Breve cronicle of the Earlis of Ross

APPENDIX.
No. I.
[The following is a Petition addressed by William Earl
of Ross to Robert II., in which he states the circumstances
of his being deprived of his estates in Buchan, and of the
earldom of Ross passing to Walter Leslie, the husband of
his daughter, instead of to Walter Ross of Balnagown, his
brother and heir-male. It is dated at Edinburgh, 24th
June 1371, and appears to be the document referred to
by Mr. Robertson, in a note appended to " The Lives of
the Lindsays," Vol. I. p. 422, and of which a copy is
stated to be in the Library at Panmure.]
Excellentissimo principi ac domino suo Reuerendissimo
domino Roberto dei gratia Regi Scottorum et suo bono
consilio vester humilis nepos Willielmus comes de Ross
sub hac forma conqueritur videlicet quod quondam bone
memorie dominus meus Rex predecessor vester domino
Waltero dc Lesly militi dedit omnes terras meas et tene-