Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

34§ BRUCES OF KINNAIRD.
Bruces of Kinnaird.
The first known charter of Kyunard bears date 15 September 1229, in the
reign of Alexander II., when Malcom Lockhart signs as witness to a tack of
the lands of Kynnard to the Abbot of Holyrood from William Colvyl.
N.B. — Malcolm Lockhart 's daughter " Ada" married —
1. Sir John Mocham of that Ilk ;
2. Sir William Colvyl of Kinnaird. — Douglas's Peerage, vol. i. p. 350.
1241. Ada de Colvyl, a widow, gives the lands of Kynnaird, with the privileges and
pertinents thereof in liberum et perpetuam elymosinum, on payment of £\o
of silver yearly, to the abbey and monks of Newbattle, for the souls' rest of
" David, Malcolm, and William," kings of Scotland, and for the health of
Alexander, now king ; and of Mary, his queen, and their son Alexander, bom
in 1 24 1.
1249. Adam de Morham confirms the gift of "a noble lady," my mother, Ada de
Colvyl, in the time of her widowhood, of the lands of Kynnaird to the monks
and abbey of Newbattle.
Charter from the chartulary of Newbattle of a grant by Ada de Colvyl of
the said yearly duty of £10, payable off the said lands of Kynnaird to William
Loccard and his heirs-male ; whom failing, the lands to remain the property of
the abbey.
{N.B. — These were the Lockharts of Lee — Ada's brother, Sir Symon Lock-
hart, carried on the line of the family.)
Feb. 3, Sir Allan Lockhart sold his rights over the property to the abbey, and the
14 '" property was disposed in favour of " Sir Alexander de Brus of Stanehouse
and Erth," of John de Brus his eldest son (slaughtered by the Menteiths before
1485), and of " Sir Alexander de Brus of Brigham," afterwards of Earlshall.
1499. Charter granted by Andrew, abbot of Newbattle, with consent of the chapter,
See, to a " noble esquire," Edward de Brus, and the heirs of his body, of all
singular the lands of Kynnaird with the pertinents, to be held of the same
abbey as freely as Sir Alexander de Brus of pious memory (father of this
Edward), John de Brus of pious memory, and Sir Alexander Brus of Brigham,
formerly held them.
This Edward was the third son of Sir Alexander Brus of Erth. He had the
halls of Erth from his father in 1489. The settlement of Kynnaird was pro-