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

John De Vallibus, designed the son of William, con-
firmed his father's grants — see these chartularies — and was
■witness to charters of King William the Lion's. See No.
378 of the Kelso, and No. 48 of the Coldingham Chartulary.
In the year 1174 he was one of the hostages given to the
English for the ransom of the Scots King William. See
Rymer's Faed. vol. i. p. 40 ; Prynne's Records, Sec. &c.
John, designed son of Robert De Vallibus of Ellebottl. —
see Durham and Dryburgh chart.* — appears to have suc-
ceeded his uncle, or cousin, the preceding John. He was
witness to several charters granted by King Alexander the
Second. See Arbroath, Newbottle, Dryburgh, and Cupar
Chart., and he confirmed and made grants to these religious
houses. See these Chartularies, and Chalmers 1 Caledonia.
Also he was Sheriff of Edinburgh. See Chalmers, vol. i. p.
586, and 130 Newbottle Chart.
John succeeded his father John, being designed John the
Younger, D nus de Dirleton, when granting 5 merks yearly
out of his fair of St. James's in Roxburghshire, as a composi-
tion regarding his disputed patronage of Wilton. See No.
281 Glasgow Chart. In 1243 he gave 10 merks yearly out of
his lands of Golyn to the See of Glasgow. See its Chart.
Nos. 413, and 417, and p. 14, Excerpts in the Advocates' 1
Library. In 1244 he is mentioned as one of the Magnates
of Scotland, in the Pope's ratification of the peace between
England, and Scotland. See Mat. Paris, p. 437; edit. 1644.
In 1255 he was one of the barons who counselled, or ra-
ther forced, King Alexander the Third to change his minis-
* In the first half of the thirteenth century are to be found an Edward de Walli-
bus, witness to a charter by William, son of Patrick (Earl of Dunbar), No. 9, in
the Coldstream Chartulary, and also witness to another, No. 49. A Magro. GrifRno
de Vallibus, witness to a charter, No. 250, in the Arbroath (Old) Chartulary. An
Engelrarn de Vallibus, according to Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife, p. 369,
edition 1803, witness to a charter to the Monks of Cupar ; and a Robert de Wallibus,
witness to a charter by "Earl Patrick" (of Dunbar), No. 6, in the Coldstream
Chartulary. All these individuals (especially Robert) were probably of the Dirleton
family, although evidence of this has not yet been obtained.