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CAMPBELL OF STRACHUR WRITS
Scottish ranks, blessing them as he passed along. It
was therefore natural that Bruce should also view with
favour the patriotic Abbot1 and his house of Austin Canons,
and according to tradition he gave them the lands of
Achnacloich in Lome.
Within a few months after Bannockburn a Parliament
held at Cambuskenneth passed an Act forfeiting for ever
all those ‘ qui contra pacem et fidem dicti domini regis
in bello seu alibi mortui sunt vel qui dicto die ad pacem
ejus et fidem non venerant licet saepius vocati et legitime
expectati fuissent.’ The effects of this Act were far-
reaching and had not a little to do with the support which
in the next reign Edward Balliol received from ‘ the dis¬
inherited lords.’ But meantime it placed great tracts of
country at the disposal of the King wherewith to reward
those who had been faithful to him and to the cause of
Scottish Independence. We know that the great house of
Ergadia was forfeited, and it may be assumed that its
fate was shared by the Lord of Glendochart if he still
survived. Out of his lordship the King gave to the Priory
of Strathfillan as a perpetual endowment the lands of
Auchtertyre—ingenuously corrupted by some scribe into
Wochtirtiry—in its immediate neighbourhood. The writ
has not been preserved, but it was confirmed by James iv.
on 2nd October 1498.2 He also granted to the Abbey of
Inchaffray the church of Killin, where the Dochart
enters Loch Tay, ‘ ita tamen quod dicti Abbas et con-
ventus in perpetuum inveniant unum canonicum divina
scelebrantem [sic] in ecclesia de Strathfulane.’ This
grant under the Privy Seal, dated at Clackmannan 26th
February 1317-18, was followed by a charter under the
Great Seal on 12th April 1318, and confirmed by both the
Bishop and the Dean and Chapter of Dunkeld in October
1 Afterwards Bishop of Dunblane.
2 Reg. Mag. Sig.