General Notes

Notes for JOHN FINLAY:
Is mentioned in a Retour at Logyrate, in the Court of John, Earl of
Atholl, whereby, on 29 July, 1457, he granted Glentilt to his son John
Stewart, which formerly belonged to Finlay, Tochach (meaning Chief, or
Earl), and by which he voluntarily resigned the Thanage of Glentilt,
comprising seventeen townships. On July 29, 1457, John Finlay is served
as heir tohis father, John le Thane, of Glentilt, in the lands of
Pepnocrife in Strathquay. The said John Finlay, son and heir of John,
Bishop of Dumblain, evidently sold this land, as he is represented in the
rental books of the Cupar Angus Cistercian Abbey, as living in the
townships of Kethyk, in Cupar Grange, Forfashire, 1457-1461, having
obtained, on October 10, 1457, a lease of a one-twelfth portion of the
Grange for five years. He died in 1461, having married Mary MacRae, who
was a widow in 1462. As relict of John Finlay, she is described, on
January 20, 1462, as obtaining from Cupar Angus Abbey a renewal of her
husband's one-twelfth portion for five years, paying on entry a tax of
five merks.