A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . t with ressoun alter, ye sail thairfoir satisfie thair desire. . We commitzou to God — and to prison, his Majesty might have added, which hadbeen a better joke than most of those attributed to him. The Kings next letter to the Laird of Lochleven is ofconsiderable interest, as illustrating the moral right to fixityof tenure enjoyed under the ancient Scottish custom bytenants so long as they paid their rents. In the dischargeof his wardship of the Buchan estates, Douglas seems tohave
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . t with ressoun alter, ye sail thairfoir satisfie thair desire. . We commitzou to God — and to prison, his Majesty might have added, which hadbeen a better joke than most of those attributed to him. The Kings next letter to the Laird of Lochleven is ofconsiderable interest, as illustrating the moral right to fixityof tenure enjoyed under the ancient Scottish custom bytenants so long as they paid their rents. In the dischargeof his wardship of the Buchan estates, Douglas seems tohave exceeded the rights of a landlord, and the Kingwrote as follows :— Forsamekill as We ar informit be oure louittis servitouris Archibald Brokyin Downe and Thomas Broky his sone in the Baddis that ye, upoun the gift ofthe waird gevin be ws to you of the Erledome of Buchan have causit warne Morton, i. 124. The deceased earl was Robert, younger brother of SirWilliam Douglas, who became 4th Earl of Buchan in right of| his wife Christianwho succeeded her grandfather, the 3rd earl. - Ibia., i. 127. ^ //,?>/.. FORFEITURE OF SIR WILLIAM 163 thame to remove fronie thair rowmes and possessionis quhairin thay haue remanitkyndlie and native tennentis thir mony and divers yeiris bygane committing nacryme nor offence aganis thair maisteris in tjTnes past nather yit to you sen \-ourentrie to the erledome of Buchan paying alswa thair dewitie and service accordingto thair assedationis : Thairfoir seing the sed gift wes nocht gevin to the wrak ofthe saidis puir tennentis We will you that ye upoun your rycht set thame thairrowmes and possessionis for payment of thair dewitie contenit in thair auldrentall and quhilk thay payit to umquhile Robert Dowglas last Erie of Buchaneand that ye remove thame nocht fra thair kyndlie possessionis and rowmes as yewill We did yow kyndnes and plesure in tymes cuming. Sir William took no part in the Raid of Ruthven [22ndAugust 1582], which removed th
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