Pedestrianism

262 APPENDIX. by William de Keith, " with consent (as the deed expres­ ses it) of Margaret, my wife, to Alexander de Berkeley, and Qtfharine, my sister, his spouse, and the longest liver of them two, and the heirs male of their bodies, my landsof Mathers, datum upud mansumcapiiale nostrum de Strathekin, die Martii inventione sanctcE crucis, anno 1351. Coram test, reverendo in Christa patr. Dom. Philippo, Dei gratia, Episc. Brechin. Dom. Willielmo eaedem gratia Abbato de Aberbroth- ivick, David de Fleming, Willielmo de Liddel, militibus; Jo- han. de Seton, et aim." This charter is confirmed by King David Bruce, at Perth, the 18th of March, and twenty^-first of his reign : coram test. Roberto sencschallo, nepote nostra, (the firstking of Scotlandof the Stewart race,) The. Senes­ chal. comite de Angus, Tho. de Moravii panacri nostra Scotia-, Roberto de Erskine, et Tho. de Folside, militibus. The original charter from William Kde ith, and the con­ firmation by David Bruce, areboth in the possession of Mr. Barclay ofUry. (0.) David de Berkeley, 2d of Mathers, succeeded to his father Alexander: and he married the daughter of John de Seton, who witnessed the above charter from William de Keith. His son, (7.) Alexander de Berkeley, 3d of Mathers, was his succes­ sor, and he married Helen, tke daughter of Grama of Mor- phy. Their son, (8.) David de Berkeley, 4lh of Mathers, succeeding, built the castle, called the Kem of Mathers. He married Elisabeth, the daughter of Strachan of Thornton, then an an­ cient and flourishing family in the Mcams. (9*.)