EarR.Ly HISTORY OF THE CORRIES. 51 
to the grant of Comlongan by Randolph, Earl of Moray, to 
his nephew William (Annandale Peerage Case, Evidence, p. 
796), probably in 1329 (Scots Peerage, i., 216). Adam is 
there described as seneschal of Annandale. Like his father, 
Walter (4) adhered to the Scots, but in order to safeguard 
his lands, seems to have had some arrangement with the 
English who occupied Annandale, whereby his brother John 
was infeft in the Corrie estates. At anyrate on 26th Decem- 
ber, 1350, Henri de Percy, Lord of Alnwick, made an inden- 
ture with John, son of Monsiere Walter de Corri, chevalier, 
whereby John was granted by Percy all the lands‘in the valley 
of Annandale which had been gifted by Edward de Balliol, 
King of Scots, to Percy, through the forfeiture of Walter de 
Corri (4) (Percy Chart, 437). Two days later John described 
as son and heir of Walter de Corri, chevalier, was party toa 
writ, granting in return to Percy an annual rent of 10 merks 
for these lands (ibid.). On 13th May, 1351, confirmation of 
these arrangements was received from William de Bohun, 
Earl of Northampton and Lord of Annandale. The lands are 
therein stated to have been forfeited from Monsire Walter de 
Corrie, eldest brother (frae eynez) of John de Corri, the 
grantee (ibid, 436). From this it is clear that Walter (4) 
supported the Bruce party and his brother, probably by 
collusion, the Balliol claimant. 
Walter de Corri (4) never got back the lands. Probably 
he died childless before the English occupation of Annandale 
ceased. He owned land in Edinburgh, and died before 6th 
December, 1365 (R.M.S., 203, new vol.). In addition to his 
brothers John and Robert of Newbie, he probably had 
another brother in the person of William de Corrie, rector of 
Kawnan and Dronok, who was dead by 1363 (P.P., 475 and 
480; and P.L., ii., 382). John de Corrie, who succeeded 
Walter (4), during King David’s reign, resigned the lands of 
Molyn, Erymantoun, Rahill and Monygapp to James de 
Douglas (Reg. Hon. de Morton, i., 58). 
With regard to the Corries of Newbie, Robert de Corry, 
alleged to be the first of that line, was still alive in 1371, for 
on 31st January of that year he resigned to Sir James de 
Douglas his rights to the tenement in Moffat formerly belong- 
