Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

234 account or the
kill his great grandfather. Yea, the cadets of the
family of Drumikill, from the death of Thomas of
Carbeth, possest these lands of Gartincaber till
the time of this service, immediately after which,
Carbeth obtained the beneficial tack of the same,
or rather before this time, as is reported, having
then obliged Drumikill to serve heir to his ances-
tor, in order to make his right thereof to Carbeth
the more valid. For further illustration of this
matter, it is plain, Thomas of Carbeth's ancestor
obtained the lands of Carbeth in heritage some
years before any charter can be produced in favour
of Thomas first of Drumikill. So that if these
had been one and the same, it cannot be in reason
supposed, but that he had been designed by Car-
beth, in some one or other of these evidents of
Drumikill and Moss, in which he is always men-
tioned by other designations. Lastly, in that re-
signation, by Thomas Buchanan of Carbeth, of his
half of Drumikill, to Robert Buchanan, second
Drumikill, anno 1505, he is there designed by
Carbeth, without the least intimation of any re-
lation betwixt him and the said Robert ; where-
as if the above-mentioned allegation were true,
this Thomas the disponer behoved to be Robert's
father, which could not miss to be so specified
upon this occasion ; whereas Robert's father in
his disposition to him of the other half of Drumi-
kill, in the yea? 1495, is there designed Thomas
Buchanan of Drumikill, ten years before the date
of this other write. So that it is very clear,
Thomas first of Carbeth, and Thomas of Drumi-
kill, were two different persons, the first being