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1480.] THE DOUGLAS CHARTERS. Ill
that it is appoyntit and accordit betuex honorabill men, that is to say, schir Jhone
the Ros of Halkhed, knycht, one the ta part, and schir Jhone Auchlek of that Ilk,
knycht, on the tother part, in maner, forme and effec as efter folowis : That is to
say, that James Auchlek, sone and apperand air to the said schir Jhone Auchlek,
sal mary and haf to wyf, God wiland, Gelis the Eos, dochter of the said schir Jhone
the Ros ; for the quhilk mareag to be completit and solempnit in the face of Haly
Kirk, the said schir Jhone the Ros sal pay to the said James Auchlek, his airis,
executouris, or assignais, ane hundereth merkis of gud and vsual mone of Scot-
land, at the Fest of Sanct Martyne in vynter next to cum, the said schir Jhone the
Ros or his airis beand lauchfully varnit of fourtj dais forow to the payment of the
said soume ; the quhilk soume of ane hundereth merkis the said James Auchlek
sal gif for the lousing of certane landis ; alsua, the said James sal haf, in name of
tochir, all landis and ters pertenand to the said Gelis, fre fra al forsettis or formalis,
and al other chargis, as efferis ; and als, the said schir Jhone the Ros sal, in name
of tochir, caus and mak siker the said James Auchlek til haf al and hail the said
landis of Rogertoune, heretably and lauchfully, within an zer next efter the
completing of the said mareag, to the said James and his airis, in perpetuall
heretag ; to the quhilk, the said schir Jhone the Ros bindis hyme and his airis ;
of the quhilk he sal mak the said James als siker, as said is, as he and his freindis
can dewys ; and failzeing herof, the said schir Jhone the Ros bindis hyme and his
airis to the forsaid James and his airis in the soume of fif hundereth merkis of gud
and vsual mone off Scotland, in part of payment of his tochir, til be pait one the hie
altar in Sanct Gelis Kirk of Edinburgh, within tua zeris next efter the breking and
the failzeing of the gifin and makin siker of thir forsaid landis of Rogertoune,
as said is ; the quhilk somme sal be pait in this maner, that is to say, in the first
zer tua hundereth merkis and ane half, hail and togidder, in Sanct Gelis kirk,
as said is ; in the secund zer, other tua hundereth merkis and ane half, hail and to
gidder, in lykwys, as said is ; to the payment of the quhilk somme of fif hundereth
merkis, as said is, the said schir Jhonne the Ros bindis hyme, his airis, executouris,
and assignais, to the said James, his airis, executouris, and assignais, in the sikirest
forme and stratest stil of obligatioune that cane be dewisit, apone the quhilk
sikernes of landis and somis afforsaidis the said schir John the Ros sal gif his
obligatioune incontinent efter the mareag ; and atour, the mareag beand complet
betuex the said James Auchlek and Gelis the Ros, the said schir Jhone the Ros
bindis hyme and his airis to the said James and his airis, to be for hym and
vitht hym tueching the landis of Rogertoune, and thairin to tak ane awfauld