" The
lady, as well as myself, tried several times to interrupt the
loquacity of Linkum, but in vain: he only raised his hand with a
quick flourish, and went on:
"Here it is:
JAMES, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland , to his right trusty cousin, sendeth greeting: And whereas
his right leal and trust-worthy cousin, George Colwan, of
Dalcastle and Balgrennan, hath suffered great losses, and
undergone much hardship, on behalf of his Majesty's rights and
titles; he therefore, for himself, and as prince and steward of
Scotland, and by the consent of his right trusty cousins and
councillors hereby grants to the said George Colwan, his heirs
and assignees whatsomever, heritably and irrevocably, all and
haill the lands and others underwritten: To wit, All and haill, the
five merk land of Kipplerig; the five pound land of Easter
Knockward, with all the towers, fortalices, manor-places, houses,
biggings, yards, orchards, tofts, crofts, mills, woods, fishings,
mosses, muirs, meadows, commonties, pasturages, coals, coal-
heughs, tennants, tenantries, services of free tenants, annexes,
connexes, dependencies, parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the
same whatsomever; to be peaceably brooked, joysed, set, used,
and disposed of by him and his aboves, as specified, heritably and
irrevocably, in all time coming: And, in testimony thereof, his
Majesty, for himself, and as prince steward of Scotland, with the
advice and consent of his foresaids, knowledge, proper motive,
and kingly power, makes, erects, creates, unites, annexes, and
incorporates, the whole lands above mentioned in a haill and free
barony, by all the rights, miethes, and marches thereof, old and
divided, as the same lies, in length and breadth, in houses,
biggings, mills, multures, hawking, bunting, fishing; with court,
plaint, herezeld, fock, fork, sack, sock, thole, thame, vert, wraik,
waith, wair, venison, outfang thief, infang thief, pit and gallows,
and all and sundry other commodities.
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