History and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns

118 LAND OF THE LINDSAYS.
On 20th June, 1545, Sir Thomas Erskine gave a charter of the
lands of Lychtonhill, Pettyndreiche and Nathrow,* to John
Erskine of Dim, and in 1550-1 he excambed the Lordship of
Brechin and Navar with John, fourth Lord Erskine, for the
lands of Pittroddy and Balhagardy, in Aberdeenshire.
In 1620, the seventh Earl of Mar, the tutor of Prince Henry,
had influence enough to get sucji parts as he possessed of Brechin
and Navar erected into a part of the lordship of Mar ; but, as
before stated, on his death, Brechin and Navar fell to Sir Patrick
Maule of Panmnre by purchase ; and, on being elevated to the
peerage in 1646, he was dignified by the title of Earl Pan-
mure, Lord Brechin and Navar.
Waiving the unfounded assertions of Boethius and others,
that the first of the Maules who settled in Scotland came from
Hungary with the queen of Malcolm Canmore, and afterwards
received charters of the lands of Panmure from Edgar in
the early part of his reign — we shall limit our brief notice of
them to the indisputable evidence afforded by records. Suffice
it to say, that they are of the Maules of the Lordship of Maule,f
in the Duchy of Normandy, and bear quite the same arms.
One of these, Ansold, Sire de Maule, and Hersende, his wife,
are recorded as benefactors to the Priory of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields at Paris, about the year 1015, and nine generations are
traced from them, chiefly through gifts to the church.
Guarin de Maule, who came to England with the Conqueror
in 1066, is the first recorded of the name in Britain. He settled
in Yorkshire, and had a son Robert, who came to Scotland with
David I., from whom he had various grants of land in the
Lothians. This Robert had a son William, who, for his bravery
at the battle of the Standard in 1138, obtained the lands of
Easter Fowlis in Perthshire, and left two daughters, one of whom
married Roger de Mortimer, and, from a daughter of a successor
of Roger the present Lord Gray is descended, and thus inherits
the lands and barony of Fowlis.
The direct ancestor of the present Maule of Panmure was
Sir Peter, grandnephew to William of Fowlis, who, about 1224,
* Dun Charters ; Spalding Club, vol. iv.
\ This Lordship was at a later date erected into a Marquisate, and in the fifteenth cen-
tuiy the titles and estates were carried by an heiress into the family of the Marquises of Moraia-
villiers,