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ABSTRACT OF THE DOUGLAS CHARTERS.
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all his lands in Scotland ; and provides also that in the event of the
failure of heirs-male of his (the granter's) body, the said George of Douglas
and the heirs of his body should succeed in fee and heritage to the
barony and castle of Caldor, which Sir William, Earl of Douglas, gave
to the granter's father and mother, and to all his other lands and rents
in Scotland, whom failing, the said James's true heirs whomsoever.
Transumedat the Abbey of Holyrood, 30th March 1400, 42
50. Notarial Transumpt of the charter, No. 48, supra, by King Eobert the
Third to George, Earl of Angus, and Mary Stewart his spouse, and the
survivor of them, and to the heirs-male of their bodies, of the profits,
fines, amerciaments, etc., of the King's courts of Eorfarshire. Transumpt
dated at the Monastery of nuns at Haddington, 13th July 1400, 44
51. Notarial Transumpt, made 10th November 1408, at the manor-place of
Bageby, at the instance of Margaret, Countess of Mar and of Angus,
of a charter by Malcolm of Drummond, Lord of Mar and of Garviach,
with consent of Isabella of Douglas, Lady of Mar, Garuiaeh, and Liddes-
dale, his spouse, granting to George of Douglas, Earl of Angus, brother of
the said Isabella, the lands of Ledalisdale, and all right and claim which
he had therein through his said spouse, or which he could have in time
to come, for all the terce-lands of Mar, of Garviach, of Strathalva, of
Clova in Angus, of the barony of Melgthe, and of all other terce-lands
which belong to the Lady Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus, mother
of the said George, through her husband, Thomas of Mar, late Earl of
Mar and of Garviach ; or the said lands failing through the death of the
said Lady Margaret, for £100 yearly to be paid to the granter by the
said George, in terms of indentures made between them : To be held,
the said lands of Ledalisdale by the said George and the lawful heirs of
his body, from the said Malcolm and Isabella his spouse, for rendering to
them and their heirs a red rose at Edinburgh, at the feast of St. John
the Baptist yearly, in name of blench farm, if asked — the rendering of
the said rose, however, not to offer any obstacle to the payment of the
said sum of £100 to be paid to the granter for his lifetime — the said
George and his foresaids also rendering to the King the service due and
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