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October 23rd 1476 |
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The Earl of Menteith and Lady Janet“Malise, Earl of Menteith, sound in mind and body, out of natural affection and considering the manifold services and tender good deeds done to him in youth and age by his dearest spouse Lady Janet, Countess of Menteith in the realms of England and Scotland, gave and bestowed to her for her lifetime a silver gilt lorn (a type of shoe), gilded on the surface with gold, a dish called le masar, a silver cup, a missel book with other things suitable for celebrating mass, nine silver spoons and a silver salt fat(container), gilt on the top, having a beryl stone set in the middle, acquired by his own conquest and industry. From him and his heirs to the said Lady Janet and that by placing a gold ring on her finger.”Witnessed by David, chamberlain of the said Earl in the Isle of Inchtalla Malise Graham became Earl of Menteith in 1427 after having been deprived of the Earldom of Strathearn. He was kept in captivity in England for twenty four years as security for James 1st’s ransom. He was liberated in 1416. That year he obtained a charter erecting the village of Port Menteith into a burgh of barony. The Isle of Inchtalla, in the Lake of Menteith, possessed a castle where lived the Earls of Menteith at this time. Malise died in 1490. Lady Janet was his second wife. |