Pedestrianism

258 APPENDIX. still preserved in the Advocates' Library of Edinburgh, and also in the Charter of Aberdeen, which remains in perfect preservation in the Record Office of that city. William is likewise designedchamberlain, in a deed granted by the king to the monks of the Cistertian order, which is copied from the original by Anderson, in his Independency of Scot­ land. Walter deBerkeley wasone of the pledges forWilliam the Lion, to Henry the Second of England, as mentioned in Abercrombie's history. He was appointed chamberlain in 1165, and was one of those who returned to Scotland with William, abouthe close of the year 1174"*. Walter left two daughters only, oneof whom, according toNicols' Peerage, wasmarried to Seton of Seton, the predecessor of the Earl of fVinton. From those circumstances, it is a natural deduction, that the Berkeley family tnust have been settled in Scotland long previously to this period. They enjoyed the confi­ dence ofthe king, and held the highest offices in the state, which wouldnot probably have been the case with men of low extraction, or who had recently emetged frotn ob­ scurity. But it appears by charters ocfonfirmation fromWilliam thfe Lion, that Walter deBerkeley of Innerkelder,was co- temporary with,and ctmfem-german to, Humphrey, the son <>f Theobald de Berkeltj/, the original of the family of Ma- at!.1*1 •lfill U. Ifiran ^ .r fi, •rffcfcH', T IrfnY t r iiViir -iThiTiwlii • , • AQQUIS of SctHlaiid, i. p. IS 1 !. f titers,