Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch; a topographical and historical account of the Garioch from the earliest times to the revolution settlement, with a genealogical appendix of Garioch families flourishing at the period of the revolution settlement and still represented . ndhis immediate descendants were of principal municipal rank in Aberdeen. He wasProvost from 1352 to 1355 and again in 1373—as mentioned in Kennedys Annalsof Aberdeen—and having had the misfortune to kill one of the baOies named Catten-ach, at BarkmiU, close by Aberdeen, he, after the manner of the time, compoundedfor th
Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch; a topographical and historical account of the Garioch from the earliest times to the revolution settlement, with a genealogical appendix of Garioch families flourishing at the period of the revolution settlement and still represented . ndhis immediate descendants were of principal municipal rank in Aberdeen. He wasProvost from 1352 to 1355 and again in 1373—as mentioned in Kennedys Annalsof Aberdeen—and having had the misfortune to kill one of the baOies named Catten-ach, at BarkmiU, close by Aberdeen, he, after the manner of the time, compoundedfor the offence. He gifted to the town the Justice iliUs. Provost William Leith, oraccording to Sir Robert Douglas (Baronage of Scotland) his son Provost LaurenceLeith, bestowed the great bells Laurence and Maria, upon the church of St. Nicholas. Lowrie was the pride of the Aberdonians for several centuries, during which itdaily pealed forth its note of time, until in the great fire which destroyed the EastChurch and the spire on the night of 9th October 1874, it fell crashing on the floor HiWnrinil Krnit^. 73 nils Aisle, near the spot where Provost William Leith himself was interred, andtJi(j wall where his burial tablet, much eflaced through the lapse of time, is still. Norman de Leslie was grandson of Sir Norman de Leslie, Edward Sheriffof Aberdeenshire, who is said to have married Elizabeth Leith of Edingerrack,and had died before 1320. Norman, the second son of Sir Andrew de Leslie,dominus ejusdem, and elder brother of the ancestor of the Earls of Eothes and ofthe first Leslie of Balquhain, was largely intrusted with State business. With SirRobert Erskine he was sent to Eome, in 1358, to solicit a contribution towards theransom of David II. from England ; and was a commissioner thereafter to treat with theEnglish. Next year, , Norman de Leslie, the Kings armour-bearer, was com-missioned, along with Sir liobert Erskine and Sir John Grant, to treat as plenipo-tentiari
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