 In 1512, John Vaus of Lochslyn received a grant from James IV of Scotland to anew lands which he had resigned for a yearly payment of one pound of "cucumeris", or of three pence at Whitsunday.The Vasses were seated at Lochslin Castle in Easter Ross from the 15th-century until 1603 when they were declared rebels.The castle is mentioned in a charter of the Vasses in 1590.