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Kincardine Castle [continued from page 187] 5 while, in the following quaint lines, he points to the members of the King's own Court as the perpetrators of the deed, and says that it was done at Fettercairn, but others believe he was killed in the neighbourhood of Stracathro,
" As throw the Mernys on a day
The King was rydan hys hey way
Of his own curt al suddanly
Agayne hym ras a Cumpany
Into the Towne of Fethyrkerne,
To fecht wyth hym thai ware sa yherne,
And he agayne thame faucht sa fast,
Bot he thare slayne was at the last." (Page 85)
The first mention of any portion of the barony of Kincardine belonging to a subject, occurs in the time of The Bruce, when Sir William Oliphant had confirmation Charters of the lands of Morehouse in Edinburghshire, in exchange for the "Clausura parci de Kyncardine in le Mernis." The same King in 1323 granted to his brother in law Sir Alexander Fraser. Six acres of arable land in the tenement of Auchincairnie, beside the King's Manor of Kincardine. During the following reign it appears that the thanedoms of Kincardine and Fettercairn, with that of Aberluthnott or Marykirk and the park and Castle of Kincardine, belonged to William Earl of Sutherland, who Married Margaret sister of King David I.- The Earl of Sutherland survived till about 1388, but long before his death he had exchanged these lands with David II, for the barony of Urquhart in Inverness-shire, and in 1367 Kincardine is mentioned as held by Sir Walter of Lesley of Rothes. During Lesley's time David II, twice visited Kincardine, He presided at a jury Court there in December 1375, and there in January 1383, he gave, among other grants, a confirmation charter of 6 [continued on page 189]

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