Rutherfurds of that Ilk, and their cadets

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Nichol de Ruthirfurd was guarantee of treaty
with England along with his brother James of that
ilk in 1449. He had charters of Kirkyetham,
Malkerston, Grubehewed or Grubet, in 1421, from
King James I., also of Corbet, once the possession
of the very ancient family of that name. He was
succeeded by his son
John Ruthirfurde, styled Johannis Ruthirfurde,
dominus de Hundwaley, in Act of Parliament 1467,
appointing him, with John Aynsle de Dolphin-
stoun, to make valuation of the shire. In 1434
he was ordered, on pain of denouncement as a
rebel, to leave the Abbey of Jedburgh, "void
and redd," and to allow Thomas Cranstoun, the
Abbot, to take possession. At this time the
whole choir of the Abbey was already divided
amongst the Ruthirfurds for burying their dead ; and
a family quarrel had probably arisen in consequence
of the Abbot interfering to give some of the Cran-
stouns place there. His son
John Ruthirfurde, styled in deed 149 1 John of
Ruthirfurd of Hundole, had charter in that year from
King James IV. of the lands of Rowcastell or Rugh-
chester, on resignation by Thomas Dickson, and the
seven mark land of Samelstoun on resignation by
ing the very limited sources of information at his command, and
the dilapidated state of the public records, now so carefully-
copied and printed, it is only matter for surprise that he contrived
to collect such a mass of authentic family history. The mistakes
in Christian names are perhaps not so many as may appear, as
the same individual is often mentioned under different ones, as
in the case of the first proprietor of Chatto, and others mentioned
in these notes about the Ruthirfurds.