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lands, rents & debts which he acquires by plea or otherwise in the 
county of Dumfries (provided he always goes by the granter’s 
advice) to free him from the recognisances. | Appends his seal. 
Done at St Andrews 28 March in the king’s 32nd year. He also 
took from John’s plough worth 2 sh. against law ejected him from 
12 tofts in Dumfries called “ our Lady’s tofts,’’ which John held 
in mortgage & detains them to his damage of 100 sh. & more. 
Also from the tofts & burgages formerly of Gilberd le fitz Bel., of 
which John was possessed before & since the war, and has given 
seisin of them by means of champerty to John the Grocer, who was 
never in seisin before the war, nor his father nor mother brother 
or sister, nor uncle or aunt, and has done this in the petitioner’s 
absence to his damage of £10 & more, as if the lands had been in 
the king’s hands, wherease John was always of the king’s party. 
(Endorsed)—The Guardian of these parts, the Chamberlain of 
Scotland, James de Dallileghe & Friar Ralph de Lindebee, 
warden of the Hospital of St. John or 3 or 2 of them, are ap- 
pointed to hear & determine the case. The Chamberlain of Scot- 
land to issue the appointment under the Great Seal of Scotland. 
(From Bain’s Calendar of State Papers.) 
1302-4.—Account of James de Dalileye, clerk for escheats 
south of the Frith in the 3lst & 32nd years of Edward I. The 
County of Dumfries. He accounted for 9 sh. of the farms of the 
king’s demesnes of Dumfries by the hands of John de Bix for 
Pentecost last and for £15 of the farm of Metoun of Dumfries by 
same hands, for Pentecost & Martinmas terms, and for 23 sh. 
received from the farms of Gurdona, Aleynton, and Alisland by 
same hands for same terms. Total £16 12s. 
For 1304-5.—The same James de Dalileye states that the 
issues for Dumfries are:—From Sir Matthew de Redman, sheriff, 
from the issues of his baillary, 100 sh. From said sheriff from 
the issues of same :—£30. ; 
1305-6.—Account of Gervase Avenel & William Matkynson, 
John Semerles & John the Lang, bailies of the burgh of Dumfres 
from the said 15th day of October until the feast of St. Michael 
next following. The-same render account of the farm of the town 
of Dounfres from the term of St. Martin & Whitsuntide last past 
of £9 17s 8d, & of 2 shillings coming from the burgage of William 
Malkymson in the same burgh, being in the king’s hand by the 
eviction of John, son of Laghlan & John Mounville for the time 
