The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor: A Series of Papers Selected from the Charter Room at Cawdor, 1236-1742, Volume 1236, Issue 1742

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Cosmo Innes
Spalding Club, 1859 - Scotland - 471 pages
 

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Page 161 - Hay for him self, his awin entres, and with his consent, on that vther part, in maner, forme and effect as efter followis ; that is to say...
Page 96 - Dei gracia, Rex Scotorum: Omnibus probis hominibus suis ad quos presentes litere peruenerint, salutem. Sciatis...
Page 11 - Jacobus dei gracia Rex Scotorum Omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse...
Page 125 - Caldor, his spouse, and the longest liver of them in conjunct fee...
Page 412 - ... our rightful and native king, but also our country to its ancient, free, and independent constitution, under him whose ancestors have reigned over us for so many generations.
Page 181 - Dunstaffinche on that uther part in forme and effect as efter followis. That is to say the said...
Page xxxv - ... country was soon covered with marauders, to whom everything was lawful booty, and that was preferred .which could be moved off on its own legs.1 The pasture, unused by sheep or cattle, ought to have maintained a multitude of deer : but it was not so. The deer being unprotected, killed out of season,2 driven about and allowed no rest, were reduced exceedingly in number, and found only in the remotest fastnesses of the hills. No doubt the primary cause of the scarcity of deer was the state of the...
Page x - The administrator of the Crown lands, the collector of rents, the magistrate and head man of a little district, known among his Celtic neighbours as the " Toshach," took a charter of the whole district from the Sovereign, whereby he became, under the Saxon name of Thane, hereditary tenant, paying the sum at which the land stood in the King's Rental, and preserving all his ancient authority now strengthened and...
Page 99 - DEI NOMINE Amen . Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat euidenter quod anno...
Page 17 - Duncano et heredibus suis de nobis et successoribus nostris in feodo et hereditate imperpetuum, per omnes rectas metas suas antiquas et diuisas prout jacent in longitudine et latitudine, in boscis...

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