Then in Fife we find in a rental of the earldom a certain _firma_ or rent which is termed _Canus_, with ten shillings of the _Can_ of Abernethy; and in Stratherne we find the bishops of Dunkeld confirming to the canons of Inchaffray the lands of Maderty, which is called _Abthan_, and the freedom from the _Cane_ and _Coneveth_ which the clerics of Dunkeld were wont anciently to receive from these lands. These notices will be sufficient to show that these Celtic burdens on land prevailed over the whole of the country north of the Firths, on the crown lands and those of the church, and on all lands which had not become the subject of feudal grants. Passing then to the country south of the Firths, we find them equally prevalent, except in the great Anglic province of Lothian. Thus King David grants to the church of Glasgow the whole tithe of his _Chan_ in the beasts and pigs of Strathegrive and Cuninghame, Kyle and Carrick, in each year, unless the king himself shall go to dwell there and consume his own _Chan_.[286] These districts formed the greater part of the ancient British kingdom of Strathclyde, and this was an appropriate grant to the church of Glasgow, which had been its metropolitan church. Then we find the lords of Galloway granting lands in that district to the canons of Holyrood, free from all ‘_Can_ and _Cuneveht_ and from every exaction, custom, and secular service;’[287] and finally, at a court held by the judges of Galloway at Lanerch in the reign of King William the Lion, in presence of the Lord of Galloway, it was adjudged that ‘when the king ought to receive his _Can_ from Galloway he should issue his breve to the _Mairs_ of Galloway, and the _Mairs_ should go with the royal breve to the debtor of the _Can_ and exact the _Can_ from him. If he fail to pay, the _Mair_ was to take the rod or staff, called the king’s staff, and take a distress for the king’s _Can_, and if the debtor removed the subject of the distress he was to pay for each ten cows fifteen cows, besides a hundred cows _de misericordia_; but if he delivered part of the _Can_, till after the Nativity he was to pay for each cow four shillings of cow-tax, and for each pig sixteen pence, and before the Nativity the debtor was to deliver cows worth forty pence, and if he stated on oath that he had no pigs, he was to pay for each pig seventeen pence.’[288]