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 . Henry db Brskin is the first on record, and he is onlynamed once, as a witness to a charter by King Alexander a grant of the church of Roseneath to the monksof Paisley, made by Aulay, brother of Maldouen, Earl ofLennox, the writ being dated at Traquair 12 March 1226. Sir John Erskine, Knight, appears as a witness to acharter by Adam, called Carpenter, granting Ingleston tothe Abbey of Paisley, dated about 126
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 . Henry db Brskin is the first on record, and he is onlynamed once, as a witness to a charter by King Alexander a grant of the church of Roseneath to the monksof Paisley, made by Aulay, brother of Maldouen, Earl ofLennox, the writ being dated at Traquair 12 March 1226. Sir John Erskine, Knight, appears as a witness to acharter by Adam, called Carpenter, granting Ingleston tothe Abbey of Paisley, dated about 1260, and also to twowrits by Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, dated re- Reg. de Passelet, BRSKENE, EARL OF MAR 591 spectively 19 January 1262-63 and 14 May 1271. Erskine, Baron Bailie of Alloa, who, in 1709, wrotea short account of the family, refers to a charter which hebelieved to exist, but which he had not seen, granted toSir John for services at the battle of Largs. Some timebetween 1300 and 1309, James, the High Steward, grantedto John Yrskyn, son of John, son and heir of Sir John,certain lands in the holding of Largs, which shows thatSir John was then alive. He is therefore probably theJohan de Irskyn who appears among other landowners ofRenfrewshire in the Homage Roll of 1296. A seal believedto be his is still attached, and is thus described: A stagshead cabossed; between the antlers a small four-footedanimal passant to sinister. Legend, S. Johannis de Er-kyru (?) His wife has not been discovered, but he hadissue:— 1. John. 2. William, named in the High Stewards charter already cited. John, or Sir John (as he is styled by Mr. George Erskine),was son and
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