History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

10 HISTORY OF
David Earl mand for US aiid ouf hcirs, by the tenor of these
OF SlRATHERN.
1371. presents, that they do answer unto the said Earl
and his heirs, in those things which unto a free
regality pertain, like as unto them and every of
them it pertaineth, and do cause it to be an-
swered by others in times to come. In tes-
timony whereof, &c. Witness &c. at Edinburgh,
on the 19th day of the month of June in the
first year of our reign." ^
On the same day the King granted to him,
(by the same designation) and the heirs of his
body lawfully begotten, the Castle and Barony
of Urchard in Inverness, with remainder to Sir
Alexander Stewart, Knight, his half-brother,
and the heirs of his body. ^
Two other charters M'ere obtained by the
Earl of Strathern on the 3rd of July, ISyi, con-
firmatory of, and enlarging the former grants of
the Earldom to him and his heirs^ in free regality,
with fees and forfeitures, and with the pleas of
the four points of the Crown, and of various
other rights and prerogatives within his terri-
torial Earldom of Strathern.^
On the 8th of May, 1372, King Robert
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. p. 89. (No. 310.) p. 120. (No. 4.). See
a copy of the original in Appendix, No. I.
2 Ibid. p. 85. (No. 293.) p. 122. (No. 15.).
3 Ibid. p. 85. (No. 294.) p. 86. (No. 303.) p. 122. (No. 16.)
These charters will be found in the Appendix, Nos. II.
and III.