Volume 2

126               GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS          [VOL. I

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was not a Knight, and then only Barons were Knights. 2, The
Reddendo and Service in the Charter for the Lands is Servitium
dimidii militis. Nota. Knights Service was of Old in the
next Degree of Honour to that of an Earl. Therefore by the
English Laws Knights Service includes Homage, Fealtie, and,
for the most Part, Escuage, that is the Service of the Shield.
But this Service was after enlarged in the Time of Sir Peter
& Christian Valence his Wife only Heir to this William
Valence, and Panmore was made a Barony circa Annum 1240,
and of Old was counted One of the Three Baronys of Angus
which then were Ardbroth, Panmore and Plattoun, which last
belonged to the Earls of Crawford, and sometime after it was
counted One of the Three great Barronys in Angus, which
were ranked thus (forte metri gratiâ) Dun, Duddop and Pan-
more. The Barons of Panmore have been stiled in the Old
Writs Domini de Panmore as Sir Thomas Maule, yea, and once
One of Sir Peter Maule (The First Knight of the House) his
Successors is designed Nobilis et Potens Dominus. And ever
since this Sir Peter they were Knights, an Honour, if not the
same with Lords, yet equal to it. There is an old Evident
that designs the Lord Gray thus, Sir Andrew Gray Knight
Lord of Fowlis.

THIS Barony of Panmore contains not only the Lands of
Benvy and Balrudrie by Union, as above is said (albeit lying
in another Shire) but many other Lands and Towns in Angus
lying near to Panmore itself and in the Parishes of Panbryde,
Moneikie, Carmylie, Arbirlit, and of Old was a Fourty Pound
Land, which was very low, because it was long ago erected
into a Barony, and now some Parts of the Barony were sold
off. But many more Lands are lately acquired and joined
thereto, as is notour being conquest by Patrick the First Earl
of Panmore, ut infra, Page 320.

PANMORE is the Name of the Barony of Old, and of the
Earldom thereof of late. It may be from the Old Irish
Language it should be called THANE-MORE, i.e. the chief and
principal Thane. As it is, Panmore is of the same Language.
More is a Lord or Master, and Pan is chief and principal, that
is the Over Lord or chief Lord; And it seems the Old House
of Panmore has been built for a Thane's Residence, that is the