Series 3 > Court book of the Burgh of Kirkintilloch 1658-1694

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COURT BOOK OF THE
Whytlaw in Duntiblae,1 to their heirs and, failing them, to
Elisabeth’s own heirs, declaring that she acted from her own
free will and without compulsion, and renouncing any right
of liferent, terce, conjunct fee or other interest in the
property.]
{134) [13 December 1687 ; Bailies as before, with the
town council and remanent burgesses ; Assize : David
Drumple, Robert Dollour, Robert Dollour younger, John
Coneyburgh, John Morson ; James Coneyburgh, Walter
Bull, Georg Stirling, John Pauli, William Scott; Robert
Wilson, John Anderson, James Hendrie, Maister James
Fleyming.]
[Walter Baillie was entered to a Newland mailing on the
west side of Luggie water, with two tenements and an acre
of land at the Tounhead (presently possessed by William
Renkine and others), all sold to him by Androw Stirling,
portioner in Easter Calder,2 conform to a heritable dis¬
position thereof dated 5 December 1687, in favour of Walter
and his spouse, Lillias Flemyng, and the longer liver of
them, in liferent, and to William Baillie, their son, and his
heirs ; and was made burgess and freeman, giving his oath,
etc.]
{135) [29 January 1689 ; Bailies as before, with the town
council and remanent burgesses.]
The Baillies having cleared all compts anent their
intromissiones with the Tounes goods and stents and
particularlie anent the stentt for the ryding and bying and
mounting horse and armes thairto conforme to the pro-
clamatioune for the same and it is found they have made
just compt, reckning and payment of the same be the
1 Duntiblae lies on the Luggie above Oxgang, and a little over a mile
ESE. of Kirkintilloch. For the Earl of Wigtown’s mill of Duntiblae, see
Watson, op. cit., 107, 158 et seq., and Johnston, Old Kirkintilloch, 35-6.
2 Easter Calder (i.e. the Lanarkshire Ladder, not the Midlothian Calder)
lay only 2f miles WSW. of Kirkintilloch. It was separated from Boghead
by a bog adjoining the Park burn : see Watson, op. cit., 152.