Red and white book of Menzies

io6 THE "RED & WHITE" BOOK OF MENZIES. [a.d. 1425-1428.
Edinburgh, 27th day of March, anno 1425." — Acts of Parliament of Scotland,
p. 26, vol. ii.
The James of Douglas mentioned in the foregoing was married to Lady
Beatric Sinclair, the daughter of Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, and brother-
in-law of Sir David the Menzies, by which marriage he had a son William, 8th
Earl of Douglas. — Scots Nation, p. 44, vol ii.
After the return of Sir David the Menzies from his imprisonment in the
Tower and other English strongholds, there were some communications between
Sir David and his brother-in-law, the Earl of Orkney. One of these documents
is mentioned in an old inventory of the muniments of Castle Menzies, dated
1656, No. 14. It is in the form of an " atnorie " by the Earl of Orkney to
Sir David Menzies, the Laird of Weymo, dated at Edinburgh, 16th December
1426. From this time he seems to have begun to prepare himself for entering
the Church; and in this year (1426) King James I. confirmed the rights of
half the barony of Culter, with the patronage of the church of Culter, to John
Maynheis, his son, on the resignation of these by his father Sir David Maynheis,
in his favour. This charter is in the possession of the Menzies of Menzies. —
Upper Ward of 'Lanarkshire, p. 262, vol. i.
Sir David is thought to have had a daughter Katherine, who married
"Alano of Erskyne." He seems to have been a son of Sir Robert Erskine,
one of his companion hostages, who claimed the Earldom of Mar to his son
Alano in right of his mother. Sir David in 1428 gave a grant of his lands of
Vogry in the shire of Edinburgh, probably as the marriage portion of this
daughter, to the family of whom these lands were to return, in the event of there
being no issue, or of any of their descendants. This charter is thus recorded : —
17th July 1428, James I. In the records is a charter, the engrossing of which
has been left incomplete, and is here inserted in the Register of the Great Seal,
p. 21. It is to the following effect: — "The king concedes to Alano of Erskyne
and Katherine his spouse, the lands of Vogary in the shire of Edinburgh,
which David the Meyhes of Weme resigned as a tenant, the said Alano and
Katherine, to be held by them during their life and heritably to males legi-
timately procreated between themselves, which failing legitimate, the nearest
relation heritably whatsomever of the said Katherine (Menyhes) in full possession
on her side to descend."
About this time Sir David the Menzies made application to King James I.
to confirm him in the patronage of the Kirk of Weem. This he got confirmed
by document from the king, the original of which is noted in the old inventory
made of the muniments of Castle Menzies in 1656, as — " Confirmation by King
James 1st of the patronage of Weyme, to Sir David the Menzies, Edinburgh,
14th February" (no year), but about 1429? Soon after this Sir David, byway