Memorials of the Browns of Fordell, Finmount and Vicarsgrange

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kenney ; William Oliphant, sometyme of Gaske ; Mr. Bobert Lyndsay, brother ger-
mane to the said Dauid, Lord Balcaras ; Margaret Adamsone, relict of wmquhile
Johne Broun, sometyme of Fordell ; Mr. William Adamsone of Cragcruik, and Mr.
Bobert Adamsone, his brother, — be thair band, daitit the nynt and nyntine dayes of
July j"Vj° threttie ane yeires, ffor the caussis thairin mentionat, obleistthame to haue
payit to me, the said Johne Broun, and Bobert and Keathrine Brunes, my brother
and sister, tua bairnes of the first marriage, the sowmes of money underwrittine vide-
licet, the said Dauid, Lord Balcaras, the sowme of ane hundrethe merkis ; the said
Francis Ogiluy, the sowme of ane hundrethe merkis ; the said Dauid Broun, ane
hundrethe merkis ; the said Mr. Bobert Broun, ane hundrethe merkis ; the said
William Oliphant, ffyftie merkis ; the said Mr. Bobert Lyndsay, ffourscore merkis ;
the said Margaret Adamsone, tua hundrethe merkis ; the said Mr. William
Adamsone, ffyftie merkis ; the said Mr. Bobert Adamsone, ffyftie merkis money
of this realme, and that yeirlie, at the feist of Mertimes, dureing the minoritie
of the air of Fordell (quhilk is my selff), and ay and quhill I war of the age
of tuentie ane yeiris compleit, beginand the first yeiris payment at Mertimes
j"Vj c threttie ane yeiris, and sua furthe dureing the space foirsaid, with provisione
that incais it should happine in the meantyme, the said estait and leiveing of the
said hous of Fordell to be augmented and helped be deceas of any of the lyf-
rentaris, or the said air to marie, that fra then furthe the saidis persones to be no
longer astrictit in payment of the saidis sowmes. Bot the said band to ceis and
expyre lykeas the said Mr. Bobert Adamsone was appointed nominat, and chosine be
the said band to vplift the saidis sowmes, and to quhome the saidis persones became
obleist for delyvrie thairof, as in the said band of the dait foirsaidis, conteining divers
heids, articles, claussis, and conditiones, registrat in the buikis of Counsell vpon the
nynt day of November j m vj° threttie thrie yeiris at mair lenth proportis. And trew
'it is that the foirsaid persones, and ilk ane of them for thair awne pairtis, maid
thankfull payment to the said Mr. Bobert Adamsone and James Adamsone, his
brother, and factour in his name, off the particular sowmes foirsaidis off all yeiris
bygane preceiding the dait of my manage, that the said band and benefit thairof
expyrit, and that the said Mr. Bobert Adamsone and his factour in his name, hes
mead gud and thankfull payment to me and the saidis bairnes of the first mariag, at
least for our intertinnement at schooles, als weill of his awne particular sowmes for-
said, vndertane and obleist to be payeit be him the yeires foirsaidis, as of the vther
particulare sowmes abovewrittine. Off the quhilkis sowmes I hold me weill content
satisfiet, and payeit ; thairfor witt ye me to haue exonerit quytclameit, and simplice-
ter dischairgeit . . . the foirsaidis persones ... of the foirsaidis sowmes of money
particularlie abovewrittine. . . . Subscryveit att Edinburgh, the sextine day of October
j m vj c fourtie ane yeiris befoir thir witnesses — Mr. Laverance Obphant, advocat ; Johne
Guthrie, servitour to the said Francis Ogiluy ; Jamas Aitkin, wreter in Edinburgh ;
and George Abernathie, writer heirof. — Reg. of Deeds, vol. 533.
November 23, 1611. — Discharge by "Margaret Adamsone, relict of wmquhile
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