Letters of Discharge by George [Durie], archdean of St. Andrews and commendator of Dunfermline for Mr. Hew Rig and Jonet Hoppar, his spouse, concerning a tack of the lands of Carberry, 22nd May 1543

Letters of Discharge by George [Durie], archdean of St. Andrews and commendator of Dunfermline, with consent of the convent, narrating that Mr. Hew Rig and Jonet Hoppar, his spouse, formerly had a tack of the lands of Carberry for nineteen years from Whitsunday 1541, and had paid large profits and had now obtained the lands in feu-farm, as in preceding charter. For which reasons the abbey discharges the grantees of the £5, 8s. yearly, until the end of the remaining seventeen years of the original tack, after which date it is to be paid as feu-duty, the £2 being paid as in the charter. Dated at Dunfermline, 22nd May 1543. Same witnesses as in preceding charter of same date: Mr. Henry Forsyth, rector of Monymusk, James Schoriswood, vicar of Linton, Sir Adam Kingorn, vicar of Fogo, chamberlain of Dunfermline, Mr. Thomas Wemyss of Unthank, Andrew Murray of Blackbarony, and John Multray of Seafield, younger. Signed by the commendator and by the same members of the convent: John Baxter, John Spendluff, Robert Matheson, Andrew Rychartson, David Dundas, James Thomson, Adam Lauson, Alexander Mow, John Forman, John Merchemstoun, Robert Hoghyrd, James Reudpeth, William Burne, John Murray, John Smyth, James Creychtoun, John Boswell, Patrick Masone, Thomas Littiljohn, Thomas Burne, John Angus, Alexander Huniman, Alexander Atkyn, Thomas Jame­soun, James Dundas, Andrew Browne. Seal attached, imperfect.