Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

16 GENEALOGIE OF THE
his grandchild. This instrument is dated 1436, and the whole charter
is engrossed and dated 1360. The reddendo is a pair of gilded spurs. In
this charter the Earle of Ross calls Sir Thomas his cousin, as being sis-
ters 1 childrin. There is also ane other charter at Littleton and Lauris-
ton in the Mearnes, dated 1376, wherto Thomas Hay, constable of Scot-
land, is witness ; and ane other indenture betwixt him and Fleming,
with the abbot and convent of Melrose, anent the fundation of a chapell
at Chapell Kingdoors 1395, and saying of mess. Ther he was married
to Agnes, daughter to William the first Earle of Dowglas, sister to
Archibald the Grim, by whom he had William, who succeeded ; Phil-
lippa, married to Thomas Lord Dacres ; Lucia, married to Alexander
Eraser of Lovett in the north. He lived till 1380.
14. Sir William succeeds. He is designed in a charter of the lands
of Acharon in Galloway, granted by Archibald the Third Earle of Dow-
glas, surnamed Tine Man, his cousin. This Earle of Douglas was also
Earle of Galloway, Bothwell, Duke of Turraine, and Mareschall of
France. ■ He had married a daughter of Robert the Second, and was
taken at the battle of Sbreusberry 1401, and detained prisoner fifteen
months. When he was released, Sir William was one of the hostages
given for his ransome. Sir William married Johanna Giffard, daughter
and heretrix to Heugh Lord Giffard of Yester, by whom he had William,
who succeeded ; John, who was killed at the battle of Verneulle in
France, and was father to Sir William Hay of Talaw, as appears by a
charter of David Lord Yester to Sir William of Talaw, dated 1469-
He had also Margaret, married to William Earle of Angus, for which
marriage there is a dispensation from the Pope, granted in 1414, the
18th day of Februarie, the parties being cousin-germans ; Cecilia, mar-
ried on Alexander Hume, progenitor to the Lord Hume, who was like-
wise killed at the battle of Verneule. This William lived till about
1410.