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William Murray, the second son,^ got a charter from his uncle 

 Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, granting to ' Willelmo de Moravia 

 nepoti nostro dilecto . . . omnes terras et omnia tenementa cum per- 

 tinenciis tocius medietatis tenementorum de Cumlungan et de Ryvel 

 in VaUe Anandie prout dicta tenementa cum pertinenciis inter pre- 

 dictum Willelmum et Patricium fratrem suum per probos homines et 

 fidedignos sunt divisa ' [Mansfield Charter-Chest ; Annandale Peerage 

 Minutes, 796]. The charter includes a grant of half the patronage 

 ' of the church of the holdings named,' which, with the lands, had 

 formerly been possessed by Thomas of Duncurry. It is undated, but 

 must have been granted between 1317 and 1332,^ when Thomas Ran- 

 dolph, Earl of Moray, died.^ 



By a charter of David II, dated 1363, the lands along the southern 

 coast of Dumfriesshire which had belonged to Sir William de Carlyle, 

 who married Margaret Bruce (sister of the great Bruce), were granted 

 to the daughter of Sir William's son Thomas, and to her husband, 

 Robert Corrie.^ 



Besides the Barony of Corrie, comprising the modern parishes of 

 Houtton and Corrie, they [the Corries ; middle of 14th century] owned 

 Keldwood in the modern Cumberland parish of Kirkandrews-upon- 

 Esk, Comlongan, Ruthwell, the Barony of Newbie, the Barony of 

 Stapleton, Robgill, and part of the parish of St. Patrick, now divided 

 into Kirkpatrick-Fleming and Gretna, which includes the ruins of the 

 ancient Redkirk or Rampatrick, and the celebrated Lochmaben Stone, 

 where treaties were signed with the EngUsh.^ 



Again we hear of Ruthwell in 1411, when ' a charter of ta.i\y^ie 

 of the lands of " Ryvale " in Annandale . . . [was] granted 

 by Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas, to Sir Thomas Murray of 

 Ryvale. ' ^ 



^ Patrick and William were respectively the first and second sons of 

 Sir WilUam Murray, who is said to have been the first of his family. 

 ' Whatever his descent, he married the sister of Thomas Randolph, Earl 

 of Moray, and daughter of Sir Thomas Randolph, Great Chamberlain of 

 Scotland, by Isobel, sister of King Robert Bruce ' {Scots Peerage 1. 215). 



- Sir Thomas Randolph became Earl of Moray in 1312 (Scots Peerage 

 6. 292), and died July 20, 1332 (p. 294). 



^ Scots Peerage, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Edinburgh, 1904, 

 pp. 215-16. The date is said to be between 1315 and 1332, perhaps about 

 1329, ' having regard to the witnesses ' (p. 233) ; cf. Johnstone, p. 26. 



^ Johnstone, pp. 4, 5. 



5 Ibid., p. 6. 



® Scots Peerage 1. 213 ; Mansfield Charter-Chest. We are told (op. cit., 

 p. 217): Sir Thomas Murray, Knight, the eldest son [of Patrick], first 



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