. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . in Scotland in theearliest historic times. In 1408, seventeen years after the last Lord of Glencarnie sold hisestate to Thomas of Dunbar, Earl of Moray, the son of the latter, Thomas,third Earl, made an agreement with Alexander Cumyn, in which Glencarnieis referred to. This agreement was a contract of marriage, in which theEarl obliges himself to giff his gude will to the mariage of his sisterEuffame, and xx markis worth of land within his landis of Glencha
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . in Scotland in theearliest historic times. In 1408, seventeen years after the last Lord of Glencarnie sold hisestate to Thomas of Dunbar, Earl of Moray, the son of the latter, Thomas,third Earl, made an agreement with Alexander Cumyn, in which Glencarnieis referred to. This agreement was a contract of marriage, in which theEarl obliges himself to giff his gude will to the mariage of his sisterEuffame, and xx markis worth of land within his landis of Glencharny toAlexander Cumyn, who, on the other hand, promises to be lele man andtrew to the Earl for life, after the expiry of the term of his serviceto Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. It was further agreed that while theLord of the Isles had a lease of Glencarnie from the Earl of Moray,the latter should provide Alexander Cumyn in twenty merks of landwithin the sheriffdom of There is reason to believe that the landsof Glencarnie never came into the possession of Alexander Cumyn, but that 1 Shaws History of Moray, Appendix, p. z< X a h < u h< zO 1434.] DECLINE OF THE STRATHERN LORDS OF GLENCARNIE. 59 he received the warrandice lands, which are said to have been Logie,Sluie, and other lands in the sheriffdom of Elgin, afterwards held bythe family of Cumming of Altyre from the Earls of This slenderconnection is all that the Comyns can be proved to have had withGlencarnie, and it is of comparatively recent date. On the other hand, the transactions affecting that territory, as relatedin the Introduction, bear out the statements of tradition that the Lords ofGlencarnie had declined in power about the time that Matilda of Glen-carnie married the father of Sir Duncan Grant. The romantic legendswhich have been connected with this ladys name, usually assert that shewas a great heiress,—heiress to the name of Comyn and the rich estateof Glencarnie or Duthil. Thi
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