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INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN.

forfeiture by Peter Libaud and Barns, while David II. gave a charter of Barns
and Winton to John de Seton. This family ultimately (1600) blossomed into
Earls of Winton, but suffered a total deprivation by the forfeiture of George,
fifth Earl, for his share in the Fifteen.
To the lands of Keith-Marshall (" Keith-Mariscallus ") was attached the
office of Marshall or Mareschal. Originally Keith was in two parts, one
granted in the time of David I. to Hervey Fitz-Warin, from whom it was
known as Keith-Hervey but better as Keith-Marshall, ¹ after Hervey had been
endowed with that office. The other part of Keith fell to Simon Fraser and
was known as Hundeby-Keith or Keith-Hundeby or from its possessor as
Keith-Symon. Philip de Keith, however, grandson of Hervey, is said to have
married the grand-daughter and heiress of Fraser and united the two domains.
After the War of Independence, Robert I., in 1318, granted afresh to Sir
Robert de Keith the lands of Keith-Marshall with the office of Marshall
pertaining to the same land, Keith-Symon, Inverpeffer and the lands in
Aberdeenshire which ultimately became the chief place of the family known
in later times as the Earls Marischal.
North of the old lands of the Keiths are those of Pencaitland, occupied
in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries by a family so styled. ² But in
1276 there is a charter of resignation by John of Pencaitland in favour of
Herbert Maxwell of the lands of (Wester) Pencaitland, ³ while " Thomas de
Penkateland " forfeited (Easter) Pencaitland and Nisbet as a result of the
War of Independence, and these were conferred by Robert I. upon Robert de
Lawder. Subsequently (c. 1343) Sir John Maxwell of Caerlaverock granted
Wester Pencaitland to Alexander Maitland of Thirlestane, and Sir Robert
Maxwell transferred the superiority to the Abbey of Dryburgh. (cf. further p. xxiii).
Bolton, adjoining the Keith lands on the north-east, had been in possession
of the family of Veteri-ponte or Vipont since the days of William the Lion
and was confirmed to them by Robert I. and David II. (1366). A hundred
years later the lands of the barony of Bolton are found in possession of the
Halyburtons of Dirleton. ⁴ In 1494 they came into the hands of Patrick
Hepburn, second son of the second Lord Hailes, by forfeiture of Archibald
Lord Halyburton as a supporter of James III. in the late revolution. John
Hepburn of Bolton was executed as one of the murderers of Darnley.
The Halyburtons had come into Dirleton by the marriage, in the reign
of David II., of John, second son of Sir Adam Halyburton of Halyburton,
with the heiress of William de Vaux (de Vallibus), the family which had
possessed the lands of Dirleton and Gullane since the twelfth century (See
No. 27). From the Halyburtons in turn these lands passed by marriage
to the husbands of three heiresses, Lord Ruthven, Lord Home and Ker of
Fawdonside, of whom the Ruthvens, as Earls of Gowrie, forfeited their share
by the Gowrie Conspiracy in 1600 ; and all the shares were again united into
a single barony by the successor of the Ruthvens, Thomas Erskine of Gogar,
afterwards Earl of Kellie. ⁵ The Erskines, however, disposed of their property

1 Reg. de Kelso, Nos. 83, 88.
2 Ibid No. 13 Cf. Art. No. 135.
3 Book of Caerlaverock, vol. ii. p. 406.
4 Reg. Mag. Sig. (1474) No. 1189 and (1488) No. 1747.
5 R.M.S. (1620-33) No. 924

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