Henry Cheyne of Esslemont (-)

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Father:1John Cheyne of Esslemont (-after 1441)
Mother:2Katharine Panton (-)
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Married:3Katherine Fenton (-)
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Children with Katherine Fenton:
John Cheyne of Esslemont (-1505-6)4
Children with :
Henry Cheyne (-after 1497)5
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He was a witness to a charter by Nicolas, Earl of Errol, to Gilbert Hay, of the lands of Wry on 12th August 1467.6
On 31 July 1475, this Henry Cheyne of Esslemont produced a remission from the King, sealed with the great seal, graciously granted to him for the cruel slaughter of Henry Panton, probably of the Pitmedden family of that name. In 1479, the Lords of Council assign to Henry Cheyne of Esslemont to prufe that the lands of Mylne of Esslemont, Craghede, and the half of Fortree, contenit in the charters made by him to his son, John, and his wife, Elizabeth Annand, are worth twenty pundis.' A great feud arose in 1490 between the Cheynes of Esslemont and the Hays of Ardendracht, a place near Slains Castle, lying inwards from Cruden Bay; the distance between it and Esslemont was a ride of about ten Scotch miles. It is difficult to know the cause of this quarrel, but it was very likely some family dispute, as it reached to considerable dimensions, for Esslemont harried the lands of Hay of Ardendracht, and burned the house; also pillaged the lands of Hay's relative, the Earl of Errol. In retaliation, an excursion from Slains Castle burned "the cornes of Esslemont." It would be difficult, according to Mr. Mair, to account for the Cheynes being able to contend against such formidable adversaries, were it not for the mention of a number of independent parties as being implicated with them, such as Seton of Meldrum; Arthur, Lord Forbes, and others from Monymusk, Keig, and Inveramsay.7
From the character of the families at the time, the Cheynes would have had ready allies for such a work as they had in hand. On the other hand, on the part of the Hays, besides William de Hay of Ardendracht, only Patrick Rede of Collieston, and John Hay of Ardgrain are mentioned by name. While the Hays in their forays are mentioned as sweeping off only horses, oxen and scheip, wholesale, destroying the place of Esslemont, and laying waste the lands, the Cheynes, while not neglecting such important booty, seem to have been cunning in the searching and uplifting of small matters useful in a household, such as a girdell, a cauldron, pans, a stane of cheese or butter. All the goods are mentioned as taken away. It is difficult, according to Mr. Mair, to see how some of them could have been transported to Esslemont, such as half a chalder in "ail and wort" at Ardendracht. The ale, if in good order, would no doubt have been welcomed by the thirsty troopers, but it would have been otherwise with that portion which had been in " wort," or in the process of brewing. The quantity of half a chalder must have been a large one for a simple household, and shows how largely it was consumed at the time. They also carried away books, among others "The buik continand four buikis of the sentences," which seems to have been the work compiled by Peter Lombard, extracted from the writings of the Fathers, more especially from St. Augustine, and which acquired an extensive reputation in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The only buik mentioned besides is a "Bible buik," and three English bukis, and as the place was thoroughly ransacked, these likely formed the whole library of the knight of Ardendracht.8
Men's gowns are mentioned more than once, and were likely furred gowns, which were worn by elderly men in cold weather, or sitting in hall. The industrious rapacity of Sir Henry Cheyne and his son, and the faithful manner in which their spoils have been recorded, gives some insight to the plenishing of houses in 1490. The reckless old baron did not long survive the conclusion of the raids on Ardendrach.9
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1 Rev. William Temple, The Thanage of Fermartyn: Including the District Commonly Called Formartine, its Proprietors, with Genealogical Deductions; its Parishes, Ministers, Churches, Churchyards, Antiquities, &c (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & son, 1894), p. 507-17, Gordon of Esslemont.
2 Ibid
3 Ibid
4 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Cheynes of Esslemont no. I, p. 48.
5 Ibid
6 Ibid
7 Rev. William Temple, The Thanage of Fermartyn: Including the District Commonly Called Formartine, its Proprietors, with Genealogical Deductions; its Parishes, Ministers, Churches, Churchyards, Antiquities, &c (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & son, 1894), p. 507-17, Gordon of Esslemont.
8 Ibid
9 Ibid
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