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xxii ABSTRACT OF THE DOUGLAS CHARTERS. [1400.
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wont. The transumpt bears that the charter was sealed with the seals of
Sir Malcolm of Drommonde and Isabel of Douglas, Countess of Mar and
of Angus. Dated at the Castle of Kyndromy, 19th April 1400, 44
52. Indenture betwixt Henry the Fourth, King of England, and Archibald,
[fourth] Earl of Douglas, his prisoner, whereby the former agrees that the
latter should go home into Scotland, and enter again into the castle of
Dereham, into ward of John of Lancaster, the said King's son, without
fraud or guile, at the end of thirteen weeks after his departure by per-
mission of the said John, and on condition that the following hostages
should be given for his return : — Archibald Douglas, son and heir to the
foresaid Earl of Douglas, and James his brother, James, son and heir of
Sir James of Douglas, Lord of Dalkeith, Sir John of Montgomery, Lord
of Ardrossan, Sir John of Seton, son and heir of the Lord of Seton, and
seven others, knights of Scotland ; the said hostages, after the return or
the death of the Earl of Douglas, to have a safe-conduct from the King of
England to return home within forty days ; and the said Prince, Thomas
and John his brothers, and the Earl of Westmoreland, to be bound for the
surety of the hostages ; and in the event of the said Earl of Douglas
dying, his eldest son was to remain prisoner in his stead, — the Earl being
bound to use his utmost endeavours that the truce treated of between the
King of England and the foresaid Earl for sixteen years should be con-
firmed between the realms of England and Scotland, etc. etc. London,
14th March 1407, 4G
53. Notarial Instrument on the Protest by William of Douglas, Earl of Angus,
made through his attorney, Sir William St. Clair, Lord of Herdmanstoun,
knight, at a certain house at the west end of Selkirk, against the recog-
nition made by Alexander of Newtoun of the lands of Selkirk, by annulling
all the procedure of the said Alexander relative to the said recognition,
and by taking earth, wood, and stone from the said house and pounding
and dispersing the same in token of annihilation. 13th February 1408, 48
54. Precept of Sasine by Robert, Duke of Albany, Governor of Scotland, to his
sheriffs and bailies of Roxburgh, for infeftiug William of Douglas as heir
of the deceased George of Douglas, Earl of Angus, his father, in the lands
of the lordship of Ledalysdale (Liddesdale), which were held in chief of