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Sheriffs, stewards and bailies This sequence of maps shows Fmt the relatively slight development grants of shrieval jurisdiction during the period. A significant of sheriffdoms in the later Middle Ages. The sheriffdom of Argyll development resulted from forfeitures of large regalities, which led emerges in the reign of Robert I (1306-29), Bute later in the to their administration coming under royal authority as stewartries fourteenth century. Renfrew was separated from Lanark about 1414. distinct from neighbouring sheriffdoms -Menteith, Strathearn, Linlithgow appears to have evolved from a constabulary of EdinAnnandale and Kirkcudbright. The Ftnal point illustrated by the burgh into an independent sheriffdom in the fifteenth century, while maps is the holders of the offices ofsheriff, steward and bailie, based Elgin and Forres were merged. The first reference to a sheriffdom on the sets of sheriffs' accounts surviving for 1359, 1455 and 1501, of Tarbert is in 1481. Not shown are those burghs which received supplemented from other sources. ~S1 ~\? o ','1>~ ,_-, " Dunbar " -.'r;:.'f : E.of March:' ,r;:.0";,'" --" NAl,~N $lnd Mo(ay? «Cf ~-' '_0£_, .. ,' .#' '. .. f Robert ..!'# .. __ / William , , Chisholm ,~ ,_' Liddell " , , ~~ .. -... -.. ..~ "', -' , , o , ----, ....' -William ~\ ___ ,'\"''''-... T-l ...... I .. K ' h ~ ... .. ;' .. ... J ~ elt "' ...... 1 , Robert ,-, ' , " , " Ramsay ........ , John -', " Slmon Preston ' ,':wait~'r Haliburton " -~ Douglas I," "', " Duncan )..-_, Wallace: '-, ,"''''... ~ \ '.. I' 1 , , , Approximate boundary of sheriffdoms and stewartry of Kirkcudbright kms 100 William Keith Sheriffs o 25 50 75 ! ! ! I i i WIGTOWN Sheriffdom and Stewartry where holder is o 10 20 30 40 50 60 unidentified miles HLM Sheriffs, stewards and bailies about 1360 208

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