Some account of the ancient Earldom of Carric

32 SOME ACCOUNT OP THE
" Duncan de Carrick, son of Gilbert de Carrick,
gives the patronage of Kilbride in Carrick, to the
nuns of North Berwick ; to which grant Malcolm,
Earl of Fife, is a witness.' 1 *
" King Eobert I., grants a remission to Sir Gil-
bert Carrick, son of the above Sir Duncan, for sur-
rendering the Castle of Loch Doon to the English,
and restores to him the government of the same,
with the lands thereunto belonging, which still con-
tinue part of the Earl of Cassillis's property.'"'
" At this time, or a little before," says Nesbit,
" they begun to take the surname of Kennedy as
Caput progeniei, several charters have Carrick in the
bosom, and Kennedy on the margin" fyc. Yet Nes-
bit adds, " they had taken the name of Kennedy
long before ; for John Kennedy, Chancellor to King
crosslet fitchet sables, which constitute the distinction between the
arms of Carrick and those of Kennedy ? If it has not, we should
have in this a cogent proof of the falsity of the pretended change of
the sirname from Carrick into Kennedy.+
* This is evidently a mistake. The first Malcolm, Earl of Fife,
died in 1229, and his successor, the second and only other Malcolm,
Earl of Fife, died in 1266. But Gilbert de Carrick, the father of this
Duncan de Carrick, was alive in 1 285, when he referred a dispute
with these nuns to the Earl of Carrick and Bishop of Glasgow.
This Duncan therefore, must either be altogether an interpolated
personage in this place, or the act of his great great grandfather is
here falsely attributed to him. [ Vide Appendix, iii.]
t [The original is at Panmure. It has been printed amongst the North Berwic
charters, and the arms of Gilbert are a cheveron between three cross crosslets
fiches.]