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Landed influence in the late fifteenth century The maps indicate the territorial power of several great families that played a leading part in Scottish politics between 1470 and 1513. The baronies held by the head of the family have been plotted and linked with the main family centre. No attempt has been made to show the baronies held by lesser members ofthe family. Even so, the complexity of the territorial basis of the power of these families is immediately apparent. Although the power of a family was sometimes concentrated within a single region it was more often widely dispersed. Thus the earl of Angus, in addition to his lands in Angus, held lands in the sheriffdoms of Ayr, Perth, Lanark, Dumfries, Roxburgh and Berwick. The earl of Bothwell held lands in the sheriffdoms of Lanark, Ayr, Dumfries, Roxburgh and Berwick and in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The earl of Huntly held lands in the sheriffd@ms of Moray, Inverness, Banff, Aberdeen, Perth and Berwick. It was because these nobles drew their power from such a wide area that they and the families they headed could play a fonnidable part in politics and even try to impose their wi ll upon the king. • Main Murray centre (Darn away) • Baronies of Murray family • Main Lennox centre (Lennox) • Baronies of Lennox family ... Main Home centre (Hume) .. Baronies of Home family • Main Angus centre (Kirriemuir) • Baronies of Angus family e Lennox 0 10 Murray, Lennox, Home and Angus families Murray Elgin 2 Forres 3 AberneLhy Lennox Inchmurrin 2 Dreghorn 3 TarboILon 4 GaJsLon 5 Damley 6 Inchinnan Home I Dunglass 2 Ladykirk 3 Broxfield 4 Hassendean 5 Hownam 6 Ewesdale 7 Touchadam Angus Abernethy 2 Tamallon 3 Douglas 4 JedforesL 5 LiddesdaJe 6 Selk.irk 7 Ewesdale 8 EskdaJe 9 BunkJe and Preston 10 Kilmamock Braidwood Crawford-Lindsay kms 25 , 50 i i 75 , i 100 , ' miles TIR 423