A lordship given as a wedding present, a salmon from every boat, and the keeping of the river.
1608. Henry Lindsay gave the lordship of Kinfauns, lands and all, to his son Sir John as a wedding present, and King James VI confirmed it under the Great Seal.1620. Sir George Hay was infeft of the lordship of Kinfauns, and his charter gave him the keeping of the Tay, with a salmon from every boat.1629. Sir George’s son and heir, also George Hay, was a soldier first. As a colonel at the siege of ’s-Hertogenbosch he was sworn in by the Dutch as “Sir Gorge Hayes, baron van Kienfaunes”.1641. Parliament ratified the keeping of the waters of the Tay to him as 2nd Earl of Kinnoull and 7th Lord Kinfauns: the power of admiralty the Lords of Kinfauns held over the river.
