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EIGHT REVEREND BISHOP KEITH. lxxix
me, that in looking through the Earl Marischafs papers, he
had found a precept of sasine of the lands of Pittendrum
and Pitblao to your predecessor, said he ; for the Sheriff
knew well what branch of the honourable Family Mr Robert
Keith was descended ; therefore I, the said Mr Robert,
prayed the Sheriff to get me a copy of that paper, which
he was so kind as to do. The tenor of it is this : —
Willielmus Comes Mariscal, fyc.dilectis nostris Antonio Keth,
1 1 1 'ch ibaldo Keth,Joanni Keth, Sfc. ac eorum cuilibet, conjunctim.
et divisim, Battivis nostris in hac parte irrevocabiliter const itu-
tis, Salutem. Quia dedimus et concessimus hwreditarie dilecto
filio nostro Alexandro Keth, omnes et singulas terras nostras
de Pittendrum et Pitblae, cum suis pertinen. jacen. in baronia
nostra de Aden, infra vicecom datum de Aberdeen ; quw
quidem terrcs cum pertinen. fuerunt filii nostri Gilbert Keyth
/nt'fcditarie, et quas ipse, non vi ant metu ductus, nee errore
lapsus, in manibus nostris apud Castrum nostrum de Dun-
notar, per fustem et baculum sursum reddidit, pureque et sim-
pliciter resignacit, prout in charta nostra sibi desuper confecta
plenius continetur: Vobis igitur et vestrum cuilibet, conjunctim
d dicisim, pracipimus, damus in mandatis, ac firmiter man-
do „. i us, quatenus dicto Alexandro, aut suo certo auctornato, seu
procuratori, sasinam hwreditariam dictar. terrar. de Pitten-
drum et Pitblae, cum suis pertinen. tradatis et deliberetis, aut
tutus vestrum tradat et deliberet : Ad quod faciendum, vobis et
vestrum cuilibet conjunctim et divisim, nostram plenariam et
irrevocabilem, tenore prccsentiam, committimus potestatem ; et,
in Signum Sasinw per vostraditw, sig ilium vestrum in secunda
cauda, post nostrum prwsentibus appendatis, seu units vestrum
appendat. Pat. sub sigillo nostro, apud Castrum nostrum de
Dunnotar, quarto die mensis Februarii, anno domini millesimo
quingentesimo decimo tertio.
Then follows at the bottom this precept — " I, Mr James
Keith, Sheriff-Depute, copied word by word from the prin-
cipal pi'ccept. At Inverugie, the 26th February 1704.
'• Sic subscribitur, James Keith.' 1