Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
entire harmony with those of the thanages north of the Forth. A charter
by King David the First to the canons of Stirling is witnessed by
Dufotir, sheriff of Stirling; and the same Dufotir witnesses a charter
of King David to the church of Glasgow, as Dufoter de Calatria. About
1190 appears Dominus Alwynus de Kalenter.[394] A charter by Herbert, son
of Herbert de Camera, of a half carucate of land in his territory of
Dumfries, consisting of four bovates or oxgangs near Louchbane, is
witnessed by Malcolm, thane of Kalentyr, and Alexander the Second grants
to the canons of Holyrood, in feu-farm, his whole lands of Kalentyr,
which had been in his hands since the day on which he assigned to
Malcolm, formerly thane of Kalentyr; forty pound lands in Kalentyr,
which lands are reserved to the said thane. Then we find the old thanage
converted into crown demesne, and the thane bought off with a feudal
holding. In the same reign a charter by Maldouen, earl of Lennox, is
witnessed by P., Thane of Kalentyr; and a missing charter of King David
the Second ‘to William Livingston of the lands of Callanter by
forfeiture of Patrick Calentyre,’ appears to terminate the line of the
thanes, and to indicate the conversion of the lands into a barony in
favour of the Livingston family.[395] A charter granted by David the
First before his succession to the throne, when the province of Lothian
and the ancient Cumbrian kingdom were under his rule, and addressed to
all his faithful _Tegns_ and _Drengs_ of Lothian and Teviotdale,[396]
shows that any thanes who appear in these districts where the population
was entirely Anglic, belong to the Saxon organisation, and have no
connection with the more northern thanages.
[Sidenote: _Toshachdor_ and _Toshachdera_.]
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