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the king gave to Alicia Perers, lately one of the damsels of 

 Philippa late Queen, for her own use, all the jewels, goods, and 

 chatels which belonged to the said Philippa (lb. p. 189). 



We know nothing of the latter days of John Wishart, who was 

 still alive in 1318. There is preserved a reference to William 

 Wishart, who may be identical with the knight of that name 

 who received from Robert I. a charter of the lands of Plender- 

 leith, who saved himself by taking the oath of fidelity to Edward 

 I. On Sept. 21, 1297, a mandate was issued by Edward I., then 

 in Flanders, to Edward his son who had been left lieutenant 

 governor of the kingdom, to restore the lands of certain Scotch- 

 men who were with the Icing abroad and who were in Edward's 

 hands by occasion of the last wars in Scotland, to wit, Simon 

 Fraser, Simon de Horsbroke, William Wychard and Galfrid 

 Riddel. (Stevenson's Documents, ii., pp. 230-1.) 



Of Sir William Wishart's charter of Plenderleith, only the 

 title is preserved in Robertson's Index. The granter Robert I. 

 died in 1329. From the " Rotuli Scotia?," i., p. 820, a, we 

 ascertain that he was displaced by Edward Balliol,who conferred 

 a charter of Prenderlath, dated 24th Oct., the first of his reign, 

 1 332, on Sir Walter Selby, the second of the Selbies of Biddleston. 

 It is a singular coincidence that Sir Walter de Selby the first of 

 Biddleston, 1 Edward I, 24th Oct. 1272, was nominated to that 

 estate in consequence of the forfeiture of William Vissard, son of 

 a deceased John Yissard, rebels, names so nearly corresponding 

 with the two Wisharts. Walter Selby the second was a daring 

 but unprincipled man, who sold his services to the highest bidder ; 

 being as Lord Hailes describes him, ' ' both a robber and a warrior, 

 alternately plundering and defending bis country." He and 

 Walter de Middleton were at the head of the broken men of 

 Northumberland, who were in the pay of Robert I., and who at 

 his direction waylaid at Rushyford, in 1317, two cardinals, the 

 Pope's nuncios, and deprived them of the Bulls and secret instruc- 

 tions for excommunicating Scotland, and imprisoned the bishop 

 elect of Durham and his brother in Middleton's castle of Mitf ord, 

 till they were ransomed. (Tytler's Hist, i., p. 131.) He held 

 out the castles of Mitford and Horton against his sovereign. 

 (Hailes' Annals, ii., p 213.) 



After that time he "had lent himself to every party "which 

 could purchase his sword at the highest jrate," and espoused the 

 quarrel of Edward Balliol, from whom he received the grant of 



