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tue want Its due reward, Taking nottice
of his cariage, among oy' actors in the way
of honno"", did (as to a great many of oyr
gentlemen) lay about them & him, the mili-
tarie girdle* (a badge of honor not then
conferred but on deserving persones) And,
the victorie obtained & the tumult of Armes
being allayed, took speadie cowrse for evi-
denceing his bounty by honnorable acknow-
ledgements of lands gifted & hono'^s con-
ferred. At w^^ time S' Gilchrist was re-
poned to his whole inheretance, And gifted
w* the lands belonging to S' Walter Cum-
ing before mentioned A man not of the
meanest of y* powerfull Tribe, w*^^ for might
& nwmber have scarcelie to this day been
equald in this Land.t
* Investiture of Knighthood.
f " Acho king of Nonoway landit at air w' 160
schipps and twentie thousand men of warre, and y^
caus of his cum'ing was becaus macbethe had pro-
missit to his predessores some yles, qlk. yi had not
gottine, viz. Boote, arrane w* y'' tuo Cumbrais, hav-
ing tane Arrane and Boote he come to the lairges in
Cunynghame, q"" Alex^ foirfather to the first Stewart