96 Notices concerning Oxnam Pariah. By J. Hardy. 



grievous injury of the whole country. 1 In the same century King David 

 II. granted to Duncan Wallace a charter of the lands of Oxinghame 

 forfeited by Sir Robert Colville, Knight. 2 Between 1371 and 1390 King- 

 Robert II. granted a charter of the barony of Oxinghame to Duncan Wallace, 

 Knight, and Elenor de Bruys, countess of Carrick. 3 In the year 1390 

 Robert Colvyll of Oxenhame witnessed a charter at Minto.* In 1432 

 Robert de Colvyll lord of Oxenham became one of the hostages for King 

 James I., in the room of Robert Stewart, allowed to return home. 5 In 

 1436 Thomas de Colvyll was one of the train of knights and squires who 

 attended Margaret of Scotland to France on her marriage with Louis, the 

 Dauphin. 6 



In 1483 the mains and mill of Oxenham were let by Sir Robert Col vile 

 of Ochiltre to Bernard Colvill. 7 In 1484 Patrick of Douglas was ordained 

 to pay to the said Bernard the sum of ten pounds for the yearly maill of 

 the half of the mill of Oxnam, ' because he stoppit the said milne quhen 

 scho sud have gane, and als tuke up the multer that come of hir ;' and the 

 same Pati'ick, Richard Ainslie, and others, were ordained to pay twenty 

 pounds for the lands which they had ' wrangously ' laboured and 

 manured. 8 About 1511 Oxnam became by marriage the property of the 

 Kers. Andrew Ker of Ferniherst, the husband of Catherine Colville, 

 heiress of Ochiltree, distinguished himself in Border warfare. 9 In 1603 

 James Ker of Over Crailing was served heir to his brother [Thomas] Ker 

 in the lands and lordship of Oxinghame, containing the lands of Oxinhame- 

 Craig, Hardenhead, Peirislaws [the laws of Perys or Peter?], Fairnysyde, 

 Kirkstyle, Heuchheid, and Capok — the lands of Bludylaws — the lands 

 called the Battis and the Ebreis, (Brow-heads?), also the towns and lands 

 of Oxinghame and Oxinghame-neuk' — the lands of Mylneheuch, Thor- 

 brandisheuch and Clarkisburne. 1 ° 



In 1371-90 William Stewart of Jedworth obtained from King Robert II. 

 the lands of Fynlaws in the barony of Oxinghame, forfeited by Thomas de 

 Rydall. 11 



In 1390-1391, King Robert III. granted to William Landallis a charter of 

 lands in Oxenhame forfeited by John Wyllie, 1 2 and to William de Laundelis 

 and Janet his spouse, a charter of the lands of Swynset (Swynside, 

 Swynyshede) forfeited by Robert Burell. 13 



x Rotuli Scotiae, vol. i. p. 857. 



2 Robertson's Index, p. 50, no. 1. 



3 Robertson's Index, p. 115, no. 37. Reg. Mag. Sig. p. 102, no. 37. 

 1 Robertson's Index, p. 127, no. 23. 



3 Rymer's Fcedera, vol. x. p. 510. 



6 Fordun's Scotichronicon, lib. xvi., c. 12. 



7 Acta Dom. Cone. p. 323. 

 s Acta Dom. Aud. p. 145.* 



9 Ridpath's Border History, p. 515. 



10 Retours. 



11 Robertson's Index, p. 133, no. 22. Reg. Mag. Sig. p. 173, no. 22. 

 13 Robertson's Index, p. 143, no. 5. 



13 Robertson's Index, p. 127, no. 22. Reg. Mag. Sigill., p. 189, no. 22. 





