Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

42 HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF
rank and degree. Sir James Scott resigns the lands and barony of
Rossie, etc., in favour of Sir John Brown and Mary Scott, and the longest
liver in conjunct fee, and of the heirs to be begotten betwixt them; whom
failing, to her heirs by any other husband ; whom fading, to her sister-
german Anna Scott ; whom fading, to Sir James and his nearest and
lawful heirs, etc. Sir John is to pay the said Anna Scott 20,000 merks
when she at tarns the age of fifteen, or on her marriage, if she marry at
an earlier age ; if she die chddless within a year and a day of her mar-
riage, then her father and Sir John are to be free of all payment to her
heirs, executors, or assignees. Sir John is taken bound to pay to any
other daughters Sir James Scott may have, if one, 10,000 merks; if
more, 6000 to each, and to educate and entertain them honestly and
virtuously, according to their degree, after the death of their father.
Sir James reserves his own liferent of the lands, and to his wife, Dame
Antonia Willoughby, her liferent of certain lands and an annualrent.
Rossie is to be redeemable by any son to be born hereafter to Sir James
Scott on payment of 27,000 merks, but such son is to repay anything paid
by Sir John to the daughters, etc. Sir James is to receive his son-in Jaw,
daughter, and their bairns and servants in family with himself so long as
they can agree to live together, and pay them 500 merks yearly "for
kieping of thair purss ; " if they separate he is to allow them 1000
merks yearly. Lastly, Sir James, having in 1639 had a gift of a pension
of 1000 merks for the lives of himself and his spouse, Lady Scott makes
over to Sir John Brown her right to this during her widowhood, but if
she survive her son-indaw it is to revert to her.
Sir James Scott, who had been a Colonel in Germany, in the service of
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Governor of Riga, and was Quarter-
master-General of the army of Charles I. and gentleman of his Majesty's
bedchamber, purchased Rossie from the famdy of Bonar in 1630. On
29th December 1627, there is a grant of pension to him for life ; and on
29th June 1639, a grant of pension of 1000 merks to him and his wife
for life. He had a Crown charter of the barony of Rossie, 29th October
1639, ratified by Parliament 1641. He was a younger son of Sir
WUliam Scott of Balwearie and Isabel, daughter of Patrick, Lord