Rege et antecessoribus suis ante dictam resignacionem nobis factam liberius tenuit seu possedit tenuerunt seu possiderunt Faciendo dicto domino nostro Regi et heredibus suis predicti Alexander et Elizabetht. et eorum diucius viuens ac heredes sui predicti de dictis baronijs et terris cum pertinencijs ⚫ seruicia debita et consueta. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre sigillum officij nostri apponi precepimus Testibus reuerendis in Xpo patribus Henrico Sancti Andree. Roberto Dunkeldensis. Gilberto Abirdonensis cancellario Scocie Johanne Morauiensis ecclesiarum episcopis carissimo fratre nostro Waltero comite Atholie et Catanie Roberto Senescalli de Fyfe nepote nostro Johanne Senescalli comite de Buchane camerario Scocie filio nostro carissimo. Henrico de Sancto Claro comite Orcadie. Willelmo domino de Grahame Johanne Senescalli de Lorne et Georgio de Lesly de Fythkill militibus consanguineis nostris dilectis Apud Perth vicesimo die mensis Julij anno Dominj millesimo ccccmo. Octauo Et gubernacionis nostre anno Tercio . Instrumentum super compositione de terris de Ryny Dunbannane. Drumdelgy Rothwen et Butharry inter Davidem episcopum Moraviensem et Alexandrum comitem de Huntlie (A.D. 1464.) . 1 In Dei nomine Amen. Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat evidenter quod anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo ⚫ pontiquarto mensis vero Maii die vicesimo. Indictione duodecima ficatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri Domini Pij divina disponente clementia Pape secundi anno sexto. In reverendi in Christo patris et domini mei Domini Davidis Dei et apostolice sedis gratia Episcopi Moraviensis testiumque infrascriptorum presentia ac mei notarii publici presentia personaliter constitutus magnificus et prepotens dominus Dominus Alexander comes de Huntlie et dominus de Baydenacht deliberatione ad memoriam reducens exposuit qualiter inter prefatum reverendum in Christo patrem nomine ecclesie sue ac ipsum exponentem quedam controversia sive debata penes solutionem certe annue firme seu annui redditus septem librarum sex solidorum et octo denariorum sterlingorum legalium de terris de Ryny Dunbannane. Drumdelgy⚫ Rothwen et Butharry⚫ ecclesie et episcopo Moraviensi annuatim debitorum videlicet pro terra que dicitur ecclesie de Ryny trium marcarum pro terra que dicitur ecclesie de Dun 1 [From the Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, pp. 230-232.] carum. et ad diffiniendam et am etiam affirmabat quomodo bannane duarum marcarum • pro terra que dicitur ecclesie de Drumdelgy duarum marcarum • pro terra que dicitur ecclesie de Rothwen duarum maret pro terra dicitur ecclesie de Butharry duarum marcarum ut que idem dominus Episcopus asseruit fuerat exorta putandam controversiam hujusmodi comparuit per venerabiles in Christo patres Johannem de Elleme permissione divina monasterii de Kinlos abbatem ac Willelmum eadem permissione Vallis Sancti Andree de Pluscardyn priorem et discretum virum magistrum Ricardum de Forbes decanum Aberdonensem prelibati reverendi in Christo patris nuncios. nec non venerabilem in Christo patrem Davidem de Monymwsk priorem ac alios honorabiles viros Murdacum Glastyr de Glak ac Thomam de Forbes de Auchynchampir per ipsum exponentem nuncios seu procuratores ad hoc specialiter constitutos jura et documenta prefate ecclesie et Episcopi Moraviensis ipsas terras ac solutionem hujusmodi annui redditus seu annue firme singulis annis exinde solvendi seu solvende concernentia ac in registro predicte ecclesie Moraviensis conscripta visa lecta considerata discussa sibique per prefatos exposita et per eum intellecta fuerunt quorum vigore et in honorem Summe Trinitatis ac alme matris ecclesie prefatique domini Episcopi solutioni dicti annui redditus seu annue firme singulis annis de predictis terris plenarie solvendi aut solvende prout in prefatis juribus et documentis in dicto registro scriptis continetur voluit parere et eundem solvere cum effectu promisit. Quibus perlatis idem dominus Comes discooperto capite ac genuflexo coram eodem domino Episcopo existens et sedens ipsum dominum Episcopum humiliter ac instantissime requisivit et rogavit ut ipsum rogantem et predecessores suos ab omnibus et singulis sententiis et censuris ecclesiasticis contra ipsos ob non solutionem prefati annui redditus seu annue firme priscis elapsis temporibus latis si que fuerint promittendo quod eundem de cetero fideliter solveret ac in quantum non solutum absolvere et dimittere de gratia speciali dignaretur. Prelibatus vero dominus Episcopus humilem ejus requisitionem attendens ipsiusque precibus favorabiliter inclinatus hujusmodi annuum redditum seu annuam firmam elapsis temporibus de prenominatis terris non solutum seu solutam remisit et ipsum dictum Comitem et suos predecessores ab omnibus et singulis sententiis et censuris ecclesiasticis contra prefatum dominnm Comitem et suos predecessores ob non solutionem dicti annui redditus seu annue firme latis. quantum de jure potuit et debuit absolvit et absolutum ac absolutos solempniter denunciavit osculo pacis subsecuto. Quibus completis supra dictus dominus Comes dimidium nobile Anglicanum et unum grossum duodecim denariorum argenti usualis monete regni Scocie prelibato domino Episcopo ejus nomine et ecclesie sue in signum recompensationis solutionis preterite predicti annui redditus seu annue firme dedit et deliberavit et hujusmodi dimidium nobile et grossum nomine quo supra dictus Episcopus recepit De et super quibus omnibus et singulis prelibatus dominus Episcopus a me notario publico subscripto sibi unum vel plura publicum seu publica instrumentum vel instrumenta fieri petiit. Acta erant hec in ecclesia cathedrali Moraviensi in capella Beati Nicholaii ejusdem sub anno mense die indictione et pontificatu suprascriptis Presentibus ibidem Et ego Andreas de Fores presbyter Moraviensis dioceseos publicus auctoritate Imperiali notarius quia [etc.] THE PARISH OF HUNTLY; OR THE UNITED PARISHES OF DUNBENNAN AND KYNOR. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARISHES OF DUMBENNAN AND KINORE.1 N the parish of Dumbennan is the Castle of Strathbogy,2 Strathbogy was of old divided into forty-eight davachs, each containing as much as four ploughs (each having four or five yoke of oxen) could till in a year. But now, the wood being cut down, the arable land is more than double. The church of Kinore was dedicated to Saint Mungo, and 1 [From a MS. Account of Scotish Bishops, in the library at Slaines. "Huntly is the modern name of the parish, which consisted formerly of two distinct parishes, both served by one parson. The name of the one was Dumbennan; of the other Kinore: they were united by a decree of the lords of session and plantation of kirks, and called the parish of Huntly, and a place of worship erected centrical to both in the year 1727." (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xi., pp. 467, 468. Edinb. 1794.)] 2 ["Near the town are the ruins of Huntly Castle. On the avenue that leads to it are two large square towers, which had defended the gateway. Great part of the castle seems to be very old, and is nearly demolished; but there is a massy building of a more modern date, in which some of the apartments, and, in particular, their curious ceilings, are still preserved pretty entire. They are painted with a great variety of subjects, in small divi here is Saint Mungo's [hill, with Saint Mungo's well.] This Saint is said to have been the son of Eugene III., King of Scotland, and of Saint Thenaw, daughter to Loth, King of Picts; and to have been bred under Saint Serf, then abbot of the Culdees at Culross. The Aberdeen Breviary says his father was Eugenius Ewfwren', King of Cumberland. He had the misfortune to be born in fornication; but, long after, out of reverence to him, it began to be reported that his mother was not unmarried only, but also a virgin. The Aberdeen Breviary says that his grandfather, King Loth, commanded his mother and her child to be drowned, and so put them into an old leaky boat, which, however, having set sail from Lothian, arrived safe at Culross, where a chappel to Saint Mungo was afterward built. After this, it seems, his mother led such a penitent and exemplary life sions: a few lines of poetry underneath each describe the subject of the piece. In the chamber which was appointed for a chapel, the parables and other sacred subjects are represented in the same style." (Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a series of letters to Thomas Pennant, esqr., by the reverend Charles Cordiner, minister of St. Andrew's chapel, Bamff, pp. 9, 10. Lond. 1780. 4to.) 66 Nigh to the bridge of Doveron stand the remains of Huntly Castle, which still afford a striking proof of the grandeur and hospitality of that ancient family, though one part only of the original plan seems to have been completed. On the north front are the arms of the family, cut in stone, with the names of the builder, George Gordon, first Marquis of Huntly, and Henrietta Stuart, first Marchioness of Huntly, and the date 1602. A spacious turnpike stair leads to what has been a very grand hall, and still bears the marks of splendour and magnificence. Its length is about forty-three feet; its breadth, twenty-nine; and its height, sixteen. There is another grand apartment immediately over this, thirtyseven feet in length, and twenty-nine in breadth. The chimneys of both are highly ornamented with curious sculpture of various figures, which, considering the inattention paid to this once magnificent fabric, are still in a tolerable state of preservation, and must attract the observation of any one who has a taste for ancient sculpture. The thickness of the wall admits of several small closets; and, in the upper apartments, there are large bow windows, a little projected from the surface of the wall, fronting the south. Indeed, most of the apartments are still in tolerable preservation, particularly the ceilings, which are ornamented with a great variety of paintings in small divisions, containing many emblematical figures, with verses, expressive of some moral sentiment, in doggerel rhime. On the avenue which leads to the castle, there are two square towers, which had defended the gateway, and which the writer has seen adorned with the arms of the family, cut out in stone, in the front of the wall adjoining each tower, in good repair. The hewn stone of the windows and corners has been taken out, and applied to ignoble purposes." (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xi. pp. 477, 478.)] 1 ["In the parish of Kinore there is a hill called St. Mungo, on the west side of which there is a spring issuing from it, called St. Mungo's Well, of no medicinal quality but what arises from superstitious credulity." (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xi. p. 468.)] that she also was registered among the Saints, her feast being held on the (King and Camerarius.) : eighteenth of July. He was given to devotion from his childhood, and after he came to be a man, being made Bishop of Glasgow at the age of twenty-five, he travelled over all the kingdom afoot, preaching the gospel everywhere, and finding no rest but in doing good whence it is said, at this day, of a business that appears to have no end, that it is like Saint Mungo's work which was never done for this saint travelled not only as far as Wales in A.D. 543, where he lived some time with Saint David, Bishop of Menevia (and turned away many from Pelagianism), but also in A.D. 565, joined Saint Colm, the abbot, in converting the northern Picts, and sent out some of his disciples even to Norway, to plant Christianity there. (Bale apud Goodwin de Praesulibus Angliae, in Episcopis Asaphiensibus.) In Wales, on the river Elwy, he founded a monastery of nine hundred and sixty-five monks, and a bishoprick in A.D. 560, which, from his scholar Saint Asaph, a Scotishman (who was at first abbot of Glasgow, where Saint Mungo had founded a monastery on the model of that of Culross) whom he placed first bishop there, is called Saint Asaph's to this day. Saint Mungo dyed at the age of a hundred and eighty-five, at Glasgow, on the thirteenth of January, A.D. 603. (Breviary of Aberdeen in the Life of Saint Baldred.) 'Tis said that the Queen of Scotland, having lost a ring which the King had given her as a love token, and, being on that account, suspected of adultery by the King her husband, had recourse to Saint Mungo, who presently ordered a salmon to be taken out of Clyde, which was found to have the ring in its mouth, (Camerarius, from a manuscript in the Archbishop of Glasgow's library): And hence it is that on the seal of the Bishops of Glasgow ther is the figure of a salmon with a ring in its mouth. The city also has for arms the same salmon and ring, with a bell, the original of which, being the same which Saint Mungo used, was kept as a relick here. 'Tis said farther, that, on a tyme, having no oxen to plow the ground, he took occasion to shew his disciples what absolute dominion man had over the creatures before the fall, and to this purpose called the deer out of the wood to do the work of oxen, whereupon they obeyed instantly; but one of them being soon after devoured by a wolf, Saint Mungo commanded that very wolf to put himself under the yoke, who did it as soon as commanded. (Camerarius.) And hence is the name of Glasgow, which signifies a deer and a wolf. The collect for his day used in the diocese of Saint Andrews is this: "Deus qui Beatum Kentigernum confessorem tuum atque pontificem ecclesie tue doctorem pariter atque rectorem mirifice presignasti: presta quesumus ut cujus venerandam solennitatem celebramus ipsius semper suffragia sentiamus." (Missale de Arbuthnot.) |