 | David Balfour - Land tenure - 1860 - 140 pages
...Zetland, and consisted, 1st, of LANDS SET or leased to tenants on a three years' tack, with a GERSOM or fine at each renewal, and an annual LANDSKYLLD,...tenant lands. The Earldom also included CONQUEST or acquired lands, consisting, 1st, of lands added by the later Earls by purchase or excambion ; and,... | |
 | James Cameron Lees - Inverness-shire - 1897 - 954 pages
...xxviii.) that the jus comitatus, conveyed to the Crown of Scotland in 1471. included the landskyld or rent of "certain quoys and other lands added by odallers to their holdings, but not by odal-raed." On reference to the Earldom Rental of 15oo (Peterkin's " Rentals," No. i), the oldest one... | |
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On reference to the Earldom Rental of 15oo (Peterkin's " Rentals," No. i), the oldest one extant, which enumerates the Earldom lands of 1471, it will be found that udal quoys paid no rent to the Earl, and that only those quoys paid rent to the Earl which... 