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1437.] ADDITIONAL CHARTERS. 371
and evin falowschip ande estate, sal expire fra thinet'urtlie, bot that all kindn.es
and frendschip sal be kepit betvix tliaim in tyme to cum : And gif Robert
Stewart of Fife and Waltir Stewart of the Leuenax, his brothir, ande Archibald
of Douglas and Jamis of Douglas, sonnys to the saide Erie of Douglas, or ony of
the saide four personis will be gouernit eftir the counsel ande the ordinance of the
saide lordis, thair faderis, ande be bundyn to this band in like manere as thair
faderis ar, thai sal be tane in it ande be comprisit in the samyn manere as the
nature of the band will, and with the counsel of the makaris of it : Ande for the
mare sikkernes and traistfull keping of al ande sindry the forsaide thingis lelily
and trewly to be kepit, in all fourme and effect, poyntis, articulis and condiciounis,
but fraude or gile or male engyne, bathe the saide lordis has gifin thair bodily
athis apon the haly euangelis. In witnes of the qwhilk thing, to the partyis of
thir indenturis, the seelis of the saide lorde the Due ande of the saide Erie entir-
changeabli ar to put, the day, yhere ande place forsaide. ]
301. Retour by James Douglas, Earl of Avondale, etc., Justiciary of
Scotland, of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, knight, as heir
to his father in the lands of the East Mains of Hawick. 28th
November 1437. 2
Jacobus de Douglas, comes de Auandale, dominus de Baluany, iusticiarius domini
nostri Regis per totum regnum Scocie generaliter consti[tu]tus, omnibus et singulis
ad quorum noticiam presentes litere peruenerint, salutem ; Noueritis quod com-
parentes coram nobis pro tribunali sedentibus, in itinere justiciarie domini nostri
regis per nos tento apud Jedworth vicesimo octauo die mensis Nouembris, anno
Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo septimo, dominus Willelmus de
Douglas, dominus de Drumlangryg, miles, actor ab vna, et Joneta de Murrauia,
relicta quondam Jacobi de Gledstanis, rea partibus ab altra ; predictus dominus
Willelmus prosequens dictam Jonetam per breue de morteantecessorum impe-
tratum super terris dominicis de Hawic, vulgariter nuncupatis le Estmaynis, cum
pertinenciis, jacentibus in baronia de Hawic, infra vicecomitatum de Roxburgh ;
preterea auditis vtriusque partis racionibus, assaisam nobilium et proborum leuari
fecimus, quorum noniina sunt hec, videlicet, Jacobus de Rutherfurd, Nicolayus de
Rutherfurd, Andreas Kerre, Jacobus de Langlandis, Robertus de Rutherfurd,
1 Only a portion of the tag of the seal now remains attached to the writ.
2 Original writ in the possession of William Fraser, LL.D.