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Annandale, if, indeed, lie had not been given possession* by 1138. 

 Between that time and tlie middle of the century lie receivedf 

 from the Bishop of Glasgow a concession of the bishopric's lands 

 of " Stratanant " or Annandale. A little later the church of 

 " Anant " with others in Annandale was granted to the monastery 

 of Guisborough — the church of St. Mary of Guisboiough — 

 founded as we have seen by the Brus family in 1119. The con- 

 firmation of this gift by William de Brus| is still extant,§ ratify- 

 ing the donation which his father, Robert de Brus, had made. 

 The date of the original grant to Guisborough is uncertain; 

 possibly it was near 1171,^ not far from the time when across the 

 Sol way Hugh de Morville was similarly founding the church of Burg li- 

 on-Sands, which perhaps, as will be seen, it architecturally resembled. 

 To about that date, at least, the erection of the church of St. 

 Mary^ of Anand is to be assigned. The grant to Guisborough 

 was frequently confirmed.'' The relations, however, between the 

 canons there and the bishops of Glasgow led to controversies, 

 one stage of which was ended in 1189 by an agreement ratified 

 by King William the Lion.* Another and larger question was 

 adjusted in 1223 by arbitration. In terms of the arbiters' ruling, 

 the Canons on the one hand granted' to the Bishop of Glasgow and 

 his successors the ordination and collation — the rights of patron- 

 age — of Annan Churcii. On the other Land, the decree deter- 

 mined" that the teind sheaves of corn of Annan Church were to 

 go to the canons for their own uses, whilst all the other profits 

 (with the exception of 3 marks a year to sustain the church lights) 

 were to go to the rector for the time for his uses. This wa.'i 

 modified in 1265 when, " on account of tlie intolerable deficiency 

 of the rector's portion " the canons granted" an augmentation to it 



*Dugdak\ Mouasticon (1846), vi. ,. 267. 



ftiain's Gal., i., 30. 



jLord of Annandale, 1191-1215. 



^Guisborough Chart., ii., 1176. 



^Nicolson and Burii's Cumbcrlaiul and WestmoHand, ii., 219. 



^For this name see Bain's Gal., i., 1681. 



'■William de Brus's confirmation (Guisb. Ghari., ii., 1176) was confirmed 

 by William the Lion [Ibid, ii., 1177) ; other confirmations were by 

 Robert de Brus tertins (Ibid. ii. , 1178), by Robert de Brus quartus the 

 competitor (Ibid, ii., 1]79), and bv Robert de Brus his son, father of King 

 Robert (Ibid, ii., 1180). 



*Otmb. Ghart., ii., 1183, 1182 ; Bain's Gal., i., 197 ; Registrum Glasg., i., 

 pp. 64-65. 



^Beg. Olasg., i., p, 107. 



"Gidsb. Ghart., ii., 1185, 1184; Btg. Glasg., L, p. 105. 



''Ouisb. Ghart., ii., 1188. 



