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between the land of Cliftun and the land of Grubbeheiied — and thence above the foresaid Crukehou
along the boundaries which he perambulated between the land of Cliftun and the land of Pren-
wensete — and thence as far as the foresaid two stones of the rock above the foresaid rush-bed.' "^
The grant was confirmed by King William the Lion.^ Clifton was subsequently possessed by the
Corbets. Between 1201 and 1205 Robert Corbet, the son of the daughter of Gilbert de Um-
framuill, granted or confirmed to the monks of Melros that part of his land in the territory of
Cliftun contained within the bounds above specified, which he also had perambulated.' The
land was between the same years confirmed to them by Walter Corbet the younger, whose charter
was afterwards confirmed by King William the Lion."* About the same period a charter of Alan
of Galloway, the constable of Scotland, is witnessed by Radulph of Cliftun one of his 'clerks,'
and a charter of Patrick of Ridale is witnessed by William of Cliftun. ^ In 1214 or 1215 King
Alexander II. confirmed to the monks of Melros ' the land which Walter Corbet the son of
Walter Corbet gave them in the territory of Cliftun.'^ Before the year 1241 Roger Lardenar,
' with the will and assent of his wife Matildis, in the full court of William the son of Patrick
earl of Dunbar, gave up and quitclaimed for ever for himself and his heirs to the said William
the son of the earl, and Cristiana Corbet his wife, and their heirs, all right and claim which
he had or could have in the land of Clifton with all pertinents for a certain sum of money
which the said AVilliam and Cristiana Corbet paid him beforehand.'' Before 1249 Geoffrey
the son of Geoffrey granted to the monks of Melros ' the half of all the land which they formerly
held in the fief of Cliftun, which they recognosced to him as his right, namely, the shady
or northern half, as it fell to him in the same manor when divided by lot between William the
son of Earl Patrick and him,' as it was defined in the charter of Robert Corbet, and as peram-
bulated by the said Geoffrey himself.^ About the year 1 300 the monks of Kelso had at Clifton
seven acres of land which the lord of the land gave to the church of Mole for finding holy bread.'
On the 2d day of June, 1306, John of Weston, clerk, came to King Edward at Westminster,
praying that he would grant him ' that portion which John of Sumervill, abiding with the Earl
of Carrik, had in the town of Clifton in the county of Rokesborgh.' i" On the seventh day of
the same month at Chelechethe Master Richard liastang by letter entreated King Edward that
he would grant him ' the lands of Master John of Somervill in Clifton in the county of Rokes-
borgh.' 11 A final answer to both petitions was for reasons stated deferred for a time.'^
Between 1306 and 1329 King Robert Bruce granted to Roger Finlay the lands of Cliftoune
which had been forfeited by a Rutherfurd.i-' In 1381 King Richard II. granted to William
Badby an esquire of Scotland, but from his infancy in the allegiance and service of England, and
recently taken captive by the Scots, and impoverished by the exorbitant sum demanded for his
* Lib. de Melros, pp. 237, 23ii.
^ Lib. de Calchou, p. 457.
'» Palg. lUust., vol. i., p. 305.
" Palg. lUust., vol. i., p. 306.
•2 Palg. lUust., vol. i., pp. 305, 306.
'^ Robertson's Index, p. 11, no. 52.