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312 ABSTRACT OF CHARTERS IN APPENDIX.
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and the heirs of his body (whom failing, to return to the granter
and his heirs), of the granter and his heirs, for rendering to the king
the service due and wont. Dated at Aberdeen, 20th September 1400, 204
III.— CHARTERS RELATING TO PHILORTH AND OTHER LANDS
ACQUIRED AND ADDED TO PHILORTH.
11. Charter by King David the Second to William Earl of Ross, of the
earldom of Ross and lordship of Skye, and all other lordships and lands
that belonged to the said Earl, except those in the shires of Aberdeen,
Dumfries, and Wigtown ; which earldom, etc., the Earl had resigned by
his procurators in the king's hands in the Parliament held at Perth, 23d
October 1370 : To be held by the said Earl and the heirs-male of his
body ; whom failing, by Walter de Lesley, knight, and Eufamia his
spouse, and the survivor of them, and the heirs of the said Eufamia's
body, so that if there were no heir-male of her body, and she should
have several daughters, the eldest daughter, as well of Eufamia as of
her heirs begotten of her, failing heirs-male, should succeed to the
whole earldom with the above exceptions, always without division ;
whom failing, by Johanna, the younger daughter of the said Earl, and
her heirs, the eldest heir-female always succeeding, without division —
of the King and his heirs, for rendering the services due and wont.
Dated at Perth, 23d October, A.R.R. 41 [1370], 206
1 2. Letters of Complaint by William Earl of Ross to King Robert the
Second and his Council, representing that his Majesty's predecessor
had given to Sir Walter de Lesley, knight, all the complainant's lands
and tenements, and also those of Hugh de Ross his brother, within
Buchan, neither he nor his brother being called, summoned, or
convicted ; that on coming to know of the seizin so given to Sir
Walter, violently and without process of law, he had applied by letter
to the Bishop of Brechin, chancellor of Scotland, for a letter of
attorney from the Chancery, containing the names of Robert Steward
of Scotland, Thomas Earl of Mar, William de Keth, and William de