“In a charter by King William the Lion to the town of Perth, 1210, one of the witnesses is Robert de London, the king’s son. This natural son of the king had married the heiress of Lundin in Fife, and from her lands took his surname. Richard was their lineal descendant.
“In 1679, the family of Lundie, because of their descent, obtained liberty to bear the royal arms of Scotland. Afterwards the heiress married John Drummond, Earl of Melfort,” second son of James, Earl of Perth. This family is now represented by the Hon. R. P. Burrel Drummond of Perth.
I have extracted the greatest part of this note from those added to the Perth Edit. of Wallace, by my worthy friend the late Reverend James Scott of Perth, well known as an accurate and indefatigable antiquary. V. also Nisbet, I. p. 64. 107.
Hew the Hay seems to be the same person who afterwards married a sister of King Robert the Bruce, the widow of Laurence Lord Abernethy. He was descended from William Hay of Errol, and was ancestor to the family of Tweeddale. V. Nisbet, I. 182. He is designed Hay of Locharret, or Lochquharret, county of Edinburgh. The ancient orthography was Lochuswerword, Locherworn. Sir James Dalrymple’s Coll. Pref. 76; also Locherward, Ind. Chart. I. 26,—16. 9. 13.
All Mydlame land thai brynt wp in a fyr,
Brak parkis doun, distroyit all the schyr.—V. 945.
In MS. mydlen. This I have explained as signifying middle, or denoting lands lying in the interior of a county or district. V. Etym. Dict. But I have here adopted the reading of Edit. 1594. Wallace being represented as at this time in Yorkshire, this is probably the honour or town of Middleham in the northern part of this county. In Bleau’s Atlas, it is written Midlam. It afterwards belonged to the Nevilles, who were Earls of Richmond.
Amang noblis gyff euyr ony thar was,
So lang throw force in Ingland lay on cass,