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which is fitt to be noticed Since here is Collected all that has
Occured to me in a Course of many years Relating to the
Strachans more particularly the House of Thornton that have
a Baronetship in their Family.¹

¹ '— Ch. Waldevi de Strathechan cum consensu Ranulfi Heredis sui con-
'cessa Canonicis Beati Andreæ Apostoli in Scotia de terra de Blarkeroch extra
'silvam, cum communi Pastura inter Feyhan¹ et De,¹ ad sexaginta Porcos, et
'ad Sexaginta Vaccas cum fetibus suis, donec trium fuerint annorum, et ad
'viginti Equas cum sequela sua donec quatuor fuerint annorum &c. Testibus—
'Mg^rs Laurencio Archidiacono S^ti Andrece—D^no Malcolmo Archidiac. Aber-
'donen. Ranulfo Waldevi &c,—Regist^r Prioratus S^ti Andreæ p. 337.'—M.

¹ Nunc, ut puto Feuch et Dy, rivuli in Baronia de Strathachan, nunc
Strachan in Vicec. de KinKardin.—M.