84 Notes on Ctimmertrees. 



upon him " Estrabannent et totam terrain a divisa Dunegal de 

 Stranit usque ad divisam Randulphi Meschines." He died in 1141. 

 and was interred in the priory of Gysburne, whicli he had previously 

 built and endowed. His son Eobert succeeded to his estates. 

 Out of respect and affection for his father, Robert added to the 

 endowments of Grysburne priory by bestowing upon it the lands 

 and tithes of the Churches of Annan, Cumbertres, Graitenhou 

 (Grraitney), and of some others in the neighbourhood. If it is not 

 certain in what precise year these gifts were made, they must have 

 been made between the time of his father's death and the year of 

 his own death, 1171. 



A little further on we come upon the first known dweller in 

 Cummertreea to whom lands, &c., were granted by the Brus. 

 The following charter is by William de Brus, son of the Robert 

 who bestowed on Gysburne the lands and tithes of the churches 

 just named, and though without date, must be somewhere between 

 1191 and 1215, in which latter year he died. It is found in the 

 MSS. history of " Lord Carlyle of Torthorwald," by the Rev. 

 Peter Rae, minister of Kirkconnel at the beginning- of last century, 

 and is translated thus : — 



" William de Brus to all his friends, French and English, and 

 those who will be hereafter, greeting : Know that I have given 

 and granted and by this my charter confirmed to Adam de Carleol, 

 son of Robert, and his heirs, for his homage and service of the 

 increase of his fourth part of one knight, which he holds of me in 

 Kinnemid, one free salt-pan below Prestende, and one fishery and 

 one net (stake) on the shore of the free sea between my fishery of 

 Cummertaies, which belonged to my father and Cocho, wherever it 

 may please him most, with all its just rights freely as it is the 

 custom to the salt-pan and fishery, so that no one shall interfere 

 with his salt-pan, stake net, or fishing, unless through my forfeit- 

 ure, yet saving to me and my heirs, Strion and Oraspeis. Wit- 

 nesses : William de Heriz, then steward, Hudard of Hoddom, 

 Hugh de Brus, Hugh de Cori, Gilbert son of John, Hugh Matuer, 

 William de Hoyneville, Adam de Dinwoodie, Richard Fleming, 

 Richard de Bass, Roger son of Udard, and some others." 

 (Appendix A.) 



This Adam de Carleol was an ancestor of the Torthorwald 

 Carlyles. It is probable that the Carleols or Carlyles were orig-i- 

 nally Anglo-Norman colonists brought to Scotland by Robert de 



