Inventory of the goods of Alexander of Suthyrland of Dunbeth, with his Testament, 15th November 1456

Inventory of the goods of Alexander of Suthyrland of Dunbeth, with his Testament. The Testament is very long and curious. Inter alia, he leaves his body to ' be gravyt ' at the College Kirk of Roslin, and for masses, etc., he leaves annualrents arising from property in Leith and Canongate, also from the lands of Ester Kyndeis; also to the canons of Ferme, six marks of his lands of Mulcayth and Drumuern, and failing these, of his lands of Dunbeth. He leaves to his son Robert half the lands of Jaxtoun and half Skaldouch Mure in the Mearns, under reversion, and to other sons other lands, locality not stated. To his son Alexander, Archdean of Cathenes, he leaves £200, for a pilgrimage to Rome to do certain things for his 'saul'; and other interesting bequests, including a chalice to the College Kirk of Roslin, and one to 'St. Manus' altar at Kirkwall, and the said chalys to be 'gyltit'. Done at Roslin before William, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, Sir Gilbert the Haye, knight, Sir Henry Achinson, Mr. Thomas Thurbrandson, notary public; Sandaris Froyg, Donald Bruntouch, and Wyl. Baxter, 15th November 1456. Notaries, Thomas Thurbrande, A.M. of Glasgow diocese, and Robert Halywell of St. Andrews diocese, both by imperial authority.