92 LUMSDEN 



Lumesdene, and 80 silver marks, in which transaction he says 

 that the Monks have defrauded him out of more than half 

 the price ; he now prays that he may have his Auldkarabus 

 back again, or that the Monks may be compelled to fulfil 

 their bargain." The Pope accordingly directed that the Petition 

 be enquired into and justice done. The document is dated 

 at Viterbo the 9th year of the Pope's Pontificate (1236). 

 Then follows the Bish(jp of Glasgow's judgment to the effect 

 that the Monks were to have the lands, but David de 

 Lumesdene was to get back his money. 



In a declaration by Thomas, Prior of Coldingham, relating 

 to the duties payable by Coldinghamshire to the Priory of 

 Durham, dated 1235, we have a record t)f what was then 

 payable by David de Lumsden and his heirs for Greater 

 Lumsden and other Lumsden lands.-"* 



David de Lumesdene appears as a witness to various 

 Charters-^ from 1199 down to 1249. 



A David de Lumesdene is witness to Charters in 1275 and 

 1280,^*^ and Roger de Lumsden of West Lumsden in 1296."^7 

 Who their immediate successors were we have not discovered, 

 but Robei-t Lununisdene forfeited the lands in 1329, and they 

 were then conferred by Charter of David II. upon Michael 

 Angus. ■-« As Robertson's Index has been found to contain 

 many blunders, this statement cannot be accepted as conclusive, 

 for both Michael de Angus and Roger of West Lumsden 

 appear on 20th December 1333 on the Jury at the service 

 of Randolf de Holme as heir to liis father-, Robert de 

 Holme. ^■' 



Following the abo\e forfeiture there is a Brieve of David 

 II. ordering an investigation to be made as to the tenure 

 of tlie lands, =^*' dated 8th June, in the 35th year of the King's 

 reign, 1364. The result of this Brieve was that Lumysdene 



2^ Coldingham Correspondence, Snrtees' Society, p. 241. 



*' Raine's North Durham, Appendix, Nos. 192, 200, 254. 



* Do. do. Nos. 281, 339. 



"' Ragman Roll. 



'■^ Robertson's Index, p. 39-6. 



'^ Cal. Doc. Scot., Vol. m., p. 119, 



** Raine's North Durham, Appendix, p. 19, No. 88. 



