Regent's tour to the north, he entertained her so sumptuously, that (says Straloch) Monsieur D'Osel advised her to humble him: and, in M.D.LIV., he was divested of his said acquisitions, and rebelling against Queen Mary, lost his life in the battle of Corrichee, anno M.D.LXII. Brevity only allows me to mention his son (15) George; whose son (16) George, caused murder the Earl of Moray in Dunibrisle, anno M.D.XCII., fought the battle of Glenlivat, M.D.XCIV., was created Marquis on the seventeenth of April M.D.XCIX., and died M.DC.XXXVI. His son (17) George was beheaded in M.DC.XLIX.; whose son (18) Lewis died M.DC.LIII., and was father of (19) Duke George.

In M.DC.L., the family of Huntly was addebted to Argyle, a million of merks Scots; and the judicial rent of Huntly's estate was fifty thousand merks, whereof ten thousand annually were allowed to the Marchioness dowager and the Earl of Aboyne (vide Argyle's Tryal.) And Lord Lorn lived in Gordon Castle from M.DC.LIII. to the first of February M.DC.LXI. The family of Huntly was saved from being sunk under this debt by Argyle's forfeiture in M.DC.LXI., when the King remitted the whole of it. George was created Duke of Gordon on the first of November M.DC.LXXXIV. His son (20) Alexander. His son (21) CosmoGeorge. And his son (22) Alexander is now Duke. And thus the noble family has flourished during two and twenty generations.

1

Carta Regis David facta monachis de Vrchard (A.D. 1150—A.D. 1153.) Dauid Rex Scottorum episcopis abbatibus. baronibus iusticiariis · vicecomitibus et omnibus hominibus tocius terre sue Francis Anglicis. et Scottis Salutem Sciant tam posteri quam presentes me ad domus Dei dilatacionem et ad sancte religionis propagationem dedisse et concessisse. Deo et ecclesie Sancte Trinitatis de Vrchard et hac mea carta priori et fratribus ibidem seruientibus confirmasse Vrchard per suas rectas diuisas et duas Finfans per suas rectas diuisas et Fochoper per suas

[From the Registrum de Dunfermelyn, pp. 17, 18; collated with a copy in the Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, pp. 329, 330.

By a charter dated at Roxburgh on the fourth of March 1238, King Alexander II. granted to the see of Murray the land of Keldrumin in the bailiary of Inuernarin, together with an annuity of forty merks from the lands of Moythas, Dike, and Brothyn, in exchange for the second tithes (or the tithes which the Bishop used to levy of the King's rents) of the lands of Fochobyr, Rathenec, and many others. (Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, pp. 34, 35.) Among the charters delivered up to King Edward I. of England, in the year 1296, were "Carta de Fochober pro terra de Wynn;" "Excambium factum per Priorem de Urchard · de terra de Fochober pro terra de Bynin." (Robertson's Index to the Charters, p. xxiv.)]

XX

et omnes rec

rectas diuisas et communionem pascuum animalibus et vnam piscariam in Spe et in firma burgi de Elgin solidos et de dominiis hominibus eorum qui sunt in Fochoper rectitudinem piscis que ad thain pertinet. et decimam cani de Ergaithel de Muref. et placitorum et tocius lucri eiusdem Ergaithel Preterea concedo et hac mea carta confirmo donacionem abbatis et tocius conuentus de Dunfermelyn scilicet Pethenach iuxta Eren per suas rectas diuisas et scalingas de Fathenechten titudines quas monachi de Dunfermelyn in Muref habere solebant quas tali condicione ecclesie de Vrchard et fratribus ibidem Deo seruientibus liberas et quietas ab omni exaccione mea concessione et confirmacione concedunt. ut obeunte persona alia de eleccione fratrum et de consilio abbatis de Dunfermelyn et assensu Regis si ydoneus ibidem inueniatur subrogetur. sin autem de ecclesia de Dunfermelyn accipiatur Hec personarum subrogacio inuiolabiliter in perpetuum inter eos sicut predictum est conseruetur · Volo eciam et precipio quod ecclesia predicta et prior et fratres eiusdem loci habeant et teneant res predictas ita libere et quiete sicut aliqua ecclesia in terra mea habet et tenet quiecius et liberius Teste Andrea episcopo · et multis aliis.

Dauid Dei gracia Rex Scottorum Omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem. Sciatis quod concessimus Johanni de Haya de Tolyboylle dilecto et fideli nostro quod possit redigere in culturam totam terram que iacet inter aquam de Spee et riuulum de Tynot in Foresta del Awne et ipsam terram habere cum omnibus libertatibus etc quibus quondam progenitor noster de eadem terra predecessores ipsius Johannis infeodauit. In cuius rei testimonium etc. Testibus etc Apud Abirdene. xvjo die Januarij anno regnj nostrj Tricesimo Tercio.

.

Fundatio capellanie de le Geth per Johannem le Haya patrem. 2 (circa A.D. 1374.)

Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris Johannes de Haya dominus de Tulybothuyl salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis me ductum devotione cum consensu Johannis de Haya filii mei et heredis

1 [From the Registrvm Magni Sigilli Regvm Scotorvm, p. 24.]

2 [From the Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, pp. 321, 322.]

fundasse

unum capellanum apud le Geth in honorem Dei et Beate Marie Virginis ac Omnium Sanctorum pro anima mea animabus progenitorum et successorum meorum et pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum ibidem divina perpetuo celebraturum et in eodem loco continuam residentiam facturum hac mea fundatione ecclesie matrici prejudicante nullatenus quove modo Qui quidem capellanus in dicta capella de le Geth decenter deserviet et quatuor libras usualis monete de firmis terre de Awyn annuatim percipiet ad Festa Pentecostes et Sancti Martini in hyeme per equales portiones cum mansione sua et quatuor acris terre apud Ladardach sibi nunc assignatis ac pastura ibidem pro duodecim vaccis cum tauro ac sexaginta ovibus cum nutrimentis ex eis provenientibus videlicet vitulis et agnis pro quatuor annis de anno in annum in eadem pastura sustentandis et duobus equis quorum unus hakneius capellani in prato cum equis meis propriis pasturam habeat specialem. Et fiet hec solutio annua firme predicte per me et heredes meos seu quoscunque alios nobis successuros sive ballivos seu quoscunque dictarum firmarum receptores quos ad hoc volo firmiter obligari. Et si contingat quod absit me vel heredes meos seu quoscunque nobis success uros contra hanc nostram fundationem in aliquo venire vel eidem contradicere aut super eam litem movere obligo me et eos in viginti libris [sterlingorum] fabrice ecclesie cathedralis de Elgyn nomine pene solvendis ante omnem litis ingressum presenti fundatione mea in suo robore perhenniter duratura. Et volo quod totiens dicta pena committatur et levetur quotiens presenti fundationi mee fuerit contradictum cum effectu subiciens etiam me et heredes meos et nobis successuros jurisdictioni domini Episcopi Moraviensis qui pro tempore fuerit et ejus vices gerentis et capituli sui sede vacante ut liceat eis vel eorum cuilibet me heredes meos et nobis successuros ac dictarum terrarum firmarios [sive ballivos] ad omnia premissa et quodlibet premissorum inviolabiliter observanda per omnimodam censurum ecclesiasticam [arcius cohercere · renuncians in] hoc facto pro me et heredibus meis et nobis successuris exceptioni lesionis deceptionis doli vel fraudis et omni alii exceptioni juris vel facti canonici vel civilis per quam contra premissa vel aliquid premissorum possumus nos quomodolibet defendere vel tueri In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum

IN THE PRESBYTERY OF ABERLOUR.'

THE PARISH OF BOCHARM (OR ARTENDOL) WITH PART OF DUNDURCAS.

BOHARM PARISH.2 (A.D. M.DCC.LXXV.)

HE parish of Boharm, antiently and truly written, Bocharn; for over against the plains of Rothes, and on the east bank of the river, is a high hill called Ben-eggin, id est, the hill with clefts; and round a great part of the hill this parish windeth : hence called Bocharn, id est, a bow or arch about the carn or hill. It is in length about four miles, and in few places above half a mile in breadth, lying on the east side of a brook that runneth into the water of Fiddich.

The church standeth on the south side of the hill, two miles west of Botrifnie, two miles north-east of Aberlaure, two miles and a half south-east of Rothes, and

["The number of presbyterian ministers in the diocess of Moray was so small, that they made but one presbytery, called The Presbytery of Moray,' till the year 1702. Before this year they had no meeting of synod; but in March, 1702, the commission of the assembly recommended to them to meet in synod. In pursuance of which, in a meeting at Forres, on the twenty-third of June, 1702, they erected themselves into three presbyteries, videlicet, The united presbytery of Inverness and Forres; The united presbytery of Elgin, Aberlaure, and Abernethie; and The presbytery of Strathboggie. In October, the same year, they met in synod for the first time. The number of ministers soon increasing, by the demise of the episcopal incumbents, Aberlaure and Abernethie were disjoined from Elgin anno 1707, and made a distinct presbytery. In 1708, Inverness and Forres became two presbyteries; and in 1709, Aberlaure and Abernethie were disjoined, and made two presbyteries." (Shaw's History of the Province of Moray, pp. 303, 304.)]

2 [From Shaw's History of the Province of Moray, pp. 23, 24, 328, 329.] 3["As this description is only partially applicable, the old parish containing only one-half of the bow, one is inclined to seek another derivation, and to suppose that the Castle of Bucharm took its name from its own situation, and bestowed it on the parish. It stood on the point where the brook Altarn, now Aldernie, id est, the burn of alders, flows into the Fiddich, which just at that point takes a very singular turn in its course. Hence, perhaps, Bucharn, or the head of the alder stream, for the name of the castle, and so from the castle to the parish." (The New Statistical Account of Scotland, number xxxviii., p. 356. Edinb. 1842.)]

about three miles north of Mortlich. Boharm was a parsonage, whereof the Earl Fife is patron. Ardintullie (called antiently Artendol) was the original parish ;1 and Boharm, (properly Bocharn) was only the chapel of Moray, laird of Boharn. At Galival are the vestiges of a domestic chapel; and probably there was a chapel of ease where the church now stands. There is a glebe at Ardintullie, and another at Boharm. The stipend is thirty-two bolls meal, and six hundred merks, with twenty merks for communion elements. The school salary is not legal: the catechisable persons, six hundred. The protestant ministers are Mr. William Rothie, reader in Ardintullie, M.D.LXIX.; George Frazer, minister before, M.DC.XXIV., died about M.DC.XXVIII.; Alexander Anderson, ordained about M.DC.XXIX., transported in M.DC.XXXIII.; Thomas Law, ordained in M.DC.XXXIV., transported to Elgin in M.DC.XLV.; George Dunbar, ordained in M.DC.XLVII., died in M.DC.L.; William Harper, ordained in M.DC.LV., died in M.DC.LXXXV.; Adam Harper, ordained in M.DC.LXXXVI., demitted in M.DCC.XVI.; George Gordon, ordained on the thirteenth of May, M.DCC.XVII., transported to Alves in M.DCC.XXVIII.; John Gilchrist, ordained in M.DCC.XXIX., transported to Urquhart in M.DCC.XXXIV.; George Grant, ordained in M.DCC.XXXIV., transported to Rathven in M.DCC.LII.; Thomas Johnston, from Glenbucket, admitted on the thirty-first of May, M.DCC.LIII.

This parish (all in the county of Banff) was, in the reign of King William the Lion, about anno M.CC.X., the property of William Moray, son of William, and

["The church of the parish of Arndilly, in early times called Artendol, stood on the eminence which is now the site of the mansion-house of Arndilly, on the banks of the Spey, in the south-west corner of the present parish. Vestiges of such ecclesiastical occupation of this lovely spot remained till within the memory of man, the ruins of the church being cleared away to make room for part of the offices of the mansion-house, and an equivalent being then given for the glebe, which now forms part of the lawn. It is conjectured that the church at Arndilly having been allowed to go to ruin, perhaps even before the reformation, the chapel of the Castle of Bucharm, in a much more convenient situation, became the place of worship for the whole district, and gave name to the parish. In the year 1788, the parish of Dundurcos, lying due north from Boharm, on both sides of the Spey, was suppressed, and the part of it which lay to the east of the river was annexed to Boharm, except one small property, Aikenway, which, with the lands on the west side of the river, was annexed to Rothes. This annexation added to Boharm upwards of a third, both in extent of surface, and in the number of the population. The old parish is in the county of Banff: the annexation, excepting a small fragment in Banffshire, is in the county of Elgin. A stone, which was in the wall of the old church at Arndilly, is now built into the wall of one of the wings of the mansion-house. It has rude figures carved on it. Another stone, having very nearly the same figures upon it, was taken out of the foundation of the old church of Inveravon; and a third is built into the wall of the Abbey of Deer." (The New Statistical Account of Scotland, number xxxviii., pp. 355, 356, 364.) See also The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xvii., p. 364. Edin. 1796.]