Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

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of the poor tenants of the fishings of Cambuskenneth, 27 Feb. 1531
(Cambuskenneth, 203), and on 24 Nov. 1535 was procurator of the Arch¬
bishop of St. Andrews (RMS., iii. 1549). He appears to have acted as
King’s Advocate in 1533 (Tester Writs, 501; Brunton and Haig, Senators,
p. 63); but on 13 Sept. 1538 he was appointed to that oflice for life (RSS.,
ii. 2714) and appears in that capacity very frequently thereafter. He was
admitted a Lord of Session, 20 Jan. 1538/39 (ABC., 1501-54, p. 477).
On 17 July 1538 ‘ it is devysit that Maister Henry Lawder be the persoun
to welcum the Quenis grace in sic abulyement and with the words in
Fransche, as sail be devysit with avyse of Maister Adame Otterburne.
Maister James Foulis and Dauid Lyndsay ’ (Edin. B.R., ii. p. 91). He
is mentioned as Queen’s Advocate up to 27 Jan. 1557/58 (RMS., iv. 1241).
Lauder died on 19 July 1561 (Brunton and Haig, Senators, p. 63). His
wife, Agnes Stewart, occurs (RMS., ii. 3713 ; RMS., iv. 1241). See further
Brunton and Haig, Senators, p. 63.
Magistris . . . Jacobo Catrow, Jacobo Reid. Not identified.
Georgius Gud . . . notarius. Witnesses an obligation made 7 March
1513 (ADC., 1501-54, p. 12). As clerk, subscribes articles framed by the
Lords of Council, 13 March 1516/17 (ibid., p. 82). George Gude and
Mariota Hommyll, his spouse, are mentioned, 21 Nov. 1517 (RSS., i.
2946). He intimated on behalf of the Lord Chancellor that the town of
Edinburgh could choose ‘ ony nychtbour . . . quhame thai plesit ’ to
be provost, 30 March 1520 (Edin. B.R., i. pp. 195-196) ; was depute to
the Clerk Register, 22 and — Nov. 1526 (ADC., 1501-54, pp. 219, 252);
appears as clerk to the Lords of Council, 1529 (Laing Charters, 379);
witnesses a record of 23 March 1530 (Tester Writs, 469); appears as
notary, 31 March and 17 Aug. of the same year (ibid., 458,463); Exchequer
clerk, 19 Aug. 1531 (ADC., 1501-54, p. 361); notary, 9 March 1533/34
and 11 July 1533 (ibid., p. 419; Tester Writs, 500); one of the scribes
of court, 15 Jan. 1534/35 (ADC., 1501-54, p. 432) ; clerk of court, 27 Feb.
1539/40 and 13 March 1540 (ibid., pp. 484, 486). He had land on the
‘ south street ’ of the burgh, 19 April 1637-27 April 1545 (RMS., iii. 1656,
3099; RSS., ii. 3059). It is doubtless Gude who appears as ‘ George
Grode, one of the cheefe clerkes of the Colledge of Judges in Edinburgh,’
in Calderwood’s account of the drowning of Walter Stewart, brother of
Lord Ochiltree, in 1546 (Historic of the Kirk of Scotland, i. p. 104). He
died before 24 April 1565 (RMS., iv. 1611). He is mentioned frequently
in Acts of Parliament, ii.; and appears in No. lxiv. infra.
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Constantine de Lochore grants to have received at Whitsunday 1241,
from the abbot and canons of Inchcolm, in relief of his straightened
circumstances, all his ferme for fifteen years of the land which he gave them
in fee-farm, namely, from the hillock called Cion to the canons’ marches
of Bothedlach ; and at the end of the fifteen years’ term, the canons will
pay to him and his heirs half a silver mark yearly for the said land.