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158 THE DOUGLAS CHARTERS. [1496.
145. Discharge by Cuthbert Lord Kylmauris to Archibald, fifth
Earl of Angus, Chancellor, of five hundred merks of tocher. 23d
January 1496.
I, Cuthbert Lord -Kilmawaris, grantis me content and payit be a noble and
mychti lord, Archibald erle of Angus, lord Dowglas, and chanceller of Scotland,
of the soume of fyfe hunder merkis, audit to me be the said lord chanceller, in a
parte of my tochyr for contracte of maryage betuixe the said lord chanceller and
me, and becaus my said lord chanceller has gewyne our to me all his tackis of
the lordschipe of Kilmernoke for the tyme at he haid take of our souerane Lord
the Kynge ; of the quhilke soume of fyfe hunder merkis I hald me weil content
and plesyt, and, for me, my aieris, executouris and assignais, dischargis my said
lord chanceller, his ayeris, executouris and assignais, nowe and for euermar, of the
forsaid soume of v c hunder merkis. In wytnes of the quhilke thynge, I, the said
Cuthbert lord Kilmawaris, has set to my seill, togidder witht my subscriptioun
manuale, at Edinburgh, the xxiiij day of the moneth of Januer, the zer of God
I m iiij c nynte and sex zeris.
Cuthbert Lord Kylmauris.
146. Indenture betwixt Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, Chancellor,
and Sir Alexander Lindsay of Ochermunse, as to the lands of
Birgham aad Cockburn. 24th January 1496.
Thir endenturis, maid at Edinburgh the four and twenty day of Januar, the zer
of God ane thousand four hundretht nynte and sax zeris, proportis ande beris in
the self, that it is appontit and fullely accordit betuix ane noble and mychty lord,
Archbald Erie of Angus, chansler of Scotland, wpoune the tapart, and ane noble
man, schir Alexander Lindesay of Ochermunse, knycht, wpoune the toder part, in
maner and forme as eftir folowis ; that is to say, that, forsamekle as the said schir
Alexander Lindesay has causit ane noble lady, dame Margret of Dunbar, countas
of Crawfurd, his moder, till infeft heritabli the said Archbald Erie of Angus of
all and syndry hir landis of fourty and four husband landis, witht the Reweilhauch
Hand in the town and sulze of Brygeame, and of the est manis landis of the lord-
schip of Brygeame, witht ther pertinentis liand within the schirefdome of Berwyk,
and alsua the said lady has gevin to the said schir Alexander, hir sone, all and