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SHAW- STEWART, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Sir ANDREW AGNEW, Bart., of Lochnaw. Sir WILLIAM WALLACE, Bart., of Lochryan. Sir WILLIAM J. MONTGOMERY- CUNINGHAME, Bart., V.C, of CorsehUl. Sir HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Bart., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot. R. A. OSWALD, Esq., of Auchincruive. !^on* ^ztvztiiviz0 for Slpr^^trc, R. W. COCHRAN-PATRICK of Woodside, LL.D., F.S.A., Hon. Sec. S.A. Scot. The 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. !^on, ^zcvzta.viz0 for (Ballotoaj* The Rev. G. WILSON, Glenluce, C.M.S.A. Scot. Sir HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Bart., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot. %vz(imvzu C. G. SHAW, Esq., County Buildings, Ayr. CounciU The Hon. HEW DALRYMPLE, F.S.A. Scot. Sir HERBERT EUSTACE MAXWELL, Bart., of Monreith, M.P., F.S.A. Scot. Colonel 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® vi LIST OF MEMBEES. Ht'sit of apem&er^, 1886. APFLECK, John, Union Bank, Glasgow. Agnew, Alexander, 11 Eeform Street, Dundee. Agnew, Sir Andrew, Lochnaw, Stranraer. Agnew, E. Vans, of Barnbarroch, Wigtonshire. 5 AiLSA, 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. 10 Allan, Eev. William, Manse of Mochrum, Port-William. Allison, E. A., Scaleby Hall, Carlisle. Alston, Charles, Eedhouse, Ayr. Anderson, J., Carthgale, Kilmarnock. Anderson, W., 149 West George Street, Glasgow. 15 Andrews, David, Solicitor, Girvan. Antiquaries, Society of, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W. Armour, John, jun.. Architect, Irvine. Armstrong, E. B., 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh. Arthur, J. P., C.S.I., Lochside House, New Cumnock. 20 Arthur, M., 9 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow. Ayr, Burgh of BAILEY, J. Lambert, Banker, Ardrossan. Baird, J. G. A., of Adamton, Wellwood, Muirkirk. Barber, James, Architect, Dumfries. 25 Bartlemore, J., of Bourtrees, Paisley. Baxter, D., Ladybum, Kilkerran, Maybole. Blair, Archibald, Surgeon, Dairy, Ayrshire. Blair, Captain, of Blair, Dairy, Ayrshire. Blair, Lady Hunter-, Blairquhan, Maybole. 30 Blair, Eev. D. Oswald Hunter-, O.S.B., St. Benedict's Monastery, Fort Augustus. Blair, F. C. Hunter-, F.S.A. Scot., 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh. Borland, J., Chemist, Kilmarnock. Boswell, p. C. D., of Garrallan, Cumnock. Bowie, J. H., Union Bank, Coatbridge. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBERS. vii 35 Boyd, Colonel Hay, of Townend, Symington. Boyd, D. A., Seamill, West Kilbride, Ayrshire. Boyle, Captain, of Shewalton, The Pavilion, Ardrossan. Brisbane, 0. T., of Brisbane, Largs. Brown, A. J. Dennistoun, of Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire. 40 Brown, D., Banker, Maybole. Brown, D., Townend Cottage, Dairy. Brown, George, Burnside, Irvine. Brown, J. Oswald, Orangefield, Monkton. Brown, J. T., Gibraltar House, Edinburgh. 45 Brown, Miss, of Lanfine, Newmilns. Brown, Eobert, Underwood Park, Paisley. Browne, Eev. A., The Manse, Beith. Buchanan, A., of Curriehill, Edinburgh. Bute, Marquess of, Mountstuart, Rothesay. 50 CAIRD, Sir James, K.C.B., 3 St. James' Square, London, S.W. Cairney, 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. 55 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. 60 Garment, J., LL.D., 32 Albany Street, Edinburgh. Carrick, Joseph, Merlewood, Sale, Cheshire. Carruthers, David, Market Lane, Kilmarnock. Challoner, N. B., Royal Bank, Kilmarnock. Christie, William, Royal Bank, Irvine. 65 CoMRiE, Alexander, Accountant, Dairy. Conway, Rev. James, Springburn, Glasgow. Cooper, Mrs. A. F., of Failford, Tarbolton. Copland, James, General Register House, Edinburgh. Cowan, Hugh, St. Leonards, Ayr. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® viii LIST OF MEMBEES. 70 Craufurd, E. H. J., of Auchenames, "West Kilbride. Crawfurd, T. Macknight, of Carfcsbum, 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. 75 CUNINGHAME, Sir W. J. M., Bart., V.C., of Corsehill, Kirkbride House, May bole. CUNINGHAJVBE, W. 0. S., of Caprington, Kilmarnock. CURRIB, Dr., Hydropathic Establishment, Skelmorlie. CUTHBERT, Alex. A., 14 Newton Terrace, Glasgow. DALEYMPLE, C, New Hailes, Musselburgh. 80 Dalrymple, G. E., Kinellar Lodge, Aberdeenshire. Dalrymple, Hon. Hew, Loohinch, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer. Dalrymple, Hon. North, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer. Dalrymple, Hon. Eobert, Loch Inch, Castle Kennedy. Day, Eobert, yr., 3 Sydney Place, Cork. 85 Dick, G. G., 3 Barns Street, Ayr. Dickie, James, Town Clerk, Irvine. Dickie, Hugh, Eector, Academy, Kilmarnock. Dickie, James, 13 Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.G. Dickie, James, London Eoad, Kilmarnock. 90 Dickson, George, Sheriff- Substitute of Galloway, Auchendoon, Newton-Stewart. Dickson, T., General Eegister House, Edinburgh. Dobbie, Eobert, M.D., 3 Wellington Square, Ayr. DoBiE, J. Shedden, F.S.A. Scot., of Morishill, Beith. Donaldson, J., Sunnyside, Formby, near Liverpool. 95 Douglas, David, 15a Castle Street, Edinburgh. Douglas, J. C, M.D., Whithorn, Wigtonshire. Douglas, W. D. Eobinson, of Orchardton, Castle Douglas. Drew, James, Doonhill, Newton-Stewart. Duncan, James Dalrymple, 211 Hope Street, Glasgow. 100 DuNLOP, David, Solicitor, Ayr. DuNLOP, W. H., of Annanhill, Kilmarnock. DuNLOP, W. H., of Doonside, Solicitor, Ayr. Dunn, John, Solicitor, Castle-Douglas. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBERS. ix EASTON, John, C.A., 41 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow. 105 Eglinton and Winton, Earl of, Eglinton Castle, Irvine. Eldee, George, Knock Castle, Largs. EvAi^S, John, D.C.L., Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead. FAULDS, A. Wilson, Knockbuckle, Beith. Ferguson, James M., Observer Office, Ayr. 110 Fekgusson, Eight 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 Forsyth, John, Teacher, Castle-Douglas. Foster, W. K., 45 Leinster Gardens, Hyde Park, London, W. Frajjks, Augustus W., British Museum, London. Fraser, Gordon, Bookseller, Wigton. Eraser, W., W.S., Deputy Keeper of the Eecords, 32 Castle Street, Edinburgh. 120 GALLOWAY, Earl of, Galloway House, Wigtonshire. Gardner, Alexander, Publisher, Paisley. Gardner, William, Shawl Manufacturer, Paisley. Geddes, G. H., 142 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Gemmell, Thomas, Banker, Ayr. 125 Gemmell, WUIiam, 150 Hope Street, Glasgow. Gillespie, William, Solicitor, Castle-Douglas. Gilmour, a.. Solicitor, Irvine. Gilmour, Allan, Woodend, Kilmarnock. Girvan, J. Graham, 186 West George Street, Glasgow. 130 Glasgow and Galloway, Bishop of, Ayr. Glasgow, Earl of, Crawford Priory, Cupar-Fife. Glasgow, E. B. Eobertson, of Montgreenan, Kilwinning. Gordon, A. J., Factor, Kirkcudbright. GouDiE, Eobert, Solicitor, Ayr. 135 Graham, J., of Broadstone, Stranraer. Gray, G., Clerk of the Peace, Glasgow. Grebnwell, Eev. Canon, Durham. VOL. I. h Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBEES. Greig, T. C, Eephad, Stranraer. Guthrie, Arthur, J. P., Ardrossan. 140 HAMILTON, Alexander, Solicitor, Irvine. Hamilton, Captain, of Pinmore, Girvan. Hamilton, Frank S., Cairnhill, Kilmarnock. Hamilton, George, Ardendee, Kjrkcudbright. Hamilton, H. M., 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London. 145 Hamilton, J., Town-Clerk, Kilmarnock. Hamilton, J. G., Orchard HiU, Kilmarnock. Hamilton, J. Wallace, of Cairnhill, Kilmarnock. Hamilton, John, of Sundrum, Ayr. Hamilton, Mrs. M. C, 13 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham. 150 Hannah, A, Caimsmore, 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 Herries, Lord, Kinharvey, New Abbey, Dumfries. HoRNE, Eobert E., 150 Hope Street, Glasgow. HosACK, James, EUersUe, Kirkcudbright. HoULDSWORTH, 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 Hutchison, Graham, of Bahnaghie, Castle Douglas. lEVINE, 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBEES. xi 170 KAY, R. M., Clydesdale Bank, Ayr. Keith, Eev. W. A, Burham Vicarage, Rochester. Kennedy, Captain Clark, of Knockgray, Henbury, Wimbourne, Dorset. Kennedy, F. T. E., of Dunure, Ayr. Kennedy, J. Murray, yr., of Knocknalling, Dairy, Galloway. 175 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. Kerk, W., Nethergate House, Dundee. 180 KiLPATRiCK, William, Solicitor, Provost of Ayr. King, H. B., Commercial Bank, KU winning. King, Walter, Paisley. Kinna, James G., Heron Cottage, Newton-Stewart. Kirkcudbright Museum, per George Hamilton, Ardendee, Kirk- cudbright. 185 KlEKHOPE, Thomas, Writer, Ardrossan. Knox, E. W., of Moor Park, Kilbirnie. LAING, Alexander, LL.D., Newburgh-on-Tay. Lamb, J. B., Architect, Paisley. Landsborough, Eev. D., Kilmarnock. 190 Leadbetter, Thomas, Westerhouse, Gillsland Eoad, Edinburgh. Leck, Henry, of HoUybush, Ayr. Livingston, Eev. N., D.D., Free Church Manse, Coylton, Ayr. LOCKHART, John, Sheriff-Clerk Depute, Ayr. London Library, 12 St. James' Square, London, S.W. 195 Lorraine, Dr., Castle Douglas. Low, Eev. W. F., B.D., Edgehill Manse, Kilmarnock. M'ALISTEE, J., Surgeon, Kilmarnock. M'Call, James, 6 St. John's Terrace, HiUhead, Glasgow. M'Call, James, Monreith Arms, Port- William. 200 M'Callum, Eobert, Town Chamberlain, Ayr. M'Chlery, William, Balminnoch, Kirkcowan. M'Clelland, a. S., 115 St. Vincent St., Glasgow. M'Connachie, J. A., C.E., 1 2 Victoria Eoad, Kensington, London, W. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xii LIST OF MEMBERS M'CoNNEL, William, of Knockdolian, Girvan. 205 M'CosH, James M., Solicitor, Dairy. M'CUBBIN, W. F., Solicitor, 5 Alloway Place, Ayr. M'CuLLOCH, Thomas, Founder, Kilmarnock. M'CuLLOCH, David, Beech Grove, Kilmarnock. M'EwBN, Robert F., of Bardrochwood, 20 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. 210 M'FlE, Alexander, Banker, Whithorn. M'GiBBON, D., 92 George Street, Edinburgh. M'GiBBON, William, Draper, Stranraer. M'Geigok, Dr. A. B., 19 Woodside Terrace, Glasgow. M'Haffie, George W. Gordon, Corsemalzie, Whauphill, Wigton- shire. 215 M'Haitie, Wm. J., Torhousemuir, Wigton. M'Jannet, W. D., Solicitor, Irvine. M'Kerlie, p. H., 26 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, London, W. M'Kerrell, R. M., of Hillhouse, Dundonald. M'Keeeow, Dr., Ayr. 220 M'Kje, J., Publisher, Kilmarnock. M'Micking, Gilbert, 55 Princes Gate, London, S.W. Macarthur, Lady, 27 Princes Gardens, London, S.W. Macdonald, a. G., The Crescent, Ardrossan. Macdonald, J., LL.D., 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow. 225 Macdonald, J. 0. R., W.S., Dumfries. Macdouall, James, of Logan, Stranraer. Macdowall, Henry, younger, of Garthland, Lochwinnoch. Macfarlane, Dr., Kilmarnock. Macgregor, p. Comyn, of Brediland, Paisley. 230 Mackean, J. A., Maryfield, Paisley. Mackenzie, Alexander, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley. Mackenzie, James, Solicitor, Stranraer. Mackie, Daniel, of Knockgerran, Girvan. Mackie, Robert, Draffen House, Stewarton. 235 MACKINNON, William, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. MACLEOD, Rev. W., 5 Thirlestane Road,Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh. Magpherson, Professor Norman, Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway, 2 Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBERS. xiii Macrorie, William, Solicitor, Ayr. Matthews, 'Rev. G. T>., D.D., Quebec. 240 Maxwell, Mrs., of Oarruchan, Dumfries. Maxwell, Francis, of Gribton, Dumfries. Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, Bart., M.P., of Monreith, Whauphill. Maxwell, J. H., Editor, Castle Douglas. Maxwell, W. H., of Munches, Kirkcudbright. 245 Maxwell, Wellwood, of Kirkennan, by Dalbeattie. Merger, John, C.E., Ayr. MiDDLEMAS, W., Town-Clerk's Office, Kilmarnock. Miller, Eobert, Alloway Cottage, Ayr. MiLROY, Dr. A., Kilwinning. 250 Mitchell, Dr. A., 34 Drummond Place, Edinburgh. Mitchell, J. 0., 69 East Howard Street, Glasgow. Mitchell Library, Ingram Street, Glasgow. Montgomerie, J. C, Dalmore, Stair. Moore, J. Carrick, of Corsewall, Stranraer. 255 Morris, A. Pollok, of Craig, Kilmarnock. Morris, James A., A.E.I.B.A., 16 Adamson Road, St. John's Wood, London, N.W. Morton, John M. M., of Belmont, Ayr. Munro, Dr. R., Kilmarnock. MuRCHLAND, Charles, Publisher, Irvine. 260 Murdoch, John, Architect, Ayr. Murdoch, J. B., Barclay, Langside, Glasgow. Murdoch, R. D., Fairfield Lodge, Ayr. Murray, David, 169 West George Street, Glasgow. Murray, William, Barns Park, Ayr. 265 Mutter, W.,.of Meiklelaught, Ardrossan. NICOLSON, Sheriff, Greenock. OLIVER, Rev. J., Belhaven, Dunbar. Oswald, R. A., of Auchincruive, Ayr. PARLANE, James, Rusholme, Manchester. 270 Patbrson, John, of Knowehead, Irvine. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xiv LIST OF MEMBEES. Paterson, Sheriff Orr, Ayr. Paton, Hugh, Seedsman, Kilmarnock. Paton, James B., Merchant, Ayr. Paton, Robert, Gartferry, Ayr. 275 Paton, Theophilus, of Swinlees, Dairy. Patrick, Miss Cochran-, Ladyland, Beith. Patrick, R W. Cochran-, of Woodside, Beith. Patrick, W. Ralston, of Trearne, Beith. Philp, Rev. George, Saltcoats. 280 PiCKEN, James, Hillhouse Lodge, Fenwick. Pollock, J., Victoria Works, Beith. Pollock, John, Town-Clerk, Ayr. Pollock, William, Solicitor, Ayr. PoLLOK, R. M., of Middleton, Ayr. 285 PoRTEOUS, J. S., Oakbank, Maybole. Portland, Duke of, per J. H. Turner, The Dean, Kilmarnock. RAFF, James, 14 Engsborough Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Ramsay, Dr., Lochwinnoch. Ramsay, R., Greendyke Street, Glasgow. 290 Reid, Charles, Lily Mount, Kilmarnock. Reid, H. G., Stationery Office, London. Reid, 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. 295 RoBB, George, 17 Scott Street, Garnethill, Glasgow. Robertson, Rev. W. B., Westfield, West Calder. Rose, James, 11 Langlands Street, Kilmarnock. Ross, Alexander M., Town-Chamberlain, Paisley. Row AT, William, St. Margaret's, Paisley. 300 Russell, William D., of Maulside, Dairy, Ayrshire. SCOTT, John, Hawkhill, Greenock. Selby, E. B., M.D., Port-William. Shaw, Charles G., Ayr. Signet Library, Edinburgh. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® LIST OF MEMBEES. xv 305 Smith, Rev. George Muir, 6 Clarendon Place, Stirling. Somervell, James, of Sorn, MaucUine. Stair, Earl of, Lochincii, Castle Kennedy, Stranraer. Steele, Ex-Provost, Ayr. Stephen, William, 31 Sandgate Street, Ayr. 310 Stevenson, Allan, ArcHtect, Ayr. Stevenson, T. G-., 22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Stevenson, William, Witch Road, Kilmarnock. Stewart, H. G. Murray, of Cally, Gatehouse. Stewart, J., Heathfield, Irvine. 315 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. Stoddart, James H., Glasgoio Herald Office, Glasgow. 320 Stoddart, R. R., Lyon Clerk-Depute, Edinburgh. Struthers, a. W., 3 Bams Terrace, Ayr. Sturrock, Arthur, British Linen Company Bank, Kilmarnock. Sturrock, J., junior, Solicitor, Kilmarnock. Sturrock, Provost, M.P., Kilmarnock. 325 Symington, G., Banker, Glenluce. TAYLOR, Mrs. William, London Road, Kilmarnock. Thomson, Rev. J. H., Free Church Manse, Hightae, Lockerbie. Todd, Hugh, Solicitor, Stranraer. Trotter, Robert de Bruce, M.D., Perth. 330 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. 335 VivUN, A. P., St. James St., Buckingham Gate, London, S.W. WALES, James, of Buckstone, Rawdon, Yorkshire. Walker, Alex., Wine Merchant, Kilmarnock. Digitized by Microsoft® xvi LIST OF MEMBEES. Walkek, J,, 74 Bath Street, Glasgow. Wallace, Charles, Dally, Kirkcolm, Stranraer. 340 Wallace, Sir William, Lieut.-Col., of Lochryan, Stranraer. Wallet, Duncan, 15 Billiter Street, London. Warrack, Rev. Alexander, Free Church Manse, Leswalt, Stranraer. Watson, J., Wallace Bank, Kilmarnock. Weir, William, of Kildonan, Portland Ironworks, Kilmarnock. 345 Weston, Col. Hunter-, of Hunterston, West Kilbride. Williamson, Walter, Solicitor, Beith. Wilson, Eev. G-., Free Church Manse, Glenluce, Wigtonshire. Wilson, R. Dobie, 38 Upper Brook Street, London, W. Wood, Adam, Portland Villa, Troon. 350 Wright, Hugh, of Alticry, Port-William. Wylie, R., Kilwinning. YOUNG, David, Town-Clerk, Paisley. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® PREFACE This 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 Oassillis 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. c Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xviii PEEFACE. 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, Archeviste 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® PEEFACE. xix 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 BLAIE. Blairquhan, Maybole, April 1886. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CONTENTS OF VOL. I. INTRODUCTION : I. The History of the Abbey . § 1. The Foundation of the Ahhey . § 2. The Ahhey under the Bruces . § 3. The Ahhey wnder the first Stewarts § 4. The Ahhacies of Colin, David, and Rohert § 5. The Ahhey under William Kennedy § 6. The Ahhey under Quintin Kennedy § 7. Allan Stewart the Commendator § 8. The later history of the Ahhey . II. The Regality oe the Abbey . III. The Conventual Seal. IV. Allusions to Croskaguel by Ancient Writers V. The Order of Cluny in Scotland . PAGE xxi xxii XXV xxix xxxii XXXV xl xlvi liii Ivi Ixii Iyi'i'i Isix CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 1. Bull of Honorius III. confirming to the Monks of Paisley the Lands of Crosragmol and Southhlane [1225] ..... 2. Confirmatio Alexandri regis Scotie, de trihus ecclesiis de Karryc, videlicet de Tornbir', de Stratton', et de Dalmakeran, et de donatione denariate terre de Crosragmol, et de Sut'hlan in Cairek [5th August 1236] 3. Scriptum de Crosragmol [15 th August 124:4] i. Contra Ahbatem de Crosragmol [6th Fehruary and 11th June 1265] 5. Bull hy Clement IV., confirming to tlie Monks of Paisley the Lands of Crosragmol [1269] . ...... 2 3 6 10 Digitized by Microsoft® CONTENTS. PAGE 6. A2>pendix I. (Bagimont's Roll). Taxatio Benefidarum Prefer Prelacias Scotie in decima parte eorundem — Anno MCCLXXV. . . ■ 1 1 7. Donatio ecclesie Sandi Qiierani in Kentyir per Alexandrum de Hyle [circa 1286] 12 8. Letter from Henry de Percy, at Crosraguel, to Sir James Dalileghe [25th July 1306] ........ 13 9. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [ith June 1324]. . ■ 14 10. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [1324] .... 15 11. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer [2Qth July 1327] . . 17 12. Gifts to Crosraguel from the Royal Purse [IZ^Q-ZQi] ... 18 13. Charter by Marjory de Montgomery to John Kennedy, of the Lands of Cassillis in Carrick [not dated : circa 1 300] . . . . . 20 14. Instrumentum visitationis et resignationis Abbatie de Crosragmol [27th September 1370] ........ 22 15. Allusion to Abbot Roger in Fordun [1370] .... 26 1 6. Charter by Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, to John Kennedy of Dunure, of the lands of Treuchane and Kenethane [no date: circa 1370] . . 26 17. Confirmacio Monasterii de Crosragmer [\ith November 1374] . . 28 18. Confirmacio Abbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer [\ith November 1374] . 29 19. Confirmacio Monasterii de Corsragmer [\Uh November 1374] . . 29 20. Indenture between Thomas Fleming and John Kennedy of Dunure, for the JVadset to the latter of the lands of Cumbernauld [\%th February 1374] . . 30 21. Charter by John Kennedy of Dunure to the Chapel of S. Mary of Maybole [1st March 1383-4] ....... 33 22. Charter by King Robert the Third, granting to the Monastery of Crosraguel certain Churches and Lands [24th August 1404] .... 37 23. Report on Crosraguel, in the Archives of the Abbey of Cluny [1405] . . 40 24. Charter of John M'Gillelane to Fergus Kennedy of Bomonyn, of the Upper Half of the Barony of Glenstyncher [18th March 1415-6] . , . 40 25. The Abbot of Crosraguel Ambassador to Ireland [1429] ... 42 26. Indenture between Lord Kennedy and his Son, and Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany [15th September 1465] ...... 43 27. Renunciatio subsidii Roberti episcopi Glasguensis [24th September 1487] . 43 27a. The rebuilding of Crosraguel by Abbot Colin [1480-90] ... 45 28. Instrumentum Abbatis et Conventus de Pasleto, inter eosdem et Magistrum David Cunyngham decanum ruralem ad instantiam eorum excitatum [31st January 1489-90] ........ 46 Digitized by Microsoft® CONTENTS. PAGE 29. Instrument of Resignation hy Duncan Fergusson of Knockgarron in favour of John Fergusson his Son, of the lands of Knockgarron and Alticaple [27th August 1490] ........ 48 30. Charter by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel to John Fergusson and Agnes Kennedy his Wife of the Lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron [27th August 1490] . 50 31. Precept by Colin Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John Fergusson and his JVife in the lands of Alticaple and Knockgarron [2%th August 1490] . . 53 32. Consistorial Act relating to the election of Robert Whyteford to the Abbacy [7th November 1491] ....... 54 34. Charter by Robert, Abbot of Crosraguel, to John Fergusson, of a portion of the lands of Alticaple [26th May 14:92] .... 54 35. Decision by the Lords Auditors in the Action by the Abbot of Crosraguel against Thomas Kennedy of Bergany, [2Qth June 14:931 ... 57 36. Decreet of Transumpt by the Official of Glasgow, of two Charters, obtained at the instance of John Fergusson [12th December l^QQi] . . 57 37. Precept by David Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting John Fergusson in the land of Alticliapel [2d November 1501] . . . . . 62 38. Decree by the Jjords of Council in an action by Abbot David against John Hamilton [12th March 1501] ..... .63 39. Abbas de Pasleto [Zd September 1509] ..... 64 40. Facultas concessa ab Andrea Archiepiscopo Sanctiandree, legato a latere, de non visitando Monasterium de Pasleto mc quicguid alivd eidem subjectum [5 th February 1515] ....... 65 41. Acts relating to the election of William Kennedy [1520] ... 68 42. Charter by Sir James Douglas to the Earl of Cassillis of his house at Maybole [2Qth December 1520] .... .68 43. Precept by Abbot William for infefting Niel Fergusson in the lands of Knockgarron and AUichapel[14tk February 1523-4:] . . . . 71 44. Instrument of Sasine proceeding on the aforesaid Precept [21st February 1523-4] 73 45. Surrender by Duncan, and Investiture of Niel Fergusson, of the lands of Knock- garron, etc., by William Abbot of Crosraguel [7th July 1523] . . 75 46. Rental of Paisley Abbey ....... 77 47. Resignation by Niel Fergusson of Altichapel and Knockgarron into the hands of William Abbot of Crosraguel [6th February 1526] . . 77 48. Procuratory by Niel Fergusson, appointing William Abbot of Crosraguel his Procuratoi- in his action [17 th May 1527] . . . . 79 49. Contract between the Earl of Cassillis and William Abbot of Crosraguel, his Tutor, and James Kennedy of Blairquhan [28th May 1528] ... 80 50. Contract between William Abbot of Crosraguel and Mr. James Kennedy, Chamber- lain to the Earl of Cassillis [29th January 152&] ... 83 Digitized by Microsoft® CONTENTS. PAGE 51. Slaughter— Deadly Feud [1528] ...■■• 88 52. Letter of Reversion hy David Kennedy of Pennyglen to William Ahhot of Crosraguel of the lands of Jltichapel [1529] ■ . . . ■ 88 53. Licence to William Ahhot of Crosraguel to pass heyond seas on his pilgrimage [8th April 1530] .... . . 91 54. Signature hy James V. to William Ahhot of Crosraguel [I2th April 1530] . 91 55. Copy of the Deed of Settlement of Egidia Blair, Lady Row, who lived in Carrick, in the County of Air, executed on the 31 si August 1530 . . • 92 56. Letter of Assedation by William Ahhot of Crosraguel to James Kennedy of Blairquhan 96 57. Letter hy Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the factors of the Ahhot of Crosraguel [5th July 1536] ........ 98 58. Letter hy Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the Ahhot of Crosraguel [5th Decemher 1536] 98 59. Discharge hy William Ahhot of Crosraguel to the Karl of Cassillis [I7th Fehruary 1539] ........ 99 60. The Ahhot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis [2U March 1544-5] . 100 61. The Ahhot of Crosraguel not to set the Fruits of the Ahhey to the Earl of Cassillis or James Gordon of Lochinver [22d November 1546] . . . 101 62. The Contribution of Crosraguel Ahbey to the General Taxation of the Church [1456 ? ] 102 63. Discharge by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of all the goods of the late Abbot William [\st February \5iB\ . . . 102 64. Gift by Quintin Ahhot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the nonentries of certain lands [I9th May 154:8] ..... 105 65. Testamentum quondam reverendissimipatrisetdomini Gavini archiepiscopi Glasguensis ac monasterii Insule missarum perpetui Commendatarii [confirmed 31 st May 1548] ........ 108 66. Letter of Escheat to Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel [29th March 1550] . 116 67. Letter of Assedation hy Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel, to Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis [loth March 1552] . . . . . . . 117 67a. Acquisition of the Lands of Glenluce Ahhey hy Gilbert Earl of Cassillis [1560] 118 68. Letter of Assedation hy Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to David Kennedy of Pennyglen [28th March 1560] ....... 119 69. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to John Kirkpatrick of the lands of Clonlicht [30th March 15(i0] . . . . 121 70. Letter of Assedation hy Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the Teinds, etc., of the Church of Straiton [9th July 15Q0] . . . ^23 71. Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel condemned by the General Assembly of the Kirk [27th Decemher 1560] ....... j24 72. The Valuation of the Abbacy of Crosraguel [1561]. . . . i25 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CONTENTS. PAOE 72a. Quintin Allot of Crosraguel denounced Relel for non-payment of the Third of his Benefice [1561] ....... 126 73. The Partial Destruction of Crosraguel Alley \lbQ\'] . . , 126 74. The three days' disputation letween Quintin Allot of Crosraguel and John Knox, on Maylole Green [28iA Septemler 1562] . . . , 128 75. Letters of Citation for the Confirmation of the Commission of Bailiery of Crosraguel, granted to Gillert Earl of Cassillis \2d Octoler 1562] . . . 130 76. Contract letween Quintin Allot of Crosraguel and Sir Hew Kennedy regarding tJie Salmon fishings in the River Girvan [I9th January 1562] . . 136 77. Assedation ly Quintin Allot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the whole Benefice of the Alley [8th April 1564:] .... 137 78. Discharge ly Allot Quintin to the Earl of Cassillis of 350 merles [27th July 1564] 138 79. The reported Death ly poison of Allot Quintin Kennedy [22d August 1564:] . 139 80. Gift to George Buchanan the Historian of a Yearly Pension from the Bents of Cros- raguel [9th October 1564] ...... 139 81. Action by Mr. George Buchanan, Pensioner of Crosraguel, against the Earl of Cassillis [I6th October 1564]. ..... 140 82. Gift ly Queen Mary to Allan Stewart of the Abbacy of Crosraguel [19th July 1565] 141 83. Apostolic Letters by John Archbishop of S. Andrews to Allan Allot of Crosraguel [26th Septemler 1565] ...... 143 84. Instrument of Institution of Allan Stewart as Allot of Crosraguel [16th Decemler 1565] ........ 146 85. Contract letween Allan Allot of Crosraguel and James Stewart of Cardonald [29th Decemler 1665] ....... 150 86. Assedation ly Allan Allot of Crosraguel to James Stewart for five years, of certain lands in the regality of the Alley [dated 15 6-] . . . 153 87. Assedation by Allan Allot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of the teind sheaves of the Churches of Kirkoswald, Girvan, and Dailly [dated 15 6-] . . 166 88. Charter ly Allan Allot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of certain lands in feu-farm [dated 166-] ....... 158 89. Charter ly Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of certain lands in feu- farm [dated 156-] ....... 165 90. Assedation by Allan Allot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the whole lenefice of the Alley [dated 15 6-] . . . ■ ■ 171 90a. Letter of Tack ly Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scots, to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis, of the Abbacy of Crosraguel for 19 years [1566] . ■ 173 91. Gift by Pope Pius the Fifth to Mr. Allan Stewart of the Abbacy of Crosraguel [8th June 1566]. ....... 175 VOL. I. ^ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CONTENTS. PAOK 92. Precept of Sasine hy Allan Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting Janet Wallace in certain lands \?>th February 1567]. . . . • 178 92ft. Report on Crosraguel hy a Committee of the General Assembly [2Zd July 1567] 179 93. Agreement between Allan Abbot of Crossaguel and Mr. George Buchanan regarding the tatter's Pension [28th April 1568] .... 179 94. Letter of Charge at the instance of Allan Abbot of Crosraguel [28th January 1569] 182 95. Renunciation by James Stewart to Allan Abbot of Crosraguel [8th May 1569] 184 96. Instrum,ent of Resignation by James Stewart [\8th August 1569] . . 185 97. Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a charter granted by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to David Kennedy of Pennyglen [1st September 1569] . . . 186 98. Charter by Abbot Allan to David Kennedy of Balserroch [1st September 1569] 189 99. Charter by Abbot Allan to William Kennedy of Brunston [\st September 1569] 194 100. Discharge by George Buchanan to the Earl of Gassillis [\2th September 1569] 200 Digitized by Microsoft® LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS TO VOL. L I. Croskagubl Abbey. After an Etching by John Clerk of Eldin . Frontispiece II. Map of the Eegality of Ckosraguel . . . Between pages Iviii-lix III. Chaster by Malcolm of Carrick to John Kennedy of Dunure ...... „ 26-27 IV. Indenture between Thomas Flemyng and John Kennedy of Dunure ... „ 30-31 V. Charter by John M'Gillelane to Fergus Kennedy of Bomunyne ..... „ 40-41 VI. Charter by Sir James Douglas to the Earl of Cassillis „ 68-69 VII. Letter by Henry, Bishop of Galloway, to the Abbot OF Crosraguel ..... To face page 98 VIII. Charter by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis ... . Between pages 106-107 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTKODUCTION I. The History of the Abbey. The 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, Poyal 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 VOL. I. e Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 : — " Prom 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 Fomidation of the Ahhey.—l'200-\2%S. 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 Digitized by Microsoft® INTEODUCTIOK xxiii 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 Straiten, 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, Straiten, 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 1 Vol. i. pp. 1-10. 2 yo]_ j pp 2, 5. 3 y^j^ j_ p_ 5 (note). * Vol. i. p. 2 (note). 5 Vol. i. p. 1. ^ Vol. i. pp. 2-3. '^ Vol. i. pp. 6-10. » Vol. i. pp. 3-6. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 eflfect 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 ^ Vol. i. p. 5 (note). ^ chart. Melrose; Paterson's Ayrshire, ii. p. 367. 3 Vol. i. pp. 17-18. * Vol. i. pp. 6-10. Digitized by Microsoft® INTEODUCTION. 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 appeaP 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 buUs,^ 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. ^ Vol. i. p. 10. ^ Vol. i. pp. 15-16, et passim. * Tytler, vol. i p. 70; Barbour's Bruce. ^ Vol. i. pp. 17-18. « YqI i pp. 17-18. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xxvi INTEODUCTIOK 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 Ecdesice Scoticance, p. Ixvii. ; Tytler, vol. i. p. 70 ; Lees' Paisley Abbey. 2 Vol. i. p. 11. 3 Yol i pp 12-13. i No. 7, p. 12. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. xxvii 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 CrosragueP 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-U. 2 Yoi. i. pp. 18.19. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 et soc, the right of j udging in litigious suits ; tholl et teme, the exaction of toll and the bonds of mutual warranty ; fiirca 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 1 Vol. i. p. 16. 2 yoi_ j^ pp i^_Y^_ 3 Yo\. i. pp. 15-16. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. XXIX 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.^ 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 Gontribucio '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 1 Vol. i. p. 17. 2 Yo\. i. pp. 18-20. ^ Vol. i. p. 21. * Vol. i. pp. 22-5. VOL. I. / Digitized by Microsoft® XXX INTKODUCTION. 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 The 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. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. xxxi 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 John 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.^ 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 regaliam, 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 quatuor punda coronm, — 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 Yoi. j. pp_ ss.g, 3 j/-„j^ Uhrary MSS. (Dr. Laing's collection). * Vol. i. pp. 37-40. Digitized by Microsoft® xxxii INTEODUCTION. 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.^ 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 Yol. i. p. 42. s Yq\. i. pp. 40-42. * Vol. i. pp. 45-6. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® -..o^"' L A WoRRie, Mens. ET Be -Pigitizeri by MirroFtnft^ v/ ^^ ^ a€( rz<=y^p>^- Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTEODUCTION. XXXUl 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.* 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 Ada Pari. Scot., voL ii pp. 115, 120. ^ jjj^^ pp i33.g_ 3 jjj^^ p 142a. * lUd., pp. 166-9. 5 Yo\. i. p. 43. ^ Beg. Mag. Sigilli, vol. ii. p. 270. ? Vol. i. pp. 43-5. 8 j^og_ 29, seq. » Vol. i. pp. 53-4. i" P. 53. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xxxiv INTEODUOTION. died in 1491/ and Robert de Quintfort or Whytefoord, a brother of Whytefoord of that Ilk,^ 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 decimce 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 Yq1_ j_ p 47 (note). s yQi_ j p ^^^ * Vol. i. p. 57. 6 Vol. i. p. 66. « Beg. Mag. Sigilli, vol. ii. p. 523. 7 Vol. i. p. 63. 8 Yo\. i. p. 64. Digitized by Microsoft® INTEODUOTION. 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.^ 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 f 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. 2 YoL i. p. 68. » ^jj^. i Vol. i. pp. 3-6. s Vol. i. p. 26. « Vol. i. p. 54. '^ Ibid. Digitized by Microsoft® xxxvi INTEODUCTION. 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 f 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 Regime, 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 Ada Pari. Scot., vol. ii. 2 YqJ_ j_ p_ gg_ 3 y^j^ ^ ^^^ * Vol. i. p. 141. 5 jf.fa Par. Scot., vol. ii. pp. 308, 321, 335, 339, 410, 468,471, 598. 6 Ihid., pp. 409, 470. 7 Ibid., p. 410. ^ Register of the Privy Council, vol. i. pp. 33, 39, 60, 67. 9 Vol. i. p. 79 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. xxxvu 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 archaeologist 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 Michseus, the author of 1 Vol. i. pp. 71-80. 2 Vol. i. p. 68. ^ Vol. i. p. 88. * Acta Pari Scotice, vol. ii. p. 321. ^ Vol. i. p. 91. VOL. I. g Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xxxviii 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 Straiten 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. 1 Hay's Scotia Sacra (MSS., Adv. Lib.), p. 87. 2 y^^ j_ ^^ 92.g_ 3 Acta Pari Scot., vol. ii. p. 335. * Vol. i. pp. 96-7. ^ j^-f^ p^^^i ^^f_^ ^^i^ jj_ p_ 339 6 Vol. L pp. 98-9. 7 Yoi. i. p. 99. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. xxxix He was taken prisoner at tlie 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 Ada Pari. Scot, vol. ii. p. 409. 2 Vol. i. pp. 100-1. ^ Vol. i. pp. 108-116. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xl INTEODUCTION. 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 4cta Pari Soot, ii. p. 470. 2 jj,^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ p^.^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ._ ^ ^^ ^ Acta Pari. Scot., ii. p. 598. Mackenzie's Lives of the Scotch Writers, iii. 57; Wodrow Society's Miscellany. Digitized by Microsoft® INTEODUCTIOK 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 1 Mackenzie's Uves, p. 60. ^ jn^^ z Vol. i. p. 103. * lUd. s Vol. i pp. 102-5. * Vol. i. p. 107. ^ Hay's Scotia Sacra (MSS., Adv. Lib.), p. 87. * Begister of the Privy Council, ii. 60-7. Digitized by Microsoft® xiii 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, Eessoun, and Authoritie, declaring the nerrest and onlie way to establishe the Conscience of ane Christiane manne in all matters concerning Faith and EeUgioun." 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 Ecclesise Sacrificio.'' (iii.) " Contra errores G-ermanorum in Fidei capita quatuordecem defensa contra Georgium Sophocardium." (iv.) " Eesponsio 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." ^ Ada Pari. Scotice, ii. p. 603. 2 From Mackenzie's Lives. (Cf. also Wodrow Miscellany ; M'Crie's Life of Knox ; Paterson's Ayrshire, vol. ii., etc.) Digitized by Microsoft® INTEODUCTION. xliii (x.) " Oratio pro obedientia supremis potestatibus habita die ultimo Augusti, MDLXII." (xi.) " De praesentia 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.^ 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 Yoi_ I pp, 119.21. ^ vd. i. pp. 121-3. * Vol. i. pp. 136-7. ^ Vol. i. pp. 124-5. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xliv INTEODUCTION. 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 "Idolatrie 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. 2 Tytler, vol. v. p. 344 ; Assumption of the Benefices (MSS., Adv. Lib.) ; and infra, vol. i. p. 125. 3 Yoi j pp ;^25-6. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® "v^I^^ PE^oa>, <3>P,^ "-^ Digitized by Microsoft® *MKS A.MoRRrS. MZN9 BT DeL Ayr 1 Galloway A>:,.. mmf^^^^mi,cm,:f^^,-^, ^^<5^Cl^]S_. Digitized by Microsoft^ „.i*" j^jrlRCH'-AS30C''l886 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. xlv 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 : 4.^ 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 1 Vol. i. p. 11. 2 Vol. i. pp. 137-8. 3 Yo]_ i ^ 126. * Vol. i. pp. 128-30 (note). 5 M'Gavin's Life of Knox, p. 529. " Vol. i. p. 139. '^ Ibid. ^ He has been confused with S. Kinetus of Eremita, a saint of the 6th century. VOL. I, h Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 : — ^ " Vffi mihi quod dederam Papse nomenque fidemque, Vee mihi quod Christi strenuus hostis eram ! Vee vobis, Papistee omnes, nisi tempore vitse 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. ^ Vol. i. pp. 130-6. ^ YqJ i. p. 132. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUOTION. xlvii 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. 2 Yoi ji p g7_ 3 y^i i_ pp 139.40. * Vol. i. pp. 140-1. 5 Vol. i. pp. Ul-3. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® xlviii INTEODUOTION. 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. L pp. 143-6. 2 Vol. i. pp. 175-7. ^ Yo\. i. pp. 136-40. * Nos. 85-90. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. xlix 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.^ 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 diificulty 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 CassilHs, 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 Yd. i pp. 173-5. ^ Heg. Epis. Brechimnsis. * Vol. i. pp. 179-82. 6 Vol. ii. pp. 1-2. « Vol. ii. pp. 29-32. Digitized by Microsoft® 1 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 Penny glen 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 comj^are the signature of the 1 Vol. i. p. 182. 2 jiig_ 3 yoi_ j_ p_ ^gg^ gg^_ 4 Yq]_ jj_ ^^ 2-9. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 Oassillis 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 efiected 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 1 Vol. i. p. 173. 2 Vol. ii. p. 55. ^ Vol. ii. pp. 7-8. * Vol. iL p. 9. sVol. ii. p. 7. « Vol. ii. p. 8. ^ yoi_ y. pp. 9.10. « Vol. ii. pp. 11-15. 8 Vol. ii. pp. 21-3. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Hi 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 pajnuent. 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 efi'ect.^ 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 Pla.ce.^ 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 wliat 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 Yo]^ n pp_ ^2-5. ^ Culzean Muniments. * Vol. ii. pp. 35-56. 6 Vol. ii. p. 42. 6 Vol. ii. pp. 43-6. '' Vol. ii. pp. 46-8. ^ Yo\. ii. pp. 57-8. 8 Ada Pari. Scot. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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.^ 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 -IQ 50. 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 Vans, eldest son of Sir Patrick Vans 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 Ada Pari. Scot, vol. iii. pp. 127, 427. ^ Vol. ii. p. 58. ^ Vol. ii. pp. 59-60. * Vol. ii. pp. 61-3. ^ V. Mr. Vans Agnew's Correspondence of Sir Patrick W.aus, passim. VOL. I. i Digitized by Microsoft® liv INTKODUCTION. 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 He watt was installed in the Abbacy.^ Mr. Hewatt, who has been described as "a man fit for 1 By several charters, supra. ^ Vol. ii. p. 64. ^ Vol. ii. p. 67. * Vol. ii. pp. 66-8. 6 Yoi y p gg e -y-Qj y p 72. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. Iv 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.^ The revenues of Crosraguel were therefore enjoyed by the 1 Vol. ii. p. 72 (note). 2 ^^^^ p^^;_ g^gf^^ ^^i j^^ p. 523. » Ibid., p. 583. * Vol. ii. pp. 71-4. 5 Yoi y pp 70.1. e YqI. jj. pp. 75-6. ^ Vol ii. pp. 76-8. ^ Sprott's Liturgus. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Ivi INTEODUCTION. 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. II. — The Regality of the Abbey. The 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 Ada Pari. Scot. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. Ivii 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 mediaeval 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 decimce garhales,^ consisting of the tenth sheaf taken from every harvest field ; and the vicarial teinds, or decimw fosni, 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 impersonee. 1 Vol. i. pp. 3-12, 37-40, 97, 117, 123, 126, 140, 156. 2 Vol. i pp. 140-1, 150, 180, 184. ^ 2jj^_ pp. 140-I, 150, 184. * Vol. i. pp. 57, 156, 166 ; vol. ii p. 11. ^ Yo\. i. pp. 49, 52, 156. 8 Vol. ii. p. 70. 7 YoL i. pp. 52, 117. » Vol. i. pp. 94, 156. Digitized by Microsoft® Iviii INTEODUCTION. 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. The names will be recognised by those to whom the locality is familiar. Auchenaicht Dalelong Littlestoun Auchennaddie Dalquharran Leffynen Auchentrunnocht Dunmurthy Lady Eow's Meadow Easter Auchinblane Drumbane Lokistoun Auchtinnaik Drumcaldilthey M'Cubenstoun Abbotshill Drumgarloch M'Caytbriestoun Ailsa Craig Drumgorlan M'Gowenstoun Altichappell Dungrelacli M'Kinniestoun Balchristeu Drnrnmorchy M'Morriestoun Balserroch DrumiQunthey M'Stephastoun Baltersan Drumrachney Maltmansland Balkennay Drumfern Maltmanstoun Broadmeadow Easter Duneyu Maxwellstoun Brunstoun Wester Duneyn Mochrum Hill Crosraguel Dumkeynen Mossyde Caldwellstoun Dunnefyne Quarrelhill ChaLmerstoun Frisselton Eiddinrid Chapel Donnan Glenord Slabraicbt Chlachrybeg Glenlowie Smethistoun Chlaiicliries Keyoch Hackethinvach Snade Clenacketh Karnestoun Straitoiin Clonlicht Kirkdin Southblane Craigoth Knockgarron Trudonag Corale Knockbrek Trave Crosraguel Mains Knockin Yellowlie Dalchorane Knockranald 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. lix the pennylands of Crosraguel and. Southblane to the sixteen- merk lands and the forty-shilling lands of old extent, such as Duneyn, Knoekgarron, 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 1^ 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. ^ Yq]. ii. pp. 43.6. 6 Vol. i. p. 189. ^ Vol. i. p. 178. ^ Vol. i. pp. 51, 192, 197. Digitized by Microsoft® Ix INTEODUCTION. 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 here, 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 multures, or the grain paid the miller f 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. 2 YqI ij_ p 41 3 YqI jj p ^^ 4 y^i^ j_ p i^^. = Vol. ii. p. 41. e Vol. i. p. 136. '' Vol. i. pp. 154, 171 ; vol. ii. p. 18. 8 Vol. i. pp. 154, 166, 171. « Yo\. i. pp. 166, 171, 192. 1° Vol. i. p. 171. 11 Vol. i. pp. 166, 192. i2yoiip_i54 " Vol. i. pp. 154, 166, 195. 1* Vol. i. p. 195. Digitized by Microsoft® INTRODUCTION. ki 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 Tiag^ 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 ^ V. Mr. Cochran-Patrick's Records of Mining in Scotland, p. 1. 2 Vol. i. p. 195. ^ Vol. i. p. 195. * Vol. i. p. 195. ^ Vol. i. p. 132. VOL. I. h Digitized by Microsoft® Ixii INTEODUCTION. Regality of Crosraguel, and was awarded £1800 by the Parlia- mentary Commissioners.^ III. The Conventual Seal. The 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. Digitized by Microsoft® 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 circum- scription, namely : Sigillum Ahhatis Monasterii 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. Allusions to Crosraguel by Ancient Writers. The 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 ■} — ^ Supplemented Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Plate xii. Fig. 8. 2 Vol. i. p. 23. 3 Yoi_ i p 27. * Vol. ii. p. 21. ^ Vol. i. p. 61. ^ Description of Carrick, in Pitcairn's History, p. 167. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Ixiv INTRODUCTION. " In this countrey Eeligion 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 Eegality within itselfe, to which aU its vassals and tenants were answerable ; yet were there also severaU 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 DaiUie 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 tlie church is entire, without a roofe. Much of the building is demolished, yet there be two towers stiU 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, Tlioiriastowne, Beltersan, and Balsarach, and Thrave. The two last are obscure countrey dwellino-s • 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.^— ^ Of. vol. ii. p. 70. 2 Description of Carrick, from Pitcairii, p. 184. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTEODUCTION. Ixv " Mxt 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 CeU 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 buriaU-plaice. AiLLSEY Insula.^ " In this lylland there is the ruines of ane old Castell and Chapell,^ possest by the Earls of CassiUis, 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 Eomanis 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, Eeguli (quos Milords dicimus) Equites, Barones, Ifobilesque alii plurimi. Carictam a Carictonia numerosissima quondam illi civitate dictam putant : arces multse splendidse, arte naturaque munitae : pagi frequentes sed multo frequenti- ores (ut ubique apud nos) villse : agrorum fecunditas his omnibus fere par : pascua uberrima, unde casei optimi, et butyri magna copia : triticum rarius ; cresceret tamen feKcissim^ plurimis in locis, si sibi qusestini existimantes futurum in id incumberent agricolse. Littora ubique pisculenta ut et fluvii, lacus, et amnes : sylvae rarse ; in utraque tamen Cludisdalia frequentiores : monasteria rariora : habet tamen Caricta monasterium Crucis Eegalis." 1 V. Pitcairn's Histwy, p. 186. « Ibid., p. 189. » V. Vol. i. p. 38 (note). * De Rebus Gestis, p. 9. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Ixvi INTRODUCTION. V. The Etymology of " Crosragubl." 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, Crosragmob Crucis Regalis, CorsraguU, 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.^ Again it appears under that form in the Scripturn of Crosraguel in 1244,^ and again in 1265.^ 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 1 Vol. i. p. 1. 2 Yq\. i. p. 3. 3 Yo\. i. p. 6. * Vol. i. p. 12. 6 Vol. i. p. 14. 6 Vol. i. pp. 16-17. Digitized by Microsoft® INTKODUCTION. 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. Digitized by Microsoft® Ixviii INTKODUCTION. 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 Muicin|^i Re3uil, do badadh i.e. "Arasgach, Abbot of. Muicinis-Reagail (or Reguil) was drowned" J Muicinis-Reguil being the Hog island of S. Riaguil or Regulus. This would appear to be very strong evidence in favour of the derivation from Oross-Reguli, or the Cross of S. 1 Vol. i. p. 344, ed. 1851. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTEODUCTION. Ixix Regulus ; but it must be a question for the etymologist of the future to decide. yi. The Order of Cluny in Scotland. The Cluniac order was founded in the year 940, when the Due 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 S. 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 Archdviste 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 ^ Abbey of Paisley. VOL. I. ^ Digitized by Microsoft® Ixx INTEODUCTION. 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 (boisson des boeufs). For the wine is so poor that one might drink of it for a month without intoxication." ^ Mabillon's Did. des ordres Beligieuses, ii. 306. ^ Maitland's Dark Ages, p. 336. ^ Quoted by Fosbrooke, British Monachisms, p. 107. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® INTRODUCTION. kxi And Brunellus alludes to their extreme asceticism in the same caustic vein : — ^ " Esse niger monaclius si forte velim Cluniaci, Ova fabasque nigras cum sale ssepe dabunt. Surgere me faciunt medi^ 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 obXj 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 Charity. 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. 2 Lib. vi. Ep. 7, from EmUlianne's Histoi-y of the Monastkal Orders, p., 91. Digitized by Microsoft® Ixxii INTEODUCTION. owed its existence to tlie mother house of Paisley ; and we are thus enabled to trace its direct descent from the Abbej of Cluny through the Monasteries of La Charite, Wenlock, and Paisley. A Scottish monk differed in no respect from those resident in other monasteries of the same order ; and the monks of Orosraguel 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 lona ; 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 Ahhot, 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 JVovice Master ; the Porter ; the Eefectioner ; the Chamberlain; the Monks ; the Novices ; the Lay brethren. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by Microsoft® 9^iidera d^k2Sbv4Ms%^^^ '''' cmcis' iS Jtc if Li f^Jhe U ^mne^ o£irdii%^idsoQ^^ GAI, ^ci!'A3aoo"ia.a8 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAKTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 1. Bull of Honorius III., confirming to the Monks of Paisley the Lands of Crosragmol and Suthhlane. — [1225.] ^ Honorius ^ episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Wilelmo ^ abbati monasterii sancti Jacobi apostoli et sancti Mirini confessoris de Passelet ej usque fratribus tarn presentibus quam futuris regularem vitam professis imperpetuum. Eeligiosam vitam eligentibus apostolicum convenit pre- sidium, ne forte cujusdam temeritatis incursus aut eos a proposito revocet, aut robur, quod absit, sacre religionis infringat. Eapropter dUecti 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 ^ Begistrum Monasterii de Passelet, TpTp. 411-12. ^ 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' — Beg. 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 2 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Domino, poterit adipisci, firma vobis vestrisque successoribus et illibata permaneant ; in quibus hec propriis duximus exprimenda vocabulis : — ... Ex dono nobilis viri Duncani comitis de Carreik totam terram de Crosrag- mol et Suthblan, cum pertinentiis snis . . . 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. Conjirmatio Alexandri regis Scotie, de tribus ecclesiis de Karryc, vide- licet de Tornhir'' , de Stratton', et de Dalmaheran, et de donatione denariate terre de Crosragmol, et de Sut'blan in Carreh. — [^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 honorifiee sicut carta predicti Duncani inde plenius confecta eisdem monachis juste testatur, salvo servitio nostro. Testibus Alexandre episcopo Moraviensi, Philippo de Mubray, Kogero Avenel,^ David Marscall',* 1 The original gift of Earl Dimcan is not of tlie gift, v. No. 3. preserved m the Paisley Register. Duncan, 2 Begistrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 427. created first Earl of Carrick by Alexander II., succeeded his father Gilbert in the Carrick ^ ^o^^ °^ Gervase Avenel, in Eskdale, died in portion of Galloway in 1185. His deed must l^^^' ''^^ ^"^i'^d ^ Melrose Abbey.— a/wi. have been dated prior to 1202, as it was con- -Zlfe'™s«, No. 97 ; Ghron. Mel, 207 ; Chart. firmed to the monks of Paisley by Florence, ^rlroath, No. 138. Bishop elect of Glasgow from 1202-1207. — * David de Keth, joint Mareschal with his Paterson's Eist. of Ayrshire, ii. pp. 1, 303-5; nephew Hervei de Keth. — Eymer's Feed., i. Gordon's Scotichronieon, ii. p. 477; Heg. Epis. 241; Astle's MSS.; Diplom. Scotias, No. 6; Gfas., p. XXV.; Chron. Aberbr. For the conditions Chalmers' OaWoma, i. 519. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAKTERS OP THE ABBEY OP OEOSRAGUEL. 3 Wilelmo de Lyndesay,^ Wilelmo de Mar', Adam de Logan, apud Edinburg vicesimo quinto die Augusti, anno regni domini Eegis 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, Eoger 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. — [I5th August 1244.] ^ Vilelmus® permissione divina ecclesie Glasguensis minister omnibus Christi fidelibus tarn 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 coUatione predicti Comitis possederunt in Karrec, 1 Lord of Lamberton, in BerwicksHre. — Ghart. Crosraguel from 1244 to 1617, wlien it was Newbotle, No. 10 ; Chalmers, i. 508. annexed to tlie Bishopric of Dumblane, with the 2 i.e. S. Oswald of Tumberry, or Kirkoswald. other four churches. V. No. 56, infra. In 1227 Walter, Bishop of Glasgow, decided ^ g^_ j^j^j^^^^ ^^ j^^.^^ ^^ Dalmakeran, the that the vicar should have 100 shillings yearly ^^^^^^ ^^ g^_ ^^^^^^^ ^ Scoto-Irish Saint. Cf. if the altarage should not he s^&cient— Chart, j^^^j^^^^^^ ^ Warrick and Cantyre. The name Lennox, ii. 170; v. also -Puterson's Ayrslnre, ^p. g^ems to have been changed early in the sixteenth 285. The old church was in use tiU 1777. century. 3 S. Cuthbert of Straiton, the patronage of \ ,..,„ 7x ^o^ , , T 1 T r-i • 1 ° Beaistriim Monastem de Fasselet, p. 424. which was conferred by John de Carrick upon ■"■"y ""'"'" ^ the Bishop of Glasgow. V. Chalmers, iii. 536, « William de Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow, and Oterf. (?te., p. 225. (Value in 1275, J40 1233-1258, formerly Eector of Edelstone, a per annum ; in 1562, £60.) It was, however, prebendary of Glasgow, and Chancellor to confirmed to and always held by the Abbey of Alexander II. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 4 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. coram nobis questio moveretur, tandem partes se nostre ordinationi voluntate spontanea subjecerunt. Nos vero Deum babentes [pre]oculis, in favorem et augmentum religionis et ordinis, de unanimi consensu partium et assensu capituli Glasguensis, ordinavimus in bunc modum. Videlicet quod in predicto loco ad bonorem Dei et beate Virginis Marie domus religionis construatur de monacbis ordinis de Passelet, qui ibidem perpetuis temporibus babeant [babitent ?], plenaria gaudeant libertate, et libere possint per electionem canonicam abbatem perficere qui ad monasticam vitam transire volentes libere possit ad monacbalem babitum 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 monacbi de Corsragmol in ordine et babitu 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 Karrec 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 monacbi de Passelet vel dictus Comes seu beredes sui vel Abbas et monacbi de Corsragmol contra ordinationem nostram in aliquo venire voluerint, nos et successores nostri ipsos ad observationem omnium predictorum, de piano 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 bujus rei testimonium nos et capitulum Glasguense et dictus Comes de Carrek presens scriptum sigillis^ nostris roboravimus. Actum apud Glasgw quintodecimo Kalendas August! anno gratie M^CC^xliiii*? 1 For an instance of this visitation, v. infra, found in Gordon's Monasticm, p. 479, from the No. 14. Mebose Charters. 2 An engraving of this Bishop's seal is to he Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 5 Teajstslation. Writ of Corsragmol. William, by tlie permission of God minister of the Churcli 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. m Advo- dum nata filia, ut semel monacM cum abbate eo cates' Library, Edinburgh) tells ua, but with.- transmiasi per ae donationea aoceptarent" (p. out giving bis authority for the atatement, 277). If tbia be reliable, the buUding of the that Duncan even "ecclesiam et offioinaa mon- Church and Monaatery niuat have been com- asticse religioni competentes a primo fundamento menced between the date of this writ (1244) and erexit. Libros, vestimenta, et alia ordinis 1250, the year of Earl Duncan's death. — Beg. necessaria contulit Pasleto matri ecclesiae, non- Ep. Glas. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 6 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 Kah August (18th July) the year of grace 1244.^ 4. Contra Abbatem de Crosragmol. — [Qtli February and nth June 1265.J* Clemens episcopus servus servorum [Dei] venerabili fratri Episcopo Dunblanensi et dilectis filiis Abbati monasterii de Driburg,^ Sanctiandree diocesis, et Magistro Kogero 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. '^ This John, Ahhot of Dryburgh, appears to Nos. 23, 46, infra. have heen celebrated as a peacemaker. He 2 V. Introduction. assisted at a compromise between the monks of 3 Thus Orosraguel 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 DakQuUn continued to be. — V. Reg. de Passe- between the Priory of St. Andrews and the let, p. 24 ; Lees, p. 56. Convent of Haddington regarding the teinds of 4 Beffistrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 422. Stephinston. — Eeg. Prior. S. AndrecB p. 329. Digitized by Microsoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 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 ecelesie, terre, possessiones et bona assignarentur predicta, et movente super His 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 G-lasguensis assensu, ordinavit quod in hujusmodi possessionibus construeretur monasterium quod Crosragmol voca[re]tur, de monacbis 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 babitus 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 babuerunt 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 decern mercarum sterling- orum annuum redditum solverent, et quod ipse Episcoptis et successores sui partes ad observationem ordinationis hujusmodi possent de piano 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 ad versus ordinationem eandem, hujusmodi renuncia- tionibus ac instrumentis super hoc confectis et aliis premissis nequaquam obstantibus, sicut justam fuerit in integrum restitutis, audiatis causam, et Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 8 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. earn 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 perbibere ; 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 bujusmodi 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 bujusmodi et quicquid feceritis in premissis nobis per vestras litteras harum seriem continentes fideliter intimetis. Quod si non omnes biis exequendis potueritis interesse, duo vestrum ea nicbUominus exequantur. Datum Perusii viii Idus Februarii pontificatus nostri anno primo. De eodem. Clemens episcopus servus servorum Dei, et cetera de verho ad verbum ut supra usque hue ; Datum Perusii iii Idus Junii pontificatus nostri anno 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 Eoger 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 patronao-e 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 tlie 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL, 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 aU 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 aU 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. Eoger 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 VOL. I. c Digitized by Microsoft® 10 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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, etc. 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 hec 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 ^ There is no direct evidence as to the result Scotland may he found in the Advocates' Library of this commission, but it appears merely to MSS. Bib. Cott, Ki. xix., empowering the Abbots have confirmed the "Scriptum" of Crosraguel. of Arbroath, Lindores, and the Prior of May, The learned editor of the Register of Paisley to finish a controversy between the Prior and and Dr. Lees have too hastily assumed that it Bishop of St. Andrews ; and in the Register reserved the patronage of the churches of Turn- of Paisley, pp. 8-10, where Honorius III. ap- berry, Straiton, and Dailly to Paisley, whereas pointed the Bishop of Glasgow and the Abbots we know from charter No. 22, infra, that they of Kelso and Melrose to decide as to the pro- were confirmed to Crosraguel. motion of Paisley Priory to the dignity of an ^ Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 308. Abbey in 1219. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 11 Abstract. Bull by Clement IV., confirming to the monks of Paisley sundry lands and churclies ; among others the whole land of Crosragmol and Southblane in Carrick, with their pertinents, by the gift of Duncan, Earl of Carrick. Dated 1269.i 6. Appendix I. {Bagimont's Roll). Taxatio Beneficiarum Freter Prelacias Scotie in decima parte eorundem. — Anno MCCLXXV^ In Decanatu de Carrik. Prepositura de MayboU, iiij lib. Vic. de Mayboill, v lib. vj sol. viij den. Vic. de Kirkmichell, iij lib. vj sol. viij den. Vic. de Stratton, iiij lib. Vic. de Innertig, Iiij sol. iiij den. Vic. de Girven, liiij sol. iiij den. Vic. de Colmonell, iiij lib. Lihellus taxationum seu contrihutionum spiritualitatis conceparum S.D.N. Regi per prelatos et clericos Regni Scotice. Glasguensis diocesis. — Crossragwell, Iiij lib. vj s viij d.^ 1 These lands appear to have been inserted in the Verus Valo?; not the Antiqua Taxatio as the the Bull either in error or from the wish of clergy desired. The amount collected in Scot- Paisley to retain them if possible, as we see from land was £7195 sterling. Crosraguel was vahied three crown charters (Nos. 10, 18, and 22), at £533:6:4, the same as Balmerino. The that they were the property of Crosraguel, in most opulent abbey was Arbroath, valued at accordance with the " Scriptum." £4000. The original EoU is still in the Vatican ^ MSS. Adv. Lib., 31, 2, 5, pp. 11-20. archives, and the fragment of it remaining was ^ Boiamund or Bagimont da Vicci, appointed copied by Theiner. There are now two copies by the Pope (in consequence of the decision of the of it in Scotland, that by Habakkuk Bisset in Council of Lyons in 1274) to collect the tenth of 1622, and the Libellus alluded to above. V. the revenue of all Church Lands in the kingdom Statuta Ecdesim Scotieance, p. Ixx. Theiner's of Scotland to pay the expenses of the expedition Vet. Mon., p. 104 ; MSS. Adv. Lib., p. 31, 2, 5, to the Holy Land, raised the tax according to and 25, 5, 1; Hwrl. MSS., No. 4613. Digitized by Microsoft® 12 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 7. Donatio ecclesie Sancti Querani in Kentyir per Alexandrwm 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, nee in aliqua parte sui vitiatam vel reprebensibilem, 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 usqice illuc, babentis jus patronatus in ecclesiis. Hanc siquidem donationem concessionem et confirmationem, ratam et firmam babere volens imperpetuum, eam sigillo meo duxi roborandam, et nicbilominus ex habundanti, ut omnis materia controversie toUatur de cetero, predictis monachis prenominatam ecclesiam sicut scriptum est in omnibus do, concedo, et presenti script© 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 Robert! Brus' comitis de Carrie, gratia majoris testimonii, roborari procuravi : Hiis testibus, Domino Patricio Dei gratia abbate monasterii de Crosragal, domino Eoberto Brus' comite de Carrie, Eoberto filio ejusdem et herede, domino Eoberto Anglico milite, domino Maricio vicario de Aran, Patricio clerico de Kentyir, domino Nicholao monacbo 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 Begistrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 128. witness tkis charter, present at the convention, 2 i.e. Lord of the Isles. This charter is not hut also Engus son of Donald Lord of the Isles, dated, but we may perhaps assume that it was and Alexander his son. Again, the proximity of signed at the time of the convention of the the Abbey of Crosraguel which is only a few Scottish barons at the Earl of Carriok's Castle miles from the castle, and the fact that both of Turnberry in Sep. 1286. We know from the Abbot and one of his convent witnessed the Eymer's Fxdera (ii. p. 488) that not only were grant, point to the same conclusion (v. Tytler's Kobert Bruce the Earl and his son Robert Hist, i 75). (afterwards King Robert I.), both of whom Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 Axran, Patrick,^ clerk of Eantyre, Sir Nicholas, monk of Crosragwel, etc. 8. Letter from Henry de Percy, ^ at Crosraguel, to Sir James Dalileghe. — [25th July 1306.]* Henry de Percy Gardein en les parties de Cardoil/ a Sire James Dali- leghe saluz. Nus vous maundoms en la fei qe vous devez a nostre seignor le Rey/ qe hastivement veues cestres lettres vous facez venyr deus engjois a Garvan en Carrik e les facez carier en batz qe peussent auxi ben venyr par nages cum par vent. E mout nous merveiloms de coe qe vitaUes ne nous venent solom coe qe nous vous chargagames en sustenaunce del host/ par quel nous maundoms qe vous les nous facez hastivement venyr sicom vous 1 The first Abbot of whom we have any men- Tumberry Castle all that year, and Bruce's tion. Abbot Patrick does not appear to have estate of Carrick was in fact given to him by figured at the " Parliament " of Brigham in July Edward I. He was at Tumberry when Bruce 1290 (Rymer's Fcedera, ii. 471-2), nor did any efi'ected his memorable landing from Arran in Abbot of Crosraguel, to the lasting credit of the the spring of 1307, and evacuated the castle abbey, sign the Eagman EoHs in 1296. — Cal. of shortly afterwards. — Rymer, i. pt. ii. p. 982; Documents relating to Scotland. Matt, of West., p. 454 ; Tytler, vol. i. pp. 93, 2 These two ecclesiastics, Sir Maurice and the 128-30; Hemingford, p. 224; Barbour, pp. clerk, may have brought the Bishop's seal over 83-4, 95. to Turnberry with them. * Exchequer Miscellanea (Army), Public Ee- ^ Henry Percy was appointed keeper of Gal- cord Office. The date is not given, but is lo way and the Sheriffdom of Ayr in 1296 ; and known from the circumstances to be 1306. in 1306 he was again despatched into Carrick The seal on the letter is that of a lion rampant after the coronation of Eobert Bruce. He held under a parchment cover. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 14 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. amez le honur nostre seignor le Eey/ e le profyt de tot le host. E ne lessez sicom vous vous volez sauver de damage/ e sur quaunt qe vous poez forfere devers nostre seignor le Eey/ 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 Eey. Escrite a Crosraguel le jour seint Jake [25tli 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.^ 2 9. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer. — [ithJune 1324.]^ David * dei gracia Eex 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 ■" We may infer that a great portion of the fifteen) missing Eolls of Eobert I.'s reign, which Abbey was destroyed at this time. Fordun were lost in the removal of the Public Records writes "Hoc in anno sciz \Z01 Anglici com- to England in 1651. The above is copied from bussemnt monasterium de Pasleto," while the the charter of confirmation by Kobert II. (v. Abbeys of Kelso and St. Andrews were also No. 17, infra, and Eeg. Mag. Sigilli, Ed., 1814, destroyed. p. x. Introd.) The same applies to charters 10 2 An interesting sequel to this letter is printed and 11, infra, which are copied respectively in the Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, from Nos. 18 and 19. in the Eecord Office, in the form of a letter from * This is evidently a mistake, as the names Edward I. to Sir James Dalilegh, wherein the of the witnesses prove that it must have been King expresses great pleasure at his letter report- Eobert I. ing that he has sent two engines to Sir Henry ^ We have no Abbot mentioned by name de Percy at Lochdoon (sic), and desires that all from now till 1370. V. No. 14, infra. necessaries may be sent there in aid of his busi- ^ Dungrelach, or Drumgarlooh, near the sea, ness. (No. 1818.) about 2^ miles south of Turnberry Castle (com- 3 Registrum Magni Sigilli, EoU ii. No. 58. pare Nos. 22, 86, 89, 105, 106, 112, 113, The original of this charter is not preserved, infra). Drumgarloch Mill is frequently men- and was probably among the fourteen (out of tioned in these charters. Digitized by Microsoft® 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 WLllelmo et Willelmo Sanctiandree et Dunkeldensis Dei gracia ecclesiarum episcopis Bernardo abbate de Abberbrothoc cancellario Scocie Waltero senescallo Scocie Jacobo domino de Douglas Alexandre Fraser camerario nostro et Malcolmo Flemyng militibus Apud Berw^cum 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 Ahbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer. — [1324.] ^ Eobertus 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 Begistrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No. 59. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 16 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. de Corale et denariatam terre de Hachethneuacli quas predict! Eeligiosi 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 Abberbrotboc cancellario nostro Waltero senescallo Scocie et Jacobo domino de Douglas mUitibus Apud Berwycum super Twedam anno regni nostri octavo decimo. Abstract. Charter by Eobert 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 Balohrystine on the sea, l|- 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 Brooklooh ; The first laird of Dalqiiharran of whom we have V. Index for other allusions. any mention is Gilbert Kennedy, in 1474. 3 The Gallow Hill of the Abbey stood about ^ Probably the later Quarrel or Quarrelhill, 2 miles to the north, beyond Moohrum Hill. N.W. of Dalquharran. * For an explanation of these terms, v. '' i.e. Auohennaich, 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 17 11. Carta Abbatis et Conventus de Crosragmer. — [20th July 1327.]^ Eobertus Dei gracia rex Scottorum omnibus probis bominibus tocius terre sue salutem. Sciatis nos divine caritatis intuitu et pro salute anime nostra et pro salute animarum antecessorum et successorum nostrorum concessisse et bac presenti carta nostra confirmasse religiosis viris abbati et conventui de Crosragmer omnes et singulas ecclesias terras redditus et possessiones quos et quas iidem religiosi babent ex donacionibus conces- sionibus et infeodacionibus Duncani^ Nigelli^ et Edwardi* comitum de Carrie ac eciam venerande memorie domini Eoberti de Brays'* patris nostri et domine Mariorie^ matris nostre et omnium aliorum nobilium ac Cbristi fidelium regni nostri Tenendas et babendas eisdem religiosis et eorum successoribus in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam adeo libere quiete pure integre et bonorifice cum omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus rectitudinibus aysi- amentis et ceteris pertinenciis suis sicut carte eorundem rebgiosorum liberius quiecius plenius purius integrius et bonorificencius 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 Carrie quod prefatos religiosos vel eorum successores aut homines eorandem contra banc concessionem et confirmacionem nostram nuUatenus gravare vexare seu aliquabter inquietare presumant. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum precepimus apponi Testibus venera- bilibus in Cbristo patribus dominis Willelmo Jobanne Willelmo Gilberto Sanctiandree Glasguensis Dunkeldensis et Sodorensis ecclesiarum episcopis Bernardo abbate de Abberbrotboc cancellario nostro Tboma Eanulpbi comite Moravie domino vallis Anandie et Manie nepote nostro Waltero Senescallo Scocie Jacobo domino de Douglas Gilberto de Haya constabulario nostro et Eoberto de Ketb marescallo nostro apud Cambuskynetb xx'^" die Julii anno regni nostri vicesimo primo. 1 Registrvm Magni SigilU, EoU ii. No. 60. v. Note on No. 9. 2 1185-1250. ' 1250-6. * 1306-18. ^ 1268-92. 6 1256-68 : Eobert 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 Marjojy, whom he married in 1268. King, in accordance with the old law of Scotland. VOL. L ^ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 18 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Abstract. Charter by Eobert 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 Eobert 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, piirely, 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, sherifi's, 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. — [1329-30.]^ 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. Carrie Compotum cjusdcm domini Malcolmi de ballia comitatus de Carrik. Summa hujus recepti, ccccxxx ti viij s. ix d. et xiiij marti. De quibus, abbati de Corsragmer, per decimum denarium tocius comitatus de Carrie, de tribus terminis infra tempus compoti, pro fabrica ^ monasterii sui, per literam regis sub magno sigillo, per computantem presentandam in proximo com- poto, c ti. xxii d. 1 Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. i. p. 258. ^ Crosraguel liad isrobably had its full share 2 I.e. David II., who had succeeded his father, of plunder and desecration, as we find Henry Eobert Bruce, in the preceding June. Percy there in 1306 (v. ante, No. 8). Digitized by Microsoft® CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 19 Teanslatioit. 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 22^d. II. Compotum Johannis de Tw3Tahame^ 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 Frumentum ipsius abbatis de recepto, vj celdras. Idem onerat se de viij celdris iij boUis farine receptis de vicecomite de Farina Wigtown et de xx celdris iij boUis. Summa recepti, xxviij celdre vj boUe. 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 whict twelve of the Sheriffs rents. — Exchequer Bolls, Introd. p. cv. The and the bailies of Crail and Kinross gave account amount to be raised was X20,000. — Instrument of the payments received by them at Whitsun- in Gen. Beg. House, Edinburgh ; Tytler, vol. i. p. day 1328, we find that the contrihutio pro pace 182. was to be levied for three successive years, ^ Exchequer Bolls of Scotland, -vol L -p. 15Z. according to the tenth penny, old extent, of the Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 Carriclc.—[_Not dated. -^ circa 1360.]^ Omnibus banc 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 nee metu conducta set pura et spontanea mea voluntate dedi ac vendicionis titulo concessi ac vendidi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi, necnon dono et concede 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 Carrie infra vicecomitatum de Are et totum ins 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. hir hous of Cassillis, and persewit hir be force about 1361-2 {Reg. Magni Sigilli, 27, 39), and to have her in mariage ; the qiihilk scho wald must have been dated after the death of Malcolm not condescend to, hot descendit the hous. Earl of Wigton in 1359 (Chalmers, iii. p. 380). And at this tyme the Laird of Donour that than 2 Muniments frmi the Charter Chest of the ^^^' ^^ <^"'^™g ^^ ^^^^ perseifiing the samyn, MargussB of Ailsa, at Cuhean Castle. No. 5. ^"^^ ^^"^"^ *^« '^''^''^ °^ Dalrumpill and slew him, and releissit the lady, and tuik hir with B The lands of Cassillis had been held by the j^j^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^f Donour; quhair under Montgomeries since 1328 at least (Paterson, ii. p^^^^j^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^ '' landis in the Kingis handis in favoris off him : * The Historie of the Kennedyis gives this but I cannot reid that ewer he marrayit hir to version of the transaction : " At quhilk tyme his wyff." However, like all the stories of this the said landis [of Castlys] fell to ane lass. And Historie against the Cassillis family, this must the Laird of Dalrumpill her nyteboir, come to be taken cum grano salis. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF GROSEAGUEL. 21 pacionibus piscacionibus et venacionibus terris cultis et non cultis et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus commoditatibus aysiamentis et iustis pertinenciis tarn 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 mditaris 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 monasterii de CrosseragwelP et burgi de Are una cum sigillis Thome Flemyng comitis de Wygtona et domini Duncani Wallays militis tunc vicecomitis de Are presenti carte mee gracia testimonii apponi procuravi Testibus venerabilibus in christo patribus Johanne Dei gracia abbate de Pasleto et Eoberto abbate de Kyllewynnyne Alano [Sen]escallo Malcolmo Sawelsone Willelmo de Echlys Patricio filio Symonis Finlao de Keris cum multis aliis. 1 At this period the seal of the grantor was see Beg. 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 22 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Absteact. 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 grantor'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 Eobert Abbot of Kilwinning, Alan Stewart, Malcolm Saulsone, AVilliam of Echles, Patrick son of Symon, Finlay of Kerse,^ etc. 14. Instrumentum visitationis et resignationis Ahbatie de Crosragmol. — [27 th September 1370.J ' 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 dementia pape quinti anno octavo, apud abbatiam de Crosragmol, ordinis Cluniacensis, Glasguensis diocesis, in mei notarii publici et testium infrascriptorum 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 publico 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 Registrwm Mmiasterii de Passelet, p. 425. 108-115). 2 John, Abbot of Paisley from circa 1361- Digitized by Microsoft® CHAKTERS OF THE ABBEY OE CROSRAGUEL. 23 vestri -unacum monachis ibidem ad tunc 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 tarn infra monasterium quam extra existentes ubieunque 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 MoCCC°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 MOJSTASTERII 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 GROSRAGMOL. Post cujus littere lecturam, prefatus dominus Eogerus 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 Toluntate, pure et simpliciter, sine cujuscunque conditionis adjectione, extunc resignavit. Quesitus tunc ab eo causam ipsius resignationis, dixit quod senio ac debUitate 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 bonore 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). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 24 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. dominum Abbatem de Passelet et ejus consilium rationabilibus judicatis, ipsam resignationem liberam et spontaneam in manibus suis sic factam recepit, ipsum dominum Eogerum 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 din vidueretur pastore in spiritualibus et [in] temporalibus patiatur detrimentum. Acta sunt hec anno, die, mense, indictione, ponti- ficatu et loco predictis ; Presentibus religiosis viris et dominis, Alano monacho monasterii de Passelet, Wilelmo et Nicbolao^ monachis monasterii de Crosragmol, ac discretis viris et dominis Wilelmo Adison, Eogero Garland, rectoribus ecclesiarum de Luss et de E'glisham, Glasguensis diocesis, et aliis ad premissa vocatis et specialiter rogatis. Et ego Nicbolaius de Burn elericus Glasguensis diocesis, publicus apostolica auctoritate notarius, premissis dicte littere lecture, resig- nationi, testium reception! et aliis prout supra scribuntur et recitan- tur, unacum prenominatis testibus presens interfui, eaque sic fieri vidi, audivi, et interlinere horum vocabulorum, tunc et abbatis, insertorum inter lineas decimam octavam et decimam nonam et vicesimam tertiam et vicesimam quartam approbo, quia ipsa manu propria scrips! ; ideo presens instrumentum manu propria scrips! et signo meo solito et consueto signavi rogatus, in fidem et testimonium premissorum. Abstkact. 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 Eoger 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 Eoger; 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.) Digitized by Microsoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 25 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 ofl&ce : 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 stalf in his hand, and on the circumference the inscription, " Sigillum Ahhatis Monasterii 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 Ahhatis Monasterii 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 of&ce 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 ofiice 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. VOL. I. Digitized by Microsoft® 26 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 15. Allusion to Abbot Eager in Fordun. — [1370.]^ Anno MCCLXX.2 . . Eogerus abbas de Corsraguel curam suam reliquit, et reversus est apud Dunfermelyn unde venit. Post quern electus est Nicholaus ejusdem domus monaclitis. . . . 16. Charter by Malcolm, son of Roland of Carrick, to John Kennedy of Dunure, of the Lands of Treuchane and Kenethane. — \_No date. Circa 1370.] » Omnibus banc cartam visuris vel audituris Maeolmus filius Eolandy de Canyc salutem in domino sempiternam Noveritis me dedisse concessisse et bac presenti carta mea pro me et beredibus meis inperpetuum confirmasse Jobanni Kenedi domino de Donnowyr pro consilio suo et auxilio mibi impensis et impendendis illas duas denariatas terre cum pertinenciis que vocantur Treucbane et Kenetbane jacentes infra parocbiam de Kyrcmycbel Munterduffy in comitatu de Carrie infra vicecomitatum de Are quarum predictarum duarum denariatarum terre cum pertinenciis totum jus et clameum quod Murdacus filius Sowerl babuit seu babere potuit in eisdem pro se et beredibus suis mibi resignavit per fustum et baculum sursum reddidit et coram pluribus fide dignis quietum clamavit inperpetuum Tenendas et babendas predicto Jobanni et beredibus suis de me et beredibus meis per suas rectas metas et divisas in feodo et bereditate bbere quiete integre plenarie bonorifice 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 abis iustis suis pertinenciis libertatibus commoditatibus et aysiamentis tarn non nominatis quam nominatis ad predictas terras pertinentibus vel in futurum de iure pertinere valentibus inperpetuum sine aliquo retinemento Reddendo inde annuatim dictus Jobannes et beredes sui mibi et beredibus meis in festo sancti Micbaelis Arcangeb apud Kyrcmicbel Munterduify in Carrie unum par alborum calcarium* nomine bbere firme si petantur tantum modo pro omni abo servicio consuetudine exaccione vel seculari demanda varda 1 Fordun a Goodall, lib. x. cap. xxvii. * Otter blencli duties were a pair of gloves, 9 oi, ij 1, -j/rri^r^T \rv ■ 1 1 i-u a mirror, a falcon, a goose, a sheer day's work, 2 Should be MGCCLXX, as is proved by the . ,-n 7 ^ -n , T r ^ iAT i\ ^^'^- (■^''* "/ Exchequer, 1596, quoted by C. precedrng Instrument JMo. 14. t s m, , , , Innes). The legal value of a pair of white " Guhean Muniments, No. 8. spurs was 20s. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. 27 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 Carrie dompno Nicolao abbate de Crosragwel Gilberto Kenedy Johanne filio Henrici Johanne filio Alexandri Ade filio Thome et multis aliis. 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 Ken ethane, 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 elsewliere, nor Ms 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). ^ The grant of the Kenkynol was confirmed to John Kennedy by King Robert II. in 1372 {Cuhean Muniments). ^ Originally the parish was Kirkmichael of Gemilstoun (Paterson, ii. 277; MS. Monastics, 20 ; Chalmers, iii. 534), but part of the property was called Kirkmichael Muntercasduff or Mun- terdufiy, the name of the clan of which John M'Kennedy was leader (Robertson's Index to Charters, p. 57). Digitized by Microsoft® 28 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CKOSEAGUEL. 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. Conjirmacio Monasterii de Corsragmer. — [lUh November 1374.] ^ Robertus Dei gracia Eex 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 lactam inspectam et diligenter examinatam intellexisse ad plenum sub hac forma. David Dei gracia, (etc., ut 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 present! carte confirmacionis nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum Testibus etc. apud Kirkoswald xiiij*° die Novembris anno regni nostri tercio. Abstract. Confirmation by Eobert 11. , 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 Eobert 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. ^ The king may have been staying at the 3 Begistrum Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No, 58. royal castle of Turnberry, which remained with * 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). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 29 18. Confirmacio Ahbatis et Conventus de Corsragmer. — [14^^ November 1374.]^ Eobertus Dei gracia Eex Scottorum omnibus probis bominibus tocius terre sue salutem. Sciatis nos cartam recolen.de memorie domini regis Roberti de mandate nostro visam lectam inspectam et diligenter examinatam intellexisse ad plenum sub bac forma Eobertus, (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 beredibus nostris inperpetuum confirmamus salvo servicio nostro. In cuius rei testi- monium presenti carte confirmate nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigUlum Testibus, etc. Apud Kyrkoswald xiiij*° die Novembris anno regni nostri tercio. Abstract. Confirmation by Eobert II., King of Scots, of a charter granted by King Eobert the First, to the abbey of Crosraguel, granting to tbem all the lands which they held of the king and his ancestors in the earldom of Carrick, to be held in free barony, etc. Confirmed at Kirkoswald 14th November, third year of reign (1374). 19. Confirmacio Monasterii de Crosragmer. — [14:th November 1374.] ^ Eobertus Dei gracia Eex Scottorum omnibus probis bominibus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis Sciatis nos cartam recolende memorie domini regis Eoberti de mandato nostro visam lectam inspectam et diligenter examinatam intellexisse ad plenum sub hac forma, Eobertus (etc., as in No. ] 1, supra). Quamquidem cartam in omnibus punctis articulis condicionibus et modis ac circumstanciis suis quibuscunque forma pariter et eflfectu in omnibus et per omnia approbamus ratificamus et pro nobis beredibus et nostris inperpetuum confirmamus salvo servicio nostro. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte confirmacionis nostre nostrum precepimus apponi sigiUum Testibus, etc., apud Kyrkoswald xiiij*° die Novembris anno regni nostri tercio. (1374.) 1 Eegistmrn Magni Sigilli, Roll ii. No. 59. ^ Ihid. No. 60. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 30 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. Abstract. Confirmation by Eobert II., King of Scots, of charter granted to the monastery of Crosraguel, by King Robert the Bruce (No. 1 1 supra). Con- firmed at Kirkoswald 14th November, third year of reign (1374). 20. Indenture betiveen Thomas Fleming^ and John Kennedy of Dunure, for the Wadset to the latter of the Lands of Cumbernald. — \l&th Fehruanj 1374-5.] ^ Anni gracie millesimi tricentesimi septuagesimi quarti die Veneris decimo sexto die mensis Februarii apud Are facta fuit hec 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 liis grandfather Malcolm, the this charter will hardly enhance his reputation great Earl of Wigton, ahout 1359. Whether for thrift (v. Eohertson'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 (Julzgan Muniments, No. 15. questionable, but the transaction mentioned in Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® I u /r Ccr cottl Z^S^ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® ^*KitW|(fc>S>™a« ffC<«j»i.«» ^ wt,a fife ^,J6s«te p\ p^ ( ,^.:^s^.«^«a« ^a..*ji&<«.^.. *»^efe^ «aifc^^iA4^ 4Ci*^"- ittUfW <2r^ '^Swcftf? 4W «^ 'ig>mt8^afe, f^:f*^cM^ wfjp'i,,,^'^ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF OROSRAGUEL. 31 mercas bone monete auri et argenti in uno festo Sancti Martini in yeme apud Dunhowere pro deliberacione dictarum terrarum de Cumbyrnald ad proprinm usum Thome Flemyng vel ad proprium nsum beredum suorum prescriptorum persolverit vel persolverint. Et quod ipse Thomas antedietus 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 nee ipse Thomas Flemyng nee heredes sui impignorabit vel impignorabunt alienabit vel alienabunt deliberabit vel deliberabunt ipsas terras premissas de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis, in manus vel ad usum aHorum 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 nee 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 tunc dictas terras de Cumbyrnald cum pertinenciis in proprios usus, nuUis 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 Mcholao 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 32 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. 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 ^ Son of John Kennedy of Dunure. He had was not acquired by the Grahames till the 1 5th also a charter from Thomas Fleming of the town century. The old castle still stands at the foot of Kirkintilloch in 1370 (Gulzean Charters). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 33 21. Charter hy John Kennedy of Dunure to the Chapel of St. Mary of Mayhole}~\lst March 1383-4.] ^ Omnibus hoc 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 MayboyP fundata quatenus fundacionem constructionem insti- tucionem ordinacionem et dotacionem predictas auctoritate apostolica rati- fices approbes et confirmes, etc. Hinc est quod ego prescriptus Johannes virtute ipsarum literarum apostolicarum statuo et ad perpetuam rei memoriam per presentes firmiter ordino quod umis 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 Ileitis 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 annul 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 these miniature cathedrals were erected between chapel is given in full in the charter of con- 1392 and 1545 (v. Chalmers, i. 844; Laing's firmation by Robert II. {Ueg. Magni Sigilli, 82, MSS., in the Univ. Lii.) The fabric of the church 282), dated at Dunure 29th Nov. 1371, and was entire when Abercrummie wrote, about 1680, granting to the chapel, juxta cimiterium ecdesie adjoining the parish church. — M'Farlane's Coll. parochialis de Mayboyl, the lands of Balmaclew- Adv. Lib. hane, Barrecloych, Treuchane, and Barrclach, * Barloch or Barlach, a sheet of water one for the sustenance of the chapel, a clerk, and mile east of Maybole. The farm of Barloch three chaplains. The charter of confirmation still exists. is dated at Dundonald, 4th Dec. 1371. ^ Qver and Nether Barcley are north and 2 Gulzean Charters, No. 19. south of Barcley Hill, above Kirmichael. 8 The collegiate church of Maybole was one " Barclanachan, a large house on the site of of the first founded in Scotland ; thirty-five of the modern mansion of Kilkerran. VOL. I. F Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 36 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSRAGUEL. 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, shall 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, 1st 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 37 22. Charter by King Robert the Third, granting to the Monastery of Crosraguel certain Churches and Lands. — [24^^ August 1404.]^ Eobertus 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 Eothesaye comitis de Carryk ac omnium fidelium defunctorum dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse religiosis viris abbati et conventui monasterii de Corsragwell ac monacbis ibidem Deo servientibus et imperpetuum servituris in regaliam et liberam regalitatem omnes terras suas subscriptas videlicet ecclesiarum sancti Os- waldi de Turnebery^ sancti Cutbberti de Stratoun sancti Cuthberti de Innergarvane^ sancti Cutbberti de Innertig* et sancti Michaelis de Dalmul- kerane^ Item duas denariatas terre capelle sancte Trinitatis de Kildomine** Item tres mercatas terre ex dono Jobannis Henrici Item quinque denariatas terre de Corsraguell et de Soutbblane Item unam denariatam terre de Cbannacbetb Item unam denariatam terre que vocatur Balekirstenlorcane et totam terram de Dumkeynen Item denariatam terre de Clacbrybeg Item denariatam terre de Acbenacbt Item denariatam terre de Dallocborane Item denariatam terre de Corrale Item quinque denariatas terre de Drumgrelaeh Item quinque marcatas terre de Snade^ et unam marcatam terre in tenemento de Donemurtby^ Item viginti solidatas terre de Drumcaldilthey et Drumfern* 1 Gulzean Muniments, No. 26. This charter Bishopric of Dunblane (v. Nos. 133 and 135 is among the missing rolls in the Great Seal infra). Register. ^ In the parish of Barr, on the Stinchar ; 2 i.e. Kirkoswald. called at various times Kildinine, Kildamnie, and 8 Or Girvan, apparently granted to Ores- Kirkdamdie. The ruins of the chapel still exist, raguel ah initio. John, vicar of Girvan, swore but the date of its erection is unknown. The fealty to Edward in 1269 (Chalmers, iii. 538-9 ; celebrated "Kirkdamdie Pair" has from time Paterson, ii. 244 ; and Ragman Rolls). immemorial been held at this place on the last * i.e. Ballantrae. The full name of Kirkcud- Saturday of May, but is now little more than a bright-Innertig, from the influx of the river Tig, gathering of farmers in the neighbourhood, first called Ballantrae in 1617 (v. No. 132 '' Snade lies half-way between Dalquharran infra; and cf. Chalmers, iii. 543 ; and Paterson, and the coast, ii. 80). 8 Dunmurthy, near Kirkdamdie, in Barr 6 Or Dailly, v. note on No. 2. The patron- parish, age of these five churches rested with Crosraguel ^ Drumfern or Drnmfairn, near the sea, four until 1617, when they were annexed to the miles south of Girvan. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 38 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSEAGUEL. 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 snperiori dominio illius tenementi Item insulam de Ilysay^cnm pertinenciis Tenendas habendas et possedendas omnes et singulas prenominatas terras cum pertinenciis eisdem abbati et conventui et eorum successoribus pro perpetuo in liberam regalitatem sen regaliam ut predicitur in feodo et bereditate ac in puram et perpetuam elemosinam inperpetuum cum furca fossa sok sak thoU 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 coUecta pro nobis per unum monachum ydoneum ad certum altare dicti ■'• Chapel-Donan, on the lands of Craigoch, 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. ^ Near the Girvan, one mile north-east of Dalquharran. * 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 Afran. 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 with intention of delivering it to the Spaniards ; 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). ^ Crosraguel was now for the first time granted the regality over its lands, even to the four " puncta coronse," i.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 II. to his son David, Earl Palatine of Strathearn {Scottish Legal Antiquities, pp. 40, 60 ; Beg. 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 Passekt, p. 84), though Robert III. granted them their lands in Ayrshire, Peebles, and Roxburghe, in a barony of regality. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 39 abbas et conventus et eorum successores inperpetuum una cum aliis oraeionum sufFragiis devotarum In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostra nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum Testibus reverendis in Christo patribus Hen- rico episcopo Sanctiandree Gilbert© episcopo Abirdonensi cancellario nostro Eoberto 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 Jobanne de Maxwell patre militibus apud Linlithcu vicesimo quarto die Augusti anno Domini mUlesimo quadringentesimo quarto et regni nostri anno quinto decimo. Hec 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 Eothesay, Earl of Carrick, and of aU. 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). Digitized by Microsoft® 40 CHAETEES OF THE AEBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 perpetiial alms, with gallows and pit, sok, sak, thoU, 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.]^ " Denombrement des abbayes, prieures, et maisons religieuses dependant mediatement ou immediatement des abbayes et ordre de Cluny, tant en Angleterre qu'en Ecosse (sans date, mais de I'ecriture 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. — [18^^ March 1415-16.]^ Omnibus banc 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: Ghartes de Gluny: papers at the end of the volume it is evident No. 283, in the Bibliothfeque Nationale at Paris; that ten was the complete establishment of the an immense collection of Gluny charters now monastery (v. Nos. 64, 65, 68, etc., infra). being edited by Monsieur Bruel. Mr. Madan, 2 Cuhean Muniments, No. 32. of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, has kindly sent me an extract from the Bihliotheea Gluniacends ^ ^^^'^ *^^ M'GiUelanes acquired Dalecarne of Andreas Quercetanus in that library, printed ^°'' ^"^ ^PP'^^'^- ^^S^^^ M'Gillelane was a in 1614, in precisely the same words as the Pr°P"«t°r ^^ Forfarshire in 1373 {Reg. Magni ' ^, \ ^, • ■, J.. t Sigilh, p. 116, 13). above. It appears that there was a visitation of » » r j 1 the English and Scotch abbeys of the Cluniac * Dalecharne lies on the Stinchar, 4 miles Order in 1405 by the mother house. From the N.E. of Kirkdamdie. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® -mt*-M <0*l#ll»«t«Alfc tTtCM^If^MV^ A»W» 41«2i> Cs»>0**p> t««W23v SonMllo'i *^'H»mxtM»w»l v^** <»i«M«4!6 |l%i««rte> ^iL»i)U<. iJia« .rtWWKuMJrs--^****!^ 'H ^ :^*n8*4tii-»Mt «*>«M' ynn<'»M»'i^ Asc«r*»o6»»*> h fcw -apuvdtrtito Tb^rM^KViP «t«OTtQ«:^t^ -rt- fv wLste .^vwt' .>»»«m,»i& /!t/ £U«4 W»*«& &Kiiv«t0 «rtii^%«7 -^'Mv^t^lV.i^Miivrii SvMti Ahvwv) /♦v.JcCt.p Digitized by IVIicrosoft® I i^x& ^iui>i3(iiw /ntjeMf^MH v^^'l^Ct^fi*^ %t\nfwiS> ^wvwSwwne -tcrnMin^ 4Uvu)Uf i yM^ ^»hS'uH»M fi^iA r^a^xHtMi .fzeJimc sl tjfswfen^t! cvtHi *«ii-t«t«i«H<> idCt 4>«<«idH4C icnvtc yt»Lni- OMiv^ *vK««rMA rWl«iMcu% -stmnvC^tufttwiii* ftajvid •4r*>2flie Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 41 dedisse concessisse et hac present! 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 2 cum pertinenciis jacentes in comitatu de Carrie infra vicecomitatum de Are Tenendas et habendas omnes et singulas prenominatas terras predicte dimidietatis superioris Baronie de Glenstencbere cum per- tinenciis predicto Fergusio et heredibus suis vel suis assignatis de domino comite de Carrie 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- tibns quomodolibet in futuram libere quiete plenarie integre et honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retinemento vel revocamento imperpetuum Faciendo domino comiti de Carrie 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 heredibiis suis vel suis assignatis in omnibus et per omnia ut supraseriptum 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 Buokmonyn in the earldom Kennedies, p. 9). of Lennox was granted to Gilbert de Carrick in ^ Lop(j Kennedy acquired tMs Upper Barony 1290 by Malcom Earl of Lennox (Rymer's of Glenstynolier in 1450 (Pateraon, ii. 325). Fcedera, i. 3; GImH. Lennox, 70d), and Sir ^ "Coalpits, stone, and limestone." — (C. Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure granted it in 1393 Innes). to John son of Fergus Kennedy (Eist. Ace. of the VOL. I. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 42 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 Ardstencbere ^ Johanne de Cathkert domino eiusdem domino Johanne de Hamiltoun domino de la Eosse 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 Ireland. — 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 Connanght by in the Battle of the Beaux in 1421, was of Ard- secret treaty vAth. James I., sent him the rebel stynohar {Historie of the Kennedyis, p. 80). chieftain's head. We may presume from this that the Abbot of Crosraguel was sent over on this mission. But Balfour is proverbially in- accurate {Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, ii. 8 Balfour is our sole authority for this. We 20 ; Buchanan's Hist., x. chaps. xxxiii.-iv.) 2 Sir James BaKour's Annals of Scotland, vol, i. p. 159. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 43 26. Indenture behueen Lord Kennedy and his Son, and Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany} Indenture between Gilbert Lord Kennedy,^ and John Kennedy bis son, on tbe 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 Glasguensis. — [2Uh September 1487.] « In Dei nomine. Amen : Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno ab incarnatione Domini M°CCCC? 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 Eobertus 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 ceUa sua, ejusdem diocesis, pertinenti dictis abbati et conventui," ac 1 Culzean Muniments, No. 92. ^ Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 349. 2 Created first Lord Kennedy in 1456, ap- "^ Eobert Blacader, 1484-1508, appointed first pointed one of the six regents of tlie kingdom Archbishop of Glasgow circa 1498 {Beg. Epis. in 1466. Glas., passim). 3 Succeeded his father Thomas Kennedy, the ^ George Shaw, originally Rector of Mynto, first laird of Bargany, in 1460. Abbot of Paisley 1473-1498, who added greatly * The indenture waa that David eldest son both to the spiritual and temporal welfare of his heir of John Kennedy should marry Marion monastery, and erected many of the monastic daughter of Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany; and buildings (v. Beg. de Passelet, pp. 84, 154, 351, that Thomas, Gilbert's son, should marry Kath- etc. ; and Chamberlain Accounts). eriae, daughter of John Kennedy. ^ Note here how the Abbey of Paisley re- 5 I have not been able to ascertain what was asserts its superiority over Crosraguel, and com- this Colin's surname. pare Nos. 3 and 41. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 44 CHAETERS 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 bonorifica pace sicuti tempore recolende memorie Andree olim episcopi Glasguensis et aliorum predecessorum suorum priscis temporibus reman serunt, suisque privilegiis, immunitatibus et libertatibus gavisi sunt, non obstantibus buUis apostolicis et processibus desuper fulminatis aliisque per ipsum reverendum patrem in contrarium habitis, et in Eomana curia per eundem impetratis, super subsidii caritativi solutione, visitatione et procura- tionum exactione ac aliis impetratiouibus quibuscunque : Quibuscunque impetrationibus et buUis 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 eorum que 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 bee in ecclesia Glasguensi, loco capitulari ejusdem, bora 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 Eerik 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] (etc., in forma communi). Et ego Johannes Eeston, presbiter Glasguensis diocesis, etc. Et ego Johannes de Thornton, Glasguensis diocesis presbiter, etc. Abstract. Notarial Instrument narrating that Robert Bishop of Glasgow compeared personally in presence of notaries public and other witnesses, in the chapter Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 45 of the churcli 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 Eome : 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 Eerik, 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 46 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. ad structurse perfectionem deesset, ipse inter csementarios 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. Instrumentwn Abhatis et Conventus de Pasleto, inter eosdem et Magis- trum David Cunyngham^ decanum ruralem, ad instantiam eorum excitatum. — [31si January 1489-90.]^ In Dei nomine, Amen : Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunc- tis pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno Dominice incarnationis M°CCCC°lxxxix, 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 Euglen, 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 tunc ibidem secum existentibus in dicto monasterio recipi. Et interim comparuit discretus et religiosus vir dominus Johannes Mouss tunc 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 * "The Rural dean's 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 - 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. 183). ^ Begistrum Monasterii de Passelet, p. 351. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CKOSEAGUEL. 47 abbas et conventus noluerunt recipere ipsum decanum ratione visitationis aut ex debito, ex et pro eo quod ipsi abbas et conventus sunt exempt! 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 tunc 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 bee apud portam dicti monasterii, bora tertia post meridiem, sub anno die mense indictione et pontificatu supranotatis, presentibus ibidem probis et discretis viris, videlicet domino Eoberto Qubyt- furd^ monacbo ac tunc cellerario dicti monasterii, magistro Henrico Newton, domino Cutbberto Mulykyn et Jobanne Makqulien layco, cum multis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis [Alexander Clugston, notarius]. Abstract. Notarial Instrument narrating that a circumspect clerk, Mr. David Cunyngbam, rural dean of the deanery of tbe 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 chiirches and places wherever constituted, as was clearly evident to every one who looked at 1 Most probably tbe Eobert de Quintfort or 13; C. Innes' Scotch Legal Antiquities, p. IVO; Wbitefoord wbo 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 [WHtefoord] 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 (v. dence with his brother, who was Abbot of Oros- Dr. Lees' Paisley Abbey, p. llj Monasticon, p. raguel in the reign of King James IV." Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 48 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 Eobert 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 hy Duncan Fergusson of Knohgarron, in favour of John Fergusson his Son, of the lands of Knokgarron and Alticaple. — \_11th August 1490.]^ In Dei nomine, Amen : Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat evidenter et sit notum quod anno Incarnacionis dominice mHle- simo quadringentesimo nonagesimo die vero mensis August! 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 personahter 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 venerabUis pater hoc presens publicum instrumentum per me 1 Cuhean Muniments, IS 0. 156. south-east of Bargany, and comprised Ailsa Craig ' Little is known of the previous lairds of in its Barony. Knookgarron. It lies in Dailly parish, 2 miles ^ V. No. 16. Digitized by Microsoft® 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^Ylhanche 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'^Cormyl ^ 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 Eaque 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 hie me subscribente signavi rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testi- monium omnium premissorum. Andreas Makcormyl. 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'llhauch, vicar of Girvan, and John Wishart, son and apparent heix of Adam Wishart, burgess of Ayr. Andrew M'Cormyl is notary. 1 The first mention of tlie chapter-house. provided only a curate or chaplain to the churches 2 Girvan rejoiced in a vicar like Straiten 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 ^ vicar of Straiton. VOL. I. H Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 50 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF OROSRAGUEL. 30. Charter hy Colin Ahhot of Crosraguel, to John Fergusson and Agnes Kennedy his Wife, of the Lands of Alticaple and Knohgarron. — [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 bac presenti carta nostra confirmasse necnon et dare concedere et bac presenti carta nostra confirmare dilectis nostris Jobanni Fergusson filio et beredi apparenti Duneani Fergusson bereditarie et Agneti Kennedy sue sponse in coniuncto infeodamento ac eorum alteri diutius viventi et beredibus 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 parocbia sancti Micbaelis de Daly in comitatu de Carrik et infra vicecomitatum de Are Quequidem terre cum pertinenciis prius fuerunt dicti Duneani Fergusson bereditarie Et quas- quidem terras cum pertinenciis antedictus Duncanus non vi aut metu ductus nee 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 babendas omnes et singulas prefatas quadraginta solidatas terrarum antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis prefato Jobanni bereditarie et Agneti Kennedy sue sponse in coniuncto feodamento eorumque alteri diucius viventi et beredibus suis inter ipsos de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu eciam procreandis quibus forte deficientibus quod absit beredibus dicti Duneani quibuscunque de nobis et successoribus nostris in capite in feodo et bereditate 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 curbs escbaetis et eorundem exitibus berezeildis bludewitis et mercbetis 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 Gulzean Muniments, No. 157 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSEAGUEL. 51 libertatibus commoditatibus asiamentis ac justis suis pertinenciis quibus- cunque tarn non nominatis q-uam nominatis tarn subtus terra quam supra terram tarn 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 cumpertinenciis tenuit seu possedit tenuerunt seu possederunt aliquibus temporibus retroactis Eeddendo inde annuatim dictus Johannes ac eciam Agnes sua sponsa eorumque alter diucius vivens et sui beredes inter ipsos de corpore suo legitime procreati seu procreandi quibus forte defici- entibus quod absit beredes prefati Duncani quicunque nobis et successoribus nostris duodecim denarios usualis monete regni Scocie nomine albe firme ^ in festo sancti Micbaelis 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 bieme 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, v. note on No. Urr, in the modem parish of Kirkpatrick Dur- 1Q ham, Kirkcudbrightshire {Imperial Gazetteer of 2 Wamphray, in Upper Annandale, near Scotland). Moifat, among the Dumfriesshire hills. * For explanation of the Abbey court, v. 3 The old church of Kirkbride stood on the Introduction. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 52 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. In cuius rei testimonium huis presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum com- mune est appeusum 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 Eoberto 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 conqusestor 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 Jobn, Lord of the Isles, in 1475. ^ 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 Eeid, and subsequently ^ Greenan near Ayr, the lands having been acquired by the Earl of Cassillis (Paterson, ii. ftued to John Davidson father to this Thomas, 435 ; Guhean Muniments, and Mason's Notes). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 63 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'llhauch, 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 his Wife in the lands of Alticaple and Knoclcgarron. — \2^th August 1490.]^ Colinus divina paciencia abbas monasterii de Corsraguel et conventus eiusdem dilectis nostris domino Johanni Cathkert de Carltoun mditi, Hugoni Kennedy, GUberto 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 Carrie 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 nuUo 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 54 CHAETEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 M'=Cormyll, 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. — \yth 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 Eoberti de Quintfurt, B. Marie de Corsraguel, Clasguen. diocesis, vacanti per obitum D°i 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 m Englmii, Scotland, ^ y_ ^g^g q^ ]^q_ gs. and, Ireland, 1400-1875, by W. Maziere Brady. ^ Culxan Muniments, No. 161. Rome, 1877. Vol. i. p. 170. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 55 carta nostra confirmare dilecto nostro Johanni Fergusson filio et heredi apparent! 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 parocbia 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 nee errore lapsus seu dolo circumventus set sua mera et spontanea voluntate utilitateque sua prius visa et pensata per suum procuratorem ad hoc 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 beredibus 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 pertiaenciis prefato Johanni Fergussoun beredibus suis et assignatis de nobis et nostris successoribus in feodo et bereditate 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 berezeldis et mercbetis mulierum cum communi pastura et libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus asiamentis ac justis suis pertinenciis quibuscunque tarn 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 bonorifice 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 ilia parte terre proporcionaliter seruicium debitum et consuetum de terris de Altycappill prius totaliter existentibus dicti Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 56 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. resignantis tantum pro omni alio onere exaccione questione servicio secular! sive demanda que de dicta dimidia mercata terre cum pertinenciis per quoscunque iuste exigi poterint in futurum seu requiri Et nos vero antedictus Eobertus abbas et conventus eiusdem loci et successores nostri prefatam dimidiam mercatam 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 buic 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 Jobanne Fergussoun Fergusio Fergussoun circumspectis viris et clericis magistris David Blair et Eoberto Mure prebendariis coUegii de Mabole anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo secundo Sequuntur subscriptiones abbatis et conventus Eobertus abbas de Corsraguel Et ego Johannes Losk concede 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, etc. Abstract. Charter by Eobert 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 ^ Situated 2 miles east of Maybole. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 57 35. Decision by the Lords Auditors in the Action hy the Abhot of Crosraguel against Thomas Kennedy of Bergany. — \2&th 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 boUis 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 boUis 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 Fergusso7i. — [12th December 1500.] ^ In Dei nomine. Amen : Universis et singulis presentes literas sine presens publicum instrumentum inspecturis lecturis pariter et audituris David 1 Acta Dominorum Auditorum, p. 183. ^ GuUean Muniments, No. 172. VOL. I. I Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 58 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. Cunyngliame archidiaconus Ergadiensis prepositus ecclesie collegiate de Hamyltoun ^ ac ofl&cialis 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 Eobertum eadem permissione olim abbatem dicti monasterii ae 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 onmes et singulos coniuncte vel divisim sua interesse habentes sen habere putantes per literas nostras patentes ad instar edictorum publicorum in valvis ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis die quadam solempni publice affixas nt 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 afSxum 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 Eobertum permissione divina abbatem 1 Founded in 1462 by the first Lord Hamil- practice in the Episcopal Court was administered ton, for a provost and eight prebendaries. George by the " Oificial General," instead of the Arch- de Graham was the first provost (Hamilton of deacon. The greater part of the law business Wishaw's Ace. of Lanarkshire, and Hamilton of Scotland, both civil and ecclesiastical, came Papeis). before the courts of these officials (v. Scotch Legal 2 In the dioceses of St. Andrews and Glasgow, Antiquities, p. 181). the jurisdiction of the Bishop in law as well as ^ No. 30 supra. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 59 monasterii de Corsraguel et eiusdem loci conventum sigillo eorundem communi roboratam factam Johanni Fergussoun filio et heredi apparent! 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 occidental! earundem jacente in parocbia 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 Jobanni 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 parocbia sancti Micbaelis 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 adbiberi sicut ipsis bteris originabbus si in medium producerentur et boc ad instanciam dicti Jobannis 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 sine ipsi sic citati dictis termino et loco comparere curaverint sive non Et nicbil 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 Glasgw die quinto mensis Decembris anno Domini, etc., quingentesimo In quibus- quidem bora die et loco comparens coram nobis pro tribunal! sedentibus venerabilis vir dominus Robertus Ross arcbipresbyter de Dunbar procurator et procuratorio nomine dicti Jobannis Fergussoun de cuius procurationis mandate legitimo constabat documento predictas literas citatorias debite execution! 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 60 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 exemplar! et in publicam transsumpti formam redigi cum interposicione decreti quod buiusmodi transsumpto tanta fides in iudicio et extra daretur sicut ipsis cartis originalibus data sit et adbibita seu daretur et adbiberetur si in medium producerentur Post quarum quidem cartarum exhibitionem nos David Cunyngbame 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 buiusmodi cartarum in pergameno scrip tarum 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 nee 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 tbat tbere is added at tbe end tbis 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'LewUl consentio et ratifico antedictam teste manu propria Ego Matbeus Thomsoun manu propria Ego dompnus David Cbalmer 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 Cunyngbame officialis ante- dictus presens transsumptum sine instrumentum publicum cum cartis originalibus prescriptis diligenter auscultari et coUacionari fecimus Et quia post diligentem auscultacionem examinacionem et coUacionem com- perimus presens transsumptum cum ipsis cartis originalibus prescriptis in omnibus et per omnia concordare et in nuUo discrepare ad instanciam dicti domini Eoberti procuratores dicti Johannis Fergussoun auctoritate ordinaria Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OP CEOSRAGUEL. 61 qua fungimur in hac parte decrevimus et presencium per tenorem decerni- mus quod present! 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 adbiberetur 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 do mandato nostro desuper publicato subscribi et publicari sigiUique officii nostri jussimus et fecimus appensione communiri Datum et actum in ecclesia metropolitana Glasguensi antedicta loco sessionis nostre ad indicia reddendum solito et consueto duodecimo die mensis Decembris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo indiccione . . . {sic) pontificatus sanctissimi in Cbristo patris et domini nostri domini Alesandri 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, etc. Et ego Martinus Graham presbyter Glasguensis diocesis, etc. Et ego Willelmus Kennide artium magister ac presbyter Glasguensis diocesis, etc. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 62 CHAETEES 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 Eobert Eoss, 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 hy David Ahhot 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 eomitatu 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 Eow ^ Eoberto Mure et Willelmo Maxwell. 1 Gukean Muniments, No. 176. to be seen. He married Egidia Blair of that 2 Son of Gilbert Lord Kennedy, and first Ilk, whose will is given infra, No. 55. Laird of Baltersan, the ruins of which are still Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSRAGUEL. 63 Abstract. Precept by David Abbot of Crosraguel, addressed to Dugald M'CrirLnyll, 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 Eow, Eobert Mure, and William Maxwell. 38. Decree hy 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 Hand 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 sail 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 Gondlii, vol. xvi. fol. Kilkerran by the Dean of the Chapels Eoyal. 206. The wall was standing until the present century, 2 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 64 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 39. Ahhas de Pasleto. — [3d September 1509.] ^ Die Lune, 3° Septembris, anno quingentesimo ix°, indictione xij., ponti- ficatus Julij 2'ii anno sexto, et regni Jacobi quarti anno xxij. Eeveren- dissimus pater, Jacobus^ Glasguensis arcMepiscopus, 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 Eoberti,' et episcopi Andree, et suorum predecessorum ; et renunciavit expresse omnibus buUis, impetratis super subsidii caritativi exactione, visitatione, procuratione, quo ad dictos abbates et loca et suos successores, cum protestatione quod dicte buUe 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 Murbede, Adam Culquboun, Johanne Gibsoun, Roberto Fawside, Roberto Clerk, Andrea Marscbell, Jacobo Steward, Alexandro Hamiltoun, Willelmo Steward, rectore de Locbmabane, Thoma M'Clellan, Patricio Coventre, et Davide. Absteact. 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. ^ Diocesan Register of Glasgow, vol. ii. p. 305. " James Beaton, afterwards Archbisliop of St. Andrews and Primate. ^ V. No. 27 supra. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF OROSRAGUEL. 65 40. Facultas concessa ab Andrea Archiepiscopo Sanctiandree, legato a latere, de non visitando Monasterium de Pasleto nee 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 MoCCCCCoxV, 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 Eegem et regnum Scotie nuntius specialiter destinatus, exposuit qualiter [per] prefatum summum pontificem ad omnia monasteria tarn 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 Eobertum 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 Begistrum Mojiasterii de Passelet, -p. 357. 255; Stat. Ecc. Scot, clxxxviii. ; ' Dr Gordon's 2 Andrew Forman, 1514-22. An eminent Scotichronicon, L 245). seliolar and administrator (v. Lyon's Hist. i. VOL. L K Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 66 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. nullatenus in contrarium devenire, nee dictum monasterium de Corsraguel, monaclios ac familiares et servitores eorundem, ac ecclesias dictis monasteriis subjeetas visitare aut reformare, procurationes aut subsidium ratione visita- tionis ant quocunque alio modo, titulo vel causa ab illis sen eorum aliquo per se, commissarios delegates vel aliam quamvis intermediam personam, petere vel exigere aut privilegiis sibi concessis qnoquomodo 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- scripto sibi fieri petiit hoc presens publicum instrumentum. Acta erant bee in camera hospicii memorati reverendissimi in Cbristo 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 diseretis viris, Hugone Monerefe, 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 conseriptum 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. Absteact. 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 67 see witli power of legatus de latere, specially appointed by tlie 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 Eobert, 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, and 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 68 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 41. Acts relating to the election of William Kennedy to the Abbacy. — [1520.] 1 Premiere liasse.^ Abbayes de Paslet et Cosragus en Ecosse. Election de Willelme de Kennede, abbd de Corsragnuel en Ecosse, faite par les religieux de son Abbaye, en 1520, signde, scellee. Acte contenant le refus fait par I'Abbe de Paslet, en qualite de Vicaire de Cluny, de confirmer I'election de Willelme, elu abbe de Corsraguel en 1520, signee.^ 42. Charter by Sir James Douglas to the Earl of Cassillis of his house in Mayhole. — [_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 stalls ecclesie collegiate de Mabole salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis me cum consensu et assensu honorabilis mulieris Egidie Blaire relicte quondam Jacobi Kennedy de Eow^ 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 bac presenti carta mea confirmasse necnon per presentes assedare et ad feodifirmam dimittere et bac presenti carta mea confirmare nobili et potenti domino Gilberto Comiti de Cassillis domino Kennedy perpetuoque patrono dicti coUegii 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 Bibliothfeque Nationals of Paris). A few years after this the monks of Paisley were 2 These notes were oommvinicated to me by gravely scandalised by the appointment of John M. Briiel, Arch6viste Publique in Paris. They are Hamilton, then a mere stripling, to their own from the Charters of the Abbey of Cluny, but abbacy {Reg. de Passelet, and Dr. Lees' Paisley, the originals are lost. p. 185). 8 Probably either owing to his youth, or to a * Gukean Muniments, No. 246. fear of the control of the monastery passing from ^ V. supra, No. 37. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® ^M^k^^j,^ U^^^u^xu^/^^^ ftu4jp^,».,,,,A^HU^5^ Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 69 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 partibns ab altera Tenendam et babendam 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 inperpetuum 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 beredes sui et successor es micbi 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 Pentbe- 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 question e 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 buic 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 ^ "p^g more stalls must thus have been added near Barclanochan or the modem Kilkerran, since the original charter of foundation in 1371 on the Qirvan. These lands of Fergus Kennedy (v. mpra, No. 21). were situated east of Maybole. Digitized by Microsoft® 70 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. millesimo quingentesimo vieesimo coram hiis testibus magistro Waltero Kennedy rectore de Dowglas Thoma Corry de Kelwod magistro Wchtredo Adunnyll de Dalhowane et domino Georgio Blaire capellano ac notario publico cum diversis aliis, etc. (Signed) Dns Jacobus Dowglas, manu propria capn_p 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 chaplaincy, 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 71 Cassillis and Hs 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 Egidia 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 hy Abbot William for infefting Neil Fergusson in the la7ids of Knockgarron and Altichapel. — [l4iA February 1523-4.]^ Willelmus permissione divina abbas monasterii de Corsraguel et conventus eiusdem dilectis nostris AUano M^^Ylveine de G-rumet 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 nee errore lapsus sen 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 active part in the feuds in this district in the the Collegiate Church of Maybole {Gulzean sixteenth century (Paterson, ii. 293, 352. His- Muniments, and v. Paterson, ii. 324-5). torie of the Kennedyis, pp. 86, 146, etc. ; Dum- 2 The house of Kelwoodsyde, whence the fries Retours, No. 151). Corrys came to Ayrshire about 1500, was on ^ Cukean Muniments, No. 272. the borders of Nithsdale and Annandale (Bleau's Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 72 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. 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 trinm libratarum terrarum de Knok- garrane et Alticapell antiqui extentus cum pertinenciis prefato Nigello Fergusone et heredibiis suis bereditarie vel suo certo actornato latori pre- sentium secundum tenorem carte nostre sibi inde conficiende juste deliber- etis et habere faciatis sine dilatione Eeservato 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 Tlioma Muligane et domino Duncano M'Krenele capellano cum diversis aliis. 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 Mel 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 Mel, 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. — [2lst 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 AUanus M'Ylveine ^ filius et heres apparens Gilberti M'Ylveine de Grumet baUivus 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 hanc 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 AUanus 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 Ouhean Muniments, No. 273. family subsequently acquired the lands of 2 He had a charter of the lands of Grumet Thomaston {Eeg. Mag. Sigilli; Inq. Eetorn. Abb., and Attiquin from James V. in 1529. The 1669; Paterson's ^j/rs/iire, ii. p. 355). VOL. I. L Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 74 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. pertineneiis predicto Nigello Fergusone secundum formam et tenorem precepti prius inserti ac carte desuper conficiende per ten-e et lapidis tra- dicionem ut moris est hereditarie dedit et donavit imperpetuum Super quibus omnibus et singulis prefatus Nigellus a me notario publico subscript© sibi fieri peciit publicum et publica instrumentum et instrumenta unum seu plura Acta erant bee super solum dictarum terrarum apud mansiones principales earundem bora quasi novena ante meridiem vel ea circa sub anno die mense indiccione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem circumspectis viris Thoma Kennedy WUlelmo M'Eore Fergusio M'Calloune et Gilberto Eglissame testibus ad premissa vocatis specialiter ac cum instancia debita rogatis et requisitis. Et ego vero Willelmus ■ Eos 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, Hugb Fer- gusson and Colin Fergusson, as bis bailies in tbat part, for infefting Niel Fergusson in all and whole the three pound lands of Knockgarrane and Alticapell of old extent, in the parish of Dailly earldom of Carrick and shire of Ayr, which belonged before to Duncan Fergusson, son of the deceased John Fergusson of Knpckgarren, 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 : Eeserving, 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'Eore, Fergus M'Calloun, and Gilbert Eglishame, witnesses. The notary is William Eos. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 75 45. Surrender by Duncan, and Investiture of Niel, Fergusson of the Lands of Knolcgarron, etc., hy William Abbot of Crosraguel. — {fth July 1523]^ In Dei nomine, Amen : Per hoc 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 Adrian! divina providencia pape sexti anno secundo In mei notarii publici et testiiim subscriptorum presenciis personaliter constitutus Duncanus Fergus- son filius et heres quondam Johannis Fergusson de Knokgarren Quiquidem Duncanus non vi aut metu ductus nee errore sed sua propria et spontanea voluntate utilitateque sua undeque previsa et pensata ut asseruit comparuit coram venerabili in Cbristo 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 parocbia 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 beredibus suis inperpetuum in favorem Nigelli Fergussone sui patrui et beredum 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 babuit babet 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 FergTisson et beredibus suis per tradicionem et deliberacionem buiusmodi 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 ^ Culzean Muniments, No. 268. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 76 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. possedit tenuerunt seu possederunt ac secundum tenorem carte per dictum abbatem et conventum diets 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 hec 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 AUano M'Ylweyne Thoma Campbell Colino Fergusson et Magistro Jobanne 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 tbe deceased John Fergusson of Knokgarron, personally appeared in presence of tbe 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 stafi' 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 stafi" 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'llwayne, Thomas Campbell, Colin Fergusson, and Mr. John Kennedy, vicar of Terregles, and many others. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 77 46. Rental of Paisley Abbey. — [1525.] ^ Rentale reverend! 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- torii deputati. . Kyll: Adamtoun . . . xls. Corsbe .... viijs. iiijd. Auchynlek . . . xxs. Corsraguell . . . vj lib. xiijs. iiijd. 47. Resignation by Niel Fergusson of Altichapel and Knockgarron into the hands of William Abbot of Crosraguel. — [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 dementis diuina prouidencia pape septimi anno quarto In mei notarii pub- lici et testium subscriptorum presencia personaliter constitutus prouidus vir NigeUus Fergussoun de Knockgarrane non vi aut metu ductus nee errore lapsus seu dolo aut aliqua alia sinistra macbinacione circumuentus sed sua mera libera et spontanea voluntate vtilitateque sua prius visa et pensata ac pro certa summa pecunie ut asseruit sibi deliberata et aUis bene meritis sibi traditis ac tradendis per venerabilem in Cbristo patrem Willelmum permis- sione diuina abbatem monasterii de Corsragwell a se et beredibus suis per fustem et baculum ut moris est sursum reddidit pureque ac simpbciter in- perpetuum resignauit omnes et singulas tres libratas terrarum suarum de Knocgarrane et AlticappUl vocatas Makcubenstoun antiqui extentus cum per- 1 ' Eental of Paisley Abbey.' — MSS. Advocates' Lib. 2 Oulzean Muniments, No. 280. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 78 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 Mgellum 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 hie me subscribente exinde confeci et in hanc formam publicam redegi signo- que et nomine meis solitis et consuetis signaui vnacum appensione sigilli prefati Nigelli Forgussoun rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum. Geokgius Blair, etc. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEKS OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. 79 Abstract. Instrument of resignation ad remanentiam by Nigel Fergusson of Knockgarrane in the hands of William, Abbot of tbe monastery of Crosrag- uel, of bis three pound lands of Knockgarrane and AlticappUl, called Makcubenstoun, 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 nee 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 nee 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 etc. 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 Mail anno Domini j™° v" vigesimo 1 Gukean 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 Eeformation at £425 holding the office. Digitized by Microsoft® 80 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 Katum 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 afBxi 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, etc. Abstract. Procuratory by Nigel Fergusson in Carskolte, whereby he appoints William Abbot of Crosraguel and perpetual commendator of the monastery of Holy wood, 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 Ahhot of Cros- raguel, his Tutor, and James Kennedy of Blairquhan. — [28i/i May 1528.] 2 At Blarquhan It is appounctit concordit faythfuUy compromittit and finaly endit betuix honourable personis that is to say ane venerable fader 1 Duncan probably disapproved of the resignation mentioned in tbe preceding number. 2 Cukean Muniments, No. 288. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 81 in God William be the permissioun of the samyn Abbot of Corsragwell and tutour to ane noble Lord Gilbert Erie of Cassillis ^ his brother's sone for him- self and the said Erie of Cassillis on the tapairt and James Kennedy of Blarquhan on the toder pairt in maner forme and effect as efter foUowis that is to say that the saidis Gilbert Erie of Cassilis with consent and assent of the said venerable fader his tutour sail mak the said James their assignay to the redemptioun and outguytyng of the xls. land of Cragincroyag of auld extent with the pertinentis Hand 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 sail deliuer to him the reuersioun maid be Quintyne Schaw to vmquhile Gilbert Erie 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 Erie of Cassillis with consent of the said venerable fadir his tutour sail 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 sail 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 Erie 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 sail 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 sail nocht intromet with the said xl s. 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 that becaus that the said venerable 1 Third Earl of Cassillis, bom 1515, and on under suspicion of poison in November of that the death of his father in 1527 placed under the year (v. Tytler's History, and Paterson's Ayrshire, tutorship of Abbot William his uncle until ii. 331). 1538. He was a pupil of George Buchanan. ^ Keirs Castle stood on the Doon in Straiton At the battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he was parish. Their family burying-ground is still to taken, prisoner, but returned to Scotland in 1545 be seen at Straiton Church (see Paterson, ii. 480 ; loaded with presents (see No. 60, infra). He and Pitcairn's IfisioWe o/ lst August 1530.^ 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 ^ Alton's Survey of Ayrshire, Appendix, No. and Lord of Eow (v. No. 54 supra), son of Gil- 1, p. 703. A notarial copy of this deed, written bert first Lord Kennedy. In Latin, was found in the charter-chest of Sir ^ After three and a half centuries, her tomb John Whytefurd in 1796. A correct double of was found in 1882 through the excavations it was taken aud translated into English by Sir conducted by our Society under Mr. Morris ; Adam Fergusson, Bart., of Kilkerran, as above. which proves her instructions to have been liter- 2 Egidia, eldest daughter of John Blair of ally carried out (see the remarks on the Buildings, that Ilk, married James Kennedy of Baltersan infra). 6°; Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 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 Eeverend Father in Christ, William, by divine permission, abbot and superior of the monastery of Crossraguel. Inventory of my Goods. Imprimis. I confess myself to have sixty-one cows, the price o± 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. Item, 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 Item, one hundred and sixty bolls of oats, the price of the boll, six shillings, sum, fifty-four pounds. Item, horses, mares, and stags in the muir, the price of them all, thirty pounds. Item,, in utensils and domicills, forty pounds. Item, 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. Item, to David Kennedy, forty -two merks, and one half as the remainder of the tocher. Item, 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 i.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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 94 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Legacies. Imprimis, I leave and bequeath to the convent of Crosraguel, twenty pounds. Item, to the Minim Friars of Ayr/ forty pounds. Item, to the Dominican Friars ^ of Ayr, five merks. Item, to the Friars of Irvine, five merks. Item, to John Whitefurd, forty pounds. Item, to my executors, forty pounds, to be divided equally amongst them. Item, to Alexander Blair, ten merks. Item, to Marion M'llquhan, two two-year olds and six sheep. Item, to Bessie Davidson, two sheep and two lambs. Ite'm, to John M'Coury, twenty merks. Item, to Fergus M'Mury, twenty pounds. Item, for building an altar in the church of Saint Oswald, twenty merks. Item,, to my brother William's daughter, spouse to Eichard Lockhart, twenty merks. Item, to Hugh Kennedy, my sister's son, twenty merks. Item, to Bessie Whytefurd, twenty merks. Item, 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. Item, to Sir John Eays, 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. Item, to the curate of Kirkoswald, one boll of meal. Item, to Sir WiUiam Johnstoun, one boll of meal. Item, to John JM'Mury's wife, a black gown. Item, to Cristine Hynd, a russet gown. Item, 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. Item, to John Whytefurd, a coat of said web. Also to Sir John Eays, 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 Mmini or Gray Friars had a convent endowed during this century (v. Charters of the in Ayr, founded by the inhabitants in 1472. Friars Preachers of Ayr, -pwhliahei by this Asso- They were of the Observantine order. The ciation). They were also called Black Friars, present parish church is built on the site of the from their habit. convent. ^ Probably a missionary from the Dominican 2 The House of the Friars Preachers in Ayr Friars at Ayr. The curate was the functionary was founded by Alexander II., and liberally appointed by the Abbey. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OP CROSEAGUEL. 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 Eow, 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. Item, 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. Item, 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. Item, I leave all my goods whatever they be to John Whytefurd. Item,, 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. Item, to the Minim Friars of Ayr, two pair of blankets, three bed-ruggs, and one bedcover of needlework. Item, to Cristine AdumneU, 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 It would thus seem that the Castle of Baltersan was not yet built. It was probably the work of the next proprietor. Digitized by Microsoft® 96 CHAKTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. George Blair, chaplaiii 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. Louder and Verkvt Qz. ny. Hsec est vera copia testamenti Quondam Egidise Blair Dominse de Row cum principali coUatione in omnibus concordans trans criptum 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 hy William Abbot of Crosraguel to James Kennedy of Blairquhan} — [30iA 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 haiU our frwtis of the personagis of his awin three scoir twa 1 The firat mention of an actual lease of lands in these papers. Leases are seldom seen in Scotland before the 16th century. 2 Cidzean Muniments, No. 324. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 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 sail 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 Cliuroli was fhe property of Cros- still stands, and is the pew of the Blairquhaa racuel till the Reformation (v. note on No. 2 family. It is of 14th century workmanship. supra). The south transept of the old church VOL. I. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 98 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. Abstract. Letter of Assedation by William Abbot of Crosraguel to James Ken- nedy of Blairquban 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. — [pth July 1536.]^ Jhone Makmaister and maister Patrik Eyschert the fauctouris and servandis to my lord of Corsragall of the Kirkis of the Inche and Laisquhait ^ this our precept seyne ye ansuer Mniane Boyd our servitour of the sovm of xix ti xij s V d. quhilk salbe thankfuUye 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 saU answeyr attour the sowm aboune writtyn iij fi xv s x d. H. bischop of Galloway. {Dorso) Item to the Grayfreris of Ayr xl s. 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 sail content and ansuer my lord of Cassillis of the sowm 1 Ouhean Muniments, No. 338. either as curator for the Earl (which office we 2 i.e. Leswalt, both in Galloway. We know know that he still held from a paper in the from the MS. Eental Book that the Earl of Culzean chest) or in right of his ahhej. Cassillis had a lease of the revenues of these ^ Culzean Muniments, No. 335. churches in 1562 for the sum of £173:6:8 * This church belonged to the bishopric of (pp. 68, 71, 86); but from these two letters the Galloway, and Leswalt to the Abbey of Tung- Abbot of Crosraguel was now the tacksman, land, of which the Bishop was commendator. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® m ?^ <: a. t/) o a: o o CD m < X I- < o < a o X z X >- CO t- u _1 '% Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSKAaUEL. 99 of fiftein pundis for the corn at Ninian Boyd gat in Culmoyr ^ qnhilk corn was reist and under fenss for his mayll and dewiteis of the said land of Culmoyr quhilk salbe thankfuUe 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^ — \l7th 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 Erie 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 Erie 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° sxx and nyne zeris before thir witnes Thomas Corre of Keldwod Maister George Kennedy 1 In the old parish of Clashant, now in ^ Served heir to his father on 14th October Stoneykirk, in Galloway. Afterwards the pro- 1538. perty of the M'Dowalls of Garthland in 1636 ^ Qvlzean Muniments, No. 382. {Wigton Betours, 45, 98, 177). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 100 CHAETEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. vicare of Haly wod ^ and Sir George Dauidsoune cliapellane and notare public with vtheris divers. W. Abbot of Crosragwell. Absteact. 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. I7th February 1539. 60. Tlie Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis. — l23d 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 yrfor It var best ze var at hame ' gif ze may obtene ye kingis paud'^g (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 zo'" freindis sichlike for zor causs as ye berar can schaw zou better nor I can vrit quhomto zo'' L. sail 1 Evidently appointed by his cousin Abbot home in 1543 to promote the marriage of Queen William of Crosraguel, tie commendator. Mary witb Prince Edward. His hostages were 2 State Papers, in the Public Record Office, his uncle Thomas Kennedy of Coiff and his two London (communicated to the Editor by Mr. brothers, whom he seems to have neglected until Joseph Bain). they were threatened with execution. He then 8 The Earl had been taken prisoner at the returned to England (as alluded to in this letter) battle of Solway Moss in 1542 and conveyed to early in 1545, and was immediately permitted England. There he was placed under Arch- to return home loaded with presents (Tytler's bishop Cranmer and converted to the Protestant History ; Paterson, ii. 331). religion. He procured hostages and returned * " Quarrels." Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSEAGUEL. 101 gif credence And lesus have zo'' L. in his keping At Crosrag^i ye xxiij day of Merche be zo^ L / Eyme ^ of Crosragwell. (Addressed) To my lord of Cassillis E. [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 Ahhey to the Earl of Cassillis or James Gordon of Lochinver. — [22c? November 1546.]^ Apud Sanctum Andream vigesimo secundo Novembris, anno etc. vxlvi*° 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 WUHam 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 sail nowthair sett his said abbay nor frutis and emolumentis to the said eirle of Cassillis, na to 1 " Uncle." ^ Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 51-2. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 102 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. the said James Gordoun of LocMnver, 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 secm-ite, 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 subscryvit the samin with tharr 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 Crosragiiel Abbey to the General Taxation of the Church.— 1154:6 'iy Taxatio super Scoticana Ecclesia. Seculi xvi. . . PrelaturcB. ^ Monasterium de Corsragwel .... xiii 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. — \lst February 154T-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 ^ Eegistrum Episcopatus Glasguends, p. Ixxi. 2 This appears to have been to pay the ex- penses of the deputies to the Council of Trent in 1546. Mr. Thomas Dickson, of the General Register House, Edinburgh, has kindly forwarded me the following notes from the Libellus Taxa- tionum, or the sums levied from Crosraguel in various taxations of all benefices in Scotland above the annual value of ^40 : — ^ Culzean Muniments, No. 516. ixation £18,000 Crosraguel £72 19 1 8,000 3) 45 7 3* 5,000 l> 27 11 9 3,000 )> 17 15 6i ]r the expen-" ses of the de- puties to the } 2,500 J) 13 15 lOJ Council of Trent . Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 103 prouidentia pape tertii anno decimo quarto In nostrorum notariorum publieorum testiumque subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus venerabilis in Christo pater Quintinns'- permissione diuina nunc abbas monasterii Crucis Kegalis ordinis Cluniacensis infra diocesim Glasguensem religiosus etiam vir dompnus Eobertus Makewin subprior dicti loci totusque conuentus eiusdem ad hoc vnanimiter congregati Magnificantes fidelitatem nobilis et potentis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis ipsorum balliui, quern 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 donee de novo prouisi fuerint abbate non sine magno desiderio coram circumspecto viro Magistro Jobanne Garvane notario publico elegerunt et adoptarunt, Confessi fuerunt et prout tenore presentis publici instrumenti se confitentur reeipisse ab ipso comite huiusmodi locum Crucis Eegalis omnesque et singulas peeuniarum gummas 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 beredes suos executores et assignatos pro ipsis Abbate conuentu suisque successoribus et assignatis de predictis peeuniarum summis vtensiliis domiciliis rebus et bonis vt supra in custodia babitis et intromissis exonerarunt et quieteclamarunt presen- tiumque tenore exonerant et quieteclamant imperpetuum Eenunciantes 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 cborum ecclesie dicti loci Crucis Eegalis bora vndecima ante meridiem vel ea circa sub anno die mense indictione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem Georgio Corry de Kelwod Eoberto Crawfurd de ^ This was probably one of Quintiu's first public acts as Abbot. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 104 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 banc 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. Heneicus 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 pu=^= pga ma"^. 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 Eobert 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 Pitoairn'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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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, utensUs, 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 Kehvod, Eobert Crawfurd of Clolynane, William Dundujff younger of that ilk, David Kennedy in Bellard, and Adam Douglas of Pennyland, with other witnesses. 64. Gift hy 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 Erie 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 Hand in the erldome of Carrik within the schirefdome of Air being or salbe in our handis or our 1 Gukean Muniments, No. 519. VOL. I. P Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 106 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. predecessouris handis superiouris thairof throw deceis of umquliile Johnne Fergussoun of Knokgarrane or ony vthiris his predecessouris or successouris our last lauchfuU immediat tenentis and heretabill possessouris of the samin dewlie infeft thairintill togidder with all malis firmes proffittis 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 lauchfuU 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 lauchfuU 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 Erie 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 proffittis 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 sail 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 Erie 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 balking hunting peit turf cole stane and lyme with courtis amerciamentis eschetis and playntis thairof herezeld and merchite of wemen with commoun pasture fee ische and intre and with all and sindry uthir fredomes asiamentis profl&ttis 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 qiihatsumevir Eeservand 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 quhUk is contenit in our rentale of the samin Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® w . ■ /^ '-If e^ww-^^if^' ^ S^^ ^^P .Si2^ W'^ 'iiyru^^ "T'^^IIZJ- ./ (^»Vt>»mr yjU^^^.^i^-^^^^J^iis.i^^'t 4«i ^l^-!^'(j<^ Gv^^ -N^^fA*^ /W^iS- tH^ .rmn^/tH) X^9«n*^WU»H,HW;3 f>v«al(M '4i^'3ffli^ f>6v^H>Snft? -jit^Mjiiirmi- '•»»»»-"' b49V« ;j?v^ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® ^^ 1,0^^ ^.c^^^^ .^C^ 9^ Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 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 Erie 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 sail 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 Kilhynze ^ Maister Johnne Gervane and Henry Prestoun notaris with uthiris diverss etc. (Signed) Q. Abbot of Crosragwell. Dene Robert M'Kewyne wy* my hand. Dene Johne Cocheran w* my hand. Dene Johne Hoyge v* my hand. Dene Michaell Dewar wy* my hand. Dene Johne Mwre ^ eldar w* my hand. Dene Johne Mwre zongar wyth my hand. Dene Eobert Blakadir w* 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 Eergusson 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 untU the entry of the righteous heir thereto : reserving to the abbot and convent and their successors the sum of twenty shilling's 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 ^ Afterwards sub-prior, v. No. 67. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 108 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 65. Testamentum quondam reverendissimi patris et domini Gavini archi- episcopi Glasguensis ac monasterii Insule missarum perpetui com- mendatarii. — \_ConJirmed Slst May 1548.]^ Inventarium bonorum deposit! et debitorum quondam recolende memorie reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini domini Gavini ^ miseratione divina Glasguensis arcbiepiscopi. 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 ij m. jiij c. 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, Archbisliop of Glasgow (MS. in possession of Sir William Dun- bar of Mocbrum). 2 Gavin Dunbar, son of Sir John Dunbar of Mochrum, Bishop of Glasgow 1524-47, formerly Prior of Whithorn ; Lord of the Eegency and Commendator of Inchaffray in 1536. He was buried in the chancel of his cathedral, where bis 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. Beg. Epis. Glas., B. 25, No. 99, et passim). George Buchanan has written some eulogistic lines on this Archbishop (v. Gordon's Seotichronicon, ii. 521). 3 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 (Beg. Epis. Glasguetms), 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 Eector 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 109 executoribus ipsius reverendissimi per ipsum rectorem reddi et deliberari ordinavit. Summa Inventarii et deposit! ij m. xlviij lib. viij s.^ Debita dicto quondam reverendissimo debentia : — Imprimis, restans in manibus tenendorum baronie Glasguensis de croppa anni etc., xlvj. citra ijc. marcas receptas per Gubernatorem pro brasio, gressuma et multura dicte baronie, iiij c. Ixvj lib. xiij s. iiij 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, Eoberti Eichartson, Nicbolai Eutherfurd, Johannis Layng, Jobannis Cambell, et Lamberti Blair respective, et decanorum Nitbisdalie et Annandie, Tevidalie, Kyle, Carrik, Cunyngbame, pro restis procuracionum sjmodalium et minorum testamentorum certorum annorum preteritorum magistri Johannis Chesbolme et Johannis Jardane de Apilgirth pro certis boUis 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 c. lib. Item, dominus Jacobus Cottis rector de Carstaris de resta sui ultimi compoti j c. lib. Et 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 WiUiamsoun 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, Ixlib. 1 Should be ij m. jiij'=xlviij lib. viij s. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® no CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 c. Ixxxxvj lib. xiij s. Item, pro reparacione campanilis, j c. vj lib. xiij s. iiij d. Item, capitulo Glasguensi et vicariis cbori 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 ij c. Ixvj lib. xiij s. iiij d. ; idem reveren- dissimus prefato capitulo et vicariis chori promisit, et eandem summam eisdem, ipso superstite, consignavit, ij c. Ixvi lib. xiij s. iiij d. Et similiter consignavit Ixvj lib. xiij s. iiij d. in manibus dictorum decani et capituli pro sepulcro eneo conficiendo et superponendo sepulcbro 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, xllib. Quamquidem summam idem reverendissimus recepit tempore quo cancel- larie officio fungebatur, et consignata fuit in manibus eiusdem per domiuos consilii ex redemptione terrarum in Glenkenn pertinentium patri dicti domini de Gelstoun. Item, servitoribus dicti quondam reverendissimi pro eorem feodis nt patet per particulas particulariter calculatas et examinatas, vjc. Ixxxvlib. xvjd. Item, quoad summam xvj mercarum assertatam per Jacobum Watt et Joliannem 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 eiis 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAQUEL. Ill 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, j m. vj c. Ixxxviij lib. viij s. 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 banc 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. Eeverendo in Christo patri Willelmo episcopo Lismorensi, amplam togam nostram lie cbymaris of wariant cbamlett 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 xyng. 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 112 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. libronim 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 ultima 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 j c. 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, iiij c. marcas per equales portiones inter easdem dividendas. Item, sponse Hugonis Kennedie sorori dicti Thome de Bargany sxvj lib. xiij s. iiij d. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 113 Item, magistro Gilberto Kennedie vieario de'Colmonell, xxlib. cum una nigra toga duplicata cum lye damas. Item, magistro Thome Kennedy, xx lib. Item, domino de Punfrastone intuitu diutim obsequii nobis prestiti ad supportandum suos proles, xl lib. Item, prolibus Archibaldi Dunbar germani nostri, xxvj lib. xiij s. iiij d. Item, Patricio Dunbar de Cralecb, xl lib. Item, Patricio Dunbar filio Johannis Dunbar de Knokschenocli et Willelmo Hamilton eius leviro, xx marcas per equales partes et portiones. Item, domino ArcMbaldo Dunbar iij c. lib. proviso tamen quod non vocet executores nostros pro quacunque alia summa sibi allegata per nos debita. Quod si dictos executores nostros in jus vocet, volumus quod dicti executores nostri expensas suas ad defendendos se ab eodem de dictis iij c. libras faciant. Item, sorori nostre, moniali in Northberuik, xx marcas. Item, filie quondam magistri Jobannis Dunbar senescalli nostri pro tempore, x marcas. Item, rectori de Stobo, magistro Johanni Colequhoun, unam togam de Scarlett duplicatam cum lye satyn. Item, magistro Eoberto Stewart clerico parocbiali Glasguensi, xl lib. Item domino Hugoni Curry commendatario prioratus de Strathpbillane, unam togam de Chamlett foderatam cum nigris pellibus et alteram de Lillisworsett etiam foderatam, witb our almus, ane furrit weluus hude cum duobus rochetis. Item, Duncano Levingstone camerario nostro j c. marcas, proviso quod prius inducat restam baroni Glasguensis et aliarum baroniarum, aut saltem exactam diligentiam faciat pro hujusmodi restam importandam ac com- potum et solutionem dictarum restarum et sue intromissionis dictis exe- cutoribus nostris faciat. Item, magistro Cuthberto Artbure et Johanni Mure unicuique eorum xl marcas ad orandum pro anima nostra pro spacio duorum annorum, et domino Johanni Forrett pro suo feodo termini Penthecostes instantis et aliis quibuscunque terminis per nos sibi debitis et ad orandum pro anima nostra VOL. I. Q Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 114 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF GROSRAGUEL. per spacium duorum annorum xl*'' 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 Quliitherne ad orandum pro anima mea per spacium unius anni, x marcas. Legacia religiosis. Item, patribus minoribus de Edinburgh . . vj lib. Item, patribus predicatoribus prefati loci de Edinburgh vj lib. Item, patribus minoribus de Perth Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . Item, patribus minoribus de Strivelyng Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . Item, patribus minoribus civitatis nostre Glasguensis Item, patribus predicatoribus eiusdem . Item, patribus minoribus de Air . Item, patribus predicatoribus ibidem . Item, Carmelitis de Irvyn .... Item, patribus de Jedburgh Item, patribus de Dumfries Item, patribus de Lanark ' . Item, patribus de Lynlithquhou . xuj s. xiij s. xiij s. xiij s. xiij s. xiij s. iiij d. iiij d. iiij d. iiij d. iiijd. iiij d. vj lib. vj lib. vj lib. vj lib. xlib. vj lib. xiii s. iiij d. xlib. vj lib. iij lib. vlib. vlib. xiij s. iiij d. vj s. viij d. xls. xls. Item pauperibus hospitalis divi Nicholaii xx marcas disponendas in lectisterniis, vestibus, et aliis rebus dictis pauperibus magis necessariis pro tempore juxta discretionem magistri Eoberti 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 xl** marcas inter easdem per equales portiones dividendas. Item, Isabelle Stewart sponse Jacobi Grahame, x marcas. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTEKS OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSKAGUEL. 115 Legacia librorum. Item, magistro Johanni Grledstanis, Balduin et Paulam de Castro. Item, magistro Johanni Dunbar, Bartholinum et Panormitanum. Eesiduum vero librorum nostrorum tantum dispositioni decani Moravi- ensis juxta discretionem et consilium executorum et superiorum nostrorum fiendum legamus. Eesiduum 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 Arcbiepiscopatus Glasguensis et monasterii nostri Insuli missarum predictorum referimus defalcationem et solucionem reste bujusmodi nostre legacie discretioni dictorum executorum nostrorum prout ipsi executores nostri restam bujusmodi Arcbiepiscopatus 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 biis casibus singula per nos eisdem legata revocemus ; committentes dictis nostris executoribus jus repetendi bujusmodi 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. j c. xxvj lib. xiij s. iiij d. Confirmantur executores dativi dicto olim reverendissimo ad bona supra- scripta ac etiam extra presens Inventarium omissa sen relicta quecunque magister Eobertus Stewart clericus parocbialis de Glasgo et Duncanus Levyngston conjunctim, etc., die penultimo Mali anno domini j™ v'= xlviii. Digitized by Microsoft® 116 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. Abstract. Testament and inventory of tlie goods, money, and debts of the most reverend Gavin Archbisliop 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.—[2'^th 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 home 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 Eegist. Secreti Sigilli, vol. xxiii. fol. 92. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF OEOSEAGUEL. 117 67. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel, to Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis.—[lOth March 1552.] i 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 ns 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 Erie 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 Hand within the diocy of Glasgw ifor 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 fuUelie 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 flfrelie 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 sail warrand acquiet and defend in maner forsaid this present lettir of tak and assedatioun of all and sindrie the teindis frutis proflfettis 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 Gulzean Muniments, No. 550. Stat. Ace. Scotland, xi. 620; Vallancey's History 2 On May 1st. For tlie pagan and Sabsean of Ireland, p. 519 ; Kalendars of the Middle origin of this feast, and the manner in which it Ages, pp. 250-5). was celebrated until recent times by the Scotch ^ Exactly double of the rent paid by James herdsmen (in honour originally of Bel the sun- Kennedy of Blairquhan in 1534 (v. No. 56 god), see Pennant's Tour in Scotland, p. 96 ; supra). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 118 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. to thir oure lettres of tlie 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 suppo^ w* my hand, Deyne Eobert M'Kewyn wy^ my hand. Den Johne Hogge w* my hand, Deyn Miehaell Dewar wy* my hand. Den Johne Mwre wy* my hand, Dene Newyn M'Kewyn w* my hand, Deyn Gylbert M'Burne w* my hand, Den Adam Maxwal w* 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 hy Gilbert Earl of Cassillis.— \lbQQ fy 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 ^ Historic of the Kennedyis, p. 9. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 fair 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 Penny glen. — [28itA 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 lauchfuUie 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 Glenkice, who bad ap- one of tbese " points of tbe crown." pointed the third Earl heritable bailie of the ^ This story is a tissue of exaggerations, and regality of the Abbey {Gulzean Muniments). is not to be relied upon. The Glenluce papers Walter died in 1560, and was succeeded by from the Culzean charter-chest, now in the press, Thomas Hay. show that the lands of Glenluce were acquired " By the charter of 1404 (ante) the Abbots of by the Earl of Cassillis in the most just and Crosraguel had a right of regality over their lawful manner, lands cum guatuor punctis coron(E, robbery being * Culzean Muniments, No. 581. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 120 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 honssis biggynis boundis feildis pasturis'leasnris and commnne 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 ifrelie quietlie weill and in peax but ony revocatioun obstacle imj)ediment 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 Corsra,g;well 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 lauchfuUie 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 sail 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 scale 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 comedator^ of Crosragwell, Deyn Johne Mwre suppriour w* my hand, Deyn Eobert M'Key vn w* my hand, Deyn Johnn Hoyge w* my 1 An unusual word in Ayrshire leases ; ap- and carted his dung to the field, and for the parently the same as Gottar.% 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, Lerjal Antiquitiiv, p. 267). tacksman (or suh-tennent in this case) under whom ^ Quintin has hitherto signed himself " Abbot the cottar sat, ploughed and harrowed his ground, of Crosragwell." Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OP THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 121 hand, Deyn Michaell Dewar w* my hand, Deyn Johne Mwre zonge^' w* my hand, Deyn Newen M'Kewyne w* my hand, Dein Gylbert M'Burne w* my hand, Dein Adam Maxwell w* my hand, Dene Gilbert Kennedy w* my hand. Dene Johnne Bryce w* 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 hy Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to John Kirhpatrick of the land of Clonlicht. — [SOth 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 callit 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 pay and 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 Gulzsan Muniments, No 582. 2 Probably the same as Glenluy or Glenlowie, near the Abbey, on tbe west side. VOL. I. R Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 122 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. yeir Witsoundaye and Mertimes in winter be equale portiounis togidder with kayne fowlis averageis and carrageis dewties and dew service usit and wont Eeservand alwayis to us and oure successouris all coillis and cole- heucliis ^ wyn and to be wyn in onye pairt or place of all tlie 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 mcdovvis hedder peit and turf with commoun pasture fre ische and entre and with all and sindrye utheris fredomes comoditeis asiamentis and ryehtuus 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 sail 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 G-od ane thousand fyve hundreth threscoir yeris Signed Qtyne codato^ of Crosragwell, Deyn Johne Mwre supprio'^ w* my hand, Deyn Eobert M'Kewyn wy^= my hand, Deyn Johnne Hoyge w* my hand, Deyn Michael Dewar w* my hand, Deyn Johne Mvre yonger w* my hand, Deyne Newen M'Kewyn w* my hand, Den Gylbert M'Burne w* my hand, Dene Adam Maxwell w* my hand, Dene Gilbert Kennedy w* my hand, Dene Johnne Bryce w^^ my hand. 1 Evidently an important feature in the pro- fermline (Arnot's Edinburgh, p. 84 ; Innes' perty of the Abbey. The year 1291 is said to Antiquities, p. 165 ; Chart. Newbotle, No. 73 ; be the epoch of the first charter in Scotland Gliart. C'ambushnneth, p. 30). Mr. Cochran- giving the right to dig for coal, though it was Patrick (Records of Mining in Seotland, p. 1) not the common fuel of the country till about quotes an even earlier charter in 1210 by the 1500. The earliest disputes about coal levels Earl of Winton of the coalheughs between Pinkie were between the monks of Newbattle and Dun- and Inveresk. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 123 Absteact. Letter of assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to John Kirk- patrick burgess of Ayr and Janet Wallace bis 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 hy Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to the Earl of Cassillis of the Teinds, etc., of the Church of Straiton. — \_%th 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 half set and for maill lattin and be the tenour heirof settis and for male lattis to oure derrest and best belovit cousing Gylbert Erie 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 fuUelie 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 vvintir 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 sail warrant acquiet and defend in maner ^ Guhean Muniments, 'So. 586. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 124 CHARTEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. foirsaid tliis 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 affixt at Corsragwell the nynt day of Julij in the yeir of God ane thousand fyve hundreth and thre scoir yeiris (Signed) Quityn comdato^ of Crosragwell, Deyn John Mure supprio^ w* my hand, Deyn Kobert M'Kewyn wy* my hand, Dene Michaell Dewar w* my hand, Deyn Johne Mwre yonger w* my hand, Deyn Newyne M'Kewyn w* my hand, Dein Gylbert Makburne w* my hand, Dene Adam Maxwell w* my hand, Dene Gilbert Kenedy w* my hand, Deine Johne Bryce w* 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 tliis and the pre- ^ Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, ceding charter tallies with that alluded to in the part i. page 5. This \yas the first Assembly of fragment from the Cluny charters, namely 10 the Reformed Church, (v. No. 23 supra). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 125 Parliament to take order with, the confirmatioun of testaments, that pupils and orphans be not defrauded and that be made thereupon in their favours.] C. 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 idolaters 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 Niihesdaile and Galloway. The Pryor of Whitherne ^ and his servants in Crugletone. The Laird of Corswell,^ in Corswell. The Lord Cairlem. 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 Corseragwell. In meall and beir . . . . 55 ch. 8 b. Oatts ..... 80 b. Money . . . . ■ 383 £ 1 Malcolm, who in 1546 applied for a remit- had held the property since 1420. tance of his quota of a general tax on account * Gilbert, fourth Earl of Cassillis, succeeded •of the evil times {Beg. Privy Council), and who his father in 1558, and was a zealous partisan was still prior in 1563 (Paterson's Galloway). of Queen Mary and the Catholic faith. He was 2 Finlay Campbell of Corswall, the last of his with her at Langsyde, for which he was forfeited, race, who had held it since 1333. but afterwards reponed, by Parliament. 2 John Kennedy of Kii'kmichael, whose family ^ Assumption of the Benefices, ^. 13. Digitized by Microsoft® 126 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Item the steeding of Drummorquhy/ occupyed by the Abbot . . . . £26 13s. 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 ^ — Corseraguell . . . , . . 100 72a. Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel denounced Rebel for Non-payment of the Third of his Benefice. — [1561.]^ And ane hundereth H xj s j d. ^ 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 the home . . . j'^li. xj s. j d. ^d. 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 Bdinburght, 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 ^ Gompt of the GoUectour-Generall of the Thirdis the second son. Thomas Kennedy of Drum- o/jBmc/cfs, 1561, fol. 113 (MSS. in the General mvirchie took a leading part in the feuds of tlie Register House, Edinburgh). time. The celebrated Field-Marshal Lord Stair ■* History of the Reformation, by John Knox, was afterwards born here (Patterson). Book iii. 2 Assumption of the Benefices, p. 49. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OP CEOSEAGUEL. 127 1. That Idolatrie, and all monumentis thairof suld be suppressit througli- out the haiU 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 Eheims, 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 Erie 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,^ 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 thameseMs victory without resistance. Oh that we suld rychtlie considder the wonderouse workis of the Lord oure God ! 1 Of Pail or Failfurd Abbey, near Tarbolton, only two walls remain. It was actually a Priory for Red Friars, founded by Andrew Bruce in 1252 and governed by a Minister (Brochie MSS., and V. Cbaluiers, vol. iii. ; Monastieon, pp. 294-5). The Friars have left an imperishable memento of their merry character in the old saw : — ' ' The Friars of Fail drank berry-brown ale The best that ever was tasted ; The Monks of Melrose made gude kail On Fridays when they fasted. " Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 74. The three days' disputation between Quintin Ahbot of Crosraguel and John Knox, on Mayhole Green. — [28^^ September 1562.]^ Quintinus Kennedius praelatus Catholicus. Sectarii cum viderent Catholicos a diversis partibus diversos catholicse religionis defensionem suscepisse viam tanto periculo occludendam primo quoque tempore statuunt. 1 De rebus gestis Scotorum, Leslseus, p. 540. For tlie 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 ofl^ 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 occupied 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 iudge 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 sufiiciently 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 half infected the earis of the simple, I have wounded the hartes of the godlie, and I have spoken blaspheiuie 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 129 Unde Quintinum Kennedium Comitis Cassilii fratrem, virum non solum nobilitate, sed doctrina virtuteque perinsignem, cum nuUo modo a fidei integritate abduci possit, in palestram solemque vocant. Sed trium dierum frequenti disputatione, quam cum Knoxio public^ in occidente habuit effec- tum est, ut pii sanctique viri confirmarentur, ac ipsi sectarii Knoxio infensi zow. Qahairfore I Bian beir witli 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' enoe 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 CassilHs from Ochiltree, he ap- pears to have been away in Dumfriesshire and Galloway. On the 27 th 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 tliere 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. September, 1562. At Mayboill, the xxviii oi Crosraguel. "John 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- chisedec 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 Queue'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 S Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 130 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. redderentur, quod provinciam quam susceperat Calvinismi defendendi melius non exornasset. Quare Knoxius ut quam contraxerat disputando ignor- antise maculam scribendo dilueret, disputationem illam suis commentis, nugis, mendaciis interspersam typis excudendam curat. Nam veritatem disputando cum non poterat infringere, eam si cum viuijs obscuret, egregie docteque se calvinizare putat. Kennedius hie, vir plane dignus cujus virtutes omnium setatum com- mendatione celebrentur, duos, prseter alia opuscula, edidit libros exquisi- tissima Doctorum Conciliorum Scripturarum doctrina refertos, unum de Conciliorum auctoritate^ alterum de publico Ecclesise sacrificio.^ E quibus ilium Joannes Davidsonus hunc Georgius Hajus sectarii ministri ita refu- tarunt, ut catholica Veritas inde magis diluscescat iis quorum mantes haereseis malitiaeque tenebris plane non fuerint obvolutse. 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 iustifle 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 Queues 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 sail, to quhom be praise, glorie, and honour, for ever. Ceosragdell." 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 coUattoralles brag greatly of their viotorie." 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. ^ Gulzean Muniments, No. 615. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 131 delegati executoresque et commissarii infrascripti unacum venerabili patre Joanne abbate monasterii Dulcis Cordis vulgo New Abbay nuncupati nostro in hac parte collega auctoritate apostolica vigors certe commissionis a Reverendissimo in Christo patre et domino Johanna archiepiscopo Sanctian- dree regni Scotie primate legato nato monasteriique de Pasleto abbate ac cum potestate legati a latere Sancte sedis Apostolice legato virtute sne facultatis et officii legacie apostolice predicte nobis directorum cum ilia clausula videlicet Diseretioni vestre committimus et mandamus quatinus vos vel duo vestrum conjunctim procedentes et cognoscentes vocatis vocandis etc. specialiter constituti vicario sen 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 quern vel ad quos presentes litere nostre ymmoverius apostolice pervenerint salutem in Domino Literas patentes prefati reverendissimi domini Johannis arcbiepis- 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 nee cancellatas nee in aliqua sui parte suspectas sed omni prorsus vicio et suspicione carentes ut in eiis prima facie apparebat nobis predictis judici- bus commissariis cum ilia clausula predicta directas nobisque ex parte nobdis et potentis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis principalis in hujus- modi litteris commissionis principaliter nominati presentatas et exbibitas pro approbatione ratificatione et perpetua confirmatione constitutionis creationis et admissionis prefati nobilis domini Gilberti comitis de Cassillis hereditarie in ballivum seu ballivatus offieium hereditarium dominii et terrarum omnium monasterii Crucis Eegalis 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 beredibusque suis masculis et assignatis quibuscunque factarum et concessarum unacum serviciis 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 boUis farine avenatice annuatim levandis et habendis sibi hereditarie tanquam Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 132 CHAETEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 bujusmodi commissionis tenorem biis 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 hie 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 bujusmodi 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 bujusmodi 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 bac 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 liiis scriptis nisi feceritis ea que vobis in bac 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 Eegalis et ejusdem loci conventum personaliter apprebensos 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 bora causarum solita et consueta ante meridiem ad videndum et audiendum memoratam cartam concessionis infeodationis que Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 133 predictarum balliatus officii hereditarie prefati dominii terrarum monasterii predicti Crucis Eegalis vulgo Corsraguel nimcupati sic ut prefertur heredi- tarie predicto nobili domino et potenti domino Grilberto comiti de Cassillis heredibus suis masculis et assignatis nnacum dicto feodo videlicet sexaginta quatuor boUis farine avenatice annuatim per ipsos dominum commendatarium et conventum hujusmodi monasterii ex certis causis rationabilibus legiti- misque in eadem carta predicta specificatis sibi nobUi 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 prediete sibi nobili domino assignatarum percipiendarum et levandarum bereditarie ex quibusdam terris bujusmodi 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 bereditarie concessas per nos vigore prediete 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 prediete 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 134 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. perpetuam super premissis omnibus cum inde secutis et secuturis Ileitis 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 necessaries 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 perbibendum 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]agesimo secundo coram biis testibus WiUelmo Stevin domino Micliaele Leirmont et Johanne Murtlie ac David Kennede, cum diversis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter et requisitis. Et ego Jacobus Eos cleric us Glasguensis diocesis sacraque auctoritate apostolicanotariuspublicusacprescriptorumjudicum scriba ettabellio Quia prescripte commissionis presentationi acceptationi et presentium decreto ceterisqiie 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 banc publicum formam instrumentalem redigi signoque nomine meis solitis et consuetis signavi in robur et fidele testimonium omnium et singu- lorum premissorum rogatus et requisitus. Jacobus Eos. [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 Eegalis Glasguensis Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 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 monaclios personaliter apprehensos citavi et reliquum dicti monasterii conventum apud eorum stalla in cboro 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 biis testibus Archibaldo Lymekillis Hugone Kennedy et domino Willelmo Tod. Ita est dominus Duncanus M°Clellane curatus de Mayboill ad premissa requisitus manu propria. j) j) ]\/[_ 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 ofiice 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 136 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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, siibprior, 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 Eos, 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 hetween Quintin Ahhot of Crossaguel and Sir Hetv 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<= Ixij 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 foUowis 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 sail 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 sail 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 sail 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 ^\Tittin 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 ^ Culzean Muniments, No. Q26. 2 "loses.'' Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 137 precedant the dait heirof and atliir of the saidis pairteis to provyde thair rychtis as thai think best be avyse of men of law. (Signed) Crosragwell. Hew Kenydy of Gervan mais Kny*' Abstract. Agreement between the Abbot of Crosraguel and Sir Hew Kennedy of Grirvanmains, knight, bearing that if Sir Hew Kennedy shall raise action and obtain decree finding him entitled to the fishuigs 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 Januarv 1562. 77. Assedation hy 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 Erie of Cassillis his airis maill and assignais All and haill our benefeis of Crosraguell with kirkis teyndis malis profiittis 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 jm yc threscoyr four yeiris Quhilk fest of Beltane salbe the intre of the sad Erie 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 Oulzean Muniments, No. 643. VOL. I. T Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 138 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. moditeis and fredomes pertening thairto siclik as we mycht do our self ony maner of way. The sad Erie 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 sail warrand acquiet keip and defend the samyn to the sad Erie and his foirsadis at all handis but fraud or gUe In witnes of the quhilk thing we half subscrivit this present tak and assedatioun with our hand at Mayboill the aucht day of AprUe the yeir of God j™ v" threscoyr four yeiris before thir witnes Dene Johnn Mure younger William Stewin and James Eos notar with uthiris divers. Ceosraguell. Abstract. Letter of Assedation by Quintin Abbot of Crosraguel to Gilbert Earl of CassUlis 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 hy Abbot Quintin to the Earl of Cassillis of 350 merles. — \27thJuly 1564.] 2 We Quintine Commendatour of Crosraguell grantis us to half resavit be the handis of ane noble and potent Lord Gilbert Erie of Cassillis the soum of thre hundreth and fifty merkis money and that for the medsymeris termes maill of our benefeis of Crosraguell Hand in the Erldom of Carrik and scherefdome of Air conform to the tak set be us to the sad Erie of the sad haUl 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 Erie And for us and our successouris quitclames and dischargis the sad Erie 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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. Qdityne comedator 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 hy poison of Abbot Quintin Kennedy. — [22(i August 1564.] ^ August 22 die. Coelestia petijt Quintinus Kennedius comitis Cassilige frater, et abbas Crucis Eegalis, post varios cum Hsereticis congressus, superatosque pubhca disputatione hostes, ab inferni assecKs 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 Cassillise, Eobertus Maxwellius, et alij, qui in publicis disputationibus de articuhs fidei Knoxium, Paulum Meflfen, et socios prostraverunt, non innixos soliditati scripturse 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. — [^th October 1564.]^ Ane Lettre maid to Maistre George Buchquhannane, for all the dayis of his lifi'e, of the Gift of an zeirlie pensioune^ of the sowme of 1 Davidius Camerarius Scoti De ScotorwmForti- ^ From this date Buchanan frequently styled i, pp. 168, 277. Paris, 1631. himself Pensionarius de Crosragwel ; e.g. in Reg. 2 Records of the Privy Seal in Tho. Euddi- Epis. Brechinends. He was also appointed man's Animadversions on Vindication of Mr. Director to the Chancery. George Buchanan, p. 86. 1749 edition. Digitized by Microsoft® 140 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 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 umqnhile Master Qnintene 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 quhatsnmevir pertaining thairto : With power to him to set and rais the said temporalitie, outputt and imputt the tennentis thairof, and ntherwise to use the samyn als frehe in all sortis as the said umquhile abbote mycht have in his liftyme. And gife the samyn sail 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 sail 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*; Lxiv. zeris. 81. Action hy Mr. George Buchanan, Pensioner of Crosraguel, against the Earl of Cassillis. — {l&th 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 Euthven, Secretarius, Thesaurarius, Clericus Eegistri, 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 Eegister of the Privy Council of Scotland, new building -which was then just completed. vol. i. pp. 288 289. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 141 temporaltie of the said abbay, witb the place, manis, wocl, and pertinentis thairof. Nevertheles, Gilbert Erie 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 Erie 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 Erie 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 home. 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 Queue of Scottis To the Lordis of oure Coun- sale and Sessioun oure ComptroUare present and tocum greting Wit ye us ffor the trew and thankfull service done to us and oure derrest moder of gude memorie Marie Queue 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 Gulzean Muniments, No. 656. ptited by the English Government to keep a 2 Evidently a man of different views from his watoh on Abbot John Hamilton of Paisley (v. father, the Stewart of Cardonald who was de- State Papers, Scotland, Edward VI., i. 1 3). Digitized by Microsoft® 142 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 Hand within the diocie of G-lasgw 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 AUanis 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 Erie 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 buUis provisioun or uthirwayis in the Court of Eome be oure supplicatioun expeid to that effect and siclike and als sufficient as ony utheris bruikis and posseceis benefices within oure realme be buUis 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 ^ Apparently a younger brother of James was a patronymic in the Cardonald family Stewart of Cardonald, though we have no direct (Hamilton of Wishaw's Account of Renfrewshire evidence of this. In 1505 Allan Stewart of p. 78). Cardonald was a " pleasant, convenient Cardonald got a tenement in Stockwall in feu of dwelling, with good house and enclosures '' (ibid.) the Monastery of Paisley, and witnessed a charter ^ y_ ante, No. 77. of the Earl of Lennox in 1521. Allan thus Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. U3 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 Eegnne the xxiij yeir.^ Hec est vera copia abbreviationis Litere prescripte contente in libro secreti sigilli S.D.N, regine extracta de eodem copiata et coUa- 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 aU the days of his life, etc. 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 etc. 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 tliis history of the Beaton, but retained the Abbacy. He was the right of the sovereign to appoint an abbot. It great figure in the defence of the old Church was wrested from the chapter towards the end against John Knox, and a zealous partisan in of the previous century. Queen Mary's cause. He helped her to escape 2 Culzean Muniments, No. 664. from Lochleven, and baptized the young Prince 3 John Hamilton, Abbot of Paisley from in 1566. He was the last Archbishop of the old 1525 to 1547, when he was appointed to the Church of Scotland, and was executed at Stirling see of St. Andrews on the murder of Cardinal in 1571. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® U4 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. artium magistro de nobilium familia nato salutem in domino sempiternam Literarum scientia vite ac morum honestas aliaque landabilia probitatis et virtutum merita super quibus apud nos fide digno commendaris testimonio nos inducunt vt te fauore prosequamur oportuno. Cum itaque monasterium beatissime Virginia Marie Crucis Eegalis^ 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 vltimi abbatis seu commendatarii et possessoris eiusdem extra Eomanam 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 babentium 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 ofiicium nobis in hac parte incumbentes attendentes et ne prefatum monas- terium Crucis Eegalis sic vt premittitur tam diu vacans ex monasterio nostro Pasletensi dependens et tam longe ab vrbe Eoma 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 witli this form of of asserting the superiority of Paisley over Cros- the name before. It is purely arbitrary, and pro- raguel, as established by Bishop WiUiam in bably has caused the mistaken etj'mology ever 1244. since. See Introduction. 3 Though Camerarius states the day of his 2 Thus, even after the downfall of his monas- death to be August 22. tery, the Abbot of Paisley loses no opportunity Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 145 qualitate pensata possumus seu debemus tibi qui presbiter ordinatus existis pro quo illustrissimus Henricus et serenissima Maria principes Seotorum Eex 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 eiusdem^^ 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 Quocirca dilectis nostris eapitulo et conuentui monasterii Crucis Eegalis 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 eiusdem 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. '^-^'^tv*^ 'a Ayyiwi CVH^rS-^ l^C^uf^ 1 Another striking instance of the assumed right of Paisley to control the abbot's election at Crosraguel (of. No. 41 ante). VOL. I. U Digitized by Microsoft® U6 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. Abstract. Apostolic letters by John, Archbisliop 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 Eome. 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 Steivart as Abbot of Crosraguel. — [IGth December 1565.]^ In Dei nomine. Amen: Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat euid enter et sit notum quod anno Incarnationis dominice millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto meusis 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 Mariae Dei gratia Scotorum 1 The rule of admission is an admirable in- tery, -who would acquaint him with the severest stance of the severity of the Benedictine code or rules, and then with the remainder if he remains rule. " For four days to stand at the gate and firm. He is then made a novice, and is again entreat the porter, who is to repel his advances examined in six months, and again in four in the severest manner. If he perseveres and months. If he then passes, he is numbered obtains an entrance, he is to be led into a among the brethren.'' chamber appointed for strangers, there to be ^ Qulzmn Munivients, No. 668. attended by the most ancient men in the monas- ^ ]s[q_ g2 supra. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 147 regine de et super huiusmodi monasterio predicto illiusque juribus annexis et pertinentijs vniuersis sibi Magistro Alano factas et coneessas 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 Uteris donationis et concessationis reginee Maiestatis predicti expresse continetur Necnon literas etiam concessionis provisionis et dispositionis desuper coneessas 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 arcbiepiscopo tanqiiam 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 Etiam in vim sue facultatis et officii legatie apostolice predicte sibi gratiose commissarum et quibus fungitur in hac parte Accedente etiam ad boc speciali supplicatione ^ prelibate principisse nostre Marie regni Scocie predicti confectas prout in iisdem reuerendissimi patris arcbiepiscopi abbatis predicti monasterii Pasleti etc. Uteris patentibus plenius continetur sub eiusdem subscriptione manuali ac sigillo sui officii legatie apostolice predicte vna cum subscriptione et sio^no manualibus Magistri Andree Olipbant secretarii corroboratas de data apud monasterium Pasleti sexto Kalendas Octobris anno incarnationis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo quinto, etc. 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. ^ Referred to in No. 83. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 148 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSRAGUEL. 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 Micbaelem 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 S. D. N. regine ac prefati reuerendissimi patris arcbiepiscopi primatis regni abbatisque predicti, etc., 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 AUanum 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 ^ The subprior and other monks had probably the days of old Abbot William in 1 546 (v. No. fled when deprived of their abbot, as we know 63 supra), and lived in it until at least 1575 (v. that they afterwards returned (v. Nos. 11.3, 117, No. 118). etc.) Sir John Mure was at this time subprior ^ i.e. Tlie refectory. (v. No. 69 ante), whom Dempster and Father * Probably the "Abbot's new House." These Hay describe as " vir doctissimus, qui multa buildings, of which we have now the first men- scripsit et obiit 1585." The subprior appears tion, must have been the work of Moubrayer. to have been always second in rank at Cros- We learn from Father Hay (MSS. Adv. Lib. p. raguel, as there is no mention of a prior, as at 277) that he was a monk of Crosraguel "qui Paisley. multa contulit in sui monasterii ornatum et ^ Sir Michael Dewar was in the monastery in obiit 1547." Digitized by IVIicrosoft® GHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OP CEOSRAGUEL. 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 boram circiter decimam ante meridiem Sub anno mense die indictione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem providis viris viz., Johanne Steward in Kirktoun AUano Steward in Bradely Johanne Steward et Adamo Steward filiis providi viri domini de Habig 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 hoc 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. Day ID Sandelajstdis no™^- Absteact. Instrument of institution of Mr. Alan Stewart, perpetual commendator of the monastery of Crosraguel, in the abbacy thereof — bearing tbat be appeared at tbe 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 150 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. monastery and tlie 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 hetiveen 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 aggreit betwix Maister AUane 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 thankfuU service done to hir grace and hir umquhill darrest mothir Marie Quein Douriar and Eegent of Scotland be hir dayelie servituire James Stewartt of Cardonald and in his favour hes gifin and grantit to the said Maistir AUane 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 Erie 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 giiould be /our, v. No. 77. Digitized by Microsoft® 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 profEt 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 sail 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 iijs. iiijd. 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 sail think maist expedient for his awin securitie and als sail renew infeft or resignne to quhatsumevir uthir personis ane or ma to quhome it sail 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 sail 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. iiijd. 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 buUus or ony uthirwayis in favouris of quhatsumevir persoun or personis that- it sail pleis the said James to nominat thairto and als oft as the said James sail requeir him he sail mak sufficient mandattis to that effect to be usit ay and quhill the said persoun quhilk sail be nominat be the said James as is afoiresaid sail be sufficiently and dewlie provyditt thairto reservyng alanerly to the said abbott the sowme and pensioun of ane Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 152 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. hundretli pundis usuall monie of this realm to be yeirlie Tiptakiii during tlie 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 Erie 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 sail yeirly and termely as he sail 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 efi"ect thaj 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 w^'-th 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 Allane Stewart abot of Corsraguall. James Stewart of Cardonald. 1 i.e. Kirkcudbright or Ballantrae. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 153 Abstract. Contract between Mr. Allan Stewart Abbot of Crosraguel and James Stewart of Cardonald, bearing our sovereign Lady tlie 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 1 6 pence for the stone of cheese. Eeserving to the abbot a pension of £100, to be yearly uptaken from the churches of Straiton and Kirkcudbright. Dated 29th December 1565. 86. Assedation hy Allan Ahhot of Crosraguel to James Stewart for five years of certain lands in the regality of the Abbey. — \I)ated 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 ' Culzean Muniments, No. 675. VOL. I. X Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 154 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF GROSEAGUEL. underwrittin videlicet the foure merkland of Mochramhill ^ tlie 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 eoilhucht 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 quhatsum evir 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 foUoweing 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 foUoweing the dait of this present tak and fra thynefarth to induir and be peccable 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 aggre 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 sail 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 sail 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 ■* Mochrum Hill, a large wooded eminence to to this day coalpits in tlie locality. tlie west of Crosraguel. « The Abbey mills were always a valuable 2 V. No. 10 ante. property, and from the earliest times minute 8 Or Dungrelach. V. No. 9 ante. regulations for order and precedency were estab- * The steading of which seems to have been lished, and a strict "thirlage'' maintained. The a residence of Abbot Quintin (No. 72 supra). miU of Bolden was leased by the Abbey of Kelso 5 On the Girvan, near Brunston. There are for eight merks yearly {Beg. de Galchou). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 xl s. land of Cragocht with the teynd thairof xl s. 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 xl s. 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 sail warrand acquiet and defend this present tak and assedatioun of all and sindre thir landis myles and coilhuich abonewrittin sail 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 sail 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 affixt at . . . the . . . day of . . . the yere of God j™ v<= threscoir and . . . yeiris befoir thir wittnes Williame Hegaitt noter publict Johnne Eeid 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- Digitized by Microsoft® 156 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 87. Assedation hy Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart of the teind sheaves of the Churches of Kirhoswald, Girvan, and Dailly. — \_Dated 156-.]' Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres Us AUane 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 half 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 salhajopin 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 fuUelie furthrun fra the said James entre and his said spous entre thairto quihilkis entres salbe at the feist and terme of in the yere of God Ji^ v" 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 Cahean Muniments, No. 676. 3 -WJien cliurclies were bestowed upon a 2 The teind sheaves, or decimm 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 imparsonce field ; the vicarial tithes, or decimce vicarice, 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSKAGUEL. 157 powar to the said James his said spous and his foirsaidis airis and assignais to iiptak resave gadder laid 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 haUe 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 sail think expedient and that frelie quietlie Weill and in peace but ony impediment obstacle or agane calling quhat- sumevir payand thatrfore 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 fiforsuyth 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 aU and haill the saidis teyndis schaves of the foirnamit Kirkis gleib landis altaragis and our parte of the vicaregis of Kirkoswall Girvane and Daly Hand 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 sail 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 pubHct Johnne Eeid Johnne Scott Eobert Dunlop and Eobert Steward wyth utheris divers. Allans Comedato"^ of Crosraguall. 1 i.e. The dues and offerings levied and made only enjoyed part of tlie 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 158 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 banc cartam visuris vel audituris Alanus permissione diuina commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Eegalis salutem in Domino sempiternam. Quia huius regni reges diuersi in parliamentis suis cum tribus regni sui statibus terras regis prelatorum dominorum temporaliiim comitum baronum ceterorumque hominum terras hereditarie possidentium in emphiteosim seu feudifirmam absque rentalium et commoditatum dimi- nutione prout cum tenentibus conuenire poterint per diuersa parliament! 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 Eegis 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 congregates diligentibus tractibus et maturis deliberationibus prehabitis in euidentem vtilitatem nostri et successorum nostrorum ac dicti 1 Culzean Muniments, No. 677. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 beredi- tarie dimisisse et bac presenti carta mea confirmasse necnon dare concedere assidare arendare locare et ad feudifirmam seu emphiteosim hereditarie dimittere et bac presenti carta mea confirmare dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald beredibus suis et 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 Auchnaicbt/ quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Max vellistoune/ quadraginta solidatas terrarum de Awcb- inblane/ sex mercatas terrarum de TreifF,^ sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Dalelong,^ tres libratas terrarum de Kirkdin/" viginti solidatas terrarum de Clauchrieskeoycb, viginti solidatas terras de Karnestoune decern solidatas terrarum de Trodonoch,^^ sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Knokin/^ tres libratas terrarum de LitUstoune'-^ M'Gvnstoune et Drumgor- law, quadraginta sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Balserocbt " et Slabraicbt, nouem mercatas terrarum de Dalquberrane alias Bruntstoune/^ vnam mercatam terrarum de Stratoune, vnam mercatum terrarum de Eiddin Eid, 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 ^^ Qn the Stinchar, in Barr parish, among the thus been apparently remedied to some extent. hills. 2 To the west of Mochrumhill, near Culzean. ^' Two miles north-east of Girvan. 8 Two miles north-west of Maybole. i^ Near Drumgarloch, two miles inland. * On the Girvan, near Dailly. ^^ The- old castle of Dalquharran, though in ^ Probably the same as Achenacht or Hao- ruins, is still very entire. It stands on the hethinvach. margin of the Girvan, and is described by ^ Between Dailly and Bargany, on the Girvan. Abercrumbie. '' Auchinblane, near the Abbey on the west, ^^ Or Baltersan. The old castle was formerly where the three head courts of the Abbey were a fine mansion, surrounded by gardens, parks, annually held. and woods (v. Clerk of Eldin's Etchings, No. 28, * On the high land above Crossbill. drawn in 1778). It had been held by the Ken- 9 To the west of Trieflf. nedies from 1470, and was the residence of 1" Probably the same as Kirkdamdie or Kirk- Egidia, Lady Row. It stands about half a mile dominie. V. note on No. 22. west of the Abbey, and is easily seen from the 11 A short distance below Kirkmichael. railway. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 160 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 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 babendas 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 beredibus suis quibuscunque de nobis et suc- cessoribus nostris quibuscunque abbatibus commendatariis et conuentibus dicti nostri monasterii in feudifirma et bereditate 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 calce cum curiis et eorum exitibus herezeldis bluduetis et mulierum mercbetis ^ 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 sen iuste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie integre bonorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retini- mento reuocatione contradictione aut obstaculo aliquo Eeddendo inde annuatim dictus Jacobus Steward de Cardonald beredes 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. 5 j-ferizeld or Heriot was tlie best horse or 2 The liberty of roads and paths. ox of the vassal, which became the property of s Pratum was a hay meadow. Lawful travel- the lord on his decease. Bludwites means the lers had always the right of pasturing their cattle jurisdiction in assaults where there is bloodshed, where they spent the night, except in pratis et and where the wite or fine went to the lord of serjetibus. the court. Mercheta was the old form of mar- * The places where peats and turfs were cut. riage tax, paid by both free and servile tenants. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 161 pultrias pro prefatis sex mercatis terrarum de Vestir Denny ne sex libras monete pro prefatis quatuor mercatis terrarum de M'Kynnis- toune quatuor libras . pro prefatis quadraginta solid atis 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 Olawcbrieskerych prescriptis quatuor libras . pro prefatis viginti solidatis terrarum de Karnestoune. tres libras et sex pultrias pro decim solidatis terrarum de Trodonocb 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 Balserocbt predictis et Slabracbte sex mercas pro prefatis nou'em mercatis terrarum de Dalquberrane alias Burntstoune nouem libras . pro prefata vna mercata terrarum de Stratotme quinque mercas et duodecim lie murfowlis ^ pro prefata vna mercata terrarum de Eiddein 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 Eistir 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'Stopliastoun 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 beredum 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, care admodum Straiton parish. Sir Robert Sibbald thus de- tenera est, in junioribus pasertim et op time scribes the bird : " Lagopus altera Plinii, atta- nutrimenti " {Hist. Anim. in Scotia, p. 1 6, ed. geni ^Wi"0W7idi, si non eadem. The moor-cock, 1684). VOL. I. Y Digitized by Microsoft® 162 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. augmentationem nostri rentalis plus quam vnquam prefate terre nobis aut predeeessoribus nostris perprius persoluerunt aut dederunt ad duos anni terminos consuetos festa videlicet Penthecostis et Sancti Martini in hieme per equales portiones Necnon beredes dicti Jacobi Steward duplicando dictam feudifirmam primo anno eorum introitus ad dictas terras prout vsus est feudifirme tantum pro omni alio oners exactione questions 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 beredibus 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 beredes 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 Jobanni Steuard burgensi de Air ... Et eorum cuilibet ballivis nostris in bac 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 bereditariam neenon 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 Auchnaycb 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 Kirkdin viginti solidatarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Claucbrieskerycb, vigiuti solidatarum terrarum de Carnestoun decem solidatarum terrarum de Trodonoch et sex solidatarum et octo denariatarum terrarum de Knokin Digitized by IVIicrosoft® OHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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 Eiddin Eid, 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 boc 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 Eeid Koberto Dunlop et Eoberto Steward cum diuersis aliis. Allan' Comendatari' de Crosraguall. Dns Adamus Maxwell manw pro- Diis Michaell Dewar manu pro- pria pria Dompnus Gilbert as Kenedy^ manu Dns Johanes Mvre Junior manu pp'a propria 1 This Gilbert Kennedy was apparently of the Cassillis family. He was censured by the General Assembly in 1587 (v. No. 121 infra). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 164 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. Abstkact. 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 Eiddin Eid, 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., etc., 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 165 89. Charter hy Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to James Stewart, of certain lands in the Regality of the Abbey, in feu farm. — [Dated 156-.]^ Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Alanus permissione divina commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Eegalis 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 bominum terras beriditarie possidentium in empbi- 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 bonesta edificia terrarum novas culturas sterilium meliorationes arborum plantationes piscium in aquis recentibus per stagna nutritiones columbariorum bortorum viridariorum et cuniculariorum construction es ac tenentium possessorum buiusmodi terrarum sic in empbiteosim seu feudifir- mam locatorum in rebus mobilibus dictationes ac armorum et rerum bellicarum provisiones pro regis et regni contra quoscunque invasores defensione Eegi 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 boc capitulariter congregatos diligentibus tractatibus et maturis deliberationibus prebabitis 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 beredes sues et assignatos pro nobis et successoribus nostris de eadem exoneramus imperpetuum presentis carte nostre tenorem dedisse concessisse arrandasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim pro perpetuo dimisisse et bac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Necnon dare concedere arrandare locare et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim pro perpetuo dimittere et bac 1 Culzean Muniments, No. 678. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 166 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. present! carta nostra confirmare dicto Jacobo Steward de Cardonald et Alice Heyd sue sponse et ipsorum alteri diutius viventi in coniuncta infeodatione et lieredibus et assignatis dicti Jacobi quibuscunque Omnes et singulas terras nostras subscriptas, viz., totas et integras nostras quatuor mercatas terrarum antiqui extentus de MochrameliiU 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 Belcrystie cum earundem decimis garbalibus deeem 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 unacum 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 Craigotb sex mercatas terrarum antiqui extentus de Eister Denneyne quatuor mercatas terrarum eiusdem extentus de Drum- morcbie 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 Mochramebill 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 bordei duodecim capones ac unum porcum ac prefate terre de Belcrystie tarn 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 Drumgarlocb 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 Drumgarlocb 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 mformation as to the produce of the yards down the stream towards Baltersan. various lands. 2 From this reference we can glean much Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 167 land annuatim persolvit tarn pro decimis quam pro firmis tres libras monete et quatuor capones Et dicta piscaria apud os aque de Garvane annuatim persolvit pro firmis et decimis quadraginta solidos nee ultra iam dictas devorias nee pro firmis nee decimis quicquid aliud persolverunt nee ultra in nostro rentali extendunt ac dicte terre de Craigoyth annuatim persolverunt quatuor libras et dictum carbonarium de ZallowJie infra dictas terras de Craigoyth annuatim persolvit sex libras ae dicte terre de Eister Dennyne annuatim persolverunt viginti sex boUas farine duodecim boUas bordei duas boUas tritici et duodecim pultrias ac dicte quatuor mercate terrarum de Drummorchie annuatim persolverunt quatuor mercas et dicte terre de Abbatishill annuatim persolverunt quinque solidos nee 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 Stevs^ard 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 bereditate 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 calce Cum curiis et earum exitibus herezeldis bluduetis et mercbetis mulierum Cum communi pastura libero introitu et exitu ac cum omnibus aliis et singulis libertatibus commoditatibus profieiis asiamentis ac iustis suis pertinentiis quibuscunque tarn 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 bonorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo retinemento revocatione aut obstaculo quocunque Eeddendo inde annuatim dictus Jacobus Steward de Cardonald et Alyce Heyd sua Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 1G8 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. sponsa et ipsorum alter diutius vivens in coniuncta infeodatione lieredes et assignati dicti Jacobi quicunque nobis et successoribus nostris nostris eorumve camerariis aut factoribus pro dictis terris de Mocbramliill ac earundem decimis septuaginta duas boUas avenarum pro dicto nostro molendino de Croceraguell cum decimis eiusdem ac decimis terrarum molen- dinariarum yiginti octo bollas farine avenatice quatuor boUas bordei 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 bordei 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 bordei tres duodenas de lie pultrie ac pro dictis molendino de Drumgarlocb et terris molendinariis eiusdem tam pro firmis quam pro decimis earundem duodecim bollas farine avenatice quatuor bollas bordei et duodecim capones vel pro qualibet boUa avenarum quadraginta denarios et pro qualibet boUa farine avenatice quinque solidos vel pro qualibet boUa bordei sex solidos et octo denarios vel pro qualibet bo] la tritici decim solidos pro quolibet capone octo denarios pro qualibet pultria sex denarios ad placitum adoptionem voluntatem et arbitrium dicti Jacobi ac sue sponse beredum 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 Craigoycb quatuor libras pro dicto carbonario de Zallowlie sex libras et pro dictis terris de Eistir Dennyne viginti sex bollas farine duodecim bollas bordei duas bollas tritici et duodecim pultrias vel pro qualibet boUa pretium prescriptum ad arbitrium dicti Jacobi et suorum prescriptorum pro dictis terris de Drummorchie quatuor mercas et pro dictis terris de Abbatisbill 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- tbecostes et Sancti Martini in bieme 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 1 At tlie mouth of tlie Girvan, on the north bank, celebrated for its salmon-fishings. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 169 exactione questione demanda seu servitio secular! 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 bereditariam necnon realem actualem et corporalem possessionem omnium et singularum prefatarum Moebrambill 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 G-arvane ac terrarum de Craigoytb cum 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 VOL. I. z Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 170 CHAKTEES OP THE ABBEY OF GROSE AGUEL. effectum suprascripte carte nostre iuste deliberetis et tiaberi faciatis sine dilatione Et hoc nuUo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet nostram plenariam et irrevocabilem tenore presentium com- mittimus potestatem In cuius rei testimoniuna 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 bis testibus Villelmo Hegait notario publico Joanne Eeid Eoberto Dunlop et Koberto Steward. Alanus commendatarius de Crosraguoell. Dominus Michaell Dewae manu propria. Dominus Johannes Mvre iunior manu propria. Dominus Adamws Maxwell manw propria. Dompnus Gilbertus Kenedy manu propria. Absteact. 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 mi;ltures 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, Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE AEBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 171 4 bolls barley, 12 capons, and 1 swine; Balcrystie in fermes and teinds, 56 bolls of oatmeal, 22 bolls of barley, 2 bolls wheat, 2 dozen poultry, etc. ; the fishing on the water of Girvan, paying in fermes and teinds 40s. ; and 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 40 s. ; 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, 15 6-, 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 half 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 Erie of Cassillis Lord Kennedy, etc., 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 Kirkcubrycht with thair teindis fruictis emoliementis profiitts 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 Hand in the Erldome of Carrik and 1 Ouhean Muniments, No. 679. 2 The sucken was the population thirled to the milL Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 172 CHARTEES 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 profiit 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 sail warrand acquiet keip and aganis all deidlie defend but fraude or gyle 1 Waste land. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 173 without ony exceptioun of law cannoun or civile to be proponit or alleffit 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. 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 hy Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scots, to Gilbert Earl of Cassillis of the Abbacy of Crosraguel for 19 years. —\lQth February 1565-6.] ^ Oure Soueranis Lord and Lady ordanis ane Letter to be maid undir the Privie Sell 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 THs appears to have been tlie 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 ^ Cuhean Muniments (Letters). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 174 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. service, quhilk abbay is presentlie vacand ^ in thair hienessis handis Throw deceise of umquhile Quintyne last Abbat thairof, and tbair 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 thankfall 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 etc. 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 ^ Eemittis and dischargeis during all the tyme of this present tak and assedatioun Commanding hir hienes Comp- troilar 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- ^ But we have seen from No. 82 supra that 2 jg-g^ 'j'j s^pra. it was granted to Allan Stewart by Queen Mary ^ >pj^-g -^^^^ ^^ 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). Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 175 saidis promittis to the said Erll That he sail 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 caise this present tat be nocht sufficient securitie upoun the said benefice Thair Majesteis sail reforme the samyn of new gif need be And that the said Letter be extendit in the best forme with all clausis neidfuU Subscrivit be thair Majesteis At Edinburgh the tent day of Februare the yeir of God jm yc ^j^j.g qqqIj. 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. — \?,th June 1566.]^ Per obitum extra curiam Glasguensem. Beatissime pater, cum monasterium Crucis Eegalis alias de Corsregal Cluniacensis ordinis Glasguensis diocesis, quod quondam Quintinus Kennedy * Culzean Muniments, No. 687. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 176 CHARTEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. clericus ex concessione seu dispensatione apostolica in commendam dum viveret obtinebat, commenda huiusmodi per obitum dicti Quintini extra Eomanam curiam de mense Augusti anni Domini millesimi quingentesimi sexagesimi quarti defuncti cessante adhuc 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 earn 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 nunc forsitan et pro tempore obtentis penitus annuls . . . tenendis : Ita quod liceat sibi de fructibus . . . disponere commendare curam ipsius monasterii ac huiusmodi regimen et administration em , 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 Eegina Scotorum et Henricus Eex 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 ver usque et ultimus monasterii predicti vacationis modus, etc., si ex illo quevis generalis reservatio etiam in corpore juris clamei resultet, babe- antur pro expressis seu in toto vel parte exprimi possint et cum clausula Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS 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 coUitigantium, 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 Uteris per obitum apud sedem quatenus defunctus sic obtineret. Datum Eome apud Sanctum Petrum kalendas Junii Anno primo. Dorso — ^ , . Alanus Stewart, etc., per obitum Hatton. 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 bad thus dual capacity as Abbot of Paisley and legatus a been made in the first instance by the Queen, latea-e, and now ratified by the Pope himself in confirmed by Archbishop John Hamilton in his the following year. VOL. I. 2 A Digitized by Microsoft® 178 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 92. Precept of Sasine hy Allan Abbot of Crosraguel for infefting Janet Wallace in certain lands. — [Dated Sth 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 hac parte specialiter constitutis salutem. Quia dedimus concessimus assedavi- mus arrendfivimus 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 keredi- busque suis et assignatis totas et integras quadraginta solidatas terrarum nostrarum de Clonlwickt 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 firmiterc_[ue mandamus quatenus uisis presentibus indUate statum sasinam kereditariam 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 kereditariam ac possessionem corporalem actualem et realem earundem prenominato Willielmo vel suis certis actornatis latoribus presentium secundum tenorem dicte nostre carte quam de nobis iude kabeat iuste kaberi faciatis et deliberetis Et koc nuUo 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 kiis testibus magistro Mickaele Wallace Joanne Ckalmers et Willielmo Kirkpatrik cum diversis aliis. Abstract. Precept of Sasine by Allan, perpetual commendator of tke monastery of Crosraguel, for infefting Janet Wallace in liferent, and William Kirk- patrick ker son, and ber keirs and assignees, in tke forty skilling lands of Clonlickt, of old extent, witk tke pertinents, in tke barony of Crosraguel, 1 Gukean Muniments, No. 715. Compare No. 69 supra. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OP CEOSEAGUEL. 179 earldom of Carrick and sheriffdom of Ayr. Dated at Crosraguel Sth February 1567. 92a. Report on Crosraguel by a Committee of the General Assembly of 1567.— [23d July 1567.] ^ Session 5d. 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, CorsraguelP 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.— I28th April 1568. J* Sederunt Domini Sessionis. At Edinburgh and Glasgw respective the tent and xxij dayis of Aprile respective the yeir of God J™ v<= Ixviij yeiris it is appoyntit aggreit and finalie concordit betwix worschipfuU 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 foUowis 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 Kirh, part ii. p. 104. Marcli 1563-4 he obtained a yearly pension of ^ The ahbey was thus free from the payment £lOO from the Queen's casualties during life, or of the Third of £100, for the non-payment of until he be provided with a benefice of 100 which Abbot Quintin was put to the horn in marks yearly {Reg. Privy Seal, xxxii. 40 ; Epis. 1561 (No. 72a ante). Reg. Scot., ii. 86-7). The valuation in 1562 3 The minister of Faill at this time was vfas £184 : 6 : 8 {Book of Assumptions). Robert Cunningham, a natural son of William * Register of Deeds, etc. {Scott. Office), vol. 9, Earl of Glencairn, who was appointed in 1540 fol. 299. on the death of John Hamilton. On the 6th 6 V. No. 80. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 180 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. hundreth pundis usuale money of this realme to be yeirlie uptaikin be him his servandis and faetouris 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 fuUilie proportis Hes gevin grantit and committit and be the tennour heirof gevis grantis and committis to the said Maister AUane full power libertie and fredome to intromett be him his servandis chalmerlanis and faetouris 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] fuUelie possest and placeit in the said abbay and half 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 sail half 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 sail content pay and thankfuUie 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 Tlie agricultural service at seedtime and harvest. 2 The carriage required for the house. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. 181 dayis nixt efter ilk terme In that cais the said Maister George sail 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 faythfuUie to uthiris be thir presentis and ar content that this present contract be actit and registrat in the builds 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 Eichart Strang Alexander Mauchane and ilk ane of thame conjunctlie and severallie thair verry lauchfuU 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 wdtnes 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 SpreuU of Caldoun George Galbrayth Maister Thomas Buchquhanane and Johne Reid with uthiris dyvers Sic subscribitur Allane commendator de Corsragwall. James Stewart 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 182 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. of £500 from ttie 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. — [2Uh January 1569.] ^ James be the grace of God King of Scottis To cure lovittis Andro Bannatyne Oure sherefEs 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 home ffor arte and parte of the slauchteris of umquhHe 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^ Ixviij yeiris lies 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 home as our utheris lettres of his relaxatioun deulie exe- cute and indorsat beris gif swa be Oure will is heirfoir and we charge yow ^ Culzean Muniments, No. 737. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES 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 commend ator 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 home 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 dayof.Januar and of regnne the thrid yeir. Ex deliberatione dominorum consilij, etc. J. Bannatyne. Absteact. 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 184 CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 95. Renunciation hy James Stewart to Allan Abbot of Crosraguel. — {^thMay 1569.]' I James Stewart of Cardonald grantis ine to half resavet ane fyfe yere tak ^ selit and subscrivit be AUane commendator of Corsraguell of all and haill the spirituall and temporal! landis of the samyn bayth personag and vicarag daitit at Cardonald the xx day of November the yere of God f^ v° Ixv yeiris nochtwithstanding I rennnce 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. (il P^y^ c^CCiy^—;^ Abstract. Eenunciation 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 15 6-, in favour of James ^ No. 86 supra. TMs would indicate that Stewart, were signed in 1565. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 185 96. Instrument of Resignation hy James Stewart. — [18^^ August 1569.]^ Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono die vero mensis Angusti decimo octauo Eegnique Supremi domini Eegis 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 nee errore lapsus nee 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 siiccessouris 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 audit schilling land and iiijd worthe callit Frissellistoun occupiit be Thomas Makcatherie the fyfe schilliug 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 petiit instru- menta publica vnum aut plura Acta erant hec infra burgum de Irwin horam circiter primam post meridiem coram hiis testibus Waltero Kennedie de Knokdone Fergutio Kennedie eius fratre Patricio Hammiltoun de Bogesyde Eoberto Stewart filio dicti Jacobi Johanne Keid eius seruo et Johanne 1 Culzean Muniments, No. 729. ^ By charter No. 88, supra. VOL. I. 2 B Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 186 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. Grahame burgensi [de] Glasgow et Georgio Angus notario publico ac meo coUega 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 boo presens publicum instrumentum manu mea propria fideliter scriptum exinde confeci et in banc 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 Nasmyth notarius publicus. Abstract. Notarial Instrument of Eesignation made by James Stewart of Car- donald, whereby be 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 sherifi'dom 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 hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat euidenter et sit notum quod anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quingen- tesimo sexagesimo nono et regni supremi domini nostri Eegis tertio die 1 Cuhean Muniments, 'So. 731. Digitized by Microsoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSEAGUEL. 187 primo mensis Septembris In mei notarii public! et testium subscriptorum presentia personaliter constitutus bonorabilis vir Dauid Kennedy de Penny- glen presentanit ad manus honesti sui semi Thome Or balliui in hac parte venerabilis in Christo patris Alani permissione diuina perpetui commendatarii Crucis Regalis qnoddam 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 illi decuit illudque mihi notario publico subscripto tradidit perlegendum examplandum et in banc 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 cuUibet 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 Baiters- 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 cuUibet nostram plenariam et irre- vocabilem tenore presentium committimus potestatem In cuius rei testi- monium presentibus manu nostra ac mauualibus 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 annul canonis sive census per tres terminos sic quod Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 188 CHARTEKS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSEAGUEL. duo termini currunt in tertium terminum insoluti tunc in eo casu presens infeodatio et ad feodifirmam dimissio nuUis sit robor vel momenti Coram his testibus Gavino Grahame Joanne Grabame Roberto Stewart et Joanne Eeid 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 triummercatarum terrarum de Baltarssane cum domibus hortis pomariis petie prati totius et integre vne mercate terre de Knokronnald decem solidatarum terrarum de Chalmerstoun decern 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 circa presentibus ibidem Donaldo Kennedy molo Joanne M'llwrayth 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSRAGUEL. 189 omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur dieerentur 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 hoc presens publicum instrumentum manu propria fideliter scriptum exinde confeci et in hanc 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 Pennygien, 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 shilling 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 hy Allan Abhot of Crosraguel to David Kennedy of Balserroch, of certain lands in the Regality of the Abbey. — [isi September 1569.]^ Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Alanus permissione divina commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Eegalis salutem in Domino sempiternam Quia huius regni reges diversi in parliamentis suis cum tribus regni sui statibus terris regis prelatorum dominorum temporalium comitum baronum ceterorumque huiusmodi terras hereditarie possidentium in emphi- ^ Culzean Muniments, No. 732. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 190 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. teosim sen 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 buiusmodi terrarum sic in empbiteosim sen 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 boc capitulariter congregatos diligentibus tractatibus et maturis deliberationibus prebabitis 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 Balserrocb ^ ad reparationem dicti nostri monasterii exj)onendarum per soluta de qua tenemus nos bene contentos pacatos et solutos dictumque Davidem beredes suos et assignatos pro nobis et successoribus nostris de eadem exoneravimus imperpetuum per tenorem presentis carte nostre Nec- non pro ipsius Davidis auxilio nobis boc tempore plusquam periculoso in singulis vite nostre necessariis prestito et impenso dedisse concessisse ar- rendasse locasse et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim pro perpetuo dimisisse et bac presenti carta nostra confirmasse necnon dare concedere arrendare locare et ad feudifirmam seu empbiteosim pro perpetuo dimittere et bac presenti carta nostra confirmare memorato Davidi Kennedie et beredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu procreandis quibus deficientibus Willelmo Kennedie in Brunstoun suo fratri naturali et beredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis quibus deficien- tibus Jacobo Kennedie filio naturali dicti Willielmi et beredibus masculis de corpore suo legitime procreandis quibus deficientibus beredibus dicti Dauidis quibuscunque totas et integras nostras quadraginta sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Balserocb et Slabracban viginti solidatas 1 Half-way between Girvan and Kirkoswald. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEKS 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 Carrie 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 serviciis et devoriis usitatis et consuetis persolverint annuatim in omnibus suis proficiis et nostra rental! ad eandem extendunt Tenendas et habendas totas et integras prenominatas quadraginta sex solidatas et octo denariatas terrarum de Balserraucb et Slabrachan et viginti solidatas terrarum de Litil- toun cum singulis suis pertinentiis dicto Davidi Kennedie et beredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreatis vel procreandis et ceteris beredibus 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 cuuiculis cuniculariis fabrilibus brasinis brueriis et genestis silvis nemoribus et virgultis cum curiis et earum exitibus herezeldis bludewitis et mulierum mercbetis 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 tarn non nominatis quam nominatis tam subtus terra quam suj)ra terram procul et prope ad predictas terras cum singulis earundem pertinentiis spectan- tibus seu iu.ste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento revocatione aut contradictione quacunque Eeddendo inde annuatim dictus David Kennedie et beredes sui masculi de corpore suo legitime procreati vel procreandi et ceteri beredes masculi prescript! respective nobis et successoribus nostris nostro- rumve camerariis et factoribus pro predictis quadraginta sex solidatis et octo denariatis terrarum de Balserracb et Slabrachan cum suis pertinentiis summam quatuor Ubrarum 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 Eeddendo inde annuatim pro prescriptis viginti solidatis terrarum de Litiltoun cum suis pertinentiis memoratus David Kennedie et Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 192 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. teredes sui antedicti nobis et successoribus nostris predictis summam quad- raginta solidorum monete predict! 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 liieme per equales portiones nomine annualis redditus feudifirme necnon dictus David et beredes sui masculi prescript! solvendi molendinis nostris dicti monaster!! 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 beredes 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 Balserrocb et Slabracban viginti solidatas terrarum de Litiltoun antiqui extentus cum singulis eorundem pertinentiis memorato Davidi Kennedie et beredibus masculis suis respective prescriptis in omnibus et per omnia forma jaariter 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 bac parte specialiter constitutis salutem vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet stricte precipimus et mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum et sasinam bereditariam necnon realem actualem et corporalem possessionem totarum et integrarum predictarum quadraginta sex solidatarum et octo denariatarum terrarum de Balsiraucb et Slabracban ac viginti solidatarum terrarum de Litiltoun cum singulis suis pertinentiis memorato Davidi Kennedie et beredibus masculis suis respective prescriptis vel suis certis actornatis latoribus seu latori presentium secundum vim formam et tenorem suprascripte carte nostre iuste deliberetis et baberi faciatis sine dilatione et hoc nuUo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in bac 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 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGUEL. 193 nostri est appensum apud MayboU die mensis primo Septembris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono coram hiis testibus Jacobo Steuart de Cardonald Eoberto Stewart suo filio et Joanne Grabame. Allan? commend atarius de Crosraguall. Dompnus Johannes Mure junior manu propria. Dompnus Michael Dewar manu propria. Dompnus Adamus Maxwell manu propria. Dompnus Duncanus M'Kenyne manu propria. Dompnus Johannes Brvce manu propria. Dompnus Gilbert us Kennedy manu propria. Apud Edinburgh octavo Januarii anno Domini j™ v° 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 VOL. I. 2 G Digitized by Microsoft® 194 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSRAGUEL. 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. Cliarter by Allan Abbot of Crosraguel to William Kennedy of Brunston, of certain lands in the Regality of the Abbey. — [1st September 1569.]^ Omnibus banc cartam visuris vel audituris AUanus permissione divina Commendatarius perpetuus monasterii Crucis Eegalis 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 Cukedn Muniments, No. 733. Digitized by Microsoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 195 saluti apprime proficere Et nos scientes statuta et legis prescripborum 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 clilectum nostrum Willielmum Kennedy^ in Bruns- toun ^ ad reparationem dicti nostri monasterii exponendarum et persolutarum de qua tenemus nos bene contentos placatos et solutos dictumque Willelmum beredes 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 coneessisse 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 spouse 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 1 These Kennedies of the smaller holdings ruins are still to be seen. It has the appearance appear to have done yeoman service in the of having been defended by a moat. The family defence of the Abbey against its enemies. of Kennedy of Brunston was of no great account. 2 Brunston stood on a gentle knoll on the ^ xhe annual cutting of the wood ; from the north of the Girvan, near Dalquharran, and the Old Scotch hag, to out. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 196 CHARTEES 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 confixmasse, ut predicitur, memorato Willelmo Kennedy et heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreandis quibus deficientibus omnibus beredibus masculis respective et successive prescriptis totas et integras nostras duas marcatas terrarum de QuarrelHll ^ et quinque solidatas terrarum de Glenord antiqui extentus occupatas tempore confectionis presentium per dictum Willelmum et suos subtenentes que omnes predicte terra extendunt ad novem marcatas terrarum cum singulis suis pertinentiis iacentes in parocbia de Baling 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 babendas totas et integras prenominatas sex mercatas octo solidatas et quatuor denariatas terrarum vocatarum Manis de Brunstoun cum manerie fortalicio pomeriis bortis 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 beredibus masculis dicti Willelmi de corpore suo legitime procreandis et ceteris beredibus masculis respective et successive prescriptis Necnon dictas duas marcatas terrarum de Quarrelbill 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 calce cum curiis et earum exitibus berezeldis bludewetis et mulierum mercbetis 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 tarn subtus terra quam supra terram procul et prope ad prefatas terras spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus quomodolibet in futurum libere quiete plenarie integre ' One mile north-west of Dalquharran. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 197 honorifice bene et in pace sine aliquo impedimento revocatione contradic- tione aut obstaculo aliquali Eeddendo 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 camerariis 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 necnon 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 fortahcio 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 efi'ectu 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. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 198 CHAETERS OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. bimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus Insuper dilectis nostris Alexandre Kennedy et eorum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in hac parte specialiter constitutis salutem Vobis precipinms et mandamus quatenus visis presentibus indilate statum sasinam hereditariam pariterque possessionem corporalem actiialem 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 mode 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 terrariim respective ut moris est traditionem secundum tenorem prescripte carte iuste tradatis et deliberetis et boc nullo modo omittatis Ad quod faciendum nobis et vestrum cuilibet coniunctim et divisim ballivis nostris in bac 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 Eoberto Stewart sue filio et Joanne Grahame. Allanus commendatarius de Crosragviall. Dompnus Johannes Mvee iunior manu propria. Dompnus Michaell Dewae manu propria. Dompnus Adamus Maxwell manu propria. Dompnus Dunganus M'Kenyne manu propria. Dompnus Johannes Bevce manu propria. Dompnus Gilbertus Kennedy manu propria. Apud Edinburgh octavo Januarii anno Domini j™ v'= sexagesimo nono. Productum coram dominis commissariis. Hewatt. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF GEOSEAGUEL. 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 o-iving 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, Eobert Stewart his son, and John Grahame. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® 200 CHARTEES OF THE ABBEY OF CROSRAGUEL. 100. Discharge by George Buchanan to the Earl of Cassillis. — \l2th 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 thankfuU 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 sail 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 Glasgw the xij day of September the yeir of God J™ v"^ 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. V . B H(marui^__ 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 ao-ainst the earl. Dated 12th September 1569. 1 Gukean Muniments, No. 735. transferred to tlie Earl. 2 By charter No. 90, supra. The rights s j^ virtue of the succeeding contract, No. granted to Abbot Allan by No. 93 had thus been 101. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® END OF VOL. I. OF THE CHAETEES OF THE ABBEY OF CEOSEAGITEL. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® \ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by IVIicrosoft® n Digitized by Microsoft®