The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . ossessions in Forfarshire. As was customary in earlytimes, a family assumed their surname from this place, and oneof them, Duncan de Dunny, appears as a perambulator of theboundaries between the lands of Tulloch (Tulloes) and Conon,in 1254 ;4 and to this family or place the surname of Downieor Downey, which is still common in Forfarshire, may owe itsorigin. The family of de Dunny had probably been vassals ofsome lord of greater influence than themselves—perhaps of thelords of Abernet
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . ossessions in Forfarshire. As was customary in earlytimes, a family assumed their surname from this place, and oneof them, Duncan de Dunny, appears as a perambulator of theboundaries between the lands of Tulloch (Tulloes) and Conon,in 1254 ;4 and to this family or place the surname of Downieor Downey, which is still common in Forfarshire, may owe itsorigin. The family of de Dunny had probably been vassals ofsome lord of greater influence than themselves—perhaps of thelords of Abernethy; for, excepting this Duncan, we have metwith no other person named de Dunny. When the male line ofthe Abernethies failed, the Lindsays succeeded to this propertythrough the marriage of Sir David of Crawford with one of thethree 1 Spottiswood Misc. i. p. 346. 2 Lives, i. p. 447. 3 Ut sup. p. 339. 4 Reg. Vet. Aberbrothoc, p. 325. 6 Lives, i. p. 48. In consequence of this alliance, the first Earl of Crawfordquartered his paternal arms with those of Abernethy, which is said to have been one. 1 i; I ? DOWNIE, DUNFIND, DOWNIEKEN. 385 Sir Alexander, the first Lindsay of Glenesk, was the thirdson of Sir David Lindsay of Crawford, to whom, sometimebefore 1331, this thanedom was resigned, as at that date hemortified a small sum from thence to the Canons of the Prioryof Eestennet;1 and, at a later period, his son, the Earl ofCrawford, gave an annual of twelve marks from the same landsto the altar of Our Lady at Dundee, for the purpose of havingmass celebrated for the souls of his predecessors, and his ownprospectively. Through some cause now unknown, the nameof the Earl of Sutherland occurs in connection with Downie in1371 ; but, in the course of two years, it was again in possessionof Lindsay of Glenesk, who not only succeeded to the lands,but, according to the charter,2 to the bondagia, or servicesexigible from bondi or husbandmen. He was also owner of thenativi or s
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