3. OTHER SEALS 'Black' John Comyn, A.D. c. 1273 to c. 1303. 31. Three garbs; a star of six points in chief. Legend, +SIGILLVM: IOHANNIS : CVMIN. Beaded borders. 1 inches. Nos. CVIII. and CIX. Facsimile No. 21. S.A.S. 580. Diameter Mariota, daughter and coheir of Malmoran de Glencharny, wife of Nevin MacEwyn, A.D. 1365. 32. A shield bearing impaled arms. Dexter, Three birds in pale. Sinister, A chevron. Palm branches at top and sides of shield. Legend,+S' MARIOTE DE GLENCHARNIE. Beaded borders. Diameter 14 inches. 16 No. CXXXV. Facsimile No. 27. S.A.S. 1061. Tristram, early 13th century; ancestor of the De Gorthy family. 33. A Quatrefoil, seeded-not on a shield. Legend, SIGILL' TRISTRAM FILII AVICIE. Beaded borders. Oval 141×11 inches. No. XXVI. Facsimile No. 8. 5 For later Gorthy seals, see S.A.S., and plate in Fittis' Sketches of the Olden Times in Perthshire, 1878. Gilbert de Haya, third Lord of Erroll, A.D. c. 1240 to c. 1264. 34. Three escutcheons. Legend, SIGILL' GILEBERTI DE LA. HAYE. Beaded borders. Diameter 1 inches. No. LXVIII. S.A.S. 1266. This is the earliest known seal of the Scottish Hays. Donald de Yle, Lord of the Isles, A.D. 1388 to 1420. 35. Couché. A lymphad surmounted of an eagle, all within a bordure flory for a royal tressure. Crest, on a helmet with coronet, an eagle head between two wings. Supporters, two lions rampant crowned. Ornament of foliage at sides. Legend, Sigillum donaldi de ple/domini in[sularum]. Carved borders. Diameter 111 inches. No. CXLIII. S.A.S. 1794. Gilchrist, son of Malcolm Macnauchtan, A.D. c. 1247. 36. A bend, surmounted in chief of a label of five points. Legend, S' GILECRIST MACNACHTEN. Beaded borders. Diameter 13 inches. No. LXXIV. Facsimile No. 18. S.A.S. 1843. Ath, son of Malcolm Macnauchtan, A.D. 1257. 37. A wyvern contourné-not on a shield. Legend, on a raised band, S.' AVTH. MACONAVTHAN. Diameter 1 Robert de Meggefen, c. A.D. 1230. inches. 38. On a dexter canton a lion passant. Legend, . ERTI DE ME Diameter 11 inches. No. LVII. S.B.S. 1926. Robert de Mekven, lord of that ilk, A.D. 1443/4. 39. A bend sinister between three crosses pattée in dexter chief and a saltire couped in sinister base. Legend, S. robertí. de mekfen. Diameter inches. 1 No. CXLV. Facsimile No. 28. S.A.S. 1927. Thebald, son of William son of Clement, c. A.D. 1230. [His son Lucas styles himself 'filius Thebaldi de Petlandy,' Nos. CV. and CVI.]. 40. A fleur de lis-not on a shield. Legend, +SIGILL' TERALDI. Diameter 11 inches. в No. LVI. Facsimile No. 15. Paton Young, burgess of Perth, A.D. 1439. 41. Two hoes in saltire between three crescents, two in flanks and one in base. Legend, S. patrici. phung. Diameter No. CXLIV. inches. APPENDIX II THE ABBEY LANDS By J. MAITLAND THOMSON The accompanying map is intended to represent the district as it was during the existence of the Abbey. The place-names which are undated occur before 1300; to those which occur first between 1300 and 1500 the date, exact or approximate, of the earliest occurrence is added; the date 1560 appended to others indicates that they appear for the first time in documents of the age of the Reformation. The following remarks are confined to the temporal possessions of Inchaffray: as to the churches, nothing needs to be added to the Introduction. 3 The flat, alluvial plain, gradually narrowing towards its lower end, which is now traversed by the railway from Perth to Crieff, was in the middle ages a swamp,1 through which wound a slow running stream then known as the Peferin. A few patches of land rising a little above the general level formed islands. Such presumably were Inchiviot, the wood of which is still commemorated in the modern name Woodend; and Inchneath, lower down the valley, of which all memory seems to have perished. Such at any rate was the spot, about halfway down the valley and close to its southern edge, which, as its name shows, was set apart for Christian worship from before the dawn of record. Being reckoned part of the shire' of Fowlis, it was subject ecclesiastically to the Bishop of Dunblane, politically to the Earl of Strathearn. In the times of pure Celticism the religious community had, so far as appears, no territorial possessions outside their 'island'; but on occasion of the dedication of their chapel 4 they received from the earl three acres of land in Fowlis, on the north edge of the marsh, to which, the hermits had access by a channel cut for the passage of small boats. This croft, extended no doubt by gradual clearing of wood and reclaiming of waste, grew into the Brewland of 1445,6 and the Calsayend of the sixteenth century. Even in 14908 it could not conveniently be reached from the abbey except by boat. This was the only land given to the community by the earl in Fowlis, though they received several detached possessions there from his vassals as will appear further on. When the time came for the erection of Inchaffray into a House of Canons Regular, the extensive estates 1 The railway is the first highway which ever traversed the valley. The macadamised roads have always kept to the higher ground on the north or south. 2 The name is preserved in Innerpeffray at its mouth. 3 Nos. III. and XXXVII. 4 No. IX. Cp. the gift of the land to the church of Aberuthven in dotem, mentioned in No. III. 7 Appendix, No. XI. For the origin of this name, see No. CXXXVIII., note. 8 No. CLI. 9 Except the gift to the canons of the portion of the marsh which they had themselves reclaimed (No. XXXVII.). |