Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

1G0 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF INCHCOLM
next appears on 21 Dec. 1408, when, as ‘ Master Robert de Lanyne,
provost of the church of St. Andrews,’ he is granted a safe-conduct, along
with other Scots clerics, to treat for the deliverance of James, son of the
king of Scotland {Cal. of Docs., iv. 780). He is again granted a safe-
conduct on 29 April 1411 {ibid., 801); and, on 1 Dec. 1412, ‘ Mestre
Robert de Lany, licenciez en decrees prevost de Seint Andrew,’ has a
safe-conduct as one of the ambassadors appointed to treat for the deliver¬
ance of James I and for a truce {ibid., 833). A further safe-conduct is
given him, 16 April 1413 {ibid., iv. 841). He witnesses a record of 19 June
1424 {CPU., viii. p. 538). As Provost of the Chapel Royal, St. Andrews,
he witnesses royal charters, 20 March and 31 March 1431 {RMS., ii. 199,
200) and 20 March 1432/33 {Univ. Comm. Rep., St. And., p. 179). He was
dead by 9 June 1437, when Hugh Kennedy, a canon of Sens, had been
provided to the provostship void by the death of Robert de Lany {CPR.,
viii. p. 663). For Lany’s public career, see further Balfour-Melville,
James I, pp. 33, 45, 47, 55-59, 200. The church of St. Mary-on-the-Rock
was the oldest of the Scottish collegiate churches. Its site can be seen
beside the coastguard station at St. Andrews. It had, along with the
collegiate churches of Restalrig and Stirling, the dignity of a Chapel Royal.
Robertum de Kylconqwhare canonicum regularem monasterii S. Columbe
de Insula. At a later date, putative Prior of Monymusk. On 1 Sept.
1427, papal mandatories were instructed to collate Robert de Pasleto,
Augustinian canon of St. Andrews, to the priory of Monymusk, ‘ sum¬
moning and removing Robert de Kilconcar, Augustinian canon, who
for more than nine months has without canonical title detained possession ’
{CPR., vii. p. 513). On 10 July 1430 Monymusk, on the occasion of the
payment of annates in name of William de Crennok, is described as ‘ void
by the death of Robert de Kylconkar in Curia,’ and his death at Rome
is again mentioned, 16 May 1431 {Scottish Benefices, pp. 101, 104).
Datum Mantue vii Idus Januarii pontificatus nostri anno secundo. The
date of Martin V’s brief is 7 Jan. 1419.
Dominum WUlelmum de Haya de Lochorwarde militem. Father Hay
{Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale, p. 17) states that Sir William Hay
succeeded his father, Sir William, about 1410. He witnessed charters of
Archibald, Earl of Douglas, post 1410 and 4 Dec. 1411 {Douglas Book,
iii. p. 413). Sir William Hay of Lochorwart is one of the Scottish com¬
missioners who agree to a truce at Hawdenstank, 21 April 1410 {Cal. of
Docs. rel. to Scotland, iv. 793) and a commissioner to treat for a truce,
23 May and on another unspecified date in May 1411, and 2 Oct. 1411
{ibid., iv. 804, 805, 811). On 28 Sept. 1414, Archibald, Earl of Douglas,
granted him a charter of the lands of Auchqwone in Wigtown ( Tester Writs,
47) and on 28 Sept. 1418, there is a precept for payment of maills of these
lands to Sir William the Haye of Louchorwart {ibid., 52). On 26 Jan.
1418/19, there is an indenture between William de la Hay, lord of Loch-
qwerwert, Sheriff of Peblis, with consent of William de la Hay, his son
and heir, and Master Robert de Moffete, canon of Glasgow {ibid., 51).
On 1 Aug. 1420, William de la Hay, knight, Sheriff of Peebles, and others