In the reign of Alexander the Third this word seems to have assumed the form of _Waytinga_, and appears in the Chamberlain Rolls of his reign as a burden upon the Thanages. Thus the Chamberlain renders an account of the _Waytingas_ of Forfar and Glammis, of the _Waytinga_ of one night of Fettercairn, of the _Waytingas_ of four nights in the year of Kinross, and ‘of the rent of cows of two years,’ that is to say, of the _Waytingas_ of two nights in the year of Forfar, forty-eight cows, and of the _Waytinga_ of (one) and a half nights of the Thanage of Glammis, twenty-seven cows.[292] Another name for this exaction was _Cuidoidhche_, or a night’s portion, corrupted into _Cuddiche_ or _Cuddicke_. It appears under this name mainly in the Highlands and Islands, and was continued as a burden on the lands to a late period. In the rentals of South and North Kintyre for 1505 we find, besides _firma_ or rent, each township charged with a certain amount of meal, cheese, oats, and a mert or cow, _pro le Cuddecht_. A description of the Western Isles written between 1577 and 1595, has preserved a record of these payments. Lewis, a forty pound land, pays yearly 18 score chalders of victuall, 58 score of ky, 32 score of wedderis, and a great quantity of fishe, poultry, and white plaiding by their _Cuidichies_—that is, feasting their master when he pleases to come in the country, each one their night or two nights about, according to their land or labour. In Uist each merk land paid 20 bolls victual, besides other customs which are paid at the landlord’s coming to the Isle to his _Cudicht_; and in Mull each merk land paid yearly 5 bolls bear, 8 bolls meal, 20 stones of cheese, 4 stones of butter, 4 marts, 8 wedders, 2 merks of silver, and 2 dozen of poultrie by _Cuddiche_, whenever their master comes to them. Under the name of _Conyow_ or Coigny it appears in Iona, when, in a contract between the bishop of the Isles and Lauchlan M‘Lean of Dowart, in 1580, the latter becomes bound that he ‘sall suffer na maner of persoun or personis to oppress the saidis landis of Ycolmekill (Iona) and Rosse, or tenantis thaireof or trouble or molest thame in ony sort with ather stenting, _Conyow_, gerig service or ony maner of exactioun.’[293] In Atholl we find the vassals of Strathtay and their tenants ordered as late as in 1719 to pay their _Cudeichs_ according to ancient use and wont. These included two pecks of corn, one threave of straw, and six shillings Scots for maintenance of the superior’s horses and servants who wait on them, out of each twenty shilling land; and in 1720 it is ordered that the accustomed corn and straw and other casualties paid yearly as _Cuddeichs_ out of each merk land be taken up, excepting always the land laboured by the vassals for their own use.