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130 MINSTllELSY OF
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
BALLAD OF JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
The editor believes his readers will not be displeased to see
a Bond of Manrent, granted by this Border freebooter to the
Scottish warden of the West Marches, in return for the gift
of a feudal casualty of certain lands particularized. It is ex-
tracted from Syme's Collection of Old Writings, MS., penes Dr
Robert Anderson, of Edinburgh.
BOND OF MANRENT.
Be it kend till all men, be thir present letters, me, Johne
Armistrang, for to be bound and oblist, and be the tenor of
thir present letters, and faith and trewth in my body, lehe and
trewlie, bindis and oblissis me and myn airis, to ane nobil and
michtie lord, Robert Lord JMaxwell, wardane of the West
Marches of Scotland, that, forasmikle as my said lord has given
and grantit to me, and mine airis perpetuallie, the nonentries
of all and hail the lands underwritten, that is to say, the landis
of Dalbetht, Shield, Dalblane, Stapil-Gortowi, Langholme,
and ***** *^ with their pertindis, lyand in the lordship of
Eskddle, as his gift, maid to mc, therupon beris in the self :
and that for all the tymc of the nonentres of the samyn. Their-