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1454.] ABSTRACT OF ADDITIONAL CHARTERS. xcvii
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things she demanded, etc. (10.) Thanks the Earl of Douglas for his
offer of service, and promises that if he should require aid he would
always keep the tenor of the alliances between himself and the King of
Scots. (11.) That in the gift of the duchy to the late Earl of Douglas
there was no malice nor cavillation, but the gift was made in the form
usual with appanages, etc., 375
306. Charter by King James the Second narrating (1.) Indenture made at Edin-
burgh, 25th August 1447, between Archibald of Douglas, Earl of Moray,
and James Douglas of Heriotmure, his brother-gerinan, in presence of the
Countess of Douglas and Avendale, and of William, Earl of Douglas and
Avendale, lord of Galloway, etc., by which the parties bind themselves to
abide by the decision of the said Earl and his mother, as to which of the
two is the first born — and also to acquiesce in any distribution of his
lands the Earl may make in the event of his dying without heirs of his
body. Indenture sealed by the Earl and many others. (2.) A decree
dated at Edinburgh, 26th August 1447, issued by Nicholas Otterburn,
M.A., etc., official of the court of St. Andrews in Lothian, narrating that
some had doubted whether James Douglas or Archibald Douglas Earl of
Moray, twin sons of the late James Earl of Douglas, and of Dame
Beatrice his spouse, was the elder ; wherefore the official, after examining
the mother and certain good women, declared James Douglas to be the
elder of the two brothers. Which indenture and decree, the king con-
firmed under the great seal, at Linlithgow, 9th January 1449-50, 379
307. Obligation by James Earl of Douglas, Wigton and Avandale, lord of
Galloway, and of the barony of Trabeath, in favour of his cousin and
secretary Marc of Haliburton, his heirs and assignees, to whom he had
given in fee and heritage the lands of Glengennat and Bannan, in the
barony of Trabeath, earldom of Carrick, and sheriffdom of Ayr ; the Earl
binding himself that if the said lands should be recovered from Marc by
Lady Margaret, the Earl's spouse, or her heirs, or he or his heirs be
troubled in the possession thereof, the Earl or his heirs would infeft the
said Marc, his heirs or assignees in £10 worth of land of old extent, as
good and sufficient, from unentailed lands in the sheriffdom of Clydesdale,
Lothian, or Galloway. Castle of Douglas, 2 8th March 1454, 383