Collections towards a history of the county of Clackmannan

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Sir Johnde Louthrane, chaplain, Andw. Meffane,
John de Meffanes, Thomas Black, John Small,
and John More senior and junior, and Thomas
Croyputary. The Sir David Stewart of Dur-
risdeer, who appears as a witness, appears to
have been of the Rossyth family, and was closely
related to the Bruces.
No. 15.— 1442— Precept by Archibald, Earl of
Douglas, directed to John Bruce of Clackman-
nan, Robert Mercer, and William Wallwood, to
give sasine to David Stewart of Durrisdeer,
knight, in the Barony of Shanbody lying in the
county of Clackmannan. Witnesses: — Sir
William de Crichton of that Ilk, knight,
William, de Fowlis, Keeper of the Privy Seal,
Michael Mercer, William Stewart, and John de
Camera, Linlithgow.
The date is obliterated, but it appears from
other documents to have been prior to 1442.
The Barony of Shanbody now forming part of
the estate of Kennet, as will be afterwards seen,
came to the Bruces by purchase.
Note. — 1447 — At this date James Bruce, son
of Sir Bobert Bruce of Clackmannan, was
elected Bishop of Glasgow. Prior to that date,
King James, in a Royal Charter (1444), calls
him " consanguineo ;" he was first Rector of
Kilmeine, in Fife, and died Lord High Chan-
cellorof Scotland. (See Keith's Scottish Bishops.)
No. 16.— 22d Dec, 1447— Discharged by John
de Bruce of Clackmannan to his eldest cousin,
David, the Bruce of the Kennet, of the sum of
50 merks money of Scotland, addebted to the
said John the Bruce, by Peter the Bruce, grand-
father of the above-mentioned David.
In the Chartulary in which this discharge is
engrossed is the following :— " This is the veri-
table copy of this acquitance above written,
gebit to by the said Laird of Clackmannan selet
copis and collational be Messer Richard Strive-
ling, Notar Publick, requirit be David Bruce of
the Kennet, because the principle was in a
paper and auld. This xxii. day of September,
in the year of God, 1526."
From Nos. 6 to 16, the history of the two
families at Clackmannan and Kennet may be
easily seen. In 1359, Robert Bruce, a cousin of
King David IT., obtains a gift of the castle and
Barony of Clackmannan. In 1589, he gives
Kennet, which is a part of that barony, to his
son, Thomas ; and, in 1393, King Robert III.
confirms this gift, and with the consent of
Robert Bruce, the father, settles Clackmannan
on David Bruce, the eldest som and Kennet on
Thomas Bruce, the second sonx David is suc-
ceeded by his son, John, sometime before 1423,
while Thomas of Kennet is succeeded by his sun,
Peter, in or before 1423, and he again is suc-
ceeded by his grandson, David Bruce, in or
before 1447. '
No. 17.— 8th July, 1449— Charter by Allan
de Kinnaird of that Ilk to Patrick Bruce, son
of the deceased David Bruce of Clackmannan,
knight, of the lands of Hayle, in the Barony of
Kinnaird and county of Perth, and that in con-
sideration of a certain sum of money paid to
him by the said Patrick Bruce. To be holden
of the said Allan de Kinnaird in fee and heri-
tage for payment of a silver pennyat the feast
of Pentecost, yearly, in name of Blench form, if
asked only. Witnesses : John, son of Donald
Vicar of Ochtergaven, Notary Public ; Sir John
Hode, Vicar of Abernethy, and David Bruce,
chaplain ; Thomas of Kinnaird, brother-german
of the said Allan of Kinnaird, scritifer (shield
bearer) ; and Donald Lister Burgess of Perth, —
signed at Kinnaird, 8th July, 1449.
No. 18.— 16th May, 1450— Crown Charter of
Resignation and Confirmation by King James
II., verbatim, ratifying and confirming the fore-
going Charter, No. 17. Witnesses, William
Bishop of Glasgow ; William Lord Crichton and
others. This Patrick Bruce was probably a
younger son of David Bruce of Clackmannan,
and therefore a younger brother of John Bruce,
who, as above mentioned, succeeded his father
David in or before 1426, and who appears from
the next writ (No. 19) to have been still living.
No. 19.— 26th March 1473— Crown Charter of
Resignation and Confirmation by King James
III., to David Bruce, son, and apparent heir to
John Bruce of Clackmannan, of the lands and
Barony of Clackmannan and pertinents thereof,
lying in the county of Clackmannan, and the
lands and Barony of Rait lying in the county of
Perth, proceeding on the Procuratory of Resig-
nation, granted by the said John Bruce. To be
holden by the above mentioned David Bruce,
his heirs of the King, and his successors in fee
and heritage for payment, and performance of
services used and wont ; but reserving to the
said John Bruce his liferent of the said Baronies,
aud the third thereof to Elizabeth Stewart, his
wife.
No. 20.— 20th March 1478— Charter by David
Bruce of Clackmannan to Andrew Meffane and
Margaret his spouse, of a tenement Yard and
Croft with pasturage of a cow in the common of
the town of Clackmannan, on the south side
thereof, between the lands of David Baxter, on
the east and the land of John Clarke, on the
west, and that for gratuitous services. To be
holden of the said David Bruce in fee and heri-
tage for payment of 13 4d Scots money at the
feast of Penticost and St Martin yearly. Wit-
nesses, Thomas and Robert Bruce, Sir Patrick
Lindsay, Chaplain, Andrew Bickerton, Henry
Dawson, John Cram, Andrew William Smith,
and William Burn, Clackmannan.
Nos. 19 and 20— bring down the history of
the Clackmannan family another generation.