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Customary succession in leases The surviving rentals of Coupar Angus Abbey cover the years from towards stability ofpossession. The use of patronymics on the abbey 1464 to 1516 and from 1539 to about 1560. The gap is an unfortunate lands during the earlier period makes it impossible to give round one because since there was clearly a move towards longer leases in figures in connection with customary inheritance, but it is safe to say the intervening period; this was the policy ofAbbot Donald Campbell that on most ofthe farmtouns several families are found in possession who feued the lands in the 1550s, thus making permanent the trend for two to three generations, and in some cases more. Number of leases 300 289 280 260 240 220 200 180 160 140 120 100 60 Location map 40 20 12 o o 0 0 0 000 0,-ll~~~~==L-~-L~===--===----------~=-------~~--L 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Life Duration of leases (years) Pattern of 418 leases in the lands of Coupar Angus Abbey 1464 . 1516 Number of leases 200 180 Includes those leases converted to life 160 150 140 120 100 Of these, 32 were later converted to leases for life, and 2 for 19 years 66 Of these, 14 were later converted to leases for life 40 20 Later converted to a tack for life 000 0000000000000 0~==~2--3---4L£5A--6--7---8--9--1-0--I-1-1-2--13--14--1-5--1-6-1-7--18-Ll~9~L-i~-Le Duration of leases (years) Pattern of 257 leases in the lands of Coupar Angus Abbey 1539 to about 1560 MHBS 292

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