Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers"

WITH DRUMPELLIER'S EXPOSITION, &c. 199
communi pastura eiusdem ville," &c. " Volo preterea (it is added), ut pre-
dict! fratres (the religious house of Soltra as above), habeant annuatira unam
tronam bladi de singulis carrucis meis et hominum meorum ubicunque exist-
entium ex 2}cirte australi aque de Forth in autumno." It is without date,
but witnessed bj "Domino Gilberto, Capellano" (the family chaplain, as
may be presumed by the antecedent evidence as to Uchiltree in regard to
his brother Alexander the Vicecomes),^ and by " Galfrido preposito de iss, no. 3.
Ouchiltrie."
He was thus, like his elder brother the Vicecome^, in full possession of
Ochiltree, besides, as here intimated, other possessions on the south side of
the Forth, and coupling this grant with what will follow, the family (precisely
as in the Stewart instance), in his person, must now have taken the surname
of Stirling.
2. Charter by Nicholas de Soules, Pincerna (Butler) Domini Regis Scotie, ctartu-
lary of
to the Abbey of Newbottle, of a saltpit in the Carse of Kalender " se- Newbottie.
cundum recognitionem factam 2:>er Johannem Vicecomitem de Strivelyn,
ex precepto Domini Regis." — (Without date.)
3. Confirmation by Alexander II. to the See of Glasgow, of certain ChaHu-
lary of
lands specified in a perambulation taken the 28th year of the King's reign Glasgow.
(1242) — namely, Conclud and others, which is witnessed, " Johanne, Vice-
COMITE de Strivelyn," who thus had fully succeeded Alexander his brother
in that sheriffdom that he is proved to have held also by the previous
authority.
4. Charter by Maldowen, Earl of Lennox, to Stephen of Balautyre, of Chartu-
T- . . . . . lary of Len-
half a cari'ucate " terre de Kynerine," which is witnessed " Domino Waltero, nox, edited
by James
Seuescallo Scotie, Domino Johanne tunc Vicecomite de Striveliin, Domino oennis-
•^ toun, Esq.,
Johanne de Vallibus." It has no date : but as the learned editor shows that ^'^''2?^*^;
' pp. 35, 3b.
Earl Maldowen succeeded in 1225, and is supposed to have lived till about
1270, it may have been between those years.
5. Grant of the lands of Dunipace by Adam de Norham to the Abbey of ciiartu-
]ai"y of
Cambuskenneth (without date), which is witnessed " Domino Daniel de cambus-
^ ' kenneth.
Graham, Domino Johanne de Strivelyn."
6. Grant by Adam de Norham of the mill of Stonehouse to the Abbey of chartu-
lary of
Newbottle, which is witnessed " Domino Johanne, Vicecomite de Strivelyn." Newbottie.
It has no date, but immediately following there is a supplication to Alex-
ander II. to confirm it, which is done, accordingly, under the titles thereof