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Perambulations The creation of new estates, the bestowal of old estates upon new the surviving perambulation records an enormously valuable source families, often to be held by feudal tenure, and above all the endowfor the topography and human geography of medieval Scotland. ment of monastic houses with lands previously in royal or magnatial The maps show boundary features which figure in thirteenth lordship, stimulated the formal definition of marches or boundaries century perambulations of: (a) the upper Clydesdale estate of in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Perambulations, as the procCrawford Lindsay, feudalised from the late twelfth century; (b) the ess was known, might often be in response to an explicit royal commarches between Dunfermline Abbey's hunting reserve of Guth on ' mand (by brieve of perambulation) and the results could be registhe one hand and the estates of neighbouring lairds, e.g. of Cult, tered in the royal archives. The use of many natural, and a few Cleish and Crambeth (Dowhill) on the other; and (c) the old royal man-made features to serve as boundary-markers and lines makes shire or thanage of Kingoldrum in the Braes of Angus, granted to Arbroath Abbey in 1178. RAG A R G I L (R A G G E N G ILLTranscribers who have contributed to this page.
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