Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

APPENDIX. 5
No. II.
(Referred to, p. 13.)
Charta de Terris de Buthernock, facta Johanni de Hamilton, per Duncanum Comitem de Chartul. of Paisley,
Ad. Lib. 39.
Levenax.
Omnibus hanc chartam visuris vel audituris, Duncanus Comes de Levenax salutem in
Domino sempiternam. Vestra noverit universitas nos dedisse, concessisse, et hac presenti
charta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni Hamilton, pro suo homagio et ser-
vitio, totas terras de Buthernok, cum suis pertinentiis, jacentes in Comitatu nostro de Le-
venax, infra vicecomitatus de Strivelyng, et de Dumbretane, quas dominus Johannes de Ha-
milton anleh de nobis tenuit in capite, et has dictus dominus Johannes, non vi, aut metu duc-
tus, nee errore lapsus, sed mera et spontanea voluntate sua, nobis per fustum et bacidum in prce-
sentia plurimorum virorum nobilium, apud Port-Glassach sursum reddidit, pureque et simpliciter
resignavit, ac totumjus et clameum quce in iisdem terris cum pertinentiis ejusdem habuit vel ha-
bere potuit, pro se el hceredibus suit umuiuu yuictum clamavii in perpeluum. Tenendas et Haben-
das dictas terras cum pertinentiis, eidem Johanni et heredibus suis, de nobis et hsredibus nostris
in feodo et hereditate per omnes rectas metas et divisas suas, in boscis, planis, moris, maresiis
pratis, pascuis, et pasturis, in viis et semitis, aquis, stagnis, et molendinis, aucupationibus vena-
")s tionibus,* et piscariis cum tenandiis et tenantium servitiis, una cum ecclesiarum advocationibus
cum omnibus aliis libertatibus, commoditatibus asiamentis, et justis pertinentiis quibuscun-
que, ad^dictas terras cum pertinentiis spectantibus, seu quoque modo juste spectare valenti-
bus in futurum : libere, quiete, plenarie, integre et honorifice, bene, et in pace sine Retine-
mento quocunque. Reddendo inde annuatim dictus Johannes et hreredes sui, nobis et hseredibus
nostris, dimidiam marcam argenti infra nundinas de Glasgow, et faciendo inde nobis et
haeredibus nostris servitium antedictum ; et forinsecum servitium domini nostri regis cum eve-
nerit, quantum pertinet ad tantas terras, infra nostrum Comitatum de Levenax, pro omni
servitio seculari, exactione, et demanda. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum, prsesenti
chartae nostras fecimus apponi. His testibus Domino Johanne de Striveling, Umfrido de Cun-
nyngham Militibus, Umfrido de Colquhoune, Waltero de Buchanane, Alexandro Logane
senescallo nostro, Johanne Menzies, cum multis aliis.
Then immediately follows in the Chartulary a confirmation by Earl Duncan, dated 6th 40.
of May 1394, of a subsequent settlement by John the disponee, of Buthernok, in favour
of Margaret Fraser " sub spe matrimonii," to be held by them in terms of the preceding
grant, which is expressly referred to.
Taking the title of this confirmation in 1394 into computation, John, the disponee, is
mentioned three times, and always without any knightly accompaniment, in the same way as
he had been designed, and no less than four times previously, in the first document, in marked
contrast to Sir John the resigner.
• This is missed out in Dr Hamilton's transcript.