Series 1 > Court book of the Barony of Urie in Kincardineshire, 1604-1747

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THE COURT BOOK OF
[21 JULY
The said day John Tailzeour in Reidcloak being persewit be
Thomas Durart, his nichtbour, and James Wyshart, procura-
tour fiscall, for the erle of Erroll and the laird 'of Wrie for his
entres, for hurting, wounding, and bluid-drawing off the said
Thomas Durart in the back syid off the heid, and the samen
being sufficientlie provin be Alexander Mowat and William
Blindscheall, admitit witness be the said John Tailzeour his
consent, the said John Tailzeour is decernit to pey to the erle
off Erroll and the Laird the sowme of tene pundis money
within terme of law vnder paine of poynding.
J. Thomesouxe, notarius scriba.
The, Barroune Court of the Barrouny of Wrie, haldin in
! James Alardes barm in Woodhead, wpoune the xxj day
of Julij 1620, in name and behalf of am nobill and potent
erle Francis, erle of Erroll, Lord Hay, etc., and William
Hay of Wrie, heritable propriaters of the saids landis,
and in name of am honourable man John Hay of
Crimoundmogit1 their bailzie. James Thomsoum, notter,
Clark, Alexander Hay, offciar, William Gicht, Dempster.
The suits calit, the Court lawfullie fensit and ajfirmit.
The said day William Gicht was creat Dempster, quha gave
his ayth de fideij administrationj, ay and quhill he be dis-
chargit.
The said day the haill tennentis efter specifeit ar decernit be
thair awin consentis to pay ilk ane for their awine pairtis the
particular quantaties of wictuall customes and sowmes of money
wnder writtin to John Mowatt, in Powbair, as chalmerlane and
factour to my lord of Erroll, wiz.—Nynteine bollis meill and
nyne bollis of bear restand be Gilbert Barclay of his ferme of
Magray, crop 1619, with thrie dussane of caponis, or than
1 Cousin of the Laird of Urie. He succeeded his father, designed William
Hay of Little Arnage, in 1614.—Retours, Aberdeenshire, 135. Crimonmogate,
in the Buchan district of Aberdeenshire, formed part of the barony of Crimond,
which was acquired by the lairds of Urie in the latter part of the fifteenth cen¬
tury, through the marriage of Gilbert Hay of Urie to Beatrix, daughter of Sir
John Dunbar of Crimond. Crimonmogate is now in the possession of the Ban-
nermans, formerly of Elrick, to whom it was bequeathed by Mr. Patrick Milne.—
Smith’s New Hist, of Aberdeenshire, vol. ii. p. 942.