LESLIE, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Alexander CUMMING of Earnside, son of John CUMING of Earnside and Unknown.¹ (Alexander CUMMING of Earnside was born about 1440 and died by 9 August 1488 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Leslie), who was engaged to be married to William Leslie, son and heir of Alexander Leslie of that Ilk in the Garioch, as appears by an obligation, dated 10th July 1458, whereby the said Alexander Leslie obliged himself to George, Earl of Rothes, Lord Leslie upon Leven, that if the marriage appointed betwixt William Leslie, his son and heir-apparent, or any other of his sons and apparent heirs, and Lady Margaret, the daughter of the said Earl of Rothes, by Margaret Lundin his spouse, or any other of the said earl's daughters, should not take place through the default of the said Alexander Leslie, or of his sons, then to pay to the said earl the sum of 500 merks, besides costs, skaith, and expenses in recovering the same.

It appears that Lady Margaret married Alexander Cumming of Ernside, which marriage is documented by an assignation by Lady Margaret Leslie, spouse of the late Alexander Cumming of Ernside, to George, Earl of Rothes, of £100 Scots, out of the lands of Dundurchouse, and other items which pertained to her in terce, when the lands should be redeemed by the heir of Alexander Cumming, for certain sums of money for which the said earl was bound in her marriage-contract. The assignation is dated 9th August 1488."

from Family of Leslie ¹