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WAUCnOPK AND BARCLOT. 209
barony of Amistield belonging to the family of Cbarteris.*
No other property of the name is known to us.
Possibly it was a part of this Stiddrig which was
owned by the Lindsays. If so, it was lield direct Irorn
the Crown, and not from tlie Charterls.
In Dumfries Burgh— Here the Laird of Wauchope
in 1578 had several " forebuyths " occupied by tenants, f
In Roxburghshire— Sir Simon de Lindsay had ;in
annual rent of eight nierks payable out of the lands of
Scraesburgh near the town of Jedbiugh. Forfeited
by Sir Simon, this annual rent was regranted to his
son, Sir John, in 1321, after which we hear no more of
it as belonging to the Lindsays. J Probably it went to
the Glendinnings when in 1385 they got a giant of the
feu-duties of Scraesburgh which were })ayable to the
castle of Roxburgh. §
Later the Glendinnings obtained
a Crown charter of the lands as a barony. ||
In Stirhngshire—Sir Philip de Lindsay received
from the English king a grant of £20 of land in
Polmaise-Marischal, and was infeft therein at West-
minster in 1310.1i On transferring: his allefdance to
the King of Scots he seems to have been confirmed in
his possessions in this part of the country, but these
were forfeited by his brother, Sir Simon, as appears
from a grant by King Robert I. to Robert de Lawedir
of the mill of Lethberd, which had belonged to the
deceased Sir Philip and had been forfeited by Sir
* Reg. Mag. Sig., XHV. 142 (Vol. V., No. 1683), 28th Nov. 1605.
t Burgh Court Books of Dumfries MS., per Mr G. W. Shirley.
+ Reg. Mag. Sig., 1306-1424, p. 529, note.
§ Douglas, Baronage, p. 234.
II
Reg. Mag. Sig., VII. 103 (Vol. I., No. 899).
IT Rutuli Scotiae, Vol. I., p. 80.