Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

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bris anno Domini millesiino sexcentesimo trigesimo quarto et anno regni nostri
decimo. — Reg. Mag. Sig.
May 18, 1643. — Tack by Margaret Adamsone, relict of John Broune of
Fordell, to " Henrie Meldrum in Eister Balbartane, his aires and assignais, being of
nae heigher degree nor himselfe," of the lands of Wester Balbartane, in the parish
of Kinghorn, for seven years, for payment to the said Margaret or her heirs, etc., " of
the number of fyftie aucht bollis victuall, guid and sufficient stuff, mercat mett and
mercatt measure, quherof twentie three bollis weel cleane dicht bear, and therof
thretie five bollis clean weel scheallit aite meale, with sex capones, auchteen hennis,
and three dossen of young foullis yearlie." At Edinburgh, 2d May 1635. — Reg. of
Deeds.
1642, July 27. — Disposition by Sir James Galloway, knight, Master of Be-
quests, of three tenements in the Canongate of Edinburgh, in favour of Margaret
Adamson, relict of John Brown of Fordell, sister's daughter of the said Sir James,
for " the love and respect " he has and bears to her, in liferent, and to William
Brown, her son and " his bairnes ane or mae laufullie to be procreat of his bodie
allenarlie ; " whom failing, to Thomas Galloway, " my natural! sone " and his heirs,
reserving to the granter and his said son " at all occasions quhen it sail happen us,
or aither of us, to be within this kingdom, the use of these rowmes underwritten, viz.,
the haill upper rowme of the said tenement, and bedding, quhairof the entrie is
designit to be with tua doores, the ane thereof entering above the hall and the other
above the chamber of eais, both contigue together upone the top of the turnepek,
togidder with the keitchin, sellars, stabillis," etc. At Canongate, 13th June 1642.
Witnessed by Sir Bobert Spotswode of Dunypace, Sir Lues Stuart, advocate ; Mr.
Alexander Guthrie, town clerk, etc. — Reg. of Deeds, vol. 540.
Crown Charter to James Broun, son and heir of the late George Broun,
chamberlain at Eestenneth, of the lands of Pitreuchie, in the priory of Eestenneth
and shire of Forfar, upon his own resignation. At Edinburgh, 10th February 1643. —
Great Seal Register.
XIII. Sir John Broun of Fordell, Knight.
Nono Novembris 1633, licet. — In presence of the Lordis of Counsell compeirit
Mr. Samuell Gray, procurator for Sir David Lyndesay of Balcarres, knycht ; Frances
Ogilvie of Newgrainge ; David Broune of Fynmonth ; Mr. Bobert Broune of Pitkeny,
his brother german ; William Oliphant, somtyme of Gask ; Mr. Bobert Lyndesay,
brother germane to the said Sir David ; Margaret, Maisteris William and Bobert
Adamsones, eftirdesignit, and gave in the obligatione underwrittin, desyring the samen
to be insert and registrat in the bookes of Counsell, to have the strenth of ane decreit
of the Lordis thairof, that executoriallis mey pas thairvpone in nianer specifeit thair-
intill, quhairof the tenor followis : — We, the persones eftirnamit, wndersubscry veris,
speciall freindis and kinsmen of the hous of Fordell, having considerit the present