Master James Douglas, Commendator of Melrose
These stamps probably belonged to Master James Douglas, Commendator
of Melrose, second son of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton. He
married three times, firstly, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of
Fernihurst, the contract dated 6 November 1587; secondly, Helen,
daughter of William Scott, of Abbotshall, the contract dated 7
November 1598; and thirdly, in 1609, Jean, daughter of Sir James
Anstruther. He had children by each marriage, and was dead by 1620.
The second stamp exists with the initials altered to M W D,
presumably for Master William Douglas who gave the book to Edinburgh
University Library in 1619, and may have been a relative of James.
The `I D preacher' who translated the manuscript in Edinburgh
University Library was probably the owner of the stamps.
| It has already been shown that the
whole property of the Monastery which had accumulated in the
hands of the monks from the time of David i., and had been
erected into a free regality, was finally vested in the Crown,
and again granted by a charter of James vi., dated 1st May 1569,
to James Douglas, second son of William Douglas of Loch Leven,
as Commendator. In the Charters printed in this volume, p. 246
et seq., we see how Douglas, acting with his Iconomus, Alexander
Colvole, Commendator of Culross, exercised the power thus
conferred upon him ' to set in feu ferme lang or schort takkis.'
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| On 28th February 1590 James Douglas,
Commendator of Melrose, with consent of Lady Mary Ker, his
spouse, for her liferent interest feued the lands of Gattonside
to certain persons therein mentioned, the boundaries being then
given. |
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Charter confirming a charter by George Home,
fiar of Spot, with consent of Jean Hamiltoun, his spouse, to
James Douglas, Commendator of Pluscardin, natural son of James,
Earl of Mortoun, Lord of Dalkeith, Regent, and Agnes Home,
daughter of the said George Home, and future spouse of the said
James Douglas, in implement of a contract between the said
Regent and George Home, dated Edinburgh, 18th January 1577, of
the lands of Hartsyd, Easter, Wester and Middle and the Mains of
Hartsyd alias Weitpetheid within the sheriffdom of Edinburgh,
and constabulary of Haddington, to be held by the said James
Douglas and Agnes Home, his future spouse, and their lawful
heirs to be procreated, whom failing, Archibald Douglas, natural
brother of the said James Douglas and the lawful heirs male of
his body, whom failing, George Douglas, also natural brother of
the said James Douglas, and his heirs male, whom failing,
William Douglas, likewise natural brother of the foresaid James
Douglas, and his heirs male, whom failing, Archibald, Earl of
Angus, and his heirs male, whom failing, William Douglas of
Quhittingham and his heirs male, whom all failing, to the heirs
whomsoever of the foresaid Regent, paying yearly £40, reserving
the liferent of Katherine Colvill, spouse of George Home of
Spott, the granter's father, of certain parts of the lands of
Hartsyd sometime occupied by the deceased Adam Manderstoun, and
part of the mill lands occupied by James Rennet, and reserving
after death of the said Katherine Colvill the terce of Jean
Hamiltoun, spouse of the granter; dated at , 157 — (no
witnesses).
The charter of confirmation is dated at 1578
; wit-
nesses, . (f. 71.) |
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