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120 THK HOUSE OF FA1K(;IUT11.
On the eve of the R formation, the Scottish clergy,
hopeless of retaining tlie temporalities of the Church,
set about disposing of them as hi'st they could.
Accordingly, John Tailzeour, one ol' the prchendurs
"of the ladye of Gallovay service," in Lincluden, with
the consent of the Provost and prehendars chajiterly
assembled, granted a charter in favour of Roger
Lindsay, in consideration of certain sums of money
given by him for the making and repair of the orna-
ments and other vestments belonging to the said
prebend, and also for the repair of the Collegiate
Church, bestowing on Roger and his heirs male, etc.,
the lands of the Eastwood of Rarscribc, of the Bank
of Carborland, of Drummukhed, of the Mains of
Suthik and Barmoss, extending annually in the
granter's rental to the sum of 52 merks. To hold in
feu ferme and heritage of the granter and his
successors, prebends of the said prebendary [sic]— for
the yearly rent of 52 merks, and 3s. 4d. in augmenta-
tion. This charter is dated at Paris, Gth Aug. 1553.*
A Roger Lindsay, probably a blood relation of the
granter, was witness to charters of Michael, second
laird of Fairgirth, in 1507 and ISOD.f In 1544-5
Roger Lindsay, natural son of James Lindsay of
Fairgirth, received letters of legitimation. ;[: The
first
mentioned could scarcely have been he who acquired
the Mains of Southwick ;
the second might have been,
but it is only because of the occurrence in both families
* MS. Register of Lincludeu, quoted McDowall, Chronicle* of
Lincluden, p. 120.
t Reg. Mag. Sig., XIV., 357 ; XV., 133. (Vol. I., 3122, 3377.)
J
Ibid, XXIX. 224 (Vol. IL, No. 3077).