Quequidem terre fuerunt de terris Dugalli
M‘Cuben cum pertinenciis jacentem in parochia de Daly in comitatu de
Carryk infra vicecomitatum de Are Vobis igitur precepimus et manda-
mus quatenus vos aut unus vestrum visis presentibus sine dilacione dicto
Johanni statum et sasinam hereditariam per tradicionem terre et lapidis ut
moris est super solum dictarum terrarum haberi faciatis secundum tenorem
carte nostre dicto Johanni et heredibus suis inde confecte Quod ad facien-
dum vobis et vestram cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris supra
dictis nostram plenariam per presentes committimus potestatem In cuius
rei testimonium nostrum sigillum commune presentibus est appensum apud
monasterium nostrum de Corsraguell secundo die mensis Novembris anno
Domini millesimo quingentesimo primo coram hiis testibus Jacobo Kennedy

de Row? Roberto Mure et Willelmo Maxwell.

1 Qulzean Muniments, No. 176. to be seen, He married Egidia Blair of that
2 Son of Gilbert Lord Kennedy, and first Ik, whose will is given infra, No. 55,
Laird of Baltersan, the ruins of which are still

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 63

ABSTRACT.

Precept by David Abbot of Crosraguel, addressed to Dugald M‘Crinnyll,
Duncan Kennedy, Gilbert M‘Cormyll, and John Caldwell, his bailies in
that part, for infefting John Fergusson in all and whole the half merk land
of old extent of Alticapel, in the parish of Dailly and earldom of Carrick,
and which was part of the lands of Dugald M‘Cubin. Dated at Crosrag-
uel 2d November 1501. Witnesses: James Kennedy of Row, Robert
Mure, and William Maxwell.

38. Decree by the Lords of Council in an action by Abbot David against
John Hamilton.—{12th March 1505. ]*

In the action and caus persewit be ane venerabill fadir in God David
Abbot of Corsragwell and the convent of the sammyn aganis Johne
Hammiltoun for the wrangwis occupiing of foure dwelling-houssis ane
smyddy ane orchard and ane yarde with the pertinentis liand at the
abbay yete of Corsragwell, like as at mair lentht is contenit in the sum-
mondis thairupon. Thairupon the said venerabill fadir and Johne
Hammyltoun being personaly present for themeself and als the said
venerabill fadir as procuratour for his said convent thair rychts ressounes, etc.
The Lordis of Counsale decretis and deliveris that the assedatioun maid to
the said Johne of the forsaid hous smedy orchart and yarde be ressoun of
the quhilk he claimis to brouke and occupy the sammyn is and sall be of
nane avale in tyme tocum becaus the said hous smedy orchard and yarde
ar within the yettis and umgang and wallis? of the said abbay and als
becaus the said assedatioun was maid to the said Johne for all the dais of
his live without solempnite of the law requirit thairto And thairfoir with
consent of the said venerabill fadir ordanes him to remane still in the said
hous smedy orchard and yarde on to the nixt terme of Witsonday, and
thaireftir to remufe thairfra at the will of the said venerabill fadir, and
ordanis our soverane Lordis lettrez to be direct thairupon in dew forme as
efferis.

1 Acta Dominorum Concilii, vol. xvi. fol. Kilkerran by the Dean of the Chapels Royal.
206. The wall was standing until the present century,

? The Abbey precincts extend to eight acres, and was pulled down to build a farmhouse in
and are now leased to Sir James Fergusson of — the neighbourhood.

64 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

39. Abbas de Pasleto.—[ 3d September 1509. ]*

Die Lune, 3° Septembris, anno quingentesimo ix®, indictione xij., ponti-
ficatus Julij 24 anno sexto, et regni Jacobi quarti anno xxij. Reveren-
dissimus pater, Jacobus? Glasguensis archiepiscopus, coram presidente et
capitulo ad sonum campane, etc., dixit et declaravit se esse contentum,
Robertum et David, Dei patientia, abbates de Pasileto et Crosraguell, et
suos successores, Cluniacensis ordinis, diocesis Glasguensis, et sua loca et
monasteria, remanere in eadem libertate, et eisdem privilegiis, exemptioni-
bus, immunitatibus gaudere infuturum, sicuti remanserunt et gavisi sunt
tempore archiepiscopi Roberti,* et episcopi Andree, et suorum predecessorum ;
et renunciavit expresse omnibus bullis, impetratis super subsidii caritativi
exactione, visitatione, procuratione, quo ad dictos abbates et loca et suos
successores, cum protestatione quod dicte bulle remaneant illese et salve
et in suo robore quo ad alios: Petiit idem abbas de Pasileto instrumenta :
Acta in loco capitulari, hora decima ante meridiam: testibus, magistris et
dominis Thoma Murhede, Adam Culquhoun, Johanne Gibsoun, Roberto
Fawside, Roberto Clerk, Andrea Marschell, Jacobo Steward, Alexandro
Hamiltoun, Willelmo Steward, rectore de Lochmabane, Thoma M‘Clellan,
Patricio Coventre, et Davide.

ABSTRACT.

Instrument on the declaration by James archbishop of Glasgow, before
the president and chapter, that he was content that Robert and David,
abbots of Paisley and Crosraguel, and their successors of the Cluniac
order, in the diocese of Glasgow, should continue in the same liberty, and
enjoy the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities, in time to come, as
they enjoyed in the time of Archbishop Robert and Bishop Andrew and
their predecessors ; and on his express renunciation of all bulls obtained
respecting the exaction of charitable subsidies, visitation and procuration,
as far as concerned the said abbots and their places and successors ; pro-
testing, however, that the said bulls should remain in full force with refer-
ence to others. Done in the chapter-house 3d September 1509.

1 Diocesan Register of Glasgow, vol. ii. p. 305.
? James Beaton, afterwards Archbishop of St, Andrews and Primate. 3 V. No. 27 supra.

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40. Facultas concessa ab Andrea Archiepiscopo Sanctiandree, legato a
latere, de non visitando Monasterium de Pasleto nec quicquid aliud
eidem subjectum.—[ 5th February 1515. ]*

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunc-
tis pateat evidenter et sit notum, quod anno incarnationis dominice
M°CCCCC°xyv?, mensis vero Februarii die quinto, indictione quarta, ponti-
ficatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Leonis divina
providentia pape decimi anno tertio, in mei notarii publici et testium
subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus reverendissimus in Christo
pater et dominus dominus Andreas? Dei et apostolice sedis gratia archiepis-
copus Sanctiandree, totius regni Scotie primas et apostolice sedis suprascripte
legatus natus cum potestate legati de latere, a sanctissimo domino nostro
papa ejusque sacrosanctor sede apostolica ad Regem et regnum Scotie
nuntius specialiter destinatus, exposuit qualiter [per] prefatum summum
pontificem ad omnia monasteria tam exempta quam non exempta visitanda,
excessusque et enormitates fratrum inibi commorantium castigandos infra
prefatum regnum sibi specialis fuit concessa facultas; et quod vicesimo
quinto Januarii ultimo elapsi, in villa de Leth, venerabilem in Christo
patrem Robertum permissione divina abbatem monasterii de Pasleto, ipsum
monasterium, monachos, eorumque servitores et familiares, ac monasterium
de Corsraguell ab ipso monasterio de Pasleto dependens, et religiosos ibidem
degentes, et ecclesias dictis monasteriis pertinentes et subjectas, de hujus-
modi facultate exonerare promisit et re vera ut asseruit exoneravit; et
coram me notario publico et testibus infrascriptis prefatus reverendissimus
in Christo pater memoratam suam permissionem et exonerationem ratam
habuit, approbavit et confirmavit, et ex sua certa scientia, motu proprio ut
asseruit et ob singularem favorem quem gerit erga prelibatum venerabilem
in Christo patrem et alias quam plurimas gratitudines sibi multiphariam
impensas, ipsum venerabilem in Christo patrem ac monasteria et monachos,
eorumque servitores et familiares et ecclesias de Pasleto et Corsraguel
antedictas, tenore presentis publici instrumenti de prescripta facultate
exoneravit et quiete clamavit; promittens, obligans fide media se firmiter

1 Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 357. 255; Stat. Ecc, Scot. clxxxviii.;' Dr Gordon’s
2 Andrew Forman, 1514-22, An eminent Scotichronicon, i, 245).
scholar and administrator (vy. Lyon’s Hist. i.

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66 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

nullatenus in contrarium devenire, nec dictum monasterium de Corsraguel,
monachos ac familiares et servitores eorundem, ac ecclesias dictis monasteriis
subjectas visitare aut reformare, procurationes aut subsidium ratione visita-
tionis aut quocunque alio modo, titulo vel causa ab illis seu eorum aliquo
per se, commissarios delegatos vel aliam quamvis intermediam personam,
petere vel exigere aut privilegiis sibi concessis quoquomodo in premissis
locis uti, nisi accedente expresso consensu dicti Abbatis. Et quod premissa
expresse renuntiavit omnibus et singulis privilegiis sibi concessis ac si de
verbo in verbum in presenti instrumento inserentur. Super quibus omnibus
et singulis prefatus venerabilis in Christo pater a me notario publico sub-
seripto sibi fieri petiit hoc presens publicum instrumentum. Acta erant
hee in camera hospicii memorati reverendissimi in Christo patris infra
burgum de Edinburgh, ex parte boreali vici regii ejusdem situati, hora circa
quartam post meridiem, sub anno, die, mense, indictione et pontificatu
quibus supra; presentibus ibidem probis et discretis viris, Hugone Moncrefe,
Magistro Johanne et Niniano Douglas, cum universis aliis testibus ad pre-
missa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego magister Johannes Chepman Glasguensis diocesis, publicus apos-
tolica auctoritate notarius, quia premissis omnibus et singulis dum
sic ut premittitur agerentur, dicerentur et fierent, unacum prenomi-
natis testibus, presens et personaliter interfui, eaque omnia et singula
sic fieri vidi et audivi ac in notam sumpsi, ideo hoc presens publicum
instrumentum manu mea propria conscriptum inde confeci, subscripsi
et publicavi, signoque, nomine et subscriptione meis solitis et consuetis
signavi, rogatus et requisitus, in fidem et testimonium veritatis
omnium et singulorum premissorum.

(Signed) M. JoHanNes CHEPMAN.

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument, certifying that on the 5th day of February 1515,
and 3d year of Pope Leo the Tenth, in presence of the notary and witnesses,
personally compeared a most reverend father in Christ and lord Andrew by
the grace of God and of the apostolic see archbishop of St. Andrews, primate
of the whole kingdom of Scotland, and legatus natus of the said apostolic

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see with power of legatus de latere, specially appointed by the most sacred
lord the Pope and his apostolic see to the king and kingdom of Scotland,
and explained that a special faculty had been granted to him by the said
Pope to visit all monasteries as well exempt as not exempt, and to chastise
the excesses and enormities of the friars dwelling therein within the foresaid
kingdom; and that, on the 25th of January last bypast, in the town of
Leith, he promised to exonerate, and in reality exonerated, from the fore-
said faculty Robert, Abbot of the monastery of Paisley, the said monastery,
monks, and their servitors and familiar servants, and the monastery of
Corsraguell depending on the said monastery of Paisley, and the religious
men dwelling there, and the churches pertaining and subject to the said
monasteries; and before the notary and witnesses the said most reverend
father in Christ ratified and confirmed the said permission and exoneration,
und of his certain knowledge, mere motion, and for the singular favour
which he bore towards the foresaid venerable father in Christ, and for many
other good deeds done to him in manifold wise, exonerated and quitclaimed
the said venerable father, monasteries and monks, their servitors and
familiars, and the churches of Paisley and Corsraguel, from the foresaid
faculty by the tenor of the present instrument ; and bound himself by oath
never to come in the contrary hereof, and never to visit or reform the said
monastery of Corsraguel, monks, familiars, and servitors of the same, or
churches subject to the said monasteries, or seek or exact procurations or
subsidy by reason of visitation, or for any other way, title, or cause, from
them or any of them, by himself, commissioners, delegates, or any other
intermediate person, or to use the privileges granted to him in any way in
the premises without obtaining the express consent of the said Abbot.
Done in the chamber of the Lodging of the said most reverend father in
Christ in the burgh of Edinburgh, situated on the north side of the High
Street of the same, in presence of Hugh Moncrefe and other witnesses ; and
certified by Mr, John Chepman, notary public.

68 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

41. Acts relating to the election of William Kennedy to the Abbacy.—
[1520.]*

Premiere liasse.2 Abbayes de Paslet et Cosragus en Ecosse.

Election de Willelme de Kennede, abbé de Corsragnuel en Ecosse, faite
par les réligieux de son Abbaye, en 1520, signée, scellée.

Acte contenant le refus fait par Abbé de Paslet, en qualité de Vicaire
de Cluny, de confirmer 1’élection de Willelme, élu abbé de Corsraguel en
1520, signée.®

42. Charter by Sir James Douglas to the Earl of Cassillis of his house
in Maybole.—{ 20th December 1520. ]*

Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quorum noticias presentes
litere pervenerint seu presens carta pervenerit dominus Jacobus Dowglas
capellanus prebendarius ac stallarius quinte stalle ecclesie collegiate de
Mabole salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis me cum consensu et
assensu honorabilis mulieris Egidie Blaire relicte quondam Jacobi Kennedy
de Row dicte mee capellanie fundatricis pro bono et singulari commodo
utilitateque ecclesie prius visis et pensatis necnon in augmentacionem et
melioracionem fructuum reddituum et firmarum mee capellanie assedasse et
ad feodifirmam dimisisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse necnon per
presentes assedare et ad feodifirmam dimittere et hac presenti carta mea
confirmare nobili et potenti domino Gilberto Comiti de Cassillis domino
Kennedy perpetuoque patrono dicti collegii de Mabole totam et integram
domum meam per prefatam Egidiam Blaire de novo constructam dicte mee
capellanie fundatricem una cum clausura inter pomerium meum et dictam
domum ac spacio ad construendum coquinam et stabulum continente in

1 Inventaire des titres d’ Angleterre et d’ Ecosse :

their hands into those of the House of Cassillis.
(MS. in the Bibliothtque Nationale of Paris).

A few years after this the monks of Paisley were

2 These notes were communicated to me by
M. Bruel, Archéviste Publique in Paris. They are
from the Charters of the Abbey of Cluny, but
the originals are lost.

8 Probably either owing to his youth, or to a
fear of the control of the monastery passing from

gravely scandalised by the appointment of John
Hamilton, then a mere stripling, to their own
abbacy (Reg. de Passelet, and Dr. Lees’ Paisley,
p- 185),

4 Culzean Muniments, No. 246.

5 V. supra, No. 37.

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longitudine . . . ulnas (sic) et in latitudine . . . ulnas (sic)
jacentem in burgo de Mabole inter terras Fergusii Kennedy de Drummellane?!
ex occidentali et terras meas ex orientali partibus ab altera Tenendam et
habendam totam et integram predictam domum clausuram cum spacio ut
supra prefato Gilberto comite de Cassillis suisque heredibus et successoribus
de me et successoribus meis dicte mee capellanie capellanis in feodifirma
et hereditate inperpetuwm Per omnes rectas metas suas prelibatas prout
jacent in longitudine et latitudine cum libero introitu et exitu ac cum
omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus asiamentis et iustis
suis pertinenciis quibuscunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam
subtus terra quam supra terram procul et prope ad dictam domum clausuram
ac spacium cum pertinenciis spectantibus seu juste spectare valentibus
quomodolibet in futurum et adeo libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice
bene et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut ego aut dicta Egidia mea
fundatrix prefatam domum et clausuram tenui seu possedi tenuit seu
possedit Reddendo inde annuatim dictus Gilbertus comes de Cassillis
heredes sui et successores michi et successoribus meis dicte capellanie
quinte stalle stallariis et capellanis unum annuum redditum sex mercarum
usualis monete regni Scocie ad duos anni terminos videlicet festa Penthe-
costes et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales porciones nomine feodifirme
exeundum levandum et solvendum de baronia et terris suis de Dunnovir
tantum secundum formam et tenorem carte securitatis dicti comitis michi
et successoribus meis facte pro solucione dicti annualis redditus imper-
petuum pro omni alio onere exactione questione servicio seculari seu
demanda que de dicta domo et clausura cum pertinenciis per quoscunque
iuste exigi poterunt in futurum seu requiri Et ego vero dictus dominus
Jacobus Dowglas et mei successores dicte capellanie capellani totam et
integram predictam domam cum clausura ac suis pertinenciis ut predictum
est contra omnes mortales warantizabimus acquietabimus et presentis carte
tenore inperpetuum defendemus In cuius rei testimonium huic presenti
carte mee sigillum meum unacum appensione sigilli dicte Egidie Blair
prelibate capellanie fundatricis? in signum sui consensus et assensus est
appensum apud Mabole vicesimo die mensis Decembris anno Domini

1 Drummellane House stood till this century 2 Two more stalls must thus have been added
near Barclanochan or the modern Kilkerran, — since the original charter of foundation in 1371
on the Girvan. These lands of Fergus Kennedy (v. supra, No. 21).
were situated east of Maybole.

70 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo coram hiis testibus magistro Waltero
Kennedy rectore de Dowglas Thoma Corry de Kelwod magistro Wcehtredo
Adunnyll de Dalhowane et domino Georgio Blaire capellano ac notario

publico cum diversis aliis, ete.
(Signed) § Dis Jacopus Doweatas,

manu propria capno quite stalle.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Sir James Douglas, chaplain prebendary and staller of the
fifth stall of the collegiate church of Maybole, with consent and assent of
an honourable woman Egidia Blair, relict of James Kennedy of Row,
foundress of the said chaplaincy, whereby, for the singular advantage and
utility of the church first seen and considered, and for augmentation and
improvement of the fruits, rents, and fermes of the said chaplainey, he sets
at feu-ferme to a noble and potent lord Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, Lord
Kennedy, and perpetual patron of the said college of Maybole, all and
whole his house, newly constructed by the aforesaid Egidia Blair, foundress
of his chaplaincy, together with the close between his orchard and the said
house, and space for building a kitchen and stable, containing in length

ells, and in breadth . . . ells, lying in the burgh of Maybole,
between the lands of Fergus Kennedy of Drumnellan on the west and the
granter’s lands on the east: To be held by the said Gilbert Earl of

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Cassillis and his heirs and successors, of the granter and his successors,
chaplains of the said chaplaincy, in feu-ferme and heritage for ever:
rendering therefor yearly to the said chaplain and his successors, stallers
of the fifth stall and chaplains, an annualrent of six merks Scots, at the ©
two terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas in winter by equal portions,
to be paid in name of feu-ferme out of the earl’s lands and barony of
Dunure only, according to the tenor of the charter granted to the said
Sir James by the said earl in security of the said annualrent. Dated
and sealed with the granter’s seal, and that of the said Kgidia Blair in
token of her consent and assent, at Maybole 20th December 1520; the
witnesses being Mr. Walter Kennedy, rector of Douglas ;' Thomas Corry
of Kelwod,? Mr. Uchtred Adunnyle of Dalhowane, and Sir George Blair,
chaplain and notary.

43. Precept by Abbot William for infefting Neil Fergusson in the lands
of Knockgarron and Altichapel.—{ 14th February 1523-4. ]®

Willelmus permissione divina abbas monasterii de Corsraguel et
conventus eiusdem dilectis nostris Allano M°Ylveine de Grumet Hugoni
Fergusone Colino Fergusone ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter con-
stitutis salutem. Quia dedimus concessimus ac hereditarie ad feodifirmam
dimisimus dilecto nostro Nigello Fergusone totas et integras tres libratas
terrarum de Knokgarrane et Alticapell antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis
jacentes in parochia de Daly comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de
Are Quequidem terre cum pertinenciis prius fuerunt Duncani Fergusone
filii et heredis quondam Johannis Fergusone de Knokgarrane hereditarie
et quas idem Duncanus non vi aut metu ductus nec errore lapsus seu dolo
circumventus sed sua mera pura libera et spontanea voluntate a se et
heredibus suis per fustem et baculum ut moris est apud dictum monasterium
nostrum coram notario publico et fide dignis testibus reverencia et honore

1 Son of Walter, rector of Douglas in Clydes- Atlas). They held the lands and castle of
dale, and himself Laird of Glentig, rector of the Thomaston in Carrick till 1648, and took an

University of Glasgow in 1523, and provost of
the Collegiate Church of Maybole (Culzean
Muniments, and v. Paterson, ii. 324-5).

2 The house of Kelwoodsyde, whence the
Corrys came to Ayrshire about 1500, was on
the borders of Nithsdale and Annandale (Bleau’s

active part in the feuds in this district in the
sixteenth century (Paterson, ii, 293, 352, His-
torte of the Kennedyis, pp. 86, 146, etc. ; Dum-
fries Retowrs, No. 151).

3 Culzean Muniments, No. 272.

72 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

quibus decuit in manibus nostris tanquam in manibus domini sui superioris
earundem sursum reddidit pureque et simpliciter resignavit imperpetuum
in favorem dicti Nigelli Fergusone prout in carta nostra sibi desuper con-
ficienda plenius continebitur Vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim
et divisim precipimus et mandamus quatenus visis presentibus statum
hereditarium et sasinam necnon realem actualem et corporalem possessionem
omnium et singularum prefatarum trium libratarum terrarum de Knok-
garrane et Alticapell antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis prefato Nigello
Fergusone et heredibus suis hereditarie vel suo certo actornato latori pre-
sentium secundum tenorem carte nostre sibi inde conficiende juste deliber-
etis et habere faciatis sine dilatione Reservato tamen libero tenemento
viginti solidatarum terrarum de Knokgarrane ac viginti sex solidatarum
et octo denariatarum terrarum de Alticapell antiqui extentus cum perti-
nenciis Agneti Kennedy relicte quondam Johannis Fergusone pro toto
tempore vite sue tantum Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet
coniunctim et divisim nostram liberam plenariam ac irrevocabilem potestatem
pariter et facultatem committimus per presentes In cuius rei testimonium
sigillum nostrum commune presentibus est appensum. Apud dictum
nostrum monasterium de Corsraguel decimo quarto die mensis Februarii
anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo tertio coram hiis testibus
Thoma Kennedy de Doneyne David Kennedy Thoma Muligane et domino
Duncano M‘Krenele capellano cum diversis aliis.

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ABSTRACT.

Precept by William Abbot of Crossragwell, addressed to Allan M‘Ylvaine
of Grumet, Hugh Fergusson, and Colin Fergusson, bailies in that part, for
infefting Niel Fergusson in all and whole the three pound lands of old
extent of Knokgarran and Alticapel, in the parish of Dailly, earldom of
Carrick and shire of Ayr ; which lands belonged before to Duncan Fergusson,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 73

son and heir of the deceased John Fergusson of Knokgarran, and were
resigned by him by staff and baton in the hands of the said abbot, as lord
superior, in favour of the said Niel, as should be more amply contained in
the charters to be made to him thereupon: Reserving, however, to Agnes
Kennedy, relict of John Fergusson, her liferent of the 20/ lands of Knok-
garran, and the 26/8d. lands of Alticapel. Given under the common seal
of the Monastery on 14th February 1523-4.

44, Instrument of Sasine proceeding on the aforesaid Precept.—
[21st February 1523-4. |?

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat evidenter quod anno incarnacionis dominice millesimo quingentesimo
vicesimo tercio mensis vero Februarii die xxj° indictione duodecima pontifi-
catusque sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri divina providencia
pape moderni anno primo In mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum
presenciis personaliter constitutus discretus vir Allanus M‘Ylveine? filius et
heres apparens Gilberti M‘Ylveine de Grumet ballivus in hac parte venerabilis
in Christo patris Willelmi permissione divina abbatis de Corsraguel et
conventus eiusdem preceptum sasine pergamino scriptum sigilloque com-
muni dicti monasterii de Corsraguel cera rubea albe impressa pendente
sigillatum quod manibus suis tenuit michi notario publico coram testibus
infra positis tradidit perlegenda exemplandum et in hance publicam formam
instrumentalem redigendum/ quodquidem preceptum ad manus recepi et
illud alta et intelligibili voce perlegi Cuius precepti tenor de verbo in
verbum sequitur sub hac forma (same as No. 43, word for word). Post
cuius precepti receptationem et perlectionem sic per me notarium publicum
subscriptum ut premittitur factas prefatus Allanus M‘Ylveine ballivus in
hac parte antedictus accessit ad predictas tres libratas terrarum de
Knokgarrane et Alticapell antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis in preinserto
precepto expresse nominatas et ibidem super solum earundem statum
hereditarium et sasinam ac realem actualem et corporalem possessionem
omnium et singularum viginti solidatorum terrarum de Knokgarrane et
quadraginta solidatarum terrarum de Alticapell antiqui extentus cum

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 273. family subsequently acquired the lands of

* He had a charter of the lands of Grumet Thomaston (Reg. Mag. Sigilli; Ing. Retorn. Abb.,
and Attiquin from James V. in 1529. The 1669 ; Paterson’s Ayrshire, ii. p. 355).

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74 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

pertinenciis predicto Nigello Fergusone secundum formam et tenorem
precepti prius inserti ac carte desuper conficiende per terre et lapidis tra-
dicionem ut moris est hereditarie dedit et donavit imperpetuum Super
quibus omnibus et singulis prefatus Nigellus a me notario publico subscripto
sibi fieri peciit publicum et publica instrumentum et instrumenta unum seu
plura Acta erant hee super solum dictarum terrarum apud mansiones
principales earundem hora quasi novena ante meridiem vel ea circa sub
anno die mense indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem
circumspectis viris Thoma Kennedy Willelmo M‘Rore Fergusio M‘Calloune
et Gilberto Eglissame testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter ac cum
instancia debita rogatis et requisitis.

Et ego vero Willelmus Ros presbyter Glasguensis diocesis sacraque
auctoritate apostolica notarius (etc., in communi forma).

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument of Sasine proceeding on precept addressed by
William Abbot of Crosraguel to Allan M‘Ylveine of Grumet, Hugh Fer-
gusson and Colin Fergusson, as his bailies in that part, for infefting Niel
Fergusson in all and whole the three pound lands of Knockgarrane and
Alticapell of old extent, m the parish of Dailly earldom of Carrick and
shire of Ayr, which belonged before to Duncan Fergusson, son of the
deceased John Fergusson of Knockgarren, heritably, and were freely resigned
by him by staff and baton in the hands of the said abbot as lord superior
thereof, at the Monastery of Crosraguel, in favour of the said Niel
Fergusson: Reserving, however, to Agnes Kennedy, relict of the said John
Fergusson, her liferent of twenty shillings of the lands of Knockgarron, and
twenty-six shillings and eightpence of the lands of Alticapel. The precept
is dated at the said monastery on 14th February 1523, before these wit-
nesses, viz., Thomas Kennedy of Donneyne, David Kennedy, Thomas
Muligane, and Sir Duncan M‘Krenele, chaplain; sasine is given on the 21st
of the same month, in presence of Thomas Kennedy, William M‘Rore,

Fergus M‘Calloun, and Gilbert Eglishame, witnesses. The notary is
William Ros.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 75

45. Surrender by Duncan, and Investiture of Niel, Fergusson of the
Lands of Knokgarron, etc., by William Abbot of Crosraguel._l 7th
July 1523]*

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoe publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
evidenter et sit notum quod anno Incarnacionis dominice millesimo quin-
gentesimo vigesimo tercio mensis vero Julij die septimo indictione undecima
pontificatusque sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini domini Adriani
divina providencia pape sexti anno secundo In mei notarii publici et
testium subscriptorum presenciis personaliter constitutus Duncanus Fergus-
son filius et heres quondam Johannis Fergusson de Knokgarren Quiquidem
Duncanus non vi aut metu ductus nec errore sed sua propria et spontanea
voluntate utilitateque sua undeque previsa et pensata ut asseruit comparuit
coram venerabili in Christo patre et domino Wilelmo abbate de Corsragwell
et eiusdem loci conventus in loco capitulari dicti monasterii et ibidem
genibus flexis reverencia qua decuit omnes et singulas viginti solidatas
terrarum de Knokgarren et alias viginti solidatas terrarum de Altycapyll
antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis earundem jacentes in parochia de Daly in
comitatu de Carryk et infra vicecomitatum de Ayr pure et simpliciter per
fustem et baculum in manibus dictorum [abbatis] et conventus tanquam in
manibus dominorum superiorum earundem terrarum a se et heredibus suis
inperpetuum in favorem Nigelli Fergussone sui patrui et heredum suorum
resignavit et sursum reddidit ac totum jus et juris clameum proprietatem
et possessionem que et quas ipse Duncanus in seu ad dictas terras cum
pertinenciis earundem habuit habet aut quovismodo habere poterit omnino
quieteclamavit inperpetuum Qua resignacione sic rite et legitime facta
per dictum Duncanum et per prefatum abbatem et conventum recepta
prefatus Wilelmus abbas cum consensu dicti sui conventus omnes et singulas
prefatas terras cum pertinenciis earundem predicto Nigello Fergusson et
heredibus suis per tradicionem et deliberacionem huiusmodi fustis et baculi
ut moris est in talibus fieri consuetum dedit tradidit pariter et deliberavit
adeo libere et quiete in omnibus et per omnia sicut ipse Duncanus aut
predecessores sui prenominatas terras de Knokgarren et Altycapyll cum
pertinenciis de dictis dominis abbate et conventu aut predecessoribus suis
ante presentem resignacionem in manibus suas factam liberius tenuit seu

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 268.

76 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

possedit tenuerunt seu possederunt ac secundum tenorem carte per dictum
abbatem et conventum dicte Nigello desuper conficiende Super quibus
omnibus et singulis dictus Nigellus Fergusson a me notarii publico sub-
scripto sibi fieri peciit unum seu plura instrumentum seu instrumenta
publicum seu publica Acta erant hee in Capitulo monasterii de Corsragwell
sub anno die mensis indictione et pontificatu quibus supra hora quasi sexta
pomeridiana presentibus ibidem nobili et potenti domino Gilberto Comite
de Cassillis Thoma Corry de Kelwod Allano M‘Ylweyne Thoma Campbell
Colino Fergusson et Magistro Johanne Kennedy vicario de Terreglys cum
diversis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego vero Jacobus Kennedy presbyter Glasguensis diocesis publicus
sacra auctoritate apostolica notarius (etc., in communi forma).

ABSTRACT.

Notarial instrument, narrating that Duncan Fergusson, son and heir of
the deceased John Fergusson of Knokgarron, personally appeared in presence
of the venerable William Abbot of Crosraguel and the convent thereof, in
the chapter-house of the said monastery, and there, on his bended knees,
with becoming reverence, purely and simply resigned and surrendered, by
staff and baton in the hands of the said abbot and convent, as in the hands of
the lords superiors thereof, all and sundry the twenty shilling lands of
Knokgarron, and other twenty shilling lands of Altycapel, of old extent, in
the parish of Dailly and earldom of Carrick and within the shire of Ayr,
and all right, claim, and property which he had or might have therein, in
favour of Niel Fergusson, his paternal uncle, and his heirs: which resigna-
tion having been thus duly and lawfully made, and by the said abbot
and convent received, the abbot, with consent of the convent, gave and
delivered the aforesaid lands to the said Niel Fergusson, by delivery to him
of the said staff and baton, according to the custom in such cases, that he
should hold and possess the same as freely as they were held before the
said resignation, and according to the charter to be made to him thereof
by the said abbot and convent: Done in the said chapter-house of Cros-
raguel, about six o'clock afternoon of the day aforesaid, before these
witnesses, Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, Thomas Corry of Kelwod, Allan
M‘Ilwayne, Thomas Campbell, Colin Fergusson, and Mr. John Kennedy,
vicar of Terregles, and many others.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 77

46. Rental of Paisley Abbey.—[ 1525. ]*

Rentale reverendi patris domini Johannis Hammiltoun commendatarii
monasterii de Pasleto et abbatis futuri ejusdem, ac assedaciones omnium
terrarum dicto monasterio spectantium et pertinentium, factum in mensi-
bus Octobris et Novembris Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo
quinto, scriptum manu religiosi viri domini Alexandri Walcar prioris tunc
claustralis prefati monasterii necnon dicti domini commendatarii administra-
tori deputati.

Kyll:
Adamtoun : : : xls.
Corsbe : : : viijs. lijd.
Auchynlek ; : : XX8.
Corsraguell =. : ; vj lib. xiijs. 1ijd.

47. Resignation by Niel Fergusson of Altichapel and Knockgarron into
the hands of William Abbot of Crosraguel._l 6th February 1526. |?

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat euidenter quod anno incarnacionis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo
vicesimo sexto die vero mensis Februarii vicesimo quinto indictione decima
quinta pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris ac domini nostri domini
Clementis diuina prouidencia pape septimi anno quarto In mei notarii pub-
lici et testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus prouidus vir
Nigellus Fergussoun de Knockgarrane non vi aut metu ductus nec errore
lapsus seu dolo aut aliqua alia sinistra machinacione circumuentus sed sua
mera libera et spontanea voluntate vtilitateque sua prius visa et pensata ac
pro certa summa pecunie ut asseruit sibi deliberata et aliis bene meritis sibi
traditis ac tradendis per venerabilem in Christo patrem Willelmum permis-
sione diuina abbatem monasterii de Corsragwell a se et heredibus suis per
fustem et baculum ut moris est sursum reddidit pureque ac simpliciter in-
perpetuum resignauit omnes et singulas tres libratas terrarum suarum de
Knocgarrane et Alticappill vocatas Makcubenstoun antiqui extentus cum per-

1 ©Rental of Paisley Abbey..—MSS. Advocates’ Lib.
2 Culzean Muniments, No, 280.

78 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

tinenciis iacentes in comitatu de Carryk et infra vicecomitatum de Air in
manibus dicti venerabilis patris Willelmi permissione diuina abbatis mon-
asterii de Corsragwell domini sui superioris earundem secum ac cum suis
assignatis pro perpetuo remansuras Ita quod dicta resignacione per pre-
fatum Nigellum sic ut premittitur facta ipse Nigellus heredes sui et assignati
aliquod ius clameum proprietatem vel possessionem in et ad predictas terras
cum pertinenciis quas habet habent seu habere poterunt in futurum omnino
quieteclamavit inperpetuum sed quod ipse Nigellus et heredes sui sint ab
eisdem penitus expulsi et seclusi fraude et dolo semoti Super quibus
omnibus et singulis peciit dictus venerabilis pater Willelmus abbas mon-
asterii de Corsragwell a me notario publico subscripto vnum aut plura sibi
fieri instrumentum seu instrumenta Acta erant hec infra monasterium de
Corsragwell hora quasi octaua post meridiem vel eo circa sub anno mense
die indictione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem prouidis et
discretis viris, viz., domino Johanne Kennedy prebendario de Mabole Dun-
cano Forgussoun et Arthuro Gilhespye testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter
et rogatis.

Et ego vero Georgius Blair presbiter Glasguensis diocesis publicus Im-
periali ac Regali auctoritatibus notarius quia premissis omnibus et
singulis dum sic ut premittitur dicerentur agerentur et fierent
vnacum prenominatis testibus presens interfui eaque omnia et singula
sic fieri sciui vidi et audiui ac in notam cepi ideoque hoc presens
publicum instrumentum manu mea propria fideliter scriptum hic me
subscribente exinde confeci et in hanc formam publicam redegi signo-
que et nomine meis solitis et consuctis signaui vnacum appensione
sigilli prefati Nigelli Forgussoun rogatus et requisitus in fidem et
testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum.

GroreGius Buarr, ete.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 79

ABSTRACT.

Instrument of resignation ad remanentiam by Nigel Fergusson of
Knockgarrane in the hands of William, Abbot of the monastery of Crosrag-
uel, of his three pound lands of Knockgarrane and Alticappill, called
Makeubenstoun, of old extent, with the pertinents, lying in the earldom of
Carrick and shire of Ayr, as in the hands of his superior, to remain with
him and his assignees for ever, the abbot having paid a certain sum of
money to the said Nigel for the same. Done in the monastery of Crosrag-
uel, 25th February 1526, in presence of Sir John Kennedy, prebendary of
Maybole, Duncan Fergusson and Arthur Gilhespye.

48. Procuratory by Niel Fergusson, appointing William Abbot of
Crosraguel his Procurator in his action.—_{17th May 1527.]*

Vniuersis pateat per presentes me Nygellum Forgussone in Carskolte fecisse
constituisse et ordinasse nec non per presentes facere constituere et ordinare
nobiles viros, viz., venerabilem patrem Villelmum permissione diuina abbatem
de Crosraguell ac commendatarium perpetuum monasterii Sacri Nemoris?
Thomam Corre de Keldwod et Thomam Corre juniorem eius apparentem
heredem, magistros Jacobum Fowlis Johannem Leithane et dominum
Johannem Kennide de Mayboill prebendarium meos veros legittimos et in-
dubitatos procuratores actores factores et negociorum meorum gestores ac
nuncios speciales et generales Ita tamen quod generalitas specialitati non
deroget nec eque sic quod non sit melior condicio ocupantium sed quod vnus
eorum inceperit alter eorum et prosequi valeat mediare et fine debito termi-
nare et eorum quilibet in solidum ete. Dando et concedendo dictis meis pro-
curatoribus coniunctim et diuisim meam veram legittimam et indubitatam
potestatem ad comparendum pro me et nomine meo coram dominis consilii
in pretorio de Edynbroch uel vbi contingit eos pro tempore indicialiter
sedere vigesimo primo die mensis Maii anno Domini j™° v° vigesimo

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 281. (MS. Rental Book; for further particulars see
2 The Premonstratensian monastery of Holy- Chalmers’ Caledonia, iii. 153; Dugdale’s Monas-
wood, called in Papal Bulls Dercongal, was 4 ticon, ii. 1057). Thomas Campbell was com-

miles from Dumfries, founded by Edward Bruce, mendator in 1560-8; but William Abbot of

lord of Galloway. Its value in 1544.was £700, Crosraguel has not been hitherto known as
and was given in at the Reformation at £425 holding the office.

80 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

septimo cum continuatione dierum ad agendum defendendum et respon-
dendum in causa seu causis moto seu mouenda motis seu mouendis inter
me et quascunque personas alias et specialiter inter me et Duncanum
Fergussone! quondam dominum de Knocgarrane Et generaliter omnia alia
et singula faciendum gerendum et exercendum que ad officium procuratoris
seu procuratorum rite pertinere dinoscitur Ratum et gratum habentem et
habiturum totum et quicquid dicti mei procuratores seu vnum eorum
coniunctim et diuisim duxerit exequendum sub ypoteca et obligatione
omnium bonorum meorum presencium et futurorum. In cuius rei testi-
monium quia sigillum meum proprium non erat pro tempore presens sigillum
honorabilis viri Jacobi Kennide fratris germani nobilis et potentis domini
Gilberti comitis de Cassillis per me procuratum presenti procuratorio affixi
apud Crosraguell decimo septimo die Maii anno Domini jm° v° vigesimo
septimo etc., coram hiis testibus Dauid Kennide Georgio Barklay Thoma
Millikyn et magistro Georgio Kennide notario publico cum diuersis, ete.

ABSTRACT.

Procuratory by Nigel Fergusson in Carskolte, whereby he appoints
William Abbot of Crosraguel and perpetual commendator of the monastery
of Holywood, Thomas Corry of Kellwod, Thomas Corry younger his ap-
parent heir, masters James Fowlis, John Leithane, and Sir John Kennedy,
prebendary of Maybole, his procurators, to compear before the Lords of
Council in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, or wherever they should be judicially
sitting for the time, on the 21st of May 1527, and defend the said Nigel
Fergusson in the cause between him and Duncan Fergusson, sometime laird
of Knockgarron. Sealed with the seal of James Kennedy, brother of Gilbert
Earl of Cassillis, because the said Nigel had not his own seal present at the
time, at Crosraguel 17th May 1527. ;

49. Contract between the Earl of Cassillis and William Abbot of Cros-
raguel, as Tutor, and James Kennedy of Blairquhan.—[28th May
1528.]?

At Blarquhan It is appounctit concordit faythfully compromittit and
finaly endit betuix honourable personis that is to say ane venerable fader

1 Duncan probably disapproved of the resignation mentioned in the preceding number.
2 Culzean Muniments, No. 288.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 81

in God William be the permissioun of the samyn Abbot of Corsragwell and
tutour to ane noble Lord Gilbert Erle of Cassillis! his brother’s sone for him-
self and the said Erle of Cassillis on the tapairt and James Kennedy of
Blarquhan on the toder pairt in maner forme and effect as efter followis
that is to say that the saidis Gilbert Erle of Cassilis with consent and assent
of the said venerable fader his tutour sall mak the said James their assignay
to the redemptioun and outguytyng of the xls. land of Cragincroyag of auld
extent with the pertinentis liand within the barony of Dunnovir the erldome
of Carryk and the scherefdome of Air that Quintyne Schaw tutour of the
Keris? hes be charter and sasing in the sikkerest wis men of law can deuis
and sall deliuer to him the reuersioun maid be Quintyne Schaw to vmquhile
Gilbert Erle of Cassillis our derest brother quham God assolze And incon-
tinent eftir the redemptioun and outquiting of the said landis be the said
James the said Gilbert Erle of Cassillis with consent of the said venerable
fadir his tutour sall infeft the said James and his air in the said xls. land of
Craigincroyag sua that na vthir be in the sasing thairof of befoir And
falzeing of the said xls. land of Craigincroyag thai sall infeft the said James
and his airis in vthir xls. land of the landis of Dunnovir of auld extent with
thair pertinentis in fre blanch ferme of the quhilkis na vthir hes sasing the
said James geifand to the said Erle of Cassillis and his airis ane reuersioun
vpoun the sovm contenit in the said Quintyne Schawis reuersioun and eftir
the tennour and forme of the samyn for the redemptioun of the said landis
agane fra the said James And for thair landis the said James sall haif the
twa merk land and a half of Barbeth of auld extent with thair pertinentis
that the said Quintyne Schaw hes the day of the makin of thir presentis for
the said lands of Craigincroyag and sua lang as the said James browkis the
said twa merkland and a half of Barbeth and takkis vp the malis and
proffettis thairof he sall nocht intromet with the said xls. land of Craigin-
croyag nor zit with ony vthir land that he happinnis to get sasing of ony

maner of way Alsua it is appounctit

1 Third Earl of Cassillis, born 1515, and on
the death of his father in 1527 placed under the
tutorship of Abbot William his uncle until
1538. He was a pupil of George Buchanan.
At the battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he was
taken prisoner, but returned to Scotland in 1545
loaded with presents (see No. 60, infra). He
was sent by Parliament to attend Queen Mary’s
marriage with the Dauphin in 1558, and died

VOL. I.

that becaus that the said venerable

under suspicion of poison in November of that
year (v. Tytler’s History, and Paterson’s Ayrshire,
ii. 331).

2 Keirs Castle stood on the Doon in Straiton
parish. Their family burying-ground is still to
be seen at Straiton Church (see Paterson, ii. 480 ;
and Pitcairn’s Historie of the Kennedyis, pp. 192-
196).

82 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

fadir hes set to the said James the said twa merkland and a half of
Barbetht and to be enterit thairto at this nixt Witsonday he sall warrand
the said venerable fadir and Erle of Cassillis at the said Quintyne Schawis
handis of the malis proffetis and dewiteis of the said landis of Cragincroyag
thai makand him powar in all gudly haist that he may redeme the samyn
fra the said Quintyne Alsua it is appounctit that quhat tyme or how
soyne the said venerable fadir or the said Gilbert Erle of Cassillis happinnis
or beis reddy to redeyme and lows the said xls. land of Cragincroyag or ony
vthir land within the said barony of Dunnovir that the said James gettis in
wadset for his money that he and his airis sall thankfully ressaif thair awin
money agane and with hartlie will and kyndnes geif our the said landis of
Dunnovir and the said twa merkland and a half of Barbetht with thair
pertinentis sua that the saidis venerable fadir and Erle of Cassillis may dis-
poyne thairupoun to quhat persone or personis thai pleis best or thinkis
maist expedient And that this contract and appounctment be actit in the
officialis bukis of Glasgw for the fulfilling and keping of the samyn renun-
ciand all preuilege of law and jurisdictioun in that cais submittand thame
to the jurisdictioun of Glasew and to be monist vnder the panis of cursing
and that all thir condicionis be obseruit and kepit athir of the saidis parteis
has gevin thair bodely athis the haly euangell tuichit And for the mair
sikkernes hes selit and subscryuit the samyn with thair handis the -xxviij
day of the moneth of Maij the zeir of God j™ v? twenty and aucht zeiris
befoir thir witnes James Kennedy* brother germane to the said venerable
fadir Dauid Kennedy of Pennyglen Maister James Kennedy vicar of Mabole
James M‘Ke Thomas Mwlykyne George Barklay and Sir George Blair
chaplane and public notar with wthir diuers, etc. And atour it is appunctit
that the said James Kennedy sall nocht aggre with the said Quintyne
Schaw ony maner of way without consent of the said venerable fadir nor
zit the said venerable fadir sall nocht aggre with the said Quintyne without
consent of the said James in lykwys.

WAS (Riep £3

1 Of Brunston.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 83

ABSTRACT.

Contract between Gilbert Earl of Cassillis and William Abbot of Cros-
raguel, his uncle and tutor, and James Kennedy of Blairquhan, bearing
that the earl and the abbot his tutor shall make the said James Kennedy
their assignee in and to a letter of reversion of the forty shilling land of
Craigencroag, lying in the barony of Dunure, granted by Quintin Shaw,
tutor of Kerris, to umquhile Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, with power to the said
James Kennedy to redeem the said lands of Craigincroag from the said
Quintin Shaw, and in the event of his having done so the earl and abbot
oblige them to infeft him and his heirs in the said lands of Craigincroag,
and failing thereof in a forty shilling land of the lands of Dunure, he
granting to the earl a letter of reversion for the like sum as contained in
that granted by Quintin Shaw, and in the same terms, etc. 28th May
1528.

50. Contract between William Abbot of Crosraguel and Mr. James Ken-
nedy, Chamberlain to the Earl of Cassillis.—{ 29th January 1528. ]+

At Edinburgh the tuenty nyne day of Januar the zeir of God ane
thousand five hundreth and tuenty aucht zeris It is appoynted and aggreit
betuix ane venerabill fader in God Williame Abbote of Corsraguell tutour to
ane nobill and mychty Lord Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis Lord Kennedy, ete.
and Maister James Kennedy chalmerlane to the said erll on that ane part
and ane nobill Lady Dame Issabell Campbell? the relict of vmquhill Gilbert
Erll of Cassillis on the vthir part in maner forme and effect as efter followis
that is to say fforsamekle as the said Dame Issabell is superexpendit in her
compt makin to the said venerabill fader as tutour foirsaid and) the said
chalmerlane of all soumes of money vittalis and vthir gudis intromettit with
be hir sen the deces* of the said vmquhill Gilbert Erll of Cassillis hir spous
that pertenit or suld pertene to the said Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis to the
day of the dait hereof efter the forme and tenour of ane contract maid
betuix the saidis parteis thairupon and actit in the officialis bukis of

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 289. Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr, at the “ Pou” of Prest-
2 Second daughter of Archibald Earl of wick in 1527 (Original Records of the Court of
Argyle (Wood’s Peerage). Justiciary MSS.; Historie of the Kennedyis, p.

8 He was killed by Hugh Campbell of 84; Paterson, ii, 330).

84 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Loutheane! extending to the soum of thre hundreth pundis vsuale money of
Scotland Thairfoir the said venerabill fader as tutour foirsaid for the weill
and proffet of the said Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis with consent and assent
of the said Maister James chalmerlane foirsaid havand consideratioun of the
said superexpens gevis and assignis to the said Dame Issobell be the tenour
herof and to hir executouris the haill half of the fruitis of the personage of
the Kirk of Maiboill? lyand in Carrik pertening to the said Gilbert now Erll
of Cassillis be ressoun of assedacioun of this instant zeir of God ane thousand
five hundreth and twenty aucht zeiris and of the zeir nixt herefter following
videlicet the tuenty nyne zeir of God in compensacioun of the said soum of
thre hundreth pundis in the quhilk the said Dame Issabell is superexpendit
as said is And in cace the said twa zeris frutis abonewrittin extendis
nocht to the said soum of thre hundreth pundis as said is the said Dame
Issabell and her executouris allowand and ressavand ilk boll of the vittale
thairof this zeir and the said nixt zeir to thretteine schillingis and four
penneis than and in that cace the said venerabill fader in God as tutour
foirsaid and Maister James or ony vthir chalmerlane that salbe for the tyme
sall content and pay to hir or thame the rest that salhappin to be mair
restand abone the saidis twa zeris frutis at the compleit end of the said twa
zeris And in cace the saidis frutis of the forsaidis twa zeris extendis to
mair than the said thre hundreth pundis in that cace the said Dame Issabell
or hir executouris sall refound and pay the superexcrescence thairof to the
saidis chalmerlanis at the ische of the saidis twa zeris And attour gif it
happinis the said Dame Issabell hir executouris or thair seruandis and
factouris to be trublit in the peceabill broukin and vplifting of the saidis
twa zeris frutis of the half of the personage of the Kirk of Mayboill
foirsaid be the said venerabill fader his brother thair seruandis and
houshald men or be the saidis chalmerlanis Than and in that cace the said
venerabill fader as tutour foirsaid togidder with the said Maister James
hes gevin and assignit and be the tenour of thir presentes gevis and assignis

1 4,e. The books or records of the Official of
the deanery of Lothian. Many of these are still
preserved in manuscript in the Register House
at Edinburgh, and relate as in the text nearly
altogether to matrimonial cases. This identical
contract cannot however be found among them,
and it is difficult to understand why it should
have been in the Lothian records at all.

2 These revenues were subsequently leased to
Kennedy of Bergany (Paterson, ii. 368). The
churches of Maybole and Kirkbride were granted
by Earl Duncan to the nunnery of North Ber-
wick in 1216, and continued with them till the
Reformation ; while half the “personage” was
annexed to the Sacrista major in the Collegiate
Church of Glasgow (Chalmers, iii. p. 530).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 85

to the said Dame Issabell or her executouris samekle of the reddiest frutis of
quhatsumeuir landis pertening to the said erll extending to samekle as scho
sall happin to want of the said sowm of thre hundreth pundis gevand hir and
thame powar now as than and than as now be thairself thair seruandis and
factouris to intromett thairwith at their awin hand but ony maner of
impediment quhatsumeuir sa son as scho or thai beis trublit in the peceabill
broukin of the foirsaidis twa zeris frutis abone expremit the said truble and
impediment beand first notourlie knawin and sufficientlie previt to be done
be the personis foirsaidis but! fraude or gile And gif it misteris the said
Dame Issabell and her executouris to poynd and distrenze the withhalderis
and intromettouris with the frutis foirsaidis for falt of non payment thairof
in that cace the said venerabill fader sall send his seruandis with
the said Dame Issabellis seruandis or hir executouris to help and supple
thame to poynd and distrenze for the samyn sa aft as mister beis
and he requirit thairto be thame sa far as law will providing allwais
that the said Dame Issabell and hir executouris content and pay
zeirlie during the saidis two zeris twenty aucht merkis money foirsaid
to the said Maister James or vthir chalmerlane for the tyme at the
feist of aduincula Sancti Petri callit Lammes for the maill of the half
of the said frutis of the Kirk of Mayboill to be gevin to the Prioress and
conuent of North Berwik? for the maill of the samyn efter the forme
of the assedatioun maid thairupoun and attour the said venerabill fader as
tutour foirsaid grantis him to haif ressauit compt rakning and payment of
the said Dame Issabell of all maner of insycht guidis soumes of money
vittalis clething siluer-werk and vthir guidis quhatsumeuir intromettit
with be hir sen the deces of the said vmquhile Gilbert Erll of Cassillis hir
spous that may pertene to Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis vnto the day of the
dait herof as is contenit in the inuentar maid betuix the said venerabill
fader and Dame Issabell and the compt buikis thairupoun except ane siluir
basing twa bolis pecis ane salfat of siluer ane coupe with ane couertour and
ten sponis quhilkis the said Dame Issabell oblissis hir to deliuer to the said
venerabill fader at the feist of aduincula Sancti Petri callit Lammes nixt

1 “ Without,” History, p. 282; Reg. de Newbotle, pp. 57-58),

2 The patrons of the church ; vide preceding Its value at the Reformation was £556 in money
note. The Cistercian nunnery of North Ber- (Books of Asswmption). The Prioress at this time
wick was founded in the 12th century byDun- was Isobel Home, daughter of Sir Alexander

can Earl of Fife, and had various possessions all Home of Polwarth (Douglas’ Peerage, p. 445 ;
over Scotland (Dalrymple’s Coll, 268; Keith’s Chalmers, iii. p. 506.)

86 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

tocum And thairfoir the said venerabill fader dischargit hir as tutour foir-
said of the saidis guidis soumes of money vittalis clething siluer werk and
vthiris gudis foirsaidis except befoir excepit be the tenour of this contract
for now and euir and grantis the said contract maid of befoir anent the said
compt makin fulfillit in all poyntis efter the forme of the samyn And
attour the said Dame Issabell havand tak and assedacioun of baith the
personage and vicarage of the Kirk of the Inche and of the personage of
Leswalt in Galloway? to hir and hir assignais for the space and termes of
five zeris nixt followand the feist of Beltane last bipast befoir the dait herof
ffor certane consideracionis moving hir and for lufe and kyndnes that scho
beris to the said Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis hir sone makis and constitutis
the said Gilbert and his airis hir vndouttit cessionaris assignais and pro-
curatouris in hir rycht in and to the last zeir tak of the foirsaid five zeris of
the foirsaidis Kirkis of the Inche and Leswalt and proffettis thairof abone
expremit gressume fre and now as than and than as now makis him and
his airis assignais to the samyn And in cace the said Dame Issabell happin
to mary within the space of the first four zeris contenit in hir said
assedacioun in that cace the said Dame Issabell now as than and than as
now makis and constitutis the said Gilbert hir sone and his airis hir
vndouttit assignais and procuratouris in hir rycht in and to the said tak
and assedacioun for all termes to rin immediatelie followand the completing
of hir said matrimone and spousage the said Gilbert Erll of Cassillis or his
airis payand to the said Dame Issabell samekle of the gressume? efferandly
to the zeris and termes to rin of the said four zeris efter the completing of
the said matrimone as scho payit for the saidis four zeris tak at hir entres
to the samyn and sall find hir sufficient cautioun for payment thairof
within sex monethis efter the completing of the said matrimone failzeing
thairof this assignacioun to be null in the self and of nain availl And in
likwis the said Dame Issabell in cace scho deces within the said four zeris
vomariit as said is makis and constitutis the said Gilbert hir sone and his
airis hir assignais in and to the said tak for all termes to rin efter hir deces
providing alwais that the said Gilbert Erll of Cassillis or his airis content
and pay the said gressume efferandlie to the said four zeris sa far as than
salhappin to rin to quhat persoun scho plesis to leif the samyn to in legacy
And gif the said Dame Issabell hes maid ony takis to quatsumeuir persoun

1 See note on No. 57.
2 In England, a fine for renewal ; usually attached to a five years’ lease (C. Innes).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 87

or personis of the fruitis of the saidis Kirkis befoir the dait herof the said
erll or his airis in cace scho mary or deces as said is sall fulfill the samyn
induring the saidis five zeris the rentell thairof nocht beand mynist to the
said erll and his airis And in cace the saidis assignacionis abone expremit
be nocht sufficient to the effect foirsaidis the said Dame Issobell oblissis hir
to reforme the samyn be avis of men of law sua that it salbe maid sufficient
to the effect foirsaid And sicklike the said venerabill fader and Maister
James oblissis thame to reforme the samyn be aviss of men of law to the
effect foirsaid gif mister beis sa far as concernis thair part thairof And for
the observing keping and fulfilling of the premissis and euir ilk poynt
thairof all the parteis foirsaidis bindis and oblissis thame faithfully to
vtheris obserue keip and fulfill the samyn lelelie and treulie bot fraude or
gile And for the mair securitie thai haif subscriuit this contract with thair
handis day zeir and place foirsaidis befoir thir witnes Sir Johne Campbell
of Cadder Knycht James Kennedy of Blairquhan Alexander M‘Culloch
Patrik Mure Maister George Kennedy and Mungo Eklis with vthiris diuers
(Signed) W. Abbote of Corsraguell, Dame Issabell Campbell countes of
Cassillis wt my hand on ye pen J. Kennepy,

ABSTRACT.

Contract between William, Abbot of Crosraguel, tutor to Gilbert, Earl
of Cassillis, and Mr. James Kennedy, chamberlain to the Earl and Dame
Isobel Campbell, countess of Cassillis, deceased, bearing that the countess
being superexpended in her account with the abbot and chamberlain, for
sums of money, goods, and victual, intromitted with and received by her
since the decease of her husband, and which had belonged to him, to the
amount of £300 money of Scotland ; therefore the Abbot as tutor, and Mr.
James Kennedy as chamberlain, assign the countess in and to the half of
the fruits of the church and parsonage of Maybole, etc., 29th January
1528.

88 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

51. Slaughter—Deadly Feud.—{1528].*

Jul. 28 (Apud Striveling),—Alexander Kennedy of Bargany,’ and Hugh
his son, John Mure of Auchindrane,’ and James his brother, Gilbert Kennedy
of Kirkmichall, James K. of Blarequhane, Sir David Blacater, Curate of
Girvane, Thomas Corry of Keldwood, Thomas K. of Coiff, Alexander K.
brother of James of Knokdone,‘ Alex. K. of Glentig, William Abbot of
Corsragwell, Gilbert K. of Barmaclannochane,’ Mr. Walter K., James K.,
son and heir-apparent of Patrick of Drumnellane, John K., son and heir-
apparent of Gilbert of Kirkmechell, Thomas K., son of Alex. of Bargany,
Hugh K., son of Thomas of Dunneyne, David K., brother of the Laird of
Kirkmechell, Alex. K. of Zet, Thomas K. of Dunneyne, John K. of Ben-
nane, Mungo Eklis of that Ik, Patrick K. of Drumnellane, ete. (in all
seventy-five persons), delated for art and part of the cruel slaugher of vmq’*
Robert Campbell in Lochferguss,® Alexander Kirkwod, and Patrick Wilsone.

Mr. Walter Kennedy, Rector of Douglas, David his brother, James K.,
Thomas Boswell, Sir George Davidsone, John K., William Wricht and Duncan
MaKrinnyll, chaplains, and George Berclay, Parish-clerk of . . . , were
replegiated by Sir Robert Weyms, Chaplain and Commissary of Gawin, Arch-
bishop of Glasgow, and found caution to underly the law for the above crime.

John Kennedy of Bardrochat, Thomas Murdoch of that Ilk, James
Kennedy, brother of the Rector of Douglass, James Makrinnyll of Barneill,
and seven others, found caution to underly the law for the same crime, at
the Justice-aire of Aire, ete.

52. Letter of Reversion by David Kennedy of Pennyglen to William Abbot
of Crosraguel of the Lands of Altichapel._,1529.]*

Be it kend tyll all men be thir present lettrez me Dauid Kennedy of
Pennyglen to be bundin and oblist and be thir my Lettrez of Reuersioun

1 Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, vol. i. part i. * Three miles west of Maybole. The Ken-
p. 138. nedies of Knockdon owned the Black House in
2 The instigator of the assault and murder, Maybole, and were of some importance.
and a leading figure in the civil commotions of 5 Killed at the battle of Faaside, 1547.
the time. 6 Probably one of the fatal feuds which
8 This family was originally of Monyhagen. resulted from the murder of the second Earl of
This John Mure’s son was the notorious Auchin- —Cassillis by Hugh Campbell (v. note on No. 50).
draine of Sir Walter Scott’s Ayrshire Tragedy, T Culzean Muniments, No. 291.
executed in 1611.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 89

lelely and trewly be the faith and treuth in my body byndis and oblissis
me myn airis and assignais to ane venerable fader in God Williame be the
permissioun of the samyn Abbot of Corsragwell his convent and successouris
that nochtwithstandin that the said venerable fader and his convent has
infeft me heretably be charter and sasing in all and hale thair merk land of
Alticappill callit Makcubeynstoun the qukilk merk land I redemyt fra
Gilbert Fergussoun son to Dunkane Fergussoun of Kyilkarane’* liand within
the erldome of Carryk and the scherefdome of Air lyk as the charter and
euidentis maid to me thairupoun mair fullely proportis neuirtheles I will
and I grant and als byndis and oblissis me myn airis and assignais that
quhat time or howsoyne the said venerable fader Williame Abbot of Corsrag-
well his successouris or thair assignais warnis or garris warne me myn airis
or assignais at our duelling place or placis or personaly apprehendit befoir
ane notar and sufficient witnes on fourty dayis to cum and compeir in the
college kyrk of Mabole and thair vpoun the hie altir of the samyn to ressaif
the sovm of twenty pundis gude and vsuale money of Scotland hale and
togidder vpon a day betuix the sone rising and ganging to rest of the samyn
day togidder with ane letter of tak of the said merk land of Alticappill callit
M‘Cubeynstoun in dew and sufficient forme for the space and termis of fif
zeris nixt eftir the redemptioun and lowsing of the samyn for fourty
schillingis of male zeirly becaus the said Gilbert had sa mony zeris tak
quhen I redemyt the samyn for the said fourty schillingis of male zeirly
allanerly that I myn airis or assignais quhilkis happinnis to be warnyt for
the tyme sall reddely compeir at day and place of warnyng geif he or thai
will deliuer the said sovm of twenty pundis and letter of tak foirsaid and
ressaif the samyn and incontinent eftir the deliuerance and ressait of the
said sovm sall puirly and symply be staf and bastoun as maner is resigne
and ouirgeif the said merk land of Alticappill callit M‘Cubeynstoun in the
handis of the said venerable fader his successouris or thair assignais quhilkis
happinnis to deliuer the said sovm of xxi lib. and lettir of tak foirsaid our
ouir loirdis of the samyn togidder with all charteris instrumentis of sasing
and all vthir maner of euidentis that I myn airis or assignais had hes or
mycht haif in and to the said merk land excepand the rycht of the said
lettir of tak for the spaice of fif zeris for xls. of male allanerly togidder with
all rycht titill of rycht prapirte and possessioun that I myn airis or assignais

1 Kilkerran Castle stands some miles south- This Duncan had also the place of Burnfute
west of the modern mansion, and is now a ruin, (Books of Adjowrnal).

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90 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

had hes or micht haif thairto ony maner of way and geif it sall happin me
myn airis or assignais to absant ws wilfully or fraudfully and will nocht
cum to the saidis day and place of warnyng and will nocht ressaif the said
-sovm of xxtilib. and lettir of tak foirsaid nor zit resigne the said landis
the warnyng beand maid as said is and the saidis Abbot his successouris
or assignais cumand to the saidis day and place of warnyng and bringand
with him or thame the sovm of twenty lib. togidder with the said lettir
of tak and nowmerand and telland the said sovm of money apon the
said altir and nocht takand it away and lettir of tak foirsaid be him nor
thame nor na vthir throu thame nor nane that thai ma lett bot leifand it
thair vpon the said altir in sikkyr and souirte keping to the vtilite and
proffett of me myn airis or assignais Than I will and I grant for me myn
airis and assignais that the said Abbot and convent and thair successouris
be in siclyk state and possessioun as thai had beyne resignit or as thai brokit
befoir ony infeftment and I myn airis neuir to mak pley in the contrair bot
alluterly to be excludit thairfra for euirmair but fraud or gyle excepand the
rycht of the said letter of tak for the space of fif zeris as said is In witnes
of the quhilk thing to thir my present Lettres of Reuersioun subseryuit with
my hand my seil is affixt at Corsragwell the day of the zeir of
God J™ v° twenty and nyne befoir thir witnes Thomas Kennedy of the Coif
Maister James Kennedy vicar of Dunscoir George Barklay Schir Johne
Kennedy prebendar of Mabole and Schir George Blair chaplane and public

notar with wtheris diuers.
Dawip KEnnepy w' my hand.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Reversion by David Kennedy of Pennyglen to William Abbot
of Crosraguel, bearing the abbot having infeft him the said David Kennedy
in the merk land of Alticapel alias Macubinston, lying in the earldom of
Carrick, and which the said David Kennedy redeemed from Gilbert Fergus-

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 91

son, son of Duncan Fergusson of Kilkerran; yet, nevertheless, the said
David Kennedy obliges him and his heirs upon the abbot and his successors
paying to him or them, in the church of Maybole, the sum of £20 money of
Scotland, that they shall resign in the hands of the abbot or his aforesaid
the said merk land of Alticapel, with all right and title which they had
thereto and declare the same redeemed. 1529.

53. Licence to William Abbot of Crosraquel, to pass beyond sea
on his Pilgrimage.—| 8th April 1530.]4

Apr. 8, 1530. Licence to William, Abbot of our Abbay of Corsragwell,
Commendatare of Halywode, and tutour to Gilbert Erle of Cassillis, his
Cheif, to pas in France and uther partis bexond sey, to do his Pilgrimage,
ete.; and granting a Respite and Saufgarde to him, his kyn, frendis, men,
tenentis, ete.

54, Signature by James V. to William Abbot of Crosraguel._—
[12th April 1530. |?

Our Soverane Lord with avis and consent of his thesaurar ordanis ane
Lettre be maid undir his prive sele in dew forme to ane venerabill fader in
God Williame Abbot of the abbay of Corsraguell and Sir Johne Kennedy
prebendar of Mayboill conjunctlie and severalie thair airis and assignais
ane or ma of the gift of the ward of the x lib. land of auld extent of the Row
with the mylne thairof and thair pertinentis land in the balliery of Carrik
and within the schirefdome of Air quhat tyme it sall happin the samyn to
fall in our Soverane Lordis handis be resone of ward throw deceis of Gelis
Blair® conjunct fear thairof with all males fermes proftittis and dewiteis of
the samyn during the tyme of the said ward and ay and quhill the lauchfull
entre of the rychtius air or airis thairto being of lauchfull age with the
relefe thairof quhen it sall happin with power to the said venerabill fader
and Sir Johne conjunctlie and severalie thair airis and assignais to intromet
and tak up the males fermes proffittis and dewiteis of the saidis landis and
mylne with the pertinentis at thair awin hand during all the tyme of the
said ward relefe and nonentres thairof and to dispone thairon at thair
plesuer and to occupy the saidis landis and mylne with thair avne gudis or
to set thame to tenentis as thai sall think maist expedient during the said

1 Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, part i. p. 245. 2 Culzean Muniments, No, 295.
8 VY. note on No. 54.

92 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

space with court playnt herezeldis and merchetis lawfull amerciamentis and
eschetis of the saidis courtis and all and sindrie othiris commoditeis
fredomes etc., ffrelie quietlie etc., but ony revocatioun, ete. And that the
said lettre be extendit in the best forme with all clausis necessar Sub-
scrivit be our Soverane Lord and his thesaurare at Striveling the xij day of
Aprile the yeir of God j™ v° xxx zeris. Composicio liij lib. vj s. viij d.

: Sioned JAMES.
Rogertus thesaurarius. (Signed)

Hee est vera copia principalis signature super premissis remanentis per
me Jacobum Bannatyne copiata et collationata sub meis signo et
subscriptione manualibus. JACOBUS BANNATYNE.

ABSTRACT.

Signature by King James V. to William, abbot of Crosraguel, and
Sir John Kennedy, prebendary of Maybole, of the gift of the ward of the
£10 land of Row, with the mill thereof, lying in the bailiary of Carrick, and
that so long as the same shall fall in his Grace’s hands by reason of ward,
by and through the decease of Giles [Egidia] Blair, conjunct fiar thereof,
with all mails, fermes, profits, and duties of the same during the said ward,
and until the entry of the righteous heir thereto being of lawful age, with
the relief thereof when it shall happen. 12th April 1530.

55. Copy of the Deed of Settlement of Egidia Blair, Lady Row, who lived in
Carrick, in the County of Air, executed on the 31st August 15302

Seeing nothing is more certain than death, or more uncertain than the
hour of death, therefore it is, that I Egidia Blair,? Lady Row, although weak
in body yet sound in mind, blessed be God, make my testament as follows :
In the first place, I give and bequeath my soul to God Almighty, and the
blessed Virgin Mary, and to all saints, and my body to be buried in the
monastery of Crossraguel, in the blessed Virgin's aisle.* I likewise bequeath

1 Aiton’s Survey of Ayrshire, Appendix, No.

1, p.703. <A notarial copy of this deed, written
in Latin, was found in the charter-chest of Sir

and Lord of Row (v. No. 54 supra), son of Gil-
bert first Lord Kennedy.

3 After three and a half centuries, her tomb

John Whytefurd in 1796. A correct double of
it was taken aud translated into English by Sir
Adam Fergusson, Bart., of Kilkerran, as above.

2 Egidia, eldest daughter of John Blair of
that Ilk, married James Kennedy of Baltersan

was found in 1882 through the excavations
conducted by our Society under Mr. Morris;
which proves her instructions to have been liter-

ally carried out (see the remarks on the Buildings,
infra).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 93

four pennies towards the fabric of the church of Saint Mungo. And I
appoint and ordain for my executors, David Kennedy of Pennyglen, and
Sir John Kennedy, Prebendary of Maybole, and the Reverend Father in
Christ, William, by divine permission, abbot and superior of the monastery
of Crossraguel.

INVENTORY OF MY Goops.

Imprimis. I confess myself to have sixty-one cows, the price ot the
piece two merks, summa, eighty-two pounds. Item, twenty-nine oxen, the
price of each, thirty shillings, sum, forty-three pounds ten shillings. Item,
fifteen two year olds, the price, per piece, one merk, sum, ten pounds.
Item, nine sterks, the price, per piece, eight shillings, sum, three pounds
twelve shillings. Item, five hundred and forty-three sheep, the price, per
piece, five shillings, sum, one hundred and sixty-two pounds ten shillings.
Item, four score and ten lambs, the price of the piece, sixteen pennies, sum,
six pounds. Jtem, in victual, viz., in bear and meal, one hundred and
eighty-two bolls, the price of the boll, twelve shillings, sum, one hundred
and twenty-one pounds four shillings tem, one hundred and sixty bolls
of oats, the price of the boll, six shillings, sum, fifty-four pounds. tem,
horses, mares, and stags in the muir, the price of: them all, thirty pounds.
Item, in utensils and domicills, forty pounds. Jtem, for the rents and
profits of Row, twenty pounds.

Sum of the inventory, five hundred and thirty-four pounds fourteen
shillings.

There are no debts due to me.

The debts which are resting by me to others.

Imprimis. To the Earl of Cassillis, two hundred merks, whom I
earnestly beg and intreat to defend my executors, from oppressors, and the
violence of oppressors, that they may quietly and freely dispose of my goods
for the health of my soul. tem, to David Kennedy, forty-two merks, and
one half as the remainder of the tocher. tem, to the abbot and convent of
Crossraguel, for the farms of Balchrystyne and Baltersyne,’ six pounds.
Item, to the Lord Cassillis for the farms of lands, twelve pounds.

Sum of the debts, eight score and nine pounds thirteen shillings four
pennies.

1 ¢e, The Cathedral Church of Glasgow. probably not built till later on in the century,
2 Thus Baltersan must have been still the as this will is dated at Lady Row’s “ dwelling-
property of the Abbey. The baronial castle was house” in Baltersan.

94 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

LEGACIES.

Imprimis, I leave and bequeath to the convent of Crosraguel, twenty
pounds. Jtem, to the Minim Friars of Ayr, forty pounds. Jtem, to the
Dominican Friars? of Ayr, five merks. Jtem, to the Friars of Irvine, five
merks. Jtem, to John Whitefurd, forty pounds. Jtem, to my executors,
forty pounds, to be divided equally amongst them. Jtem, to Alexander
Blair, ten merks. tem, to Marion M‘Ilquhan, two two-year olds and six
sheep. tem, to Bessie Davidson, two sheep and two lambs. Item, to John
M‘Coury, twenty merks. Jtem, to Fergus M‘Mury, twenty pounds. tem,
for building an altar in the church of Saint Oswald, twenty merks. Item,
to my brother William’s daughter, spouse to Richard Lockhart, twenty
merks. Jtem, to Hugh Kennedy, my sister’s son, twenty merks. Item, to
Bessie Whytefurd, twenty merks. Jtem, to James Kennedy, baillie of
Carrick, twenty merks, conditionally, that he assist and defend my
executors, and do not suffer them to be disturbed or molested by himself,
or any person, otherways I do not leave him the said twenty merks.
Item, to Sir George Blair, chaplain, twenty merks, six bolls bear and four
stones weight of cheese. Jtem, to Sir John Rays, two bolls of meal, one
boll of wheat, and three stone of cheese. Item to Sir William Cristal, one
boll of meal, and one stone of cheese. Item, to Thomas Ferguson, Domini-
can chaplain of Kirkoswald,* one boll of meal. Jtem, to the curate of
Kirkoswald, one boll of meal. tem, to Sir William Johnstoun, one boll of
meal. Item, to John M‘Mury’s wife, a black gown. Item, to Cristine
Hynd, a russet gown. Jtem, to John Steell, a black coat. Item, I leave
the web at the weavers, to Fergus M‘Mury, a suit of the said web. Item,
to Sir John Kennedy, a gown of the said web. Jtem, to John Whytefurd,
a coat of said web. Also to Sir John Rays, a gown of said web. Item, to
the poor woman the cripple at Maybole, two firlots of meal. Item, I
bequeath my uncle, John Whytefurd for his maintenance, during the space

1 The Minim or Gray Friars had a convent endowed during this century (v. Charters of the

in Ayr, founded by the inhabitants in 1472.
They were of the Observantine order. The
present parish church is built on the site of the
convent.

2 The House of the Friars Preachers in Ayr
was founded by Alexander II., and liberally

Friars Preachers of Ayr, published by this Asso-
ciation). They were also called Black Friars,
from their habit.

® Probably a missionary from the Dominican
Friars at Ayr. The curate was the functionary
appointed by the Abbey.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 95

of one year, eight bolls of meal, and four stones of cheese. As also to the
said John Whytefurd two silver spoons, and likewise to the said John
Whytefurd, other eight bolls of meal, to be received by David Hynd, in his
name for the maintenance of the said John, for another year, and that out
of the current year’s farm, out of the mill of Row, so that the said David
Hynd shall have the maintenance of the said John for two years. If the
money given out and bequeathed by me to the said John Whytefurd and
David Hynd, be not laid out upon land within two years for the use and
profit of the said John Whytefurd. tem, I bequeath to the said Whytefurd,
two pairs of blankets, two coverings, two pairs sheets, and a bedcover.
Item, to David Kennedy of Pennyglen, four ells of linen cloth of russet, and
two linen table cloths, and two towels of the same. Jtem, to Sir John
Kennedy, one table cloth, the small board cloth, and one towel of the same.
Item, I leave to John Whytefurd, the stone of wool in his mother’s posses-
sion, for making clothes to him the said John; and the cloth made or to be
made of the said wool, is to be delivered to David Hynd, in name and for
behoof of the said John Whytefurd, and the stone of wool in the hand of
John M‘Mury’s wife, I leave to Fergus M‘Mury, her son, to be made into
clothes for him. tem, I leave all my goods whatever they be to John
Whytefurd. Jtem, I leave to Margaret M‘Kellar, two firlots of meal.
Item, to the chaplains and friars on the day of my burial, twenty merks.
Item, to the poor upon the said day, forty shillings in drink, and a chalder
of meal, and ten stones of cheese. tem, to the Minim Friars of Ayr, two
pair of blankets, three bed-ruggs, and one bedcover of needlework. Item,
to Cristine Adumnell, two pair of sheets, and two coverings or bed-ruggs.
Item, to Fergus M‘Mury, one chest standing in my chamber, and one bolster
or pillow. Item, to Navin Dunning, two firlots of meal. Item, to Ambrose
Lace, twenty shillings. Item, to Bessie Davidson, one firlot of meal. Item
I bequeath the residue and remainder of all my goods for building my part
of the bridge, upon the Water of Girvan, formerly built by me; and if any
thing remain over and above, I bequeath the same to the poor, to be laid
out at the discretion of my executors.
This Testament was made at my dwelling-house of Baltersyne,’ the last
day of August one thousand five hundred and thirty, before these
witnesses, John M‘Mury, Fergus M‘Mury, Alexander Blair, and Sir

1 Tt would thus seem that the Castle of Baltersan was not yet built. It was probably the work
of the next proprietor.

96 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

George Blair, chaplain and notary public, and my executors, with
divers others. In witness whereof my seal is hereto affixed, with
my own hand, together with the subscription of the notary public
underwritten, year, day of the month, and place above mentioned.

Ita et Georgius Blair, Notarius manu propria.

We Gavin, by the mercy of God Archbishop of Glasgow, approve,
ratify, and by the tenor of these presents, confirm this present testament
and inventory of goods, and the executors therein named, by appointing
them executors -dative to the same, and committing to them the free
administration of the subjects before written, and all other subjects omitted
out of this present testament, having received and taken the usual and
accustomed oath, of faithfully administering and holding compt as use is.
Given under our round seal, at our city of Glasgow, the twenty-eighth day
of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty
years, and of our Consecration the Sixth year.

[Follows the Secretary’s Subscription. ]

Jo. LoupER and VEerRvT Qz. NY.

Heee est vera copia testamenti Quondam Egidiz Blair Domine de Row
cum principali collatione in omnibus concordans transcriptum per me
Magistrum David Gibson, notarium publicum teste manuali mea
subscriptione. Ita et David Gibson, notarius publicus sua manu
propria subscripsit.

56. Letter of Assedation by William Abbot of Crosraguel to James
Kennedy of Blairquhan.'—{ 30th September 1534. |?

Be it kend to all men be thir present lettres ws Williame be the per-
missione of God Abbot of Crosraguell to hawe sett and for maile lattin and
be thir present lettres settis and for maile lattis to ane honorable man
James Kennedy of Blarquhane his airis assignais and subtenentis ane or
maye All and haill our frwtis of the personagis of his awin three scoir twa

1 The first mention of an actual lease of lands in these papers. Leases are seldom seen in
Scotland before the 16th century. 2 Culzean Muniments, No. 324.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 97

merkland within the parochyne of Stratone’ with their pertinentis liande
within our said parochin and the erldom of Carrik for all the dais and
termis of fiwe zeiris thair entrie to the said tak begynand at the feist of
Belthane nixt to cum eftir the daye of the dait herof and thareftyr to enduir
ay and quhill the saidis fiwe zeiris be full and togiddyr compleit and out-
runin with fre ische and entre and with all and syndry vthirris comoditeis
fredomis asiamentis and richtius pertinentis quhatsumeuir pertening or that
richtiuslie ma pertene tharto during the said space frelie quietlie vile and
in peax but ony reuocatioun or agayne calling quhatsumeuir The said
James his airis assignais and subtenentis forsaidis or thair factouris paiyand
tharfoir zerlie during the said fiwe zeris to ws our successouris assignais
or factouris the sovme of fowrtye poundis vsuall mone of the realme at twa
termis in the zeir That is to saye Mydsummer and Sanctandrois day be
ewinlie portionis of maile alanerlie And we forsuith and our successouris
sall warrand acquiet and defend to the said James his airis assignais and sub-
tennentis foirsaidis this present tak and assedatione in all and be all thingis
as is abwne expremit during the said space aganis all deidlie defend as lawe
vile but fraud or gile. In vitnes of the quhilk thing to thir our lettres
of assedacione subscrywit with our hand our seile is affixt at Crosraguell
the last day of September the zeir of God a thousand v° threttye and fowr
zeris befoir thir vitnes. W. Abbot of Crosragwell.

1 Straiton Church was the property of Cros- still stands, and is the pew of the Blairquhan
raguel till the Reformation (vy. note on No. 2 family. It is of 14th century workmanship.
supra) The south transept of the old church

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98 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by William Abbot of Crosraguel to James Ken-
nedy of Blairquhan of the parsonage fruits of his sixty-two merk land lying
in the parish of Straiton and earldom of Carrick, and that for the space of
five years from the feast of Beltan then next, and for payment yearly of
£40 money of Scotland at the terms of Midsummer and St. Andrew’s Day.
30th September 1534.

57. Letter by Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the factors of the Abbot of
Crosraguel.—[ 5th July 1536. ]*

Jhone Makmaister and maister Patrik Ryschert the fauctouris and
servandis to my lord of Corsragall of the Kirkis of the Inche and Laisquhait ?*
this our precept seyne ye ansuer Niniane Boyd our servitour of the sovm
of xix ti xijs vd. quhilk salbe thankfullye allowit to you in our mydsymmer
term last by past Subscriit with our hand at the Inche the fift day of Julij
in the year of God M.vxxxvj yeris.

Item ye sall answeyr attour the sowm aboune writtyn ij fi xvs xd.
H. bischop of Galloway.
(Dorso)

Item to the Grayfreris of Ayr xls. for ther mydsomer term.
Item the teynd of Kylbuite pe in the xxxv zers crop viij ti.
58. Letter by Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the Abbot of Crosraguel.—
[5th December 1536. |*

My lord of Crosragwell and fermorar of the Kirkis of Inche‘ and
Leswalt Ye sall content and ansuer my lord of Cassillis of the sowm

1 Qulzean Muniments, No. 338.

2 ¢.e. Leswalt, both in Galloway. We know
from the MS. Rental Book that the Earl of
Cassillis had a lease of the revenues of these
churches in 1562 for the sum of £173:6:8
(pp. 68, 71, 86); but from these two letters the
Abbot of Crosraguel was now the tacksman,

either as curator for the Earl (which office we
know that he still held from a paper in the
Culzean chest) or in right of his abbey.

3 Culzean Muniments, No. 335.

4 This church belonged to the bishopric of
Galloway, and Leswalt to the Abbey of Tung-
land, of which the Bishop was commendator.

9881 g2OSSY FHOUY AVMOTIVO F WAY

“JaNOVYSOYND JO LOGEV AHL OL AVMOTIVS 3O dOHSIG AYNIH AG Y3ALLAT

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 99

of fiftein pundis for the corn at Ninian Boyd gat in Culmoyr? quhilk corn
was reist and under fenss for his mayll and dewiteis of the said land of
Culmoyr quhilk salbe thankfulle inlowyt to yow at our nixt compt ye
kepand this precep to your warrand Subscribyt wyth my hand at the
Inche the xii day of Maij in yeir of the xxxvj zeris.

H. bischop of Galloway.

59. Discharge by William Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis.-—
[17th February 1539.]*

We Williame Abbot of Corsraguill havand to us oure airis and assignais
the warde releiff and nonentres of all and sindrie the landis baith propirte
and tennandrie with thare pertinentis quhilkis pertenit to vmquhile Gilbert
Erle of Cassillis oure derrest bruthir and throu his deces being in oure
soverane Lordis handis be resoun of waird and the samin disponit. be his
grace to vmquhile Archibald Douglas sumtyme of Kilspindy quha sauld
and disponit the samin waird releif and nonentres to ws oure airis
and assignayis be the tenoure herof grantis ws to haue ressauit fra
oure derrest and maist belouit cousing Gilbert Erle of Cassillis Lord
Kennedy etc. sone and aire to oure foirsaid bruthir full and compleit
satisfactioun and payment of all malis fermes proffittis and dewiteis of the
propirte of all and sindrie the landis and baronys of Dalrimpill and Cassillis
with thare pertinentis liand within the baillierie of Carrik within the
scherefdome of Are of all zeris and termes bigane sen the deces of the said
vmquhile Gilbert to oure said cousingis entres and saising of the samin
intromettit with be him or his factouris and als of the releif of the samin
off the quhilkis malis fermis proffittis and dewiteis of the propirte of the
foirsaidis landis and baronyis with thare pertinentis and releif of the
samin of the termes abonewrittin we hald ws weill contenit and payit and
quitclames and discharges oure said cousing his airis executouris and
assignais thairof foreuir be thir presentis subscriuit with oure hand at
Edinburgh the xxvij day of Februare the zere of God j™ v° xxx and nyne
zeris before thir witnes Thomas Corre of Keldwod Maister George Kennedy

1 In the old parish of Clashant, now in 2 Served heir to his father on 14th October
Stoneykirk, in Galloway. Afterwards the pro- 1538.

perty of the M‘Dowalls of Garthland in 1636 3 Culzean Muniments, No. 382.
(Wigton Retours, 45, 98, 177).

100 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

vicare of Halywod? and Sir George Dauidsoune chapellane and notare public
with vtheris divers. W. Abbot of Crosragwell.

ABSTRACT.

Discharge by William Abbot of Crosraguel to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis,
bearing the Abbot having right to the ward, relief, and nonentry duties of
the lands, both property and tenandry, which belonged to the deceased
Gilbert Earl of Cassillis his brother, by disposition thereof granted to him
the Abbot by the deceased Archibald Douglas of Kilspindy, who again had
the same by gift of our Sovereign Lord, and subsuming that having received
from the earl his nephew, son and heir of the deceased earl, full payment of
the mails, farms, profits, and duties of the baronies of Cassillis and Dalrymple,
of all years and terms bygone since the decease of the late earl, therefore
discharges the said Gilbert now Earl of Cassillis, his heirs and executors
thereof. 17th February 1539.

60. The Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis.—
[23d March 1544-5. ]?

My Lord, efter hartlie comendationes, I have resauit zo" vritingis, and
hes onderstand ye effect of ye samyne and zo™ madis ar laborit all to gude
purpose yfor It var best ze var at hame® gif ze may obtene ye kingis
paud*s (sic) yairto as I heir say ye may. for yair is mony cummeris* now
and veray gret trublis now in zo™ absens and mony onfreindis and fewer
freindis for ze ar evill luifit be my lord Governo™ and diwers noblis of ye
realme for zo™ deperting aganis in Ingland and zor freindis sichlike for zor
causs as ye berar can schaw zou better nor I can vrit quhomto zor L. sall

1 Evidently appointed by his cousin Abbot
William of Crosraguel, the commendator.

2 State Papers, in the Public Record Office,
London (communicated to the Editor by Mr.
Joseph Bain).

8 The Earl had been taken prisoner at the
battle of Solway Moss in 1542 and conveyed to
England. There he was placed under Arch-
bishop Cranmer and converted to the Protestant
religion. He procured hostages and returned

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home in 1543 to promote the marriage of Queen
Mary with Prince Edward. His hostages were
his uncle Thomas Kennedy of Coiff and his two
brothers, whom he seems to have neglected until
they were threatened with execution. He then
returned to England (as alluded to in this letter)
early in 1545, and was immediately permitted
to return home loaded with presents (Tytler’s
History ; Paterson, ii. 331).
4 ¢ Quarrels.”

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 101

gif credence And Iesus have zo" L. in his keping At Crosrag!! ye xxiij
day of Merche be zo™ L / Eyme! of Crosragwell.

(Addressed) To my lord of Cassillis R.
[The paper folded as a letter; trace of red wax seal on back. |

ABSTRACT,

Letter from William Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis, wish-
ing him home, as there are many troubles in his absence, and he is evil
loved by the Lord Governor for his departing again into England ; commits
him to the care of Jesus; from Crosraguel, 23d March [1545].

61. The Abbot of Crosraguel not to set the Fruits of the Abbey to the Earl
of Cassillis or James Gordon of Lochinver.—_[22d November 1546. ]*

Apud Sanctum Andream vigesimo secundo Novembris, anno
etc. v xlvite

The quhilk day, in presens of my lord Governour and lordis of Counsall
comperit Gilbert eirle of Cassillis on that ane pairt, and hes bundin and
oblist him to cause William Abbot of Corsraguill, . . . and emolymentis
therof, and in likwise James Gordoun of Lochinver on that uthair pairt, hes
bundin and oblist him to cause Maister William Gordoun dene of Dun-
blane, to gif over his takkis that he hes of the said abbay rentis and emolu-
mentis thairof, betwix this and the xx day of December nixt to cum; and
the said abbot hes dischargeit, and be the tennour heirof dischargeis, the
said eirle, William abbot of Corsraguill thair souerteis actit in the officialis
buikis of Glasgow off the dait at Glasgow the xxv day of Januar the yeir of
God j™ v° xliiij yeiris for payment to him of the soume contenit in the said
tak; and siclik hes dischargeit and dischargeis the said lard of Lochinver
and the said Maister William and thair soverteis actit in the officialis bukis
of Edinburgh, for payment to him of the soume contenit in the said Mr.
Williamis tak. Attour, the said abbot hes, in presens of my lord Governour
and lordis of Counsale, promittit and promittis, that he sall nowthair sett
his said abbay nor frutis and emolumentis to the said eirle of Cassillis, na to

102 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

the said James Gordoun of Lochinver, thair kin, freindis, nor servandis, bot
hald the samin still in his awin handis, and uptak the fruitis and emolu-
mentis thairof be himself, his chalmerlanis, and factouris: and for the mair
securite, all the saidis parteis ar contentit that this present writing be insert
in the buikis of counsale and to have the strenth of ane act and decreit of
the saidis lordis of counsale, with executorialis thairupoun, to compel thame
to fulfill the samin in all pointis: In witness of the quhilkis, all the saidis
personis hes subseryvit the samin with thair handis, day, yeir and place
forsaidis: Providing alwayis that my Lord of Cassillis satisfy and pay to
the said abbot the males and dewteis taikin up be [him] in tymes bigane
be vertew of the said tak.

62. The Contribution of Crosraguel Abbey to the General Taxation
of the Church.—[{1546 ? |}

Taxatio super Scoticana Ecclesia. Seculixvi, . .

Prelature.?

Monasterium de Corsragwel . : , . xii lib. xv sol. x den.

63. Discharge by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis
of all the goods of the late Abbot William.—[1st February 1547-8. ]®

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat euidenter quod anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quingentesimo
quadragesimo septimo mensis vero Februarii die primo indictione sexta
pontificatusque sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri Pauli diuina

1 Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis, p, 1xxi. Taxation £18,000 Crosraguel £7219 1

2 This appears to have been to pay the ex- ” 8,000 ” 45 7 38h
penses of the deputies to the Council of Trent Hs nae ” =H : a
in 1546. Mr. Thomas Dickson, of the General oy the expaney. au
Register House, Edinburgh, has kindly forwarded ses of the de-
me the following notes from the Libellus Taxa- puties to the $ 2,500 Re 18 15 104
tionwm, or the sums levied from Crosraguel in pote of

ent .

various taxations of all benefices in Scotland
above the annual value of £40 :— _ 8 Culzean Munimenis, No. 516.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 103

prouidentia pape tertii anno decimo quarto In nostrorum notariorum
publicorum testiumque subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus
venerabilis in Christo pater Quintinus! permissione diuina nunc abbas
monasterii Crucis Regalis ordinis Cluniacensis infra diocesim Glasguensem
religiosus etiam vir dompnus Robertus Makewin subprior dicti loci totusque
conuentus eiusdem ad hoc vnanimiter congregati Magnificantes fidelitatem
nobilis et potentis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis ipsorum balliui, quem
tempore mortis quondam bone memorie Willelmi vltimi abbatis dicti loci
ipsi subprior et conuentus tunc de Abbate destituti ad custodiam ipsorum
monachorum loci et bonorum eorundem donec de novo prouisi fuerint
abbate non sine magno desiderio coram circumspecto viro Magistro Johanne
Garvane notario publico elegerunt et adoptarunt, Confessi fuerunt et prout
tenore presentis publici instrumenti se confitentur recipisse ab ipso comite
huiusmodi locum Crucis Regalis omnesque et singulas pecuniarum summas
vtensilia domicilia res et bona quecunque tam extra quam infra dictum
locum existentia que prefato olim abbati dudum pertinuerunt et nunc ipsis
novo abbati et conuentui pertinent per dictum comitem seu magistrum
Walterum Kennedy rectorem de Dowglas Dauidem Kennedy de Pennyglene
ipsius substitutos vel aliquos alios seruos suos ex dicti comitis mandato
tempore suprascripte custodie vsque ad diem date presentium quouismodo
intromissa Tenentes se de eisdem bene contentos pacatos plenarie et integre
persolutos prefatosque comitem magistrum Walterum Dauidem aliosque
seruos dicti comitis premissorum intromissores heredes suos executores et
assignatos pro ipsis Abbate conuentu suisque successoribus et assignatis de
predictis pecuniarum summis vtensiliis domiciliis ‘rebus et bonis vt supra
in custodia habitis et intromissis exonerarunt et quieteclamarunt presen-
tiumque tenore exonerant et quieteclamant imperpetuum Renunciantes
simpliciter omnibus actioni cause liti iuri clameo et exceptioni quibuscunque
in contrarium allegandis, Pacto de non petendo, sine etiam reuocatione
quacunque. Super quibus vero omnibus et singulis ‘sic premissis dictus
comes de Cassillis necnon prefatus Dauid Kennedy de Pennyglene a nobis
notariis publicis subscriptis ipsis fieri respectiue petierunt instrumenta Acta
erant hec infra chorum ecclesie dicti loci Crucis Regalis hora vndecima ante
meridiem vel ea circa sub anno die mense indictione et pontificatu quibus
supra presentibus ibidem Georgio Corry de Kelwod Roberto Crawfurd de

1 This was probably one of Quintin’s first public acts as Abbot.

104 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Clolynane Willelmo* Dunduff domino iuniore de eodem Dauid Kennedy in
Bellard et Adamo Dowglas de Pennyland cum diuersis aliis testibus ad
premissa vocatis pariterque rogatis.

Et ego vero Henricus Prestoune clericus Glasguensis diocesis sacraque
authoritate apostolica notarius publicus quia premissis omnibus et
singulis dum sic vt premittitur dicerentur agerentur et fierent vna-
cum prenominatis testibus et notario publico subscripto ad hoc etiam
requisito personaliter interfui eaque omnia et singula sic fieri sciui
vidi et audiui ac in notam cepi ex qua hoc presens publicum in-
strumentum manu mea propria fideliter scriptum ego et notarius
publicus subscriptus confecimus et in hance publicam formam instru-
mentalem redegimus signoque et nomine meis solitis et consuetis
signavi rogatus et requisitus in fidem robur et testimonium omnium
et singulorum premissorum. Heyricus Prestoun.

Et ego vero Joannes Gervane arcium magister clericus Glasguensis
diocesis sacraque authoritate apostolica notarius publicus quia pre-
missis omnibus et singulis dum sic (ut premittitur) agerentur
dicerentur et fierent vnacum prenominatis testibus presens person-
aliter interfui eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi sciui et audiui ac
in notam cepi ex qua hoc presens publicum instrumentum propria
manu scriptum confeci et in hanc publicam instrumenti formam cum
consensu et concilio notarii publici suprascripti redegi signoque et
nomine meis solitis et consuetis signavi in fidem robur et testimonium
omnium et singulorum premissorum rogatus et requisitus.

M. Jo GERVANE no*rius pus pBa may,

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument certifying that in presence of Henry Prestoun and
George Gervane, notaries, and other witnesses, personally compeared Quintin
Abbot of the monastery of Crosraguel of the Cluniac order in the diocese of
Glasgow, and Sir Robert Makewin subprior of the same place, and whole
convent therof, magnifying the faithfulness of Gilbert Earl of Cassillis their

1 William Stewart of Dunduff, whose family state, This William is mentioned in Pitcairn’s
held the lands from now until 1690, when they Criminal Trials, as everybody is who had any

passed to the Whitefurds. Dunduff Castle still claim to respectability in those days !
exists on the hills above Dunure in its unfinished

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 105

bailie, whom at the time of the death of William last abbot of the said
place, the said subprior and convent, then destitute of an abbot, had elected
to the keeping of the said monastery, place and goods thereof, till they were
of new provided with an abbot, not without their earnest solicitation, in
presence of John Garvane notary public; and acknowledged as they hereby
acknowledge that they have received from the said earl all sums of money,
utensils, domicils, goods and chattels whatsoever, whether outside or within
the said monastery, which formerly belonged to the said late abbot and now
to the said new abbot and convent, intromitted with by the said earl, Mr.
Walter Kennedy rector of Douglas, David Kennedy of Pennyglen, his sub-
stitutes, or any others their servants, by command of the earl, from the
time of the foresaid custody to the date of the present instrument ; ac-
knowledging themselves fully paid of such sums of money, etc., and
discharging and quitclaiming the foresaid earl, Walter and David, of the
said sums of money, goods and gear, for themselves and their successors
and assignees; and renouncing all action or plea therefor. Done in the
choir of the church of the said place of Crosraguel 1st February 1547,
before George Corry of Kelwod, Robert Crawfurd of Clolynane, William
Dunduff younger of that ilk, David Kennedy in Bellard, and Adam Douglas
of Pennyland, with other witnesses.

64. Gift by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the
nonentries of certain lands.—{19th May 1548.]?

Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres us Quintine be the
permissioun of God Abbot of Crosragwell and convent of the samyn with
ane consent and assent being chepturelie gatherit thairto the utilite and
proffit of us and our abbay forsene and considerit and for certane soumes of
money payit to us befoirhand be ane noble and michtie Lord Gilbert Erle of
Cassillis Lord Kennedy, etc., in our urgent mister and necessite to have
gevin grantit and disponit and be the tennour heirof gevis grantis and
disponis to the said erle his airis and assignais ane or ma the nonenteres
of all and haill the fourtie schilling land of auld extent of Knokgarrane and
twenty schilling land of auld extent of Altichapill liand in the erldome of
Carrik within the schirefdome of Air being or salbe in our handis or our

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 519.
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106 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

predecessouris handis superiouris thairof throw deceis of umquhile Johnne
Fergussoun of Knokgarrane or ony vthiris his predecessouris or successouris
our last lauchfull immediat tenentis and heretabill possessouris of the samin
dewlie infeft thairintill togidder with all malis firmes proftittis and dewiteis
of the saidis landis and thair pertinentis of all termes bigane and to cum
during the tyme and space of the said nonenteres and ay and quhill the
lauchfull intre of the rychtius air or airis thairto being servit and retourit
thairof to our soverane Ladyis chapell and havand his hienes preceptis
direct to us or our successouris for the tyme thairupoun and obtenand fra us
lauchfull sesing and heretable possessioun of the samin as efferis To be
haldin and to be had all and hale the said noninteres of the landis abone
writtin with all malis firmes proffittis and dewitieis thairof during the said
space to the said Erle his airis and assignais ane or ma of us and our suc-
cessouris with full power to him and his forsaidis to intromet thairwith lift
ressave and uptak the saidis malis firmes proflittis and dewiteis of all termes
bigane and tocum and to laubour and occupy the saidis landis or ony part
thairof with thair awne proppir guidis or to set the samin to tenentis ane
or ma as thai sall think maist expedient And to dispone upoun the
said nonenteres and failzeand of guidis movable upoun the saidis landis
strenzeable for the byroun malis thairof to gar appris the ground for
the samin and sua to obtene ane heretabill infeftment of the saidis landis
with thair pertinentis eftir the forme of the act of parliament and als the

saidis landis with thair pertinentis to be bruikit and josit be the said Erle .

and his forsaidis be all richt merchis and devisis like as the samin lyis in
lenth and breid in houssis bigingis corneland unland mossis muris muresis
medois wodis wattiris fischeing fowling halking hunting peit turf cole stane
and lyme with courtis amerciamentis eschetis and playntis thairof herezeld
and merchite of wemen with commoun pasture fre ische and intre and with
all and sindry uthir fredomes asiamentis proffittis and rychtius pertinentis
quhatsumevir alswele nocht namit as namit under erth as abone fer and
neir to the saidis landis with thair pertinentis during the tyme and space of
the noninteres thairof pertening or richtiuslie may pertene thairto be ony
maner of way ffrelie quietlie wele and in peax but revocatioun or agane
calling quhatsumevir Reservand nevirtheles to us and our successouris the
soume of twenty schillingis money of this realme yeirlie to be payit liftit
and ressavit out of the saidis landis for the yeirlie fewmale thairof aucht to
us befoir the said noninteres quhilk is contenit in our rentale of the samin

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CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 107

allanerlie ffor all uthir chargeis and service quhatsumevir that to the saidis
landis with thair pertinentis during the said space may be askit or requirit
be ony persoun in tyme cuming and we forsuith the saidis Abbot and
convent and our successouris the gift of the said noninteres of all and hale
the landis forsaidis to the said Erle his airis and assignais ane or ma in all
and be all thingis eftir the forme and effect as is abone expremit aganis all
deidlie sall warrand acquiet and defend lelely and trewlie but fraud or gile
In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir our present lettres of gift subscrivit
with our handis the commoun sele of our chepture and abbay is hungin at
our place of Crosraguell the nyneten day of Maij the yeir of God ane
thousand five hundreth fourtie aucht yeirs befoir thir witnessis George Corry
of Kelwod Gilbert Bard of Kilhynzet Maister Johnne Gervane and Henry
Prestoun notaris with uthiris diverss etc. (Signed) Q. Abbot of Crosragwell.
Dene Robert M‘Kewyne wyt my hand. Dene Johne Cocheran wt my hand.
Dene Johne Hoyge vt my hand. Dene Michaell Dewar wyt my hand. Dene
Johne Mwre? eldar wt my hand. Dene Johne Mwre zongar wyth my hand.
Dene Robert Blakadir wt my hand. Dene Newyn M‘Kewyn wy? my hand.

[Seal attached: slightly defaced. |

ABSTRACT.

Gift by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel and convent thereof to Gilbert
Earl of Cassillis of the nonentries of the forty shilling land of Knockgarron
and twenty shilling land of Alticapel, lying in the earldom of Carrick, then
in the hands of the abbot and convent as superiors thereof, by the decease
of John Fergusson of Knockgarron, last immediate tenant of the same,
with the mails, fermes, profits, and duties thereof, of all years bygone and
to come during the said nonentry, and until the entry of the righteous heir
thereto: reserving to the abbot and convent and their successors the sum
of twenty shillings money of Scotland, to be uplifted and paid from the
said lands as the yearly feu-duty thereof.—19th May 1548.

1 Kilhenzie Castle lies on a rising ground acquired about 1500 by the Bairds. They held
south of Maybole, and the picturesque ruins are it until 1620, when it again passed into the
still visible. It was granted to one Thomas hands of the Kennedies.

Kennedy in 1429 with its lands, which were 2 Afterwards sub-prior, v. No. 67.

108 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

65. Testamentum quondam reverendissimi patris et domini Gavini archi-
episcopt Gilasguensis ac monasterti Insule missarum perpetui com-
mendatarit.—| Confirmed 31st May 1548, ]*

Inventarium bonorum depositi et debitorum quondam recolende memorie
reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini domini Gavini? miseratione
divina Glasguensis archiepiscopl.

Imprimis: utensilia et domicilia dicti quondam domini Gavini Glas-
guensis archiepiscopi existentia in manibus quondam venerabilis in Christo
patris et domini Willelmi abbatis de Corsraguell,? et nunc post obitum
ipsius quondam abbatis in manibus nobilis et potentis domini Gilberti
comitis de Cassillis, estimata et particulariter calculata ad valorem iij c.
xxxviij lib. viij s.

Item, deliberata dicto quondam abbati per dictum quondam reverendis-
simum in deposito in pecunia numerata ijm. jiijc. xlib. Quodquidem
depositum idem quondam abbas in firma custodia in manibus venerabilis et
egregii viri magistri Johannis Colquhone rectoris de Stobo ecclesie metro-
politane Glasguensis canonici consignavit prout ante obitum suum premissa
publice confessus est, et restam ipsius ipsius depositi minime depositam

1 The Will of Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of
Glasgow (MS. in possession of Sir William Dun-
bar of Mochrum).

2 Gavin Dunbar, son of Sir John Dunbar of
Mochrum, Bishop of Glasgow 1524-47, formerly
Prior of Whithorn; Lord of the Regency and
Commendator of Inchaffray in 1536. He was
buried in the chancel of his cathedral, where
his remains were found in 1855 in a stone sar-
cophagus. There were some rich vestments
found with the skeleton, which testify to the
excellence of his lordship’s wardrobe (v. Reg.
Epis. Glas., B. 25, No. 99, et passim). George
Buchanan has written some eulogistic lines on
this Archbishop (v. Gordon’s Scotichronicon, ii.
521).

8 This document is not the original Will of
the Archbishop (which has probably perished),
but is the record from the Commissary Court
Books. The recording officer has therefore in
the narrative spoken of the “late” Abbot as

having been the depositary of the Archbishop's
utensilia et domicilia, to the value of £338 : 8s.,
and money to the value of £2410. Abbot
William probably died in the winter of 1547-8,
as he was present in Parliament on 18th March
1546-7 ; and on 2d February 1547-8 we have
Abbot Quintin’s discharge to the Earl of Cas-
sillis for the furniture, plate, etc., belonging to
William late Abbot of Crosraguel (No. 63 supra).
The Archbishop died in April 1547 (Reg. Epis.
Glasguensis), and William must therefore have
lived long enough after that to have taken pos-
session of the plate, etc., and money, and to have
transferred it to the Earl of Cassillis and the
Rector of Stobo. Why the Archbishop chose
his friend the Abbot of Crosraguel as the deposit-
ary of his property does not appear. He pro-
bably thought that it would be safer in the quiet
retreat of Crosraguel, and under the powerful
protection of the Earl of Cassillis, than amid the
turbulence of the city of Glasgow.

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CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 109

executoribus ipsius reverendissimi per ipsum rectorem reddi et deliberari
ordinavit.
Summa Inventarii et depositi ij m. xlviij lib. viij s.t

Debita dicto quondam reverendissimo debentia :—

Imprimis, restans in manibus tenendorum baronie Glasguensis de croppa
anni etc., xlvj. citra ije. marcas receptas per Gubernatorem pro brasio,
gressuma et multura dicte baronie, iiij c. Ixvj lib. xiij s. ij d.

Item, restans in manibus tenandorum baroniarum de Stobo, Eddilstone,
Askirk, et domini de Corstorphyn pro certis terminis terrarum de undry
foster, reverendi in Christo patris Johannis episcopi Dunkeldensis, Patricii
Murray de Hangynschaw, et Cuthberti Johnsoun de Lokerbe respective
firmariorum ecclesiarum de Cambusnethane, sancte Brigide in Foresta, et
ecclesie de Drivisdale: Ac etiam in manibus magistrorum et dominorum
Archibaldi Menzies, Roberti Richartson, Nicholai Rutherfurd, Johannis
Layng, Johannis Cambell, et Lamberti Blair respective, et decanorum
Nithisdalie et Annandie, Tevidalie, Kyle, Carrik, Cunynghame, pro restis
procuracionum synodalium et minorum testamentorum certorum annorum
preteritorum magistri Johannis Chesholme et Johannis Jardane de Apilgirth
pro certis bollis ordei custumalis baroniarum de Eddilstoun et Stobo spoliatis
per eundem a tenentibus dictarum baroniarum ac certorum aliorum credi-
torum, extendentia per justam estimationem ad summam v ce. lib.

Item, dominus Jacobus Cottis rector de Carstaris de resta sui ultimi
compoti jc. lib. Ht remittimus eidem rectori reliquum reste sui compoti
dummodo gratanter persolvat dictam summam prenominatam executoribus
nostris.

Summa Inventarii et depositi ac debitorum dicto quondam reveren-
dissimo debentium, iij m. viij c. xv lib. xvj d.

Debita aliis debentia :-—

In primis, Archibaldo Williamsoun pro firma hospicii sui in Edinburgh
xxiij lib.

Item, domino de Craigbernard pro firma hospicii sui in Strivelyng, x lib.

Item, dominis Collegii Justicie supreme domine nostre regine, j c. xxx lib.

Item, Johanni Menzies pro recompensatione summe centum librarum
per dictum quondam reverendissimum ab eodem recepti pro assedatione
terrarum de Bischop forest, 1x lib.

1 Should be ij m. jiijexlviij lib. viijs.

110 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Item, Anis (?) pro fusione et factura duarum campanarum, deportatione
et erectione earundem, ac pro bibalibus suis, ut patet per contractum inter
dictum quondam reverendissimum et eum initum, j ¢. 1xxxxvj lib. xiijs.

Item, pro reparacione campanilis, j c. vj lib, xiij s. 11 d.

Item, capitulo Glasguensi et vicariis chori eiusdem pro annuali funda-
cione dicti reverendissimi juxta consilium et dispositionem venerabilis et
egregii viri Magistri Jacobi Houstoun subdecani Glasguensis, in quo pluri-
mum confidimus, erigenda; quamquidem fundacionem prefati capitulus et
vicarii chori Glasguensis, ipso reverendissimo vivente, super se acceptarunt
et perimplere annuatim et perficere obligarunt, pro quaquidem fundacione
sic annuatim perimplenda, summam jj ¢. lxvj lib. xiijs. iiij d.; idem reveren-
dissimus prefato capitulo et vicariis chori promisit, et eandem summam
eisdem, ipso superstite, consignavit, 1) c. Lxvilib. xiij s. iiij d.

Et similiter consignavit lxvj lib. xiij s. ij d. in manibus dictorum decani
et capituli pro sepulcro eneo conficiendo et superponendo sepulchro eiusdem.*

Item, preposito Glasguensi pro suo feodo certorum terminorum elap-
sorum, xxij lib.

Item, domino de Ferme pro suo feodo, xx lib.

Item, domino de Gelstoun, xl lib.

Quamquidem summam idem reverendissimus recepit tempore quo cancel-
larie officio fungebatur, et consignata fuit in manibus eiusdem per dominos
consilii ex redemptione terrarum in Glenkenn pertinentium patri dicti
domini de Gelstoun.

Item, servitoribus dicti quondam reverendissimi pro eorem feodis ut
patet per particulas particulariter calculatas et examinatas, vjc. Ixxxv lib.
xvjd.

Item, quoad summam xvj mercarum assertatam per Jacobum Watt et
Johannem Mason, latomos, per nos eisdem debitam pro completione pontis
de Inchbelly, quamvis clare constat et patet intuentibus compotum quon-
dam domini Johannis Moresoun camerarii nostri pro tempore, nos totalem

summam elis per eum nomine nostro promissam et in contracto inter nos
et eos inito, in compoto eiusdem domini Johannis sibi allocasse, quia in
eodem compoto suo fatetur se hujusmodi totalem summam pecunie eiis
nomine nostro per eum promissam persolvisse: Volumus tamen quod dicti
executores nostri prefatam summam xvj mercarum eiis iterum persolvant,
aut sece desuper amicabiliter componatur, dummodo dicti latomi prefatum

1 Not a vestige of this tomb is now remaining.

el i a a Sac ppm ara het on Ai

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 111

pontem in singulis partibus ubi opus fuerit; et signanter in lateribus
altiorem et substantiorem faciant et reforment, prout dictis executoribus et
superioribus Testamenti nostri expedire videbitur.

Summa debitorum aliis debentium, jm. vjc. Lxxxviij lib. viijs.

Legacia prefati reverendissimi personis infrascriptis, et inprimis domino
Gubernatori.

Item, illustri domino Gubernatori nos humillime et ex intimis com-
mendamus; cui legamus ornamenta nostre capelle argentea et dupliciter
deaurata subscripta, videlicet, crucem, duo candelabra, duas phiolas, vas
aque benedicte, cum aspersorio, et campana cum eorum capsulis; et hoc
in nostri memoriam; sperantes indubie quod idem dominus Gubernator
assistat et adjuvet dictos nostros executores, et non sinat eosdem a quocum-
que perturbari, molestari aut vexari quatenus hance nostram ultimam volun-
tatem debite in singulis perficere et perimplere valeant.

Item, nobili et potenti domino Johanni domino de Erskyn in amoris et
veteris amicitie signum, nostrum optimum annulum, lye Turcas, et unum
denarium aureum antiquum sanctissimi domini nostri pape insigniis in-
sculptum.

Item, magistro Jacobo Foulis, in nostri memoriam et amoris signum
unum denarium aureum insculptum sancto spiritu.
Item, comitisse de Cassillis, j c. marcas.

Reverendo in Christo patri Willelmo episcopo Lismorensi, amplam
togam nostram lie chymaris of wariant chamlett cum caputio eiusdem et
duobus rochetis.

Item, venerabili in Christo patri Willelmo abbati de Corsraguell togam
nostram nigri panni foderatam cum lye mertrikkis; cui legamus our
double ourgylt coupe and our double ourgilt goblett, quhilkis hes na armes
on thame, and our best safir ryng.

Item, magistro Alexandro Dunbar decano Moraviensi, racione officii
executorie, nostram togam bissinam de satyn foderatam cum mertrikkis ;
cui etiam legamus our sax silver pecis and the covir with the cays, thre
silver trunscheouris and the secund silver salt fatt: et item, dispositionem

112 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

librorum nostrorum juxta discretionem et consilium executorum et superi-
orum nostrorum fiendam.

Decano Glasguensi uni superiorum testamenti nostri :

Item, decano Glasguensi optimam togam nostram nigri coloris, our best
black chymmeris with the hude, cum uno annulo et tway of our silver
trunscheouris.

Subdecano Glasguensi, alteri superiorum ultime nostre voluntatis :—

Item, magistro Jacobo Houstone, subdecano Glasguensi, thre of our
silver trunscheouris ; et hoc quia novimus quod plurimam curam et ingentes
labores super se ad perficiendam et perimplendam erectionem fundacionis
nostrarum exequiarum et obitus, distributionem pecuniarum pro terris
emendis pro dicta nostra fundacione, et emptione honesti sepulchri enei ad
superponendum tumulo nostro; ac reparacione et fusione campanilis et
campanarum perferre et capere opportuerit; et ad emenda ornamenta
pontificalia ecclesie nostre Glasguensis, pro quibus emendis consignavimus et
deliberavimus certam pecunie summam magistro Georgio Lokert decano
ecclesie nostre predicte; et etiam ad mutandum et transferendum huius-
modi pecuniam per nos ad prescripta opera consignata ad quamcunque
perpetuacionem et pios usus prout sibi magistro Jacobo videbitur expediens,
consummatis prius et perimpletis campanili fundacione campanis et pontifi-
calibus et sepulchro nostro predictis, quia in prefato magistro Jacobo ad
perimplenda et perficienda premissa, singularem confidentiam habemus.

Item, Johanni Dunbar de Mochroum ad complementum sue domus je.
marcas, unacum our silver basyn and the silver lawar, oure grete coupe and
covir of silver, oure grete salt fatt, ane dusan of silver spownis and thre
silver trunscheouris.

Item, Dunbar, sorori dicti Johannis Dunbar de Mochroum ad
supplementum dotis eiusdem, ij c. marcas.

Item, Thome Kennedy de Bargany oure silver wattyr pott quhilk we
use to gar mix our wyne with.

Item, duobus sororibus dicti Thome Kennedy nondum maritatis, iiije.
marcas per equales portiones inter easdem dividendas.

Item, sponse Hugonis Kennedie sorori dicti Thome de Bargany xxvj lib.
xiij 8. ilij d.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 115

Legacia librorum.

Item, magistro Johanni Gledstanis, Balduin et Paulam de Castro.

Item, magistro Johanni Dunbar, Bartholinum et Panormitanum.

Residuum vero librorum nostrorum tantum dispositioni decani Moravi-
ensis juxta discretionem et consilium executorum et superiorum nostrorum
fiendum legamus.

Residuum vero omnium bonorum nostrorum legamus executoribus
nostris et eorum dispositioni prout ipsis melius expedire videbitur sine qua-
cunque restrictione.

Item, volumus autem legamus et ordinamus quod nostri executores re-
spondeant satis ac integre et mature sine deliberacione aut mora servitoribus
familie nostre prenominatis de legacia eiis per nos legata de promptioribus
pecuniis nostris, funeralibus et pecunia pro sepulchro eneo nostro et fun-
dacione nostri obitus prius solutis et consignatis deductis. Et quoad legata
aliis prenominatis personis et restam legacie nostre si non respondeant dictis
nostris executoribus de resta fructuum Archiepiscopatus Glasguensis et
monasterii nostri Insuli missarum predictorum referimus defalcationem et
solucionem reste hujusmodi nostre legacie discretioni dictorum executorum
nostrorum prout ipsi executores nostri restam hujusmodi Archiepiscopatus
et monasterii recipere obtinere et recuperare poterunt.

Necnon et si contingat dictos nostros servitores aut quoscunque alios
legatarios prenominatos plus exigere petere vel requirere quam ut expres-
satum est in presenti nostro Testamento aut eosdem executores coram
quocunque judice pro aliis maioribus summis et actionibus coram quocunque
judice convenire aut dictos nostros executores quovismodo molestare, in hiis
casibus singula per nos eisdem legata revocemus ; committentes dictis nostris
executoribus jus repetendi hujusmodi legata per eos recepta Et volumus
quod legata sic obtenta et repetita disponantur ad alios pios usus pro salute
anime nostre.

Summa Inventarii depositi et bonorum dicti olim reverendissimi patris
debitis per eum aliis debentibus extractis ij m. jc. xxvj lib. xiijs. iij d.

Confirmantur executores dativi dicto olim reverendissimo ad bona supra-
scripta ac etiam extra presens Inventarium omissa seu relicta quecunque
magister Robertus Stewart clericus parochialis de Glasgo et Duncanus
Levyngston conjunctim, etc., die penultimo Maii anno domini j™ v° xlviii.

114 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

per spacium duorum annorum xlt# marcas, unacum our secund blak chym-
meris, cum qua indutus ferat crucem nostram ante nos in die sepulture
nostre.

Item, domino Johanni Dunbar rectori de Castelmilk ad orandum pro
anima nostra per spacium unius anni, x marcas.

Item, domino Johanni Dunbar clerico parochiali de Mochroum ad oran-
dum pro anima mea per spacium unius anni, x marcas.

Item, domino Thome Coutirrane in Quhitherne ad orandum pro anima
mea per spacium unius anni, x marcas.

Legacia religiosis.

Item, patribus minoribus de Edinburgh ; vj lib. xiijs. iiij d.
Item, patribus predicatoribus prefati loci de Edinburgh vj lib. xiijs. iij d.
Item, patribus minoribus de Perth . 5 : vj lib. xiijs. iiij d.
Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . ; : vj lib. xiijs. ij d.
Item, patribus minoribus de Strivelyng ‘ vj lib. xiijs. ij d.
Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . : ; yj lib. xij s. ij d.
Item, patribus minoribus civitatis nostre Glasguensis x lib.

Item, patribus predicatoribus eiusdem . ; ‘ vj lib. xilis. ij d.
Item, patribus minoribus de Air . ; : ; x lib.
Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . : : vj lib. xiijs. ij d.
Item, Carmelitis de Irvyn . ; 5 ; : ujlib. vjs. viij d.
Item, patribus de Jedburgh ; ‘ ; : v lib.

Item, patribus de Dumfries : : ; : v lib.

Item, patribus de Lanark : ‘ . ; xls.

Item, patribus de Lynlithquhou . ; ; : xls.

Item pauperibus hospitalis divi Nicholaii xx marcas disponendas in
lectisterniis, vestibus, et aliis rebus dictis pauperibus magis necessariis pro
tempore juxta discretionem magistri Roberti Stewart et domini Hugonis
Curry, prout ipsis melius videbitur expedire.

Item sororibus dive Katherine de Jervis prope Edinburgh, xl lib.

Item, duabus filiabus Andree Balfoure civis Sancti Andree nondum mari-

tatis ad supportacionem dotis earundem x] marcas inter easdem per equales
portiones dividendas.

Item, Isabelle Stewart sponse Jacobi Grahame, x marcas.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 115

Legacia librorum.

Item, magistro Johanni Gledstanis, Balduin et Paulam de Castro,

Item, magistro Johanni Dunbar, Bartholinum et Panormitanum.

Residuum vero librorum nostrorum tantum dispositioni decani Moravi-
ensis juxta discretionem et consilium executorum et superiorum nostrorum
fiendum legamus.

Residuum vero omnium bonorum nostrorum legamus executoribus
nostris et eorum dispositioni prout ipsis melius expedire videbitur sine qua-
cunque restrictione.

Item, volumus autem legamus et ordinamus quod nostri executores re-
spondeant satis ac integre et mature sine deliberacione aut mora servitoribus
familie nostre prenominatis de legacia eiis per nos legata de promptioribus
pecuniis nostris, funeralibus et pecunia pro sepulchro eneo nostro et fun-
dacione nostri obitus prius solutis et consignatis deductis. Et quoad legata
aliis prenominatis personis et restam legacie nostre si non respondeant dictis
nostris executoribus de resta fructuum Archiepiscopatus Glasguensis et
monasterii nostri Insuli missarum predictorum referimus defaleationem et
solucionem reste hujusmodi nostre legacie discretioni dictorum executorum
nostrorum prout ipsi executores nostri restam hujusmodi Archiepiscopatus
et monasterii recipere obtinere et recuperare poterunt.

Summa Inventarii depositi et bonorum dicti olim reverendissimi patris
debitis per eum aliis debentibus extractis ij m. jc. xxvj lib. xiij s. 1iij d.

116 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Testament and inventory of the goods, money, and debts of the most
reverend Gavin Archbishop of Glasgow and commendator of Inchaffray.

The inventory, amounting to the value of £3815 : 1 : 4, includes, among
other items, the sum of £338; 8s., as the value of the testator’s utensils
and domicils, sometime in the hands of the late William Abbot of Cros-
raguel, and since his decease, in the hands of Gilbert Earl of Cassills; and
a sum of £2410 delivered by the testator to the said Abbot of Crosraguel,
and by him consigned in safe keeping in the hands of Mr. John Colquhoun,
rector of Stobo.

Among the legacies bequeathed to the friends and servants of the tes-
tator, there are entered as destined to William Abbot of Crosraguel the arch-
bishop’s gown of black cloth lined with “ mertriks,” and his double overgilt
cup, and double overgilt goblet without arms, and his best sapphire ring.

The testament is confirmed on 30th May 1548.

66. Letter of Escheat to Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel of the property of
James Kennedy and George Lockhart, denounced Rebels for the
Mutilation of Mr. John Girvan.—{ 29th March 1550.]*

Ane lettre maid to Quintyne Abbot of Corsragwell, his airis and as-
signais of the eschete of all gudis movable and unmovable dettis takkis
stedingis money gold silver cunzeit and uncunzeit actionis obligationis and
utheris quhatsumevir quhilkis pertenit to James Kennedy and George
Lokart bruthir to the Lard of Bar, and now pertening to our Soverane Lady
and being in hir handis be ressoun of eschete throw being of the said James
and George denuncit rebellis and put to the horne be virtew of hir lettres
in defalt of finding of souirte to underly the law for art and part of the
mutilatioun and demembring of Maister Johne Girvane of his lug and
utheris crymes contenit in the saides lettres as the samyn and executioun
thairof proportis, with power, etc. At Edinburgh the xxix day of Marche
the year of God J™ v° and fyfty yeiris. Per Signaturam.

1 Regist. Secreti Sigilli, vol. xxiii. fol. 92.

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67. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel, to Gilbert,
Earl of Cassillis—[10th March 1552.]#

Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres Us Quintyne be the
permissioun of God Abbot of the Abbay of Crosraguell and convent thairof
cheptourlie gadderit all with ane avis consent and assent the utilitie and
proffet of us and oure said Abbay alwayis providit and considerit and
mature deliberatioun had thairupone to haif set and for maill lattin and be
the tennour heirof settis and for maill lattis to our derrest and best belovit
cousing Gilbert Erle of Cassillis his airis and assignais ane or ma all and
sindrie the teindis frutis proffittis oblationes and emolimentis of the
personage of oure Kirk of Stratoune with thair pertinentis quhatsumevir
pertening thairto liand within the diocy of Glasgw ffor all the dais and
termes of nyntene yeris thair entrie thairto begynnand at the feist of
Beltane? nixt tocum aftir the day of the dait heirof and thaireftir to indure
and to be peceablie brukit and josit be thame ay and quhill the saidis
nyntene yeris be fullelie and compleitlie outrunin with all and sindrie
uthiris commoditeis fredomes asiamentis and richtius pertinentis quhat-
sumevir pertening or that richtuuslie may pertene thairto during the said
space ffrelie quietlie weill and in peax but ony revocatioun obstakle impedi-
ment or agane calling quhatsumevir. Oure said cousing his airis and
assignais forsaidis or thair factouris payand thairfoir yeirlie during the
saidis nyntene yeris to us oure successouris and factouris the soum of foure
scoir pundis usuale money of Scotland at twa termes in the yeir mertymes
in winter and witsonday be evin portiones allanerlie.* And we forsuith and
oure successouris sall warrand acquiet and defend in maner forsaid this
present lettir of tak and assedatioun of all and sindrie the teindis frutis
proffettis oblationes and emolimentis of the said personage of the Kirk
forsaid and pertinentis thairof quhatsumevir to oure said cousing his airis
and assignais forsaidis in all and be all thingis as is abone expremit aganis

all deidlie as law will but fraude or gyle. In witness of the quhilk thing

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 550.

2 On May Ist. For the pagan and Sabzan
origin of this feast, and the manner in which it
was celebrated until recent times by the Scotch
herdsmen (in honour originally of Bel the sun-
god), see Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, p. 96;

Stat. Acc, Scotland, xi. 620; Vallancey’s History
of Ireland, p. 519; Kalendars of the Middle
Ages, pp. 250-5).

3 Exactly double of the rent paid by James
Kennedy of Blairquhan in 1534 (v. No. 56

supra),

118 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

to thir oure lettres of the assedatioun subscrivit with our handis the
commone seill of the cheptour of oure said Abbay is hungin at the samin
the tent day of Marche the yeir of God ane thousand five hundreth fyfty
twa yeris. (Signed) Quityn Abbot of Crosragwell, Deyne Johne Mwre
suppot w' my hand, Deyne Robert M‘Kewyn wy* my hand, Den Johne
Hogge wt my hand, Deyn Michaell Dewar wyt my hand, Den Johne
Mwre wyt my hand, Dene Newyn M‘Kewyn wt my hand, Deyn Gylbert
M‘Burne wt my hand, Den Adam Maxwal wt my hand.

ABSTRACT,

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel and convent
thereof, to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, of the teinds, fruits, profits, oblations,
and emoluments of the parsonage of the church of Straiton, lying in the
diocese of Glasgow, and that for the space of nineteen years, from and
after the feast of Beltan then next, and for payment yearly of the sum of

£80 money of Scotland, at the feasts of Pentecost and St. Martin, by equal
portions. 10th March 1552.

67a. Acquisition of the Lands of Glenluce Abbey by Gilbert
Larl of Cassillis{1560 ?}*

This last Gilbertt was ane particuler manne, and ane werry greidy
manne, and carritt nocht how he gatt land, sa that he culd cum be the

* Historie of the Kennedyis, p. 9.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 119

samin; and for that caus he enterit in bloking with ane Abbot! of Glen-
luse concerning the abacie, to tak the samin in few; bott or he gatt the
samin performitt, the Abott deitt. And than he deltt with ane Monk off
the samin Abbacie, quha culd counterfitt the Abottis hand-writt, and all
the haill conventtis; and gartt him counterfitt thair subscriptiones. And
quhane he had gottine the samyn done, feiring that the Monk wald reweill
it, he caussit ane cairll quhilk thay callit Carnachaine, to stik (him); and
thane for feir that cairll had reweillit, he garit his fader broder Hew of
Bargany (Barquhoumy), accuise this cairll for thift, and hang him in Cors-
ragall.?_ And sa the landis of Glenluse wes conqueist.’

68. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to David
Kennedy of Pennyglen.—{ 28th March 1560. ]*

Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres us Quintyne be the permis-
sioun of God commendatour of Corsragwell and convent of the samyn with ane
consent and assent the utilite and profit of us and our abbay of Corsragwell
be us cheptourlie gadderit thairto be diligent avisiament and ryp delibera-
tioun foirseyn and considerat to haif set and for maill lattin and be the
tenour heirof settis and for maill lattis to our weilbelovit David Kennedy
of Penneglen and the airis maill lauchfullie to be gottin of his body
quhilkis failzeing to Johne Kennedy his sone naturale successive and to his
airis male quhilkis failzeing to the said Davidis airis male quhatsumevir
nerrest all and haill oure thre merkland of Baltarsan and merkland of Knok-
ronald of auld extent with thair pertinentis except the medow that lyis
nerast our medow of our manis of Corsragwell callit the Braid medow quhilk
we reserve to our self and our successouris lyand in the baillierie of Carrik
within the sherefdome of Ayr to be broukit and josit be him and his foir-

1 Walter Abbot of Glenluce, who had ap-
pointed the third Earl heritable bailie of the
regality of the Abbey (Culzean Muniments).
Walter died in 1560, and was succeeded by
Thomas Hay.

* By the charter of 1404 (ante) the Abbots of
Crosraguel had a right of regality over their
lands cum quatuor punctis corone, robbery being

one of these “ points of the crown.”

3 This story is a tissue of exaggerations, and
is not to be relied upon. The Glenluce papers
from the Culzean charter-chest, now in the press,
show that the lands of Glenluce were acquired
by the Earl of Cassillis in the most just and
lawful manner.

4 Qulzean Muniments, No. 581.

120 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

saidis his and thair subtennentis cottrallis! servandis and assignayes quhat-
sumevir for all the dayes and termes of nynetene yeiris nixt and immediatlie
following the feist and terme of witsoneday nixtocum. The quhilk feist of
witsoneday is and salbe his entre in and to the tak and assedatioun of the
saidis landis with thair pertinentis to be haldin and to be had ay and quhill the
compleit outrynyng and ische of the saidis nynetene yeiris be all thair rycht
merchis and divisis lyk as the saidis landis with thair pertinentis lyis in lenth
and breid in houssis biggynis boundis feildis pasturis;leasuris and commune
pasture free ische and entre and with all and sindrie oderis fredomes
commodeteis profettis asiamentis and rychtuuss pertinentis quhatsumevir
alsweill nocht namit as namit fer and neir to the saidis landis with thair
pertinentis pertening or rychtuuslie may pertene ony maner of way firelie
quietlie weill and in peax but ony revocatioun obstacle impediment or
agane calling quhatsumevir. The said David and his foirsaidis payand
thairfoir yeirlie to us our successouris and factouris for the tyme the sowme
of fowre libs. usuale money of this realme at twa usuale termes in the yeir
witsoneday and mertymes in winter be equale portionys togiddir with multir
and teind as effeiris and we forsuth the said Quintyne commendatoure of
Corsragwell our convent and successouris the tak and assedatioun of all
and haill the foirsaid thre merkland of Baltarsan and merkland of Knok-
ronald of auld extent with thair pertinentis to the said David Kennedy and
his airis male to be lauchfullie gottin of his body quhilkis failzeand to the
said Johne Kennedy his sone naturale successive and his airis male quhilkis
failzeand to the said Davidis nerast airis male quhatsumevir during all the
tyme and space of the saidis nynetene yeiris aganis all deydlie sall warrand
acquiet and defend lelelie and treulie but fraud or gyle. In witnes of the
quhilk thing to thir our present letteris of tak and assedatioun subscrivit be
us and our convent foirsaid the cheptour and commune seale of our said
abbay is hungin at Corsragwell the twenty aucht day of the moneth of
Marche in the yeir of God ane thousand fyve hundreth and threscoyr yeiris.
(Signed) Quityne comédator? of Crosragwell, Deyn Johne Mwre suppriour
wt my hand, Deyn Robert M‘Keyvn wt my hand, Deyn Johnn Hoyge wt my

1 An unusual word in Ayrshire leases; ap- and carted his dung to the field, and for the
parently the same as Cottars, who paid for most part carried home his peats (Mr. Campbell’s
their cottage and bit of land in services and a Report on the Drummond Estates, quoted by C.
little money. They had no work cattle. The Innes, Legal Antiquities, p. 267).

tacksman (or sub-tennent in this case) under whom 2 Quintin has hitherto signed himself ** Abbot
the cottar sat, ploughed and harrowed his ground, —_ of Crosragwell.”

Pie te a pir cimcae i

ORE TEAR ha A a pe ee MTG SH oe |

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 121

hand, Deyn Michaell Dewar wt my hand, Deyn Johne Mwre zonge™ wt my
hand, Deyn Newen M‘Kewyne wt my hand, Dein Gylbert M‘Burne wt my
hand, Dein Adam Maxwell wt my hand, Dene Gilbert Kennedy wt my
hand, Dene Johnne Bryce wt my hand.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to David Kennedy
of Pennyglen, of the three merk land of Baltersan and merk land of Knock-
ranald lying in the bailiary of Carrick, excepting the meadow called the
Broadmeadow, lying immediately adjacent to the meadow of Crosraguel,
which the abbot reserves to himself and his successors, and that for the
space of 19 years from the feast of Whitsunday then next, etc. Dated
28th March 1560.

69. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to John
Kirkpatrick of the land of Clonlicht.—[ 30th March 1560. ]+

Be it kend till all men be thir presentis us Quintene be the permissioun
of God commendatoure of Croceraguell and convent of the same with ane
consent and assent thairto chapturlie gaderit to have sett and for male
lattin and be the tenour of thir presentes settis and for male lattis to oure
welbelovittis Johnne Kirkpatrik burges of Air and Jonet Wallace his
spous thair aris subtenentis servandis and cotteris thaj being yemen men
All and hale oure fourtie schilling land of auld extent with the pertinentis
eallit Clonluycht? lyand within the baronie of Crocerawguell erledome of
Carrik and scherefdome of Air ffor all the dayis and termes of nyntene
yeris nixt and immediatelie following the feist and terme of Witsoundaye
nixtocum in the yeir of God ane thowsand fyve hundreth thre scoir yeris
quhilk terme salbe the entre of the sadis Johnne and Jonet his spous and
thair foirsadis in and to this tack and assedatioun and fra thinfurth till
indure for all the dayis and termes of the sadeis nyntene yeris. The sadis
Johnne Kirkpatrik and Jonet Wallace his spous and thair foirsadis payand
heirfor yeirlie to us and oure successouris during the said space thre pundis
off male guid and usuall moneye of Scotland at twa usuale termes in the

1 Culzean Muniments; No 582.
2 Probably the same as Glenluy or Glenlowie, near the Abbey, on the west side.
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122 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

yeir Witsoundaye and Mertimes in winter be equale portiounis togidder
with kayne fowlis averageis and carrageis dewties and dew service usit and
wont Reservand alwayis to us and oure successouris all coillis and cole-
heuchis! wyn and to be wyn in onye pairt or place of all the foirsaid fourtie
schilling land how oft we or thaj pleiss beand abbot and convent for the
tyme To be haldin and to be had all and hale the said fourtie schilling
land called Clonluycht of auld extent with thair pertinentis to the sadis
Johnne and Jonet his spous and foirsadis for all the dayis and termes of the
sadis nyntene yeris be all rycht merchis and devisis as the same lyis in
lenth and breid with mossis muris planis houssis beginnis yardis corne land
unland moss medowis hedder peit and turf with commoun pasture fre ische
and entre and with all and sindrye utheris fredomes comoditeis asiamentis
and rychtuus pertinentis quhatsumevir alsweill nochnamit as namit fer and
neir to the sadis landis pertening or rychtuuslie may pertene be onye maner
of waye wele and in peace but onye revocatioun or impediment quhat-
sumevir And we forsuith the said Quintene commendatoure of Croce-
rauguell and convent of the same this our present tack and assedatioun of all
and haill our said fourtie schilling land of Clonluycht of auld extent with
their pertinentis to the sadis Johnne Kirkpatrik and Jonet Wallace his
spous thair aris subtennentis and cotterris foirsadis during the said space of
nynttene yeris in all and be all thingis lik as is abounexpremit sall werrand
acquiet and aganis all deidlie defend lelilie and trewlie but fraude or gyle
In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir our present lettres of tack and asseda-
tioun subscrivit with our handis our commoun seill is houngin at Croce-
rauguell the penult day of Merche in the yeir of God ane thousand fyve
hundreth threscoir yeris Signed Qtyne cddato™ of Crosragwell, Deyn Johne
Mwre supprio™ wt my hand, Deyn Robert M‘Kewyn wy* my hand, Deyn
Johnne Hoyge wt my hand, Deyn Michael Dewar wt my hand, Deyn Johne
Mvre yonger wt my hand, Deyne Newen M‘Kewyn w* my hand, Den
Gylbert M‘Burne wt my hand, Dene Adam Maxwell wt my hand, Dene
Gilbert Kennedy wt my hand, Dene Johnne Bryce wt my hand.

1 Evidently an important feature in the pro-
perty of the Abbey. The year 1291 is said to
be the epoch of the first charter in Scotland
giving the right to dig for coal, though it was
not the common fuel of the country till about
1500. The earliest disputes about coal levels
were between the monks of Newbattle and Dun-

‘fermline (Arnot’s Edinburgh, p. 84; Innes’

Antiquities, p. 165; Chart. Newbotle, No. 73 ;
Chart. Cambuskenneth, p. 30). Mr. Cochran-
Patrick (Records of Mining in Scotland, p. 1)
quotes an even earlier charter in 1210 by the
Earl of Winton of the coalheughs between Pinkie
and Inveresk.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 123

ABSTRACT.

Letter of assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to John Kirk-
patrick burgess of Ayr and Janet Wallace his wife of the forty shilling land
of Clonlicht, lying in the barony of Crosraguel, for the space of nineteen
years from the feast of Whitsunday then next, giving therefor yearly to
the abbot and his successors the sum of £3 of mail at the feasts of Whit-
sunday and Martinmas, by equal portions. Dated 30th March 1560.

70. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of
Cassillis of the Teinds, etc., of the Church of Straiton—[9th July 1560. ]#

Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres us Quintyn be the per-
missioun of God commendatour of the Abbay of Corsragwell and convent of
the samyn cheptourlie gatherit all with ane avyse consent and assent the
utilite of us and oure Abbay alwayes previdit and considerat and mature
deliberatioun had thairupon to haif set and for maill lattin and be the tenour
heirof settis and for male lattis to oure derrest and best belovit cousing
Gylbert Erle of Cassillis his airis male and assignayis ane or ma, All and
sindrie the teindis fructis profettis oblatiounis and emolumentis of the
personage of oure kirk of Stratoun within Carrik with thair pertinentis
quhatsumevir pertening thairto ffor all the dayes and termes of nynetene
yeiris thair entre thairto begynnand at the feist of Lambmes callit Petri ad
vincula immediatlie precedand the day and date heirof and thaireftir to
indure and to be peceablie broukit and josit be thame ay and quhill the
saidis nynetene yeiris be fullelie and compleitlie outrunin with all and sindrie
otheris commoditeis fredomes asiamentis and rychtuouss pertinentis quhat-
sumevir pertening ‘or rychtuouslie may pertene thairto during the said space
frelie quietlie weill and in peax but ony revocatioun obstakle or impediment
quhatsumevir ure said cousing his airis and assignayis foirsaidis or their
factouris payand thairfoir yeirlie during the saidis nynetene yeiris to us oure
successouris and factouris the sowme of fourescoyr pundis usuale money of
Scotland, at twa usuale termes in the yeir martymis in wintir and
witsonday be equale portiounis allanirlie And we forsuth the foirsaid
Quintyn commendatour of Corsragwell and convent of the samyn
for us and oure successouris sall warrant acquiet and defend in maner

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 586.

122 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

yeir Witsoundaye and Mertimes in winter be equale portiounis togidder
with kayne fowlis averageis and carrageis dewties and dew service usit and
wont Reservand alwayis to us and oure successouris all coillis and cole-
heuchis! wyn and to be wyn in onye pairt or place of all the foirsaid fourtie
schilling land how oft we or thaj pleiss beand abbot and convent for the
tyme ‘To be haldin and to be had all and hale the said fourtie schilling
land called Clonluycht of auld extent with thair pertinentis to the sadis
Johnne and Jonet his spous and foirsadis for all the dayis and termes of the
sadis nyntene yeris be all rycht merchis and devisis as the same lyis in
lenth and breid with mossis muris planis houssis beginnis yardis corne land
unland moss medowis hedder peit and turf with commoun pasture fre ische
and entre and with all and sindrye utheris fredomes comoditeis asiamentis
and rychtuus pertinentis quhatsumevir alsweill nochnamit as namit fer and
neir to the sadis landis pertening or rychtuuslie may pertene be onye maner
of waye wele and in peace but onye revocatioun or impediment quhat-
sumevir And we forsuith the said Quintene commendatoure of Croce-
rauguell and convent of the same this our present tack and assedatioun of all
and haill our said fourtie schilling land of Clonluycht of auld extent with
their pertinentis to the sadis Johnne Kirkpatrik and Jonet Wallace his
spous thair aris subtennentis and cotterris foirsadis during the said space of
nynttene yeris in all and be all thingis lik as is abounexpremit sall werrand
acquiet and aganis all deidlie defend lelilie and trewlie but fraude or gyle
In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir our present lettres of tack and asseda-
tioun subscrivit with our handis our commoun seill is houngin at Croce-
rauguell the penult day of Merche in the yeir of God ane thousand fyve
hundreth threscoir yeris Signed Qtyne cddato™ of Crosragwell, Deyn Johne
Mwre suppriot wt my hand, Deyn Robert M‘Kewyn wyt my hand, Deyn
Johnne Hoyge wt my hand, Deyn Michael Dewar wt my hand, Deyn Johne
Mvre yonger wt my hand, Deyne Newen M‘Kewyn wt my hand, Den
Gylbert M‘Burne w’ my hand, Dene Adam Maxwell wt my hand, Dene
Gilbert Kennedy wt my hand, Dene Johnne Bryce wt my hand.

‘fermline (Arnot’s Edinburgh, p. 84; Innes’

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 123

ABSTRACT.

70. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of
Cassillis of the Teinds, etc., of the Church of Straiton—[ 9th July 1560. |

Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres us Quintyn be the per-
missioun of God commendatour of the Abbay of Corsragwell and convent of
the samyn cheptourlie gatherit all with ane avyse consent and assent the
utilite of us and oure Abbay alwayes previdit and considerat and mature
deliberatioun had thairupon to haif set and for maill lattin and be the tenour
heirof settis and for male lattis to oure derrest and best belovit cousing
Gylbert Erle of Cassillis his airis male and assignayis ane or ma, All and
sindrie the teindis fructis profettis oblatiounis and emolumentis of the
personage of oure kirk of Stratoun within Carrik with thair pertinentis
quhatsumevir pertening thairto ffor all the dayes and termes of nynetene
yeiris thair entre thairto begynnand at the feist of Lambmes callit Petri ad
vincula immediatlie precedand the day and date heirof and thaireftir to
indure and to be peceablie broukit and josit be thame ay and quhill the
saidis nynetene yeiris be fullelie and compleitlie outrunin with all and sindrie
otheris commoditeis fredomes asiamentis and rychtuouss pertinentis quhat-
sumevir pertening or rychtuouslie may pertene thairto during the said space
frelie quietlie weill and in peax but ony revocatioun obstakle or impediment
quhatsumevir Oure said cousing his airis and assignayis foirsaidis or their
factouris payand thairfoir yeirlie during the saidis nynetene yeiris to us oure
successouris and factouris the sowme of fourescoyr pundis usuale money of
Scotland, at twa usuale termes in the yeir martymis in wintir and
witsonday be equale portiounis allanirlie And we forsuth the foirsaid
Quintyn commendatour of Corsragwell and convent of the samyn
for us and oure successouris sall warrant acquiet and defend in maner

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 586.

124 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL,

foirsaid this present Lettir of Tak and Assedatioun of all and sindrie
the teindis fructis profettis oblatiounis and emolumentis of the said
personage of the kirk of Stratoun and pertinentis thairof quhatsumevir
to oure said cousing his airis and assignayis foirsaidis in all and be all things
as is abone expremit aganis all deidlie as law will all fraude and gyle beand
and secludit In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir oure lettres of tak
and assedatioun subscrivit with oure handis the common seill of oure said
Abbay is aftixt at Corsragwell the nynt day of Julij in the yeir of God ane
thousand fyve hundreth and thre scoir yeiris (Signed) Quityn comdatot
of Crosragwell, Deyn John Mure suppriot wt my hand, Deyn Robert
M‘Kewyn wyt my hand, Dene Michaell Dewar wt my hand, Deyn Johne
Mwre yonger wt my hand, Deyn Newyne M‘Kewyn wt my hand, Dein
Gylbert Makburne wt my hand, Dene Adam Maxwell wt my hand, Dene
Gilbert Kénedy wt my hand, Deine Johne Bryce wt my hand.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to Gilbert Earl
of Cassillis, of the teinds, fruits, profits, oblations, and emoluments of the
parsonage of the church of Straiton in Carrick, for the space of 19 years
from the feast of Lammas then last, for the yearly payment of £80 Scots.
Dated 9th July 1560.

71. Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel condemned by the General Assembly
of the Kirk.—[27th December 1560. ]?

December 27th, 1560.

It is also thocht expedient that earnest supplication be made to the
estates of this realme in parliament, and to the lords of secreit counsell, that
all judges ordinaire and officers judicial, sick as the Lordis of the Sessioun,
shireffis, stewarts, baillies, and uther judges ordinaire, be professours of the
trueth of the true word of God, and all ministers thereof to be removit fra
sick office according to the civill law. [Item To desire the Estates in

1 The number of monks in this and the pre- 2 Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland,
ceding charter tallies with that alluded to in the part i. page 5. This was the first Assembly of

fragment from the Cluny charters, namely 10 the Reformed Church.
(v. No, 23 supra).

bisa sicciie

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125

Parliament to take order with the confirmatioun of testaments, that pupils

and orphans be not defrauded and that

their favours. ] C.

be made thereupon in

To aske the estates of parliament and lords of secreit counsell, for eschew-
ing of the wrath and judgement of the eternall God and removeing of the
plagues threatned in his law, that sharp punishment may be made upon the
persons underwriten, and uthers idolators and maintainers thereof, in con-
tempt of God his true religioun and acts of Parliament, whilk sayes and
causes messe to be said and are present thereat within the places following:

In Nithesdaile and Galloway.

The Pryor of Whitherne? and his servants in Crugletone.
The Laird of Corswell,? in Corswell.

The Lord Cairleill.

The Laird of Kirmichaell,’ who causes masse daylie to be said, and images

holden up, and idolatorie to be maintained within his bounds.

In Kyle, Carrick, and Cuningham.

The Erles of Eglintone and Cassilis.‘
William Hamilton of Cambuskenneth.

The Abbot of Crosraguell.

The parochiners of Mayboill, Girvan, Oswald, and Dalay, within the
kirk whereof messe is openly said and maintained.

72. The Valuation of the Abbacy of Crosraguel.—[ 1561. ]*

Abbacy of Corseragqwell.
Tn meall and beir 55 ch. 8'b:
Oatts 80 b.
Money 383 £

1 Malcolm, who in 1546 applied for a remit-
tance of his quota of a general tax on account
of the evil times (Reg. Privy Council), and who
was still prior in 1563 (Paterson’s Gallowuy).

* Finlay Campbell of Corswall, the last of his
race, who had held it since 1333.

% John Kennedy of Kirkmichael, whose family

had held the property since 1420.

4 Gilbert, fourth Earl of Cassillis, succeeded
his father in 1558, and was a zealous partisan
of Queen Mary and the Catholic faith, He was
with her at Langsyde, for which he was forfeited,
but afterwards reponed, by Parliament,

5 Assumption of the Benefices, p. 13.

126 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Item the steeding of peer occupyed
by the Abbot : ; . £26 138. 4d.
There are five kirks belonging to it, viz. Kirkoswall, Girvan, Daly,
Straitoune, and Kirkcudbright alias Pinnertig.

The rent paid to the king out of the superplus of the thirds of

Benefices 2—
Corseraguell ; F 5 P : 100 0 O

724. Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel denounced Rebel for Non-payment
of the Third of his Benefice.—{1561.]*

And ane hundereth ti xj§ jd. 4 pairt d, for the thrid of the money of
the abbay of Corsregale, restand in the handis of Quintene, abbot thairof,
for non-payment of the quhilk he is ordourelie denunced rebell and put to
thehorne . . . jet xj8 jd. 3d.

73. The Partial Destruction of Crosraguel Abbey.—[ 1561. ]*

[In 1561] the Papistis, a little befoir the Parliament, resorted in diverse
bandis to the towne of Edinburght, and began to brag, as that thai wald
half defaced the Protestantis. Quhilk thing perceaved, the brethren
assembled together and yeid in such companyes, and that in peceible
maner, that the Bischoppis and thair bandis forsuyk the calsay. The
brethrene understanding quhat the Papistis meant, convenit in counsall in
the Tolbuyth at Edinburght, the xxvij of May, the yeir of God jm v° thre
scoir and ane yeirs; and after consultatioun considerit that ane humble
supplicatioun suld be presentit to the Lords of Secreit Counsall and unto
the haill assemblie that then wes convenit, in the quhilk suld thir subse-
quent heidis be required, and a law to pass thairupon :—

1 On the Bargany estate, the patrimony of 3 Compt of the Collectour-Generall of the Thirdis
the second son. Thomas Kennedy of Drum- of Benefices, 1561, fol. 113 (MSS. in the General
murchie took a leading part in the feuds of the Register House, Edinburgh),
time. The celebrated Field-Marshal Lord Stair 4 History of the Reformation, by John Knox,

was afterwards born here (Patterson). Book iii.
2 Assumption of the Benefices, p. 49.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 127

1. That Idolatrie, and all monumentis thairof suld be suppressit through-
out the haill realme.

Upon the quhilk requeist and Articles, the Lordis of Counsall foirsaid
made ane act and ordinance answering to everie heid of the foirsaid articles,
and commandit letteris to be answerit thairupon, quhilk diverse ministers
raysit, as in the buykis of Secreit Counsall is yet to be found. And thus
gat Satan the secund fall, after that he had begun to truble the estait of
the religious ones established by law.

Meanwhill came Lord James Stuart as ambassador from Queen Mary at
Rheims, praying that the religion publictlie established suld go forward,
but the Lordis of Secreit Counsall gave him a negation to all his propo-
sitions.

With these answeris departit the said ambassadour. And the Lordis
of Secreit Counsall made ane act that all places and monumentis of ydolatrie
suld be destroyit. And for that purpose wes directed to the west the Erle
of Arrane, having joined with him the Erlis of Argyle and Glencarne, to-
gidder with the Protestantis of the west: quha burnt Paislay, the Bischope
(of Sanctandrois quha was abbot therof) having narrowly eschapit ; kest down
Failfurd,1 Kilwynning, and a part of Corsragwell—and thus God sa potentlie
wrocht with us, sa long as we dependit upon him, that all the warld mycht
se his potent hand to maintain us, and to fight against our enemies: yea,
most to confound them, quhen that they promest to thameselfis victory
without resistance. Oh that we suld rychtlie considder the wonderouse
workis of the Lord oure God!

1 Of Fail or Failfurd Abbey, near Tarbolton, memento of their merry character in the old
only two walls remain. It was actually a Priory saw :—
for Red Friars, founded by Andrew Bruce in ‘The Friars of Fail drank berry-brown ale
1252 and governed by a Minister (Brochie MSS., The best that ever was tasted ;
and y. Chalmers, vol. iii. ; Monasticon, pp. The Monks of Melrose made gade kail
294-5). The Friars have left an imperishable Cad See rarunn they rhe

128

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

74. The three days’ disputation between Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel and
John Knox, on Maybole Green.—{ 28th September 1562. |?

Quintinus Kennedius preelatus Catholicus.

Sectarii cum viderent Catholicos a diversis partibus diversos catholicee
religionis defensionem suscepisse viam tanto periculo occludendam primo

quoque tempore statuunt.

1 De rebus gestis Scotorum, Lesleus, p. 540.
For the following account of this famous “ Dis-
putation” I am chiefly indebted to the account
written by John Knox, and to Paterson’s Ayr-
shire, vol. ii. p. 26.

The origin of the well-known discussion which

took place at Maybole between the Abbot of .

Crosraguel and John Knox may be thus briefly
stated. In 1559 the Abbot had challenged
Willock, who happened to preach in the neigh-
bourhood of Crosraguel, to a disputation con-
cerning the mass. The gauntlet was duly taken
up, and the place of meeting appointed, but the
discussion was broken off in consequence of
certain preliminary disagreements, The mass
now became the chief study of Kennedy, and in
1561 he published a work in its defence. In
the course of the following year he stated in his
chapel of Kirkoswald—after reading a series of
papers concerning the mass and other essential
tenets connected with the doctrines of the Popish
Church—his readiness to defend them against
all by whom they might be impugned, but
promised on the following Sabbath to declare
himself more fully on the subject. Knox, being
in the vicinity, came to Kirkoswald to hear the
Abbot ; and in the morning acquainted him of
his intention to do so, requiring him at the same
time either to make good his promise or allow
him (Knox) to preach first, and afterwards state
his objections to what might be advanced. The
Abbot, aware of the excitement of the times,
and the danger to be dreaded from a public dis-
play of this kind, did not appear, and Knox
oceupied the pulpit. On coming down, however,
a letter was put into his hands dated 6th Sep-
tember, in which Kennedy expressed himself as
most anxious to engage in a discussion with him.

The terms proposed by the Abbot were per-
fectly reasonable. He wished in the excited
state of the public mind to avoid all risk of
disturbance. Knox, on the contrary, confident
of success, was anxious that the discussion should
take place in open assembly, and that his
triumph should be witnessed by thousands,

Kennedy replied to his somewhat intemper-
ately expressed letter in a mild but forcible
manner. In reference to Knox’s statement that
he came not for disputation but to preach Jesus
Christ crucified, the Abbot observes, “ Praise be
to God, that was na newings in this countrie or
ze war borne.” Secondly, he remarks, “ He is
ane euill indge that condemns or he knawes,”
and that it would have been time enough to
have called the articles in question blasphemous
when he had seen, read, and sufficiently confuted
them. Thirdly, that he promised to make
declaration of the said articles on Sunday last,
provided there had been no convocation of
strangers, wherethrough disturbance might ensue;
but Knox came accompanied by five or six score
of followers. “Quhair ze say,’ remarks the
Abbot, “ze stand in the protection of the
Almichtie, swa dois all gude Christiane men as
ze, bot appearanlie ze put als lytil in God’s
handis as ze may, that gois accompanied in euerie
place quhairsumeuer ze go with sic multitude,
quhidder it be for devotion, or protection, or
rather tumultuation, God knawes, for I knaw
not. . . . Quhair ze say I haif infected the earis
of the simple, I have wounded the hartes of the
godlie, and I have spoken blasphemie in open
audience, I meruell how ze forget zourself,
chidand and railland in this maner. Consider-
ing ze said ane lytil afore ze did abhor all chid-
ing and railling, bot nature passes nurtor with

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129

Unde Quintinum Kennedium Comitis Cassilii fratrem, virum non solum
nobilitate, sed doctrina virtuteque perinsignem, cum nullo modo a fidei

integritate abduci possit, in palestram solemque vocant.

Sed trium dierum

frequenti disputatione, quam cum Knoxio publicé in occidente habuit effec-
tum est, ut pii sanctique viri confirmarentur, ac ipsi sectarii Knoxio infensi

zow. Quhairfore I man beir with zour babline
and barking, as dois Princes, hear poweris,
maiestrates, and mony hundredths better nor I.”

The Abbot declined holding the discussion in
St. John’s Church in Ayr, because he wished to
avoid tumult, and as for the “iust tryall of the
treuth thair man be conference of mony buikes,”
he thought that could not be conveniently dis-
cussed in open audience. After some further
correspondence between Knox, the Abbot, and
the Earl of Cassillis, the disputation was at
length agreed to upon nearly the same terms as
at first proposed by Kennedy. The correspond-
ence is interesting, as showing the movements of
the parties. Knox was at Kirkoswald on Sab-
bath the 8th September, where he preached ;
upon which occasion he received the letter of
the Abbot challenging him to a disputation.
Knox, according to his own statement, lay at
Maybole the night before with a company not
surpassing twenty. On the same day he replies
to the letter of the Abbot from Ayr. Between
that and the 25th of September, when he writes
to the Earl of Cassillis from Ochiltree, he ap-
pears to have been away in Dumfriesshire and
Galloway. On the 27th of September the
parties met at Maybole, when the following
agreement was signed :—

“The day, houre, condicione, and nomber
agreed vpoun, for the conference betuix Maister
Quinteyne Kennedy, Abbot of Crosraguel, and
John Knox, minister at Edinburgh,

“The day is the xxviii of September, 1562.
The place the Prouestis place of Mayboill, the
houre to conuene is at eight houres before none,
the day foirsaid, the nomber for euerie part shall
be fourtie persones, by there scribes and learned
men, with so many mo as the house may goodly
hold, be the sight of my Lord of Cassillis. And
heirupon, bothe the said Abbote and John Knox
are whollylie and fullylie agreed. In witness
whereof they have subscriued these presents

VOL, I.

with their hands. At Mayboill, the xxviii of
September, 1562. CROSRAGUEL,
“Joun Knox.”

The conference took place accordingly in the
“place” of Andrew Gray, the last provost of the
Collegiate, in the back vennel of Maybole. A
huge concourse of people from all quarters was
drawn to the scene of debate, and Maybole was
densely crowded. The only account of the dis-
cussion which has been preserved was drawn up
by Knox himself and printed in 1563 in black
letter ; and the only copy known to exist is pre-
served in the Auchinleck Library. A facsimile
edition was thrown off in 1812, and those who
wish to pursue the subject can find a copy of the
discussion in the Woodrow Society’s publications.
The conference, commencing each morning, was
carried on for three days. The Abbot grounded
his argument upon the Apostle St. Paul, who
“affirms our Saluior to be an priest for ever
according to the ordure of Melchisedec ;” and
the main point for dispute was whether Mel-
chisedee actually brought forth the bread and
wine as a sacrifice, or not. The conference was
somewhat abruptly brought to a close, and Knox
himself thus records the cause of its conclusion :
“ This conference being ended for the tyme, my
Lorde presentlie did rise for trouble of body,
and then John Knox did shortly resume the
principall grounds. And because the noble men
heir assembled were altogether destitute of all
prouision bothe for horse and man, the said
Johne humblie requireth the foirsaid Lord that
it would please him to go to Air, whair that
better easiment might be had for all estates,
which because my Lord vtterlie refused, the
said John desired that the said conference should
be ended. My Lorde did promise upon license
purchased of the Quene’s maiestie and her
honorable counsall, that he would compear in
Edinburgh, and there in their presence finish
the said conference. The said John did promes

130 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

redderentur, quod provinciam quam susceperat Calvinismi defendendi melius
non exornasset. Quare Knoxius ut quam contraxerat disputando ignor-
antiz maculam scribendo dilueret, disputationem illam suis commentis,
nugis, mendaciis interspersam typis excudendam curat. Nam veritatem
disputando cum non poterat infringere, eam si cum vinijs obscuret, egregie
docteque se calvinizare putat.

Kennedius hic, vir plane dignus cujus virtutes omnium etatum com-
mendatione celebrentur, duos, praeter alia opuscula, edidit libros exquisi-
tissima Doctorum Conciliorum Scripturarum doctrina refertos, unum de
Conciliorum auctoritate* alterum de publico Ecclesiz sacrificio.? E quibus
illum Joannes Davidsonus hune Georgius Hajus sectarii ministri ita refu-
tarunt, ut catholica veritas inde magis diluscescat iis quorum mentes
heereseis malitizeque tenebris plane non fuerint obvolute.

75. Letters of Citation for the Confirmation of the Commission of Bailiery
of Crosraguel, granted to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis_[2d October 1562. ]®

Thomas permissione divina abbas perpetuus monasterii Vallis Lucis
vulgo Glenluce ordinis Cisterciensis Candide [case] diocesis David Gibsoun
et Johannes Houstoun ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis canonici judices

to trauell with the said Secret Counsall, that the
said license might be obtained ; and desired the
foirsaid Lord to do the lyke with the Quene’s
maiestie, whereupone the said John Knox took
instruments and documents.”

The following paper was put in, signed by
the Abbot :—“ At the conclusion of our resson-
ing, I gaif John Knox ane argument in writ,
desiring him that he wald iustifie his opinion be
expres testimonie of Scripture, or ony appear-
ance thereof. Quhairto the said John required
tyme to give answer, and the tyme micht nawise
serue of farder ressoning, for sic causes as are
comprehended in the said John Knox writing,
And as toward his desyre of me to Air, treulie
it was ye thing that I might not presentlie com-
modiously do, But alwayes I will compeir
befoir ye Quenes grace, and sic as hir grace
pleisis to take to be auditors to defend the said
articles, and in special the article concerning the
messe, as they ar vritten, quhen and quhair it

be hir grace plesure, swa that the habilite of my
body will serve onywise, as I hope to God it
sall, to quhom be praise, glorie, and honour, for
ever. CROSRAGUELL.”

In the written reply to the Abbot’s reasoning,
which is given in the printed account of the
discussion, Knox claims the palm, though he
speaks at the same time of the ‘‘common bruit
that Kennedy, his flatterers and collattoralles brag
greatly of their victorie.” At the breaking-up
of the conference it is said, perhaps erroneously,
that the books brought for reference by the
Abbot, amounting to several wain loads, were
seized by the mob, and consigned to the flames
on the green of Maybole, in celebration of the
assumed triumph of Knox.

1 Printed in Mackenzie’s Lives of the Scotch
Writers.

2 The original of this work is in the library
at Auchinleck.

3 Culzean Muniments, No. 615.

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delegati executoresque et commissarii infrascripti unacum venerabili patre
Joanne abbate monasterii Dulcis Cordis vulgo New Abbay nuncupati nostro
in hac parte collega auctoritate apostolica vigore certe commissionis a
Reverendissimo in Christo patre et domino Johanne archiepiscopo Sanctian-
dree regni Scotie primate legato nato monasteriique de Pasleto abbate ac
cum potestate legati a latere Sancte sedis Apostolice legato virtute sue
facultatis et officii legacie apostolice predicte nobis directorum cum illa
clausula videlicet Discretioni vestre committimus et mandamus quatinus
vos vel duo vestrum conjunctim procedentes et cognoscentes vocatis vocandis
etc. specialiter constituti vicario seu curato ecclesie parrochialis de Mayboil
universisque aliis et singulis personis ecclesiasticis necnon rectoribus vicariis
perpetuis curatis et non curatis capellanis clericis notariisque et tabellionibus
publicis per diocesim Glasguensem seu etiam alubi ubilibet constitutis super
executione presentium debite requisitis necnon illi vel illis ad quem vel ad
quos presentes litere nostre ymmoverius apostolice pervenerint salutem in
Domino Literas patentes prefati reverendissimi domini Johannis archiepis-
copi sedisque apostolice legati pergameno scriptas sigilloque sui officii legacie
predicte quo in similibus utitur cera rubea in capsula ferrea cum cordula
bissena viridis coloris ut moris est consimilium literarum impendente
sigillatas et subscriptas sanas siquidem et integras pergameno scriptas non
rasas nec cancellatas nec in aliqua sui parte suspectas sed omni prorsus vicio
et suspicione carentes ut in eiis prima facie apparebat nobis predictis judici-
bus commissariis cum illa clausula predicta directas nobisque ex parte
nobilis et potentis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis principalis in hujus-
modi litteris commissionis principaliter nominati presentatas et exhibitas pro
approbatione ratificatione et perpetua confirmatione constitutionis creationis
et admissionis prefati nobilis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis hereditarie
in ballivum seu ballivatus officium hereditarium dominii et terrarum omnium
monasterii Crucis Regalis vulgo Crosraguel nuncupati ordinis Cluniacensis
Glasguensis diocesis per venerabilem in Cristo patrem et dominum Quin-
tinum ejusdem monasterii commendatarium et conventum ejusdem loci
unanimi consensu et assensu sibi domino comiti heredibusque suis masculis
et assignatis quibuscunque factarum et concessarum unacum serviclis
tenentium et occupatorum earundem terrarum predictarum dominii hujus-
modi monasterii predicti ac cum assignatione concessione infeodationeque
hereditaria etiam desuper confectis de et super sexaginta et quatuor bollis
farine avenatice annuatim levandis et habendis sibi hereditarie tanquam

132 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

pro stipendio et feodo suis ratione dicti balliatus officii ex quibusquidem
terris dicti monasterii prius predecessoribus dicti nobilis domini comitis
concessis incipiendo a croppa anni Domini millesimi quingentesimi quin-
_ quagesimi noni prout latius in ipsius commissionis literis et carta infeo-
dationis seu literis autenticis desuper habitis dicitur contineri Nos noveri-
tis recipisse inspexsisse et mature considerasse hujusmodi commissionis
tenorem hiis presentibus pro sufficienter expressatis habere volumus de data
ejusdem prout habetur videlicet apud Pasletum anno incarnationis Dominice
quingentesimo sexagesimo primo pridie nonas Julii pontificatus Sanctissimi
domini nostri Pape Pii anno secundo cuius tenor hic omittimus brevitatis
gratia Post cujusquidem commissionis apostolice predicte presentationem
et receptionem inspectionem sic ut prefertur nobis et per nos respective
factas fuimus cum ea qua decuit instantia ex parte prefati nobilis domini
de Cassillis requisiti quatinus ad executionem hujusmodi commissionis pre-
dicte rite procedere juxta et secundum formam et tenorem ejusdem et
citationem legitimam propterea ut moris decernere derigereque dignaremur
Unde nos attendentes requisitionem hujusmodi fore justam et rationi con-
sonam necnon mandatis Apostolicis in hac parte nobis directis executioni
debite demandare volentes prout tenemur idcirco presentes literas nostras
citatorias sub hac forma solita et consueta duximus decernentes et dirigentes
Vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet in virtute sancte obedientie etiam sub pena
a suspendendo a divinis sententie late in hiis scriptis nisi feceritis ea que
vobis in hac parte committimus et mandamus districte precipiendo man-
damus quatinus auctoritate apostolica nobis commissa citare curetis prefatum
venerabilem patrem dominum Quintinum commendatarium perpetuum
predicti monasterii Crucis Regalis et ejusdem loci conventum personaliter
apprehensos si eorum personales presencias commode habere poteritis
alioquin apud prefatam eorum monasterialem ecclesiam seu alubi apud loca
suarum residentiarum ubi verisimiliter de presentibus ad ipsorum noticiam
devenire poterit necnon omnes et singulos alios interesse habentes habereve
putantes seu pretendentes in hac parte primo 2° 3° et peremptorie unico
tamen contextu pro triplici edicto quos nos tenore presentium sic citamus
quod compareant legitime coram nobis aut aliquibus duobus nostrum pre-
dictorum conjunctim in ecclesia parrochiali de Mayboil predicte Glasguensis
diocesis loco judiciali inibi die decimo tercio mensis Octobris proxime et
immediate sequentis hora causarum solita et consueta ante meridiem ad
videndum et audiendum memoratam cartam concessionis infeodationis que

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 133

predictarum balliatus officii hereditarie prefati dominii terrarum monasterii
predicti Crucis Regalis vulgo Corsraguel nuncupati sic ut prefertur heredi-
tarie predicto nobili domino et potenti domino Gilberto comiti de Cassillis
heredibus suis masculis et assignatis unacum dicto feodo videlicet sexaginta
quatuor bollis farine avenatice annuatim per ipsos dominum commendatarium
et conventum hujusmodi monasterii ex certis causis rationabilibus legiti-
misque in eadem carta predicta specificatis sibi nobili domino comiti here-
ditarie in forma sub ipsorum sigillo capituli et subscriptionibus suis
manualibus confectam et concessam in judicio coram nobis ut supra
judicialiter produci recognosci unacum predictis literis commissionum
desuper nobis predictis directis necnon concessionem assignationemque
sexaginta quatuor bollarum farine avenatice predicte sibi nobili domino
assignatarum percipiendarum et levandarum hereditarie ex quibusdam terris
hujusmodi monasterii predicti ut prefertur nomine stipendii pro executione
predicti ballivatus officii suprascripti dominii terrarum sepefati monasterii
unacum servicio tenentium et occupatorum earundem terrarum predictarum
sibi etiam domino comiti heredibusque suis masculis et assignatis propterea
confectas et hereditarie concessas per nos vigore predicte commissionis
apostolice ratificari approbari et confirmari eiisque perpetue firmitatis robur
adjici ac ea valida et efficacia existere suosque effectus plenarios sortiri et
perpetuo inviolabiliter observari sic que per quoscunque judices quavis
auctoritate fungentes sublata eiss et eorum cuilibet quavis aliter judicandi
et interpretandi facultate et auctoritate judicare et interpretari debere et
diffiniri Et quicquid secus attemptari contigerit irritum et inane decerni
omnesque et singulos tam juris quam facti defectus si qui forsan in premissis
intervenerint suppleri ceteraque alia quecunque in ipsius commissionis literis
predictis debite executioni secundem tenorem et formam earundem deman-
dari decerni necnon testes super informatione nostra in premissis coram
nobis producendos recipi jurari et ad examinationem admitti processumque
nostrum judiciarum super hiis premissis omnibus virtute predicte commissionis
cognito nobis quantum sufficit de premissis fiendum et concedendum decerni
et diffiniri ac desuper concedi Alioquin ad allegandum causam rationabilem
seu causas rationabiles in oppositum cum intimatione debita ut moris est
certificantes eosdem sic citatos seu citandos quod sive in dicte citationis ter-
mino comparere curaverint sive non comparuerint ut supra Nos aut aliqui duo
nostrum conjunctim in judicio predicto procedere et ibidem ad instantiam sup-
plicationem et requisitionem dicti comitis ad ratificationem et confirmationem

134 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

perpetuam super premissis omnibus cum inde secutis et secuturis licitis
tamen et honestis etiam cum supplemento defectuum quorumcunque siqui in
premissis intervenerint legitime decernere et processum nostrum desuper in
forma debita dandum et concedendum juxta et secundum formam vim et
continentiam supradicte commissionis apostolice nobis ut preferter ob id
directe decernere et concedere volumus et intendimus voluntve et intendunt
justicia mediante ipsorum sic citatorum contumacia seu absentia in premissis
minime obstantibus Insuper citetis legitime quosdam testes fide dignos in
premissis necessarios pro nostri animi informatione desuper videlicet domp-
nos Johannem Mur suppriorem Johannem Mur juniorem Nevinum M‘Kewne
Gilbertum M‘Burne quos nos etiam tenore
presentium sic citamus quod compareant coram nobis die hora et loco supra-
scriptis ad perhibendum fidele testimonium veritati super narratis et
contentis ac aliis requirendis executionem predicte commissionis concernen-
tibus sub pena excommunicationis majoris Et presentes debite executas et
indorsatas earundem latori reddatis Datum apud Mayboil sub subscriptione
et signo manualibus notarii ac tabellionis nostri infrascripti die secundo
mensis Octobris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo se[ x Jagesimo secundo
coram hiis testibus Willelmo Stevin domino Michaele Leirmont et Johanne
Murthe ac David Kennede, cum diversis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis
pariter et requisitis.

Et ego Jacobus Ros clericus Glasguensis diocesis sacraque auctoritate
apostolica notarius publicus ac prescriptorum judicum scriba et tabellio
Quia prescripte commissionis presentationi acceptationi et presentium
decreto ceterisque premissis unacum prenominatis testibus person-
aliter presens interfui Eaque omnia et singula sic scivi vidi et audivi
ac in notam sumpsi Ex qua hoc presens publicum instrumentum
manu alterius fideliter scriptum exinde confeci et in hanc publicum
formam instrumentalem redigi signoque nomine meis solitis et
consuetis signavi in robur et fidele testimonium omnium et singu-
lorum premissorum rogatus et requisitus. Jacosus Ros.

[Indorso]: Die Dominica videlicet die quarta mensis Octobris anno
Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo Ego dominus Dun-
canus Makclewane curatus ecclesie parrochialis de Mayboil ante meridiem
tempore solite summe misse accessi primo ad personalem presentiam vener-
abilis patris Quintini commendatarii monasterii Crucis Regalis Glasguensis

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 135

diocesis dominos Gilbertum M*Burnney Gilbertum Kennedy et Joannem
Haneyne monachos dicti monasterii personaliter apprehensos deinde ad
ecclesiam eorum monasterialem ubi eorum stalli esse solebant et ad fores
eorum capituli dicti monasterii Et ibidem predictum commendatarium et
predictos suos monachos personaliter apprehensos citavi et reliquum dicti
monasterii conventum apud eorum stalla in choro et loca in eorum capitulo
predicto secundum vim formam et tenorem retroscripte citationis retro-
scriptorum judicum citavi ad comparendum die et locis prescriptis Necnon
coram hiis testibus Archibaldo Lymekillis Hugone Kennedy et domino
Willelmo Tod. ;

Ita est dominus Duncanus M°Clellane curatus de Mayboill ad premissa

requisitus manu propria. D. D. M.

ABSTRACT.

Letters of Citation by Thomas, perpetual Abbot of the monastery of
Glenluce, of the Cistercian Order, diocese of Whithorn, David Gibsoun and
John Houstoun, canons of the metropolitan church of Glasgow, appointed
Judges delegate and commissaries, together with John, Abbot of New
Abbey, their colleague in that part, by commission from John, Archbishop
of St. Andrews, primate of Scotland, legatus natus, etc., addressed to the
vicar or curate of the parish church of Maybole, stating that they had seen
and considered letters patent of the said Archbishop directed to them, and
presented on behalf of Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis, for confirmation of the
appointment and admission of the said earl to the office of heritable bailie
of the lordship and lands of the monastery of Crosraguel, granted by
Quintin, Commendator of the monastery and convent thereof, with grant
of 64 bolls of oatmeal yearly, for fee of the said office, from certain lands
formerly granted to the predecessors of the said earl, beginning with the
crop 1559; which commission is dated at Paisley 6th July 1561: Which
being presented to the Judges delegate, and they being required on the
part of the said Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis, to proceed to due execution
thereof, they hereby directed their Letters of Citation to summon Quintin,
perpetual commendator of the monastery of Crosraguel and convent of the
same place, to compear before the said Judges delegate in the parish church
of Maybole, in the judicial place therein, on the 13th October next follow-
ing, to hear and see the said Charter of grant and infeftment of the said

136 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

office of bailiery produced in judgment before the said abbot and commis-
saries, with the foresaid letters of commission and grant of 64 bolls afore-
said, and by the said Judges delegate to be approved and confirmed, or to
assign a reasonable cause to the contrary; and to cite necessary witnesses,
viz., Sir John Mur, subprior, John Mur younger, Nevin M’Kewne, Gilbert
M°Burne, to compear the same day and place, under pain of the greater
excommunication : Given at Maybole, 2d October 1562, under the sign and
subscription of James Ros, notary public and clerk to the commissaries.

An indorsation bears that on Sunday the 4th October 1562, Sir Duncan
M°Clellane, curate of the parish church of Maybole, at the time of high
mass, passed to the personal presence of Quintin, Commendator of the
monastery of Crosraguel, Sirs Gilbert M*°Burnne, Gilbert Kennedy, and
John Haneyne, monks of the said monastery, at the church of their monas-
tery, where their stalls were wont to be, and cited them and the rest of the
convent to compear before the said Judges, day and place aforesaid.

76. Contract between Quintin Abbot of Crossaguel and Sir Hew Kennedy
regarding the salmon fishings in the river Girvan.—{ 19th January 1562. |}

At Mayboill the xix day of Januar in the yeir of God J™ v° lxij yeiris
it is commonit betwix my Lorde of Corsragwell on that ane pairt and Sir
Hew Kennedy of Garvan manis Knycht on that uther pairt as followis That
is gif the said Sir Hew persewis and obtenis the rycht and decrete of the
hale fischeing of the wattir of Garvan heretabillie to him and his airis than
in that case the said Sir Hew sall bind and oblis him his airis and assignayis
till pay yeirlie to the sade commendatour of Corsragwell and his successouris
for evir foure dosane of salmont for teind and gif the sade Sir Hew tynis?
the pley and rycht thairof he sall tak the samyn fischeing in few and
heretage for sex dosan of salmont yeirlie to be payit to the said commenda-
tour and his successouris attour the sade Sir Hew and his airis sall pay
alwayes yeirlie nyne dosand of salmont to the saide commendatour indurand
his lyftym In witnes heirof athir of the sadis pairteis hes subscrivit this
present wryting day yeir and place abone writtin befoir David Kennedy of
Culzeane James Kennedy of Vehtwallure Gilbert Kennedy younger of
Balmaclannochane and Gilbert M‘Dowall The entre to be at the Beltan

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 626. 2 “loses,”

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 137

precedant the dait heirof and athir of the saidis pairteis to provyde thair
rychtis as thai think best be avyse of men of law.
(Signed) CrosraGweELt.
Hew Kenypy of Gervan mais Kny*:

ABSTRACT.

Agreement between the Abbot of Crosraguel and Sir Hew Kennedy of
Girvanmains, knight, bearing that if Sir Hew Kennedy shall raise action
and obtain decree finding him entitled to the fishings of the water of Girvan,
then and in that case he obliges him and his heirs to pay to the Abbot and
his successors four dozen of salmon (teind), but if Sir Hew shall lose the
action he shall take the fishings in feu for payment yearly of six dozen of
salmon to the Abbot and his successors; and shall over and above pay
yearly to the Abbot during his life nine dozen of salmon from and after the
feast of Beltan then next. Dated 19th January 1562.

77. Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis
of the whole Benefice of the Abbey.—[8th April 1564. |

Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres Us Quintine be the
permissioun of God Commendatour of the Abbacy of Crosraguell to haif set
and for [ane] certane sowme [of] money and uthir dewiteis underwrittin to
haif lattin and be the tenour herof settis and for ane certane sowm of money
and uthir dewiteis underwrittin lattis to ane noble and potent Lord Gilbert
Erle of Cassillis his airis maill and assignais All and haill our benefeis of
Crosraguell with kirkis teyndis malis proffittis firmes emolimentis and uthir
dewiteis quhatsumevir during the space of fyve yeris nixt and immediat
following the fest of Philip and Jacob callit Beltane, in the yeir of God
j™ ve threscoyr four yeiris Quhilk fest of Beltane salbe the intre of the
sad Erle and his foirsadis in and to the tak and set of the said benefeis with
all proffittis kirkis and emolimentis pertening thairto and fra thynefurth to
induir for the sad space of fyve yeiris with all and syndry kirkis teyndis
firmes malis gersummes proffittis and dewiteis pertening thairto with mos
mure medo turfe teill wod wattiris and with all and syndry uthir com-

1 Qulzean Muniments, No, 643.
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138 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

moditeis and fredomes pertening thairto siclik as we mycht do our self ony
maner of way. The sad Erle and his foirsadis payand thairfor yeirlie
induring the sad space to us our successouris or factouris the sowme of
sevyne hundreth markis money * at twa usuale termes in the yeir Witsoneday
and Martimes in wintir be equale portionis togidder with all and haill the
uphald of the conventis portionis thairof usit and wont And we forsuith
’ the sad commendatour for us and our successouris this present tak and
assedatioun for the space foirsad in all thingis abone expremit sall warrand
acquiet keip and defend the samyn to the sad Erle and his foirsadis at all
handis but fraud or gile In witnes of the quhilk thing we haif subscrivit
this present tak and assedatioun with our hand at Mayboill the aucht day
of Aprile the yeir of God j™ v° threscoyr four yeiris before thir witnes
Dene Johnn Mure younger William Stewin and James Ros notar with
uthiris divers. CROSRAGUELL.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to Gilbert
Earl of Cassillis of the Benefice of Crosraguel, with the churches, teinds,
mails, fermes, profits, commodities, and emoluments thereof, for the space
of five years immediately after the feast of Beltan then next, in the year
1564. Dated 8th April 1564.

78. Discharge by Abbot Quintin to the Earl of Cassillis of 350 merks.—
[27th July 1564. ]?

We Quintine Commendatour of Crosraguell grantis us to haif resavit be
the handis of ane noble and potent Lord Gilbert Erle of Cassillis the soum
of thre hundreth and fifty merkis money and that for the medsymeris
termes maill of our benefeis of Crosraguell liand in the Erldom of Carrik
and scherefdome of Air conform to the tak set be us to the sad Erle of the
sad haill benefeis of Crosraguell in the yeir of God j™ v¢ threscoyr four
yeris and thairaf and all utheris termes preceding the sad yeir of God we
hald us weill content and payit be the handis of the sad Erle And for us
and our successouris quitclames and dischargis the sad Erle of the sad
termes maill and all utheris yeris preceding the dait herof of the soume

1 Equal to £466 13:4. 2 Culzean Muniments, No. 649.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 139

continet in the sad tak and all uthir dewiteis aucht be him be thir presentis
for now and evir be this acquittance subscrivit with our hand at Mayboill
the xxvij day of Junij the yeir of God j™ v° thre scoyr four yeris befoir thir
witnes Dene Johnne Mure younger, Thomas Nasmyth, and Sir William Tod
with utheris divers. QuITYNE comédator of Crosragwell.

ABSTRACT.

Discharge by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis
of the sum of 350 merks, being a term’s rent of the benefice of Crosrag-
uel due by the earl to the abbot at Martinmas then last. Dated 27th
June 1564.

79. The reported Death by poison of Abbot Quintin Kennedy.—
[22d August 1564. |?

August 22 die. Coelestia petijt Quintinus Kennedius comitis Cassilize
frater, et abbas Crucis Regalis, post varios cum Hereticis congressus,
superatosque publica disputatione hostes, ab inferni asseclis medicato poculo
sublatus vitam cum morte commutavit anno Christi 1564. Huius multa
sunt et doctissima de fidei dogmatis monimenta. |

Quintinus Kennedius abbas Corsraguellius frater comitis Cassilliz,
Robertus Maxwellius, et alij, qui in publicis disputationibus de articulis
fidei _Knoxium, Paulum Meffen, et socios prostraverunt, non innixos
soliditati scripture et veritatis, sed proprij sensus et libidinis ruinoso
fundamento, et gladiis, quod fatetur Beza in ultimis annotatis.

80. Gift to George Buchanan the Historian of a Yearly Pension due
from the Rents of Crosraguel.—{ 9th October 1564. ]?

Ane Lettre maid to Maistre George Buchquhannane, for all the
dayis of his liffe, of the Gift of an zeirlie pensioune* of the sowme of

1 Davidius Camerarius Scoti De Scotorum Forti- 3 From this date Buchanan frequently styled
tudine, pp. 168, 277. Paris, 1631. himself Pensionarius de Crosragwel ; e.g. in Reg.
2 Records of the Privy Seal in Tho. Ruddi- pis. Brechinensis. He was also appointed
man’s Animadversions on Vindication of Mr. Director to the Chancery.
George Buchanan, p. 86, 1749 edition.

140 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

five hundred pundis usuale money of this realme, to be zeirlie uptakin
be him, his factoris and servitouris in his name, at twa termes in
the zeir, Whitsounday and Martimes in winter, be equale portionis,
of the reddiest fruittis and emolimentis of the Abbay of Corsragwell,
now vacand and being in hir Majesties handis throw the deceis of
umquhile Master Quintene Kennedie last abbot thairof. And for pay-
ment of the said zeirlie pensioun, assignis to him the haill temporalitie
of the said Abbay, with the place, manss,! orchardis, mains, woodis,
coilheuchis, and pertinentis quhatsumevir pertaining thairto: With power
to him to set and rais the said temporalitie, outputt and imputt the
tennentis thairof, and utherwise to use the samyn als frelie in all sortis as
the said umquhile abbote mycht have in his liftyme. And gife the samyn
sall not be fundin sufficient and aneuch for zeirlie payment of the said
soume of fyve hundredth poundis, in that case her Majestie assignis to him
sa mekle as he sall inlaik of the said temporalitie of the reddiest teyndis
and fruitis of the spiritualitie of the said Abbaye, viz., of the Kirkis
of Girvane and Kirkoswald belangand thairto. And that the said
Lettre, etc.

At Halirudhous the nynt daye of October, the zeir of God M.V¢ Lxiy.

Zeris.

81. Action by Mr. George Buchanan, Pensioner of Crosraquel, against
the Earl of Cassillis.—_[16th October 1564. |?

Apud Edinburgh, xvj Octobris, anno etc. lxiiij? Sederunt: Jacobus
Moravie Comes, Archibaldus Ergadie Comes, Jacobus Comes de
Mortoun, Cancellarius, Joannes Atholie Comes, Patricius dominus
Ruthven, Secretarius, Thesaurarius, Clericus Registri, Clericus Jus-
ticiarie. Advocatus.

The quhilk day, anent the complaint maid be maister George Buch-
quhannan, makand mentionn that quhair he hes be gift of our Soverane
Lady, for all the dayis of his lyff, ane yeirlie pensioun of the soum of
v° ti. to be yeirlie uptaken of the frutis and emolumentis of the Abbay of
Corsragwell, and for payment thairof thair is assignit to him the haill

1 i.e. The Abbot’s house ; probably the fine 2 Register of the Privy Council of Scotland,
new building which was then just completed. vol. i. pp. 288, 289.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 141

temporaltie of the said abbay, with the place, manis, wod, and pertinentis
thairof. Nevertheles, Gilbert Erle of Cassilis hes, sen the deceis of the last
Abbot of Corsragwell, enterit within the place and abbay thairof, with-
holdis, and on na wayis will deliver the samyn to the said Maister George,
without he be compellit, lyke as at mair lenth is contenit in the said com-
plaint. The saidis Erle of Cassilis and Maister George comperand bayth
personallie, the Lordis of Secreit Counsall ordanis lettres to be direct sim-
pliciter to charge the said Gilbert Erle of Cassillis to deliver the said abbay
and place of Corsragwell, with the orchartis and yairdis thairof, to the said
Maister George, or ony in his name havand his power in his name to ressave
the samyn, within sex dayis nixt eftir the charge, undir the pane of re-
bellioun : and gif he failze, the said sex dayis being bipast, to put him to
the horne. And as to the remanent pointis of the said complaint, referris
the samyn to the decisioun of the Lordis of Counsall and Sessioun ; ordinand
the said maister George to persew befoir thame or uther ordiner jugeis as
he thinkis caus.
ABSTRACT.

Order of the Privy Council, bearing that Mr. George Buchanan had
complained to them that the Earl of Cassillis had entered within the Abbey
of Crosraguel since the decease of Abbot Quintin, and would not deliver it
up to Mr. George Buchanan; therefore the Lords of Council ordain letters
to be directed, charging the earl to deliver the same to the said Mr. George
within six days, under pain of horning. At Edinburgh the 16th of October
1564.

82. Gift by Queen Mary to Allan Stewart of the Abbacy of
Crosraguel.—_{ 19th July 1565. ]*

Marie be the grace of God Quene of Scottis To the Lordis of oure Coun-
sale and Sessioun oure Comptrollare present and tocum greting Wit ye us
ffor the trew and thankful service done to us and oure derrest moder of
gude memorie Marie Quene douriare and Regent of oure realme be oure
dailie servitour James Stewart of Cardonald? in his favouris to have gevin
and grantit and be thir oure lettres gevis and grantis to our lovit Clerk

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 656. puted by the English Government to keep a

2 Evidently a man of different views from his watch on Abbot John Hamilton of Paisley (v.
father, the Stewart of Cardonald who was de- State Papers, Scotland, Edward Vi.,.4. U3).

142 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Maister Alane Stewart’ All and haill the Abbay of Corsragwell now vaicand
and beand in our handis throucht the deceis of umquhile Maister Quintene
Kennedy last abbot thairof with kirkis personagis vicarages thairof with all
and sindrie woddis landis teindis rentis mailis fermes proffittis pertinentis
emolimentis and dewiteis quhatsumevir pertening and belanging to the
said abbacye liand within the diocie of Glasgw baillierie of Carrik and
scherefdome of Air als frelie as the said Maister Quintene Kennedy or ony
uthir abbote thairof bruikit the samin during the said Maister Allanis
lyftyme to be bruikit joisit and possessit be him and he to intromet uptak
ressave and dispoun upoun the landis teindis mailis fermes fruitis proffittis
emolimentis and dewiteis quhatsumevir pertening thairto chairgeing all
parochynnaris of kirkis pertening to the said abbay tennentis and intromet-
touris with the landis teindis kirkis teindis and uthiris dewiteis of the
samin to reddilie answer intend obey and mak payment to the said Maister
Allane as undoutit abbot foirsaid his factouris and servitouris in his name
and to nane utheris of all and sindrie teindis landis fruitis emolimentis
mailes fermes proffittis and dewiteis and all uthiris thingis pertening to the
said abbay yeirlie and termelie during his lyftyme under all hieast pane and
charge declarand be thir presentis oure will that na takis have langar place
of the said abbay or ony pairt or partiall thairof except allanerlie the thre
yeiris takis quhilkis ar tocum maid be the last abbot Maister Quintene
Kennedy to Gilbert Erle of Cassilis? attoure we will and grantis for us and
our successouris decernis and ordanis that our present gift donatioun and
dispositioun of the said abbay is and salbe in all tymes cuming of als grete
strenth force and to the said Maister Allane during his lyftyme as he had
obtenit the samin be bullis provisioun or uthirwayis in the Court of Rome
be oure supplicatioun expeid to that effect and siclike and als sufficient as
ony utheris bruikis and posseceis benefices within oure realme be bullis and
provisioun of the said Court of Rome or uthirwayis quhatsumevir but revo-
catioun or contradictioun quhatsumevir to be maid in the contrare and
ordanis lettres executoriallis of horning poinding and inhibitioun to be
direct for answering and obeying to him of the samin yeirlie and termelie

1 Apparently a younger brother of James
Stewart of Cardonald, though we have no direct
evidence of this, In 1505 Allan Stewart of
Cardonald got a tenement in Stockwall in feu of
the Monastery of Paisley, and witnessed a charter
of the Earl of Lennox in 1521. Allan thus

was a patronymic in the Cardonald family

(Hamilton of Wishaw’s Account of Renfrewshire,

p. 78). Cardonald was a “ pleasant, convenient

dwelling, with good house and enclosures” (¢bid.)
2 V. ante, No. 77.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 143

as said is during his lyftyme Gevin under oure Privie Seile at Edinburgh
the nyntene day of July the yeir of God j™ v° Ixv yeiris and of oure Regnne
the xxiij yeir.’

Hee est vera copia abbreviationis Litere prescripte contente in libro
secreti sigilli S.D.N. regine extracta de eodem copiata et colla-
tionata per me Thomam Sinclare notarium publicum ac dicti secreti
sigilli scribam deputatum sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.

Ita est Thomas Sinclare manu propria.

ABSTRACT.

Gift by Queen Mary to Mr. Allan Stewart, by which, for the true and
faithful service done to her and to Mary Queen Dowager of Scotland [of
good memory her mother], by James Stewart of Cardonald, she gives to
Mr. Allan Stewart the Abbacy of Crosraguel, then vacant by the decease
of Mr. Quintin Kennedy, late abbot thereof, with the churches, parsonages,
and vicarages, woods, lands, teinds, rents, mails, farms, profits, duties, and
emoluments belonging thereto, lying in the diocese of Glasgow and bailiary .
of Carrick, to be enjoyed and possessed by the said Mr. Allan Stewart
during all the days of his life, ete. Dated 19th July 1565.

83. Apostolic Letters from John Archbishop of St. Andrews to Allan
Abbot of Crosraguel.—{ 26th September 1565. ]?

Joannes* miseratione diuina Sanctiandree archiepiscopus totius regni
Scotie primus legatus natus a Pasleto monasterio ordinis Cluniacensis
Glasguensis diocesis Abbas ete. et Apostolice sedis cum potestate et facultate
legati a latere ad serenissimam et excellentissimam principem Mariam
Scotorum reginam eiusque regnum et dominia illi subiecta nuncius a sede
apostolica specialiter deputatus dilecto nobis in Christo Alano Steuard

1 The first instance in this history of the Beaton, but retained the Abbacy. He was the

right of the sovereign to appoint an abbot. It
was wrested from the chapter towards the end
of the previous century.

2 Culzean Muniments, No. 664.

3 John Hamilton, Abbot of Paisley from
1525 to 1547, when he was appointed to the
see of St. Andrews on the murder of Cardinal

great figure in the defence of the old Church
against John Knox, and a zealous partisan in
Queen Mary’s cause. He helped her to escape
from Lochleven, and baptized the young Prince
in 1566. He was the last Archbishop of the old
Church of Scotland, and was executed at Stirling
in 1571.

144 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

artium magistro de nobilium familia nato salutem in domino sempiternam
Literarum scientia vite ac morum honestas aliaque laudabilia probitatis et
virtutum merita super quibus apud nos fide digno commendaris testimonio
nos inducunt vt te fauore prosequamur oportuno, Cum itaque monasterium
beatissime Virginis Marie Crucis Regalis' vulgo Corsraguell nuncupatum
ordinis Cluniacensis Glasguensis diocesis a monasterio nostro de Pasleto
dependens? et illius sic vt in nouorum intrantium abbatum introitibus ac
professionibus et religionis emittendis votis nostre filiationis esse dignoscitur
quodque cum existentiis in suis insignibus et aliis monasterio incumbentibus
conuentuale insignitum extat et propterea quocies vacat de patronatu ad
nominationem siue presentationem principis Scotie pro tempore existentis
iure et consuetudine corone ipsius regni necnon ex indultis et priuilegiis
diuersorum summorum pontificum regibus et principibus Scotie intra certos
menses a die vacationis eiusdem spectans et pertinens per mortem quondam
bone memorie magistri Quintini Kennedie istius monasterii dum viveret
vitimi abbatis seu commendatarii et possessoris eiusdem extra Romanam
curiam et in partibus de mense Julio’ in anno Domini millesimo quingen-
tesimo sexagesimo quarto diem claudentis extremum vacauerat et vacet ad
presens et tanto tempore vacauerit et abbatis solacio destitutum quod eius
prouisio culpa et defectu interesse habentium ad idem tempestiue minime
presentantium ad Sanctissimum dominum nostrum papam et apostolicam
sedem cuius vices in presenti valore annuo dicti monasterii considerato
uigore facultatum nobis a sede apostolica concessarum licet immeriti dante
Domino gerimus et potimur iuxta diuersa concilia et constitutiones ac alias
spectauerit et pertinuerit ac spectat et pertinet Nos igitur partes nostras et
officium nobis in hac parte incumbentes attendentes et ne prefatum monas-
terium Crucis Regalis sic vt premittitur tam diu vacans ex monasterio
nostro Pasletensi dependens et tam longe ab vrbe Roma et apostolica sede
per tot maris et terrarum interualla distans diutius vacationis incommodum
siue dispendium patiatur neve obsequia in eo Deo dedicata et promissa
negligantur vel suffragia pro ipsius fundatoribus et aliis iure fundationis
fraudentur quantum cum Dei adiutorio rerum et temporis occurentium

1 We have only once met with this form of
the name before. It is purely arbitrary, and pro-

of asserting the superiority of Paisley over Cros-
raguel, as established by Bishop William in

bably has caused the mistaken etymology ever
since. See Introduction.

2 Thus, even after the downfall of his monas-
tery, the Abbot of Paisley loses no opportunity

1244,
8 Though Camerarius states the day of his
death to be August 22.

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qualitate pensata possumus seu debemus tibi qui presbiter ordinatus existis
pro quo illustrissimus Henricus et serenissima Maria principes Scotorum
Rex et Regina supplicarunt et te dictum monasterium nominarunt et pre-
sentarunt premissorum meritorum tuorum intuitu specialem gratiam facere
volens predictum monasterium Crucis Regalis cum omnibus suis iuribus
preeminentijs et pertinentijs tam iure monasterii nostri de Pasleto cui
subesse dignoscitur cum consensu et assensu capituli etusdem? quam iure et
ratione primarie regni et legationis nate quibus fungimur ac virtute et
vigore facultatum legationis a latere nobis in sede apostolica concessarum,
supplicatione nominatione et presentatione principum prefatorum aliisque
premissis suadentibus contulimus prouidimus ac conferrimus et prouidemus
Quocirea dilectis nostris capitulo et conuentui monasterii Crucis Regalis
necnon vassallis subuassallis colonis agricultoribus tenentibus feudatarijs et
alijs terrarum et possessionum dicti monasterii laboratoribus mandamus et
precipimus quatenus dictum magistrum Alanum Steuart sic vt premittitur
ad supplicationem principum nostrorum iuribusque rationibus et auctoribus
preexpressis ad dictum monasterium Crucis Regalis alias Corsraguell ad
diutinam vacationem euitandam pro tempore prouisum vel suum procu-
ratorem ad hoc ab eo legitime constitutum admittant et recipiant ac illi et
factoribus suis in administrationem fructuum reddituum et prouentuum
elusdem quantum in eis est vel fuerit responderi seruatis ceremonijs et con-
suetudinibus et iuramentis in introitibus nouorum et intrantium ad idem
monasterium solitis et de preterito obseruatis In quorum omnium et
singulorum fidem et testimonium premissorum has presentes nostras pro-
uisionum literas exinde fieri et nostra manuali subscriptione et signo
secretarij nostri subscripti roboratas muniuimus. Apud monasterium
nostrum Pasletense sexto calendas Octobris anno incarnationis dominice
millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto indictione septima pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Pij diuina prouidentia
Pape quarti anno quarto.

dando Sandvandre- l.

1 Another striking instance of the assumed right of Paisley to control the abbot’s election at
Crosraguel (cf. No. 41 ante).

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146 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT.

Apostolic letters by John, Archbishop of St. Andrews, primate of Scotland,
legatus natus, Abbot of Paisley, with power of a legate a latere from the
Apostolic see, and nuncio from the same to Mary Queen of Scots, to Alan
Stewart, master of arts, descendant of a noble family, providing him to
the Abbacy of Crosraguel, dependent upon the Abbacy of Paisley, then
vacant by the decease of Mr. Quintin Kennedy in July 1564, and that in
compliance with the request and on the presentation of King Henry and
Queen Mary. The appointment is made with consent of the Chapter of
Paisley and in virtue of the Archbishop’s powers as legate and legate a
latere, in consequence of the injury that might arise to the Abbey through
a long vacancy, being at so great a distance from the court of Rome. With
right to the fruits, rents, and emoluments of the abbey, and keeping the
ceremonies used and wont, on the admission of intrants and novices.!
Dated at the monastery of Paisley, 26th September 1565.

84. Instrument of Institution of Allan Stewart as Abbot of
Crosraguel.— 16th December 1565. |?

In Dei nomine, Amen: Per hoe presens publicum instrumentum cunctis
pateat euidenter et sit notum quod anno Incarnationis dominice millesimo
quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto
indictione nona Pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri
domini Pii diuina providentia pape quarti anno sexto In mei notarii
publici et testium subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus venera-
bilis vir Magister Alanus Steward commendatarius perpetuus monasterii de
Crosraguell Cluniacensis ordinis Glasguensis diocesis accessit ad dictum
monasterium de Crosraguell nuncupatum et inibi literas patentes donationem®
et dispositionem serenissime principis nostre Mariz Dei gratia Scotorum

1 The rule of admission is an admirable in-

stance of the severity of the Benedictine code or
rule. “For four days to stand at the gate and

tery, who would acquaint him with the severest
rules, and then with the remainder if he remains
firm. He is then made a novice, and is again

entreat the porter, who is to repel his advances
in the severest manner, If he perseveres and
obtains an entrance, he is to be led into a
chamber appointed for strangers, there to be
attended by the most ancient men in the monas-

examined in six months, and again in four
months. If he then passes, he is numbered
among the brethren.”

2 Culzean Muniments, No, 668.

3 No, 82 supra.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 147

regine de et super huiusmodi monasterio predicto illiusque juribus annexis
et pertinentijs vniuersis sibi Magistro Alano factas et concessas sub ipsius
reginee Maiestatis secreto sigillo sigillatas de data apud Edinburgum decimo
nono die mensis Julii anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo
quinto et regni ipsius reginee Celsitudinis predicte anno vigesimo tertio
Causante vacatione predicti monasterii per obitum seu decessum quondam
Magistri Quintini Kennedy vltimi illius commendatarii et possessoris dum
vixerat eiusdem prout in ipsis literis donationis et concessationis reginee
Maiestatis predicti expresse continetur Necnon literas etiam concessionis
provisionis et dispositionis desuper concessas per reuerendissimum in Christo
patrem et dominum Johannem Sancti Andree archiepiscopum '* regni Scotie
primatem legatum natum monasteriique de Pasleto abbatem ac cum potestate
et facultate legati a latere sancte sedis apostolice ad prelibatam serenissimam
et excellentissimam principem nostram Mariam Scotorum reginam eiusque
regnum et dominia illi subiecta nuntium a sede apostolica specialiter
deputatum super ipso monasterio predicto de Crosraguell sicut prefertur
vacante confectas vigore sue preeminentie iuris patronatus et presentationis
ac nominationis et dispositionis predicti monasterii Crosraguell sibi reuer-
endissimo patri archiepiscopo tanquam abbati predicti monasterii Pasleti
spectantium et competentium Propterea quia huiusmodi locus Crosraguell
cella subdita predicti monasterii de Pasleto esse dinoscitur Ac etiam ratione
sue preeminentie primatie et legatie nate regni predicti Htiam in vim sue
facultatis et officii legatie apostolice predicte sibi gratiose commissarum et
quibus fungitur in hac parte Accedente etiam ad hoc speciali supplicatione *
prelibate principisse nostre Marie regni Scocie predicti confectas prout in
iisdem reuerendissimi patris archiepiscopi abbatis predicti monasterii Pasleti
ete. literis patentibus plenius continetur sub eiusdem subscriptione manuali
ac sigillo sui officii legatie apostolice predicte vna cum subscriptione et
signo manualibus Magistri Andree Oliphant secretarii corroboratas de data
apud monasterium Pasleti sexto Kalendas Octobris anno incarnationis
Dominice millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto, ete. Quasquidem
literas predictas prefatus Magister Alanus suis in manibus tenens et habens
ibidem gratia nanciscendi et obtinendi institutionem legittimam et posses-
sionem corporalem realem et actualem huiusmodi monasterii predicti
iuriumque fructuum annexorum et pertinentiarum eiusdem vigore earundem

literarum respectiue predictarum vt asseruit Vbi vero dictus dominus
1 No, 83 supra. 2 Referred to in No, 83.

148 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

commendatarius diligenter de domino subpriore’* et conventu dicti monasterii
inquisiuit Et causante absentiam dicti subprioris et conventus nemone
ipsorum presente ibidem preter vnicum religiosum professum huiusmodi loci
nomine, viz., dominum Michaelem Dewar? nuncupatum, Prefatus dominus
commendatarius eundem dominum Michaelem sic personaliter apprehensum
ibidem modeste et cum ea qua decuit instantia requisiuit quatenus sibi com-
mendatario ingressum ecclesie monasterialis dicti loci et stallum seu sedem
principalem domini Abbatis huiusmodi monasterii sibi ostenderet Vnde
dictus dominus Michaell monachus sic requisitus manualiter prefatum
dominum commendatarium ad templum Pontum et locum principalem
stallum nuncupatum dicti abbatis inibi solitum et consuetum induxit et
appunctuauit Et statim dictus dominus commendatarius ibidem predictas
literas donationis concessionis provisionis et dispositionis prelibate 8. D. N.
regine ac prefati reuerendissimi patris archiepiscopi primatis regni abbatisque
predicti, ete., respectiue huiusmodi monasterii sibi factas et concessas vt
premissum est dicto domino Michaeli Dewar monacho publice porrexit
sibique easdem ad manus suas ex preceptis institutionis exhibuit. Quibus
vero literis predictis sic sibi per dictum dominum commendatarium porrectis
et exhibitis diligenterque per ipsum ibidem inspectis et debite consideratis
idem dominus Michael tanquam obediente filius in hac parte indilate pre-
fatum Magistrum Allanum commendatarium dicti loci personaliter vigore
earundem literarum predictarum ibidem in et ad corporalem realem et
actualem possessionem huiusmodi monasterii de Crosraguell iuriumque
annexorum fructuum proventuum et pertinentiarum eiusdem iuxta et
secundum vim tenorem et effectum earundem literarum predictarum publice
et solemniter induxit et instituit ibidem Et consequenter indilate ad
domum capitularem necnon ad aulam® et alia edificia huiusmodi monasterii
successiue ac etiam ad turrem seu fortalicium inibi constructum ‘ respectiue

1 The subprior and other monks had probably
fled when deprived of their abbot, as we know
that they afterwards returned (v. Nos. 113,117,
etc.) Sir John Mure was at this time subprior
(v. No. 69 ante), whom Dempster and Father
Hay describe as “vir doctissimus, qui multa
scripsit et obiit 1585.” The subprior appears
to have been always second in rank at Cros-
raguel, as there is no mention of a prior, as at
Paisley.

2 Sir Michael Dewar was in the monastery in

the days of old Abbot William in 1546 (v. No.
63 supra), and lived in it until at least 1575 (v.
No. 118).

3 4.e. The refectory.

4 Probably the ‘‘Abbot’s new House.” These
buildings, of which we have now the first men-
tion, must have been the work of Moubrayer.
We learn from Father Hay (MSS. Adv. Lib. p.
277) that he, was a monk of Crosraguel ‘ qui
multa contulit in sui monasterii ornatum et
obiit 1547.”

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 149

accessit et in iisdem consimiliter introduxit et instituit eundem dominum
commendatarium predictum in signum vere institutionis et possessionis
predicte Vnde dictus dominus commendatarius sic institutus premissis
causantibus aliquot famulos pro debita conseruatione dicti loci nomine ipsius
domini commendatarii inibi deputauit imposuit et ibidem pacifice reliquit
prout sibi desuper respondere voluerint. Super quibus premissis omnibus
et singulis prefatus Magister Alanus Steward commendatarius a me notario
publico subscripto sibi fieri petiit instrumentum seu instrumenta publicum
seu publica Acta erant hoc in predicto monasterio de Crosraguell modo et
forma quibus supra horam circiter decimam ante meridiem Sub anno mense
die indictione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem providis viris
viz., Johanne Steward in Kirktoun Allano Steward in Bradely Johanne
Steward et Adamo Steward filiis providi viri domini de Halrig et Patricio
testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego uero Dauid Sandelandis clericus Glasguensis diocesis publicus
auctoritate apostolica sacra notarius quia premissis omnibus et singulis
dum sic ut premittitur agerentur dicerentur et fierent vnacum pre-
nominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui et huiusmodi premissa
in notam sumpsi ideo hoe presens publicum instrumentum manv
alterius me aliis occupato negocijs veraciter scriptum exinde confeci
signoque et nomine meis solitis et consuetis in fidem et testimonium
veritatis premissorum roboraui rogatus et requisitus etc.

Davip SANDELANDIS no".

ABSTRACT.

Instrument of institution of Mr. Alan Stewart, perpetual commendator
of the monastery of Crosraguel, in the abbacy thereof—bearing that he
appeared at the monastery holding in his hands letters patent of Mary
Queen of Scots, bearing a gift and donation to him of the foresaid monastery,
dated at Edinburgh the 19th of July 1565: and also letters of provision
made thereupon by John, archbishop of St. Andrews, primate of Scotland
legate nate, and with power of legate a latere and nuncio of the apostolic
see to the foresaid Queen Mary, of date at the monastery of Paisley 6
Kalendas Octobris 1565; where he made diligent inquiry for the subprior
and convent, but found none present save one religious man, Sir Michael
Dewar, whom he asked to show him the entrance to the church of the

150 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

monastery and the stall or principal seat of the Lord Abbot thereof, who
inducted and placed him therein: and having received and read the foresaid
letters, inducted and instituted the said Alan Steward into real and corporal
possession of the foresaid monastery of Crosraguel, rights, annexes, fruits,
provents, and pertinents thereof; and thereafter passed and instituted him
in the same way in the chapter-house, hall, tower or fortalice thereof. After
which the abbot deputed certain servants for preservation of the same in his
name, and left them to be answerable to him thereupon. Done in the said
monastery of Crosraguel 16th December 1565.

85. Contract between Allan Abbot of Crosraguel and James Stewart of
Cardonald, regarding the Assedation of the Abbacy of Crosraguel.—
[29th December 1565. |*

At Glasgw the xxix day of December the yeire of God ane thowsand
fyve hundreth thriescoire fyve yeiris it is contractit appuntit and finallie
agoreit betwix Maister Allane Stewartt Abbott of Crosragwele on that ane
pairt and James Stewart of Cardonald on the uthir pairt in maner forme and
effect as eftire followis Thatt is to saye forsamekle as oure Soverane Lady
for trew and thankfull service done to hir grace and hir umquhill darrest
mothir Marie Quein Douriar and Regent of Scotland be hir dayelie servituire
James Stewartt of Cardonald and in his favour hes gifin and grantit to the
said Maistir Allane all and haille the Abacie of Crosragwell vaicand be deceis
of umquhill Maistir Quinteine Kennedy last Abbott thairof and becaus that
ane noble and mychty Lord Gilbert Erle of Cassillis has tak and assedatioun
of the saide umquhill Maistir Quintein of the said Abbacie for payment
onely of sevin hundreth merkis off scottis monie yeirelie induring the space
of fyve yeiris nixt and immediatly following the feist of Witsounday in the
yeir of God ane thowsand fyve hundreth thriescoire and thrie? yeiris and
swa for divers yeiris yitt to ryn the proffit is bot small quhairfore the said
Maistir Allane abbott foiresaid in respect of the premissis and for divers
gratitudis don to him be the said James hes sett and be the tennour heirof
settes to the said James his airis executouris and assignais all and haill the
saidis abacie fruittis rentis dewties emolimentis alsweill of the temporallitie
as of the spiritualitie quhatsumevir pertening to the said abay or that is

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 669. 2 Should be four, v. No. 77.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 151

rychtuusly knawin to pertein thairto for all the dayes ande termes of the
said abbottis lyftyme the entrie of the said James to be instantly to the said
abacie at the day and daitt heirof wyth power to him to uptak quhatsumevir
fruittis or dewteis perteining or that may pertein to the said abbacie induring
the tyme foiresaid and to dispone thairupone to his awin utilitie and proffit
at his awin plessour and als the said abbot foiresaid oblissis him and his
successouris to sett and dispone to the said James and infeft him his airis
and assignais or ony uthir persoun beand nominat be the said James herita-
billie in fewferm of all and haill the temporall landis quhatsumevir perteining
to the said abbacie and sall mak seill and subscrive and delivir to him or
thame nominat as is afoirsaid be the said James to that effect sufficient
infeftmentis being as yitt unsauld or sett in fewferme befoire the day and
dait heirof als oft and how sone he be requirit thairto for payment onely of
ijs. iujd. for entrie of ferme or vittuell contenit in the auld rentes alanerly
wyth sic clausis and conditionis as ar comounly usit and observit in infeft-
mentis of fewferme of the consuetuide of this realme with sic augmentationis
as the said James sall think maist expedient for his awin securitie and als
sall renew infeft or resignne to quhatsumevir uthir personis ane or ma to
quhome it sall pleis the said James to dispone the saidis landes or ony pairt
thairof in tennentis and heritabill fewaris and infeft tham siclik and als
suirelie as the said James was of befoire as ony uthir siclik infeftmentis in
this realm othir be resignatioun confirmatioun or infeftmentis als oft as he
beyis requiritt to that effect be the said James and na utheris and siclik
sall mak seill subscrive and deliver to the said James his airis executouris
and assignais ane sufficient lettre of tak of all and haill the teindis and
proffittis and quhatsumevir dewteis of the said abbacie for the space of
nyntein yeiris for the payment of iijs. ilijd. for the boll of vittuell ouerhed
and ijs. viijd. for the boll of aittis and sexten penneis for the staine of cheis
according to the auld rentell thairof of the fermes foirsaidis And als the said
abbott bindis and oblissis him to resigne and ourgif the said abacie haill
title and rycht quhilk he hes or onywayis may haiff thairto be vertew of the
said gyft bullus or ony uthirwayis in favouris of quhatsumevir persoun or
personis that it sall pleis the said James to nominat thairto and als oft as
the said James sall requeir him he sall mak sufficient mandattis to that effect
to be usit ay and quhill the said persoun quhilk sall be nominat be the said
James as is afoiresaid sall be sufficiently and dewlie provyditt thairto
reservyng alanerly to the said abbott the sowme and pensioun of ane

152 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

hundreth pundis usuall monie of this realm to be yeirlie uptakin during the
said Abbottis lyftyme of the reddiest fruictis and dewiteis of the Kirkis of
Straytoun and Kirkcowby? quhilk pensioun the said James oblissis him to
thankfully content and paye to the said abbott att twa usuall termes in the
yeir videlicet witsonday and mertimes in winter be equall proportionis
yeirlie and ilk yeir during the said abbottis lyftyme or to assigne him
alsmekle of the saidis kirkis and tenentrie thairof foiresaid to mak him
payment of the foirsaid hundreth pundis at the electioun and pleisour of the
said abbott begyning the first terme of payment att ony of the said termes
nixt and immediatly following the ischew and furthiring of the tak and
assedatioun sett to the said Erle of Cassillis be umquhill Maister Quintein
Kennedy last abbot thairof and the said abbot hes remittit and be the
tennour heirof remittis all and haill the saidis dewteis quhatsumevir of the
said abbacie pertening or that may pertein to him be ressoun of the said
gyft or bullus foiresaid in favouris of the said James his airis and assignais
induring all the dayis and termes of the said abbottis lyftyme safand and
exceptand the said sowm of ane hundreth pundis to be payit in maner
foirsaid alanerly and sall yeirly and termely as he sall be requiritt to that
effect deliver particular acquittance and discharges sufficient als oft as neid
beis and for observing of all and haill the premissis bayth the saidis pairtiis
ar contentit that this present contract be registrat in the buikis of counsell
and haf the strenth of ane decreitt of the Lordis and that executoriallis pas
thairupoune in forme as effeiris and thaj to interpone thair auctoritie heir-
unto and to that effect tha] and everie ane of thame makis constitutis and
ordanis conjunctlie and severallie thair procuratouris
wyth power to thame to compeir befoir the saidis Lordis and consent to the
registratioun heirof In witnes heirof bayth the saidis partiis hes subscrivit
this present contract with thair awin handis day yeir and place foirsaid
befoir thir witnes Gawand Grahame Patrik Wowplay and Johnne Anguss
wyth utheris divers And fforthirmair in defalt of payment of the said
pensioun of ane hundreth pundis as is afoirsaid the haill fruittis of the
benefice bayth spirituell and temporall to be sequestrat to the payment be
maid.
(Signed) Mast Attane Srewarr abot of Corsraguall.
JAMES Stewart of Cardonald.

1 4.e. Kirkcudbright or Ballantrae,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 153

ABSTRACT,

Contract between Mr. Allan Stewart Abbot of Crosraguel and James
Stewart of Cardonald, bearing our sovereign Lady the Queen having by her
gift, for the true and thankful service done to her Grace by the said James
Stewart, granted to Mr. Allan Stewart the Abbacy of Crosraguel, vacant
by the decease of Mr. Quintin Kennedy late abbot thereof, and because
Gilbert Earl of Cassillis had a Letter of Assedation of the abbacy from Mr.
Quintin Kennedy for the space of five years from Whitsunday 1564, for
payment only of 700 merks yearly, and the said sum being small and some
years of the Assedation to run, Mr. Allan Stewart for good causes sets to
the said James Stewart and his heirs the abbacy with the fruits, rents,
profits, duties, and emoluments, both spiritual and temporal, belonging
thereto, for all the days of his (Mr. Allan Stewart’s) life, and that
immediately following the date of the contract, with power to the said
James to uptake and receive all the rents, duties, and emoluments belong-
ing to the abbacy ; and also promises to set in feu-farm to him the temporal
lands of the abbey, and to lease the teinds and duties of the abbey to him
for 19 years, for payment of 2s. 4d. for the boll of victual, 2s. 8d. for the
boll of oats, and 16 pence for the stone of cheese. Reserving to the abbot
a pension of £100, to be yearly uptaken from the churches of Straiton and
Kirkcudbright. Dated 29th December 1565.

86. Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart for five
years of certain lands in the regality of the Abbey.—[ Dated 156-.]*

Be it kend to all men be thir present Lettres Us Maister Allane
Stuart commendatour of the Abbacy of Crosragwell for the singuler weill
commoditie and profeit of us and convent of the said Abbacy and for
dyveris greit sowmes of money gratitudes profeittis and guid deidis done
and paitt to us at the making heirof be ane honorable man James Stewart
of Cardonald to haif sett and in tak and assedatione lattin and be the
tenour heirof settis and in tak and assedatione lattis to the said James
Stewart of Cardonald and Ales Heid his spous and the langar leveing of

thayme twa thair airis or assignais ane or ma all and haill our landis

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 675.
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154 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

underwrittin videlicet the foure merkland of Mochramhill’ the viij merk-
land of Balcristeyne ? the ten pound land of Drumgarloch * the sex merkland
of Eister Deneyne the foure merkland of Drummurchy‘ the xl s. land of
Cragocht® with the coilhucht of Zallowlie the x s. land callit Maltmansland
occupiet be Nevin M‘Cassill our mylne* of Croceragwell our mylne of Drum-
garlocht our merkland of Stratoun all liand within our regalitie of Cros-
ragwell erledome of Carrik and scherefdome of Air with all thair pertinentis
quhatsumevir perteining thairto or that richteouslie is knawin to apperteyne
thairto ffor all and haill the spaces yeiris and termes of five yeiris nixt
and immediatlie followeing the said James and Ales and thair airis entres
to the said tak Quihilk entres salbe at the feist and terme of witsounday
nixt and immediatlie followeing the dait of this present tak and fra
thynefurth to induir and be peceable bruikit josit intromettit with
occupiet sett usit and disponit be the said James and Ales and thair
foirsaidis to the compleit ischew and outrynnyng of the saidis v yeiris
with all and syndrie priveledgeis commoditeis fredomes aisamentis richteous
pertinentis or that richteouslie salbe knawin to appertein to the foirsaidis
landis duiring the space foirsaid with full powar to the said James and
Ales and thair foirsaidis to uptak resave gadder leid and uplift and
intromett with all and haill the males fermes profeittis teyndis emolimentis
_ and teynd schaves and all uther dewiteis perteining to the saidis landis or
that is richteouslie knawin to perteyne thairto quhatsumevir to compone
agere and dispone thairupoun at thair awin plesouris acquittans thairof to
gif and alswa gif neid beis to call and persew the intromissouris detentouris
and withhalderis or to occupy the foirsaidis landis with thair awin propir
guidis quhatsumevir or ony pairt or portioun thairof as he or thay sall
think expedient frelie quietlie weill and in peace but ony revocatioun
obstacle impediment or againe calling quhatsumevir dureing the space
foirsaid of v yeiris and sall never cum into the contrary payand thairfoir
the said James Stewart and Ales thair airis and assignais etc. to us and
our successores abbates commendatouris and convent of Crosragwell for

1 Mochrum Hill, a large wooded eminence to
the west of Crosraguel,

2 V. No. 10 ante.

3 Or Dungrelach. V. No. 9 ante.

4 The steading of which seems to have been
a residence of Abbot Quintin (No. 72 supra).

5 On the Girvan, near Brunston, There are

to this day coalpits in the locality,

6 The Abbey mills were always a valuable
property, and from the earliest times minute
regulations for order and precedency were estab-
lished, and a strict “thirlage” maintained. The
mill of Bolden was leased by the Abbey of Kelso
for eight merks yearly (Reg. de Calchou).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 155

the tyme or our grentares or factores videlicet for the foure merkland of
Mochramhill with the teynd thairof foure merkis, for the viij merkland of
Balcristeing with the teynd thairof viij merkis ffor the x lib. land of Drum-
garloch with the teynd thairof x lib. ffor the vj merkland of Eister Deneyn
vj merkis ffor the foure merkland of Drummurchie with the teynd thairof.
iiij merkis ffor the xls. land of Cragocht with the teynd thairof xls. ffor the
coilhuich of Zallowlie xxs. ffor the xs. land occupiet be Nevin M‘Cassill
x s. ffor the mylne of Crosragwell v merkis and for the mylne of Drumgar-
loch xls. usuale money of this realme yeirlie at twa termes in the yeir
witsounday and mertymes in winter be equale proportioun allenarlie ffor
all utheris teyndis exactiones charge and service that may be justlie askit
or requirit thairof for the space abounwrittin And we forswyth and our
successores abbotes and commendatores of Crosragwell for the tyme sall
warrand acquiet and defend this present tak and assedatioun of all and
sindre thir landis myles and coilhuich abonewrittin sall warrand acquiet
and defend this present tak and assedatioun to the said James and Ales
and thair airis and assignais foirsaidis in all and be all thingis as is aboun-
writtin aganis all deidlie as law will but fraude or gyle and sall never
cum in to the contrary In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir present
lettres of tak and assedatioun subscryvit with our hand our seill of office
is afixt at... the . «... dayof. . < the-yere of God j™
ve threscoir and . . . yeiris befoir thir wittnes Williame Hegaitt noter
publict Johnne Reid Johnne Scott Robert Steward and Robert Dunlop with
utheris divers. ALLANE Comendator of Crosraguall.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by Allan Stewart, Abbot of Crosraguel and
convent thereof, to James Stewart of Cardonald and Alice Heid his wife,
of the four merkland of Mochrumhill, eight merkland of Balchristie, ten
pound land of Drumgarloch, six merkland of Easter Duneyn, four merk-
land of Drummurchy, forty shilling land of Craigoch and coalheuch of
Yellowlee, forty shilling land called Maltman’s Land, Mill of Crosraguel,
Mill of Drumgarloch, and merkland of Straiton, all lying in the regality of
Crosraguel, for the space of five years from Whitsunday 1566, paying
yearly to the abbot and convent for the four merkland of Mochrumhill
and teinds thereof four merks, etc. Dated . . . 156-.

156 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

87. Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of the teind
sheaves of the Churches of Kirkoswald, Girvan, and Dailly.—{ Dated
156-.]?

Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres Us Allane commendator
of Crosragwell and convent of the samyn with ane consent and assent
chaipterlie gadderit the weill of us and oure successores of the said abbay
forsene and considerit ryplie thairwyth avysit for certane plesouris grati-
tudis and guid deidis done to us and oure plaice foirsaid be ane honorable
man James Steward of Cardonald and for certane sowmes of money extend-
ing to the sowme of . . . money of this realme befoirhand paitt and
debursit be the said James we hald us weill content assyth and paitt
thairof and exoneris the said James his airis and assignais thairof for evir
to haif sett and in tak and assedatioun lattin and be the tenor heirof settis
and in tak and assedatione lattis to the foirsaid James Stuart of Cardonald
Alys Heyd his spous the langar levar of thame twa quihilkis failzeing the
saidis James airis and assignais quhatsumevir all and haile the teynd
schaves? growand or salhappin to grow within oure perrochin of Kirkoswall
Girvane and Dalie pertenyng to us and to our abbay as persone® of the
foirsaid Kirkis togedir wyth the alterages and gleib landis of the Kirkis
foirsaidis and our parte of the vicaregeis that salhappin to pertene to us
and to our plaice of the foirsaid Kirkis of Girvane Kirkoswall and Daly
togedir wyth all maner of dewities pertenyng to us and our plaice bayth of
personagis and vicaregis of the foirsaid Kirkis and that for all the days
yeres space and termes of nynteyne yeres to be compleitlie and fullelie
furthrun fra the said James entre and his said spous entre thairto quihilkis
entres salbe at the feist and terme of . . . . . inthe yere of God
Jm ye sextie and.. . . yeres and fra thynefurth to be brukit josit
uptane be the said James and his said spous the langar levar of thame twa
the saidis James airis or assignais quhatsumevir and intromettit wyth be
thame all the days space and termes of the saidis nynteyne yeres with full

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 676. 8 When churches were bestowed upon a

2 The teind sheaves, or decime garbales, con- monastery or cathedral, it was called the rector
sisted of the tenth sheaf taken from the harvest or person, by English writers parson imparsone,
field ; the vicarial tithes, or decime vicaria, came and was entitled to the rectorial tithes or teind
along with the tithes of the yearly produce of sheaves, the smaller tithes being left for the
stock, lambs, calves, etc., to the vicar. vicar who served the cure.

——

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 157

powar to the said James his said spous and his foirsaidis airis and assignais
to uptak resave gadder leid and uplift and intromett with the teynd
schaves of all and haill the foirnamed kirkis of Kirkoswall Girvan and
Dalie and gleib landis togedir wyth the alteragis! and our parte of the
vicaregis* of all and haile the foirsaid Kirkis to compone aggre and dispone
thairupon at his or hir foirsaidis plesouris acquittance thairof to gif and
also gif neid beis to call and persew the intromissouris tentores and wyth-
halderis thairof as hie or thay sall think expedient and that frelie quietlie
weill and in peace but ony impediment obstacle or agane calling quhat-
sumevir payand thairfore the saidis James Stewart Alys Heid his spous the
langar levar of thame twa and the saidis James airis or assignais quhat-
sumevir to us and our successouris abbatis or commendatouris and convent
of Crosragwell for the tyme or to our grintaris or factoris the sowme
of . . . usuale money of this realme at twa termes in the yere
Witsounday and Mertymes in winter be equale proportiones allenerlie for
all uthir exactiones chargeis questione demand and service that may be
askit or requirit thairof And we fforsuyth the said abbot commendator and
convent of Crosragwell foirsaidis bindis and oblissis us and our successores
abbatis commendatoris and conventis of the samyn for the tyme to warrant
acquiet and defend this our present tak and assedatione of all and haill the
saidis teyndis schaves of the foirnamit Kirkis gleib landis altaragis and our
parte of the vicaregis of Kirkoswall Girvane and Daly liand within the
baillerie of Carrik and scherefdome of Air to the said James his airis and
assignais during all the days yeres and space of the said nynteyne yeres
aganis all deidlie sall warrant and defend and nevir cum in the contrarie
thairof In witnes heirof to this our tak subscryvet with our handis the
commone seill of our chaptour of our said abbey is hungin at ;
the . . . day of . . . the yere of God J™ v° threscoir and

yeres befoir thir witnes Williame Hegaitt notare publict Johnne
Reid Johnne Scott Robert Dunlop and Robert Steward wyth utheris divers.

ALLANE Comédato® of Crosraguall.

1 i.e, The dues and offerings levied and made only enjoyed part of the vicarage tithes; in some
at the altar, which were usually reserved to the cases, as the vicarage of Lunan in Fife, the vicar
vicar. received only the altarage.

2 Apparently the vicars of these churches

158 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL,

ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel and convent
thereof, to James Stewart of Cardonald and Alice Heyd his wife, of the
teind sheaves of the parishes of Kirkoswald, Girvan, and Daily, belonging
to the abbacy of Crosraguel; together with the glebe lands and altarages
of the churches of the said parishes, and also such part of the vicarage of
the said churches as shall happen to belong to the said abbacy, for the space
of nineteen years from and after the feast of Whitsunday then next. Dated

156-.

88. Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart, of certain
lands, etc., in the regality of the Abbey, in feu farm.—| Dated 156-. |

Omnibus hane cartam visuris vel audituris Alanus permissione diuina
commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Regalis salutem in Domino
sempiternam. Quia huius regni reges diuersi in parliamentis suis cum
tribus regni sui statibus terras regis prelatorum dominorum temporalium
comitum baronum ceterorumque hominum terras hereditarie possidentium
in emphiteosim seu feudifirmam absque rentalium et commoditatum dimi-
nutione prout cum tenentibus conuenire poterint per diuersa parliamenti
statuta et acta assedandas fore decreuerunt Opinantes perinde commoda
non modica vt policiam honesta edificia terrarum nonas culturas sterilium
meliorationes arborum plantationes piscium in aquis retentibus per stagna
nutritiones columbariorum hortorum viridariorum et cuniculariorum con-
structiones ac tenentium possessorum huiusmodi terrarum sic in emphiteosim
seu feudifirmam locatarum in rebus mobilibus dicationes ac armorum et
rerum bellicarum prouisiones pro Regis et regni contra quoscunque inua-
sores defensione regi regno reipublice salute a prime profitere Et nos
scientes statuta et leges prescriptorum regum et maiorum maneriorum toti
regno et incolis eiusdem maxime vtiles Omnes et singulas terras nostras
aliaque subscripta dicto nostro monasterio spectantia suadentibus premissis
in feudifirmam locare statuimus Noueritis igitur nos ac conuentum dicti
nostri monasterii ordinis Cluniacensis vnanimi consensu et assensu adhoc
capitulariter congregatos diligentibus tractibus et maturis deliberationibus
prehabitis in euidentem vtilitatem nostri et successorum nostrorum ac dicti

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 677.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 159

nostri monasterii et augmentationem rentalis nostri annuatim ad summam
subscriptam Necnon pro summa trium millium librarum monete nobis per
dilectum nostrum Jacobum Steward de Cardonald persolutarum in repara-
tionem dicti nostri monasterii expositarum’ et exponendarum de quaquidem
summa tenemus nos bene contentos placatos et solutos dictumque Jacobum
de eadem exoneramus imperpetuum per tenorem dedisse concessisse vendi-
disse assedasse arendasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim heredi-
tarie dimisisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse necnon dare concedere
assidare arendare locare et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim hereditarie
dimittere et hac presenti carta mea confirmare dicto Jacobo Steward de
Cardonald heredibus suis ct assignatis omnes et singulas terras nostras sub-
scriptas, viz., totas et integras duas mercatas terrarum de Cauldwelstoune?
sex mercatas terrarum de Vestir Dennyne,’ quatuor mercatas terrarum de
M‘Kynnistoune,‘ quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Auchnaicht,° quadraginta
solidatasterrarum de Maxvellistoune,° quadragintasolidatas terrarum de Awch-
inblane,’ sex mercatas terrarum de Treiff,’ sex solidatas et octo denariatas
terrarum de Dalelong,’ tres libratas terrarum de Kirkdin,” viginti solidatas
terrarum de Clauchrieskeoych, viginti solidatas terras de Karnestoune decem
solidatas terrarum de Trodonoch," sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum
de Knokin,” tres libratas terrarum de Litilstoune® M‘Gvnstoune et Drumgor-
law, quadraginta sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Balserocht * et
Slabraicht, nouem mercatas terrarum de Dalquherrane alias Bruntstoune,”
vnam mereatam terrarum de Stratoune, vnam mercatum terrarum de Riddin
Rid, duas mercatas terrarum de M‘Moreistoune, viginti solidatas terrarum
de Lesymon, quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Beltressane,” vnam mercatam

1 The ravages of the Reformers in 1561 had 12 On the Stinchar, in Barr parish, among the

thus been apparently remedied to some extent.

2 To the west of Mochrumhill, near Culzean.

3 Two miles north-west of Maybole.

4 On the Girvan, near Dailly.

5 Probably the same as Achenacht or Hac-
hethinvach,

® Between Dailly and Bargany, on the Girvan.

7 Auchinblane, near the Abbey on the west,
where the three head courts of the Abbey were
annually held.

8 On the high land above Crosshill.

9 To the west of Trieff.

10 Probably the same as Kirkdamdie or Kirk-
dominie. V. note on No, 22.

11 A short distance below Kirkmichael.

hills.

13 Two miles north-east of Girvan.

14 Near Drumgarloch, two miles inland.

15 The old castle of Dalquharran, though in
ruins, is still very entire. It stands on the
margin of the Girvan, and is described by
Abercrumbie.

16 Or Baltersan. The old castle was formerly
a fine mansion, surrounded by gardens, parks,
and woods (v. Clerk of Eldin’s Etchings, No. 28,
drawn in 1778). It had been held by the Ken-
nedies from 1470, and was the residence of
Egidia, Lady Row. It stands about half a mile
west of the Abbey, and is easily seen from the

railway,

160 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

terrarum de Knockronald quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Eistir Awchin-
blane, viginti solidatas terrarum de Chalmeristoune et Lokistoune, viginti
solidatas terrarum de Dennyne occupatarum per Jacobum Sym et vnam
mercatam terrarum de M‘Stophastoune Quequidem terre cum singulis
earundem pertinentiis subscriptis jacent in regalitate de Croceragwell bal-
liuatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Air que etiam terre suprascripte
in nostro rentali extendunt prout perprius et longe antea extendebant
annuatim ad pecuniarum summas victualia et deuorias particulariter sub-
scriptas ac pro eisdem perprius locari solebant Tenendas et habendas
omnes et singulas prenominatas terras respectiue superius nominatas cum
singulis suis partibus pendiculis et pertinentiis extendentibus ad mercatas
libratas solidatas et denariatas terrarum separatim superius nominatim dicto
Jacobo Steward de Cardonald heredibus suis quibuscunque de nobis et suc-
cessoribus nostris quibuscunque abbatibus commendatariis et conuentibus
dicti nostri monasterii in feudifirma et hereditate imperpetuum per omnes
rectas metas suas antiquas et diuisas prout jacent in longitudine et lati-
tudine in domibus edificiis boscis planis! moris merresiis viis semitis® aquis
stagnis riuolis pratis pascuis® et pasturis aucupationibus venationibus pis-
cationibus petariis turbariis* carbonibus carbonariis cuniculis cuniculariis
columbis columbariis pomis pomariis fabrilibus brasinis brueriis et genistis
siluis nemoribus et virgultis lignis lapicidiis lapide et calee cum curiis et
eorum exitibus herezeldis bluduetis et mulierum merchetis® cum communi
pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus
commoditatibus proficuis asiamentis et iustis suis pertinentiis ad prefatas
terras spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum
libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retini-
mento reuocatione contradictione aut obstaculo aliquo Reddendo inde
annuatim dictus Jacobus Steward de Cardonald heredes sui et assignati
nobis et successoribus nostris nostrisque camerariis et factoribus nunc
presentibus et pro tempore existentibus pro prefatis duabus mercatis
terrarum de Cauldwellistoun quatuor mercas monete et duodecim

1 Arable lands.

2 The liberty of roads and paths,

3 Pratum was a hay meadow. Lawful travel-
lers had always the right of pasturing their cattle
where they spent the night, except in pratis et
segetibus.

4 The places where peats and turfs were cut,

5 Herizeld or Heriot was the best horse or
ox of the vassal, which became the property of
the lord on his decease. Bludwites means the
jurisdiction in assaults where there is bloodshed,
and where the wite or fine went to the lord of
the court. Mercheta was the old form of mar-
riage tax, paid by both free and servile tenants.

——

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 161

pultrias pro prefatis sex mercatis terrarum de Vestir Dennyne sex
libras monete pro prefatis quatuor mercatis terrarum de M‘Kynnis-
toune quatuor libras . pro prefatis quadraginta solidatis terrarum de
Auchnaych quinquaginta et quinque solidos pro prefatis quadraginta
solidatis terrarum de Maxvellistoune tres libras . pro prefatis quadraginta
solidatis terrarum de Awchinblane quatuor libras . pro prefatis sex
mercatis de Treiff sex libras et duodecim pultrias pro prefatis sex
mercatis et octo denariatis terrarum de Dalelong quindecim solidos et sex
pultrias pro prefatis tribus libratis terrarum de Kirkdin decem libras . pro
viginti solidatis terrarum de Clawchrieskerych preseriptis quatuor libras .
pro prefatis viginti solidatis terrarum de Karnestoune tres libras et sex
pultrias pro decim solidatis terrarum de Trodonoch et sex solidatis et octo
denariatis terrarum de Knockin tres libras et duodecim pultrias, pro tribus
libratis terrarum de Litilstoune M‘Gvnstoune et Drumgorlaw quinque libras .
pro quadraginta sex solidatis et octo denariatis terrarum de Balserocht
predictis et Slabrachte sex mercas pro prefatis nouem mercatis terrarum de
Dalquherrane alias Burntstoune nouem libras . pro prefata vna mercata
terrarum de Stratoune quinque mercas et duodecim lie murfowlis* pro prefata
vna mercata terrarum de Riddein Rid tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios pro
prefatis duabus mercatis terrarum de M‘Moreistoune quatuor mercas et sex
pultrias . pro prefatis viginti solidatis de Lesymon quatuor libras et sex
pultrias pro prefatis tribus mercatis terrarum de Beltressane tres libras et
duodecim pultrias . pro prefata vna mercata terrarum de Knockronnald
viginti solidos et sex pultrias . pro quadraginta solidatis terrarum de Kistir
Awchinblane sex libras et sex pultrias pro prefatis viginti solidatis terrarum
de Chalmerstoune et Lokistoune tres libras et duodecim pultrias pro pre-
fatis viginti solidatis terrarum de Dennyne occupatis per Jacobum Sym tres
libras et sex pultrias et pro prefata vna mercata terrarum de M‘Stophastoun
quadraginta solidos monete regni Scotie et sex pultrias tanquam lie males
et deuorias antiquas solui solitas et in nostro rentali contentas et pro
qualibet pultria sex denarios ad placitum adoptionem voluntatem et
arbitrium dicti Jacobi Steward heredum suorum et assignatorum ad anni
terminos vsitatos et consuetos necnon summam viginti solidorum monete in

1 Grouse were then, as now, plentiful in nostratibus; the moor-fowl, caro admodum
Straiton parish. Sir Robert Sibbald thus de- tenera est, in junioribus pasertim et optime
scribes the bird: “Lagopus altera Plinii, atta- nutrimenti” (Hist. Anim. im Scotia, p. 16, ed.
geni Aldrovandi, si non eadem. The moor-cock, 1684).

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162 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

augmentationem nostri rentalis plus quam vnquam prefate terre nobis aut
predecessoribus nostris perprius persoluerunt aut dederunt ad duos anni
terminos consuetos festa videlicet Penthecostis et Sancti Martini in hieme
per equales portiones Necnon heredes dicti Jacobi Steward duplicando
dictam feudifirmam primo anno eorum introitus ad dictas terras prout vsus
est feudifirme tantum pro omni alio onere exactione questione demanda seu
seruitio seculari que de predictis terris cum earundem pertinentiis pro
quibuscunque iuste exigi poterint quomodolibet vel requiri Et ego vero
dictus Alanus commendatarius et conuentus dicti nostri monasterii et suc-
cessores nostri omnes et singulas prenominatas terras cum singulis earundem
pertinentiis dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald heredibus suis et assignatis
in omnibus et per omnia forma pariter et effectu vt premissum est contra
omnes mortales varrantizabimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus
Insuper volumus et concedimus ac pro nobis et successoribus nostris pro
perpetuo decernimus et ordinamus quod vnica saisina per dictum Jacobum
in omnibus temporibus futuris per heredes suos apud dictas terras de
Cauldwellistoun capienda stabit et sufficiens erit saisina pro omnibus et
singulis terris prenominatis partibus pendiculis earundem ac aliis par-
ticulariter suprascriptis simili modo et adeo valide ac iure in omnibus ac
si particulares et speciales saisine apud quamlibet partem et locum earundem
date et suscepte fuissent non obstante quod dicte terre non inuicem sed
discontigue iacent Insuper dilectis nostris Johanni Steuard burgensi
6 BOT gw Et eorum cuilibet ballivis nostris in hac parte
specialiter et literatorie constitutis salutem Vobis et vestrum cuilibet
coniunctim et diuisim stricte precipimus et firmiter mandamus quatenus
visis presentibus indilate statum et saisinam hereditariam necnon realem
actualem et corporalem possessionem totarum et integrarum prescriptarum
terrarum de Cauldwellistoun extendentium ad duas mercatas terrarum
antiqui extentus sex mercatarum terrarum de Vestir Dennyne quatuor
mercatarum terrarum de M‘Kynnistoune trium mercatarum de Auchnaych
trium mercatarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Maxvellistoun trium
mercatarum terrarum de Awchinblane trium mercatum terrarum anti-
qui extentus de Treiff sex solidatarum et octo denariatarum terrarum
de Dalelong trium libratarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Kairkdin
viginti solidatarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Clauchrieskerych,
viginti solidatarum terrarum de Carnestoun decem solidatarum terrarum
de Trodonoch et sex solidatarum et octo denariatarum terrarum de Knokin

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 163

trium libratarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Litilstoune M‘Glvnstoune
et Drumgorlaw, quadraginta sex solidatarum terrarum et octo denariatarum
terrarum de Balseroch et Slabrath, nouem mercatarum terrarum antiqui
extentus de Dalquherrane alias Bruntstoune vnius mercate terrarum antiqui
extentus de Stratoun, vnius mercate terrarum antiqui extentus de Riddin
Rid, duorum mercatarum terrarum de M‘Moreistoun, viginti solidatarum
terrarum antiqui extentus de Lesymon, trium mercatarum terrarum antiqui
extentus de Beltressane, vnius mercate terrarum de Kirkronald, quadraginta
solidatarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Eistir Awchinblane, viginti solida-
tarum terrarum de Chalmeristoun et Lokistoun, viginti solidatarum terrarum
antiqui extentus de Dennyne occupatarum per Jacobum Sym, vnius mercate
terrarum antiqui extentus de M‘Strophastoune Quequidem terre cum
earundem pertinentiis et alia particulariter suprascripta jacent in regalitate
de Croceraguell ballivatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Air dicto
Jacobo Steward de Cardonald heredibus suis et assignatis hereditarie vel
suo certo actornato latori presentium per terre et lapidis fundi donationem
vt moris est apud dictas terras de Cauldwellistoune pro omnibus et singulis
terris particulariter suprascriptis secundum vim formam tenorem et effectum
suprascripte carte nostre juste deliberetis et haberi faciatis sine dilatione.
Et hoc multo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet
coniunctim et diuisim nostram plenariam et irreuocabilem tenore presentium
committimus potestatem In cuius rei testimonium presentibus manu
nostra ac manualibus dicti nostri conuentus subscriptis sigillum commune
capituli nostri est appensum apud dictum nostrum monasterium de Croce-
raguell die mensis Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo

coram his testibus Gulielmo Hegait notario publico Joanne Reid
Roberto Dunlop et Roberto Steward cum diuersis aliis.

Auian’? Comenpatarr’ de Crosraguall.
Diis ApAMUs MaxwELL manw pro- Dis Micwarnn Dewar manu pro-
pria pria
Dompnus Gipertus Kenepy'manu Dis Jonanes Mvre Junior manu
ppa propria

1 This Gilbert Kennedy was apparently of the Cassillis family. He was censured by the
General Assembly in 1587 (v. No, 121 infra).

164 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

ABSTRACT,

Charter by Allan, perpetual commendator of the Monastery of Cros-
raguel, and convent thereof, whereby, for the sum of £3000 paid to
him by James Steward of Cardonald, spent in reparation of the monastery,
and for augmentation of rental, he lets in feu-farm to the said James
Steward of Cardonald, his heirs and assignees, the two merkland of Cauld-
wellistoune, six merkland of Wester Deneyn, four merkland of M‘Kinnis-
toune, forty shilling land of Auchnaicht, forty shilling land of Maxwellis-
toune, forty shilling land of Auchinblane, six merkland of Treiff, six shillings
and eight pence land of Dalelong, three pound land of Kirkdin, twenty
shilling land of Clauchrieskeoych, twenty shilling land of Karnestoune, ten
shilling land of Trodonoch, six shillings and eight pence land of Knokin,
three pound land of Litilstoune M‘Gunstoune and Drumgorlaw, forty-six
shillings and eight pence land of Balserocht and Slabraitht, nine merk-
land of Dalquherrane alias Bruntstoune, one merkland of Stratoune, one
merkland of Riddin Rid, two merkland of M‘Moreistoune, twenty shilling
land of Lesymon, forty shilling lands of Beltressane, one merkland of
Knockronald, forty shilling land of Easter Auchinblane, twenty shilling
land of Chalmeristoune and Lokistoune, twenty shilling land of Dennyne
occupied by James Sym, and one merkland of M‘Stophastoun, lying in
the regality of Croceraguell, bailliary of Carrik and shire of Ayr.
To be held by the said James Steward of Cardonald and his heirs
whomsoever of the Abbot and his successors, abbots, commendators, and
convent of the monastery, in feu-farm and heritage for ever, for pay-
ment yearly for the two merks of Cauldwellistoune of four merks and
two poultry ; for Dennyne £6; M‘Kynnistoune £4, Auchnaych 55s., ete.,
as the old rental, with the sum of 20s. in augmentation of the rental; and
doubling the feu-farm at the entry of every heir. Sasine to be taken on
the lands of Cauldwellistoune. Contains a precept of sasine, and is dated
at the monastery of Crosraguel 156-, and is signed by the Abbot and
Convent.

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89. Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart, of certain
lands in the Regality of the Abbey, in feu-farm.—{ Dated 156-.}}

Omnibus hane cartam visuris vel audituris Alanus permissione divina
commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Regalis salutem in Domino
sempiternam Quia huius regni reges diversi in parliamentis suis cum tribus
regni sui statibus terras regis prelatorum dominorum temporalium comitum
baronum ceterorumque hominum terras heriditarie possidentium in emphi-
teosim seu feudifirmam absque rentalium et commoditatum diminutione
prout cum tenentibus conuenire poterint per diversa parliamenti statuta et
acta assedandas fore decreverunt opinantes per inde commoda non modica
ut policeas honesta edificia terrarum novas culturas sterilium meliorationes
arborum plantationes pisclum in aquis recentibus per stagna nutritiones
columbariorum hortorum viridariorum et cuniculariorum constructiones ac
tenentium possessorum huiusmodi terrarum sic in emphiteosim seu feudifir-
mam locatorum in rebus mobilibus dictationes ac armorum et rerum
bellicarum provisiones pro regis et regni contra quoscunque invasores
defensione Regi regno reipubliceque salute aprime proficere Et nos scientes
statuta et leges prescriptorum regum et maiorum numerorum toti regno et
incolis eiusdem maxime utiles omnes et singulas terras nostras aliaque
subscripta dicto nostro monasterio spectantia suadentibus premissis in feudi-
firmam locare statuimus Noveritis igitur nos ac conventum dicti nostri
monasterii ordinis Cistercensis (sic) unanimi consensu et assensu ad hoc
capitulariter congregatos diligentibus tractatibus et maturis deliberationibus
prehabitis in evidentem utilitatem nostri et successorum nostrorum ac dicti
nostri monasterii et augmentationem rentalis nostri annuatim ad summam
subscriptam necnon pro summa duorum millium librarum monete nobis per
dilectum nostrum Jacobum Steward de Cardonald persolutarum in repara-
tionem dicti nostri monasterii expositarum et exponendarum de quaquidem
summa tenemus nos bene contentos placatos et solutos dictumque Jacobum
heredes suos et assignatos pro nobis et successoribus nostris de eadem
exoneramus imperpetuum presentis carte nostre tenorem dedisse concessisse
arrandasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim pro perpetuo dimisisse
et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Necnon dare concedere arrandare
locare et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim pro perpetuo dimittere et hac

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 678.

166 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

presenti carta nostra confirmare dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald et Alice
Heyd sue sponse et ipsorum alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione
et heredibus et assignatis dicti Jacobi quibuscunque Omnes et singulas
terras nostras subscriptas, viz., totas et integras nostras quatuor mercatas
terrarum antiqui extentus de Mochramehill cum decimis garbalibus earun-
dem molendinum ! nostrum de Croceraguell cum terris molendinariis astrictis
multuris sequelis seruitiis dicto molendino ex antiquo debitis et consuetis
aque ductu ac aliis singulis suis pertinentiis unacum decimis dicti molendini
octo mercatas terrarum antiqui extentus de Belerystie cum earundem
decimis garbalibus decem libratas terrarum eiusdem extentus de Drumgar-
loch cum molendino eiusdem terris molendinariis astrictis multuris sequelis
et servitiis dicto molendino pertinentibus unacum decimis dictarum terrarum
de Drumgarloch ac molendini decim solidatas terrarum vocatarum Malt-
manisland cum earundem decimis unaeum piscationibus ac piscariis aque de
Garvane prout in mari ingreditur unacum decimis dicte piscarie quadraginta
solidatas terrarum antiqui extentus de Craigoth cum carbonario de Zallowlie
infra dictas terras de Craigoth sex mercatas terrarum antiqui extentus de
Eister Denneyne quatuor mercatas terrarum eiusdem extentus de Drum-
morchie Quadraginta denariatas terrarum de Abbatishill cum singulis
earundem pertinentiis iacentium in regalitate nostra de Croceraguell
comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Air Quequidem terre de
Mochramehill in firmis garsumis ac decimis annuatim persoluerunt? septua-
ginta bollas avenarum necnon prefatum molendinum de Croceraguell in
firmis et decimis annuatim persolvebat cum dictis terris molendinariis
viginti octo bollas farine avenatice quatuor bollas hordei duodecim capones
ac unum poreum ac prefate terre de Belcrystie tam pro firmis quam pro
decimis annuatim persolverunt quinquaginta sex bollas farine avenatice
viginti duas bollas hordei duas bollas tritici duas duodenas de lie pultrie ac
dicte terre de Drumgarloch tam pro firmis quam pro earundem decimis ac
aliis oneribus annuatim persolverunt octoginta octo bollas farine communis
avenatice viginti bollas bone farine triginta quatuor bollas hordei tres
duodenas de lie pultrie ac molendinum de Drumgarloch cum terris molen-
dinariis eiusdem annuatim persolvit duodecim bollas farine avenatice
quatuor bollas hordei et duodecim capones ac dicte terre vocate Maltmans-

1 The mill of Crosraguel lay a few hundred valuable information as to the produce of the
yards down the stream towards Baltersan. various lands.
2 From this reference we can glean much

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 167

land annuatim persolvit tam pro decimis quam pro firmis tres libras monete
et quatuor capones Lt dicta piscaria apud os aque de Garvane annuatim
persolvit pro firmis et decimis quadraginta solidos nec ultra iam dictas
devorias nec pro firmis nec decimis quicquid aliud persolverunt nec ultra in
nostro rentali extendunt ac dicte terre de Craigoyth annuatim persolverunt
quatuor libras et dictum carbonarium de Zallowlie infra dictas terras de
Craigoyth annuatim persolvit sex libras ac dicte terre de Eister Dennyne
annuatim persolverunt viginti sex bollas farine duodecim bollas hordei duas
bollas tritici et duodecim pultrias ac dicte quatuor mercate terrarum de
Drummorchie annuatim persolverunt quatuor mercas et dicte terre de
Abbatishill annuatim persolverunt quinque solidos nec ultra victualia
pecuniarum summas ae pultrias persolverunt et in nostro rentali ad eadem
extendunt Tenendas et habendas omnes et singulas prenominatas terras
silvas nemora molendina carbonarium piscationes et piscarie ac alia particu-
lariter ac separatim respective superius nominata cum singulis suis partibus
et pendiculis extendentes ad mercatas libratas solidatas et denariatas
terrarum ut predicitur dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald Alyce Heyd
sue sponse et eorum alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione et
heredibus et assignatis dicti Jacobi quibuscunque de nobis et successoribus
nostris quibuscunque abbatibus commendatariis et conventui pro tempore
existentibus et eorum successoribus in feudifirma et hereditate imperpetuum
per omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et divisas prout iacent in longitudine
et latitudine in domibus edificiis boscis planis moris merresiis aquis viis
semitis stagnis rivolis lacubus pratis pascuis et pasturis molendinis multuris
et earum sequelis aucupationibus venationibus piscationibus et presertim
cum dicta piscaria aque de Garvane petariis turbariis carbonibus carbonariis
cuniculis cuniculariis columbis columbariis pomis pomariis fabrilibus brasinis
brueriis et genistis silvis nemoribus et virgultis lignis tignis lapicidiis lapide
et calee Cum curiis et earum exitibus herezeldis bluduetis et merchetis
mulierum Cum communi pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus
aliis et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus proficiis asiamentis ac iustis
suis pertinentiis quibuscunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam sub
terra quam supra terram procul et prope ad predictas terras et alia prescripta
cum singulis suis pertinentiis spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus
quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in
pace sine aliquo retinemento revocatione aut obstaculo quocunque Reddendo
inde annuatim dictus Jacobus Steward de Cardonald et Alyce Heyd sua

168 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

sponsa et ipsorum alter diutius vivens in coniuncta infeodatione heredes et
assignati dicti Jacobi quicunque nobis et successoribus nostris nostris
eorumve camerariis aut factoribus pro dictis terris de Mochramhill ac
earundem decimis septuaginta duas bollas avenarum pro dicto nostro
molendino de Croceraguell cum decimis eiusdem ac decimis terrarum molen-
dinariarum viginti octo bollas farine avenatice quatuor bollas hordei
duodecim capones ac unum porcum pro dictis octo mercatis terrarum
antiqui extentus de Balcrystie ac earundem decimis quinquaginta sex bollas
farine avenatice viginti duas bollas hordei duas bollas tritici duas duodenas
de lie pultrie pro dictis terris de Drumgarloch ac decimis earundem octoginta
octo bollas communis farine avenatice viginti bollas bone farine triginta
quatuor bollas hordei tres duodenas de lie pultrie ac pro dictis molendino
de Drumgarloch et terris molendinariis eiusdem tam pro firmis quam pro
decimis earundem duodecim bollas farine avenatice quatuor bollas hordei
et duodecim capones vel pro qualibet bolla avenarum quadraginta denarios
et pro qualibet bolla farine avenatice quinque solidos vel pro qualibet
bolla hordei sex solidos et octo denarios vel pro qualibet bolla tritici
decim solidos pro quolibet capone octo denarios pro qualibet pultria
sex denarios ad _ placitum adoptionem voluntatem et arbitrium dicti
Jacobi ac sue sponse heredum suorum et assignatorum prescriptorum ad
anni terminos consuetos pro dictis terris de Maltmansland? tres libras et
quatuor capones et pro dicta piscaria cum decimis eiusdem quadraginta
solidos pro dictis terris de Craigoych quatuor libras pro dicto carbonario de
Zallowlie sex libras et pro dictis terris de Eistir Dennyne viginti sex bollas
farine duodecim bollas hordei duas bollas tritici et duodecim pultrias vel pro
qualibet bolla pretium prescriptum ad arbitrium dicti Jacobi et suorum
prescriptorum pro dictis terris de Drummorchie quatuor mercas et pro dictis
terris de Abbatishill quinque solidos tanquam firmam antiquam pro dictis
omnibus terris ante confectionem presentium solvi solitam et consuetam
necnon quadraginta solidos monete in augmentationem nostri rentalis plus-
quam unquam dicte terre nobis aut predecessoribus nostris dederunt
aut persolverunt ad duos anni terminos consuetos festa, videlicet, Pen-
thecostes et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales portiones necnon heredes
dicti Jacobi duplicando dictam feudifirmam pecuniariam pro _pretio
prefatorum victualium ac firmam etiam pecuniariam primo anno introitus
cuiuslibet heredis prout usus est feudifirme tantum pro omni alio onere
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CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 169

exactione questione demanda seu servitio seculari que de predictis terris
ac aliis prescriptis per quoscunque iuste exigi poterint quomodolibet
vel requiri Et nos vero dictus Alanus commendatarius et successores
nostri omnes et singulas prenominatas terras cum molendinis ac car-
bonario antedictis cum singulis earundem pertinentiis dicto Jacobo
Steward de Cardonald Alyce Heyd sue sponse et ipsorum alteri diutius
viventi in coniuncta infeodatione heredibus et assignatis dicti Jacobi quibus-
cunque in omnibus et per omnia forma pariter et effectu ut premissum est
contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum
defendemus Insuper volumus et concedimus ac pro nobis et successoribus
nostris pro perpetuo decernimus et ordinamus quod unica saisina nunc per
dictum Jacobum et in posterum per suos heredes omnibus temporibus futuris
capienda apud dictas terras de Maltmansland stabit et sufficiens erit sasina
pro omnibus aliis terris molendinis carbonario piscaria ac aliis particulariter
suprascriptis simili modo et adeo iuridice sicuti particulares et speciales
saisine apud quamlibet earundem partem date et capte fuissent non obstante
quod dicte terre molendina cum piscaria non invicem sed discontigue iacent
Insuper dilectis nostris Joanni Steuard burgensi de Air . . . et eorum
cuilibet ballivis nostris in hac parte coniunctim et divisim specialiter ac
literatorie constitutis salutem Vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet stricte preci-
pimus et firmiter mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum et
saisinam hereditariam necnon realem actualem et corporalem possessionem
omnium et singularum prefatarum Mochramhill molendini terrarum
molendinariarum de Croceraguell cum astrictis multuris et servitiis ante-
dictis octo mercatarum terrarum de Belcrystie decim libratarum terrarum de
Drumgarloch terris molendinariis et astrictis multuris decim solidatarum
terrarum vocatarum Maltmansland cum earundem decimis ratione solutionis
eisdem annuatim dicte piscarie aque de Garvane ac terrarum de Craigoyth
eum carbonario de Zallowlie terrarum de Eistir Dennyne terrarum de Drum-
morchie ac terrarum de Abbatishill cum singulis earundem pertinentiis
iacentium in regalitate nostra de Crosraguell comitatu de Carrik et infra
vicecomitatum de Air prescriptum dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald
Alyce Heyd sue sponse et ipsorum alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta
infeodatione heredibus et assignatis dicti Jacobi quibuscunque vel suis certis
actornatis latoribus seu latori presentium apud dictas terras de Maltmans-
land pro omnibus aliis terris molendinis carbonario piscaria ac aliis par-
ticulariter suprascriptis iuxta et secundum formam vim et tenorem ac
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170 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL,

effectum suprascripte carte nostre iuste deliberetis et haberi faciatis sine
dilatione Et hoc nullo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum vobis et
vestrum cuilibet nostram plenariam et irrevocabilem tenore presentium com-
mittimus potestatem In cuius rei testimonium presentibus manu nostra ac
manualibus subscriptionibus dicti nostri conventus subscriptis sigillum com-
mune capituli nostri est appensum apud dictum nostrum monasterium de
Croceraguell die . . . mensis . . . anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo
sexagesimo . . . coram his testibus Villelmo Hegait notario publico
Joanne Reid Roberto Dunlop et Roberto Steward.

ALANUS commendatarius de Crosraguoell.
Dominus MicwaELt Dewar manu propria.
Dominus JOHANNES Mvre iunior manu propria.
Dominus ADAMws MaxWELL manw propria.
Dompnus GiILBeRTUS KENEDY manu propria,

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Alan, perpetual commendator of the monastery of Crosrag-
uel and convent thereof, whereby, for certain sums of money paid to them
to be expended on the reparation of their monastery by James Steward of
Cardonald, they grant in feu-farm to him, and Alice Heyd his wife in con-
junct fee, and to the heirs and assignees of the said James whatsoever, all
and whole the four merklands of old extent of Mochrumhill, with teind
sheaves thereof, the mill of Crosraguel, with mill lands and _ astricted
multures, sequels, and services due and wont, and watergang of the same,
with the teinds of the said mill; the eight merkland of old extent of Bel-
crystie, with teind sheaves of the same; the ten pound land of old extent
of Drumgarloch, with mill, mill lands, and multures thereof, and teinds of
the same; the ten shilling land called Maltmansland, with teinds thereof ;
fishings and fisheries of the water of Girvan as it falls into the sea, with
teinds of the fishing; the forty shilling land of old extent of Craigoth, with
the coalheuch of Yellowlee within the said lands; the six merkland of old ©
extent of Easter Denneyne ; the four merklands of Drummorchie ; and the
forty penny land of Abbotshill, with their pertinents, lying in the regality
of Crosraguel, earldom of Carrick and sheriffdom of Air; the lands of
Mochrumhill, formerly paid in fermes, grassums, and teinds yearly, 70 bolls
of oats; the mill of Crosraguel in fermes and teinds, 28 bolls of oatmeal,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 171

4 bolls barley, 12 capons, and 1 swine; Balerystie in fermes and teinds, 56
bolls of oatmeal, 22 bolls of barley, 2 bolls wheat, 2 dozen poultry oe :
the fishing on the water of Girvan, paying in fermes and teinds 40s. ; ri
the coalheugh of Yellowlie £6 yearly. To be held by him and Alice Heyd
his spouse in conjunct fee, and the heirs and assignees of the said James
whatsoever, of the abbot and his successors, abbots, commendators, and
convent for the time, in feu-farm and heritage for ever, paying for the same
the fermes and duties mentioned above, or for every boll of oats 40d., for
every boll of oatmeal 5s., boll of barley 6s. 8d., boll of wheat 10s., capon
8d., poultry 6d., at the option of the said James and his spouse and their
successors, being the ancient fermes in use to be paid, and in augmentation
of rental the sum of 40s.; and a duplicand of the money feu-farm for the
foresaid victuals, and the money feu-farm at the entry of each heir. Sasine
to be taken on the ground of the lands of Maltmansland ; and is dated at
the monastery of Crosraguel, 156-, and signed by the abbot and four of
the monks.

90. Assedation by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of
the whole benefice of the Abbacy.—{Dated 156-.]*

Be it kend to all men be thir present lettres Us Maister Allane be the
permissioun of God commendatour of Corsraguell with full consent and
assent of our convent thairof chaptuirlie gadderit our weill and utilitie
foirsene and considerit be us to haif set and for male in assedatioun lattin
and be thir present lettres settis and for male in assedatioun lattis to ane
nobill and potent Lord Gilbert Erle of Cassillis Lord Kennedy, ete., his airis
male and assignayes quhatsumevir all and haill our benefice of Corsraguell
ferme land and male land thairof with all and sindry Kirkis pertening to
our said benefice videlicet the Kirkis of Stratoun Daly Kirkoswald Gervane
and Kirkeubrycht with thair teindis fruictis emoliementis proffitts and
small offeringis quhatsumevir pertening to thame with the viccarage and
personage of the samyn the mylnis of Corsragell and Drumgirloch with
thair thirll multor and suckin? thairof with the fysching of the wattir mouth
of Gervane with the Eister ward wod and medois now being in the said
erlis handis his use and possessioun liand in the Erldome of Carrik and

1 Qulzean Muniments, No. 679.
2 The sucken was the population thirled to the mill.

172 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

sherefdome of Air ffor all the dayis yeiris and termis of fyve yeiris nixt
and immediatlie following the day and dait heirof quhilk day and dait is
the entre of the said erle and his foirsaidis in and to the said
tak of the said benefice Kirkis mylnis fysching male landis ferme
landis and all uther emoliementis and proffittis pertening thairto and
frathynefurth to indure for the said space of fyve yeiris with all and sindry
merchis howssis biggingis corneland unland* moss mure medois as the samyn
lyis in lenth and breid with commoun pastour fre ische and entre siclike
and als frelie as the samyn hes bene bruikit of us and our predicessouris ony
tyme of befoir with all merchis boundis lemitis and easmentis quhatsumevir
pertening thairto or is knawn to pertene thairto ony maner of way quietlie
weill frelie and in peax but reclamatioun or agane calling quhatsumevir
with power to the said erle and his foirsaidis to set raiss use and dispone
the samyn and to input and remoif tennentis and occupiaris of the saidis
landis and benefice mylnis fyschingis thairof als oft as he thinkis expedient
during the said space of fyve yeiris and to use and dispone upoun the
Kirkis viccarage and personage thairof to his and his foirsaidis utilitie and
proflit for the space abone writtin. The said erle and his foirsaidis payand
thairfoir yeirlie to us and our successouris Abbottis of Corsraguell the sowme
of sevin hundreth merkis money of this realme at twa usuall termis in the
yeir Witsounday and Mertymes in winter be equall portiones allanirlie off
the quhilk sowme of sevin hundreth markis we hald us weill contentit and
satisfeit thairfoir yeirlie during the dait of thir presentis and for us and our
successouris Abbottis foirsaidis quyteclamis and dischargis the said erle his
airis executouris and assignayes of the said soume of sevin hundreth merkis
yeirlie induring the space of thes said assedatioun for now and evir And
attour we bind and obliss us and our successouris to mak the said erle and
his foirsaidis securitie heirupoun to the effect foirsaid in the sikkerest maner
he or thai can devys be avis of men of law quhenevir we be requirit thairto
upoun aucht dayis warning and in the meynetyme we and our foirsaidis to
be alluterlie secludit fra ony actioun of prosuting of the said erle or his
foirsaidis for payment of the said soume induring the said space as said is
and we forsuith the said Maister Allane commendatour foirsaid for us. and
our successouris with consent of our said convent this present tak and
assedatioun to the said erle and his foirsaidis in all things abone expremit
sall warrand acquiet keip and aganis all deidlie defend but fraude or gyle
1 Waste land.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 173

without ony exceptioun of law cannoun or civile to be proponit or allegit
in the contrar in the bruiking of the said benefice be the said erle and his
foirsaidis during the said space. In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir
present lettres of assedatioun subscrivit with our hand and our said con-
ventis our commoun sele is heirto hungin at . . . the .. , day
of . . . the yeir of God j™ v° threscoir yeiris befoir thir witnesses.

Cow Jhe SE
5 aes Aegrrore_
ABSTRACT.

Letter of Assedation* by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel and convent there-
of to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis of the benefice of Crosraguel, farm land and
mail land thereof, with all and sundry churches belonging thereto, viz.,
Dailly, Girvan, Kirkoswald, Straiton, and Kirkcudbright, and teinds, fruits,
profits, etc., and vicarage and parsonage teinds thereof, as also the mill of
Crosraguel and Drumgarloch, with their multures, and fishings in the
mouth of the Water of Girvan, together with the east wood and meadows
then in the earl’s possession, all lying in the earldom of Carrick, for the
space of five years from the date of the Letter of Assedation, for the yearly
payment of 700 merks. Dated 156-.

90a. Letter of Tack by Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scots, to
Gilbert Earl of Cassillis of the Abbacy of Crosraguel for 19 years.
—[10th February 1565-6. ]?

Oure Soueranis Lord and Lady ordanis ane Letter to be maid undir the
Privie Seil in dew forme makand mentioun that thair Majesties understandis
that the Abbay of Corsraguell hes evir bene disponit to freindis of the hous
of Cassillis at the sute of the erlis thereof for the tyme and for thair gude

1 This appears to have been the five year straggling than that under No. 120, and it is
tack which the Abbot was, according to his own singular in not being accompanied by the signa-

account, compelled to sign at Dunure in Sep- tures of the other monks,
tember 1570. The signature is certainly more 2 Culzean Muniments (Letters).

174 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

service, quhilk abbay is presentlie vacand? in thair hienessis handis Throw
deceise of umquhile Quintyne last Abbat thairof, and thair Majesties having
the lyke gude opinioun of thair traist cousing Gilbert now Erll of Cassillis
Lord Kennedy as thair progenitouris hes evir had of his predecessouris ffor
his gude trew and thankfull service Settis and for maill Lattis to the
said Erll his airis and assignayis all and haill the said Abbay of Corsraguell
with all landis kirkis teyndis milnis multuris woddis fisheingis abbey place
housis yardis and pertinentis quhatsumeuir pertenyng thairto For all the
space and termis of thre yeris nixt following the day and dait heirof quhilk
day and dait salbe thair entre In and to the tak and assedatioun of the said
abbay and haill fewis thairof and thaireftir to endure be the said space of
thre yeris and eftir the outrynning of the saidis thre yeris utheris thre yeris
and sua furth fra thre yeris in thre yeris unto the Ische and full compleit
end of nyntene yeris With power to the said Erll his airis and assignais To
sett and raise all landis kirkis teyndis and possessionis pertenyng to the
said abbay siclike and alsfrelie as the said umquhile Abbat mycht have
usit or sett the samyn in his lyvetyme or befor ony dispositioun maid of
the samyn or ony part thairof to utheris with all and sindrie utheris com-
moditeis fredomes ete. frelie quietlie but ony revocatioun And that for the
yeirlie payment of the soume of sevin hundredth merkis usuale money of
Scotland according as the said Erll is detbund to pay be virtew of the tak
and assedatioun quhilk he hes sett to him be the said umquhile Abbat?
quhilk yeirlie dewtie thair Majesteis for the gude service maid and to be
maid to thame be thair said cousing* Remittis and dischargeis during all
the tyme of this present tak and assedatioun Commanding hir hienes Comp-
trollar present and to cum and all utheris to desist and ceis fra all craving
or uptaking of the said yeirlie dewtie Discharging alswa the Lordis of
Counsell and Session of all passing and directing of ony letteris aganis the
said Erll his airis and assignais the tenentis occupiaris and possessouris of
the landis and possessionis of the said abbay for payment of the rentis and
dewiteis therof or ony part of the samyn to ony utheris during the tyme of
this present tak and assedatioun Attour thair Majesteis for the causis foir-
1 But we have seen from No. 82 supra that 2 No. 77 supra.
it was granted to Allan Stewart by Queen Mary 8 This Earl of Cassillis was an ardent sup-
in the previous July. The Earl seems to have porter of Queen Mary, and was present at the
been successful in obtaining the King and _ battle of Langside, for which his estates were

Queen’s signature to this document, which forfeited (Tytler’s History of Scotland; Historical
virtually annuls that grant. Account of the Kennedies, p. 37).

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 175

saidis promittis to the said Erll That he sall have ane confirmatioun of all
sic few landis as he hes in Carrick and Galloway gratis, without ony com-
positioune, and commandis the Thesaurair and remanent Lordis Composi-
touris to pas the samyn confirmationis in maner forsaid And in ecaise this
present tak be nocht sufficient securitie upoun the said benefice Thair
Majesteis sall reforme the samyn of new gif need be And that the said
Letter be extendit in the best forme with all clausis neidfull Subserivit be
thair Majesteis At Edinburgh the tent day of Februare the yeir of God
I* V° thre scoir fyve yeris.

(

ABSTRACT,

Assedation by Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scots, to Gilbert
Earl of Cassillis, of the whole Abbacy of Crosraguel, with lands, kirks, teinds,
mills, place, and other pertinents, now lying vacant and in their Majesties’
hands through the decease of Quintin last abbot thairof, for 19 years, for
the yearly payment of 700 marks, as it was set to him by the foresaid
abbot ; discharging him of all payment of the said duty, and commanding
their Comptroller to desist from raising the same. Dated at Edinburgh,
10th February 1565-6.

91. Gift by Pope Pius the Fifth to Mr. Allan Stewart of the Abbacy
of Crosraguel.—| 8th June 1566. }*

Per obitum extra curiam Glasguensem.

Beatissime pater, cum monasterium Crucis Regalis alias de Corsregal
Cluniacensis ordinis Glasguensis diocesis, quod quondam Quintinus Kennedy

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 687.

176 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

clericus ex concessione seu dispensatione apostolica in commendam dum
viveret obtinebat, commenda huiusmodi per obitum dicti Quintini extra
Romanam curiam de mense Augusti anni Domini millesimi quingentesimi
sexagesimi quarti defuncti cessante adhue eo quo ante commendam ipsam
vacabat, aut alias verte in literis, si videbitur exponendo modo vacaverit et
vacet ad presens; supplicat humiliter sanctitatem vestram devotus illius
etiam Alanus Stevart presbyter dicti diocesis quatenus sibi in artibus
Magister existit . . . ut commodius sustentari valeat de alicuius subven-
tione, auxilio providendo et specialem gratiam faciendo monasterium pre-
dictum : cuius et illi forsitan annexi fructus sexaginta librarum sterlingorum
secundum communem existimationem valorem annuum non excedunt
quouismodo et ex cuiuscunque persona seu per liberam cessionem de illius
regimine et administratione cuiusvis de illo in dicta curia vel extra eam
etiam coram notario publico et testibus sponte factam aut alias quomodo-
cunque et qualitercunque vacet etiam si devolutum in petitorio vel possessorio
litigiosum cuius litis status . . . existat et ex quavis causa illius provisio
ad sedem apostolicam specialiter vel generaliter pertineat: eidem oratori
per eum quo ad ac etiam unacum omnibus et singulis per eum nune forsitan
et pro tempore obtentis penitus annuis . . . tenendis: Ita quod
liceat sibi de fructibus . . . disponere commendare curam ipsius monasterii
ac huiusmodi regimen et administrationem sibi in spiritualibus et tem-
poralibus plenarie committendo dignemini de gracia speciali; non obstanti-
bus constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis statutis etiam iuramento
. . . roboratis, privilegiis, indultis et literis apostolicis monasterio et ordini
pretactis, eorumque superioribus et personis, sub quibuscunque tenoribus
et formis, ac cum quibusvis clausulis et decretis, etc., contra commendas
ac alias in contrarium quomodolibet concessis; quibus omnibus etiam
si de illis tenores latissime derogare placeat, ceterisque contrariis quibus-
cunque cum clausulis opportunis: pro quo serenissima Maria Regina Scotorum
et Henricus Rex per suas literas humiliter supplicant: qui de nobile genere
procreatus et de quo consistorialiter disponi minime consuevit.
Fiat ut petitur. M.

Et cum absolutione a censura ad effectum et quod . . . . dispensatio
oratoris verusque et ultimus monasterii predicti vacationis modus, etc., si ex
illo quevis generalis reservatio etiam in corpore juris clamei resultet, habe-
antur pro expressis seu in toto vel parte exprimi possint et cum clausula

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 177

generalem reservationem importante, ex quavis causa etiam dispositione
exprimendo generaliter, et de commenda .. . eiusdem monasterii ad
vitam oratoris etiam unacum quibusvis per eum obtentis et obtinendis
penitus . . . . Ita quod liceat de fructibus ut supra latissime extendendo
pro dicto oratore, et quatinus litigiosum existat litis status, ac nomina et
cognomina judicum, et collitigantium, juraque et tituli illorum exprimi seu
etiam pro expressis haberi; et litere in forma gratiose surrogationis etiam
quoad possessionem gracie si neutri, si nulli, si alteri perinde et etiam
valere aut alias prout utilius videbitur, cum gratitudine opportuna quatenus
illi locus sit extendendi simul vel separatim expediri possint ; et cum dero-
gatione clausule de anuali possessione quoad primam eius partem si opus sit ;
ac quorumcunque statutorum, privilegiorum indultorum et literarum pre-
dictarum aliorumque contrariorum latissime extendenda, quorum omnium
tenores latissime exprimi possint ad effectum ; et quod premissorum omnium
et singulorum etiam qualitatum . . . denominat . . . nuncupat
annenorum, ordinum, dependentiarum fructuum augendo vel minuendo
quantum opus fuerit clausula contraria non obstante, cognominum aliorum-
que necessariorum maior et verior specificatio et . . . expositio fieri possit
in literis per obitum apud sedem quatenus defunctus sic obtineret.

Datum Rome apud Sanctum Petrum kalendas Junii Anno primo.

Dorso— .
ALANUS STEVVART, etc., per obitum

Harron.

ABSTRACT.

Gift by Pope Pius the Fifth to Mr. Allan Stewart, priest, of the benefice
and abbacy of Crosraguel, vacant by the decease of Mr. Quintin Kennedy,
of good memory, late abbot thereof, who died in the month of August 1564,
with the fruits, rents, profits, and emoluments of or belonging to the said
abbacy, since the same became vacant by the decease of Mr. Quintin
Kennedy aforesaid, and in time coming, together with all and sundry rights,
privileges, and preeminences, and that in compliance with the former gift
of the said abbacy by Queen Mary to the said Mr. Allan Stewart. 8th
June 1566."

1 The appointment of Abbot Allan had thus dual capacity as Abbot of Paisley and legatus a
been made in the first instance by the Queen, Jatere, and now ratified by the Pope himself in
confirmed by Archbishop John Hamilton in his the following year.

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178 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

92. Precept of Sasine by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting Janet
Wallace in certain lands._{ Dated 8th February 1567. }}

Allanus permissione diuina commendatarius perpetuus monasterii de Cros-
raguell et eiusdem loci conventus dilectis nostris Magistro Michaeli Wallace
et Wasfurde et eorum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in hae
parte specialiter constitutis salutem. Quia dedimus concessimus assedavi-
mus arrendavimus locavimus et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim hereditarie
dimisimus dilecte mee Jonete Wallace in libero tenemento seu vitali redditu
pro toto tempore sue vite necnon Willielmo Kirkpatrik eius filio heredi-
busque suis et assignatis totas et integras quadraginta solidatas terrarum
nostrarum de Clonlwicht antiqui extentus cum pertinentiis iacentium in
baronia nostra Crosraguell comitatu de Carrik infra vicecomitatum de Air
prout in carta nostra eis desuper confecta plenius continetur. Vobis igitur
et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim precipimus firmiterque mandamus
quatenus uisis presentibus indilate statum sasinam hereditariam pariterque
et possessionem corporalem actualem et realem totarum et integrarum pre-
fatarum cum pertinentiis memorate Jonete in vitali redditu pro tempore sue
vite necnon sasinam hereditariam ac possessionem corporalem actualem et
realem earundem prenominato Willielmo vel suis certis actornatis latoribus
presentium secundum tenorem dicte nostre carte quam de nobis inde habeat
iuste haberi faciatis et deliberetis Et hoc nullo modo omittatis Ad quod
faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim nostram ple-
nariam et irrevocabilem tenore presentium committimus potestatem In
cuius rei testimonium presentibus manibus nostris subscriptis sigillum
nostrum commune capituli est appensum apud Corsraguell octavo die mensis
Februarii anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo septimo coram
hiis testibus magistro Michaele Wallace Joanne Chalmers et Willielmo
Kirkpatrik cum diversis aliis.

ABSTRACT.

Precept of Sasine by Allan, perpetual commendator of the monastery
of Crosraguel, for infefting Janet Wallace in liferent, and William Kirk-
patrick her son, and her heirs and assignees, in the forty shilling lands of
Clonlicht, of old extent, with the pertinents, in the barony of Crosraguel,

1 Culzean Muniments, No, 715, Compare No. 69 supra.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 179

earldom of Carrick and sheriffdom of Ayr.
February 1567.

Dated at Crosraguel 8th

924, Report on Crosraguel by a Committee of the General Assembly
of 1567.[23d July 1567.]?

Session 8d.

Certain brethren was appointit to convene to sie and advyse upon the
assignation of the stipends of the ministrie latelie assignit be the Queen’s
majestie the good payment, who fand in effect as follows :—

. . . Item, within Kyle, Carrick, and Cunningham, executiouns past,
and believis to have payment at the nixt ganging in the countrey.
Item, Corsraguell? is given free, and the minister of Failfurd? is ill payit.

93. Agreement between Allan Abbot of Crosraguel and Mr. George
Buchanan regarding the Pension due to the latter from the Benefice
of the Abbey.—[ 28th April 1568. ]*

Sederunt Domini Sessionis.
At Edinburgh and Glasgw respective the tent and xxij dayis of Aprile
respective the yeir of God J™ ve Ixviij yeiris it is appoyntit aggreit and
finalie concordit betwix worschipfull personis That is to say Maister
Allane Stewart abbot or commendator of the abbay of Corsragwell and
James Stewart of Cardonald for him selff and as cautioner souertie for the
said Maister Allane on that ane pairt and Maister George Buchquhanane
pensioner of the said abbay on that uthir pairt in maner forme and effect
as eftir followis That is to say the said Maister George haifand be gift of
oure soverane Lordis derrest mother for all the dayis of his lyfe be hir
lettres under hir privie seill® ane yeirlie pensioun of the sowme of fyve

1 Book of the Universal Kirk, part ii. p. 104.

2 The abbey was thus free from the payment
of the Third of £100, for the non-payment of
which Abbot Quintin was put to the horn in
1561 (No, 72a ante),

° The minister of Faill at this time was
Robert Cunningham, a natural son of William
Earl of Glencairn, who was appointed in 1540
on the death of John Hamilton, On the 6th

March 1563-4 he obtained a yearly pension of
£100 from the Queen’s casualties during life, or
until he be provided with a benefice of 100
marks yearly (Reg. Privy Seal, xxxii. 40 ; Epis,
Reg. Scot., ii. 86-7). The valuation in 1562
was £184 : 6: 8 (Book of Assumptions),

4 Register of Deeds, etc. (Scott. Office), vol. 9,
fol. 299.

PVN OnS0:

180 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

hundreth pundis usuale money of this realme to be yeirlie uptaikin be him
his servandis and factouris in his name at twa termeis in the yeir witsone-
day and mertymes in winter be equall portionis of the reddyest fruittis and
emolyamentis of the said abbay of Corsragwell than vacand and being in
hir Majesteis handis throw the deceis of umquhile Maister Quyntene
Kennedy last abbot thairof and for suir payment thairof haifand assignit to
him the haill temporalitie of the said abbay with the place mans orchardis
manis woddis coilhuichis and pertinentis quhatsumevir pertenyng thairto
as the Lettres of Gift maid under the privie seill maid to the said Maister
George thairupone mair fullilie proportis Hes gevin grantit and committit
and be the tennour heirof gevis grantis and committis to the said Maister
Allane full power libertie and fredome to intromett be him his servandis
chalmerlanis and factouris in his name with the haill temporalitie of the
said abbay place mans orchardis manis woddis coilhuichis and pertinentis
quhatsumever pertenyng thairto uptak the maillis fermeis canis customes
hariage* kariage? and uthiris dewiteis quhatsumevir thairof sett and rais the
samin input and output the tennentis and occowpyaris thairof during his
lyfetyme to the effect he may [be] fullelie possest and placeit in the said
abbay and haif the haill intromissioun thairwith Providing always that
gif it happins the said Maister Allane to deceis swa that the benefice of the
said abbay thairthrow sal happin to waik or gif it happins him to resigne
dimit permute or change the samin or that the samin ony uthir maner of
way happins to waik in thay caissis or ony of thame the said Maister
George sall haif full and fre acces regres and ingress agane in and to his
pensioun foirsaid and assignatioun abonespecifiit to be bruikit be him
during his lyfetyme conforme to the saidis Lettres of Gift maid to him
thairupone ffor the quhilk caussis the saidis Maister Allane and James
Stewart of Cardonald and athir of thame conjunctlie and severallie sall
content pay and thankfullie delyver to the said Maister George yeirlie
during his lyfetyme the said sowme of fyve hundreth pundis usuale money
of Scotland at twa termis in the yeir witsoneday and mertymes in winter
be evin portionis the first termeis payment begynnand at the feist of
witsoneday nixt to cum and gif it happins the said Maister Allane and
James to failze in payment to the said Maister George of the said sowme of
fyve hundreth pundis yeirlie at the termeis abonespecifiit within fourtie

1 The agricultural service at seedtime and harvest.
2 The carriage required for the house,

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 181

dayis nixt efter ilk terme In that cais the said Maister George sall haif
full and fre acces regres and ingres agane to his said pensioun and assigna-
tioun foirsaid contenit in the said gift to be bruikit be him during his lyfe-
tyme notwithstanding the pretendit contract or ony uthair rycht titill or
renunceatioun maid be him to the said Maister Allane or James in ony
tyme bigane Attour baith the saidis pairteis hes revockit renuncat and
dischargeit and be the tennour heirof revoikis renunceis and dischargeis all
contractis obligationis bandis procuratoreis in rem suam uthairis procura-
toreis and rychtis maid be thame or ony of thame to uthairis except this
present contract allanerlie in ony tyme bigane befoir the day of the dait
heirof and will declairis and ordanis that the samin be of nane availl force
nor effect fra thynefurth in tyme cuming and heirto bayth the saidis
pairteis bindis and oblissis thame faythfullie to uthiris be thir presentis
and ar content that this present contract be actit and registrat in the
buikis of counsale and decernit to have the strenth of ane act and decreit
of the Lordis thairof with lettres and executoriallis of hoirnyng or poynding
to be direct thairupone for compelling of ilk ane of thame to fulfill the
samin to uthairis in forme as effeiris and for acting thairof thay haif maid
constitute and ordanit and be the tennour heirof makis constitutis and
ordanis Maisteris Thomas M‘Calzeane Edward Hendersone Richart Strang
Alexander Mauchane and ilk ane of thame conjunctlie and severallie thair
verry lauchfull and undoutit procuratouris to compeir befoir the saidis
Lordis and desyer thir presentis to be registrat in the saidis buikis with
lettres and executoriallis to be gevin thairupone in maner abonewritten
promittane de rato In witnes of the quhilk thing all the saidis pairteis
hes subscrivit this present contract with their handis day yeir and place
foirsaidis befoir thir witnessis Thomas Spreull of Caldoun George Galbrayth
Maister Thomas Buchquhanane and Johne Reid with uthiris dyvers Sic
subseribitur ALLANE commendator de Corsragwall.
James Srewarr of Cardonald.
G. BucHanan.

ABSTRACT.

Memorandum of Agreement between Allan Abbot of Crosraguel and
James Stewart of Cardonald, acting as his surety, and Mr. George Buchanan,
pensioner of Crosraguel, bearing the said Mr. George having a yearly pension

182 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

of £500 from the said abbey, then vacant by the decease of Quintin Ken-
nedy, last abbot thereof, to be yearly uptaken at Whitsunday and Martin-
mas, and having assigned to him the whole temporality of the abbey, with
the place, manse, orchards, mains, woods, coalheuches, and other pertinents,
therefore the said Mr. George gives the said Mr. Allan full power to
intromit with the temporality of the said abbey, etc., and to uptake the
mails, ferms, rents, etc., in his name. Provided that, if Mr. Allan decease
or resign his post, or if the abbacy become vacant for any reason, then Mr.
George shall have full and free ingress to his pension. Wherefore the said
Allan and Mr. James Stewart shall pay yearly to Mr. George Buchanan
during his lifetime the said sum of £500. Signed at Edinburgh and
Glasgow, before witnesses, on the 28th April 1568.

94, Letter of Charge at the instance of Allan Abbot of Crosraguel.—
[28th January 1569. |}

James be the grace of God King of Scottis To oure lovittis Andro
Bannatyne
Oure shereffis in that parte conjunctlie and severalie specialie constitute
greting fforsamekle as it is humbly menit and schewin to us be ane rever-
end fader in God Allane commendator of Corsraguell that quhair Thomas
Kennedye of Barganye allegeand the said commendator to be denunceit
our rebell and putt to our horne ffor arte and parte of the slauchteris of
umquhile James Ballanye in Prestoun James Dowglas suddart and William
Purves servitour to Alexander Home of Manderstoun committit at the
Langsyde in the moneth of Maij the yeir of God j™ v° Ilxviij yeiris hes
obtenit our utheris Lettrez of captioun and thairwith causit tak and
apprehend the said commendator quhome he as yit hauldis in captivitie
and will on nawyis latt him to libertie howbeit in veritie the foirsaid com-
mendator hes fund souerte to our justice clerk and his deputtis to underly
our lawis for the said cryme the thrid day of our nixt justice air of the
schyre quhair he dwell or soner upoun xv dayis warning and in respect
thairof is alswa at command of the saidis Lordis of our counsale relaxt fra
the proces of our horne as our utheris lettres of his relaxatioun deulie exe-
cute and indorsat beris gif swa be Oure will is heirfoir and we charge yow

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 737.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 183

straitlie and commandeis that incontinent thir our lettrez sene ye pas and
in our name and auctoritie command and charge the said Thomas Kennedie
and all utheris withhalderis of the said commendator in thraldome and cap-
tivitie that thai latt and putt him to libertie within thre dayis nixt efter
thai be chargeit be yow thairto undir the pane of rebellioun and putting of
thame to our horne or ellis thai compeir upoun the thrid day nixt eftir the
charge befoir us and the Lordis of our counsale at Edinburgh or quhair it
sal happin us to be for the tyme in the hour of caus with continuatioun of
dayis and allege ane ressonabill caus quhy thai suld nocht do the samyn
with certificatioun to thame and thay failze we and the saidis Lordis of our
counsale in our name will decerne our utheris lettres to be direct simpliciter
aganis thame to the effect abone writtin according to justice as ye will
answer to us thairupoun The quhilk to do we committ to yow conjunctlie
and severalie our full powor be thir our lettrez delivering thame be yow
dewlie execute and indorsat agane to the berar Gevin undir our signett at
Edinburgh the xxviij day of Januar and of regnne the thrid yeir, Ex
deliberatione dominorum consilij, etc. J. BANNATYNE.

ABSTRACT.

Letter of charge at the instance of Allan Abbot of Crosraguel against
Thomas Kennedy of Bargany, narrating that the abbot having been de-
nounced rebel and put to the horn for being art and part guilty of the
slaughter of James Balany in Preston, James Douglas, and William Purvis,
servant to Alexander Home of Manderston, at Langside, in May 1568, and
that the said Thomas Kennedy had obtained letters of caption against,
and caused apprehend the abbot, whom he held in captivity, and would on
nowise liberate, although he had found surety in the Justice Clerk and
his deputes to underly the law, etc. ; therefore charging the said Thomas
Kennedy to set the abbot at liberty, or to appear before the king and lords
of Council on the third day after the charge, to show cause to the contrary.
Dated 28th January 1569.

184 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

95. Renunciation by James Stewart to Allan Abbot of Crosraguel.—
[8th May 1569.]}

I James Stewart of Cardonald grantis me to haif resavet ane fyfe yere
tak * selit and subscrivit be Allane commendator of Corsraguell of all and
haill the spirituall and temporall landis of the samyn bayth personag and
vicarag daitit at Cardonald the xx day of November the yere of God j™ v°
Ixv yeiris nochtwithstanding I renunce now as than and than as now fra
me and all myne the foure merkland callit the manis of Crosraguell with
place yardis and all maner of pertinentis pertening thairto to be freilie
quietlie and peaceable brukit josit be the saidis commendator and his subten-
entis ane or ma induring all the days of the said tak and assedatioun and of all
uther takis maid preceding the day and dait heirof the wod and wodfaing
only being acceptit provyding alwais that the samyn be cuttit and tane
away be the saidis James within the space of ten nixt and immediatle fol-
loweing the day and dait of thir presentis. In witnes of the quhilk I the
said James hes subscrivit this present renunciatoun of the saidis mains and
with all maner of pertinentis as said is at Cardonald the viij day of May

1569 yeiris.
Be I pee

ABSTRACT.

Renunciation by James Stewart of Cardonald to Allan Abbot of Cros-
raguel, by which he acknowledges having received from the abbot a letter
of assedation for five years, of the spiritual and temporal lands of Crosrag-
uel, dated 20th November 1565; yet, notwithstanding, he and his heirs
renounce all right to the four merkland called the Mains of Crosraguel,
etc., to be possessed by the Abbot and his subtenants during the currency
of the said assedation, etc. Dated 8th May 1569.

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 728. all the deeds dated 156-, in favour of James
2 No. 86 supra. This would indicate that Stewart, were signed in 1565.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 185

96. Instrument of Resignation by James Stewart.—[18th August 1569.]*

Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono die vero mensis
Augusti decimo octauo Regnique Supremi domini Regis Jacobi Sexti anno
tertio in nostrorum notariorum publicorum et testium subscriptorum
presentia personaliter constitutus honorabilis vir Jacobus Stewart de
Cardonald non vi aut metu ductus nec errore lapsus nec fraude aut dolo
aliquo circumventus sed sua mera vera libera et spontanea voluntate prout
sequitur in lingua nostra materna etc. Forsamekle as the said James
renuncit quitclamit dischargit and ouregife lyke as hie be the tennour heirof
frelie renuncis resignis renuncis quitclames dischargis and ouregevis sim-
pliciter fra him his aris successouris and assignais all maner of sesingis and
heretable infeftmentis maid and gevin to him and his foirsadis be ane
venerable father in God Alane Abbot of Crosraguell? or his baillzeis in his
name of all and haill the landis following, viz., The fourtie schilling land
of Beltarsane the ane markland of Knokronnell the twentie schilling land of
Lokistoun and Challmerstoun the aucht schilling land and iijd worthe
callit Frissellistoun occupiit be Thomas Makcatherie the fyfe schilling land
of Smethistoun occupiit be Johne Makskalen The fourtie schilling land of
Awchinblane occupiit be Patrick Lock the twentie schilling land of Denein
occupiit be James Sim Webstair Extending in the haill to alevin merkland
of auld extent wyth the pertinentis all lyand in the baillzerie of Carrick and
within the schirefdome of Air in favores and in and to ane honorable man
Dauid Kennedie of Pennyglen his aris assignais and successouris quhat-
sumeuer To remane wyth the said Dauid and his foirsaidis heretablie for
euer butt reuocatioun And gife the foirsaid resignatioun and renunciation
of the foirnemmit landis be nocht sufficient the said James obleis him and his
foirsaidis to renew and mak the samyn agane in the maist suyre maner and
ample forme that can be devisit vpone the premonitioun of aucht days in
vberiori forma Super quibus omnibus et singulis sic premissis prefatus
Dauid Kennedie a nobis notariis publicis subscriptis sibi fieri petit instru-
menta publica vnum aut plura Acta erant hee infra burgum de Irwin horam
circiter primam post meridiem coram hiis testibus Waltero Kennedie de
Knokdone Fergutio Kennedie eius fratre Patricio Hammiltoun de Bogesyde
Roberto Stewart filio dicti Jacobi Johanne Reid eius seruo et Johanne

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 729. 2 By charter No. 88, supra.
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186 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

Grahame burgensi [de] Glasgow et Georgio Angus notario publico ac meo
collega in premissis cum diuersis aliis.

Et ego vero Gavinus Nasmyth clericus Glasgwensis diocesis publicusque
perprius auctoritate apostolica notarius ac per dominos consilii
secundum tenorem acti parliamenti admissus Quia premissis omnibus
et singulis dum sic vt premittitur dicerentur agerentur et fierent
vnacum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui eaque
omnia et singula sic fieri vidi sciui et audiui ac in notam cepi ex qua
hoe presens publicum instrumentum manu mea propria fideliter
seriptum exinde confeci et in hance publicam formam instrumentalem
redegi Signoque nomine et cognomine meis solitis et consuetis
signaui in fidem robur et testimonium omnium et singulorum
premissorum rogatus et requisitus.

Gavinus NasMytTH notarius publicus.

ABSTRACT.

Notarial Instrument of Resignation made by James Stewart of Car-
donald, whereby he resigns and quitclaims all sasines and heritable infeft-
ments given to him, his heirs and successors, by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel,
or his bailies in his name, of the forty shilling land of Baltersan, one
merkland of Knokronald, twenty shilling land of Lokistoun and Chalmers-
toun, eight shilling and fourpence land called Frissellistoun, five shilling
land of Smethistoun, forty shilling land of Auchinblain, twenty shilling
land of Deneyne, extending in all to eleven merkland of old extent, in the
bailiery of Carrick and sheriffdom of Ayr, and that in favour of David
Kennedy of Pennyglen, his heirs, assignees, and successors whatsoever.
Done in the burgh of Irvine, 18th August 1569.

97. Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a Charter granted by Allan Abbot
of Crosraguel to David Kennedy of Pennyglen.—_{1st September 1569. ]?

In Dei nomine: Per hoe presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat
euidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quingen-
tesimo sexagesimo nono et regni supremi domini nostri Regis tertio die

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 731,

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primo mensis Septembris In mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum
presentia personaliter constitutus honorabilis vir Dauid Kennedy de Penny-
glen presentauit ad manus honesti sui serui Thome Or balliui in hac parte
venerabilis in Christo patris Alani permissione diuina perpetui commendatarii
Crucis Regalis quoddam sasine preceptum in cauda cuiusdam carte feodi-
firme dicti commendatarii insertum et per venerabilem dictum commenda-
tarium subscriptum Quiquidem balliuus in hac parte antedictus idem
preceptum reuerentia recepit quia ili decuit iludque mihi notario publico
subscripto tradidit perlegendum examplandum et in hane publicam formam
instrumentalem redigendum Cuius tenor sequitur et est talis Quocirca
dilectis meis Thome Or et eorum cuilibet coniunctim et diuisim balliuis meis
in hac parte specialiter constitutis Vobis et vestrum cuilibet stricte precipimus
et mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum et sasinam here-
ditariam necnon realem actualem et corporalem possessionem dictarum
quadraginta solidatarum terrarum de Eister Auchinblane viginti solida-
tarum terrarum de Dunene jacentium vt supra dictis Dauidi Kennedy et
Katherine Kennedy sue sponse et eorum alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta
infeodatione et heredibus prescriptis quibus deficientibus Joanni Kennedy et
suis heredibus prescriptis quibus omnibus deficientibus heredibus dicti Dauidis
quibuscunque necnon statum et sasinam hereditariam necnon realem actualem
et corporalem possessionem dicto Dauidi Kennedy de Pennyglen et heredibus
prescriptis totarum et integrarum trium mercatarum terrarum de Balters-
sane cum domibus hortis pomariis petie prati vnius mercate terre de
Knokronnald decem solidatarum terrarum de Chalmerstoun decem solida-
tarum terrarum de Lokkistoun octo solidatarum et quatuor denariatarum
terrarum occupatarum per Thomam M‘Carchry et quinque solidatarum ter-
rarum occupatarum per Joannem Mure fabrum cum pertinentiis jacentium
vt supra juxta et secundum vim formam et tenorem suprascripte carte nostre
iuste deliberetis et haberi faciatis sine delatione Et hoc nullo modo omittatis
Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet nostram plenariam et irre-
vocabilem tenore presentium committimus potestatem In cuius rei testi-
monium presentibus manu nostra ac manualibus subscriptionibus dicti nostri
capituli sigillum commune euisdem est appensum apud dictum nostrum
monasterium die vigesimo quinto mensis Augusti anno Domini millesimo
quingentesimo sexagesimo nono Insuper volumus quod si dicti Dauid et
Katherina aut heredes prescripti ac dictus Joannes et sui heredes defecerint
in solutione dicti annui canonis sive census per tres terminos sic quod

188 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

duo. termini currunt in tertium terminum insoluti tunc in eo casu
presens infeodatio et ad feodifirmam dimissio nullis sit robor vel
momenti Coram his testibus Gavino Grahame Joanne Grahame Roberto
Stewart et Joanne Reid Post cuiusquidem precepti lecturam et inter-
pretationem eiusdem astantibus prefatus Thomas Orr balliuus in hac parte
antedictus statum et sasinam hereditariam necnon realem actualem et
corporalem possessionem totarum et integrarum prefatarum quadraginta
solidatarum terrarum de Eister Auchinblane occupatarum per Patricium
Lok et viginti solidatarum terrarum de Dunene occupatarum per Jacobum
Sym antiqui extentus cum pertinentiis jacentium in regalitate de Corsraguell
comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Air memoratis Davidi et
Katherine eius sponse eorumque diutius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione
personaliter presentibus necnon statum et sasinam hereditariam ac etiam
realem et corporalem possessionem omnium et singularum trium mercatarum
terrarum de Baltarssane cum domibus hortis pomariis petie prati totius et
integre vne mercate terre de Knokronnald decem solidatarum terrarum de
Chalmerstoun decem solidatarum terrarum de Lokkistoun octo solidatarum
et quatuor denariatarum terrarum occupatarum per Thomam M‘Carchry et
quinque solidatarum terrarum occupatarum per Joannem Mure fabrum cum
pertinentiis jacentium vt supra predicto Dauidi personaliter etiam presenti
per traditionem terre et lapidis ut moris est dedit atque donavit imperpetuum
secundum formam et tenorem carte feodifirme dictis dictorum Davidis et
Katherine quam inde habent Super quibus omnibus et singulis dicti David
et Katherina sua sponsa a me notario publico subscripto illis fieri petierunt
instrumenta unum aut plura Acta erant hec super solo dictarum terrarum
de Dunene Auchinblane separatim et successive hora decima ante meridiem
vel ea circa et super sola dictarum terrarum de Balterssane domuum
hortorum pomariorum eiusdem petie prati Knokronnald Chalmerstoun
Lokistoun terrarum occupatarum per dictum Thomam et terrarum occupa-
tarum per dictum Joannem fabrum particulariter separatim et successive
hora vndecima ante meridiem vel ea cirea presentibus ibidem Donaldo
Kennedy molo Joanne M‘Ilwrayth in Meldinoch Willelmo Smyth Joanne
Arthour Roberto Maxwell et Adamo Lawchling in Pennyglen seruitoribus
dicti Davidis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et rogatis.

Et ego vero Alexander Kessane notarius et clericus Glasguensis diocesis
auctoritate regali et per dominos Sessionis admissus quia premissis

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL, 189

omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur dicerentur agerentur et
fierent unacum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui
Eaque omnia et singula sic fieri dici scivi vidi et audivi ac in notam
cepi ideoque hoe presens publicum instrumentum manu propria
fideliter scriptum exinde confeci et'in hane publicam formam redegi
signavi et roboravi sub meis signo nomine et cognomine solitis et
consuetis in fidem robur veritatis omnium et singulorum premissorum
rogatus et requisitus. ALEXANDER KEssANE.

ABSTRACT.

Instrument of Sasine, proceeding upon a precept of sasine contained in
a charter granted by Allan, perpetual commendator of the monastery of
Crosraguel, dated the 25th August 1569, to David Kennedy of Pennyglen,
and Katharine Kennedy his spouse, or the longer liver of them in conjoint
fee, and heirs contained in the charter ; whom failing, to John Kennedy and
his heirs; whom failing, to the heirs of the said David whomsoever, of
the forty shillmg land of Easter Auchinblane, the twenty shilling land of
Deneyne ; and to the said David Kennedy and his heirs aforesaid of the
three merkland of Baltersan, with houses and orchards, one merkland of
Knokronnald, ten shilling land of Chalmerstoun, ten shilling land of
Lokkistoun, eight shilling and fourpence land occupied by Thomas
M‘Carchry, five shilling land occupied by John Mure, smith, with the per-
tinents, all lying in the regality of Crosraguel, earldom of Carrick and
sheriffdom of Ayr. Sasine is given to the said David Kennedy and Katharine
his spouse on the grounds of the several lands. 1st September 1569.

98. Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to David Kennedy of
Balserroch, of certain lands in the Regality of the Abbey.—[1st
September 1569. |’

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 732.

190 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

teosim seu feudifirmam absque rentalium et commoditatum diminutione
prout cum tenentibus convenire poterunt per diversa parliamenti statuta et
acta assedandas fore decreverunt opinantes per inde commoda non modica
ut policeas honesta edificia terrarum novas culturas sterilium meliorationes
arborum plantationes piscium in acquis recentibus per stagna nutritiones
columbarium hortorum viridariorum et cuniculariorum constructiones ac ten-
entium possessionum huiusmodi terrarum sic in emphiteosim seu feudifirmam
locatarum in rebus mobilibus ditationes ac armorum et rerum bellicarum
provisiones pro regis et regno defensione regi regno reipubliceque salute
apprime proficere Et nos scientes statuta et leges prescriptorum regum et
maiorum nostrorum toti regno et incolis eiusdem maxime utiles omnes et
singulas terras nostras aliaque subscripta dicto nostro monasterio spectantes
suadentibus premissis in feudifirmam locare statuimus Noveritis igitur nos
et conventum nostri monasterii ordinis Cluniacensis unanimi consensu et
assensu ad hoe capitulariter congregatos diligentibus tractatibus et maturis
deliberationibus prehabitis in evidentem utilitatem nostri et successorum
nostrorum ac dicti nostri monasterii et augmentationem rentalis nostri
annuatim ad summam subscriptam necnon pro summa quinquagintarum
marcarum usualis monete nobis per dilectum nostrum Davidem Kennedie
in Balserroch! ad reparationem dicti nostri monasterii exponendarum per
soluta de qua tenemus nos bene contentos pacatos et solutos dictumque
Davidem heredes suos et assignatos pro nobis et successoribus nostris de
eadem exoneravimus imperpetuum per tenorem presentis carte nostre Nec-
non pro ipsius Davidis auxilio nobis hoe tempore plusquam periculoso in
singulis vite nostre necessariis prestito et impenso dedisse concessisse ar-
rendasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim pro perpetuo dimisisse
et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse necnon dare concedere arrendare
locare et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim pro perpetuo dimittere et hac
presenti carta nostra confirmare memorato Davidi Kennedie et heredibus
suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu procreandis quibus
deficientibus Willelmo Kennedie in Brunstoun suo fratri naturali et
heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis quibus deficien-
tibus Jacobo Kennedie filio naturali dicti Willielmi et heredibus masculis
de corpore suo legitime procreandis quibus deficientibus heredibus dicti
Dauidis quibuscunque totas et integras nostras quadraginta sex solidatas
et octo denariatas terrarum de Balseroch et Slabrachan viginti solidatas

1 Half-way between Girvan and Kirkoswald.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL, 191

terrarum de Litiltoun omnes antiqui extentus cum suis pertinentiis iacen-
tium in parochia de Kirkoswald regalitate nostra de Corsraguell balliatu
de Carric et infra uicecomitatum de Air Que etiam predicte terre nobis
et predecessoribus nostris summam sex librarum et tredecim solidorum et
quatuor denariorum unacum sex lie maill foulis cum mulcturis sequelis et
serviclis et devorlis usitatis et consuetis persolverint annuatim in omnibus
suis proficiis et nostra rentali ad eandem extendunt Tenendas et habendas
totas et integras prenominatas quadraginta sex solidatas et octo denariatas
terrarum de Balserrauch et Slabrachan et viginti solidatas terrarum de Litil-
toun cum singulis suis pertinentiis dicto Davidi Kennedie et heredibus
suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis vel procreandis et ceteris
heredibus masculis respective et successive prescriptis de nobis et successor-
ibus nostris abbatibus commendatariis aut aliis dicto monasterio gaudentibus
secundum regni iura aut aliis canonice intrantibus per omnes rectas metas
suas antiquas et divisas prout iacent in longitudine et latitudine in boscis
planis moris marresiis semitis aquis stagnis rivolis pratis pascuis pasturis
domibus edificiis aucupationibus venationibus piscationibus molendinis
multuris et eorum sequelis petariis turbariis carbonibus carbonariis columbis
columbariis cuniculis cuniculariis fabrilibus brasinis brueriis et genestis silvis
nemoribus et virgultis cum curiis et earum exitibus herezeldis bludewitis et
mulierum merchetis -lignis tignis 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
tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam subtus terra quam supra terram
procul et prope ad predictas terras cum singulis earundem pertinentiis spectan-
tibus seu iuste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete
plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento revocatione
aut contradictionequacunque Reddendoindeannuatim dictus David Kennedie
et heredes sui masculi de corpore suo legitime procreati vel procreandi et ceteri
heredes masculi prescripti respective nobis et successoribus nostris nostro-
rumve camerariis et factoribus pro predictis quadraginta sex solidatis et
octo denariatis terrarum de Balserrach et Slabrachan cum suis pertinentiis
summam quatuor librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum monete
regni Scotie unacum solutione trium solidorum et quatuor denariorum in
augmentatione dicti nostri rentalis cum multuris eorundem usitatis et
consuetis necnon Reddendo inde annuatim pro prescriptis viginti solidatis
terrarum de Litiltoun cum suis pertinentiis memoratus David Kennedie et

192 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

heredes sui antedicti nobis et successoribus nostris predictis summam quad-
raginta solidorum monete predicti ac etiam viginti denariorum in augmen-
tationem predictam plusquam unquam predicte terre ante persolverunt aut
dederunt extendentium in integro ad summam sex librarum octodecim soli-
dorum et quatuor denariorum ad duos anni terminos festa, viz. Penthecostes
et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales portiones nomine annualis redditus
feudifirme neenon dictus David et heredes sui masculi prescripti solvendi
molendinis nostris dicti monasterii multuris et sequelis ac devoriis et serviciis
prescriptarum viginti solidatarum terrarum de Litiltoun usitatis et consuetis
unacum sex lie maill foulis apud festum Penthecostes necnon prestando
tres sectas ad tria nostra placita capitalia annuatim super terras nostras de
Auchinblane tenendas ac etiam heredes dicti Davidis suprascripti duplicando
dictam feudifirmam unius anni primo anno introitus ad prefatas terras prout
usus est feudifirme tantum pro omni alio onere exactione questione demanda
seu servicio seculari que de predictis terris cum pertinentiis per quoscunque
iuste exigi poterit quomodolibet vel requiri Et nos vero et successores
nostri totas et integras prenominatas quadraginta sex solidatas et octo
denariatas terrarum de Balserroch et Slabrachan viginti solidatas terrarum
de Litiltoun antiqui extentus cum singulis eorundem pertinentiis memorato
Davidi Kennedie et heredibus masculis suis respective prescriptis in omnibus
et per omnia forma pariter et effectu ut premissum est contra omnes mor-
tales warrantizabimus acquietabimus et inperpetuum defendemus Insuper
dilectis nostris Joanni Ramsay . . ~~ ac vestrum cuilibet con-
iunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter constitutis salutem
vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet stricte precipimus et mandamus quatenus
visis presentibus indilate statum et sasinam hereditariam necnon realem
actualem et corporalem possessionem totarum et integrarum predictarum
quadraginta sex solidatarum et octo denariatarum terrarum de Balsirauch
et Slabrachan ac viginti solidatarum terrarum de Litiltoun cum singulis suis
pertinentiis memorato Davidi Kennedie et heredibus masculis suis respective
prescriptis vel suis certis actornatis latoribus seu latori presentium secundum
vim formam et tenorem suprascripte carte nostre iuste deliberetis et haberi
faciatis sine dilatione et hoc nullo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum
vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte
antedictis nostram plenariam et irrevocabilem tenore presentium committi-
mus potestatem. In cuius rei testimonium presentibus manu nostra ac
manualibus dicti nostri conventus subscriptis sigillumque commune capituli

' CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 193

nostri est appensum apud Mayboll die mensis primo Septembris anno Domini
millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono coram hiis testibus J acobo Steuart
de Cardonald Roberto Stewart suo filio et Joanne Grahame,
ALLAN? commendatarius de Crosraguall.

Dompnus JoHANNes More junior manu propria,

Dompnus Micnarn Dewar manu propria.

Dompnus ApAMus MAxwELL manu propria.

Dompnus Duncanus M‘Kenyne manu propria.

Dompnus JoHannes Bryce manu propria.

Dompnus Gipertus KENNEDY manu propria.

Apud Edinburgh octavo Januarii anno Domini j™ ve septuagesimo

nono.
Productum coram dominis comissarii.
Hewatt.

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Allan, perpetual commendator of the monastery of Cros-
raguel and convent thereof, whereby, for the benefit of their monastery,
augmentation of rental, and for the sum of 50 merks paid to them by
David Kennedy in Balserroch for the reparation of the monastery, and for
the said David’s help given to them in these more than perilous times in
sundry necessaries of life, they give and in feu-farm let to the said David
Kennedy and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, to William Kennedy

in Brunstoun, his natural brother, and the heirs-male of his body ; whom

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failing, to James Kennedy, son natural of the said William, and the heirs-
male of his body ; whom failing, to the said David’s heirs whatsoever, the
46s. 8d. land of Balserroch and Slabrachan, the 20s. land of Litiltoun, all of
old extent, in the parish of Kirkoswald, regality of Crosraguel, bailiery of
Carrick and sheriffdom of Ayr; which extended in the rental of the monas-
. tery to £6:13:4, with six maill fowls, multures, sequels, and services due
and wont: To be held of the abbot and his successors, abbots commendators,
or others enjoying the said monastery, according to the laws of the king-
dom, or others canonically entering thereto, for payment to the abbot and his
successors of £4:13:4 for the said lands of Balserroch and Slabrachan,
and of 3s. 4d. in augmentation of rental, with multures used and wont ;
and for the 20s. land of Litiltoun the sum of 40s., and 20d. in augmentation
of rental, extending in all to £6: 8:4 yearly, and multures and services to
the mill of the monastery due and wont, with six maill fowls at Whitsun-
day, and three suits yearly at the abbot’s three head courts held at Auchin-
blane, with a duplicand at the entry of each heir. Contains a precept of
sasine, and is dated at Maybole 1st September 1569.

99. Charter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to William Kennedy of
Brunston, of certain lands in the Regality of the Abbey.—[1st
September 1569. |?

Omnibus hance cartam visuris vel audituris Allanus permissione divina
Commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Regalis salutem in Domino
sempiternam Quia huius regni reges diversi in parliamentis suis cum tri-
bus regni statibus terras regis prelatorum dominorum temporalium comitum
baronum ceterorumque huiusmodi terras hereditarie possidentium in emphi-
teosim seu feudifirmam absque rentalium et commoditatum diminutione
prout cum tenentibus conveniri poterint per diversa parliamenti statuta et
acta assedandas fore decreverunt opinantes perinde commoda non modica
ut policeas honesta edificia terrarum novas culturas sterilium meliorationes
arborum plantationes piscium in aquis recentibus per stagna nutritiones
columbariorum hortorum viridariorum et cuniculariorum constructiones ac
tenentium possessorum huiusmodi terrarum sic in emphiteosim seu feudi-
firmam locatarum in rebus mobilibus ditationes ac armorum et rerum
bellicarum provisiones pro regis et regni defencione regi regno reipubliceque

1 Culzedn Muniments, No. 733.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 195

saluti apprime proficere Et nos scientes statuta et legis preseriptorum regum
et maiorum nostrorum toti regno et incolis eiusdem maxime utiles omnes et
singulas terras nostras aliaque subscriptas dicto nostro monasterio spectantia
suadentibus premissis in feudifirmam locare statuimus Noveritis igitur nos
ac conventum dicti nostri monasterii ordinis Cluniacensis unanimi consensu
et assensu ad hoc capitulariter congregati diligentibus tractatibus et maturis
deliberationibus prehabitis in evidentem utilitatem nostri et successorum
nostrorum ac dicti nostri monasterii et augmentationem rentalis nostri
annuatim ad summam subscriptam Necnon pro summa mille marcarum
usualis monete nobis per dilectum nostrum Willielmum Kennedy? in Bruns-
toun ? ad reparationem dicti nostri monasterli exponendarum et persolutarum
de qua tenemus nos bene contentos placatos et solutos dictumque Willelmum
heredes suos et assignatos pro nobis et successoribus nostris de eadem
exoneramus et quieteclamamus inperpetuum per presentis carte nostre
tenorem Necnon pro ipsius Willelmi auxilio et suffragio nobis hoc tempore
plusquam periculoso in singulis vite nostre necessariis prestito et impenso
dedisse concessisse arrandasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim
pro perpetuo dimisisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Necnon
dare concedere arrendare locare et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim pro
perpetuo dimittere et hac presenti carta confirmare predicto Willelmo
Kennedy de Brunstoun Elizabeth Kennedy sue sponse ipsorumque
alteri diucius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione et heredibus masculis
dicti Willelmi de corpore suo legitime procreandis quibus deficientibus
Antonio Kennedy filio legitimo Davidis Kennedy in Balsarroch et
heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo etiam legitime procreandis quibus
deficientibus Jacobo Kennedy filio naturali dicti Willelmi et heredibus suis
masculis de corpore suo legitime procreandis quibus omnibus deficientibus
heredibus masculis dicti Willelmi quibuscunque totas et integras nostras sex
mercatas octo solidatas et quatuor denariatas terrarum vocatarum Manis de
Brunstoun olim nuncupatarum Nether Dalquharrane antiqui extentus cum
manerie fortalicio hortis pomariis brueriis earundem vulgo vocatis stallagis
vel lie brewlandis cum carbonariis et lie Coilpottis lapicidiis cum earundem
silvis et nemoribus cum lie Wodhag® infra dictas terras crescentibus aut

ruins are still to be seen. It has the appearance
of having been defended by a moat. The family
of Kennedy of Brunston was of no great account.

3 The annual cutting of the wood ; from the

Old Scotch hag, to cut.

1 These Kennedies of the smaller holdings
appear to have done yeoman service in the

defence of the Abbey against its enemies.
2 Brunston stood on a gentle knoll on the
north of the Girvan, near Dalquharran, and the

196 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

contingerint infra easdem fore cum singulis suis pertinentiis Necnon dedisse
concessisse arrandasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim dimisisse
et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse, ut predicitur, memorato Willelmo
Kennedy et heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreandis
quibus deficientibus omnibus heredibus masculis respective et successive
prescriptis totas et integras nostras duas marcatas terrarum de Quarrelhill?
et quinque solidatas terrarum de Glenord antiqui extentus occupatas tempore
confectionis presentium per dictum Willelmum et suos subtenentes que
omnes predicte terre extendunt ad novem marcatas terrarum cum singulis
suis pertinentiis iacentes in parochia de Daling regalitate nostra de Crosregall
comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Air Que etiam predicte terre
nobis et predecessoribus nostris summam novem librarum persolverunt
annuatim in omnibus suis proficuis et in nostro rentali annuatim extendunt
Tenendas et habendas totas et integras prenominatas sex mercatas octo
solidatas et quatuor denariatas terrarum vocatarum, Manis de Brunstoun cum
manerie fortalicio pomeriis hortis brueriis vulgo stallagis vel lie brewlandis
cum singulis suis prescriptis specialibus pertinentiis dicto Willelmo Kennedy
et Elizabeth Kennedy sue sponse eorumque alteri diucius viventi in coniuncta
infeodatione et heredibus masculis dicti Willelmi de corpore suo legitime
procreandis et ceteris heredibus masculis respective et successive prescriptis
Necnon dictas duas marcatas terrarum de Quarrelhill et quinque solidatas
terrarum de Glenord cum singulis suis pertinentiis de nobis et successoribus
nostris abbatibus commendatariis aut aliis dicto monasterio gaudentibus
secundum regni iura aut aliis canonice intrantibus per omnes rectas metas
suas antiquas et divisas prout iacent in longitudine et latitudine in domibus
edificiis boscis planis moris marresiis viis semitis aquis stagnis rivolis pratis
pascuis et pasturis molendinis multuris et eorum sequelis aucupationibus
venationibus piscationibus petariis turbariis carbonibus carbonariis columbis
columbariis cuniculis cuniculariis pomis pomeriis fabrilibus brasinis brueriis
et genestis silvis nemoribus et virgultis lignis lapicidiis lapide et calee cum
curiis et earum exitibus herezeldis bludewetis et mulierum merchetis cum
communi pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et singulis
libertatibus commoditatibus proficuis aisiamentis et iustis suis pertinentiis
quibuscunque tam non nominatis quam nominatis tam subtus terra quam
supra terram procul et prope ad prefatas terras spectantibus seu iuste
spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie integre

1 One mile north-west of Dalquharran.

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 197

honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento revocatione contradic-
tione aut obstaculo aliquali Reddendo annuatim dictus Willelmus Kennedy
et Elezabeth Kennedy eius sponsa eorumque alter diucius vivens in coniuncta
infeodatione et heredes masculi dicti Willelmi de corpore sue legitime pro-
creandi et ceteri heredes masculi respective prescripti nobis et successoribus
nostris nostrorum camerarlis et factoribus predictis sex marcatis octo
solidatis et quatuor denariatis terrarum de Manis de Brunstoun cum manerie
fortalicio hortis pomis pomeriis lapidis brueriis carbonariis silvis et ceteris
iustis suis pertinentiis summam septem librarum monete regni Scotie unacum
solutione sex solidorum in augmentationem nostri rentalis Necnon reddendo
annuatim dictus Willelmus sui prescriptis nobis et nostris prescriptis
successoribus pro dictis duabus marcatis terrarum de Quarrelhill et quinque
solidatis terrarum de Glenord summam quadraginta solidorum neenon
summam trium solidorum in augmentationem predictam plusquam unquam
predicte terre ante persolverunt seu dederunt ad duos anni terminos con-
suetos festa, viz., Penthecostis et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales
portiones nomine annualis redditus feudifirme Necnon dictus Willelmus
eiusque sponsa eorumque heredes masculi prescripti solvendo molendinis
nostris dicti monasterii multuras et sequelas prefatarum terrarum ante con-
fectionem presentium debitas et consuetas Necnon prestando tres sectas ad
tria placita nostra capitalia annuatim super terris nostris de Auchinblane?*
tenendas Ac etiam heredes dicti Willelmi suprascripti duplicando dictam
feudifirmam unius anni primo anno eorum introitus ad prefatas terras prout
usus est feudifirme tantum pro omni alio onere exactione questione demanda
seu servitio seculari que de prefatis terris cum pertinentiis pe[r] quoscunque
iuste exigi poterit quomodolibet vel requiri Et Nos vero et successores
nostri totas et integras prenominatas sex marcatas octo solidatas quatuor
denariatas terrarum de Manis de Brunstoun cum manerie fortalicio hortis
pomeriis et ceteris prescriptis memorato Willelmo Elezabeth eius sponse
eorumque alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione et heredibus
masculis dicti Willelmi prescriptis Necnon duas marcatas terrarum de
Quarrelhill et quinque solidatas terrarum de Glenord dicto Willelmo
Kennedy et heredibus suis masculis prescriptis in omnibus et per omnia
forma pariter et effectu ut premissum est contra omnes mortales warrantiza-

1 From this we may infer that the Abbey the purpose of exacting from the vassals and
courts were held annually at Auchinblane, to other tenants of the regality an acknowledgment
the west of the building. They were held for of superiority.

198 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

bimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus Insuper dilectis nostris
Alexandro Kennedy . . . . . .~ et eorum cuilibet coniunctim
et divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter constitutis salutem Vobis
precipimus et mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum sasinam
hereditariam pariterque possessionem corporalem actualem et realem totarum
et integrarum sex marcatarum octo solidatarum et quatuor denariatarum
terrarum de Manis de Brunstoun cum manerie fortalicio hortis pomeriis
silvis carbonibus lapicidiis et ceteris pertinentiis dicto Willelmo Kennedy et
Elezabeth Kennedy sue sponse eorumque alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta
infeodatione modo prescripto ac etiam hereditariam sasinam prefatarum
duorum marcatarum terrarum de Quarrelhill et quinque solidatarum terrarum
de Glenord cum iustis suis pertinentiis prefato Willelmo Kennedy vel
ipsorum certis actornatis latoribus seu latori presentium per terre et lapidis
fundi prefatarum terrarum respective ut moris est traditionem secundum
tenorem prescripte carte iuste tradatis et deliberetis et hoc nullo modo
omittatis Ad quod faciendum nobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et
divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte antedictis nostram plenariam et
irrevocabilem tenore presentium committimus potestatem In cuius rei
testimonium presentibus manu nostra ac manibus dicti nostri conventus
subscriptis sigillum commune capituli nostri est appensum apud dictum
nostrum Monasterium de Corsraguell die mensis Septembris primo anno
Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono coram hiis testibus Jacobo
Stewart de Cardonald Roberto Stewart suo filio et Joanne Grahame.

ALLANUS commendatarius de Crosraguall.
Dompnus JoHANNES Mvre iunior manu propria.
Dompnus Micuartt Dewar manu propria.
Dompnus ApAmMus MAXWELL manu propria. |
Dompnus Duncanus M‘KenyNE manu propria.
Dompnus JOHANNES BRVCE manu propria.
Dompnus GILBERTUS KENNEDY manu propria.

Apud Edinburgh octavo Januarii anno Domini j™ v° sexagesimo nono.

Productum coram dominis commissariis.
Hewat.

on ef

CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 199

ABSTRACT.

Charter by Allan, perpetual commendator of the monastery of Crosraguel
and convent of the same, of the Cluniac order, whereby, for the benefit of
the order, augmentation of rental, and the sum of one thousand merks paid
to them by William Kennedy in Brunstoun, for the reparation of the said
monastery and for the help and assistance rendered to them by the said
William in this most perilous time in necessaries of life, they give, set, lease,
and to feu-farm let for ever to the said William Kennedy in Brunstoun,
Elizabeth Kennedy his spouse, and the longer liver of them in conjoint fee,
and to the heirs-male of the said William’s body ; whom failing, to Antony
Kennedy, lawful son of David Kennedy in Balserroch, and the lawful heirs-
male of his body ; whom failing, to James Kennedy, son natural of the said
William, and the lawful heirs-male of his body ; whom all failing, the heirs-
male of the said William whomsoever, all and whole the six merk 8s, 4d.
land called Mains of Brunstoun, formerly called Nether Dalquharrane, of
old extent, with manor-place, fortalice, orchards, stallages or brewlands, coal-
heuchs and coalpots, quarries, woods and groves, with the woodhag growing
on the said lands; and, in like manner, the two merkland of Quarrelhill
and five shilling land of Glenord, occupied by the said William and his
subtenants, all which lands extend to a nine merkland, lying in the parish
of Dailly, regality of Crosraguel, earldom of Carrik and sheriffdom of Ayr,
and extended to nine pounds yearly in rental; To be held by the said
William and Elizabeth and heirs above recited of the granter and his
successors, abbots, commendators, or others possessing the said monastery,
according to the laws of the realm, or others entering thereto canonically,
for payment for the Mains of Brunstoun of the sum of seven pounds Scots
yearly and six shillings in augmentation of rental, and for Quarrelhill and
Glenord the sum of forty shillings and three shillings in augmentation of
rental, in name of annual rent of feu-farm, and rendering to the mills of
the monastery the multures and sequels of the said lands due and wont,
and giving three suits at the abbot’s three head courts held yearly on his
lands of Auchinblane, together with a duplicand at the entry of each heir.
Contains a precept of sasine, and is subscribed by the abbot and convent,
and sealed with the common seal of the chapter at the monastery of Cros-
raguel 1st September 1569, in presence of James Stewart of Cardonald,
Robert Stewart his son, and John Grahame.

200 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL.

100. Discharge by George Buchanan to the Earl of Cassillis.—
[12th September 1569. ]}

Be it kend till all men be thir present lettres Me Maister George
Buchquhannan pensioner of Corsraguell to haif tane and ressavit fra ane
nobill and potent Lord Gilbert Earle of Cassillis takkisman and possessour
of the haill benefyce of Corsraguell? the soume of thre hundreth merkis
usuall money of Scotland in part of payment of sevin hundreth merkis
restand auchtand to me be the said erle for my said pensioun of the crop
and yeir of God J™ v¢ threscoir aucht yeiris be vertew of ane decreit of the
Lordis of Sessioun past aganis the said erle at my instance *® quhairupoun off
the quhilk soume of thre hundreth merkis I the said Maister George
grantis me to haif ressavit thankfull payment fra the erle as said is and
for me my airis executouris and assignayis exoneris quyteclamis and
dischairgis him his airis executouris and assignayis thairof for now and evir
and sall warrand releif and keip skaythles the said erle and his foirsaidis
at all handis havand or pretendand to haif entres to the said soume or ony
pairt thairof be this my acquittance subscrivit with my hand at Glasew the
xij day of September the yeir of God J™ ve threscoir nyne yeiris befoir thir
witnessis Matho Heriot burges of Glasgw Maister Thomas Buchquhannan
Johnne Nicholsoun servand to the said Maister George, and Alexander
Kessane notar publict, with utheris diverss.

G. B uchanan—

T. Buchanan witnes.
Alexander Kessane witnes in the premissis.

ABSTRACT.

Discharge by Mr. George Buchanan, pensioner of Crosraguel, to
Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, of the sum of 300 merkis, in part of 700 merks
money due by the earl to him for his pension, for the crop and year 1568,
and that conform to decree of the Lords of Session at his instance against
the earl. Dated 12th September 1569.

1 Culzean Muniments, No. 735. transferred to the Earl.

2 By charter No. 90, supra. The rights 3 In virtue of the succeeding contract, No.
granted to Abbot Allan by No. 93 had thus been 101.

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