History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

12 HISTORY OF
David Earl third soii of tlie King bv lils said wife, and liis
OF Strathern. . r'-i- tai-tii
1375. heirs male ; whom faihng, upon David Earl
of Strathern, son of the King by his second
wife, and his heirs male ; whom failing, upon
Walter, son of the King, and brother-german of
the said David, and his heirs male.^
In April, 1373, the King confirmed a grant,
made by " his son David Earl of Strathern,"
of certain lands in that Earldom, to Sir John
Maxwell and Isabella his wife, the King's
niece ^ ; and in May, in the same year, the Earl
obtained a safe-conduct from King Edward the
Third for one year to come into England, with
two Knights and thirty other persons in his
retinue.^
On the 21st of March, 1375, the King of
Scotland granted to the Earl of Strathern the
Castle of Brathwell, with its entire territory, and
all other lands, as well in the Earldom of Caith-
ness as elsewhere in Scotland, which had be-
longed to Alexander de Arde in right of Maud
de Strathern his mother, but which he had surren-
dered and resigned to the King at Scone,, to be
held by the Earl of Strathern and his heirs of the
King and his heirs "^ ; and by another charter,
dated on the same day, all the interest which
1 Robertson's Index, p. 14.
2 Reg. Mag. Sig. p. 136. (No. 53.).
3 Rotuli Scotie, folio, vol. i. p. 958.
4 Reg. Mag. Sig. p. 137. (No. 59.) p. 159. (No. 27.).