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

APPENDIX
date at Edinburgh and Ayr respectively twelfth and eighteenth days of the month
of December current, to have sold and by title of pure sale to have alienated, and by
this my present Charter confirmed, as I sell, alienate and by this my present Charter
confirm to the foresaid James, Earl of Mortun and his heirs male and of tailzie under-
written and assignees all and whole my forty merks of land of old extent of Thuris-
toun, Wodhall and Waddilie in property and tenandry, videlicet, Twenty Pounds of
the lands of Thuristoun and Wodhall in property and ten merks of the lands of
Waddilie in tenandry with their sundry pendicles and pertinents lying in the barony
and within the Sheriffdom of Renfrew by annexation for a certain sum of money paid
to me in my known great and urgent necessity beforehand by the said noble and
powerful Lord thankfully and completely paid in counted money and entirely applied
for my benefit, of which sum of money I hold myself well contented and fully and com-
pletely paid and therefore I for me and my heirs, executors and assignees quit claim
and exoner the said James, Earl of Mortun, his heirs and Executors of the same by the
tenor of this my present Charter in all time coming to be held and had all and
whole the before mentioned forty merks of the lands of old extent of Thuristoun,
AVodhall and Waddalie in property and tenandry videlicet, the said Twenty pounds
of the lands of Thuristoun and Wodhall in property and the foresaid ten merks of the
lands of Waddalie in tenandry with their respective pendicles and pertinents by the
said James, Earl of Mortun and his heirs male and of tailzie contained and specified in
his new iufeftment of his lands and heritage of his earldom of Mortun and assignees
from me and my heirs of our sovereign Lord the King as Prince and Steward of Scot-
land and his successors in fee and heritage forever by all its right marches ancient and
divided as they lie in length and breadth in houses, buildings, woods, plains, moors,
marshes, roads, paths, running waters, ponds, lakes, brooks, meadows, fields and pastures
with Mills, multures and their sequels, hawkings, huntings, fishings, petaries, turbaries
[places where turfs are cut], coals and coal pits, rabbits and rabbit warrens, pigeons
and dove-cots, smithies, brewhouses and heaths, broom, woods, groves, and brush-wood,
timber, quarries, stone and limestone with Courts and their fines, herezelds, bloodwits and
merchets of women, with common pasturage and free entry and exit and with all other and
sundry liberties, commodities, profits and easements and their just pertinents whatsoever
whether not named or named, as well under as on the earth, far and near belonging to the
foresaid lands with their sundry pendicles and pertinents or which in any manner may
justly belong in future, freely, quietly, fully, completely, honorably well and in peace
without any revocation, contradiction or obstacle whatever; paying therefor annually the
said James, Earl of Mortun and his heirs male above written and assignees to our said
sovereign Lord the King and his successors Princes and Stewards of Scotland the right
and service of the said lands with their sundry respective pendicles and pertinents
formerly due and wont only as for all other burden, exaction, question, demand or
secular service which from the foresaid lands with their sundry pendicles and pertinents
by any one whomsoever can be justly exacted or required in any manner of way, and
I the said John Wallace of Craigie and my heirs, with express consent and assent of
my foresaid Curators for their interest all and singular the beforenamed forty merks
of the lands of old extent of Thuristoun, Wodhall and Waddalie in property and
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