BiKGHs i)V Annandalk.^ 71 



Brus lordship a steward or seneschal of Annandalc occasion- 

 ally occurs in the records.*^. Under Randolph Earl of 

 Moray's tenure this officer appears also.'*'' In 1409 he re- 

 appears, ''^ and before very long the whole district took the 

 general style of a Stewartry,''^ though sometiines called a 

 Bailiary.^'' It would therefore appear that the Douglases as 

 lords of Annandale had revived the intermitted office. Of the 

 Stewartry thus constituted, as indeed of the lordship of 

 Annandale throughout the 141I1 century, Lochmaben was 

 what may be called the feudal capital. The courts of both 

 the lordship and Stewartry were held there ;^^ there the 

 justice eyre was held also,''^ and there the Crown rents 

 were stipula.ted to be paid.'^° One special item in these 

 Crown revenues was the annual delivery of a fed ox 

 or " Lardenare mart " from each parish in Annandale. 

 Such cattle-payments at different times and places and 

 under \arying names occur during the 15th century more 

 or less throughout Scotland. Stukmarts, Rynmarts, Larden- 

 aremarts, Fodemarts, and Martfodalis were diverse names 

 for cattle sent for the royal table or service by Crown tenants 

 who were paid, or had deduction from rent allowed for them 

 at fixed rates considerably below market prices. From the 

 thirty-two parishes of Annandale tliere thus came to the 

 representative of the Crown at Lochmaben Castle thirty-two 

 Lardenare marts, with fowls, etc., in addition, all of which 

 were passed over to the keeper of the Castle ultimately as a 

 perquisite of his office. ^^ The institution suggests the ancient 

 " noutgeld " or payment, by way of tenure, madc^^ j^ cattle. 



43 Seg. Ep. aia.9g., 64; ,SVofs Lore. 127; Bain's C'll. i.. 1680,. 



44 Exch. Bnllf., vi., pref. cviii. 



45 Iteg. Mag. Sig., ii., 242. 



46 lieg. Mag. Sig.. ii., 299. 



47 Bvccleuch MSS., 46. 



48 Bain's Cal.. iii., 1499; ]{eg. Mag. Sig.. ii.. 333. 



49 Bvccleuch MSS., 56. 



50 Reg. Mag. Sig., i., 18; ii.. 71. 



51 Exch. li(>n.<!. xi.. 341. 



52 Similar Lardenare marts were drawn from Galloway, and 



