Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath

THE FAMILY OF EDMONSTONE. 73
1354, of the lands and barony of Cambusnethan, formerly held by Sir Robert Baird, Knight,
and there are more documents to prove the same disposition ; there must therefore be some
thorough mistake of the author of the Memorie, though he appears so circumstantial.
Note 30, Page 25.
This Princess is likewise called Margaret, for she was thus styled in a dispensation
for her marriage with the Earl of Douglas in 1371. It was printed from the original at
Rome by Andrew Stewart in his History of the Stewarts (Supplement, page 439).
The Earl's father being then alive, the dispensation runs, 'dilecti filii nobilis viri Jacobi
nati dilecti filii nobilis viri Willielmi comitis de Douglas et dilecti in Chnsto filii nobilis
mulieris Margarite carissimi in Christo filii Roberti Regis Scotie illustris nati.' They were
stated to be in the fourth degree of consanguinity, which rendered the dispensation
necessary, which was granted on the supplication of Charles King of France and David
King of Scotland. In the chartulary of Kelso she is called Isabella, for there is a precept by
Robert the Second to the Sheriff of Selkirk in favour ' Isabelle sponse quondam Jacobi
comitis de Douglas' to give her 'rationabilem tertiam' of all the lands of which the Earl, her
husband, had died seised, within his jurisdiction. For these I am indebted to Mr. Riddell.
Of the marriage of the Countess of Douglas with Sir John Edmonstone there is
ample testimony. There is a charter of Robert the Second (1390) Johanni de Edmonstone
et Isabellae Comitissae de Douglas sponsae suae filiae nostrae carissimae of the lands of
Ednam, in the county of Roxburgh, which grant was confirmed by his successor, Robert
the Third, in a charter Johanni de Edmonston militi et Isabellae Comitissae de Douglas
sorori nostrae carissimae of the lands of Ednam to the survivor and to their legitimate
heirs, dated at Edinburgh, April 25, 1392.
These testimonies are given by Crawfurd from the Ednam charter chest, at least
must be, for they do not exist, Mr. Riddell says, upon record. But there is a further
notice, for which I am indebted to Mr Riddell, of a charge or payment by the Treasurer
or Chamberlain 1 of Scotland in 1390, 'Domino Johanni de Edmonstone percipiente ratione
Comitissae de Douglas sponsae suae tertiam partem dictarum ducentarum mercarum
ratione tertie sibi contingenti' out of the customs of Haddington. The Earl having had
therefore an heritable pension, this was only a payment in part. There are likewise
notices of four subsequent payments between 1392 and 1398.
Note 31, Page 25.
The pedigree states that Sir John Edmonstone had also a daughter by the Countess
of Douglas married to Sir Andrew Kerr of Kershaugh, in Teviotdale, cupbearer to Robert
the Third, from which marriage the Lothian family are descended. To this Mr. Riddell
states, ' Mary, daughter of Sir John Edmonstone, could not have married Sir Andrew Kerr
of Kershaugh, cupbearer to Robert the Third, as, whatever genealogists may pretend,
there was no such person, and no proper proof can be discovered of his existence.'
1 Chamberlain's Rolls, torn. iii. p. 139.
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