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James VI: Translation
1587, 8 July, Edinburgh, Parliament Parliamentary Register 29 July
1587
[1587/7/70]1
For the quieting and keeping in
obedience of the disordered subjects, inhabitants of the borders,
highlands and isles
2Our
sovereign lord and his three estates convened in this present
parliament, considering the wicked inclination of the disordered
subjects, inhabitants in some parts of the borders adjacent to
England and in the highlands and isles, delighting in all mischiefs
and most unnaturally and cruelly wasting, slaying, harrying and
destroying their own neighbours and native country people, taking
occasion of the least trouble that may occur in the inner parts of
the realm when they think that care and thought of the repressing of
their insolence is in any way forgotten, to renew their most
barbarous cruelties and godless oppressions; for remedy whereof, in
addition to and beside the lovable laws and constitutions already
made in this behalf, which our sovereign lord, with advice of his
three estates, ratifies and approves by this act, it is statute and
ordained that the first day of every month in the year, if it be
lawful, and failing thereof the next lawful day immediately
following, shall be a special and pre-empted [diet]3
for his privy council to convene and sit both in the forenoon and
afternoon for receiving, hearing, answering and directing of all
complaints, causes and matters concerning the misrule of the
disordered and troublesome subjects, inhabitants [of]4
the highlands and borders, and attempts committed by them upon the
good and peaceable subjects in the in-country, without prejudice of
other and more diets to be appointed for the same effect if the
occasion so require; and specially that upon the said first day of
every month, or other next lawful day, trial and inquisition to be
taken of the diligence done in the execution of things directed the
month preceding and of the things necessary and expedient to be put
in execution during the next month to come thereafter; and that a
particular register be kept by the self of all things that shall
happen to be done and directed in matters concerning the quietness
and good rule of the borders and highlands.
That all landlords
and bailies of the lands on the borders and in the highlands where
broken men have dwelt or presently dwell, contained in a roll
inserted in the end of this present act, shall be charged to find
sufficient caution and surety, landed men in the in-country to the
contentment of our sovereign lord and his privy council between now
and 1 October 1587 or within 15 days after the charge upon
conditions following, under the pain of rebellion, and if they fail,
the said day being past, to put them to the horn: that is to say, if
any of their men, tenants, servants and indwellers upon their lands,
rooms, steadings and possessions or within their bailiaries commit
any masterful reiving, theft or reset of theft, depredations open
and avowed, fire-raising upon deadly feuds protected and maintained
by their masters, that the landlords and bailies upon whose lands
and in whose jurisdiction they dwell shall bring and present the
persons complained upon before [Archibald Campbell, earl of
Argyll], our sovereign lord's justice, or his deputes, to abide
trial and underlie the law for the same, upon 15 days' warning to be
made to them lawfully; and failing thereof, that the said landlords
and bailies be indebted to satisfy the party harmed and to refund,
content and pay to them their herships and hurts of their own proper
goods and lands according to the value and quantity taken from the
complainers, which shall be modified by oath of the party hurt,
either before the lords of council and session or the justice or his
deputes, whereupon execution shall pass both against the principals
and sureties in the appropriate form; providing always that the
landlords who have their lands lying in far highlands or borders,
they making residence themselves in the inlands, and their tenants
and inhabitants of their lands being of clans or dependants on
chieftains and captains on the clans, whom the landlords are in no
way able to command but only get their mails off them and no other
service nor obedience, shall in no way be subjected to this act but
in manner following, namely, they shall be held to direct their
precepts of warning, obtain decreets against their tenants and
denounce them to the horn and immediately after their denunciation
that the said landlords raise letters by deliverance of the secret
council and charge the chieftains and captains of the clans on whom
their tenants depend and obey to take and apprehend the disobedient
tenants and present them to the justice under the pain of rebellion;
and in case the chieftains disobey, to cause denounce them to the
horn, register the same and report the letters of horning, duly
executed, endorsed and registered, to the secret council within the
space of 40 days thereafter; wherein if the said landlords fail,
they shall be subject to the former condition of this act. As also,
in case the said landlords at any time hereafter rent or set tacks
to any of the said disobedient highlanders or borderers in any their
lands and omits to take sufficient caution for them, that they shall
be answerable and obedient to our sovereign lord's laws, and
specially that they shall obey and comply with the whole contents
and effect of this present act. And that the said landlords and
bailies concur, fortify and assist others in removing of all persons
disobedient to the laws or fugitive therefrom out of their lands,
rooms and possessions; and in case any refuse to concur to the
effect aforesaid, being duly and lawfully required, in that case it
shall be lawful to pursue the person refusing and his cautioner for
redress of the damage sustained by the party hurt and the landlords
and bailies of the disobedient person to have their relief of the
persons refusing. And in case any person, landlord or bailie,
receive or reset any person fugitive after the committing of the
crime upon their lands, or stays or arrests them not whenever they
pass through their bounds with any true men's goods reived or
stolen, if the same comes in any way to their knowledge, or that it
be tried that they might have stayed or withstood the said reives
and oppressions (which knowledge and power of the overlords shall be
tried by an assize), the masters, landlords or bailies, resetters of
the offenders, or not staying and arresting them passing through
their bounds as said is, shall be held to bring and present the
persons, offenders, to the laws in manner aforesaid, or else to pay
and redress the parties harmed in manner above-written. And where
the owners of the reived or stolen goods follows not, the stayers
and arresters of the persons and goods passing through their lands
shall be held to make certification by publication at the market
cross of the head burgh of the shire, that the party having interest
being thereby advertised may challenge their own goods in six days'
space, otherwise the stayers and arresters of the goods shall not be
answerable thereof.
Item, although some
of the lords of the ground never used [to]5 make
residence in the parts through the which thieves resort in their
passing to steal and reive and return from there, yet shall they be
bound by their bailies and tenants to make the arrestments and stay
and make publication of the same, if it be in their power or comes
to their knowledge, or otherwise to be held and obliged for redress
as if they dwelt upon the lands themselves. And that the chief of
the clan in the bounds where broken men dwell, through the which
villains and broken men repair in their passing to steal and reive
or returning from there, shall be bound to make the like stay,
arrestment and publication as the landlords or bailies and be
subject to the like redress and action, criminal and civil, in case
of their failure or negligence. And because sundry immediate tenants
to our sovereign lord have conveyed their lands to others held of
themselves, in that case it shall be sufficient for the overlord to
enter and present his tenant and vassal for answering for his
subtenant and the landlord to have his relief upon his tenants
thereupon as appropriate.
Moreover, and beside
the aforesaid order devised against the landlords and bailies on
whose lands and in whose jurisdictions the thieves, sorners and
broken men dwell and remain, it is also statute and ordained that
the captains, chiefs and chieftains of all clans, as well on the
highlands as on the borders, and the principals of the branches of
the said clans to be specially noted at the end of this present act,
which clans dwell upon the lands of diverse landlords and depend
upon the directions of the said captains, chiefs and chieftains (by
pretence of blood or place of their dwelling), although against the
will often times of the lord of the ground, be charged in manner and
under the pain above-written to enter such persons' pledges as shall
be nominated by the king's majesty's letters to be directed to them,
upon 15 days' warning, before his highness and his secret council at
the days to be appointed, to be placed as his highness shall think
convenient for keeping of good rule in time coming, according to the
conditions above-written, whereunto the landlords and bailies are
subject under the pain of execution of the said pledges to the
death, in case of transgression and non-redress made by the persons,
offenders, for whom the said pledges lie; and that the said pledges
shall be relieved quarterly with others of the same clan or branch
to be specially named as soon as may be after the beginning of this
order, and that the said pledges shall be kept in the king's
straight ward upon their own expenses until the principals of the
clan or branches find sufficient and responsible sureties, acted in
the books of secret council, that the pledges entered shall keep
true ward until they be freed and relieved orderly and yet the
persons with whom they shall happen to be placed to remain shall in
no way give their licence or liberty to the said pledges to depart
or pass home under the pain of �2,000 to be paid by every nobleman,
baron or gentleman that grant any such licence; which caution being
once found, the said pledges shall be placed to remain with noblemen
and barons in free ward, uncharged with the burden of their own
expenses; and all clans, chieftains and branches of clans refusing
to enter their pledges at the day and in manner contained in the
charge to be directed to that effect to be esteemed public enemies
to God, the king and all his true and faithful subjects, and to be
pursued with fire and sword wherever they may be apprehended,
without crime, pain or danger to be incurred by the doers through
that. And that account be taken once in the year at 1 November what
persons pledged for are dead and what young men sprung up in their
race and clan able to offend; and where complaint is made upon any
person pledged for, the principal of the clan or branch to be
charged to present the offender before the king or his council, or
before the justice and his deputes, to underlie the law for the
same; and in case of failure of the presenting of the person or
persons complained upon, the pledge lying for the said person to be
executed by justice and the principal of the clan or branch to be
pressed to enter a new pledge and to be still debtor to the party
grieved for his hurt sustained.
Item, that all such
notorious thieves as were born in Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale,
Annandale and the lands sometimes called debatable, or in the lands
of the highlands that has long continued disobedient, shall be
removed out of the inlands where they are planted and presently
dwell or frequent to the parts where they were born, unless their
landlords where they presently dwell will become sureties for them
to make them answerable to the law as the lowland and obedient men
under the pains contained in the acts of parliament.
Item, it is statute
and ordained for furthering of the quieting of the disobedient
borders and highlands that a book be made containing the names of
pledges entered and to be entered for good rule, and of the whole
persons for whom they lie, and by whom the pledges should be
relieved; as also that a register be made of the whole parishes of
the lands inhabited by thieves and disobedient persons in the
highlands and borders, the names of the landlords and towns in every
parish and of the whole men, inhabitants thereof, passed the age of
16 years, who are landlords or bailies of every land or town or of
what clan branch the said inhabitants are; and that the name of any
person that is entered on the broken lands after the removing of any
other disobedient person from there be sent to the keeper of the
said register within 12 days next after his first entry.
Because after all
diligence done, as well against the landlords and bailies as against
the chieftains and principals of clans, there will be a number of
vagabonds unpledged or answered for by their landlords or bailies,
it is statute and ordained that letters shall be directed charging
all such vagabonds and unanswerable men by open proclamation at the
market cross of the head burgh of the shire where they frequent, or
head burghs of the two next shires in the lowlands (where there is
clearly not safe access), to find surety to underlie the law the
third day of the next justice ayre or sooner, on 15 days' warning,
under the pains contained in the acts of parliament; and in case
they find not surety within six days and enter not themselves under
pledging, to be denounced rebels and fugitives, and they and their
resetters to be pursued thereafter until they be apprehended and
punished for their demerits; and that the parties harmed have
competent action, civil or criminal, against the magistrates or
others within whose bounds, jurisdiction or power such vagabonds and
fugitives are wittingly reset with the goods stolen or reived in
their passing, remaining or returning.
Item, it is declared,
statute and ordained that all bonds, acts and obligations made or to
be made by whatsoever persons for whatsoever broken men, pledges or
otherwise received for the good rule and quietness of the borders
and highlands, or anything depending thereupon, shall be extended
against the heirs and successors of their sureties and cautioners,
although special mention be not made in the acts that they obliged
themselves, their heirs and successors.
Item, it is declared,
statute and ordained that the surety made by the landlords and
bailies shall not be prejudicial nor stop the surety made by the
chieftains and principals of clans, nor by the contrary the surety
made by them to the landlords and bailies.
Item, it is statute
and ordained that [Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoull], justice
clerk, assisted by [Thomas Lyon of Baldukie], treasurer, and
[Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet], clerk register, shall be
special rememberers of the causes concerning the highlands and
borders, and shall be answerable for the dispatch and diligence of
the direction of things pertaining thereto.
Item, it is statute
and ordained that whenever any plundering, oppressions, reives,
sornings and thefts shall happen to be committed within any part of
this realm, in the highlands or borders thereof, by any captain of
clan or by any other clansman against any of our sovereign lord's
loyal and true subjects in time coming, and the goods so taken up
transported to any other clansmen's bounds, received and maintained
therein, or disposed upon, and the same come to the knowledge of the
party harmed and damnified, ordains him first to require or cause
require redress thereof, that the chief of the clan or chieftain of
the country wherein the said goods shall be reset or remain for the
space of 12 hours of his witting, to make redress and restitution of
the same goods within 15 days after he be required thereto; wherein
if he fails, it shall be lawful to the party harmed to call, convene
and pursue the chief, captain, superiors and principals of that clan
within whose bounds the goods and gear so taken shall be reset and
distributed and under their protection maintained before the judge
ordinary, criminally or civilly, and upon sufficient proof to be led
by the party harmed that the goods were sold or disposed upon within
such bounds by the witting and knowledge of the said chief, captain
or superiors and principals of the clan, they being of power to have
resisted the same, they to be answerable for the same goods and
decreet to be given against them, with the profits thereof, likewise
and in the same manner as might or should have been given against
the persons, committers of the deed themselves, and executorials to
pass thereupon in the appropriate form. And also, if it shall happen
the party harmed by the persons, committers of such enormities, to
follow and pursue his own goods and gear taken as said is for the
recovery of the same, and in the relief of his own goods and gear to
slay, hurt or mutilate any of the takers thereof, it is hereby
expressly declared, statute and ordained that the said party harmed
or his assisters and accomplices shall never be accusable of any
such slaughter, mutilation or other hurt but as freely remitted and
discharged in that behalf as if he had our sovereign lord's special
commission to that effect; and also ordains and declares that
whatsoever persons shall happen hereafter to bear feud for any such
slaughter, hurt or mutilation shall be subject to the pains and
action above-written, and it shall be lawful to the party harmed to
call and convene them, criminally or civilly at his option, for the
said reives and oppressions in manner before specified.
Item, who brings any
Scots or English thief in his company, openly or privately, to the
king's majesty's court or burgh of Edinburgh, or requests for him to
hold him back from the due punishment appointed by the law, without
licence of the king, his lieutenant or warden, shall be subject to
the action, criminal or civil, of him to whom the said thief has
offended by theft or reive or be compelled for the same to redress
as principal thief or reiver; and whatsoever English thieves shall
come in any part of Scotland without licence of the king, his
lieutenant or warden shall be taken and used as lawful prisoners;
and whoever would avow such thieves to be their prisoners or brought
in by them upon licences shall not keep them in company in the
king's court or palace or in the High Street, where his highness or
his justice sit and remain, bearing weapons, but hold them in close
houses, from their coming to their departing, under the pain to be
reputed as favourers, fosterers and maintainers of thieves and theft
and to be punished for that, according to the laws of the realm.
Item, it is statute
and ordained that the justice clerk and his deputes and the king's
commissioners constituted to further justice, quietness and good
rule in all shires shall diligently inquire and take up dittay of
the takers up and payers of blackmail, and to make rental of the
quantity thereof, and to pursue as well the takers as payers thereof
at justice ayres or particular diets and do justice upon them
according to the laws, and receive surety under great pains that
they shall abstain in time coming.
Item, it is statute
and ordained that the justice clerk shall twice in the year, namely,
at 1 March and 1 September, procure the king's majesty's close
valentines6 to be sent to the masters, landlords,
bailies and chieftains of all notable villains and thieves, charging
to present them either before his majesty's self or before the
justice and his deputes at the day and place to be appointed, to
underlie the law, according to the laws and general bond and under
the pains contained in the same; and to try what obedience be shown
by the persons to whom the said valentines shall be directed; and in
case of their contempt by undutiful answer to put themselves to the
knowledge of an assize and administer justice upon them, according
to the laws and general bond.
Item, since
experience declares that the marriage of the king's majesty's
subjects upon the daughters of the broken men and thieves of England
is not only a hindrance to his majesty's service and obedience but
also to the common peace and quietness between both the realms, it
is therefore statute and ordained by our sovereign lord and three
estates of this present parliament that none of his subjects presume
to take upon hand to marry with any English woman dwelling in the
opposite marches without his highness's express licence had and
obtained to that effect under the great seal, under the pain of
death and confiscation of all his goods moveable; and that this be a
special point of dittay in time coming.
Item, it is statute
and ordained that the wardens of the marches adjacent to England
take diligent inquisition what Englishmen occupy any Scottish ground
in pasturage or tillage, and they bill the persons, offenders, in
that behalf against the treaties and seek redress according thereto
as they will answer upon their allegiance, at their highest charge
and peril and under the pain of incurring his highness's indignation
and displeasure.
Item, it is thought
expedient, statute and ordained that all pledges received for the
good rule and quietness of the borders shall be placed on the north
side of the water of Forth, without exception or dispensation, and
the pledges for the good rule of the highlands and isles to be
placed on the south side of the same water of Forth; and that the
justice clerk and his deputes, to whom the care of this order is
committed, take special regard to the due execution hereof as they
and every one of them will answer upon the execution of their
offices.
Item, for relief of
the landlord or bailie that shall happen to be charged for entry of
his tenants or persons dwelling under his jurisdiction to underlie
the law or to make redress, that he use warning and seek the order
of removing against his tenants and occupiers of the ground and make
them the king's rebels within the space of 40 days after the next
term, not receiving mails or duties from them in the meantime;
wherein his diligence being tried and found good and sufficient by
the king's majesty and his privy council, or by his justice and his
deputes, and that he performed all things that he could or that was
in his power to do after the fact came to his knowledge, in that
case he shall be relieved of the pain and danger of the law
contained in this act.
Item, in case any
landlord, bailie or chieftain of clan shall happen to be burdened
with the taking and presenting to the justice of any malefactor, and
that the same malefactor is fugitive from the law and refuses to
relieve his landlord, bailie or chieftain, and that thereupon,
according to the laws and general bond, they shall be constrained to
burn the said disobedient person's houses and to hold them, their
wives and bairns off the ground, it is statute and ordained in that
case that the said disobedient persons, their heirs, wives, bairns
nor any others pretending right from them or by their death or
occasion shall have any action, criminal of civil, for the said
removing, burning or ejection, but shall be simply absolved from
there and all that may follow thereupon, whenever or wherever the
same shall be pursued.
Item, that such
intervening persons as take upon them to be sellers of the goods of
thieves or disobedient persons and clans that dare not come to
public markets in lowlands themselves, whereby the execution of the
acts made concerning thieves and sorners of clans is greatly impeded
and defrauded, shall, for that deed, being tried culpable thereof,
incur the pain of banishment and confiscation of all their goods
moveable, the one half to our sovereign lord's use and the other
half to the party, apprehender and suiter.
7The
roll of the names of the landlords and bailies of lands dwelling on
the borders and in the highlands where broken men have dwelt and
presently dwell
-
Middle March
-
[Francis
Stewart], earl of Bothwell
-
Laird of
Ferniehirst
-
[Archibald
Douglas], earl of Angus
-
Laird of
Buccleuch
-
Sheriff of
Teviotdale
-
Laird of Bedrule
-
Laird of Wauchope
-
[William
Maxwell], lord Herries
-
Laird of
Howpasley
-
George Turnbull
of Hallrule
-
Laird of Little
Dean
-
Laird of
Drumlanrig
-
The Laird of
Chisholm
-
West March
-
[John Maxwell],
lord Maxwell8
-
The Laird of
Drumlanrig
-
The Laird of
Johnstone
-
The Laird of
Applegarth
-
The Laird of
Holmends
-
The Laird of
Graitney
-
[William
Maxwell], lord Herries
-
The Laird of
Dunwoody
-
The Laird of
Lochinvar
Landlords and
bailies
-
Highlands and
Isles
-
[Ludovic
Stewart], duke of Lennox
-
[Sir George
Buchanan], laird of Buchanan
-
[Andrew
MacFarlane], laird MacFarlane of the Arrochar
-
[Humphrey
Colquhoun], laird of Luss
-
[Aulay
MacAulay], laird MacAulay of Ardencaple
-
[Archibald
Napier], laird of Merchiston
-
[John Haldane],
laird of Gleneagles
-
[James
Cunningham], earl of Glencairn
-
[John
Cunningham], laird of Drumquhassle
-
[James
Galbraith], laird of Culcreuch
-
[George Graham],
tutor of Menteith
-
[William Shaw],
laird of Knockhill
-
Harry Shaw of
Cambusmoir
-
[James Kinross],
laird of Kippenross
-
[Michael
Balfour], laird of Burleigh
-
[James
Stirling], laird of Keir
-
[Alexander
Livingston], master of Livingston
-
[James Stewart],
lord Doune
-
[Patrick
Drummond], lord Drummond
-
[John Murray],
laird of Tullibardine
-
[Duncan
Campbell], laird of Glenorchy
-
[John Campbell],
laird of Lawers
-
[James Menzies],
laird of Weem
-
[James
Drummond], abbot of Inchaffray
-
Colin Campbell of
Ardbeg
-
[Colin
Campbell], laird of Glenlyon
-
[John Stewart],
earl of Atholl
-
[Thomas
Stewart], laird of Grandtully
-
[Donald
Robertson], laird of Struan Robertson
-
[John Murray],
laird of Strowan Murray
-
[Wemyss],
laird of Wester Wemyss
-
[Thomas Scott],
laird of Abbotshall
-
[David Maxwell],
laird of Tealing
-
[Patrick
Ogilvy], laird of Inchmartine
-
[Thomas
Fotheringham], laird of Powrie Fotheringham
-
[William
Moncreiffe], laird of Moncreiffe
-
[James Stewart],
laird of Ballechin
-
[John MacDuff,
alias Ferguson], baron of Fandowie
-
[Francis Hay],
earl of Erroll
-
[James Ruthven],
earl of Gowrie
-
[Alexander
Reidheuch], laird of Cultybraggan
-
[James Ogilvy],
lord Ogilvy
-
[Alexander
Ogilvy], laird of Clova
-
[David Graham],
laird of Fintry
-
[David Lindsay],
laird of Edzell
-
[John Erskine],
earl of Mar
-
[Alexander
Elphinstone], master of Elphinstone
-
[George Gordon],
earl of Huntly
-
[John Forbes],
master of Forbes
-
[John Grant of
Freuchie], laird of Grant
-
[Lauchlan]
MacIntosh [of Dunauchton]
-
[Simon Fraser],
lord and [Thomas Fraser of Knockie and Strichen], tutor
of Lovat
-
Chisholm of
Cummer
-
[Donald
MacDonald], laird of Glengarry
-
[Colin]
MacKenzie [of Kintail]
-
[Robert Munro],
laird of Foulis
-
[Alexander
Ross], laird of Balnagowan
-
[John Urquhart
of Craigfintry and Culbo], tutor of Cromarty
-
[Alexander
Gordon], earl of Sutherland
-
[William
Sutherland], laird of Duffus
-
James Innes of
Touchis
-
[George
Sinclair], earl of Caithness
-
[George Keith],
earl Marischal
-
[Lawrence
Oliphant], lord Oliphant
-
[Patrick Mowat],
laird of Boquhally
-
[William
Sinclair], laird of Dunbeath
-
[Hugh]
MacKay of Farr
-
Torquil MacLeod
of Cogeache
-
[John
MacKenzie], laird of Gairloch
-
[Malcolm]
MacGillichallum of Raasay
-
[William]
MacLeod of Harris
-
[Lauchlan]
MacKinnon of Strathardle
-
[Roderick]
MacLeod of Lewis
-
[Roderick]
MacNeil of Barra
-
[John]
MacIan of Ardnamurchan
-
Allan MacIan of
Eilean Tioram
-
[Alexander
MacRanald], laird of Knoydart
-
[Lauchlan]
MacLean of Duart
-
[Ewen MacLean],
laird of Ardgour
-
John Stewart of
the Appin
-
[Dougal]
MacDougall of Lorne
-
[Allan]
MacDougall of Raray
-
[Archibald
Campbell], laird of Lochnell
-
[John Campbell],
laird of Cawdor
-
[Robert
Montgomery], laird of Skelmorlie, for Rachry
-
[Dougal]
MacConnachy of Inverawe
-
Angus MacConnell
of Dunyvaig and the Glens
-
[Alexander
MacAlister], laird of Loup
-
[John Stewart],
sheriff of Bute
-
[Hector
Bannatyne], laird of Kames
-
[Archibald
Campbell], earl of Argyll
-
[Duncan
Campbell], laird of Auchinbreck
-
[James
Campbell], laird of Ardkinglas
-
[Malcolm]
MacNaughton [of Dunderawe]
-
[Archibald]
MacLauchlan [of Strathlachlan]
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[James Lamont],
laird of Lamont
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[Colin
Campbell], laird of Perbrak
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[John Campbell],
laird of Duntrune
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[James
Scrimgeour of Dudhope], constable of Dundee, laird of
Glassary
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[Colin
Campbell], laird of Elangreg
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[Archibald
Campbell], laird of Otter
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[Hector
MacLean], laird of Coll
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[John]
MacLean of Lochbuie
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[Murdoch]
MacFee of Collowsay
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[John Hamilton],
lord Hamilton
The roll of the
clans that have captains, chiefs and chieftains whom on they depend,
often times against the will of their landlords, as well on the
borders as highlands, and of some special persons of branches of the
said clans
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Middle March
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Elliotts
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Armstrongs
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Nicksons
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Crosiers
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Highlands and
Isles
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Buchanans
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MacFarlanes,
Arrochar
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MacNabs
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Grahams of
Menteith
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Stewart of
Balquhidder
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Clan Gregor
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Clan Laren
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Campbells of
Lochnell
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Campbells of
Inverawe
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Clan Dowell of
Lorne
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Stewart of Lorne
or of Appin
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Clan MacKean of
Ardvorlich
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Stewarts of
Atholl and parts adjacent
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Clan Donachie in
Atholl and parts adjacent
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Menzies in Atholl
and Apnadull
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Clan MacThomas in
Glenshee
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Fergusons
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Spaldings
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MacIntoshes in
Atholl
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Clan Cameron
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Clan Ranald in
Lochaber
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Clan Ranald of
Knoydart, Moidart and Glengarry
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Clan Lewis of the
Lewis
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Clan Leod of
Harris
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Clan Neil
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Clan Kinnon
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Clan Ian
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Clan Chattan
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Grants
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Frasers
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Clan Kenzie
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Clan Andrew
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Munroes
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Murrays in
Sutherland
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NAS, PA2/13,
ff.105r-108v.
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'V.' written in
margin. Sections are numbered in APS, but not in the
manuscript.
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APS
interpolation.
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APS
interpolation.
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APS
interpolation.
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A writ naming
wrongdoers. Overlords and masters, also named, were expected to
apprehend them.
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'V.P.' written in
margin.
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This would appear
to be John Maxwell, former earl of Morton, who resigned those
lands in 1585, not William Maxwell, always styled Lord Herries.