Red and white book of Menzies

150 THE "RED cV WHITE" BOOK OF MENZIES. [a.d. i 502-1 50s.
loch covers was once dry land, and formed a parish called Feadail. In a single
night the parish subsided many feet in consequence of some terrible subterranean
convulsion ; and that the whole population, with their cattle, houses, and fields,
were engulfed in the lake which was thus created. It further states, that for a
long period the church of Feadail, and other such remarkable objects might be
seen, on a clear summer day, at the bottom of the lake. Under protection of the
Menzies, after Culloden, Prince Charlie hid for a time in the wilds around Loch
Errochd, where there is a cave called Prince Charlie's Cave." — Historical Scenes of
Perthshire, pp. 434-5.
" Innerlochy " — mentioned in the following, but now known as Inverlochy — is
an estate in the parish of Kilmonivaig, on the left influx of the river Lochy, 2
miles north-east of Fort William ; for these lands Sir Robert paid a Crown fee
of 4s. These lands seem to have been connected to those of Loch Rannoch ; in
that case the Menzies' lands would extend to the arm of the sea, Loch Linnhe :
this fee, with others, was paid.
On the 2 1st day of July 1503, Sir Robert is recorded as paying his fees
into the Royal Exchequer, as the following translation shows : —
"Edinburgh, 21st July 1503 — from August 1502. The amount of rent, half
of £72, and 100 salmons, for continual possession of the lordship of Kindevin,
of the yearly value of £2, 12s. 3d., of the possessions of the lordship of Apnadull
and the lands of Commisarnot, and such number of lands conveyed with full
possession to Roberto Menzeis of Weyme, by letters under the Great Seal, paying
yearly thirty pounds from the said lands, and such reckonings with payments in
future of twenty pounds, with further sums of a similar thirty pounds of the said
lands of Apnadull, as agreed to by Robert Menzies, and for five pounds yearly
after the feast of Penthecostez, which amounts are to be paid yearly — double
former — namely, sixty pounds over the agreed burdens ; other similar amounts as
reckoned half, further, and of £96, 16s. of Stukmartis of Desschier and Toyer, with
both sides, and outer parts of Loch of Taya on this side the twenty-merk land,
both his, with buildings, prion's (priory), and conventns (convent), Cartusie, within
the shire of Perth, and of £9, 6s. 8d. of Glenlioun, and the .£18 of Forthirgill, and
the ,£20 of Rannach, and fee of said lands of Rannadi belonging to Robert
Menzies, for thirty pounds yearly, in full possession, and such reckonings to
be burdened yearly with tithes libis, and a further sum, with other parts of rental, and
the ,£5 of Drumfin and Drumquhassill in Apnadull, including burdens stated, and
the £\Z, 6s. 8d. of the holdings of Cluny — meadows, buildings, and surrounding
lands — the same occupied by facobum Hering, and the lis. yearly returns of
Kinblathuiount, and the 22s. of Trosoppy, and the 5s. 4d. yearly returns of
Monorgund, and the 4s. of Innerlochy, for giving eight broad arrows, and the
5s. for giving one pound of peper, the high-lying lands of Rait, both the said free