Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

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name was nocht Hkly it suld haf war it nocht the
bischapis.' Similar reasoning in the present case
can be supported by other evidence. The
charter of 1423, referred to, is granted by Sir
Walter of Lindsay, Sheriff of Aberdeen, and
conveys one half of the lands of Culclerochy, and
the other half is not fully accounted for until
after the Reformation. These lands were con-
veyed in favour of Alexander Stewart, son of the
' Wolf of Badenoch,' Earl of Mar and Garioch, and
known in history as conqueror of Donald of the
Isles, in 141 1. It is interesting to find associated
with this place, the name of one of the most re-
markable men of his time. His connection with
the district does not seem to have been merely
nominal, as I have had pointed out to me a
spring on the hill above Corncattrach in Gartly,
called ' The Earl of Mar's well,' probably from
some incident during his residence in the locality.
He disposed of his half of Culclerochy (1425) to
Sir Alexander Seton, who had married Elizabeth,
sole heiress of the Gordon honours and estates.
This half also passed into the possession of the
Church, and in 1557 we have a conveyance by
' Master David Carnegy, rector of Kinnoule, and
chaplain of the chaplainry of Saint Mary of
Coclarachquhy, founded by the predecessors of
George Earl of Huntly, to Master Thomas Keir,
of one half the lands of Coclarachquhy ' (Spald.
CI. Ant., III. 517).