Instrument narrating that, in presence of the notary and witnesses, George Chalmer, bailie in that part of a noble lord, Andrew, Lord Vchiltre and lord of the barony of Trabok, presented to the notary, to be read, a precept of sasine, written on parchment, under the seal and manual subscription of the said lord; which precept is engrossed, directed to George Chalmer and James Chalmer, as bailies, narrating that the said lord had sold to James Chalmer of Gaitgirth and Annabella Cunynghame, his spouse, the longer liver of the two, their heirs and assignees, his two-merk lands of the 'Burne', which Thomas Smyth, Thomas Scherinlaw, and Margaret Speir now occupy, also those two-merk lands called the ' Manys,' which the said James Chalmer, Robert Chalmer, Robert Manse [or Mause], and John Manse [or Mause], now occupy, in the said barony of Trabok and sheriffdom of Aire, as in the charter made thereon: therefore commanding the said bailies to give sasine in the usual form. At Edinburgh, 16th May 1539, and signed 'Andro, lord of Uchiltre.' After the reading of which precept, George Chalmer, bailie, gave hereditary sasine and corporal possession of the whole lands by delivery of earth and stone, to the said James Chalmer of Gaitgirth and to Mr. Mathew Chalmer, attorney of the said Annabella Cunynghame, saving the right of every one ('saluo jure cuiuslibet'). The letters are then ingrossed [an unusual form] from the chancery of King James V declaring that he has assumed John Cunynghame of Capringtoun and Mr. Mathew Chalmer, as attorney for Annabella Cunynghame in all her affairs, pleas, and actions moved and to be moved against her, desiring the lieges to receive them as such. At Edinburgh, 31st May [1539]. Upon which the said James and Mr. Matthew asked instruments from the notary. Done upon the soil of the lands at 5pm on 5th July 1539. Witnesses, Constantine Campbell, Robert Chalmer, John Barbour, John Barquhill, and Thomas Scherinlaw and William Bannatyne. Stephen Prestoune, clerk of Glasgow diocese, by apostolic authority notary public.