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Scotch acres, is held, by being obliged to[laughter all the cattle that may be wanted for the uſe of the Family of Argyle, in the place of Caſtle Campbell. Formerly there was a particular ſpecies of tack or leaſe(now ſcarcely known) granted by the landlord, for a low and favourable tack-duty, to thoſe who were either preſumed to be lineal ſucceſlors to the ancient poſſeſflors of the land, or whom this proprietor deſigned to gratify as ſuch: and the leſſees were uſually ſtyled Rentallers, or Kindly"Lenants. Rentals had 710 iſh(i. e. no term of expiration) exprefled in them: but as rentals were granted from a ſpecial regard to the rentaller, it is moſt probable, they were accounted rights ot life-rent, which ſubſiſted during his life. Rentals, when they were thus granted perſonally, were, upon the tenant's death, fre- quently renewed in favour of the heir: but this could not be demanded 25 a right. On ſuch a renewal, the heir paid to the landlord a grafſum or fine, in name of entry: and it behoved the landlord, after receiving the graſſum, to conti« nue the heir in the farm during his life.

About the end of the fixteenth century, or beginning of the ſeventeenth, it became uſual to convert the rentallers, or kindly tenants, into feuars. About this period, a Lord Colvil, who was proprietor of the eſtate of Tillycoultry, di

*vided about 2 of the arable land into 40 feus 3; which con«

ſſted, on an average, of about 30 Scotch acres*,“There are about 17 or 18 of theſe feus ſtill remaining. One gentle- man has 8 of the 4oth parts, with a right of ſending ſheep to the Ochills; 3 farmers have each 2 of them; 2 others have 1 each; and one man has 13 of them. All the pariſh of Dollar was poſſeſled by the rentallers, or kindly tenants, of the Family of Argyle. Moſt of theſe tenures were converted into feus, in the year 1605. They were of various ſizes, from 10+ Scotch acres to 2001. What was called the Mains of Dollar, were divided into 8 oxengates: and on

.* Correſponds nearly to 38 Engliſh ſtatute-acres.+ Nearly 12 E. acr.

4 Nearly 254 E. acr. a recent