142 GLEANINGS OF OLD DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY. 
dom of Drumfres, which the said Robert has resigned, to be 
held by the said Geo. and Mar. and either of them surviving, 
and by the heirs lawfully begotten between them; failing whom, 
by the lawful and nearer heirs of the said Robert whomsoever. 
The free holding being reserved to the said Robert. 
Tue LorpDsHIP OF GALLOWAY. 
1473. 14th year of James III. At Edinburgh, 11th October. 
The King, after mature deliberation and with the advice 
and consent of the three Estates of the Realm in Parliament, has 
granted to the Lady Mergaret, Queen of Scotland, in substitution 
for a third part of the property of the Realm, and for the 
revenues of the property of the same kingdom, otherwise to his 
said wife promised and appointed, on account of the marriage con- 
tracted between his ambassadors on the one side and Christian, 
King of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, of the Goths and Sclavs, 
father of the said Mergaret, on the other side, the Lordship of 
Galloway, both on this side the water of Cree and beyond, with 
the customs and burgh farms of the burghs of Kirkcudbryght 
and Wigtoun, with the castle of Treif, in the same Lordship of 
Galloway, and the Lordship of the forest of Ettrick, with the 
tower and manor of Newerk in the said forest; the Lordship 
of Strivelingschir and Tulicultre, with the castle of Striveling 
and with the great customs and burgh farms of Striveling; and 
the Lordship of Strathern, with the great customs of the burgh 
of Perth; the Lordship of Menteith, Strogartnay, and Buch- 
quhidder, with the castle of Doune in Menteith; the Lordship 
of Kincleven, the Lordship of Methvene, with the castle of 
Methvene; the Lordship of Linlithqwschir, with the palace of 
Linlithqw, and with the great. customs and burgh farms of the 
burgh of Linlithqw, to be held by the said Mergaret during the 
whole time of her life, if the King should happen to close the 
last day before the same dearest wife; and the King has granted 
the aforesaid lordship, etc., with tenants, tenancies, and services 
of freeholders, in testimony of which thing the Great Seal has 
been appended, with the seals of divers prelates, chiefmen, 
earls, barons, and commissaries of burghs assembled in the 
aforesaid Parliament, representing the three Estates of the 
Realm, in sign of their consent and assent. 
