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Annandale, if, indeed, he had not been given possession*® by 1138. 
Between that time and the middle of the century he receivedt 
from the Bishop of Glasgow a concession of the bishopric’s lands 
of “Stratanant” or Annandale. A little later the church of 
“ Anant” with others in Annandale was granted to the monastery 
of Guisborough—the church of St. Mary of Guisborough— 
founded as we have seen by the Brus family in 1119. The con- 
firmation of this gift by William de Brust is still extant,§ ratify- 
ing the donation which his father, Robert de Brus, had made. 
The date of the original grant to Guisborough is uncertain; 
possibly it was near 1171," not far from the time when across the 
Solway Hugh de Morville wassimilarly founding thechurch of Burgh- 
on-Sands, which perhaps, as will beseen, itarchitecturally resembled. 
To about that date, at least, the erection of the church of St. 
Mary” of Anand is to be assigned. The grant to Guisborough 
was frequently confirmed.* The relations, however, between the 
canons there and the bishops of Glasgow led to controversies, 
one stage of which was ended in 1189 by an agreement ratified 
by King William the Lion.* Another and larger question was 
adjusted in 1223 by arbitration. In terms of the arbiters’ ruling, 
the Canons on the one hand granted® to the Bishop of Glasgow and 
his successors ‘the ordination and collation—the rights of patron- 
age—of Annan Church. On the other hand, the decree deter- 
mined® that the teind sheaves of corn of Annan Church were to 
go to the canons for their own uses, whilst all the other profits 
(with the exception of 3 marks a year to sustain the church lights) 
were to go to the rector for the time for his uses. This was 
modified in 1265 when, “on account of the intolerable deficiency 
of the rector’s portion ” the canons granted’ an augmentation to it 
* Dugdale’s Monasticon (1846), vi., 267. 
+bain’s Cal., i., 30. 
+Lord of Annandale, 1191-1215. 
SGuisborough Chart., ii., 1176. 
1 Nicolson and Burn’s Cumberland and Westmorland, ii., 219. 
2FHor this name see Bain’s Cal., i., 1681. 
3 William de Brus’s confirmation (Gwisb. Chart., ii., 1176) was confirmed 
by William the Lion (Ibid. ii., 1177); other confirmations were by 
Robert de Brus tertius (Ibid. ii., 1178), by Robert de Brus quartus the 
competitor (Jbid. 1i., 1179), and by Robert de Brus his son, father of King 
Robert (Jb2d. ii., 1180). 
4Guisb. Chart., ii., 1183, 1182 ; Bain’s Cal.,i., 197 ; Registrum Glasg., i., 
pp. 64-65. 
® Reg. Glasg., 1., p. 107. 
8Guisb. Chart., ii., 1185, 1184; Reg. Glasg., i., p. 105. 
7Gwisb. Chart., ii., 1188. 
