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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Anent Castle-wards
Date: 11 January 1678
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At Exchequer, Sir John Nisbet was found liable in £4 Scots yearly, as the castle-ward-duty payable for the Castle of Dirleton, and contained in the Chekker rolls. There were only six shires towards the south, and bordering on England, that had these castle-wards.
Dirleton Alleged,—These lands, by Gowrie's forfaulture, being annexed to the King's crown, and thereafter given out to the Earl of Kelly free, and without mention of any such duty, it was thereby discharged. Which defence the Lords repelled.
