From the first surviving charter to the 1st Lord Kinfauns, and a family quarrel settled with earth and stone.
1330. In the charter that survives, the boy king David II, Bruce’s son, granted Thomas de Carnoto, as the Latin calls him, half of the lands of Kinfauns for his homage and good service.13 July 1470. Sir William Charteris made over Kinfauns to his son, Sir Thomas, by a charter that uses the style dominus Kynfawnis, Lord Kinfauns. King James III confirmed it under the Great Seal in 1487, and Sir Thomas is counted the 1st Lord Kinfauns.Not every handover went smoothly. On 19 November 1471 Sir William fell out with the young couple over some of the family lands, and took them back by the old ceremony of taking earth and stone from the ground.
