New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

ESTATE TAPEKS : BRAICKLY. 37
by Invercauld which the deponent acknowledges to be exact and this is
the truth as he shall answer to God.
(Signed) To. Patty"
Similair statements are made by a John Small, John McKenzie,
Janet Elmslie, widow to David Ogilvie, who cannot write, and a Francis
McDonald signs for her ; John Gray, Peter Moir, Robert Moir, Alexander
Gray, another Alexander Gray, Alexander Stewart, James Ker, Alex-
ander Moris, Donald Smith, Alexander Gordon, James Gray, Francis
Rioch, Donald Gordon, William Birse, and Jane Roy, who all appear to
have been at that time tenants on the small property of Auchoilzie, as
well as four other tenants — Peter Smith, James Calder, another Peter
Smith, and Donald Smith — and who all with two exceptions make an
attempt at signing their declarations.
The following note is added : —
" It is agreed betwixt Invercauld and the above named tenants of
Blackarage that they are to pay the rent of Rienhin during the currence
of their Tack at the term of Whitsunday, and that they are to pay the rent
specified in the Tack granted them by the Earl of Aboyn at the term of
Martinmass, during the lease there mentioned."
From a jotting of rental for crop 1765, the Earl of Aboyne seems to
have received for Upper Auchoilzie and for Chapel Croft a rent of
;£'8i 19s. od. Scotch, and Francis Reich £1^ 3s. 2d. Scotch ; and George
Gillanders certifies his rent in the following peculiar way : — •
" My judicial rental ; — Money rent, Geo. Gillanders, ^^51. 9. o,"
which seems to have been the yearly money rental of the whole estate as
settled by Court ; but the greater part of the rent was paid in kind.
There is an old Charter, almost illegible, by John, Archbishop of St.
Andrews, to Mr. James ... of the town and lands of Auchlorkage,
dated 1563, which afterwards formed part of the Estate of Auchoilzie.
The prefixed J/n denotes that the donee was a clergyman. In this case,
probably the incumbent of Glenmuick.
BRAICKLY.
This property consisted of Braickly, Toldow, Tombreck, Dollyfour,
and Brochdow, and was held under the Marquis of Huntly.