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Angus or Forfarshire The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical By Alex. J. Warden, F.S.A. Scot., Volume IV - 1884
LETHNOT & NAVAR Page 162
The Church of Navar was taken down shortly after the union of the parish with Lethnot. It stood within the graveyard, which is still a good deal used, and a neat and substantial wall has recently been erected around it. The site of the church may still be traced. A few large trees grow around the lone enclosure. When the church was demolished the bell disappeared, but it was subsequently discovered, and is now in the Museum at Arbroath, with a description by the Rev. Mr CRUICKSHANK, the respected minister of Lethnot and Navar, hanging round its neck. The date, 1655, is on it. The site on which tlie Church of Navar stood is on the left bank of the Paphry, but at some distance above that stream.
Page 164 The Rev. Mr CRUICKSHANK, the minister, has no doubt that the Kirk of Lethnot occupies a site which has been a place of worship from the earliest appearance of Christianity in the country, if not in old Druidicul times. When the foundation of the present manse was being dug in 1810, an immense quantity of some fatty material was discovered, which was believed at the time to be the remains of sacrifices. His Reverence believes in the fat, but hardly in the inference drawn from it.
LOGIE-PERT Page 241 In the beginning of the seventeenth century, if not earlier, the lands of Ballochy and others belonged to the Livingstones of Dunypace. On 22d January, 1629, David Livingston, heir of his father, John, was retoured (No. 124) in part of the lands and town of Counouye, part of the town and lands of Ballochy, lands of Bank, lands of Muretown, Moor of Meikle Perth, &c. The Livingstons owned other lands in the district about that time. The most of these lands were subsequently acquired by the Falconers. On 23d February, 1693, David Falconer succeeded his father, Lord David, President of the College of Justice (Ret. 525), in Dunlappie, &c., and in the lands of Nether Perth or Cononies, with the mill of Pert and multures, lands of Over Pert, Ballochies, and Bank, and fishings upon the water of North Esk.
In 1683 Roll half Pert is called "Sir John Falconer," the value being £850. The other half, "Logy, John Scott," also £850 value. The first half is afterwards called Pert. In 1822 it belonged to the Earl of Kintore. The second is afterwards called Ballochy and Over Pert, before 1748 divided thus:
Ballochy, Miss Erskine, £283 6s 8d ; the remainder divided 30th April, 1785 ; lands bought from Scott of Logie by CRUICKSHANK of Stracathro, £129 10s 9d
MONTROSE Page 431
In former times the greater part of what is now the landward parish of Montrose was known as Logie-Montrose. In the Roll of 1683 the lands were divided into five estates —
Logie, valued rent, £433 6s 8d ; Kinnaber, £800 ; Borrowfield, £366 13s 4d ; Tayock, £100; and Hedderwick, £600—in all, £2300. Since then some of these estates have been divided and subdivided.
Newman's Walls and Charleton were included in Logie. These were acquired by the laird of Tarrie. In the Roll of 1822 Newman's Walls belonged to G. F. Carnegie, £66 13s 4d, and A. Renny Tailyour is entered for the remainder, £366 13s 4d together, £433 6s 8d. Kinnaber included Rosemount.
On 13th February, 1797, divided thus :— That part on north of road from Northwater Bridge to Hedderwick, sold to John Duncan, £406 4s ; fishings of Mary Net, belonged to G. F. Carnegie, £64 18s 8s ; remaining lands of Kinnaber, same proprietor, £328 17s 4d = £800.
Borrowfield and Tayock remained intact in 1822, the former belonging to A. Renny Tailyour, and the latter to James CRUICKSHANK.
Hedderwick included Newbigging and Claylake. On 6th November, 1807, divided thus :— The valued rent of Newbigging, James CRUICKSHANK, £69 lis 8d ; Claylake and part of Hedderwick, 30th April, 1821, Gr. F. Carnegy, £29 7s; remainder of estate to George Robertson Scott, £501 Is 4d — in all, £600. These valuations were for taxation.
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