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the Rennarius witnesses No. LVI., Master H., son of Tristram, witnesses No. LVII. with Tristram de Gortin, and the identification of these brothers is perfected in the testing clause of No. LVIII. Tristram de Gortin appears alone in Nos. 1.XXIII., LXXIV., LXXVI. (1247), again in Nos. xcvi., XCIX. (1271), cvi.

The same name appears in 1365 (No. cxxxv.), in 1454 (No. CXLIX.), when we have Gorty of that ilk, and we learn from the decree of Bishop Robert in 1461 that a previous Tristram de Gorty had granted a mortuarium of one hundred shillings.

In 1507 Gorthy was erected into a barony, and the then Tristram was a tenant in chief of the king probably as of the earldom. Such was the origin of a gentle family whose possessions passed with an heiress to the Lundies and through the Murrays to the Grahams of Gorthie.1

LOVETOFT.

It appears from Charter Lv. that Nigel de Lutoft, probably identical with Nigel de Dolpatrick of 1200 (No. Ix.), granted six acres in Dolpatrick to Inchaffray in the time of Earl Robert. Sir Roger de Lovetoft witnessed Charters LVI. and LVII. of the same period. And William de Louetoft was a witness for Earl Malise, No. LXXXVIII. (1258).

There was an important family in the earldom of Huntingdon named Louetoft, descending in two lines, which both ended in heiresses, from William, who founded the Priory of Worksop. There can be little doubt that this Strathern family came from a cadet of the Huntingdon family, who obtained by grant or marriage the lands of Dolpatrick. The English pedigrees do not identify such a cadet, but the names William, Nigel, and Roger appear in both.

Richard de Lovetoft, Lord of Worksop, son of William, is

See the account of the barony of Gorthie in Fittis's Sketches of the Olden Times in Perthshire.

stated by Philpot, Somerset Herald, to have had two younger sons, Richard and Walter.

There was a Roger de Lovetoft sheriff of Nottingham in 1257-8.1 And the confirmation of the founder's charter by his son Richard is witnessed by Henry and Radulf de Luvetot.2

Louttitt, a name now existing in Scotland, may be a derivative. Loutfute appears in Drummond Charters.

See further under Meckfen, a comparison with which suggests that Soliva, wife of Robert de Meggefen, was daughter of Sir Roger de Luvetoft and that he was son of Nigel.

MACNAUGHTEN.

Gilchrist, son of Malcolm MacNathen, granted the advowson of the church of St. Mordac of Kellemurche or Kelmorch to Inchaffray by two charters of about the same date, for the witnesses are the same. In the former (No. LXXIII.) the gift takes effect from the death of the clerk, not mentioned in the second. But the true reason for the second charter may have been the desire or necessity of obtaining episcopal sanction, and the second charter states that the Seal of the Bishop of Dunblane is procured, he being a custodian of the see of Argyll. Therefore Kellmurche is now Kilmorich in Argyll, and we have a Papal Brief by Innocent Iv. commissioning the Bishops of Glasgow and Dunblane to attend to the matter of the vacancy of the diocese of Argyll, which had lasted seven years. The brief is dated 10 Kal. Jan. a.p. vi. Dec. 23, 1248. Gilchrist mentions his wife Bethok, and his charters are witnessed by the late earl's uncle, Tristram de Gorthie and

1 Bain, i. 2099-2105.

2 Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, vi., under 'Workesop.' See also Dugdale's Baronage, i. 569.

3 Cf. the endorsement of the earlier given in facsimile.

+ This Pope did not always adopt the same date for the commencement of the year.

Theiner, 52; Papal Letters, i. 251.

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William, son of Hauok. The charters indicate that he was of baronial rank. The ancient seat of the Macnaughtons was Dundaraw in Kilmorich parish.1

In the year 1257 Ath, a brother of Gilchrist, granted the church of St. Findoc at Inchealt, in the diocese of Argyll, with the consent of Sir Gilbert his brother, who witnessed Earl Malise's charter of Cortachy (No. LXXXVI.), no doubt the eldest of the brothers (No. LXXXV.).

It appears from the Taxt Roll of the lordship of Inchaffray that there was in 1630 a Macnaughten who rented the teinds of Kilmorich or Kirkmoriche, then estimated to be worth £66, 13s. 4d.; and the following entry appears to relate to Inchealt or Incheall, the proprietor being Patrick M'Kairtour of Tullievodiche. These teinds are stated to be then worth £233, 6s. 8d.

The teinds of Kilmoriche were leased to Alexander Macnaughton, March 4, 1618, at Edinburgh, and those of Inchald to Patrick M'Arthur of Torradithe on the same date by the commendator, Lord Madertie, all the canons being dead.

MEKFEN.

Robert de Meggefen granted two tofts and four acres in Dolpatrick, otherwise Kenandheni (No. LVII.), with consent of Soliva his wife and their children, confirmed by Earl Robert (No. LVIII.). This suggests that the lands belonged to Soliva, and that she was the representative of Nigel de Dolpatrick, witness to Earl Gilbert's charter of foundation and to that earl's confirmation of Tristram de Gorthie's charter (No. XXVII.). The sons of Robert and Soliva were Philip and Robert (No. LVII.).

Roger Mekfen, knight, was a witness to the charter of Abercairny by Earl Malise to John de Moravia with Maria the earl's daughter.3

1 Orig. Par. Scotia, ii. 84. 2 Lib. Ins. Miss., 116. 3 Ibid., App. XLII.

Roger de Mekven of that ilk granted the lands of Carnbo. He was probably grandson of Robert. His charter (No. CXXXVI.) is witnessed by a son William.

Robert de Mekven of that ilk granted his Brewland of Mekven with pasture for twenty cows, sixty sheep, and two horses, etc., at Perth, March 9, 1443-4. The same land was granted to the abbey by James II. in 1450, on the resignation of Andrew Toische (No. CXLVII.); indicating that between 1444 and 1450 the property of the de Mekvens had passed (perhaps with an heir-female) to the Toshachs of Monzievaird, who possessed the lands of Mekven in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

PETLANDY.

Theobald, son of William, son of Clement, granted Charter I.VI., witnessed by his brother Walter Clement. It would appear that the name of the ancestor was the surname of this family, for it will be observed that Earl Robert's charter, No. LV., is witnessed by W. Clement. Theobald granted to the abbey a toft of six perches long and six wide with two acres in his ville of Petlandy in the field (presumably tilled in runrig) called Fitheleres flat, with common pasture for eight cows, sixty sheep, and two horses. This interesting grant indicates the wealth that might attach in 1230 to a small toft. The grant was confirmed with definition of the boundaries by Luke, son of Theobald, c. 1272 (No. c.), who also confirmed as superior a gift by Bricius de Ardrossan (Nos. c. and ci.). Luke granted two further charters, one of a croft and toft near his house. And now the surname of Petlandy taken from the property is assumed (Nos. cv. and VI.).1

1 Theobald de Foglais or Fowlis may be the Dispensarius of Charter XXXIX., for Petlandy lies close to Fowlis.

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DE QUINCY.

Of the origin of the de Quincys we have no satisfactory information. One of the most diligent and, in our opinion, the most accurate of English Heralds-John Philpot, Somerset Herald-records that Saher de Quincy, son of another Saher, married Matilda de St. Liz, and had a son Robert, who was father of Saher, created Earl of Winchester. Matilda would be doubtless a connection by marriage of Queen Matilda, and a son of hers, a likely companion of David, Prince of Cumbria, afterwards king. The said son Robert married Orabilis (daughter of Nes, son of William), and by her had issue the future earl. We learn from the Bull of Pope Innocent (No. xxi.), that the late Orable granted eight acres in Gask to Inchaffray before 1203; and from No. XXXVIII. that Earl Saher granted ten acres and pasture in the common pasture of Gask for ten cows. Unfortunately we have not found the original of this charter, and the witnesses are not recorded in the Register, but the public life of Earl Saher indicates the period between May 1217 and the spring of 1219 as the probable date, for in that year he joined the Crusade, and died in November at Damietta. We infer, therefor, that the grant by Earl Saher was in addition to, perhaps in substitution for, that of his mother, and that he had succeeded to Gask in her right. This further grant was confirmed by Roger the earl's son (No. XLII.).

It is, of course, well known that Saher de Quincy, who, or his grandfather, had lands at Colum, in the Honour of Eye, granted in 1175-6,2 married Margaret de Beaumont, younger sister and co-heir of Robert, Earl of Leicester. It was in consequence of his wife's succession to a share of the vast estates of Beaumont

1 Ascelina, daughter or step-daughter of Saher, held land in Northampton. -Bain, i. 218.

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