New Spalding Club > Thanage of Fermartyn including the district commonly called Formartine

TILLIEGREIG— ITS PROPRIETORS.
TiLLiEGREiG now belongs to the University of Aberdeen. It formed anciently part of
the endowment of the Bishopric of Aberdeen, and is first mentioned in a charter of
Pope Adrian, of the year 1057, to Edward, Bishop of Aberdeen. This charter, however,
is beheved b)- the late Cosmo Innes and others to be spurious, as the style and language
of the deed belongs to a later period.' In 1255 there is an agreement between the
Bishop of Aberdeen and the Abbot of Arbroath (who possessed the lands of Tarves in the
neighbourhood) regarding the lands of Tulachgreig and Achleck, &c. (.'\ffleck),= and
in 1 38 1, more than one hundred and twenty years after the last date, Andreas de
Ogyston is found promising to show a charter, by which he held the church lands of
Tillygreig at a court held on October 24, by Bishop Adam de Tyningham, on the
mount of the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, besides the cathedial church of
Aberdeen.-'
There are few more notices of Tilliegreig until we come to iS49i when there is a
lease of a portion of the lands given by William Gordon, Bishop of Aberdeen. It is
interesting as shewing the rental of land at that period : — "Assedation made by the
Bishop of Aberdeen to Andrew Bayne of four oxen gang of the town and lands of
Tilliegreig for eighteen years, paying herefor yearly the sum of seventeen shillings and
ninepence halfpenny money ; the saxt pairt of a chalder ; five boUis bear with a peck to
the boll ; the saxt pairt of a chalder of meal ; the saxt pairt of twa mairts ; sax pairt of
twa muttons ; the saxt pairt of four bollis aits with the stray ; twa capponis ; four
pultre ; ten pennies for bondage, carriage, and various other due service." ■*
In 1594 we find William Gordon, wadsetter of Tullachgreg. William Gordon,
first of Rothiemay, was the eldest of eight sons, whom John Gordon of Cairnburrow,
their father, led to the victorious battle of Glenlivat, in the year 1594. The laird
purchased estates to most of his sons. Besides Rothiemay, Park, Invermarkie, he had
wadsets on Gollachie, and Tilliegreig in Udny.^
With regard to a son of this William Gordon, there is the following notice : —
"December 4, 1612. The quhilk day Alexander Gordon, son to Maister William
Gordon of Tulliegreig, Ale.xander Gordon, son to James Gordon of Lesmoir, and
others, for having, on the i December, inst., taken the song school and keeping the
same with hagbuttis, pistolis, and swordis, and lang waypannis until yesterday afternoon.
1 Reg. Ep. .\bdn. I. p. 7. 4 Reg. Ep. Abdn. I. p. 400.
2 Ant. A. and B. I. p. 338. 5 Spalding Troubles, I. p. 47, note.
3 Reg. Ep. Abdn. I. p. 135 ; Ogston's Ogstons, pp. 21, 22.