Excerpt from The Annandale Family Book of the Johnstones, Earls and Marquises of Annandale, Vol. 1 of 2: Memoirs and Charters Lindores Abbey. Douglas received his doom meeltly, and simply replied, He that may no better he must be a monk. In return, probably, for his services against the Douglascs, this active and energetic J ohnstone chief was the recipient of various grants from King James the Second. He did not immediately make up his feudal titles to his lands on his father's death. He received a. Remission of the non - entry duties of Johnstone-tenement and Del-tenement, amounting together to £22, 133. 4d. The king also remitted to him £85, 6s. 8d, the relief duty on the lands of J ohnstone and Kirkpatrick, and also £4 2, 13s. 4d, the amount or the rents exigible while the lands were in the hands of the king.l He also received a grant of the ward of the lands of Drumgrey, Valued at £34. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.