104 LUMSDEN 



1392.11^ There is, however, a Great 8eal Charter of Confirm- 

 ation by Robert III. of the lands contained in King Edgar's 

 Charter.120 



In lists of the Scots Guards we find the names of William 

 Lumsden in 1419, John Lumsden 1434, Robert Lumsden 

 1439.^--^i 



In 1430 we again come upon the Lumsdens in Raine's 

 North Durham, when Gilbert de Lumysden and Thomas de 

 Lumysden are mentioned.^"-' 



A perambulation^-^ dated 1431 mentions Thom de Lumysden 

 of Fast Castle, Gilbert de Lumysden, and Thomas de Lumysden 

 of Coldingham. On 16th April 1433 Gilbert and Thomas 

 of Fast Castle appear as free tenants. ^-^ Gilbert Lumsden 

 receives, in 1438, £6 13s. 4d. for warding Fast Castle in 

 time of war,^^"* it having been recovered from the English 

 in 1410. 



Gilbert seems to have been hereditary Forester of the 

 Priory of Coldingham, ^-^ and a Charter of James II., of date 

 21st May 1454, confirms grants made by Thomas Lumsden 

 to his brother Gilbert, and grants made by John, Aclif, and 

 William, Priors of Coldingham, to Gilbert and Mariota, his 

 wife, as well as confirming the decision of an assize fixing 

 the Forester's perquisites. i-" Gilbert is mentioned on 20th 

 March 1468^28 as procurator for Mariota and Margaret Sinclair, 

 daughters of John Sinclair of Polwart, son of John Sinclair 

 of Herdmanstone. 



Gilbert was succeeded by his son David in the lands of East 

 Lumsden and Blanerne,^-*^ who in a Charter granted tq him by 



'^" L'AUbe de Bevy's Extracts from the Records of the Extraordinaire 

 de hi Guerre. 



1^" Great Seal Register, Vol. i., p. 202. 



1-1 Forbes Leith's Scots Guards, Vol. i., pp. 154, 159, 169. 



'-^ Raine's North Durham, Appendix, No. 638. 



1'^' Do. do. No. 639. 



1^^ Do. do. No. 327. 



125 Excb. Rolls, Vol. 5. 



1^ Raine Correspondence of Coldingham, Surtees' Society, p. 138. 



127 Great Seal Register, Vol. 1424 to 1513, No. 560. 



128 Wedderbnrn MSS., p. 257. 



'* Raine's North Durham, Appendix, No. 634, 



