Series 3 > Papers from the collection of Sir William Fraser

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
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& regalitie yrof and defence of ye samin To Copeir psew
& produce or saids rychtis and to protest yairupoun
Protestationes to mak actis instrumets decreittis and all
uther documents necessar quhatsueuir to ask lift &
rais and generallie all & sindry uthir to do exercis & use
that to ye saids offices of baillierie regalitie & Justiciarie
is known to appertein or yit y* we myt do or self gif we
wer pnt in propir persoun whn the saids Courtis fferme &
stabill haldand and for to hald for us or airis & successors
all & quhatsumeuir things the said Williame or baillie &
Justice foirsaid or his deputtis in the premisses in or
name sail richteouslie leid to be done And yir or letters
of baillery & justiciarie during the said space and farder
induring or will and ay and q11 we discharge the samin in
speciall but revocatioun to indure. In witnes of ye quhilk
thing yir pntis writtin be David Boreland messenger sub-
scrivit w1 or hand & or counsellors wnderwrittin or propir
seill is heirto affixit at holyruidhous the nynte day of
Februarii The Zeir of god 1 m sex hundreth Zeirs Befoir
yir witnes Johne Dunlop & Robert Montgomerie servitors
to the nobill Lord & Johne Cumghame merchand & burges
of Edr wth uthrs dyverss.
Lenox.
R. Montgomery witnes
Jhone Cunyghame wetneis.
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SECURITIES for Sir Aulay M‘aulay of Ardincaple,1
1610
Cautioun and souirtie is foundin be Sr James Edmeston
of duntreith Wm sempill of foulwod Wm buchannan of
1 Macaulay of Ardincaple was the chief of a very ancient clan who at one
time were numerous in the Lennox. In 1591 a bond of mutual assistance was
entered into between ‘ Alexander MacGrigor of Glenstray and Awlay Macawlay
of Ardingapill understanding ourselfs and our name to be Macalppinsof awld
and to be our just and trew surname quherof we are all cumen ’—the seniority
of the Macgregor ancestor being admitted and the Macaulays being accepted as
a ‘brenche of his house.’ These Lennox Macaulays had, of course, no connec¬
tion with the Scandinavian Macaulays of the Lewis (vide Highland Papers, vol.
ii. p. 8, note 1). And yet when Macaulay the historian was made a peer, he
obtained from the English heralds a coat of arms indicative of Ardincaple
descent!!