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PAPERS RELATING TO THE MEARNS 93
to these donations, and her grants were confirmed by
Alexander the Second.
4. Dying without issue, she was succeeded by John
de Berkeley, brother of Humphrey, who dispossessed the
monks of all these donations, but was obliged to com¬
promise & give them instead, a portion of his lands of
Conveth, and that transaction was confirmed by Alexander
the Second.
5. Robert de Berkeley, son of John, had concurred in his
father’s compromise with the monks.
6. Hugh- de Berkeley, son of Robert, obtained from
King Robert Bruce a Charter over the lands of Westerton
in Conveth.
7. Alexander de Berkeley, son and successor of Hugh,
married Catherine, sister of William de Keith, Marischal of
Scotland, a.d. 1351, and by that marriage added to the
paternal estates the then extensive domain of Mathers,
conveyed by Charter from the Marischal, confirmed by
King David Bruce.
8. David de Berkeley, 2nd of Mathers, married the
daughter of John de Seton.
9. His son Alexander de Berkeley, 3rd of Mathers,
married Helen, daughter of Grahame of Morphie.
10. Their son David de Berkeley, 4th of Mathers, who
built an impregnable castle called the Kaim of Mathers and
according to tradition there took refuge on account of
his concern in the murder of Melville the Sheriff,1 married
the daughter of Strachan of Thornton.
11. His son Alexander, 5th of Mathers, married the
daughter of Wishart of Pitarrow. He changed the
spelling of the family name to Barclay.
12. His son David Barclay, 6th of Mathers, married
Janet, daughter of Irvine of Drum.
13. Alexander Barclay, 7th of Mathers, son of David,
married the daughter of Auchinleck of Glenbervie, &
anno 1497 sold the lands of Slains and Falside to Moncur
of Knapp.
Fide ante, p. 63.