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Yon /precitedaay ye fee As ¢ S! *% Q NOTES AND TRADITIONS CONCERNING THE FAMILY OF SPALDING }, Pr, of Qn This edition is printedfor private circulation, and 1s limited to sixty copies, of which this ts No.of. NOTES AND TRADITIONS CONCERNING THE FAMILY OF SPALDING we we we ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR PLATES LIVERPOOL HENRY YOUNG & SONS 1914 C5434 D723 7 * yA TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES FERGUSSON OF NAIRN, WITHOUT WHOSE KINDLY INTEREST AND HELP THESE NOTES HAD NEVER BEEN COLLECTED, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY F.J.S. anp M.S. LIST OF PLATES THE TOWER, ASHINTULLY CASTLE . Frontispiece ASHINTULLY SHIELD . Facing p. 20 Sa nA CONGRE GLENKILRY SHIELD . ” 145 OcT2 81992 DRUMFORK SHIELD. oy 148 COPY... ORDER pis’neces oe cag vii NOTES AND TRADITIONS CONCERNING THE FAMILY OF SPALDING Tue first Spalding, of the name, from Spalda bates and in Flanders, came to England at the time of “““"* the Norman Conquest: possibly in the train of Mathilda of Flanders, wife of William I. He received a grant of lands at Berwick-on-Tweed. According to an old tradition a Spalding took Dorst’s part in a crusade under Richard Coeur de Lion, <Aadéd. and there was made noble. In 1225 Radulpus de Spalding is a witness to a deed relating to the Mill of Caterline. “In the wall of the churchyard of Caterline is Letterfrom a fragment of an old armorial, which I believe to Bromberg, be a Spalding one. ... Near Caterline is yet to-day a place called Spalding’s Stables (in the adjoining parish of Fern) and Spalding’s Loan on the road between Shandford and Balquhara.” A OF SPALDING 2 THE FAMILY NOTES AND TRADITIONS 3 was ap- Sir Osbert de Spaldingtone Register of In 1292 “Among scions of notable families who held Register of Sasines, Justice in Scotland. Coupar Abbey, Forfar. pointed leases from the Abbey were members of the house vol. ii, 24~25. was appointed In 1296 the same Sir Osbert of Spalding.” Sheriff of Berwick-on-Tweed. In Zhe Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Holinshed’s detained Chronicle, Osbert de Spaldington was Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed, London, 1 577. 1318, History of In 1290 Berwick, twenty-two days hearing complaints First edition, vol. i. page 321, line 26, — year J. Scott, in Scotland PP: 20, 24. received for his work 1325. : in the Courts there, and St, 18s. 1d. “After this, Thomas Randol, Earle of Murrey de Spalding- - the second day of Aprill recovered the towne of In 1296 Edward I ordered Osbert East Coast of Eng- Berwicke out of the Englishe men’s handes, whiche ton to have in readiness in the a fleet of 100 vessels, they had held for the space of twentye years before. land, from Tyne to Tweed, co-operate with his It was taken now by practise, through means of wellemanned, and ready to one Spaldeyn, whofor his labour had certain landes land forces. of given him in Angus, which his posteritie enioyeth Spalding, parson of the church 1296. Symon de homage to King unto these dayes.” Ochiltree, in Ayrshire, payed His In the second edition of Holinshed, London of England, at Berwick-on-Tweed. Edward I 1587, vol. ii, page 221, line 73, and page 222 and Spalding, was rector of Ochiltree, brother, John following, the nameis spelled “ Spaldein” and the Ayrshire. date is given as 1318, the year of the birth of Spalding was canon of the Cathedral 1304. Sir John de Robert Stewart, son of Marjorie Bruce and Walter Church of Elgin. Steward, ‘ Esq*” at Berwick. Richard Spalding named 6s King1 Robert the Bruce determinedto proceed Tytle's 1311. among Register of . ° A mentioned as “ Esquire WI Sasines, Peter de Spalding ith the siege of Berwick, a town which, as the Scotian” vol. i, p. 133. Forfar. the men at arms.” Key to England, was fortified in the strongest SPALDING 4 THE FAMILY OF King Edward NOTES AND TRADITIONS 5 manner. Fortunately for the Scots, to a Governor whose from the King of England was given to eight had committed its defence discipline, had dis- persons, at the head of whom were the Archbishop severity, and strict adherence to and one of these, ~ of York, and Gilbert de Umphraville, Earl of gusted some of the Burgesses: married a Scotch- Angus, to enter into a treaty with Commissioners named Spalding, who had allegiance. He the King of Scotland, for confirming the woman, was seduced from his from when it was his turn to truth ordained by the authority of the Pope and determined, on the night rounds, to assist the the Apostolic See. It is affirmed in the Papal take his part in the watch intelligence he com- Bull of excommunication afterwards emitted against enemy in an escalade. This he carried the ’ Robert Brus, and in the letters of the King of municated to the Marshall and who was not slow England to the Pope, that this appointment of news direct to Bruce himself, and Randolph, Commissioners was made at the request of Robert in taking advantage ofit. Douglas to assemble Brus, and that the place agreed on for this meeting along with March, were commanded Dun’s Park in the was Berwick, circumstances by which Robert’s with a chosen body of men at their horses at enemies sought to support their charge against evening, and at night, having left and by the him of treachery, as well as the most flagrant the rendezvous, marched to Berwick, their ladders, scaled contempt of the Papal authority manifested in his assistance of Spalding, fixed taking Berwick not many days after the commission the walls, and took the Town.” History of England and Scot- just mentioned wasgiven.” The Border From Zhe Border Minister by the late George Ridpath, (Note that the Pope’s Bull affirms that the place sécis EnglandHistory =and land, ec. and published by the author’s was taken the more easy by reason of its being Seated Roan of Stitchill, revised London,1776, brother, Philip Ridpath, Minister of Hutton, treacherously assaulted at a time when the Kin _— PP: 257) 9% could not suspect that it was in the least hazard. London, 1776. a commission The same Bull says that the Scots committed a “In the following March, 1318, great and cruel slaughter both on the King’s gar- 6 THE FAMILY OF SPALDING NOTES AND TRADITIONS 7 rison and the inhabitants, and Edward, in his it was his (Spalding’s) turn to keep watch on the letter to the Pope and Cardinals in 1325, still insists wall adjacent to Cowgate, a sufficient body of Scots that the Scots treacherously seized Berwick at a should enter it on that quarter by means of scaling time when he, in obedience to the Holy Father, was ladders. The Marshall, having informed the King strictly keeping the truce enjoined on him.) of the proposal, measures were concerted for carry- ing it into The English writers relate that Berwick was execution; and the chief captains, Ran- dolph and Douglas, betrayed to Robert Brus by the governor, Peter were ordered, with sufficient Spalding, for a sum of money. But Barbour, the bodies of their followers, to repair on the evening prefixed to a place rhyming historian of Brus’s achievements, relates called Dunce Park where the Marshall and the event in a different manner. his men joined them. (Note, the C. Fergusson. (Note, Barbour Marshall’s men were says that all Scotland was then the best of Lothian, of which county he was subject to Robert Brus, from the Red Swyre to sheriff.) Having left their horses a considerable Orkney, except Berwick. distance from the town, they ad- vanced to the appointed “ Fra the Red Swyre unto Orkney place of the walls, and entered the Was noughtof Scotland fra his fay town unperceived by any but their Out-taken Berwick, it alone.”) friend Spalding, who conducted them to a place where they remained According to his (Barbour’s) account, Peter concealed till daylight. The lust of booty Spalding, a burgess of Berwick, who was married made many of the Scots scatter through the town, to a cousin of Sir Robert Keith, Marshall of Scot- and too much weakened the force that remained land, entertaining a violent resentment against the with their leaders, which occa- sioned sharp governor of the town for the malignity and cruelty conflicts with some parties of the garrison he showed to all Scotchmen, formed a project of that were able to unite: but the assailants at last betraying the place to the Scots. With this view everywhere prevailed and were completely he proposed to the Marshall that, on a night when masters of the town about noon. 8 THE FAMILY OF SPALDING NOTES AND TRADITIONS 9 Sketches of In reward for this service we find, in Zhe Hzs- bene custodiatur, et quod non habeatur supra rea- Stratharale, C. Fergusson. zory of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, page 482, liqui cursores nisi justiciarii nostri tantum ; tenedas that Spalding received from King Robert the Bruce, et habendas dictas terras una camcustodia dictae on ist May 1319, in exchange for his lands and forestae nostrae de Kylgerry et forragio ejusdem tenements at Berwick, the lands of Ballourthy and ut pudictum est eidem Petro et herendibus suis de Petmethy in Forfarshire, together with the Keeper- nobis heridibus nostris in feodo et hereditate, per ship of the Royal Forest of Kilgerry. omnes rectas metas et divisas dictarum terrum cum- pertinenciis, libre quiete, plenarie et honorifice, cum Charter of King Robert Bruce to Peter Spalding of bondis earundem terrarum et omnibusaliis liber- the lands of Ballowthy and Petmethy, with .