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1454.] ADDITIONAL CHARTERS. 383
Georgeo de Douglas et de Angus comitibus, venerabili in Christo patre, Andrea,
abbate de Melros, nostro thesaurario et confessore ; dilectis consanguineis nostris,
Willelmo, domino Summyruele, Andrea, domino le Gray, magistro Nicholao de
Ottyrburne, nostro secretario, et Johanne Arous, archidiacono Glasguensi ; apud
Linlithqw, nono die mensis Januarii, anno Domini m° cccc xlix , et regni nostri
decimo tercio.
307. Obligation by James, Earl of Douglas, to Mark of Haliburton,
regarding the lands of Glengennat and Bannan. 28th March 1454.
Be it kend till all men be ther presente lettres, vs, James, Erie of Douglas,
Wigtoun and Avandale, lorde of Galway and of the barony of Trabeauth, for to
be haldin and to be bundyn and sikkirly to be oblissit, and be thir presente
lettres and the faith of our body lelily and treuli byndis and oblissis vs and our
ayris til our lufit cousing and secretare, Marc of Haliburtoun, his ayris and assig-
nais, that for als mekill as we haue gevin freli and grauntit to the said Marc,
his ayris and assignais, be infeftment, chartir and sesing, for his seruice til vs
done and to be done, al and syndre our landis of Glengennat and of the Bannane
with thair pertinence, lyand within our barony of Trabeauth, the erledome of
Carrie and the schereuedome of Are, in fee and heritage for euirmare, eftir the
tenour of his said infeftment thar vpoun be vs to him and his ayris made : For
the quhilk we will and we graunt, and be thir presente lettres byndis and oblissis
vs and our ayris, in fourme and manere forsaid, to the said Marc, his ayris and
assignais, that gif euir it sal happin, as God forbeide it do, the said landis of
Glengenate and of the Banane with their pertinence or ony part of thaim, for to
be recouerit, wonnyn or obtenit euir in ony tyme to cum fra the said Marc, his
ayris or assignais, be Lady Mergarete, our spouse now presente, or hir ayris or
ony vthir in hir name or hir ayris, or he or his ayris to be vexit or distrubillyt,
or zit his assignais in thaim, that thai may nocht brouke the said landis of Glen-
genet and the Bannane with thair pertinence, we bynd and obliss vs and our ayris,
as saide is, in the straytest and mast sikkir fourme of obligacioun, that than we
or thai quha sal happin to be presente in the tyme sal infefte and frely gif and
delyuer be chartir possessioun and sesing the said Marc of Haliburtoun, his ayris
or assignais, quhilk sal happin to be vexit in the tyme, and to be lettit in the
browking of the said landis in to ten poundis wortli of land of aide extent, als
gude and als sivfficiant as the said landis of Glengenate and the Bannane with