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THE
EAELDOM OF ATHOLL:
ITS
BOUNDAEIES STATED.
ALSO,
THE EXTENT THEEEIN OF THE
POSSESSIONS OF THE FAMILY OF
DE ATHOLIA,
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, THE
ROBERTSONS.
-WITH PROOFS
AND MAP.
BY
J.
A.
EOBERTSON,
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
1860.
MURRAY AND
GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
PROOFS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
THE MAP.
Previous to writing anything regarding the history of
the earldom of Atholl,
liminary, to point out
For
this purpose,
in the
and
it
becomes an indispensable pre-
and show the boundaries of
also to
show
earldom by the family of
De
Atholia,
descendants, the Robertsons, proofs will
It is a very
it.
the possessions held
and
now be
remarkable circumstance^ that the
their
given.
territorial
extent of this ancient earldom has, from such a very
remote period, remained very nearly the same as when
first
erected by
King Edgar,
before 1106;
it
was an
earldom prior to 1114, as in that year Madach, Earl of
Atholl, witnesses the foundation charter of Scone.
The
earldom occupies the entire north part of Perthshire
contains nine whole parishes, of the
and half of another
:
these will be
of the different proofs to be given,
their situations.
modern
all
named
divisions,
in course
and the map shows
The northern boundary
is
the earldom
county of
Mar,
of
Badenoch,
in the
earldom of Angus
Aberdeen, and
;
and
lordship
the
county of Inverness
of
to the east, the
;
at the south-east, that district
anciently called Gowerin,
now Gowerie.
Dunkeld was
the great southern entrance of the earldom, and there
also
was the monastery belonging
the earldom
quaich
;
to
To
it.
on the west and north-west, by the lordship of
At the extreme
Lochaber, and the head of Glenorchy,
south-west corner
situated the district
It
is
Loch Tay, and
is
bounded
dochart, and south
trict for
is
and Toyer.^
of Disher
sides of
the south
was bounded by Strathbran and Glen-
and lordship
that part which
by the parish
lies
on both
by Glen-
to the west
This dis-
of Comrie.
some time has been named the parish of Ken-
more, though for
called Disher
many hundred
and Toyer, and
the Highlanders in the locality
of this in the
first
statistical
years
as such
;
it
was always
is still
known
yet no notice
is
to
taken
account of the parish, ob-
John Sinclair, nor in the more recent one
drawn up by the present incumbent, Dr Duff.
tained by Sir
so well
The boundaries having thus been
all stated, it
observed, that at this part of the earldom
Kenmore, properly Disher and Toyer
—
must be
—parish
of
alone, has there
ever arisen any encroachment or misappropriation of
it,
except Glenlyon, which has also in like manner, most
erroneously, been attributed as part of another district
it
becomes
requisite to prove, therefore, that they are not
^ This name is derived from the Gaelic word Diser, or Disearoch, and is a
common name applied to the north side of Loch Tay, and applicable to all
pbces having a southern exposure.
also, signifying
Toyer or Twehener
the slope of ground that looks north.
is
from the Gaelic
Stobie,
who pubhshed
map
his
of Perthshire in the year
1783, appears to have been the
do
so,
first to
miscall part of
What inducement
the earldom "Breadalbane."
to
Mr
but parts of the earldom of Atlioll.
in Breadalbane,
he had
In his
cannot now, of course, be discovered.
map he makes more than
— that
Loch Taj'
Disher
is,
a third of the north side of
—
to lie in " Breadalbane,"
by
name thereon
placing the last three
letters
and almost every map
since published has fallen into
of that
But
the same error by following his example.
this ex-
tension of Breadalbane thus far into the earldom does
not seem to have satisfied or been judged sufficient, as
in
the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot-
land there
is
map
a
the following
Perthshire."
title
No
(which can there be seen) that bears
"-^
:
An
name
author's
Map
exact
to have been engraved by "
Gr.
and other external evidence,
is
given
stood at whose expense
Disher and Toyer
Loch Tay, yet
is
it is
it
it,
;
but
it is
Tay nearly two
this,
appears to have been
map
;
the arms of the
whereby may be under-
was compiled.
The
district of
properly marked on both sides of
made
to lie wholly in Breadalbane.
Further, the compiler with the same tint comes
river
stated
From
Cameron,"
it
published very shortly after Stobie's
Earl of Breadalbane are on
of Breadalbane in
The object
miles.
of this
down the
is
evident,
namely, to include the house of Taymouth (which was
formerly,
and
is
now, by the Highlanders always called
Balloch or Lochtown), as
if it
in the
earldom of Atholl.
map,''
is
likewise
lay in Breadalbane,
Glenlyon
and not
also, in this " exact
wholly placed as forming part of Breadalbane
Drumacharry (now
called Garth)
;
and Comrie
To
Castle.
and
before-mentioned
dispose of the
claims,
and Toyer, or Kenmore parish,
to sliow that Disher
Tayraouth, and also Glenlyon, are not in Breadalbane,
but within the earldom of Atholl,
The evidence
maps
of old
will
be easy.
good authority
of
clearly
shows, that the district of Breadalbane was very different
formerly from w4iat now
is
made
form
to
proportions.
its
In the Library of the Writers to the Signet, and no doubt
in
many
others, there
a very correct atlas by Hexham,
is
compiled and published so far back as the year 1636.
In two maps of Scotland in
Breadalbane only reaches
earldom of Atholl, and county of Perth (not
to the
within
it,
it),
at the
head of Glenorchie
ing map, the head of Glenorchie
is
;
found close above Benacliastle, which
two maps of Scotland
will
be
the extreme
as before
one, which contains
:
the whole, and another, which divides
and southern
is
Hexham,
south-west point of the earldom,
said, gives
accompany-
in the
marked, and
it
into the northern
Both these wholly exclude
divisions.
Breadalbane from every part of the earldom of Atholl,
as
shown
also
is
The
map.
in the author's
writer will prove the correctness of the foregoing-
statements by stronger evidence.
(that
that
is,
Kenmore
it is
parish) there
not in Breadalbane.
David the Second's
reign,
is
Of Disher and Toyer
old charter testimony,
In the early part of
Duncan Earl
of Fife was the
proprietor thereof; and in the year 1341 he
grant of a small part of
of Menzies of that
and Edramuckie,
the
map
ilk,
it
made a
to the ancestor of the family
namely, of the lands of Moreinch
in Disher,
not coloured.
King
and
Tvjiich will
be seen on
This charter was confirmed by
the
Crown
The
in 1343.^
family of Menzies had got a
previous grant of another part of this lordship, which
will
be noticed hereafter.
period as above named,
The Earl of Fife, at the same
made a grant of the wliole re-
maining lands of Disher and Toyer, and which grant
likely
to
Second
is
have been also confirmed by King David
same
at the
period, that
1343
is,
and
;
will
it
be
found named among: the Crown confirmation charters of
that monarch's reign,
No. 47.
It
therein proved, that the district of Disher
is
and Toyer did not
states,
it is
page 52,
in Robertson's Index,
" in
in
lie
the haronij
Breadalbane
as the charter
;
Having had
of Strathurde."
reason to be acquainted with this charter, and as the
barony of Strathurd
it
a
is
within five or six miles of Perth,
was not easy to understand the cause of
reason
for
it
but very
;
Library, the writer,
met with one by
fully accounts
King David's
It is
among
this
in
lately,
this, or assign
the Advocate's
the original charters there,
same Duncan Earl of
which
Fife,
Disher and Toyer being stated in
for
charter to be "
m the barony of Strathurde."
herewith given at length, and though very
contractions,
is
printed without any
;
of
full
indeed, the
utility
of printing the contractions, the writer believes, cannot
be proved by any one.
curious, its purport
is
As
the charter
likewise given
is
somewhat
:
Date not after 1338.
Omnibus banc cartam
visuris vel audituris,
salutem iu Domino sempiternam.
present! carta nostra confirmasse
homagio
^
et servicio suo
Dimcanus Comes
de
Ffyf
Noveritis nos dedisse concessisse et hac
Domino Roherto
Lmvedre
militi,
totam terram nostram de Balmacoychly
See Nesbit's History of the House of Menzies of Weera,
vol.
ii.,
et
pro
totam
page 244.
—
6
terrain nostram de Loyhibride, illam scilicet
quam dominus
Robertus, rector
unacum tota terra nostra de
Blabolg siiijeriore in Baronia nostra de Strathurd infra Vicecomitatum de
Perth.
Tenendam et liabendam dicto domino Eoberto, heredibus suis et suis
ecclesisB
ejusdem, de nobis habebat ad firmam
—
assignatis de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate in
perpetuum
per omnes suas rectas metas et divisas, hbere, quiete, plenarie, pacifice et
aucupationibus,
venacionibus,
in
honorifice,
viis
semitis,
boscis,
planis
stagnis, aquis, vivariis, piscariis, molendinis, multuris, moris, maresiis, culturis, pratis, pascuis, et pasturis, et
cum omnibus
aysiamentis et justis pertinentiis,
ditatibus,
aliis libertatibus,
tarn
conimo-
non nominatis quam
nominatis, ad dictam terram spectantibus seu spectare valentibus in futurum.
—Faciendo inde nobis
sui et sui assignati
nostre de
et heredibus nostris dictus
annuatim
tres sectas Curie
Strathurd unacum
ad
dominus Eobertus heredes
tria placita Capitalia Curie
forinseco servicio Scoticano'
Regi Scocie de dicta terra annuatim debito
et consueto.
domino nostro
—Et reddendo inde
nobis et heredibus nostris
unum par
Domini annis
petatur pro omni alia exactione seculari servicio,
vel
singulis
si
demanda que per nos
Nos vero Duncanus,
calcarium deauratorum ad festum natale
nostros exigi poterunt seu requiri.
et heredes
et lieredes nostri predicti,
pertinenciis, aut pertinere valentibus dicto
et suis assignatis contra
omnes homines,
tabimus et in perpetuum defendemus.
totam terram predictam cum
domino Roberto, heredibus
— In
cujus rei testimonium presenti
carte nostre sigillum nostrum est appensum, hiis testibus.
Christo patribus dominis,
Brechinensi
;
—Reverendis in
Johanne Moraviensi, Rogero Rossensi,
Adam
Dei gratia Episcopis, Domino Alexandro de Setoun, Willielmo
Chien, Militibus, Alexandro de Meigniers,
de Abrenethy, et Reginaldo
le
Patricio le Graunt, et multis
aliis.
Not
To
suis,
et feminas, warantizabimus, acque-
all
who
shall see or
after a.d. 1338.
hear this charter,
Duncan
Earl of Fife wishes everlasting salvation in the Lord.
Know
that
we have
knight, for his
homage and
macoychely, and
all
and by
given, granted,
this
our pre-
Sir
Robert Lawedre,
service, all
our land of Bal-
sent charter have confirmed, to
our land of Loghibride, that, namely,
which Lord Robert, the Rector of the Church there,
held from us in farm, together with
'
This expression of Scotch service
is
all
our land of Upper
not very common.
Blabolg, in our barony of Strathurd, ivithin the sheriffship
of Perth.
—To
have and to hold by the said Sir
Robert, his heirs and assignees, of us and our heirs, in
and heritage
fee
marches,
in
for ever,
by
all
freely, quietly, fully, peacefully,
huntings and
and lionourably,
fowlings, ways, paths, woods, haughs,
moors,
lakes, waters, warrens, fishponds, mills, multures,
marshes,
all
fields,
and
their right meiths
meadows, hainings, pastures, and with
other liberties, conveniences, easements, and just per-
tinents
named, or unnamed,
or that
may
and
to the said land belonging,
belong in future.
— Performing thence
to our heirs, the said Sir Robert, his heirs
to us
and as-
signees, three suits of court yearly, at the three Capital
Pleas,
of our
court of
Strathurd, together with the
Lord the King
extrinsic Scotch service to our
of Scotland,
from the said land, yearly, duly, and customarily.
—And
rendering thence to us and to our heirs one pair of
spurs, at the feast of Christmas yearly,
all
demanded,
other secular exaction, service, or demand, which
be claimed by us and our
and our
may
heirs.
whole land aforesaid, with
pertain to
it,
assignees, against all
for
may
—Moreover, we, Duncan
heirs aforesaid, shall warrant, secure,
for ever, the
or
if
gilt
all
and defend
that pertains
and
to the said Sir Robert, his heirs
men and women.
In testimony whereof, our seal
is
appended
to this
our present charter, before these witnesses, the Reverend
Fathers in Christ, Lords John of Moray, Roger of Ross,
and
Adam of Brechin,
Bishops by the grace of
God
;
Sir
Alexander de Setoun, William de Abrenethy, and Reginald
Patrick
le
le
Chien,
Knights
Graunt, and
;
many
Alexander de Meigniers,
others.
;
8
This charter
the
is
No. 57, Book of Original Charters^ in
by
Advocate's Library,
James
Sir
Balfour, No.
15_1_18.
This original evidence, therefore, fully explains the
notice given
by the charter
and
in Eobertson's Index,
is
a very strong corroboration of the trustworthiness of that
Index
;
and though, perhaps,
some
ingly spoken of by
ceived theories
it
recently found so
it
has often been slight-
antiquarians, whose precon-
proved erroneous, yet the writer has
many
confirmations of
that he gladly bears testimony in
a good authority.
The spelling of
had got
to his Perthshire
—where there
;
is still
it
this charter
his estate of Disher
will easily recognise
The
also Blelok, instead of Blabolg.
date of the charter to Sir Robert
important here to
state, that,
Lawder
it
is
not later
being then dead.
although Disher and
Toyer had been joined to the barony of Strathurd,
still
is
the remains of a church
than 1338, one of the witnesses to
is
favour, that
the names, in this case, has been retained
and burial-ground
It
correctness,
barony of Strathurd,
but any one familiar with Strathurd
Loqiebride
its
would appear from
It
of the Earl of Fife, that he
and Toyer united
its
remained in the earldom of AthoU
;
and
this is
it
de-
monstrated by a Crown charter at a period consider-
King James the Second
ably after.
granted, in the
year 1451, to the ancestor of the Robertsons of Strowan,
a charter for
all his
extensive lands.
In
it
are
named
the lands of Fearnn, or Fearnan, which are called in the
Black Book of Taymouth, " the barony of Fearnay,'"^ and
are situated in Disher, at the north-east end of
1
See Black Book of Taymouth, pages 246, 247.
it
;
and
—
9
the aforesaid charter (1451) declares, that these, and
all
the other lands therein named, are " jacentes in Comi-
TATU NOSTRO DE AtHOLIA,"
EARLDOM OF Atholl."
again referred
to,
the Great Seal,
and
Book
be seen there, also
it,
on application
that
Tliis
is
to be
IV., No.
all
is,
"ALL LYING
OUR
IN
important charter
be
will
found in the Register of
227
;
and can
at
any time
other charters herein quoted from
to the proper authority, at the Register
House, Edinburgh
— Joseph
always very
affording facility to inspect the public
civil in
who
Esq.,
is
In addition to what has been already given as
records.
of the
proofs
Robertson,
correctness
of the
Map, by excluding
Breadalbane from Disher and. Toyer, one more, pointing
out
the extreme
western boundary, and a conclusive
evidence that Disher and Toyer
parish
—
called
Kenmore
within the earldom, will be furnished.
is
as follows
— now
It
is
:
Carta David de Strathbogie, Comes Ath(jlle.
Penes Dominum Roht. Menzies de Weem.
Circa 1312.
Omnibus hanc Cartam
Atholise,
visuris vel audituris,
et Constabularius
Scocise,
David de Strathbogie Comes
Salutem in Domino.
—Noveritis
nos
dedisse, concessisse, et hac presenti carta nostra, confirmasse, dilecto et fideli
confederato nostro, domino Roberto de Meygnes militi,
filio
domini, Alex-
andri de Meygnes, pro homagio et servicio suo, totum thanagium de Cranach,
IN Comitatu nosteo Atholi.e,
Kynknoc, duabus Rothrotves,
—faciendo inde
in
exercitu
....
Domini
In cujus
—Hiis
terris
de Cranach, Achnore,
una cum omnibus
pertinenciis,
nobis, et heredibus nostris, servitium unius architenentis,
nostri Regis Scocise,
placita nostra capitalia per
posuimus.
cum omnibus
et Achnethrosil-
rei
et
annum Apud Rath
tres sectas
curiae,
ad
tria
in Comitatu nostro Atholise.
testimonium presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum ap-
testibus,
Roberto Senescallo Scocie,
Domino Joharine
Ranulphi Comite Moravie, Patricio de Dunbar Comite
]\Iarcliie,
Moravia Domino de Bothevyl, Patricio de Carnoco
Milite,
Sawelton, tunc Camerario nostro, Henrico de AYollor, et multis
B
Andrea de
Symono de
aliis.
;;
10
Date about 1312.
Charter of David de Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl.
In possession of Sir Robert Menzies of Weem.
To
all
who
shall see or hear this Charter,
David de
Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl and Constable of Scotland,
Salvation in the Lord.
and by
—Know, we have
given, granted,
have confirmed, to our
this our present charter
dear and faithful confederate. Sir Robert de Meygnes,
Knight, son of Sir Alexander de Meygnes, for his
homage and
Thanedom
service, the jvliole
WITHIN OUR earldom OF Atholl,
of Cranach,
witli all the lands of
Cranach, Ac/imore, Kynhioc, the two RatJirowes,
Achnethrosik, along with
to us
and our
King
of Scotland,
and
—rendering
and three
army
suits of
at the three capital pleas at Ratli^ in our
In testimony whereof, to this our
earldom of Atholl.
present charter
witnesses,
pertinents,
heirs the service of one archer in the
of our lord the
Court yearly,
all their
we have placed our
— Robert
the
Steward of
;
Scotland
;
Lord
;
Patrick de Carnoco, Knight
our Chamberlain
The above
before these
Patrick de Dunbar,
of Moray
Andrew de Moravia, Lord of Bothwell
John Randolph, Earl
Earl of March
seal,
;
;
Simon de Sawelton, then
Henery de Wollor, and many
charter
is
others.
contained in a MS., copied from
the original by M'Farlane (the best Scotch antiquarian)
^
Now
called Logiemit,
Earls of Atholl.
where was the
castle
and court
of
the ancient
11
and, with others,
lectio," in the
his
is in
volume of " Diplomatum Col-
Advocates' Library, No. 35
— 2—
4.
This charter mentions lands entirely situated within
The thaneship
Disher and Toyer.
of
the north side of
The
letter
L
is
Loch Tay
in the
now
Cranacli,
found on
called Cranachcroich, or Craienacroich, will be
map, and not
on the loch, directly opposite to
tinted.
The
it.
grant of the Earl of Fife, namely of Edramuckie and
Moreinch, adjoins directly to
named
in the
tlie
Earl of Atlioll's
Achmore
west,
charter
;
is
it
is
also
at
the
extreme south-west end of the boundary line, thereby
proving that the
map
the earldom of Atlioll.
it
will
be apparent,
is
correctly shows
Balloch,
now
all
these to
lie in
Tay mouth,
called
Wester
also within the earldom.
and Toyer. This is
proved by the " Inquisitiones Valorum," to be found in
Ballocli joined the lands of Disher
the second volume of Retours, where Perthshire
is
given
Under the date 1627, and No. 13, there is an inquest as
and value of the lordship of Disher and
to the extent
Toyer, which contains the following words
tals
finis
'^
:
Terre orien-
sen caudse de Eddargall, jacentes apud terras
de Balloch ;" and, after reciting various other lands, are
these words
Toyar."
:
"
Omnes jacentes
The above proves
in
Dominio de Disheor
the west joined Eddargall in Disher and Toyer.
is
also in the
et
that the Balloch lands on
same volume an inquest
belonged to Campbell of Glenurchy.
as to
See No.
1601, where the very same words occur.
There
what lands
And
6,
dated
again, in
a retour of Sir Robert Campbell of Glenurchy to his
brother, No. 494, in county Perth Retours, dated 1640,
we
learn, that the lands of Wester, Middle,
and Easter
—
—
12
Stulks, joined the East Balloch lands
of Wesfer Stuiks
came
indeed, the lands
;
so close to the castle of Balloch
— that
within some few hundred yards,
it
appears Sir
Robert Campbell got them united to Inchaddin, where
was the principal place of worship
This junction
Disher.
is
for the lordship of
proved by the following ex-
from Sir Robert's retour before named
tract
solidatis
terrarum de Wester Stalks
de Inchadden,
dictis terris
Diocesin de Dunkelden."
This
was now joined to Inchaddin
ing to the
directly opposite
states
40
ecclesiae
in the parish of
which
;
last place,
Taymouth.
There
is
is
AVeem,
accord-
almost
another retour of
Duncan,
Sir Robert Campbell, as heir of his father. Sir
which
'•
shows that Wester
last
engraved by " G. Cameron,"
map
—
de Wester Stuiks, unita, infra
which had been previously
Stuiks,
—advocatione
:
where these lands of Stuiks (now sometimes
The retour is Ko. 517 of
Perthshire Retours, dated 22d September 1642 and the
called
Stix) are situated.
following words are in
Muidchmuk
it
—Bordland
:
— " In
;
terris
Drum
de Middill
de Stuiks
Stuikis,
— Croftmoran
ac firmis feudifirmariis, terrarum de Garrif in Glenquoyter,
cum
molendino, ac firmis feudifirmariis, dic-
tarum terrarum,
et
molendino, omnibus infra Comita-
TUM DE Atholl;" which proves that the lands of Stuiks,
and all the rest, are within the earld6m of Atholl.
Therefore,
sidered,
dom
is
when the
situation of these lands
and that the evidence of
is
con-
their being in the earl-
derived from deeds of the ancestors of the family
of Breadalbane, dated comparatively so late as 1642,
it
cannot be said correctly that Balloch, now Taymouth,
is
in.
Breadalbane
;
but to put
it
beyond
all
doubt, one
—
—
13
more proof that
it is
berlain Accounts
Robert, son of
dom
of Atholl
it
appears,
that in the
Duncan de A tholia, was
;
and
In the
not, will be given.
Cham-
year 1450,
bailie^ of
the earl-
from the various estates
his receipts
and farms within the earldom are mentioned
fol-
—" 1450, Computum Roberti Duncane son
lowing
title
ballivi
Comitatus Athulice, redditum apud
:
3d
in the
volume, page 509, quarto edition, and under the
Edyburgh
in
Monasterio Sancte Crucis, octavo die Mensis Julii Anno,
which shows, that Robert, the son of Duncan,
etc. ;"
gave in his account of the amount received from the
bailery of the earldom of Atlioll at Edinburgh, in the
Monastery of the Holy Cross (Holyrood), on the 8th
The
day of July, the year 1450.
different places
and
properties of the comitatus are then stated, with the
amounts received
locli,
and when Strath Tay
;
now Taymouth,
spelling
is
different
is
mentioned
is
named, Bal-
and though the
;
from the present,
it
cannot be re-
jected for that reason, else the whole account of the
earldom here given might be, as the different spellings
some other
are even greater in
cases.
The
following
is
extracted from this account, volume and page as above
named
of the Chamberlain Rolls
:
firmis terrse de Uchtertyre et de 5 lib.
BALZELLOCH
Balauchane
et
et
de 3
de 5
lib. 6s.
lib. 6s.
" Et de 4
de firmis
lib.
terrse
de
de
8d. de firmis terree de
8d. de firmis terrse de Pena-
creyffr
The above
^
The writer
are
all
in Strath
will at a future period
Tay, and clearly are
show that
this ofhce
was held not
only by persons of high rank, but even, in one instance, by a brother of the
King.
There Avas also no Earl of Atholl at the date named in the text.
—
14
Balloch
Eastertijre,
cree
:
Taymouth, Ballechin and Pitna-
or
a reference to the
map by
those not acquainted with
the district of Atholl will show they
may be
lie in
Strath Tay.
observed as to the spelling of Balloch, that the
z there gives the word the same sound as
letter
It
had been introduced, which thus makes
it
a y
Ballyloch in
if
pronunciation, from which alone the scribes of the day
could spell
it
reason that
;
it
but
is
this spelling in
if
1450
not Balloch, the Black
is
thought a
Book
of
Tay-
mouth, at page 125, furnishes, more than 100 years
afterwards, quite as different a spelling, as there " Vester
Bellych"
is
given for " Wester Balloch."
With regard
part of Breadalbane
It is within
the
Glenlyon,
to
but
;
it is
it
wholly within the earldom.
abthanedom
of Dull, the lordship of
Kinclaven, and earldom of Atholl
as to Dull,
has been claimed as
;
the proof of which
from the Chamberlain Rolls, volume
71, quarto edition, where are these words
lib.
receptis per contributionem
est infra
That
ii.,
page
" Et de 5
Glenlyune quae
Abthaniam de Dull"
it
lies
in the lordship
miles from Perth,
is
thereof, in the second
of Kinclaven, a few
shown by the inquest of value
volume of Eetours
No. 12, dated 1627, stating 'Uote
iyon,
terra3
:
is,
et
for Perthshire,
integre terre de
Glen-
cum omnibus suis pertinentiis quibtscunque hereDuncan Campbell de Glenlyon spectantes,
ditarie
jacentes, infra
dictum dominium de Kinclaven,
et vice-
comitatum de Perth,"
Which
extract proves that the whole of Glenlyon
no part of Breadalbane
proves
it
;
is
the following charter evidence
within the earldom of Atholl.
In Robertson's
15
Index, at page 51, and No^ 27, a charter
is
mentioned
of the lands of Glenlvon, and that they are " in comitatu
Atholie"
— "in
the
record of the Great Seal, Glenlj^on
charter,
Book
i.,
Second grants,
In the printed
earldom of AthoU."
mentioned
is
in a
41, and page 48, where King David
1368, to John de Lorn " totam terram
^o.
in
J
nostram de Glenlion in AihoU,'"
— that
is,
our whole land
of Glenlyon in AthoU.
These proofs
also
wholly exclude the idea, that in
Glenlyon could there be any part of the forest of
lorn, as
is
claimed, at the west end of
cannot be, unless
it is
Mamlorn
forest of
is
it
;
and which
granted at the same time, that the
person to erect
it is
The
within the earldom of AthoU.
calling certain tracts of waste land " a forest,"
great error, as
Mam-
is
a very
not in the power of any private^
forests, or
add
to those
already granted,
without
an express charter and authority from
Crown.
Having thus proved the correctness of the map,
the
where alone the boundaries have ever been miscalled,
it
be right to notice that particular part of the earldom
will
next Dunkeld (which was the entrance to
it),
lying on
the south, and opposite bank, going up the river Tay,
and
sometimes called the Bishopric.
still
statistical
volume
In the
for Perthshire (page 1009),
it is
stated that these
lands were given to the Church in the year 1160.
was probable they were given directly
Madach Earl
1
ProA^ed
some
1680.
last
account of the parishes of Scotland, and in the
It
after the death of
of Atholl, which appears to have been in
by the proceedings
in the case of Robertson of Faskally to have
of his lands erected into a forest.
See Records of the Exchequer,
16
or about 1150
;
Earl of Orkney,^
tlie
forfeiture of his son Harald,
lands and earldom of Atholl came
hands of the Crown, which thereby was enabled
into the
to
and by the
make the
grant, because previously Earl
Madach was
the proprietor, both long before and after Dunkeld had
been made a bishop's see by David the
And
First.
this
portion of the comitatus, though called sometimes the
bishopric or barony of Dunkeld, undoubtedly
the ancient earldom
statistical
;
and,
as
mentioned
in
part of
is
the last
account (Perthshire volume, page 976),
it
was
only at the comparatively recent period of the reign of
King James Second,
that Bishop
Lawder got these lands
erected into the barony of Dunkeld, by charter dated
1471,
Book
'
vii..
No. 217 of the Great
Orkney Saga, printed
in tlie lona
Seal.
Club Transactions.
POSSESSIONS OF THE DE ATHOLIA FAMILY.
The
extent of the possessions of the family of De
was very great
Athoha
and in writing of them, or exhibiting
;
them on a map, the author would ask
that a hasty con-
what
clusion should not be made, that
is
thus repre-
sented was never the property of that family, or their
descendants the Robertsons, merely because the parties
who thus judge had never heard
case.
It is to
the family,
knew such was
or
be remembered, that the
Andrew de
Atholia,
the
ancestor of
first
must have
lived,
and
been a proprietor within the earldom, almost 600 years
ago.
N^otices of
what there
and can be traced
As an
recorded of the properties,
four generationsy
will
be given.
illustration of the reasonableness of not hastily
denying what
dence offered
all
for
is
is
is
represented in the
considered,
it
map
until the evi-
may be asked of any one,
acquainted with the district of the earldom of Atlioll,
they
know
Fincastle,
tion they
to
whom
the estates of Garth
and Shierglass
would
say, that
of Stewart of Garth,
—belonged?
estates
?
—Bonskeid, and
Without
and the others
whom
if
hesita-
Garth belonged to the old family
younger sons of that family; but
were asked, from
at
if
also to Stewarts,
the same persons
did the Stewarts derive these
they would be quite at a loss to
tell
;
indeed, the
18
former owners of land, after one or two centuries elapse,
become almost quite unknown when a
different family
are the occupiers.
Of
4;he
positive evidence exists
of his son,
session
de Atholia, no
property held by Andrew
beyond what
Duncan de
Robert de Atholia.
It
known
is
as in pos-
Atholia, and grandson,
most probably consisted of the
two parishes of Strowan and Lude,
Strathtummel,
also
but not Glenerochy, or lands of Murelaggan, as
sumed these
it is
pre-
large properties (and which so long were
in possession of the E-obertsons,
and
still
are held, in
by one old family of the name^) were acquired by
Andrew de Atholia on marriage with the heiress of Ewen
part,
de Glenerochy, son of Cummingus, or Coningus de Glenerochy (designed son of Henry Earl of Atholl),
appear in the Chartulary of
made
who both
Cupar, from Conan having
a grant to that abbey of the use of his woods in
Glenerochy, and also of Tulloch,^ which charter was con-
The writer considers that the
TuUoch here named must have been that which belonged
firmed by his son Ewen,
to the Stewarts of Tulloch,
Blair, as in the Perthshire
lordship of Cupar.^
the
and
Retours
lies
it is
stated to be in the
This thereby becomes a proof of
of that part of the
situation
directly opposite
De
Atholia family
property.
^
The Robertsons
2
For
of Auchleeks.
this grant, see Chartulary of Cupar,
in Advocate's Library, No. 33
— 2—
9.
MS., by Sir James Balfour,
This charter by Conan was probably
in or about the year 1216.
^
Retour of Robert Stewart of TuUich, heir of Alexander Stewart, his
father,
"in
Atholl."
teiTis
de TuUich infra dominium de Coupar et comitatum de
Perthshire Retours, No. 830, date 1672.
—
19
Duncan
de Atholia was the son of the before-men-
He had very
tioned Andrew.
sides those that
have had the
extensive estates
;
be-
for^,
he derived from his father (who could not
title
of
De
Atholia unless he had been a
large proprietor in the earldom), he obtained great ad-
From Duncan
them.
ditions to
Earl of Fife he got a
charter for the whole lands of Disher and Toyer
both sides of Loch Tay
is,
—that
— except what has been already
mentioned as granted to Menzies of Weem, and confirmed in 1343
;
which, no doubt,
is
Duncan de
charter mentioning the grant to
which
among
is
Atholia,
those of David Second, in Robertson's
Index, page 52, No. 47, as follows
Duncan Earl
the same date as the
:
— " Charter given by
Andrew Earl
of Fyfe to Duncan, son to
of Athole, of the lands of Dischener and Twehener, in
the barony of Strathurde."
These lands are distinctly marked and coloured
the
map and the
of
Weem
;
Duncan
will
property there belonging to the family
be at once seen,
also got
not being coloured.
a charter for the lands of Apnadull,
from John, Bishop of Dunkeld (which
*'
in
is still
preserved)
Nobili viro Duncano,Jilio Andi^ee de Atholia et heredibus
suis masculis terrarum de
Adulia"
—that
is,
"to a noble-
man, Duncan, the son of Andrew de Atholia, and his heirs
male, the lands of Apnadull."
December 1355.
Mill,
who
The charter
is
dated
gives the history of the
Bishops of Dunkeld, makes no mention of this John, but
omits him altogether
thority,
some
;
and he being considered a good au-
difficulty
was formerly found to admit
Bishop, or the date of the charter.
it,
however, has been established.
The
this
authenticity of
John, Bishop of
Dun-
20
keld,
and William, Bishop of Glasgow, were present
at
the Parliament held at Perth,^ 17th January 1356, respecting the ransom of David the 2d
name
bishops appear in the
The document
land.
1st volume, Scotch
ApnadulP
lie
Is
side of the
and which
^'
De
fact, that, at
issue, his
It
by the Bishop
Duncan de
in his charter to
heredilms suis masculis"
Tay to Bolfracks
Atholia family.
to be noticed, that the destination
Dunkeld,
These lands of
property will also be
last
proved to have belonged to the
is
and these two
page 155 of the Appendix,
at
Acts of Parliament.
on the opposite
(as in the map),
;
of the whole clergy of Scot-
Atholia,
of
to
is
This no doubt arose from the
the time, Eobert, his eldest son, had no male
only child being a daughter; and Duncan desired,
therefore, that the property should
his second marriage.^
This
come
to his sons
by
Duncan de Atholia obtained
another great addition to his estates by his
first wife,
who, according to tradition, was a daughter of Malcolm
Earl of Lennox.
By
tensive estates in
Pannoch and Fortingal. The tradition
of the Earl of
ported,
^
if
this
marriage he acquired very ex-
Lennox being
proprietor of these
not confirmed, by the
The writer
two mistakes,
of the
fact,
Dunkeld History, and list
as he says the Parliament
centuries afterwards.
of bishops therein, has
was held
as his authority Foedera, torn. 6, page 632,
which
See Perthshire volume,
is
sup-
that these Earls had
at Edinhurgh,
made
and
relates to a period
last statistical account,
cites
two
pages
982, 983.
^
An
old
name
for
Apnadull
is
" Dullnagarth," but which has long been
obsolete.
3
by a
This destination looks clearly as a
new
infeftment to an old possessor
fresh bishop, as the superior of these lands of Apnadull.
They are con-
tiguous to the churcli of Dull, and the Bishop and Chapter of Dunkeld held
rights in them.
See Chartulary, Priory St Andrews, " Ecclesia de Dull."
21
other property in the immediate neighbourhood.
The
western part of the present parish of Kilhn belonged to
them
This
;
they also had rights and property at Loch Tay.
is
proved by the parish of Ardonaig, or Ardonich,
being divided, when the partition of the Lennox took
place,
between the Haldanes of Gleneagles and Napier of
Merchiston
;
the family of Gleneagles, being the eldest
heirs portioners, got, besides the half of the parish, the
patronage of the church of Ardonaig, which was united
This last
to Killin in 1617-
the notice
fact, as well as
of the above partition, will be found in the Statistical
Accounts of Scotch parishes, printed by the Maitland
Club, page 180, and which were
James Haldane
1627'
as
sold the above property to
and
made
out so long since
of Gleneagles subsequently
James Campbell
also the right of fishings in
Privy Seal Record, year 1612,
of Lawers,
Loch Tay.
folio
42
;
See the
and, in further
proof; in a retour dated forty-one years afterwards. Sir
James Campbell
Mungo
Sir
of
Lawers
is
served heir to his father.
Campbell, in the half lands oi Ardonaig, or
Arclonan, and the kirk patronage, and half lands of Lawers,
" within the lordship of Disheor, ahoon Loch TayT^
The
foregoing evidence, therefore, confirms the tra-
dition of the Earls of
in
large estates
Rannoch, and other Highlands of Perthshire.
his first
of
Lennox having held
whom we
shall shortly speak,
The second marriage
^
See
^
He was named Robert
when
By
marriage Duncan had an only son, Robert,^
Pertlisliire Eetours,
in AthoU.
of
and of
Duncan de
all his
Atholia,
properties.
by the ac-
No. 611, date 1653.
at the desire,
it is said,
of
King Robert Bruce,
—
22
count published in the lona Club Transactions, and old
MS.
histories,
By
Isles.
1.
was to a daughter of the Lord of the
her he appears to have had
who
Patrick de Atholia,
got from his father the
whom
property of Lude, and of
2.
Thomas
de Atholia,
:
who appears
hereafter.^
to have received
the lands of Strowan, for which he had a
Crown
charter from Robert Third, and also another
from that monarch
for the lands of Strathloch,
which, by his daughter Matilda, came to the
Both these
Robertsons of that designation.
charters,
dated about 1398,
will
be found,
page 141, and numbers 47 and 48, Robertson's Index.
3.
Gibbon,
who
is
mentioned by Winton,
Chronicle, volume
ii.,
in
his
page 367, in 1392.
Robert de Atholia, the eldest son of Duncan,
will
it
be proved, held very large estates in the earldom of
Atholl.
Scotland
He
;
appears twice in the Chamberlain Rolls of
first,
dated 1358, thus
exitibus Curiae vicecomitatus, pro
quod
cecidit, nisi
de
tum per Robertum,
Atholia, super
^
Patricfk
hiis,
:
—
*•'
Et
nihil hie
tempore computationis
de quibus
extitit
deforciamen-
filium Duncani, filium
quod consulatur Rex
was most undoubtedly the
de
;''
that
eldest brother, as
in the notice in the 2\cts of Parliament, jjage 217, vol.
i.,
he
Andree de
is,
is
"
And
placed
first
year 1392, where
both the brothers appear together, and in any Act of Parliament the
youngest brother would not be put first also, from the manner in which
they are designed, " Duncan's sons," they could not have been sons of
;
Robert de Atholia, also named in the Act.
23
there
is
nothing here said of the fees of the Court of the
Sherijffdom, for the time of the account that has elapsed,
made
except those as to which there arose a deforcement
by Robert, the son
Atholia,
of
upon which the King
Chamberlain Accounts,
Here
Duncan, the son of Aiidrew de
it is
vol.
i.,
is
to
be consulted."
— See
page 303, quarto edition.
to be observed, that three generations of the
de Atholia family are proved by this public document.
The descent
of Andrew-^ has not
yet been decidedly
The author furnished an account of the
Robertsons of Lude to Burke, for his History of the
Landed Gentry, which contained some strong presumpascertained.
tive evidence
of that
This has since been
descent.
taken, without acknowledgment, by other families as
the origin of Andrew.
The next
notice in these Rolls of
Robert de Atholia, proves a large portion of his lands
navert,
;
two baronies of Balnaguard and Bal-
in particular, his
in Strath Tay.
lands, will be proved,
Both
these, with
to his grandson Robert, by inheritance, as
It is right to
many
other
from a Crown charter, to have come
is
stated in
it.
mention, as to this deforcement by
Robert, and upon which the King,
it
is
stated,
is
to
be consulted, as well as the next one to be immediately
given, that they
no doubt arose from the lands of Robert
being taxed for the same amount as what his father paid,
who was then
dead, and which Robert could not justly
be asked to pay, as his brothers, Patrick and Thomas
^
In the Cliartulary of the Priory St Andrews there
the year 1269, an Andrew^
called son of Gilmur.
however, designed
cle
The
who was
last
AtJiolia.
is
named, in
clerk or chamberlain of Dull
was seneschal
of the earldom.
;
he
is
Neither are,
24
de Atliolia, held large portions of the property of the
common
ancestor,
Duncan.
The
following
is
the next
proof of lands belonging to Eobert de Atholia.
1358.
—" Item allocationem computi 12
menta
sibi facta,
Dated
per deforcia-
lib.
per Robertmn, filium Duncani, et Fer-
gusium, filium Adami, pro defectu secte terrarum, Balnafert,
Balmacrechy, Balnakard, Glendoch, Atholia, et
de Fforyergill, et ad hoc probandum idem computans, se
obligavit ut supra ;"
which means as follows
:
— " Also the
allowance of L.12 in the account, for the deforcements
made by Robert, the son
Adam, for default of suit
of
Duncan, and Fergus, son of
of the lands of Balnavert, Bal-
machrochie, Balnaguard, Glendochart, Atholl, and of
Fortingall
himself,
;
and
to prove this, the accountant obliged
as above mentioned."
Rolls, vol.
i.,
page 306, quarto
— See
the Chamberlain
edition.
The foregoing proves the possession by Robert, son
of Duncan de Atholia, of the two baronies of Balnaguard
and Balnavert, which are both mentioned in the Crown
charter of erection for the barony of Strowan, to Robert's
grandson, in 1451.'
The whole other lands here named
were (except Balmachrochie in Strathardle), where the
property of Robert was situated.
The exception men-
tioned appears to have been the possession of the ancestor of the Fergussons^ in Atholl.
These two Strath Tay baronies
'
The whole lands named in
title of
^
be found deli-
charter will be given hereafter, under
Strowan.
There was a Fergusson, a proprietor of part of Balmachrochie, in
1649, and again in 1835.
and
tliis
will
59.
—See
Gloag's Rental of Perthshire,
pages 58
25
neated opposite to Logierait
—
their eastern
The western
close to Kinnaird.
boundary
half of the barony of
Balnaguard was acquired by a Sir William Stewart of
Strathbran,
then
it
Dull,
Sir
who
afterwards became of GrandtuUy
guard barony, of that date.
Book
Proof
since 1614.
it
Balna-
for this part of
— See
Eecord of the Great
47, No. 225.
now be given
will
of other lands which be-
He
longed to Kobert de Atholia.
and co-heiress
of Sir
married the daughter
John de Strivhng (that
is
Stirling),
This will be found mentioned in Nesbit,
of Glenesk.
among
the notices of the Ragman's Roll by Crawfurd,
where the name of the knight of Glenesk appears.^
there
a charter
also
is
that proves the fact.
comes necessary to
had
and
was incorporated into that estate and parish of
and has formed the eastern part of
William got a Crown charter
Seal,
;
issue
besides
an only
named
in Robertson's
Before quoting
say,
child,
that
by
however,
it,
But
Index
it
marriage Robert
this
Jean or Janet de Atholia, who,
being through her mother a co-heir to
Glenesk property,
be-
was likewise sole heiress to
whole large possessions of her father Robert.
the
the
He
gave her, on her marriage with Menzies of Fothergill, a
very extensive estate, as will be proved hereafter.
charter alluded to
is
King David Second
^
Page 21
of
;
in
:
— " Charter
Eemarks on the Ragman's Roll
stated instead of Robert.
1358
noticed as follows,
Haddington, No.
3-4
;
but Duncan de Atholia
eldest sister
and
many
1,
is
years before
co-heiress, granted
Alexander Lindsay, was confirmed.
—2 —
The
those of
by Robert, son of
This marriage was likely not
which year the charter of the
before marriage to Sir
among
—See MS.
Advocates' Library.
D
Lord
26
Duncan Earl
of Atlioll, to Alexander Menzies of Fotlier-
upon the marriage of Jean, daughter
gill,
to the said
Eobert, one of the heirs of Glenesk."
— Robertson's Index,
The above Jean
(or Janet, as called
page 51,
iSo.
46.
in the Latin charters),
had no brother
;
it will
be observed, could have
as then she
would not have been an
heir at all of either father or mother,
heiress,
"
any
if
and only a
She was
sister existed.
Domina de Strathtummel," from the large
Her husband, Menzies of
she had therein.
and
were both
herself,
possessions
Fothergill,
alive in 1381, as will
be shown
Their marriage likely took place in 1370, or
hereafter.
not long before
which has
just,
The
it.
notice of the charter of Robert,
been given,
is
only
on her marriage
and does not
its title,
mention the lands he had granted
his
daughter Janet
but from the great importance of the
;
property conveyed,
Menzies to have
it
was the
interest,
bis wife's charter
of course,
confirmed by
Grown, which, as has been shown, causes
it,
by a Crown charter dated
in
of
tlie
of course, to
appear among those of King David the Second.
find,
co-
also designed
We
1379, that Janet
resigned the southern part of Strathtummel, also the
lands of Garth and Bolfracks, in favour of Alexander
Earl of Buchan
— very
probably in consequence of the
betrothal of Jean's child Janet to a son of this Earl
was a marriage
at a later period
Before naming the lands,
to refer' to
them
;
They commence near
comino- out of
it.
there
parties.
well to have the
map
they are stated in the charter in the
following order — " Tempar,
:
1
between these
it is
;
to
LassintuUich, Tullichcroskie
Loch Kannoch, on the south bank
of the river
—
27
(now Crossmoimt), Kynachari, Gart, Bufrchv, with third
part, town of Lynnoch;'" and, after naming these lands,
the charter has the following words in
DE JoHANETE DE Meyners," "
supra''
—that
charter
is,
qucis
Cif
it
^'
:
QuiE fuerunt
eadem Johaneta
declaring that the lands
named
ut
in the
—
were the property of Janet de Meyners."^
See Printed Record, Great Seal, No. 121, page 152.
This, therefore, proves these were a part of what Janet
had got by charter, on her marriage with Menzies of
Fothergill, from her father,
Robert de Atholia.
They
be-
came afterwards the property of the Stewarts of Garth
so designed from one of the estates here
—by
mentioned
named
the marriage of Janet's only child, also
Janet,
Duncan Stewart, the illegitimate son of the Earl of
Buchan. The north part of Strathtummel, not resigned
with
in the charter, namely, Bonskeid'^
came
to Janet's descendants,
and Fincastle, likewise
—the
families so designed
being younger sons of the old Stewarts of Garth
no doubt
it
was through
and
;
daughter of Robert de
this
Atholia that they inherited these lands,
—indeed,
it
is
almost impossible to suppose that they did not form the
remainder of her Strathtummel property.
It
has been
before mentioned, that Janet and her husband, Menzies
of Fothergill, were alive in 1381.
This fact
is
proved
from the Account, and evidence mentioned therein, of
the Family of Menzies, in Nesbit's
^
At
this period, in
Latin charters, the
name
2d volume, page 244,
of Menzies
was ah^-ays
called
de Meyners.
^
On
the estate of Bonskeid there
was given
in consequence of
is
a
wood naiQed
Coillevrochan,
King Robert Bruce having
there, it
which
is said,
partaken of a very hasty teeakfast with Duncan de Atholia, when on his
to
Rannoch
after the defeat at
Methven.
way
28
and understood
ilk^
—one
drawn up by M'Farlane of that
to be
of the best
Scotch antiquarians
— where
he
mentions the marriage of Sir Robert de Meyners, and
from a note marked
quoted page
sons,
—John,
Meyners de
in the
penes
—
the heir of the family, and Alexander de
Fothergill, who,
shire of
Mr
de Ross
as
;
both here given from the above
"
thus,
Of this marriage there were two
(e),
Aberdeen
by his wife Janet, got lands
in the north,
(e) Charter
George Crawfurd, by which Euphemia domina
filia
et hseres Willielmi
Comitis de Ross, confirms,
superior, a charter granted by Janet de Meyners,
domina de
Fothergill, to
Alexander de Meyners, her
husband, of the lands of Fechelly, in the barony of Kenedicard and shire of Aberdeen, dated 9th
It has thus
been proved by
this
March 1381."
marriage of Janet, and
the mention of the Strathtummel lands as her property,
must have formed part of the pos-
that they previously
sessions of her father,
a second time
;
and,
it
Robert de Atholia.
He
married
has been stated, to the co-heiress
of Ferdill, situated in the Stormount, in Perthshire.
He
undoubtedly acquired one half of the lands of Ferdill,
" Carta
thus
as there is a Crown charter for them,
—
Roberti
fib
Duncani de Atholia,"
etc.,
:
etc.,
—
in
the
Printed Record of the Great Seal, page 28, and number
42, dated in the year 1362.
By
this
second marriage Robert had an only son,
who succeeded
'
him,^ namely,
Duncan
de Atholia; he
In his MS. collections, in the Advocates' Libraiy, are
of charters
and deeds of the Menzies family
;
many
full copies
he must have perused their
writs very carefully.
2
1st
Eobert de Atholia was alive in 1392, and
volume of Scotch Acts
is
mentioned that year in the
of Parliament, page 217.
;
29
appears in the Rotuli Scotiae. volume
he
is
" Duncanus de Atholia dominus de
designed as
This designation arose, no doubt, from the
Jiannoch."
large possessions^ he
residence being at
England
had
in the district,
in the
same way
Rymer's Fa3dera, volume
where he
edition of 1740,
list
many
of a great
He was
Bun Rannoch.
ransom of King James the
for the
mentioned
in
page 277, where
ii.,
part
4,
Duncan de
must have married
a hostage in
First,
and
is
page 180, of the
placed at the head of the
is
His son Robert
other hostages.
This
his
as above, in the year 1432,
iv.,
succeeded him very shortly afterwards, as
after mentioned.
and from
be here-
will
Atholia, the writer
his half cousin, a
daughter
and though
this pro-
perly belongs to the genealogical part to be
drawn up
thinks,
of Thomas, the
hereafter,
yet,
first
to
of Strowan
;
account for the possession of the
lands of Strowan by Robert, son of Duncan, in 1451,
here becomes necessary to
make
a very few remarks.
Such marriage by Duncan seems alone
for,
to suppose
Thomas,
tion of the estate,
first
whereby
to explain
made a
of Strowan,
it
;
because
not arise from his being male heir, as Patrick,
so,
it
destina-
should come to his half
grand-nephew, seems quite impossible
Lude, was
it
being full brother of Thomas.
it
could
first
Any
of
one
by reading the proceedings of the Parliament held at Perth on the 25th March 1392, in the
will see this
1st vol.,
an
'
page 217 of the Acts.
Thomas,
entail of the estate of Strowan,
Duncan was the only
it is
mentioned
true,
in
made
Robert-
proprietor at this time in Rannoch, as the re-
mainder was in the hands of the Crown.
30
son's
Index/ page 141, when he got a Crown charter
for all his lands
but he being the maker of the
;
entail,
there can be no reason to suppose that he would
:lo
so
unnatural a thing, as give his large estate of Strowan
away from
own
his
before-mentioned rela-
child to the
tive.
The
entry in the Acts of Parliament, already re-
ferred to, clearly indicates also, that
Thomas
Strowan
of
was not son of Robert, as formerly supposed, but of
Duncan de Atholia
only way to account
;
and, therefore,
appears that the
it
for the estate of
Strowan
1451
in
belonging to Thomas's half grand-nepliew Robert (when
at the
that
same time
who
his
eldest
alive)
is,
and
daughter,
got Strathloch, was his youngest.
Having thus given
that belonged to the
tions,
daughter Matilda was
mother was
Robert's
Matilda,^
his
proofs will
notices
De
and proofs of the property
Atholia family for four genera-
now be given
of the lands belonging to
their descendants, the Robertsons, within the earldom of
Atholl, and afterwards there will be
from the de Atholia family,
families of Robertson, of
shown
their descent
in short accounts of the
Strowan and of Lude.
two
AVith
regard to those other families of the name, who were
'
Thomas
title is
the original
2
is
English,
called, in the title of this charter,
Latin charter, and no doubt at
Very recently a notice
with by the author
the Robertsons
is
" of Atholl
;"
but as the
cannot be argued he was not designed " de Atholia^^ in
it
;
it
will be adverted to
written.
all
other times.
of a charter to Matilda, for Strowan,
when the
was met
genealogical history of
landed proprietors within the earldom of Atholl, and
mentioned in the map,
also of
many
others, proof will
be given from a most authentic and trustworthy source,
namely, the renf-roll and valuation of the county of
Perth,
made
record shows
he proprietors, and their lands, within
all
the county, and by parishes
ago by
also
Mr
met
;
;
it
was printed sometime
writer
with, in the i\dvocates' Library, the rental
each page
is
and
manuscript) for the year
signed by Patrick Stewart of Balle-
chin, the collector of cess.^
This he has diligently com-
pared with the older one, and in
it
found only two
small omissions, which have been rectified.
will
The
Grloag, deputy-collector of cess.
valuation for Perthshire (in
1680
This
out Sy order of Parliament in 1649.
The names
be given in the same rotation as they appear in the
different parishes in the printed copy^ of
1
649, beginning
with the parish of Blair Atholl, the original seat of the
two principal stems of the Clandonachy, from which
the others branched
off.
J^ames of places,
etc.,
all
have been
corrected to the present spelling.
>
This valuation of the rental of Perthshire
cates' Library,
2
and
is
No. 31 -3
is
in the
MSS.
of the
The pages given apply to those mentioned where they appear
.Gloag's printed copy.
Advo-
— 15.
in
Mr
32
Names of
Landed
Proprietors in the following Parishes, of the na'me
of Robertson, in the year 1649
Rent,^ within the
Blair
in
Atholl, Strowane, Lude, and Kilmaveonog
Parishes united.
Lady
1.
—and the then valued
Earldom of Atholl.
Page
66.
Strowan,^ for Invervack, two hundred three
score
six
pounds thirteen
shillings
and four
pence.
2.
Laird of Strowan, for Glenerochj and others,
3.
Alexander Robertson,
one hundred three score ten pounds.
for himself
and
his mother,^
for the lands oi Lude, with the rest of their lands
in this parish, eight
Duncan and
4.
hundred pounds.
Beatrix* Robertson, their lands of
Auckleeks, Dalhaldich, Bowane, and half PzYto-
gowan, one hundred pounds.
5.
Patrick Robertson, for Blairfettle and Kirktown
of Strowan, one hundred and twenty pounds.
^
The
2
This lady was Margaret, daughter of George Graeme of Inchbraikie.
real rent
would be three times more now.
3
His mother was Beatrix Grseme,
*
She was aunt
to
sister of
George Graeme of Inchbraikie.
Alexander Eobertson of Lude, and widow of Charles
Robertson of Auclileeks.
33
6.
Angus Robertson,
7.
Paul Eobertson, for Pittaqowan.
8.
Alexander Kobertson,
9.
Isabell Robertson, liferentrix of Audkinkell.
10.
John Robertson/
hundred
for his lands ^ of Kindrochit.
for Calliehruar.
for his lands
pounds
forty-six
of Clunie, one
thirteen shillings
and four pence.
11.
Donald Robertson/
and others
for Kincraigie
one hundred forty-six pounds
in this parish,
thirteen shillings and four pence.
12.
Robert Robertson of Faskally,
others,
and
dred and
13.
14.
for
Blair and
feu-duties, in this parish, one
fifty
hun-
pounds.
Duncan Robertson,
for Calvi?ie, three score six
pounds thirteen
and four pence.
shillings
Earl of Atholl, for lands,* feu-duties, and teinds,
in this parish, six
hundred thirty-seven pounds
sixteen shillings and eight pence.
15.
Alexander Robertson of Tenandry, one hundred
two score
six
pounds thirteen
shillings
and
four pence.
Moulin Parish.
1.
Pages 68-70.
Robert Robertson and his mother, liferenter
for
Faskally, four hundred forty-five pounds.
^
Valued rent under L.50 a year, not inserted.
2
He was the younger brother of Alexander Robertson,
He was an uncle to Alexander Robertson of Lude.
^
*
"What the rent of the lands was
named
in the 1680 Rent-roll
;
or, in
is
then of Lude.
not given, separate from the teinds
the older one, from the feu-duties.
E
34
2.
Duncan Robertson,
for
AuchUckes^ and Balla-
gowan, three score six pounds thirteen shilhngs
and four pence.
3.
Donald Robertson,
Balnacraig and Glenbre-
for
rachan, one hundred and seven pounds.
4.
John Robertson,
for Lettoch, three score sixteen
pounds.
5.
John Robertson,
6.
John Robertson,
and
habhar
for Croftnahoich.
fiar of
Killyhangy, for
Pittarich,
four
score
Drum-
eighteen
pounds.
7-
John Robertson,
Easter Strathloch^ one hun-
for
dred three score eighteen pounds.
Andrew
Small, for Dernanean, four score nine
pounds.
8.
Alexander Robertson,
for Wester SiratJiloch,
hundred three score
lings
9.
six
pounds thirteen
one
shil-
and four pence.
Janet Robertson, hnif of Drumachorie, fifty-three
pounds
six shillings eight pence.
10. Christian Robertson, for the lands of Kinnaird,
fifty-three pounds.
11.
Donald Robertson,
for
Drumnacrich, four score
six pounds.
Kenmore Parish.
Pages 70-72.
Laird of Strowan, for Fearnan, four hundred
three score six pounds thirteen shillings and
four pence.
1
This property
is
quite distinct from
tliat of
the same
name in Glenerochy.
35
These are the lands remaining to the Robertsons of
Strowan,
at
this
elate,
Duncan de Athoha
of
what had been granted
before 1343.
Parish of Dull.
Page
o
Q6.
1.
William Robertson,
for Invergarrick.
2.
William Robertson,
for Innergair
FoRTiNGAL Parish.
Laird of
to
and
Ballejitt.
Page 64.
Strowan Robertson,
Murelafjgan,
for
Kinloch, and lands of Rannoch, possessed by
him and
wadsetters,
his
hundred and
five
twenty seven pounds six shillings and eight
pence.
Parish of Little Dunkeld.
1.
Page
60.
Beatrix Graeme,' for the lands of IncJimagrenoch,
one hundred and thirty-eight pounds.
2.
John Robertson
boat, fishings,
two hundred
are
^
of Invert for Inver^ mill,
fifty-eight pounds.
The lands of Inchraagrenoch, in the Rental of 1680,
named as the property of John Robertson of Lude.
Already mentioned as mother of Alexander Robertson of Lude.
were her jointure lands by her contract of marriage
barony of Lude, were given to her some years
-
and
and feu-duties of Dalmarnock,
He was an
;
These
the others, in the
after.
uncle to the then Alexander Robertson of Lude.
.
36
DowALL-K Parish.
Page
60.
Patrick Eobertson of Dulcaben, for the barony of
Dulcaben,
pounds
one
hundred four score thirteen
six shilHngs
and eight pence.
LoGiERAiT Parish,
1
Donald Robertson,
thirty-three
Page 62.
for Killyhangy^
pounds
six
one hundred
shilhngs
and eight
pence.
2.
Adam
Reid, alias Robertson, for Eastertyre and
Wester Derculich, two hundred four score sixteen pounds thirteen shiUings and four pence.
3.
Henry Reid,
4.
John
alias
Robertson, for Pitnacree, four
hundred and forty pounds.
Robertson,
for
Ballinioune
and
Wester
Dalshian, three score nine pounds.
5.
6.
James Robertson,
John Robertson,
for his half of Donavourcl.
for
JBallyJiandy,
four
score
seventeen pounds.
7.
John Robertson
of Tenandry,
and
his mother, for
the lands of Pitcastle, Ballagoivan, and
Pitcjair,
one hundred four score thirteen pounds
shillings
8.
six
and eight pence.
Laird of Strowan Robertson, for Carrick, and for
feu-duties of Ballichanzie, three score twelve
pounds.
.
37
KiRKMicHAEL Parish.
1
John Eobertson,
Pages 56-58.
for Easter Strathloch,
two hun-
dred and forty pounds.
2.
James Robertson,
for his part of Cultalony, three
score ten pounds.
3.
John Robertson,
for
4.
John Robertson,
for Bleaton,
Lenochmore
one hundred and
thirty pounds.
5.
John Robertson,
6.
John Robertson,
for hah' of
for
Wester Ennoch.
Stronamuick and other lands,
one hundred and ten pounds.
7.
Janet Robertson, for her part of Balmachrochie.
8.
Patrick Robertson of Cultalomj, for Glengennet,^
and other
Balnakilly,
lands,
two hundred
twenty-one pounds.
9.
Alexander Robertson of Downie, for
his lands,
two hundred pounds.
Weem
Parish.
This parish has not been named hitherto, as
tained no landed proprietors of the
The
35
name
it
following proof, from M'Farlane's Collections,
——
2
4, is
given, that
it is
extracts from a charter of
Alexander de Meynes,
'
within the earldom
John Earl
;
No.
being
of AthoU, to Sir
for the lands of
Xow
con-
of Robertson.
called Glenckrhy.
Weem.
—
38
Dated 1301.
"
Ego Johanes Comes
Atliolia3,
dedi,
etc., etc.
Domino Alexandro de Meynes, filio et heredi
quondam Robert! de Meynes, totam terram meam de
Weera et Abyrfealdybeg in Atholia, videlicet duas dava-
tas,
et
Weem
dimidiam davatam de
tam de Abyrfealdybeg,
.
.
et
dimidiam dava-
Salva mihi, et heredibus
.
meis, advocatione et donacione, ecclesie de
Weem.
Reddendo unum denarium Sterlingorum,
sectam curie de Rath, in Atholia.
et
.
.
.
unicam
Hiis testibus Dominis,
Joliane de Inclimartyn, Johane de Cambrun, Arcliebaldo
de Levyngston, Roberto de Cambrun de Balemely, Laurencio de Stratlibolgyn, Willielmo Olifard, Henrico de
Inclimartyn, Johane de Cambrun, et multis
aliis.
Penes Dominuvi Rohertum Menzics de Weem.
The purport
of
which charter
gives to Sir Robert de
Weem
is,
that the Earl of Atlioll
Meynes the whole
and Aberfeldybeg,
of his lands of
in Atholl ; namely,
half davates of the lands of
Weem, and
two and a
a half davate of
the lands of Aberfeldybeg; the Earl retaining the patron-
age of the church of
Weem.
Sir
Robert
is
to render to
the Earl and his heirs one penny, and one suit at his
court of Rath, in Atholl.
The
witnesses are,
—John de
Inch martin, John de Cambrun, Archibald de Levingston,
Robert de Cambrun of Balemely, Laurence de
Strathbolgie,
William
John de Cambrun
;
Olifard,
and many
Henry de Inchmartin,
others.
;
39
No.
I.
ROBERTSON OF STROWAN.
This family are the descendants of the eldest son of
Duncan de
Atholla, the founder of the Clandonachy
and being thereby
chief of the Robertsons, are treated
of as the primary family.
The
first
them who was
of
ever called " of Strowan" was Robert, the son and heir
Duncan de Atholia designed " Dominus de
Rannoch," who has been already mentioned. Robert
first appears in 1436, when he apprehended some of the
murderers^ of King James the First. In the year 1451,
this ancestor of the family got a Crown charter for all
his very extensive and numerous estates, in which King
of that
James the Second «peaks
in .very flattering terms of him,
stating that he grants the charter from the love
favour he bore to Robert, in having with
prehended the
The
charter
perty;
traitors
;
and
zeal ap-
concerned in his father's murder.
names the following lands
—namely, the whole lands
Glenerochy
much
as Robert's pro-
of Strowan
;
the lands of
the lands of the two Bohespic's ; the lands of
with the lake, and island of the said lake f the
lands of Carrik ; the lands of Innerhadden ; the one half
Gi^enich,
of
all
Rannoch
Faskally
^
He
;
;
the lands of Fearnan
;
the lands of
the lands of Dysart; the lands of Killihangy
arrested the Master of AthoU,
and
also
;
Graham, another of the
traitors.
2 Loch Tummel, it thus appears, was anciently called the Loch of Grenich.
As lands of that name are on the west and north-west side of it, and also
Gartgrenich on the south-east, that would, no doubt, be the reason.
40
the lands of Dulcaben
and Balnavert
;
;
and
forest of the same,
whole lands, with
all
pertinents
its
;
their pertinents, are
all
in the earldom
and which
now united
barony of Strowan,
into one barony, namely, the
whole being
Balnaguakd
the whole lands of
the lands of Glengarry, with the free
of AtJioll and sheriffdom of
This important charter, dated 1451,
Perth.
Eecord of the Great
Seal,
—the
Book^
iv.,
No, 227.
is
in the
It is first
to be observed, that this charter contains both the Strath-
tay baronies which belonged to his grandfather, Robert
de Atholia,, namely, Balnaguard and Balnavert ;
tains also the
Duncan de
from the Earl of
for
distinctly traced
Fife, of
many hundred
Disher
years the
Thus it has been
property of the Robertsons of Strowan.
and proved that the possessions of the
family of de Atholia
;
con-
barony of Fearnan, part of the grant to
Atholia,
and Toyer, which remained
sons
it
came
and the charter
to this chief of the Robert-
states,
hij
inheritance.
Also, the
whole lands named in the charter are declared to be in
the
earldom of Atholl ; and as they formed part of the
following parishes,
the
in
it
follows that those parishes are also
earldom of Atholl
—namely,
the parishes
of
Strowan, Moulin, Fortingal, Kenmore, Little Dunkeld,
Dowally, and Logierait.
came
The
estate of
Strowan next
He, of course, was
to Alexander, son of Robert.
Robert's son; but William, his successor, in 1505, was
the
first
who
truly took the
surname
of forty or fifty years more,
with
1
all
the
clan.
it
;
and
in the course
became pretty general
The above named
ancestor of the
In the Recorl of the Great Seal they are called Books, not Volumes.
—
41
family, William, was murdered,
it is
by the Earl of
said,
See Douglas's Baronage, page 407.
Atholl in 1530.
Robert Robertson, the next ancestor of the family,
got a charter under the Great Seal, dated 1541, for the
lands and barony of Fearnan, in Disher,
—namely, the
lands of Stronefearn, Lagfearn, and Kimjeldy.
xxviii..
No. 239.
Book
In the year 1545, this Robert of
Strowan was served heir to
following lands (this
is
his father
William in the
an instance of getting
charter several years before being served heir)
a
Crown
:
(No. 60
" 19th February 1545.
" Robertus Robertsone de Strowane hceres Willilmi
Robertson de Strowane patris in
laggaiT^,
terris
de Finnart, Mure-
Kinloch, Boyoqiihen, Auchinroy, Kinaldy, Baltolo-
skin [Cultoloskin], Killironzie, in baronia de Strowan."
See Perthshire Retours, number and date as above.
Among the foregoing mentioned lands,
those of Mure-
laggan were then very extensive, going from the head of
Glenerochy to Kinloch Eannoch uninterruptedly. Robert
Robertson, another of the family, in the year 1600 got a
Crown
1587.
charter,
which
recites a previous
one granted in
among
the writs of the
This charter of 1600
is
family of Robertson of Strathloch, which are in theLibrary
of the University at Edinburgh.
It narrates
that the
King's letters were directed to George Robertson, alias
Clandonachy,' and Alexander Robertson of Moaloch.
^
Clandonachy means, the children or descendants of Duncan.
to 1600, quite the
same
as Robertson, as a
surname
;
It was,
up
thus in the Lude
charter chest there are bonds of maintenance granted by different Earls of
F
42
After the King's perfect age
(In
1587),
lie
confirmed, and also by charter approved
had
of,
ratified
the gift
and
made
by John Eobertson, merchant burgess of Edinburgh,
Robert Robertson, son of a brother of the
Robertson of Strowan, and to
whom failing,
his heirs
late
male begotten,
arms
to his nearest heirs male, bearing the
and surname of Robertson
;
and
to
William
after reciting the various
lands of the barony of Strowan,^ the charter declares that
manor
the
of Invervack'
said barony,
be taken.
Since
made
and where
Dated
the
at
the principal messuage of the
is
sasine for the whole thereof
Holyroodhouse, 14tli January 1600.
foregoing notices of this
out, a friend of the writer
obliged
may
him with the perusal
were
family
(W. F. Skene, Esq.)
of an old
MS.
relating to
the Robertsons of Strowan, and the lands held by the
ancestors of the name.
first
In
it
are enumerated
all
the lands mentioned in the charter of 1451, and further
names Strathtummel ;
also, all
these, with the lands of
—
^had
been given
off
Bun Rannoch
Dullmagarth
in marriage.
stating that
;
—that
is,
Apnadull
This evidence
therefore a corroboration of what has been already
is
men-
tioned of the marriage lands of Janet de Meyners, the
daughter of Robert de Atholia.
With regard
to the
Ap-
nadull lands, they certainly came to the descendants of
Janet, as Neil Stewart of Fothergill, so far back as 1488,
enters into a
AthoU
bond with Campbell of Glenorchy, whereby
to the Lairds of Lude,
"and sundry
persons of
tJie
surname of
Clandonoquhy."
therefore they are not repeated.
1
These have been already given
*
In the map, the situation of the ruins of the old tower or castle of Inver-
vack
is
;
marked, being one of the ancient residences of the family.
charter notices
it
in 1587.
Tliis
43
they engage to
lands and bailieries
;
and they were " to stand
kyndness and help to uthers
bond, Neil
named
is
to maintain certain
each, other,
assist
in
tyme
in awfald
In this
cum."
as proprietor of Apnadull^ (or
magarth of the old Strowan MS.)
orchy the
to
DuU-
he gives to Glen-
;
Glenlyon, and Grlenorchy gives
bailierie of
Neil the bailiery of Eannoch, and his tacks of Apnadull
kirklands, and also Glenquaich.
This bond
is
dated
Edinburgh, 15th Oct. 1488. See Black Book, Taymouth,
Alexander Kobertson of Strowan, in
pages 177, 178.
the year 1681, was served heir to no less than nine of
his predecessors
dQ Atholia,
"•
;
—namely,
among
22d February 1681.
hceres,
Duncan
Dominus de Eannoch," which Robert got
This service
the charter of 1451.
lowing entry
to Robert, the son of
is
proved by the
the Greneral Retours
fol-
"No. (6273),
:
Alexander Robertson de Strowan,
Roberti Duncaneson de Strowan, avi
tritavi."
The
Retours of the eight other generations are on the same
This evidence places
page.
Robertsons are
family.
the
it
beyond
descendants
all cavil
that the
De
Atholia
of the
This Alexander was succeeded by Alexander
Robertson of Strowan, the poet, who suffered great losses
(like
many
others of the clan) from his adhesion to the
He joined
Stewart family, and was three times forfeited.
Lord Dundee
civil
wars, of
direct
'
male
This fact
is
in 1689,
and was engaged
1715 and 1745.
He
in both the
when the
The estate
died 1749,
line of this old family^ failed.
very confirmatory of the statement of the Strowan MS., and
Apnadull has been proved to have been the property of Duncan, the father
of
Robert de Atholia, in 1355.
^
See for a history of the families of Strowan and Lude, Burke's Landed
Gentry, letter
Z?
of the edition
begun 1813, and
finisheil
1818.
44
then came to the next male
Drumachune.
him, but restored
Robertson,
who
inheritance^
hen-,
Duncan Robertson
In 1752 the Government took
to
it
his
died in 1822.
it
of
from
Colonel Alexander
son,
A remnant of the ancient
remains, and the representation, with
still
George Duncan Robertson, Esq. of Strowan.
No.
II.
ROBERTSON OF LUDE.
As
already mentioned, this family descends from Patrick
de Atholia, the eldest son of Duncan de Atholia by his
marriao;e with a dauohter of the
got the lands of
Lude
for his patrimony,
the whole of the two parishes of
^the
Lord of the
Isles.
comprehending
Lude and Kilmaveonog,
whole of Glenfernat, and also the lands of
garry.
Patrick
mentioned by Winton
is
He
in
Stratli-
1392, 2d
volume, page 367, as one of the chieftains and leaders
of the clan
;
he
is
also
mentioned
in the 1st
He
the Acts of Parliament, page 217.
volume of
was most un-
doubtedly son of Duncan de Atholia from the way he
therein designed
is
thing
else, till
have been
^
Donald, his heir
The
indeed,
thought,
said, it is
had been known.
^
;
he was never called any-
once very recently
;
figure 1 in the
if
;
and
this
this additional evidence
Patrick had two sons
and Alexander, from
map shows
would not
:
whom
the eldest,
descended
the barony of Strowan, according to
charter of erection 1451, and the other proofs.
tlie
45
Robertsons of
the
Stratliloch.
Donald resigned
his
lands of Liide into the King's hands on the 7th Feb,
144:7,
but died before he could receive his infeftment.
His son John got the charter under the Great Seal,
Lude into a barony, proceeding on
The charter is dated the 31st
March 1448, which is a little less than two months after
his father's resignation, as it must be remembered the
erecting the lands of
his father's resignation.
year in Scotland began on 25th March.
barony of Lude
title-deeds, the
thanagium de Glentilt,"
tilt
;
all
the old
stated to be " infra
—within the thanedom of Glen-
and proof that the lands extended a long way up
that glen at one point,
it
is
In
and almost
to the very
head of
at another, will be given in the course of the narrative.
A reference
to the
map
tent of the lands to be
barony, though
The
its
will
show the situation and ex-
now enumerated
original extent
figure 2 has
as
composing the
was far larger anciently.
been placed on
boundaries, strictly according to a
all
the most distant
map drawn up
after
a survey by a very eminent land surveyor, and given
into the
Court of Session as a piece of evidence, ex-
and boundaries of the barony of
hibiting the extent
Lude, as
1716
;
it
existed at the comparatively recent period of
the date of the
map
being given
in,
as above
men-
tioned, was in the year 1809.
The
following are the lands which are contained in
the barony of
of
Lude
:
—The four merk land of Lude, Brae
Lude, Little Lude, and Kirktown of Lude
Dalginross and
Campsies
;
two Brakochs
;
;
lands of
the whole
lands of Kincraigie, with the mill and mill lands
two Molochs and Toldunie
;
the eight
merk
;
the
lands of
46
Easter and Wester Monzies, and their pertinents Shinageg
More and Shinageg Beg the lands of Glenloch, and all
its pertinents
the lands oiAuld Calloch and Corryneroch,
with woods and fishings the lands of Urrard More and
Urrard Beg ; the six merk land of Cluniemore and
Clunieheg ; the twelve merk land of the two Levages,
otherwise Strathgroy
the six merk lands of Kindrochet,
with the mill the six merk land of Balnagreic ;^ the
two merk land of Balnakeilly ; the two merk land of
;
;
;
;
;
Balarnot, with mill and pendicles
—
parishes of
Lude and Kilmaveonog,
of Glentilt
and earldom of Atholl.
The
above,
Glenfernat
of Lude,
;
to
it
will
it
Lude
Alexander, his youngest
in 144:7, to his
who
an
year
1700
the
first
Strath-
son.
resigned the lands
youngest son, Donald.
in
This
who married
Invermeath.
About
heiress,
illegitimate son of Stewart of
the
within the thanedom
was given by Patrick de Atholia,
branch of Lude ended
an
forming the two
be observed, does not include
garry was given by Donald,
of
all
property was
sold
to
another
The four merk lands of Pitnafamily named
cree were given off upon the marriage of Donald of
Lude's daughter, about 1446, to Finlay, Thane of GlenStewart.
tilt.
These lands are not above 500 or 600 yards from
the house of
lands of
Lude
Irivertilt
;
they
will
be again spoken
were annexed by a
Crown
of.
The
charter in
1452, granted to John of Lude, and his wife, Margaret
de Drummond. In the year 1507, another ancestor of
the family, also
>
It is
named Donald,
resigned the barony of
here that the mansion-house of Lude has been for the last 230
—
—
47
Lude
and
into the King's hands, in favour of his eldest son
John
heir,
;
but reserved his Hferent, and also a
A charter under the
reasonable terce to his wife.
Seal was then granted, of which the following
abstract
is
Great
a short
:
" Carta, Joanni Donaldson,
Donaldi Johnson^ de Lude,
bus et singulis
terris, et
et
filio
et apperenti heredi,
heredibus
Baronice de Lude,
suis,
cum
nentiis,jacentibus, infra ihanagium de Glentilt,
de Atholia,
et
de omnisuis perti-
comitatum
vicecomitatum de Perth, super resigna-
tionera dicti Donaldi, per suas litteras patentes
Edinburgum, tenendis de Rege, faciendo jura
debita et consueta.
gum, primo
Testibus ut in
aliis,
apud
et servitia,
Apud
Edinbur-
die Februarii 1507."
See the Record of the Great Seal, Book 15, No. 109.
From
this charter
it is
to be held of the King,
It
to observed that the barony
and according
to use
was
and wont.
becomes necessary now to give special proofs of
some of the lands before mentioned being undoubtedly
parts of the barony.
First,
Urrard More and Urrard Bes;
to the Castle of Blair
of
it,
;
then, as to the lands of
:
These are situated close
on the north-west and west side
to
They were
who feued them
they come within 500 or 600 yards.
long in possession of the lairds of Lude,
some of
their descendants, as
ing papers in the
Lude
is
proved by the follow-
charter chest
:
" Precept of Seisin granted by Donald of Lude, directed to his bailies, Alexander, Donald's son, of Strath^
These names, though thus written with the word " son" after them,
signify that the charter
John
was granted to John, the son
of Donald, the son of
of Lude, thus proving three generations of the family.
;
48
and Alexander Red of
garry,
them
to give infeftment to
Stratliloch,
commanding
Alexander Red of the lands
of Urrard More, etc., in the barony of Lude.
July 1507."
alias Robertson,
on a wadset on^the lands of Urrard
More, lying within
harony of
the
Lude
keld, 10th July 1530.
There
namely,
is
—a
Dated 4th
"Reversion granted by Alexander M'lan,
Lude.'''
Dated at Dun-
charter chest.
also charter evidence respecting these lands
charter dated 1493, granted by
Donald
:
of
Lude, for the lands of Urrard More and Urrard Beg,
which,
that
it
is,
in the
states, are ^'jacentes in
" lying in
AthoU
taken of
it,
my
harony of Lude''
charter chest
by the
late
an excellent antiquarian.
seal
attached to
it
haronia
;
Mr
;
it
de Lude,''^
—
This charter
is
mea
was seen, and a note
George Smythe, Methven,
The
charter has the granter's
but of this hereafter, when the
genealogical history of the Robertsons
is
written.
lands of Urrard were exchanged with the Earl of
for the four
merk lands
The
AthoU
of Pitnacree, in the year 1538.
The Earl had acquired Pitnacree from Finlay, Thane of
Glentilt (and son of the before named Finlay), in 1502
when he got the whole of their Glentilt property, and
had a Crown charter for it and the thanedom. See
Record of the Great Seal, Book xiii.. No. 524. The
Stewarts of Urrard took their designation from these
lands,
first
ancestor,
charter
chest.
of
and which belonged
for
It
to
them
until 1718.
Their
Alexander Stewart, M'Robert, had a Crown
them
in
the year 1617.
—Urrard
charter
must be stated that the lands of the barony
Strowan joined to those of Urrard both on the north-
west and west.
—
40
The next
Auld
with woods and
of
the
of
and
mention
special
kinds
part
barony of Lude requiring
proof,
with
is
and
Litiletown,
Calloch,
fishings thereof; they
the
to
Corrynerocli,
he on the south
barony
side of the water of Tilt, as all the
and are
did,
They are particularly
and will be easily found.
about a mile above Bentorkie.
marked on the map,
regard
in Glentilt,
Bentorkie, or as often called, Carntorkie,
is
the north-
west point of Benegloe, and was the farthest boundary
of the
commonty
named Kincraigie
craigie,
and that part of it
property of Robertson of Kin-
of the barony,
(the
a younger son of Lude), and which was last
Duke
century acquired by the
monty was divided
Lude charter chest,
is
The
1810.
in
The com-
of Atholl.
following,
proof of the lands of Auld Calloch,
forming a portion of the barony of Lude
etc.,
from the
:
Extract from Roijal Letters of Cognition, directed
"
of
To
oure Sheriff of Perth.
Lude has
—That wheras the
laird
the landis and baronie of Lude, his prede-
cessors and tenantis been in continual possessione of the
landis of Corrynach, Littletoun with the woodis therof,
and Auld
Calloch^
sls
partis
and pertinentis of saide landis
and baronie of Lude in times bygone past memorie of
man, till now, that oure Cousin Johne Earl of Atholl, be
himself and utheris, in the month of June
ouslie ejected the saide laird
written, viz. {eight in number),
and
and
his
last,
wrong-
tenantis under-
their gudes furth of
the saide landis, and as yet will not desist without he be
compelled.
—Oure
will
said pairties befor
is,
ye,
therefor, that ye call baith the
and tak cognition
in the saide
50
matter
;
and
if it
appears
Lude and
y* saicle laird of
his
predecessoris have been in continual possessione of saide
landis,
and that oure saide Cousin wrongouslie ejected
and compel our
saide pairties, y* ye cause
to desist therefrom,
restore
and pendicles of
said lairde again to
his said baronie of
until he be justfullie callit
"At
saide Cousin
and keip, and defend him
his possessione
partis
and
y'^
and
therein, as
Lude aye and
ordonelie put therefra
"
Edinburgh, 6th July 1596."
John Robertson, another ancestor of
this family, after
the battle of Pinkey, in 1547, married Beatrix Gardyii,
widow
of Findla More, predecessor of Farquharson of
Invercauld, who was killed there and in 1564 the above
John Robertson acquired a large property, as appears by
" Dispothe following deed in the Lude charter chest
;
:
sition of all
and
and whole the
salmon
fishings,
Inchmagrenoch ; the lands of Newton, Dal-
forest of
marnok, and
lands, woods,
—
all
their pertinents,
son of Sir Robert M'Nair.
by John
M']!!^air, eldest
24th April 1564."
estate lies for several miles on
river Ta}^, beginning at Liver,
the south side of the
and proceeding upwards
to Dalguise, as will be seen on reference to the
This John Robertson,
and
This
his
wife,
map.
Beatrix Gardyn,
December 1565,
had a Crown
charter, dated 18th
these lands.
See the Record of the Great Seal, Book
xxxii.,No. 547.
John Robertson
for
Alexander Robertson, son of the above
and Beatrix Gardyn, acquired
the
lands of Kilmorick by the following "Ratification by
Colin Campbell of Glenlyon to Alexander Robertson, of
him and
son, Duncan
a disposition of the lands of Kilmorick, given to
his spouse,
Agnes Gordon, by
his eldest
—
—
—
51
Campbell, Duncan Menzies of Comrle, and
spouse
bell, his
Lude Charter
Nov. 1607.
The son
in the bishoprick
Signed and dated at Dunkeld, 30th
of Dunkeld."
Chest.
of the above was also Alexander Kobertson
He
of Lude.
which said lands are
;
Mary Camp-
died very suddenly in 1639 at Dulcaben,
leaving a son and heir, also Alexander Robertson, who,
though quite a youth, joined the great Montrose, and
was with him
Tippermuir
at
;
as in Napier's Memoirs,
the Master of Maddertie and others, in their evidence,
state they
saw Alexander Robertson of Lude " in High-
land weed."
This laird was served heir to his father
(owing to the state of the times) by a Colonel Daniel,
who was Cromwell's Governor
1656.^
He
manner
in the
v/^as,
of Perth.
however, served heir in the more usual
barony by the following special retour
"
(823)
^'
Robertson de Lude, patris in
etc. etc.
—Perthshire Retours,
above
also,
Lude Charter
:
2d June 1671.
Alexander Robertson de Lude,
:
Dated 16th July
hceres
Alexandri
terris JBaronice de Lude,''
vol.
ii.,
date and No. as
Chest.
This Alexander died, and was succeeded by his eldest
son,
John, whose service was to his grandfather Alex-
ander, as follows
(871 )
" Joannes
:
"12
Robertson
Robertson de Lude
etc., etc.
avi,
—Perthshire
de
in
Lude
terris
Feb. 1675.
hceres
Alexander
Baronise de Lude,"
Retours, date and No. as above,
and Lude Charter Chest.
This laird had
1
much
Tliis service is in
trouble during his minority
the liUde Cbarter Cliest.
—
——
52
about the boundaries of the barony, and,
in particular,
with regard to the most distant of the pasture grounds
at the north-west part of Grlenloch,
called the Sheallings of Rienagie
beyond Lochloch,
and Auldindearg.
Their
Water of Tilt, called
The following notices prove that encroachments were made on them the situation of them
is particularly marked on the map
*
grazings extended to a ford on the
Dalchronicht.
;
:
Instrument of Protest, John Robertson of Lude, taken
at the Shealing of Rienagie, against
Captain
W.
Murray, John Robertson of Balnacraig, and their
accomplices.
3d July 1680.
Lude Charter
Chest.
Extract from the above.
" The said Johne Robertsone of Lude
and proove, that the
to
him and
said sheilling did pertein
his predecessors
their names,
offerit to instruct
;
and belong
and that they, and uyrs
in
wes occupying and possessing the samyne
past man's memorie,"
..."
sheilling did pertein
and belong
and
protestit that the said
to
him
heritablie, als
freelie in all respects as it
did pertein and belong to his
predecessors of beffoir, no
man
impeding, contradicting,
nor gainsaying in the contrair."
Instrument of Protest, John Robertson of Lude against
John Robertson of Balnacraig,
building a bothie there.
Lude Charter
at
Rienagie, for
Dated 3d June 1687.
Chest.
Extract from the above.
"
The
said shealling
and houndis perteining
the said Johne Robertsone of Lude, and
heritabhj to
to his predeces-
—
—
53
And
sors.
that they, and uyrs in then* names, wes oc-
cupying and possessing the samen past man's memorie."
Depositions of Witnesses, taken at the Castle of Blair,
Court of the Regality of Atholl.
Lude Charter
1687.
Chest.
" Court of the Regalitie of Atholl, liolden within the
Castle of Blair, the seventh day of July,
J™ YI"
eighty seven years, be Patrick Stewart of Ballechan, Bailzie of the said Regalitie."^
John Robertson,
elder of Easter Straloch, of ye age
of seventie yeeres, or yrby, a witnes sworn, purged of
partiall councill, depones,
—He knew the
lairds of
Lude
in possessione of ye schealing of Rienagie these fiftie
yeares bygone, without any interruption
three yeeres bygone.
God, and knew non
This
is
John Stewart
within these
oyr. in possessione yrof.
(Signed)
That he knew ye
till
ye truth as he shall ansr. to
J.
Robertson of Straloch.
of Urrard, sv^orn ut supra, depones,
lairds of
Lude
in possessione of
ye
schealing of Rienagie these fourtie fyve yeares bygon,
and
and
yt.
ye deponent's father haid ye same sometymes,
yt. he Lucie's tolerance,
a pairt of Glenloch.
to
This
and he heard
is
named
to
be
ye truth as he shall ansr.
God.
(Signed)
^
it
Stewart of Ballechan signs these
correct.
tleijositions,
J.
Stewartt.
and authenticates them as
54
Donald Eobertson of Calvein, of ye age
sworn ut swpra, depones,
fyve yeeres,
cam and drank milk
in Lude's possessionem
Glenloch.
This
is
— That
and
yt.
ye same
the truth as he
is
a pairt of
sail ansr. to
sworn ut supra, depones,
—That
remembers he never knew any person
ye
except
schealing
schealing itself
is
lairds
God.
D. E.
John Eobertson of Pittagowan, of ye age
ye
at ye
at the sd. schealing, being
(Signed)
yeeres,
threttie
and ye tutor of Strowan being
four yeeres agoe he
watch,
of fyftie
of sixtie
since ever he
in
possession of
and
of Lude,
yt.
ye
a pairt of Glenloch.
(Signed)
Alexander Eobertson,
in
John Eobertson.
Downie, of ye age of four
sworn ut supra, depones,
—He knew
ye lairds of Lude to be in possession of the
sd. scheall
scoir yeeres or yrby.,
these sixtie
to
four yeeres hygon, and knew no oyr. person
be in possession
would be on tym
scheall.
This
is
in
yrof.,
and
yt.
ye lairds of Lude
Glenloch and anoyr. tyme in ye
sd.
the truth as he shall ansr. to God.
A. E.
(Signed)
Eobert Gray, in Lyncopackith, of ye age of eighty
sex yeeres,
sworn ut supra, depones,— He knew
in his
tyme
ye lairds of Lude to have twelve severall buemen in ye
sd.
schealing,
knew no
qrof.
ye deponent himself was one, and
oyr. person
pones, yt. ye same
is
in possession
yrof.
a pairt of Glenloch.
truth as he shall ansr. to God.
;
farder de-
This
Farder depones,
is
the
yt. his
OtJ
inemorie consists in seventie
yeares,
nijn yeeres,
sd.
writt.
Levashbeg, of ye age oi fourscoir
in
sworn ut supra, depones,
—He remembers these
Lude
to be in possession of
fourscoir yeeres the lairds of
ye
tyme Lude
Pa. Stewart.
(Signed)
John Fergusson
qcli.
Depones he can not
hald ye sd. possessione.
scheahng, and no oyr. persone in possessione of
ye same, and
yt.
ye same
is
This
a pairt of Gleiilodi.
truth as he shall answer to God.
is
Depones he can not
writ.
Pa. Stewart.
(Signed)
From
this evidence/
prietors in the
district,
spectable persons,
their
it
own knowledge,
is
;
in
from their
made on
Lude were
proprietors of these
had never been controverted
forefathers,^
Fiirther proofs,
—namely,
who
must have learned that
this portion of the
John Robertson
the date
till
the depositions of the witnesses,
No
to
also,
Lude
further attempt was
barony; but in 1716 these
and other more valuable lands had
'
from
from sixty to eighty
alone these lands belonged.
this
testify,
and, further, the evidence proves that this right
of property
named
and by other yery old and re-
shown they could
for periods of
years, that the lairds of
lands
by gentlemen who were pro-
to be given
up by
of Lude, to save a brother's
leases,
also old rentals of the barony, in the
and tolerances
Lude Charter
life
to pasture these lands,
Chest,
—could be given.
years,
who knew Lude's rights for the long period of seventy to eighty
would know for at least the same periods further back from their
fathers
and grandfathers.
2
Those
56
who was taken
in the civil
prisoner for his having been engaged
The
war of that period.
similar facts
and
details of this
belong, however, to the historical part, to
be written hereafter.
He
was succeeded by
his only son,
John, who was only a few years in possession when
also
he died, leaving
minor.
his
James Robertson, a
eldest son,
This laird was sixty-two years in possession
he
;
acquired the Kirkton of Strowan, also the lands of Toldunie, from Robertson of Kincraigie.
He was
succeeded
by
his eldest son.
General Robertson of Lude, who died
in
January 1820.
His eldest son (the writer hereof)
the representative of this family.
was sokF
The
estate of
is
Lude
in 1821.
No.
III.
ROBERTSON OF STRATHLOCH.
This family descend from a younger son of Lude,
namely, from Alexander, youngest son of Patrick,
of
Lude and who gave him the property
first
of Glenfernat,
;
which adjoins and descends from Glenloch, within the
This Alexander was called " Rua^''
barony of Lude.
that
is.
Red
;
and
his representatives
the Baron's Rua, or Reid.
were always called
This last word
one, to signify the colour red.
is
an old Scotch
Alexander married
Cousin Matilda, daughter of Thomas de Atholia,
^
To the father of
J. P.
mansion house, and made
M'lnroy, Esq.,
now of Lude, who
many
and
judicious
liberal
has built a
improvements.
his
—the
new
—
57
on record called
first
Crpwn
Thomas had
of Strowan."
'-
charter for the lands of Strathloch, Easter Dovan,
Tomanturie, Dekerwand, and Dalcharnich.
is
a
The
charter
not dated, but was between 1398 and 1405, as the
whole charters in the
the 8th and
From
Third.
roll,
it is
are declared to be between
roll
the position of Thomas's charter in the
likely
it
was dated in 1402.
who had a Crown
following
o
is
:
" Carta Matildse Duncanson,
ipsius
Eed,
Pro
toto
decessum Joanni
Patrickson,
et
Ma-
charter for them, of which the
an abstract
Duncanson.
—(See Robertson's
These lands came to
Index, page 141, No. 47.)
tilda,
King Eobert the
15tli year of the reign of
tempore
A
quondam Thomse
filise
suae
vitse
heredibus
post
et
A
lexanderson, filio
lexandri
de corpore suo
suis,
legitime procreatis, seu procreandis, quibus deficienti-
bus Alexandra JRed fratri germano
heredibus
corpore
suo
legitime
dicti
Joannis et
procreatis
seu
pro-
creandis quibus deficientibus veris legitimis et propin-
quioribus
omnibus
heredibus
didcB
Matildce quibuscunque
singulis
terris
Carroth,
et
Thomcurrij
cum
DalcJiarmj,
— de
et
de
pertinentiis jacentibus in Comitatu de
Atholia et vicecomitatu de Perth super resignationem
dictse Matildse
—Tenendis de Rege— Reddendo
—Testibus ut
debita et consueta
apud Edinburgum 4to
iv..
servitia
in aliis (superscriptis)
die Augusti 1451."
— See
Book
No. 226, Great Seal.
Which
purports,
that
the
lands
named
therein
were, on the resignation of Matilda Duncanson, granted
to
her in
liferent,
and,
John Alexanderson, son
on her death,
to
of Alexander Red,
her son
Patrick-
H
58
whom
fail-
John's brother-german, Alexander Red,
and
and
son^ (her husband),
ing,
to
lawful issue
his
and lawful
his lawful
whom
;
And
;
own
to her
failing,
heirs whatsoever.
issue
nearest
this charter shows,
that Matilda was absolute proprietrix, and could dis-
unfettered by
any
are Carroth, Dalcharnyy
and
pose of her lands as she
The
entail.
lands
named
chose,
Thomcurry, with their pertinents, lying in the earldom
of Atholl.
It will
be seen that the lands of the family then
The manner
held of the Crown.
riority
came
tioned in a
to
MS. belonging
which contains a most
family,
and extracts
time.
There
ments,
etc.,
burgh,
is
in
which the supe-
John Stewart, Earl of
to
full
will
Atholl,
Major Robertson of Cray,
and detailed history of
be given from
number
a considerable
it
of the old infeft-
lands which belonged
the
this
at the proper
of this family in the College Library,
proving
men-
is
Edinthem.
to
They had, besides Glenfernat, the lands of Easter and
Wester Strathloch, which were in the two parishes of
Moulin and Kirkmichael.
On
referring to the valued
rents of these properties, at preceding pages 34
in the parish lists of 1649,
together to the
sum
the following, namely
carnich), Balno.goins,
it
will
of almost L, 600.
:
and
37,
be seen, they amount
They included
the lands of Dalcharny (or Dal-
Tomnanean, Balindrine, Carroch,
Dirnanean, Wester and Middle Invercroskie with the
mill,
Auchencapel,
Whitejield,
and Dalnagairn
1 As in the Lude charter, this one is to John,
who was the son of Patrick, first of Lude.
;
also
the son of Alexander Eed,
—
—
59
Easter and Wester Lair,^ the lands of Easter^ and Wester
Kindrogan,^ Dovan, also Tarvie and Mill of Tarvie, and
lands of Tomanturie.
In 1513, John Red, as son and
heir of Alexander Red, gets the lands of Dalcharny from
This was confirmed by the Earl of Atholl
his father.
Red
In 1539, another John
as superior.
of this family
got lands in the barony of Balmachrochy, from
Maxwell of
Telling.
of Robertson, on the marriage of their ancestor,
Red, with Marjory, daughter of John
The lands
tor of Lude.
Hugo
In 1567, the family took the name
of
the
John
Robertson, ances-
family in
the two
parishes of Kirkmichael and Moulin are declared to be
within the
Earldom of Atholl,
lowing retours
by the two
fol-
:
"
(JS^o. 519)
" Joannes Robertson de
Robertson
as proved
alias
31st
December 1642.
Strathloch hceres Joannis
Reid de Strathloch, proavi,
in terris
Dalcartiich, JBalinalor, Balnagoyne^ Balindrine,
(vel Garsovert),
de
CmToch
Tomanturie, in Comitatu ATHOLiiE
tertia parte
terrarum de Easter Invercroskie in baronia
de Downie."
— See
Perthshire Retours, '^o. and date as
above.
" (No. 520)
31st December 1642.
" Joanes Robertson de Strathloch hceres masculus
^
There some of the family resided at one period.
wards
sold,
These lands were after-
apparently in small portions, as per charters 1595, in College
Library.
^
Appears to have been sold to persons named M'Coul, who had
near 1700.
^
The family kept these longer.
it till
60
Alexandri Eobertson de Stratliloch patris in bina parte
terrarum de Invercroskie, bina parte,
Corrievurich.
cum
solidatis
lie
Sliealings
de
terrarum de Wester Kindrogin,
multuris pra3fatarum terrarum et terrarum subse-
quentium,
dow,
— 40
et
7 mercatie terrce de Dirnanean, Ennach-
viz.
Stodderscroft
et
40 soliditarum terrarum de
Easter Kindrogan, in Comitatu Atholi^."
— See Perth-
shire Retours, as above.
This family continued in the direct male line
death of the son of the
1806, a
last
till
Baron Reid, who died
the
in
General in the Army, and Colonel of the
full
88th Regiment.
The
years previously.
Major Robertson of Cray
estates
had been
sold
is
twenty
under-
stood to be the representative of the family.
No. lY.
ROBERTSON OF FASKALLY.
This
first
is
an old cadet of Strowan, deriving from the
of that family,
named Alexander, and by
his
second
marriage with Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John
Her
Earl of AthoU.
peerage
but
;
Great Seal.
Christian
name
is
not given in the
distinctly given in the charter of the
it
is
A
very curious relationship arose by this
second marriage of the laird of Strowan, as his son had previously married another daughter of the Earl of Atholl,
and
sister of his father's wife.
Great Seal,
'
it
On
By
the record of the
appears that Strowan^ and Lady Elizabeth
his
own
resignation of this part of
liis
barony.
61
were
infeft in the
conjunct fee of a very large estate, and
and their
to the longest liver of the two,
charter
dated 1504,^ which
is
may be presumed
The
the date of the second marriage.
lands mentioned, namely
lands of Callybruar, and
The
issue.
to
be
following are the
the lands of Calvine ; the
:
all its
pertinents
;
the lands of
Pettagowan and Pitteldonich ; the lands oi Kenordochie and
Kindrocliet
of
the whole lands of Faskally, and the lands
;
See Book
Dysert
xiv.,
No. 94, of the Great Seal.
This estate, on reference to the map, will be found
very large
it
:
commences
six miles
from Blair
and
;
in
went direct thence to Pitlochry, with only the
1504
it
Lude
estate,
from the lands of Urrardbeg
to Auldclune,
besides, the estate included all Glenbruar.
intervening
;
The lands
of Faskally then extended far
supposed,
—namely,
both
sides
more than
is
of the Garry, with the
lands of Tenandry, and the two Orchills and Renrory.
There
is
Crown
a
marriage,
charter to the eldest son of this second
who was
the
first
Alexander Eobertson, and
lands of Faskally, etc,
his wife, Isabel
—namely,
Hay,
to
for the
dated 1533, Book xxv., No.
In 1543, Alexander Eobertson of Faskally had
111.
another
Book
etc.,
of this family,
Crown
xxix.,
charter for the lands of Dysert.
No. 64.
See
This Alexander was succeeded by
George Eobertson,^ whose son Alexander got a Crown
charter for the barony of Faskally, dated 1599,
'
That
is
no
less
to the daughter of
^
This laird,
it
than forty-four years after the
first
Book
marriage of Strowan
Lord Glamis.
appears,
was the one who
a clmrter in Urrard Charter Chest.
two Orchills and RenAthoU " Servitor noster," in
sold the
rory to a George Leshe, called by the Earl of
—
—
62
xlii.,
George Robertson was the
No. 133.
this last
eldest son of
Alexander, and he, and his wife, Elizabeth
Lundie, had a charter for part of the barony in his
father's lifetime,
dated 1611, Book
No. 200.
xlvi.,
He
died without male issue before his father, and his next
brother,
Duncan Robertson, was served heir to him by
among the Perthshire Retours, dated in
the following,
the year 1615
:
" (No. 235)
6th December 1615.
" Duncanus Robertson hm^es masculus Georgii Robertson feoditarii de Faskallyy/'a^ris
—
de Pittagowan,
in terris
Kindrochit, et Pittildonich, qua sunt partes baronisje de
Faskally."
This Duncan succeeded, and was served heir in the
whole remainder of the barony
Robert.
in 1621.
There are many old papers of
Urrard Charter Chest
;
His son was
this laird in the
having had great disputes with
Robert Stewart of Orchill More, an ancestor of the Urrard
family.
Robert Robertson of Faskally
is
proved by the
valuation of 1649 to have been proprietor of the lands
of Blair, in the parish of Blair Atholl (which see at page
33),
and which
this
whole barony
is
shown
in the
map by
the figure 4, as
Robert was succeeded by
is.
his son,
Alexander Robertson, in the whole lands of the barony
of Faskally, as proved by the following retour
"(No. 823)
*'
Alexander Robertson
17
hcBres
Faskally patris in terris de Faskalhj
Gilliehamhie,
May
:
1671.
Roberti Robertson de
—terris vocatis Dysert,
Calojine^ Pittagowan, Glenbruar, Kindro-
'
Calvine
is
meant.
—
63
chart,
Pittildonich, unitis in
Perthshire Retours,
was
baroniam de Faskally."
number and date
He
as above.
proved by
also proprietor of the lands of Blair, as
th^ valuation of 1680.
This
laird
of
Faskally
married the daughter of
Alexander Robertson of Lude, and had by her his son
and
heir,
George Robertson, the
line of Faskally.
1745, but was not
last of
the direct male
He was engaged in the civil war of
forfeited.
He removed the mansion-
house from Faskally to Dysert.
in or soon before 1770, to the
Butter,^ Esq. of Pitlochry,
The
Duke
were
estates
of
sold,
AthoU and H.
whose family had been
for a
considerable time proprietors there.
No. XII.
ROBERTSON OF TENANDRY.
The
oldest cadet of Faskally, therefore,
in the regular rotation, is here
named.
though not
The
first
pears to have been an Alexander Robertson,
ap-
who got
that part of the Faskally estate that lies on the south
side of the Garry, directly opposite the lands of the
Orchills,
Renrory, and
Old Faskally.
The
estate of
Tenandry included Easter and Wester Balroby, Ardtullachan,
Fanvuik,
the river Garry.
etc.,
and goes about two miles along
The Robertsons
of
Tenandry had
another estate in the parish of Logierait even more
valuable than Tenandry, as
^
The writer
will be able to
of Butter in Atholl of
shown by the
rentals of
show that there were proprietors
an older date than
is
generally known.
of the
name
K^
—
64
The
1649 and 1680.
following
proprietors of other lands
;
1635.
(No. 439.)
" Joanes Robertson de
Tenandry
Robertson de Tenandry j^a^m
de Pitcastle
tionibus
8
cum
—
in
infra
dimidiatate
dietatis
Et
sunny half Rinrig terrarum
lie
solari dimidiatate
shealling vocato South Rienaloysen
Et
4
lib.
et
cum
piscatione
Loclibroom infra ten-
terris umbratilis
dictarum terrarum Pitnarigarren
gowan cum salmonum
et pisca-
tenandrium de Logierait.
salmonum super aqua de Tummel
andriam de Logierait.
Alexandri
nuncupato
de Pitnarigarren alias Ballygowan et
lie
hceres
40 solidatas terrarum
sheilling Rievullin
salmonum
lib. solari
the proof they were
is
alias
dimi-
Bally-
piscatione extendentibus ad
Et 4
20
soliditas
terrarum jacentibus ut supra.
et terris
de Pitgair extendentibus ad 40 solidatas ter-
lib.
rarum cum shealling ejusdem vocato Rienavullan
catione jacentibus ut supra.
Et 8
lib.
villa
et pis-
40 solidatas
ter-
rarum de Balnacraicj cum
piscaria jacentibus ut supra."
— See Perthshire Retours,
as above.
The
estate of
Tenandry was
sold to Stewart of Urrard
in 1718.
No. V.
ROBERTSON OF KILLIEHANGY.
This family appear to come of Andrew, son of the
Alexander
Andrew
is
Robertson
of
Strowan
stated, in Douglas'
who
died
1505.
Baronage, page 407, as
—
65
immediate younger brother of Alexander's successor,
whereby they are older cadets of Strowan than Faskally.
The above Andrew
writs, in a
is
mentioned among the Ballechin
Precept of Seisin granted by Sir John Stewart
of Stuiks, dated so far back as 5th
August 1505.
This
family appear to have been predecessors to several others
of the name.
Their property of Killiehangy, in Logierait^
on the south side of the Tummel, from
parish, extended,
Easter Dunfallandy to the boat or ferry of Tummel.
also
They
were proprietors of another estate in the parish of
Drumhabber and Pittarach.
no doubt, held of the Crown
Moulin,^ namely, the lands of
Their properties at
but, towards the
first,
;
end of the 16th century, the superiority
appears to have been acquired by the then Earl of Atholl.
This
is
known by two
granted
for the lands of
1585
;
charters of
(as superior) to
John Earl
James Robertson
Drumhabber and
mill,
of Atholl,
of Killiehangy,
dated
1
580 and
which charters are in the Urrard Charter Chest
the Stewarts of Urrard havingacquired the lands of Drum-
habber from Robertson of Killiehangy during
tury.
Donald Robertson was proprietor
was
cen-
and
in
John Robertson
1685 he was a Commissioner of Supply.
his successor.
last
in 1649,
In the unfortunate
civil
war of 1745
both James Robertson of Killiehangy and his son took
part.
^
See page 36.
^
See page 34.
—
66
No. VI.
ROBERTSON OF DULCABEN.
This
is
stated as
earldom of
Atlioll.
Dulcaben.
It
along which
is
tlie
oldest branch of
on the north
in the
Tummel,
the
side of
goes about a mile,
it
Strowan
Their property was the barony of
and extends several
miles towards the north.
In 1563, Patrick Robertson of Dulcaben received a
remission for the murder of the late Alexander Red.
Campbell
of
Ardkinlass was
Criminal Trials,
Dulcaben held
1599,
vol.
their
i.,
Patrick's
a charter under the Great
36, in parish of Dowally, Patrick Robertson
to Holland,
At page
is
proved
In 1677, Alexander Robertson,
apparently his son, was created a baronet.
went
of
In the year
Seal for Dulcaben, and also the lands ofLawton.
proprietor of Dulcaben.
— See
The Robertsons
page 431.
barony of the Crown.
Duncan Robertson had
surety.
and took the name
pears by the following retour, yet
of Colyear, as ap-
still
Robertson
" (No. 5987)
The family
retaining that of
:
24 March 1687.
" Colonellus Alexander Robertson alias Colzear hceres
Joana3 Colzear
filias
Majoris
Davidis
Colzear sororis
german?e."
This family were further advanced in
title,
being
afterwards raised to the peerage as Earls of Portmore.
For further account of them,
Douglas' Scotch Peerage.
see
the last edition of
67
1^0.
YIL
ROBERTSON OF GUAY.
An
old branch from Lude, their
first
ancestor being
John, son of the John who, with his wife Margaret de
Drummond, got a Crown charter in
1452. For an account
Landed Gentry, letter R. They
have had an extensive estate and after they
of this family, see Burke's
appear to
;
had disposed of the greatest part to the Earl of Atholl,
they
still
retained the designation.
more of the
of 1715.
clan, unfortunately
They, like so
took part in the
"Robertson of Guay"
is
named
civil
lost their estate that
had remained
to
war
as a prisoner
that year, and was confined in i^ewgate in 1716.
then
many
them.
They
I^ow
represented by Captain Robertson, a post-captain of the
]^avv.
1^0.
VIII.
ROBERTSO]^ OF AUCHLEEKS.
This family
is
named
in
Douglas' Baronage as being
from the son of James, the son of Strowan, who died
1505.
They have undoubtedly been long
Auchleeks.
As
proprietors of
before alluded to, they hold a portion of
the Glenerochy estate, which can be traced back to a
longer period than any other part of the possessions of the
68
Eobertsons.
Charles, one of the ancestors of this family,
married Beatrix Robertson, of the family of Lude. This
laird of Auchleeks was called " Chaiiich nan Jead,''
—
that
is,
" Charles of the Strings,"
as a harper.
It
is
—from
his great skill
Duncan RoAuch-
proved, at page 32, that
bertson, along with his mother, was proprietor of
leeks, etc.,
In 1661,
and of another
estate in parish of Moulin.
Duncan Robertson
Com-
of Auchleeks was a
— See 14 Act
missioner of Supply for the county of Perth.
of Charles the Second, year 1661.
The
family
is
now
represented by Robert Robertson, Esq. of Auchleeks.
ISo.
IX.
ROBERTSOlSr OF
CALVmE.
Stated to descend from James Robertson, son of the
first
named Alexander, who died
of Strowan
1505.'
As
the lands of Calvine were a part of the estate of Faskally,
their
coming into the possession of another family can
only be understood by their
first
ancestor, James, having
acquired Calvine from Robertson of Faskally.
scendants of this family are called
M' James
;
The deand, in a
similar way, the neighbouring proprietors, the Robert-
sons of Pittagowan, were called M^William.
There
special retour (No, 68), dated 1601, of Perthshire
tours, of
'^
Alexander Robertsoun
'
hceres
is
a
Re-
Duncani Robert-
See Douglas' Baronage, page 407.
69
soun
alias
Jacobi M'Calvyn patris in terris de Leik/ infra
Thus the Duncan Eobertson
dominium de Atholl."
here
named
also called
is
who appears
family,
alias Robertson
et
a
is
still
older notice of one
likewise to have been an ancestor of this
these words
in
In the
James, son of Calvine.
Chronicle of Fortingal there
apud
:
— " Obiit
Calvine, prope
M'James
Alexander
Strowan in Autholia,
tumulatus in Ecclesia de Strowan, 19° die Januarii
Anno Domini
1555.
pro anima^ ejus."
Litera Dominicalis
e.
Orate
et d.
This last extract proves that Alexander
M^James,
alias Robertson,
died at Calvine, near Strowan,
in Atholl,
and was buried
in the
as above.
The family appear
prietors for long.
in 1627.^
to have continued pro-
In 1649, Calvine belonged to Duncan
He was retoured
Eobertson.
church of Strowan, date
to his grandfather
Duncan
In 1687, Donald Eobertson of Calvine was a
witness that the shealing of Eienagie belonged to
Eobertson of Lude, and that
it
John
was a part of Glenloch,
within the barony of Lude.
^
and
2
These lands of Leik named here are on the south side of Loch Tummel,
also called
Frennich Leik.
The Romish invention, as to prayers
for the dead,
would appear, from
these words, not to have been as yet rooted out of the Highlands.
3
General Retours (No.
Robertson
hseris
353),
dated 10th August 1627
Duncani Robertson de Calvine
Comitatu Atholise."
avi^
:
" Duncanus
in terris de Leik in
;
70
]^o.
X.
EOBERTSOI^ OF KmCRAIGIE.
This family
first
a younger branch from Liide.
is
He
ancestor was Donald Kobertson.
Their
received from
at his death in the year 1615, the estate of
his father,
Kincraigie, comprising lands in Glentilt
This Donald was the immediate
and Glenfender.^
younger brother
Alexander Robertson of Lude, who died
in 1639.
of
He,
with John Eobertson of Inver (another brother), greatly
assisted
Montrose
in bringing
royal standard in 1^44.
Kobertson
in 1649.
is
At page
33,
and No,
Crown
others.
11,
He was
Donald
succeeded by his son of the same name
his wife,
charter in 1670 for lands of Moloch
— See
to the
proved proprietor of Kincraigie "and others"^
which Donald Robertson of Kincraigie, and
a
men
the Atholl
Record of Great
Seal,
Book
lix.,
had
More and
No. 262.
Alexander was the next successor, and father of John,
whose son sold Kincraigie to the Duke of Atholl, and the
lands of Toldunie to James Robertson of Lude.
grandson of the
last proprietor of the family
Robertson, 21st Royal Scotch Fusiliers.
The
was Colonel
Represented
by James Robertson, Esq., Chamberlain to the Duke of
Argyle.
'
By
a reference to the map, the situation of the lands of this family will
be found close to Lude, and marked No. 10, the same as at the heading of
this account.
2
That
is,
other lands in the parish of Blair Atholl.
71
XI.
1^0.
ROBERTSO]^ OF TULLIEBELTOJST.
Their ancestor was
This family descend from Lude.
John Robertson, who, on
his father's
death in 1615, got
the lands of Inver' (opposite Dunkeld), and which was
This
the family designation for several generations.
John Robertson
of Inver was a firm supporter of the
Royal cause under the great Marquis of Montrose, and
very numerous letters to him from the Marquis have
been printed in Napier's Memoirs.
Jobn Robertson
is
At page
proved proprietor of Inver
The then yearly valued
rent of
it is
35, this
in
1649.
stated at L.258.
In
1665, Donald Robertson of Inver got a Crown charter
for the lands of Tulliebelton, with the mill
and
mill lands,
Meikle and Little Tulliebelton, also the manor place, and
all their
pertinents.
In this charter Donald
is
designed
and heir of John Robertson of Inver.
eldest son
'No. 80.
The family
the designation of Tulliebelton.
Alexander
the Record Great Seal,
now took
— See
Book
Ixi.,
Robertson, the eldest son and heir of the above Donald,
got a
Crown
charter to himself, and his wife, Catherine
Maxwell, and to their heirs male,
whom
failing, to
nearest heirs male whatever of the said Alexander.
charter
JSTo.
on
is
15.
his
dated 1683, and
is
in the
the
The
Great Seal, Booklxix.,
In 1737, John Robertson had a Crown charter
own
resignation for the lands of Tulliebelton.
In
1754, this John, and his son Robert Robertson, had a
^
These lands are marked, according to the reference, No.
and they
will be easily
found thereby.
1 1
in the
map,
—
72
an
entail of all his
therein
by
his sons,
The
Robertson.
properties
and he was succeeded
John Robertson and Robert Henry
latter died in 1850,
in the family estates
bertson, C.B.,
;
now
made
This Robert
charter for the lands of Kilspindie.
and was succeeded
by Major-General Richardson Ro-
of Tulliebelton.
No. XIII.
ROBERTSOlSr OF BLAIRFETTIE.
This family are a branch of Strowan, through Calvine
;
their first ancestor
page 32, No.
of Blairfettie
5,
is
stated to be James.
Patrick Robertson
is
proved proprietor
when
His son was Alexander, who
and Kirktown of Strowan
the yearly rent was L.120.
was succeeded by another Alexander,
following general retour
At
as
in 1649,
proved by the
:
" (No. 5883)
2 March 1676.
"Alexander Robertson de
Blairfettie
It
ceres
AlexsLudri
Robertson de Blairfettie ^jaim."
This last Alexander was involved in the
civil
war of
1715, and was a prisoner 1716. His son, James Robertson of Blairfettie, engaged in the 1745, and was a major
in
Lord George Murray's regiment. This
to France.
The
estate
The next
now belongs
Blairfettie fled
successor was shot by accident.
to
Robertson of Auchleeks.
73
No. XIY.
ROBERTSON OF KINDROCHIT.
The family
Baronage
of Kiridrocliit are stated
come from Strowan, through
to
in
Douglas'
The
Calvlne.
lands of Kindrochit, however, appear to have formed a
part of the barony of Faskally, whereby this branch of
the clan might likely descend from Faskally.
33,
Angus Robertson
year 1649.
It
testament
is
proved the proprietor in the
would appear he was succeeded by an-
who
other Angus,
is
At page
died in 1690,
when
and
his last will
proved, as shown by the Abbreviate of AYills
for the diocess of
Dunk eld, under
that date.
The
late
Captain Duncan Robertson of Kindrochit appears to
have been the
last
direct
male descendant.
perty will be found marked close to Strowan.
was no bridge over the Garry
recently, the lands of Kindrochit
The proAs there
at that last place
must have derived
till
their
name from
the bridge
o over the Errochie. There are
lands of the same name in the barony of Lude, derived
from the bridge over the
in Atholl.
and such
earldom
is
Camden
notices,
written.
Tilt,
calls it
when
which
is
the oldest bridge
" Pons Tiltce ;" but of
this,
the historical account of the
74
No.
XV.
ROBERTSON OF TRINAFOUR.
Stated
in
Douglas'
Baronacje
Strowan, through Calvine.
on the map, and was
at the
to
Their property
is
marked
head of Glenerochy. Patrick
Robertson of Trinafour engaged in the
and had command
from
descend
civil
war 1745,
of the party of Prince Charles'
stationed at Dalnacardoch.
The
estate
men
now belongs
to
Robertson of Auchleeks.
No. XVI.
ROBERTSON OF EDRADYNATE.
This family descends from Strowan, through RobertTheir principal property
son of Killyhangy.
parish of Logierait
;
lies in
the
but they have also lands in the
parish of Kirkmichael, part of the former possessions
of the Robertsons of Downie.
found marked in the
Strathardle properties.
The number 16
map on both
will
be
the Strathtay and
;
75
Nos. XVII. and XVIII.
EEID
alias
ROBERTSON OF PITN AGREE, AND
EASTERTYRE.
These are stated as descended from the Reids alias
Robertsons of Strathloch, but do not appear to have
taken that
name
last
so
Both
soon as Strathloch.
famihes are proved proprietors in 164:9, at page 36.
the
civil
In
war of 1715, Robertson of Eastertyre took part
and the family appears
at that period to
name of Reid, as he
tyre when confined in
the
is
called
have dropped
Robertson of Easter-
prison in
This John
1716.»
Robertson was too old to join Prince Charles in the
1745, but sent his son John in his stead.
AthoU Correspondence,
Club, page 18.
his
printed
by
the
See the
Abbotsford
General Stewart of Garth mentions
in
man
of
work a John Robertson of Eastertyre
as a
great strength of body, alive in the year 1761.
No. XIX.
ROBERTSON OF DOWNIE.
This family
descend from Lude, through that of
Robertson of StratJiloch.
ander
1567.
;
Their
he was brother of the
They had
first
ancestor was Alex-
laird
of Strathloch
in
a pretty considerable property in the
—
76
parish of Kirkmicliael, being part of
tlie
old barony of
They also had an estate in the parish of
Blairgowerie, named the barony of Drumlochy, for which
Alexander Robertson, fiar of Downie, had a Crown
Downie,
charter in 1643.
See Great Seal, Book
Ivii.,
Alexander Robertson was served heir to
the following general retour
by
his father
:
" (No. 4409)
''
No. 224.
January 1659.
Alexander Robertson of Downie, heir of Alexander
Robertson of Downie, his father."
In the Rental
Perthshire in 1680, the property of
Downie belonged
Alexander Robertson.
These lands, along with
for
to
many
others in Kirkmichael parish, are by the Acts of Parlia-
ment, Vol.
of Atlioll
;
viii.,
page 103, proved to be in the earldom
and the retours of the Strathloch family
likewise prove that parish part of the earldom.
No.
XX.
ROBERTSON OF CRAY.
They descend from Lude, through the Strathloch
family.
Their first ancestor was James of Cray, third
son of John Robertson of Strathloch, and his wife,^
Margaret Ruthven, daughter of Alexander Ruthven of
Freeland.
The property
map. No. 20
of
Cray
is
marked on the
and had, no doubt, been the possession of
;
the Strathloch
^
family, at
the
same time
Their marriage took place in 1592.
as that
of
77
The
Lair and the Ennochs.
successor,
named
in the
Cray MS.,^ to James, was John, whose son was Alexander.
In the
is
Mouhn
parish register,
John Robertson
1760
stated to have been married in
he had a son and heir baptized, Robert.
;
of Cray
and- also, that
It is
understood
that Major Robertson of Cray represents this family,
and
also the ancient
one of the Barons Reid or Robert-
sons of Strathloch.
Nos.
XXI. and XXII.
ROBERTSON OF EASTER AND WESTER
BLEATON.
Both these descend from Lude, through Strathloch.
Their
Bleaton,
first
ancestor was Leonard Robertson of
who was the second son of the John Robertson
who married in 1567. The property of
of Strathloch
Bleaton continued united
proprietor was
The lands then came
to the eldest,
Both
till
;
that year the
as proved at page 37.
to be separated into Easter Bleaton
and Wester Bleaton
families,
1649
after
John Robertson,
like all
to the youngest son.
the others of the name, unfor-
tunately were, engaged in the
civil
war of 1745.
Robertson was then proprietor of Easter Bleaton.
'
This
MS. has been mentioned
at page 58.
David
78
No. XXIII.
ROBERTSON OF CULTALONY.
The Robertsons
throiigli the
of Cultalony descend from Strowan,
They had a good
Kirkmichael, called Cultalony and
family of Killyliangy.
estate in the parish of
Glengennet (changed to Glenderby
It
in recent
Patrick Robertson
James
is
is
also there
proved proprietor
proved
;
and
for his part.
all
in the parish of
earldom of Atholl,
37,
his brother
In 1G49, the
valued rent, for both parts, was almost L.3()0.
lands are
times).
At page
became partly separated before 1649.
These
Kirkmichael, and in the
See Sth Vol., page 103, of the
Scotch Acts of Parliament.
No.
XXIV.
ROBERTSON OF AULICH.
Douglas, in his Baronage, says of this family, at
page 3G3: " Robertson of Aulich,
in
cadet of the family of Strowan."
now belong
to Sir Robert Menzies.
Rannach, an ancient
The lands
of Aulich
79
No.
XXV.
ROBERTSON OF BALNAGUARD.
They descend from Lude,
through
Donald Robertson of Inver, mentioned
TulHebelton.
at
page 71,
married a second time, in 1651, to Marjory Graham,
daughter of Graham of Balgowan, and widow of
ton of Cultuquhey, and iiad by her
son,
first
The
of Balnaguard.
guard was engaged
Max-
Charles Robert-
proprietor of Balna-
in the troubles of
1
perty, however, remained with them.
745.
It
The pro-
was sold
in or
about 1810, to the late Viscount of Strathallan.
No.
XXVI.
ROBERTSON OF BALNACRAIG.
This family came of Tenandry, and was a younger
Donald Robertson,
son.
prietor in 1649.
place
;
at
page 34,
Balnacraig was
proved the pro-
is
only a very small
but Glenbrerachan belonged likewise to
family, as proved
by the above
rental,
this
and thereby the
valuation was L.107.
The
smaller proprietors of the
whose yearly rental
in
be found marked in the
name
of Robertson,
1649 did not exceed L.50,
map
thus
:
XX.
will
so
M'INTOSH OF GLENTILT.
In the map,
marked
it
will
be observed, a large property
as belonging to this family,
They were
Glentilt.
of Grientilt,
the descendants of the old Thanes
and were
their descendants
is
on the north side of
called the Tosachs of Grlentilt,
MTntosachs.
Without entering
and
into
the disputed point, whether the above word, Tosach,
meant thane, or
eldest
cadet,
it
certain that this
is
family were the Thanes of Grlentilt before 1502, when, as
already stated, they sold their lands to John Stewart,
The family
Earl of Atholl.
with the
of course coeval
is
thane in Atholl, which must have been at
first
a very remote period.
Cummins
origin
Tradition states, that
when the
got a footing in Atholl, they commenced, the
They
who were all
cradle, named
then usual practice, to attack their neighbours.
attacked the M'Intosachs when at a
feast,
murdered,
except a young child in a
Ewen, who,
in twelve or fifteen years afterwards, attacked
the
Cummins
Atholl.
He
G
and turned
lentil t,
Lochloch
;
Toldamph, near Blair
at a place called
defeated
but this
crossed a near
them
;
in at the
Ewen
and the Cummins
way through the
and slew him
named, and
out of his saddle,
The
;
signifies that
—that
of Benegloe, by a
hills
and which
Cummin had
is,
up
(Sherigan, as he was called)
stream called the Cromaldan, and met
nadiold,
fled
stream that comes out of
Cummin
last
at Lech-
place was so
there been driven
he was shot.
tradition, as thus stated,
has every appearance
81
of probability
and
;
M^Intosach, where
to this day, the cairn raised
Cummin was
marked on the map.
The
the north of Lochloch.
The date
supposed to be
in,
by the
killed, remains.
situation of
it
is
a
It is
little
to
of the circumstance
is
The son
of
or very soon after, 1260,
who
the above Ewen, Sherigan, was Angus,
is
said to
have got what was called " a bounding charter" for his
lands from
As
King Robert Bruce.
kept the lands, they were thanes
;
the thanedom went with the lands.
ner, the
10,
long as the family
and
appears that
it
In a similar
thanedom of Cranach, mentioned
man-
at pages 9
and
was held by the proprietor, who held -what was called
the King's office of " Tosachdorershij)," or thanedom.
As long as the family of Menzies held the lands, they had
Crown charters for them and the office^ called as above.
When
the family of Glenorchy got the lands, they be-
came thereby
by
possessors of the
This
their retours.
Index,
office is
office,
mentioned in Robertson's
page 146, No. 44, and
at
as can be proved
is
called
" Tothia
daroche." But of these and other very curious antiquarian
when the history of the earldom is
The author hopes hereafter to write
points,
written.
as follows, as
soon as the proofs are put together.
1.
A full description of the district forming the earldom
of AthoU, with historical and antiquarian notices
from
the earliest period of it, also of the monastery of Dunkeld.
2.
A
rectification^
of the descent of the
ancient
Earls of Atholl, with old charters by them.
^
The writer
will be obliged to notice errors in a very recent pedigree of
Mr Anderson, in his publication called the " Scottish
He makes Alan Ostiarius to be Earl before, instead of after
the Earls of Atholl, by
Nation."
Thomas de Galloway,
etc., etc.
82
3.
The probable
4.
History of the
5.
The surnames which have
from the
origin of the family of
De
De
Atholia.
Atholia family.
earliest periods,
prevailed in
and ancient notices of
Atholl
all
the
different estates.
A full genealogical
6.
name
^
An
detail of various families of the
of Robertson.^
interesting fact
named A.
is
just
made known
S. Robertson, originally
large tract of
Crown
to the writer.
from Edinburgh, has
A
lately
lands (upwards of 20,000 acres),
gentleman,
purchased a
near the Lake
Coramgamite, in Victoria, Australia, and has obtained the sanction of the
Government
to call the parish containing
it,
Strowan.
In conclusion, the writer cannot venture to suppose
that even this
little
pamphlet
is
free
from
all
errors
;
but he can truly say, he has endeavoured to avoid them,
and he
will
be obliged by having them pointed out, and,
when proved,
will correct
them.
J,
118, Princes Street,
A.
ROBERTSON.
Edinburgh,
18th July 1860.
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OIBP..
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