History of the Fife Pitcairns

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CHAPTER V.
DAVID PITCARNE, TWELFTH LAIRD OF PITCARNE
AND FORTHAR.
David Pitcarne, twelfth lord of Pitcarne and laird of
the baronies of Drongy and Forthar- Ramsay, succeeded
Henry before 1528, as there is a
charter on the 21st Feb. of that year, confirmed at Stirling on the
1 6th May by King James V., wherein William Lumesdale of
Airdree, for a certain sum of money, sold David Pitcarne of Forthar-
Ramsay and Elizabeth Dury his wife two parts of the lands of
Forthar-Ramsay in the barony of Airdree in Fyfe, held by the said
David and Elizabeth as long as they live together, and of their
heirs, whoever they be, and assigns, held under the King in ward
and relief.
Witnesses — Quyte or White in Benythyle, John Cokburn
de Newton, Adam Lumsdyn, David Bangall or Ballingall, and
George Burnal, chaplain, Thomas Page, and Thomas Machnavin,
layman, and Alex. Gall, notary public, with the signature of the said
William Lumisdale at Forthar-Ramsay. 1
David Pitcarne of Forthar - Ramsay married Elizabeth
Dury, of the ancient and honourable family of Dury of
Dury. George Dury, her brother or kinsman, was Arch-
deacon of St Andrews and Abbot of Dunfermline; he was
the son of John Dury of Dury, in the county of Fife, brother
to Andrew Dury, Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Galway,
and was born in 1496. In 1527-30 he was judge and exec-
utor of the privileges of the monastery of Aberbrothock
near Brechin. His uncle was Archbishop Beaton of St
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., lib. xxiv. No. 116.