?8 Charters Relating to Lincluden College. 



between John Lord Maxwell with the consent of his curator and 

 friends on the one side and the late Master Robert Douglas, 

 provost of Lincluden, and the said James here designated of Bait- 

 furde on the other side, dated at Greenlaw, 3 Ap., 1603, 

 registered in the books of the Council, 26 May, 1609, for a 

 marriage between William Douglas, formerly heir aparent of 

 Baitfurde, grandson of the said Robert and oldest lawful son of 

 the said James, and Lady Agnes Maxwell, full sister of the said 

 Lord, the said Robert as freeholder and the said James as feu 

 farmer and feuar of the above said, bound themseh-es to infief 

 the said William, his heirs and assigns without reversion in all 

 the temporal lands and others of the lordship and provostship of 

 Lincluden, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbrycht, which the said 

 James held in feu farm of the King ; the conditions of which con- 

 tract in favour of the said William have come to the King on 

 account of the outlaury of the said William designated of Lin- 

 cluden and Greenlaw, for certain crimes of which he was 

 convicted 6 Sep. 1610; and the King had granted by letters 

 under the Privy Seal dated at Roistoun 8 Apr. 1611, to 

 the said Sir Robert Gordon and John Murray his right by reason 

 of the said outlawry, and the said James Douglas of Pinyearie, 

 otherwise Baitfuird, for completion of the said contract and for 

 sums of money paid to him, has resigned the above said through 

 a procurator, dated at Edinburgh 28 May, 1611. 



51st of James VL At Edinburgh, 2 Dec, 1617. 



The King has granted at feu farm to James Dowie, writer, 

 inhabitant of the burgh of Edinburgh, to his heirs and assigns 

 whomsoever, the house and garden formerly belonging to the 

 late David Welsche, sacristan of the Collegiate Church of lin- 

 cluden, then possessed by the said James as sacristan of the 

 same ; the house and garden formerly belonging to Master David 

 Gibsoun, son of the late Master Henry Gibsoun, commissary of 

 Glasgow, Hugh and James Gibsoun his brothers, prebendaries 

 of the said church, then posse.ssed by — Thomsoune, son of 

 John Thomsoun of Glasgow, prebendary of the said church ; the 

 house and garden formerly belonging to the late David Welsche, 

 prebendary of the said church, then possessed by James Hair- 

 stanes, prebendary of the same ; the house and garden formerly 

 belonging to the late John M'Gie and before him to the late 



