one of the heiresses of Buchan] in the shires of Aberdeen, Dumfries, and Wig- Complaint to King Robert II., by William earl of Ross, shewing at length how the Earl's lands in Buchan (together with those of his brother Hugh of Ross) were, with- out their consent, given by King David II. to Sir Walter of Lesly, knight; and how the said Sir Walter married the Earl's daughter Euphame altogether against her father's will, A.D. 1371......... Charter by Euphame lady of Ross (daughter and heiress of William earl of Ross), to Andrew Mercer, confirming the grant made to him by her husband Sir Walter of Lesly deceased, lord of Ross, of the lands of Faythley (sometime belonging to Jonet of Menzies daughter and heiress of Alexander of Menzies lord of Fother- gill) and Tyrie in the barony of Kynedward, and of certain yearly payments from the lands of Findlater, Netherdale, Pettendreich, and Culbirny in the shire of Precept by William earl Mareschal, for seisin to his son Alexander Keith, in the lands of Pittendrum and Pitblae in the barony of Aden, A.D. 1514......... Act by King Charles I. and the three estates of his parliament of Scotland, ratifying the erection of the parish of Strichen by the Bishop and clergy of the diocese of Aberdeen, with consent of the incumbents and the lay patron of the mother Notes of a charter by William Cumyn earl of Buchan, to Cospatric Mac Madethyn, of 391 Notes as to the church of S. Ethernan at Rathen in Buchan, A.D. 1207-A.D. 1638... 392 Decree of the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints, finding that John of Gordon of Auchleuchry should yield the possession of the fourth part of the town of Kyn-` drocht to William Gray of Kyndrocht, A.D. 1494............................ Note as to the lands of Bothmagoah, belonging to John of Gordon of Auchleuchry, claimed by Alexander Ferguson in Little Ardach, A.D.. 1404..... Note of the church of Crimond, and of its erection into a prebend of the cathedral of S. Machar at Aberdeen, A.D. 1262-A.D. 1505....... Notices of the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Rattray, A.D. 1233—a.d. 1451... 394 Charter by King Robert I., to Archibald of Douglass, of the lordship of Rattray, the lands of Crimond, Crimond Nagorth, Crimond Bellie, Carnglass, Rothmathie, THE PARISH OF LONGLEY, INVERUGIE, OR S. FERGUS. ... PAGE. 397 397 398 400 400 Collect and Lessons for the feast of S. Fergusian or Fergus, patron of Longley in 401 .... 401 ....... 401 402 +03 Decree of John lord Ogilvy and other arbiters, following on the aforewritten contract, A.D. 1505. 404 Discharge by Gilbert Keith brother of the laird of Inverugie, to William Master of 405 405 THE PARISH OF DEIR. Note of standing stones, and Picts' houses at Deir; and of the fires on the eve of All Saints, in Buchan......... 406 Notes of charters of the forest of Cardenauche, or The New Forest, in Buchan, A.D. 1324-A.D. 1426......... 406 Precept by Walter Ruthven of Lunan, for seisin to Walter Innes, son of Walter 406 407 Letter of reversion of a ploughgate of the lands of Pitfour, granted by John Keith heir apparent of Northfield, to James Innes of Toux, A.D. 1581 Charter by King James VI., to Walter Innes (son of Walter Innes, son of James Innes of Toux) of the lands of Toux, and half of the lands of Pitfour, erected into the barony of Toux, A.D. 1587........ NOTICES OF THE CISTERCIAN ABBEY OF S. MARY OF DEIR. Of the Founder, William Cumyn earl of Buchan (ob. A.D. 1233.); the date of the foundation (A.D. 1219.), and the first endowments.... PAGE. 407 408 409 Letter from John Ferrerius, to Dene Robert Stephenson, subprior of Deir, A.D. 1537 and note of the records of Deir.......... 410 411 Of the abbots Hugo, Robert, Alexander, Herbert, Walter, and Walran..................... Hugh prior of Melrose is chosen abbot of Deir, but resigns the office, on account of his infirm health, and the inclement skies of Buchan, A.D. 1235-A.D. 1236.......... 413 Of the abbots Robert, Henry (under whom the parish church of Deir was erected into a prebend of the cathedral of S. Machar at Aberdeen), and Adam of Smalham (who chose rather to serve as a monk of Melrose than to rule as Lord Abbot of Deir) 413 Oath of fealty and allegiance by the abbot (Brice) and monastery of Deir, to their lord and king, King Edward I. of England, A.D. 1296......................... Grant to the abbey, by John Cumyn earl of Buchan, of the church of Kynedward; and foundation of the chaplainry of Kynedward, in the cathedral church of S. Machar at Aberdeen........ The race of the Cumyns, the greatest and most illustrious in Scotland, is so utterly overthrown, that, except the masses of the monks of Deir, no memorial of them is left in the land...... 415 415 .... 416 The Harrying of Buchan, A.D. 1308....... ...... 416 .... 417 Charter to the abbey, by King Robert I., of the church of Foveran; and erection of the .... 417 417 ... 418 Notices of the family of Fedreth of that Ilk, A.D. 1206—1370........................................ The monastery purchases a house in The Foty Gate of Aberdeen........ Charter to the abbey, by King Robert III., of the customs on all the wool of the abbey's lands and of the parishes of which it held the tithes, A.D. 1390-A.D. 1406 419 Of the abbots Robert, Arthur, and James [who appears as abbot, on the 19th November 1487, in a charter to be printed in Volume III. of these Illustrations]... 420 Of the abbot John of Innes; and of the great controversy which was in his time between *On the eighteenth of April 1364, the Abbot of Deir, "cum uno socio et sex familiaribus suis equitibus et eorum garcionibus," had letters of safe con duct from King Edward III., for a pilgrimage in England (Rotuli Scotiae, tom. i. p. 882.) the houses of Kynloss and Deir, as to the tithes of the lands of Fechil in the parish Of the abbots Michael Pittendriech, and Robert Keith........................................ Of the Reformation, and of Robert Keith commendator of Deir......... The possessions of the abbey erected into the temporal lordship of Altrie, A.D. 1587... 423 The death of the first Lord Altrie; and the strife and bloodshed which befell between his nephews, for the possession of the abbey, A.D. 1590-A.D. 1591................................... Story of the vision which doomed the house of the Earl Mareschal to destruction, for its sacrilege in seizing the possessions of the Abbey of S. Mary of Deir............ 425 Charter by William Cumyn earl of Buchan, to the abbot and convent of Deir, of the ......... Charter by William Cumyn earl of Buchan (with consent of his wife Marjory daughter of Fergus sometime earl of Buchan), to the monks of Deir, of the lands of Fechyl Decree by William earl of Erroll and Sir John of Ogilvy of Fingask knight, arbiters in a perambulation of the marches between the abbey's lands of Fechill, and the lands of Meikle Tibbertaw belonging to John of Turing of Foveran, A.D. 1499 Letters of procuratory, by the postulate abbot, the prior, and the convent of Deir, for recovery of certain lands within the burgh of Aberdeen, A.D. 1544......... Decree by the Sheriff of Aberdeen, for payment to William earl Mareschal (as assignee of the Commendator of Deir), of the greater tithes of the parishes of Deir, Peter- head, Kynedward, and Foveran, A.D. 1574........................... 426 Letters of procuratory, by Robert commendator of Deir, for resigning the whole pos- sessions of the Abbey into the King's hands, to be erected into the temporal Lord- ship of Altrie, A.D. 1587..... Contract between King Charles I. and William earl Mareschal, as to the possessions Andrew Keith in Aden should pay to Arthur Forbes of Reres, the price of certain corn and oxen taken from the land of Torwechty, A.D. 1493-A.D. 1494............ 446 Note of charter by King Robert I., to Robert of Keith, the Mareschal of Scotland, of the lands of Aden and Achtidonald, A.D. 1306-A.D. 1329........ Notices of the erection of the chaplainry of Achtidonald, in the cathedral church of Aberdeen; of its suppression; and of the transference of its endowment to the Sentence of the official of S. Andrews, in the cause of appeal from the chancellor and official of Aberdeen, between John Keith of Balmuir and Elizabeth Forbes the THE END OF THE TABLE OF THE CONTENTS. |