124 Notices concerning Oxnam Parish. By J. Hardy. 



original document is now lost. We learn also from it how one 

 of the branches of the Plenderleith family terminated. The 

 fragment also of the history of Moneylaws with which it is inter- 

 mixed has been hitherto untold; and this furnishes another 

 inducement for presenting all the particulars known. 



John de Wishart's first advent on the Borders is as a suppli- 

 cant to the English government to be allowed to retain his right 

 of wardship. May 13, 1288, the Guardians of Scotland, temp. 

 Margaret of Norway, ask from Edmund Earl of Cornwall, keeper 

 of the Kingdom of England, in the absence of Edward I., for 

 the security of the advowson of the church of Knaresdale, which 

 had been sold by Alexander III., who then held Tyndale along 

 with the wardship and mari'iage of John Prat, son and heir of 

 the deceased Bertram Prat, to " John Wyscarde de la Cars," as 

 executor of the will of Bertram Prat, and the request was granted 

 by King Edward, July 13th, 1288. (Stevenson's Historical 

 Documents; Scotland, i., pp. 49, 50, 52.) 



" On the manor of Travernent (now Tranent) lived in 1288, 

 Helen la Zuche, one of the three co-heiresses of Eoger de Quincy, 

 Earl of Wigton, and there resided with her, Alianor de Ferrers, 

 her sister, who came into Scotland to claim her dower, as the 

 widow of William de Ferrers of Groby ; who was thence carried 

 away forcibly by William Douglas of Douglas." (Chalmers' 

 Caledonia, ii. p. 432.) John Wishart was the sole abettor of 

 Douglas in this illegal transaction of carrying off violently a 

 royal ward, and his lands along with those of William de Douglas* 

 in Northumberland, were seized in April 1289, by the sheriff of 

 Northumberland, including those that Wishart had the charge 

 of in Tyndale. (Stevenson, pp. 85-86.) Douglas was released 

 under suretyship. 



In 1290, May 14-24, the lands, etc., of William de Douglas and 

 John Wishart were repledged by order of King Edward (lb, pp. 

 154-5.) 



Douglas made his peace in 1291, by a fine of a hundred pounds 

 (Caled. ii. p. 432), and the transgression of Wishart had also 

 been condoned, for in that year he and Johanna his wife, daughter, 

 and heir of Nicholas de Prendrelath are found in possession of 

 tenements at "Monilawe." (Inq. p. M. i., p. 113.) 



There is a king's writ, dated at " Eoubury " 22nd July 1291, 

 by which it is ordered that justice be done to John Wychard 



*Fawdcm was held by William de Douglas. 



