Short account of the family of De Vaux, Vaus, or Vans - Latine De Vallibus - of Barnbarroch

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is said, " Out of these confusions in England, Malcolm King
" of Scotland did take his opportunity for action. He re-
" ceived into protection many from England, who either from
" fear or discontentment forsook their country, of whom many
" families in Scotland are descended, and, namely, these,
" Lindesay, Vaus, Ramsay,"" &c. &c. Lord Hailes, Rapin,
Hume, and other authorities, notice the reception of the
Anglo-Normans by Malcolm.
Nisbet (Ar. Vans of Barnbarroch, ap. p. 250) says, " The
" learned antiquary and historian Sir James Dalrymple, ob-
" serves that the ancient sirname Vans, in Latin charters call-
" ed De Vallibus, is the same with the name of Vaux in Eng-
" land, and is one of the first sirnames which appear there
" after the conquest. One of the family came to Scotland in
" the time of King David the First ; and in the reign of his
" grandson and successor Malcolm the Fourth, mention is
" made of Philip De Vallibus who had possessions in the
" south; and soon after that we find the family of Vallibus, or
" Vans, proprietors of the lands and barony of Dirletoun in
" East Lothian."
John De Vallibus is a witness to two charters of King
Malcolm's the Fourth, the one No. 31 in the Coldingham
Chartulary, and the other among the Lundin charters.*
Philip De Vallibus is a witness to a charter by King
William (the Lion), which is No. 50 in the Coldingham
Chartulary.
William De Vallibus is a witness to charters granted
by King William the Lion. See No. 379 in the Kelso, No.
143 in the Dunfermline, and No. 161 in the Arbroath Char-
tularies, and No. 8 in that of the Monastery Sacntae Crucis
Edinensis. He also made several grants to the monks of
Arbroath, Dryburgh, and Durham. See these Chartularies.
* Caledonia, vol. i. p. 580. Chalmers says, "As the three first races of the
" Duglases were not among the Magnates Scotite, they appear not as witnesses to
" the charters of David I. or his grandsons, Malcolm IV. and William, or of his son,
" Alexander II., whatever the peerage writers may say mistakingly."