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From the Book of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee 1513 to 1885.
Robert Maule of Panmure - 15 October 1515
ROBERT MAULE OF PANMURE IS MADE A BROTHER OF THE GUILD, BY REASON OF THE LIBERTY OF His FATHER.
The origin of the MAULES of Panmure cannot be readily traced, but it is supposed that they were descended from the MAULES of the Lordship of Maule, near Paris, a possession, it is stated, which was owned by the family for the long period of four hundred years previous to the eleventh century. Their first appearance in Scotland took place during the reign of DAVID E, a certain ROBERT MAULE having come to this country along with that Monarch. WILLIAM, son of this ROBERT, obtained the lands of Easter Fowlis in Perthshire as a reward for his bravery at the Battle of the Standard (1138), and since that time the history of the family has been intimately connected with the progress of Dundee and of this neighbourhood. From the entry in the Roll it is evident that ROBERT MAULE'S father, SIR THOMAS MAULE of Panmure, had been a Burgess of Dundee. The latter was slain at Flodden, and ROBERT MAULE succeeded to the estate in September, 1513.
He was of rather a turbulent disposition, even for those unquiet times, and frequently engaged in serious political brawls during the time of JAMES V. and the earlier portion Of QUEEN MARY's reign. He was married to ISOBEL, daughter of SIR LAURENCE MERCER of Aldie, and was thus brother in law to GILBERT GRAY of Buttergask, whose name appears near his own on the Burgess Roll. He died in 1560, and the names of not a few of his descendants will be found recorded in the succeeding pages.