{"product_id":"the-book-of-the-thanes-of-cawdor-1236-1742-1859-searchable-pdf-surname-index","title":"The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor, 1236-1742 (1859) - Searchable PDF \u0026 Surname Index","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUnlock Over 500 Years of Original Highland Charters, Rent Rolls, Bonds of Manrent \u0026amp; Estate Papers from Cawdor Castle (A.D. 1236–1742)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally edited by the celebrated Scottish legal antiquary \u003cstrong\u003eCosmo Innes\u003c\/strong\u003e and presented to the members of the \u003cstrong\u003eSpalding Club\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1859 by John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Thanes of Cawdor: A Series of Papers Selected from the Charter Room at Cawdor, 1236–1742\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important primary-source muniment collections ever published for Northern and Western Scottish genealogy. Bridging the medieval Celtic and feudal \u003cstrong\u003eThanage of Cawdor (Calder)\u003c\/strong\u003e in Nairnshire, Moray, Inverness-shire, and Ross-shire with the westward expansion of \u003cstrong\u003eClan Campbell\u003c\/strong\u003e into Argyllshire, Lorn, Muckairn, and the Hebridean Lordship of \u003cstrong\u003eIslay\u003c\/strong\u003e, this monumental 565-page digital edition provides direct, pre-parish-register proof of kinship, land tenure, marriage contracts, and tenantry across five centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComplete 565-Page Merged Research Volume:\u003c\/strong\u003e Combines 4 pages of newly typeset Fairbairn's Crests Branded Front Matter (Pages i–iv), all 550 original archival content pages from the rare 1859 Spalding Club quarto edition, and 11 pages of our newly compiled Back-of-Book Alphabetical Surname \u0026amp; Place Research Index.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtifact-Free Archival Scan with Intact Search Layer:\u003c\/strong\u003e All 18 non-content scanner artifacts (15 blank page backs\/flyleaves, 2 tissue-guard bleed-through sheets, and 1 duplicate half-title scan) have been carefully removed while leaving the original 1859 page backgrounds, lithographed royal charter facsimiles, foldout genealogical tables, Victorian engravings by R. 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Billings, and native OCR text streams completely intact.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFive Centuries of Primary Genealogical Records (1236–1742):\u003c\/strong\u003e Features royal charters of Alexander II (1236) and Robert the Bruce (1310), precepts of sasine, papal dispensations, the 1456–1458 Exchequer Rolls beyond Spey, the 1454 royal license to build Cawdor Castle over its famous hawthorn tree, testamentary inventories, marriage contracts, bonds of manrent and gossipry, bailie court books, and verbatim rent and muster rolls.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExact Page-Offset Navigation Guide:\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes a section-by-section conversion chart on Page iv so researchers can jump effortlessly between Original Printed Page Numbers (pp. 1–471) and Merged PDF Page Numbers (\u003ccode\u003eMerged PDF Page = Printed Page + 86\u003c\/code\u003e for the main charter text on pp. 5–434).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComprehensive Surname \u0026amp; Place Finding Aids:\u003c\/strong\u003e Newly indexed across 258 distinct Scottish, Highland, and Hebridean surname groups (with Latin, Early Scots, and Gaelic patronymic variants) and 172 parishes, baronies, castles, kirks, and islands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical \u0026amp; Regional Overview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part of the muniments chronicles the ancient Thanes of Cawdor (Calder) in the Sheriffdoms of Nairn, Elgin, Forres, and Inverness — tracing their hereditary offices as Constables of the King's Castle of Nairn and Sheriffs of Nairn, their acquisitions of Boath, Banchor, Moy, Dunmaglass, Ferintosh, and Urchany, and their alliances with neighboring northern barons including the Roses of Kilravock, Mackintoshes of Clan Chattan, Dunbars, Brodies, Dallases of Cantray, Hays of Lochloy and Park, Urquharts of Cromarty, Frasers of Lovat, Grants of Freuchie, and Gordons of Huntly. Following the death of John Calder in 1498 and the celebrated marriage in 1510\/11 of his infant heiress, \u003cstrong\u003eDame Muriel Calder, Thaness of Cawdor\u003c\/strong\u003e, to \u003cstrong\u003eSir John Campbell\u003c\/strong\u003e (third son of Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyll), the Cawdor charter room became the administrative nexus for vast holdings in both the Moray Firth and the Western Highlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Argyllshire and the Isles, the volume preserves extensive 16th- and 17th-century writs, bonds of manrent, and detailed tenant rentals for the former priory lands of \u003cstrong\u003eMuckairn (Killespickerrill)\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eArdchattan\u003c\/strong\u003e on Loch Etive, the Lordship of \u003cstrong\u003eLorn\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the island of \u003cstrong\u003eIslay\u003c\/strong\u003e — where Sir John Campbell of Cawdor received the 1614 royal commission to reduce Dunyvaig Castle and supplant Clan Donald South (the MacConnels\/MacDonalds of Dunyvaig). Because parish registers in Nairnshire, Inverness-shire, Lorn, and Islay rarely survive before the 18th century, these charters, stent rolls, and estate accounts offer irreplaceable names of tacksmen, burgesses, notarized witnesses, artisans, and tenants unavailable in any other source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSurnames \u0026amp; Families Indexed in This Volume:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbercrombie, Aberdeen, Abernethy, Aboyne, Achmutie, Adamson, Agnew, Ahannay, Aikman, Airlie, Albany, Alexander, Allan, Altrilly, Anderson, Andrew, Angus, Annandale, Antrim, Arbuckle, Arbuthnot, Argyll, Armstrong, Arnot, Arran, Atholl, Auchinbreck, Auld, Baillie, Baird, Balcarres, Balfour, Ballindalloch, Balliol, Balmerino, Balnagowan, Bannatyne, Bannerman, Barclay, Barrie, Beaton, Bell, Bellenden, Bisset, Black, Blair, Blantyre, Boece, Bonar, Borthwick, Boswell, Bothwell, Bower, Boyd, Boyle, Breadalbane, Brechin, Brodie, Bruce, Buchan, Buchanan, Budge, Burdsye, Burnet, Bute, Cadell, Caithness, Calder, Cameron, Campbell, Cant, Carlichsoun, Carnegie, Carrick, Carstairs, Cathcart, Celestini, Chalmers, Chancellor, Charteris, Cheyne, Chisholm, Christie, Clapperton, Clark, Clunes, Clydesdale, Cochrane, Cockburn, Colquhoun, Colville, Comyn, Congilton, Constable, Cook, Corbet, Couper, Coutts, Cowie, Craig, Craigievar, Craik, Cranstoun, Crawford, Crichton, Cromarty, Cromwell, Cruickshank, Culloden, Cunningham, Currie, Cuthbert, Dalhousie, Dallas, Dalrymple, Dalzell, Davidson, Dempster, Denoon, Dick, Dickson, Dingwall, Donald, Donaldson, Douglas, Doune, Dow, Drummond, Duff, Duffus, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundas, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunlop, Durward, Edmonstone, Edward I, Eglinton, Elgin, Elphinstone, Errol, Erskine, Ewing, Falconer, Farquhar, Fenton, Ferguson, Findlay, Fleming, Fletcher, Florentine, Forbes, Fordyce, Forrester, Forsyth, Foulis, Fowler, Fraser, Fullarton, Gaderar, Galbraith, Gall, Galloway, Garden, Geddes, Gibson, Gilbert, Gilchrist, Gillanders, Gillespie, Glamis, Glasgow, Glen, Glencairn, Glenmoriston, Glenorchy, Gordon, Gowrie, Graham, Grant, Gray, Gregory, Grierson, Guthrie, Haddington, Haldane, Haliburton, Hall, Hamilton, Hardy, Harper, Hart, Hay, Henderson, Hepburn, Herries, Hogg, Home, Hope, Horsburgh, Houston, Howison, Hunter, Huntly, Hutchison, Inglis, Innes, Inverliver, Irvine, Isles, Jack, James I, II, III, IV, V, VI \u0026amp; 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