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liamc, tutor, Arthur Fergussoun, John Asloan, and (jilbcrt 

 son of Andrew Roresoun. 

 3rd Uecember, 1545. 



(36.) 

 Nelsoun — Scottis. 

 foi. 31] Notarial instrument narrating- that Janot Nelsoun and 

 Cuthbert Scot and Robert Scot her sons, having obtained a 

 nineteen years' lease of the merklands of Stepfurd from the 

 abbot and convent of Holyvod, dated at Drumfres, 17th 

 November, 1545, to the longest liver of the three, and John 

 Scot, son of Cuthbert, agreed that Janot shall have the life- 

 rent thereof, and on her decease, Cuthbert and his son John 

 should have the one half, and Robert and his heirs the other, 

 notwithstanding- the terms of the lease. Witnesses, John 

 Cunynghame, William Velch, and Andrew Thorbrand. 

 28th November, 1545. 



i37-) 

 Glencors, Stronschillaucht. 

 foi. 32] Memorandum narrating that Thomas M'Cubhyne, in 

 virtue of a precept directed by William Earl of Gicncarne to 

 him and John Maxvell in Kilbayne, bailies in that part, dated 

 at Glencarne, loth November, 1546 [witnesses, John Edzar, 

 Adam Kirkaucht of Gleneslane, John Blak, Allan Cunyng- 

 hame, and Herbert Andersoun, notary public], passed to the 

 fi\e pound land of Stronschilloch in the sheriffdom of 

 foi. 33] Drumfres, and there gave sasine thereof to Alexander 

 Glencorss of Stronschilloch and Besseta Maxvell, his wife, 

 and to the longer liver in conjunct fee. Done upon the 

 ground at the dwelling-house of Quintein Fergussoun in 

 Nethir Merkland. Witnesses, .Andrew Cunynghame of 

 Byrkschawe, Bartholomew Smart in Marquhryne, John 

 Bryce, and Fergus M'Crere. 

 10th Novembier, 1547. 



foi. 34] Memorandum narrating that Ronald Ranying passed 

 to a tenement with garden lying in the burgh of Dumfries in 

 Tounheid on lie bak rawe between the tenement of John 

 Farlein deceased, now in the hands of John Birkmyrc, on the 



