CoRRiEs OF Annandale. 95 



" our cousin " (Reg. Great Seal, i., ^2, No. 73). Some six 



years later Susanna died without issue, and the lands, except 



for Robert's life interest, reverted to the Crown. Another 



charter, dated 6th October, 1369, provides that whereas the 



lands of Coulyn and Ruchane were granted to Robert of 



Corry and Susanna, his spouse, for their several lives, and 



then to their issue : and whereas the said Susanna has lately 



died without issue; the said lands are granted to Thomas de 



Henvyle and Edane, his wife, reserving the rights of the said 



Robert of Corry (Reg. Great Seal, i., p. 69, No. 236). But 



while Susanna of Carlyle died without issue, the line of Newby 



continued to flourish, and it is probable that Robert had issue 



by another wife. Robert Corry of Annandale, merchant, who 



has a safe conduct, i6th October, 1365, for himself and four 



companions to pass into England (Rot. Scoticr, i., 897), and 



has a similar safe conduct, 26th January, 1367/8, for himself 



and six horsemen (ibid, i., 919), the designation " merchant " 



being this time omitted, was certainly not identical \\ ith 



Robert of Newby, though he may have sprung from the same 



stock. For nearly a century after this no member of the 



Newby branch appears in the records, but in the meantime 



we meet with the Corries of Kelwood or Keldwood, near 



Dumfries, a younger and closely related branch of the Newby 



line. George of Corry, in fact, who appears in the following 



charter, was probably a brother of the contemporary Corry 



of Newby. loth January, 1 440/1, Thomas of Corry has a 



grant of the lands of Balhomas, Cragincalze, and Aneane, in 



the Sheriffdom of Ayr, and the lands of Keldewod and Boure- 



landis in the Sheriffdom of Dumfries, on the resignation of 



George of Corry, who retains the frank tenement for his life 



(Reg. Great Seal, ii.. No. 257). Another Newbie Corry, who 



lived about this time, was Robert of Corry of Newby, who, 



18th May, 1457, was a member of the jury that retoured 



George of Moffat heir to his grandfather, Thomas of Moffat, 



who died forty-seven years before (Hope-Johnstone MSS., 



p. 11). 



Thomas Corry, who was laird of Newby before 1471, and 

 died about 1494, may have been a son of this Robert. He 

 frequently appears before the law courts, and the suits in 



