Extract of an Act of the Bailie Court of the bailiary of Cunningham, 4th June 1552

Extract of an Act of the Bailie Court of the bailiary of Cunningham (held by the sheriff-depute of Ayr on 14th January 1566-7) ordering the official transumpt of a notarial instrument in the protocol book of the late Henry Preston, notary public, of date 4th June 1552, narrating a sasine (following on a crown precept, dated Edinburgh, 2nd June 1552) for infefting Alexander, Earl of Glencairn, as heir of his late father, William, Earl of Glencairn, in the lands of the barony of Kilmaurs, Lambrochton, Skelmorlie, Kilbryd and Polquhairn, with the patronage of the collegiate church of Kilmaurs, united into one free barony, under the exception of the underwritten £7, 5s. 8d. lands of Kilmaurs, namely five-merk land of Lambrochtoun, four merk twenty penny land of Buistoun, 6s. 8d. land of Arnottisboddum with meadow, and 17s. 4d. lands of Langmure, belonging to Robert Cunyngham of Robertland and held immediately of the crown; also excepting those £5, 15s. 4d. lands of Kilmaurs, which the late Hugh, Earl of Eglintoun, held from the queen in chief at the time of his death, namely the 5s. lands of Hill, 5s. lands of Carnewod, 7s. 6d. lands of Newlands, 16s. 8d. lands of Langmure, 16s. 8d. lands of Burnesyde, 14s. 6d. lands of Auldtone, 16s. 8d. lands of Titwood, and 33s. 4d. lands of Thirdpart; the lands having been in non-entry for three years and a half. Witnesses to sasine, William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead, Charles Mowet of Busbie, Alexander Cunyngham in Hill, Patrick Mowet, Robert Boyd of Clerkland, and John Wilsoun, serjeant of Ayr. Extract made on 25th January 1566-7 at a bailie court held on the lands of Over Dreghorn before Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, bailie of Cunningham, by John Mure, notary public and clerk of court in name of George Angus, notary and sheriff-clerk of Ayr.