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churches of Moffat, Kirkpatrick, Dryfesdale, Hodehn, and Castlemelc (k).
The two bishops were too well acquainted with the civil, canon, and eccle-
siastical law, not to argue on that occasion, that when Earl David re-
established the episcopate of Glasgow by the Inquisitio Davidis, at least
twenty years before the grant of Annandale, he had transferred those churches
with their appurtenances to the diocese of Glasgow (l). This Robert the
third lived under David I., Malcolm IV., and William the Lion, who con-
firmed this agreement, and also gave him a confirmation of David's grant of
Annandale, between 1165 and 1174 A.D. (m). This eminent baron had for
his wife, Euphemia, though it appears not of what family she was, and he
took under his protection the monks of Holm Cultram, with their men and
property (n).
(4.) That liberal baron was succeeded by his son, Robert, who was a witness
to King William's charter of confirmation; and who married Isabel, the king's
natural daughter, in 1183 (o). The lord of Annandale gave to the monks of
Gyseburn several churches in that district (p); but he did not long survive his
(k) Chart. Glasgow.
(l) See that composition in the Chartulary of Glasgow, 43, wherein the son and heir of R. Bras
gave his consent to that agreement. There were witnesses to it, William de Brus and Robert
de Brus.
(m) Ayloff's Calend., 348, wherein this charter is printed with a mistake of villa for valle, which
changed the nature of the grant. This charter of King William was granted in Brus's castle of Loch-
maben, wherein the king and his retinue were guests. This Robert de Brus, in 1171, 18 Hen. II.,
paid into the English exchequer 100 shillings for excuse of his lands in England. Madox,
Hist., ii. 620.
(n) This Robert de Brus was called Robert, senior, in a record quoted in Dugd. Monast., v.
286. This Robert and his wife Euphemia, gave to the monks of Holm Cultram the fishery of
Torduff on the Solway, in Dumfriesshire. This grant was confirmed by Robert de Brus, jun., and by
William de Brus. Id.
(o) Chron. Melrose, 175. Isabel was born of a daughter of Robert Avenel, the Lord of Esk-
dale. Isabel is said to have been given, honorifice, by King William to Robert de Brus. Id. The
king gave with his daughter, in marriage, the manor of Haltwhistle in Tynedale, Northumberland ;
and Robert de Brus thereupon confirmed to the monks of Arbroath the patronage of the church
of Haltwhistle, which had been confirmed on them by King William. Chart. Arb., 66. This
confirmation was further confirmed by Isabel, and her second husband, Robert de Ross. Id.,
67. This manor of Haltwhistle appears to have continued in possession of the Bruses of Annandale
till the succession war. When Robert de Brus of Annandale submitted to Edward I., 1296,
the king issued writs to several sheriffs in Scotland for the restitution of Scottish property;
and also issued a writ to the bailiff of Tynedale, for restoring his lands in that district.
Rot. Scot., i. 81.
(p) Dugd. Monast., ii. 151. The churches were, Annan, Lochmaben, Kirkpatrick, Cumbertrees,
Rainpatrick, and Gretha. Id.