Ancient deeds and other writs in the Mackenzie-Wharncliffe charter-chest

MACKENZIE-WHARNCLIFFE DEEDS
Inchmartine, a proprietor in the Carse of Gowrie. The disposition in
Mr. Ogilvie's favour is dated 11th February and is recorded in the
Books of Council and Session 14th April 1755. It is granted by the
Barons of His Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland. It narrates that Sir
James Kinloch Nevay being convicted of high treason, his estates became
forfeited and were conveyed in terms of the Act known as the ' Vesting
Act,' the public sale thereof, and the purchase thereof by Mr. Ogilvie.
In a deed of ratification Sir James Kinloch Nevay narrates as follows :
' And whereas my said Estate being forfeited to the Crown by and
through my conviction and attainder in the year 1746, the same was, by
the Act of the 20th of His Present Majesty King George the Second,
vested in the Crown with power to the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland
to sell my said Estates and apply the proceeds, in the first place, of
payment of my debts as same should be ascertained by the Court of
Session .... and Whereas Mr. James Ogilvy of Inchmartine, advocate,
at the special desire and request of me and my relatives, and for the
benefit of my distrest family, purchased my foresaid Estate.' Among
the lands so purchased were the Nevays.
The patronage of the parish of Eassie and Nevay had at one time
belonged to the family of Crighton of Ruthven along with certain
portions of the lands of Eassie, and those were in 1704 conveyed by
Crighton to David Nevay of Nevay. The lands of Nevay, Balgrugo
and others were acquired by the Lord Privy Seal in 1765. From the
discharged securities having reference to the estate of Nevay, it would
seem that during the rebellion of 1745 Sir James Kinloch Nevay
executed a bond for two thousand merks in favour of his younger brothers
and sisters, and that the validity of this bond was afterwards sustained
by the Court of Session. In supplement of the Lord Privy Seal's title,
Ogilvie of Inchmartine conveyed to the latter the whole discharged
debts and grounds thereof.
In 1783 the Lord Privy Seal purchased the lands and estate of
Camno and others from Robert Ramsay. None of the title-deeds of
this property are of great age or of great interest. The earliest is a
charter under the Great Seal by Charles u. in favour of Hendry
Smith of Glasswell as heir served and retoured to John Smith of
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