Andkrsox's Protocol Hook. 249 



prebendaries, niul cli.iptcr ut Lincliuieii. I);itcd at Hills and 

 Limludrii, (illi ami Stli Ma\, i55«S. Witnesses, Master 

 Martin (lib, \icar pensionary of ['eini\ nj^haine, John Scliawe 

 of Laiichauchr\ , Robert Broun, residing in Scotland Wall, 

 John Rigf, Sir John Mortoun, Nicholas I''dzar, I)a\id M'Ge, 

 and Harbert Andersoun, notaries, and John Welshe. 

 Signed, (ieorge Arnott, parson of Ivssie and \'icar of Loch- 

 rutoun, Master Robert Douglas, proxost of Lincluden, 

 Master Archibald Menzes, prebendary, Sir John Mortoun, 

 orebendary, Sir John I>auder, prebendary, and Sir John Baty, 

 prebendary], in faxour of John Maxwell of Hillis (desig'nated 

 as " of Lochrutoun " in another part of the instrument), and 

 Katherine Maxwell, his spouse, and the longer li\er in con- 

 junct fee, and the heirs male procreated or to be procreated 

 l)etween them, whom failing to Katherine Maxwell, spouse 

 of Robert Maxwell, and the heirs male procreated or to be 

 procreated of her body, whom all failing to the said John 

 Maxwell's heirs male whomsoever, in the church lands of 

 Lochrutoun extending to eight acres, lying between the lands 

 of Nunlandis occupied by John M'Morane on the north and 

 west, and the lands of Hillis on the east and south, in the 

 parish of Lochrutoun and stewartry of Kirkcudbrycht. Done 

 on the lands. Witnesses, Robert Scute in Nunlandis, 

 Richard Raa in [blank], Gilbert Haiste in Lawstoun, and 

 John Maxwell in Nunlandis. 

 8th October, 1566. 



(20.) 

 <«"-65| Maxwell, Lady of Newby. 



Memorandum narrating that Jc)hn Johnstoun of Newby 

 passed to the five merkland of Mylbe and the five merkl.ind 

 of Howis, together with twelve dargs of the meadow 

 Iving in lie How meadow, lying in the parish of Annan, 

 lordship of Newby, and stewartry of Annandale, and 

 half of the fishing of Stapletoun called Raiss net, lying 

 in the parish of Dornock, in the stewartry of Annandale, 

 and there, in implement of a marriage contract between John 

 Johnstoun of Newby and William, his son and heir, on the 

 one part, and John Maxwell of Hillis and Agnes, his daugh- 



