CARRICT.
CArrict follows next, a Country fruitful in pastures, and abundantly furnished with commodities both by land and sea. Here Ptolemy places bothc 1.1 Rerigonium a creek, and Rerigonium a Town. For which, in a very anci∣en Copy of Ptolemy, printed at Rome in 1480, we have Berigonium:* 1.2 So that I cannot chuse but think it was that which is now called Bargeny.* 1.3 A Lord it hath, of the Family of the Kennedyes* 1.4 (which came out of Ireland in the reign of Robert Brus) noble, nu∣merous, and powerful in this tract. The head of it is Earl of Cassils,* 1.5 the name of a Castle upon the Ri∣ver Dun, which is his seat; upon whose banks he hath another call'd Dunnur Castle; he is likewise he∣reditary Bailiff of this Province.* 1.6 For this, with Kyle and Cunningham, are the three Baileries of Scotland; because they that govern these with ordinary power and jurisdiction, are called Bailiffs, a term coin'd in the middle age, and signifies amongst the Greeks, Sicilians, and French, a Conservator or Keeper.* 1.7 But Carrict, in former times had its Earls. Not to men∣tion Gilbert of Galloway's Son (to whom King Willi∣am gave Carrict entire, to be possessed for ever) we read that Adam of Kilconath, about 1270, was Earl Carrict, and died in the Holy War; whose only Daughter Martha fell deeply in love with Robert Brus, a beautiful young Gentleman, as she saw him a hunt∣ing; made him her Husband, brought him the title and estate of Earl of Carrict, and bore him Robert Brus, that famous King of Scotland, the founder of the royal Line. But the title of Earl of Carrict be∣ing for some time left to the younger Sons of the Fa∣mily of Brus, afterwards became an addition to the other Honors of the Princes of Scotland.