. The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . couped at the elbow, thehand grasping a dagger, also erect, proper. Supporters.—Dexter a man in armour, girded with asword and spurred, holding a spear with butt-end on theground in the exterior hand; sinister, a man in armour,girded with a sword, holding a musket with butt-end on theground in the exterior hand. Motto.—Manu Forti, [a. m.] ROLLO, LORD ROLLO CCORDING to Chalmers/the Rollos derive theirorigin from Richard d
. The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom . couped at the elbow, thehand grasping a dagger, also erect, proper. Supporters.—Dexter a man in armour, girded with asword and spurred, holding a spear with butt-end on theground in the exterior hand; sinister, a man in armour,girded with a sword, holding a musket with butt-end on theground in the exterior hand. Motto.—Manu Forti, [a. m.] ROLLO, LORD ROLLO CCORDING to Chalmers/the Rollos derive theirorigin from Richard deRollo, an Anglo-Normanwho settled in Scotlandduring the reign of KingDavid and who, it isasserted, was a witnessto charters of that mon-arch. But of this thereis no corroborative evi-dence—a Richard Rollos,so-called from a place inNormandy, does indeedoccur in charters inFrance of King Henry England,^ but thename does not appear then or later either in English orScottish record, nor is there any proof that the ScottishRollos are of the same stock. Rollo as a surname in theScottish records first occurs in the beginning of the four-teenth century, when a. Willelmus de Rollok appears in the muster-roll of Berwickas an Esquire in 1312. Adam Rolok of Scotland was, by order of the EnglishKing, dated 24 September 1328, released from prison. Hehad been taken prisoner with other Scots in a ship touch-ing at Brunham in the late reign.* * Caledonia, i. 541. ^ Douglass Peerage, 572. Cal. of Docs., France,190, 191. * Cal. Doc. Scot., iii. 415. ^ Ibid., 965. 180 ROLLO, LORD ROLLO 181 Robert Bauloc is mentioned in the accounts of the Burghsof Kyntor and Perth 1329. Walter Bauloc is mentioned in the Accounts of theBurgh of Perth, 1343. Robert Rollochb received from David ii. charters of thelands of Threepwood in Lanarkshire, and of certain lands inPerthshire.^ Some one of these last three may have beenthe ancestor of John Rollo of Duncrub.* John Rollok was one of theBailies of
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