Whytburne is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the county of Linlithgow. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1452. It also appears in the sources as Whitburne and Quhitburne.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS ii, no.587, p.129, 8 July 1452: half of Quhitburne barony in Linlithgow annexed to the Caithness earldom and regality for George Crichton. ; not a first-erection date.
Retours and Lyon records
Published Retour index, Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum abbreviatio, vol. III (1816): Linlithgow, baronia nos. 11, 175, 290.
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