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l.KXX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE
In the Register of Sasines this following one is to be
seen, viz. —
" Instrument of Seisin given to Alexander Keyth of Pitten-
drum, on the lands of Over and Nether Cowtowns, &c. pre-
sented by the said Alexander himself the 4th day of Decem-
ber 162G years.
" In Dei Nomine, Amen. Per hoc prwsens publicum in-
strumentum cunctis pateat evidenter, et sit notum, quod anno
Incarnationis Dominicw millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo sexto,
mensis vero Novembris die ejusdem sexto, ac anno regni seren-
issimi et excellentissimi Principis Caroli, Dei gratia Magna?
Britannia?, Franciw, et Hiberniw Regis, Fideique Defensoris,
secundo, in mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum pre-
senilis, personaliter constitutus comparuit Alexander Keith de
Pittendrum, habens et tenens in suis manibus quandam cartam
venditionis et alienationis, prwceptum Sasinw in se continen.
factam, datam, et subscriptam per nobilem et poteniem Comitem
Wittielmum Comitem Mariscalli, Dominum Keyth, <$fc. cum
consensu et assensu Domino? Mariw Erskin ejus sponsw, prw-
fato Alexandro Keyth, hwredibus suis et assignatis quibus-
cunque, de totis et integris terris de Over et Nether Cowtons,
cum molendino ejusdem, lie vocat. mylne de Mowtie, terris
molendinariis, astrictis multuris, et sequelis earundem solitis et
consuetis ; totis et integris terris de Aquholie, Bimilzeon, et
Smalburne, cum decimis garbalibus in eisdem inclusis, cum
domibus, wdificiis, hortis, partibus, pendiculis, et pertinen.
jacen. infra parochiam de Fetteresso, et vicecomitaium de Kin-
cardyn : Quam quidem cartam et prwceptum Sasinw in se con-
tinen. prwfatus Alexander Keyth, probo mro Jacobo Thomson
in Woodhead, Balivo in hac parte, in hujusmodi prwcepto
specialiter constituto, ad manus prwsentavit, ipsumque rogavit,
quatenus hujusmodi prwcepti sasinw procedure dignaretur. Qui
quidem balivus ad manus recepit, mihique notario publico sub-
script prelegendum, et in vulgari lingua nostra exponendum,
tradidit, cujus prwcepti, per me perlecti, tenor sequitur sub hac
verborum forma, et est talis : INSUPER dilectis nostris Jacobo
Thomson in 1 1 r oodhead, et vestrum cuilibet conjunctim et divi-

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