Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

SIR REGINALD MORE. 593
Sir Reginald More.
Sir Reginald More is witness, together with Sir Robert de Bruce, Lord of 1327.
Lydlysdale (son nat. of King Robert), to a charter of William de Lindesay, in
the Glasgow Chartulary.
Sir Reginald More of Abercorn, Lord High Chamberlain to King David II., 1329-30.
dates his public accounts from Clackmannan. Ann
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Sir Reginald dates from Scone, which proves that King David and his queen „
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did not leave Scotland until shortly before the battle of Dupplin, if then. 1331.
Sir Reginald acquired his large estates in the Lothians and in the county
of Stirling by marriage with the daughter of Sir John Graham of Abercorn,
Erthbeg, Torwood, the Dene, &c. Her sister Isobel was the first wife of Walter
the Great Steward. He had also the lands of Skaithmuir, on the Carron, and
was father to Sir William More of Bothkennar, whose daughter and heiress,
" Christian" married Sir William Lindesay of the Byres, who thereafter adopted
the three molets of the Mores in their bearings ; but the old family estates of
Cowdams, Camseskane, &c, passed to the male representative of the family,
ancestor of the Mures of Caldwell. Skaithmuir also was held by one of the
name in 1488, when he married a daughter of Sir John Bruce of Stanehouse
and Airth.
Friday, in the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. — Convention by the 1329.
abbot with Sir Reginald More, Chamberlain of Scotland. Sir Reginald has a
particle of Kynnaird from the abbey, bounded, beginning on the west, at a
ditch made between the lands of the abbot of Newbattle and the canons of
Holyrood, and the lands of Kynnaird, and thence, in a line by a certain great
stone lying in a furrow, to the land of Bothkennar on the south, to the lands of
the canons of Holyrood, and thence ascending towards the west by the corner
of the eastern gable of the Great Hall* ("magne sale") newly erected by Sir
Reginald, even to the said ditch ; for which, in exchange, the chamberlain gave
the abbey a particle of land held by him in feu of Holyrood, lying adjacent to
the lands of the abbey of Newbattle on the west, bounded and marched by
stones.
Sir Adam More of Rowallan, father of Elizabeth More, the first wife of
King Robert II., from whom the royal race of Stewart descend, was nephew of
Sir Reginald, as appears by a charter, of date 1393, from Robert III. of certain
lands to Sir Adam More, jun. (the queen's brother), and the heirs of his body ;
* Was this Quarroll, now Carronhall ?