Breve cronicle of the Earlis of Ross

22 ANE BRIEVE CRONICLE
Edinburgh, and to receive such lands as after follows, in
feu gratis, viz., Ardgay, ane Davoch of lands of great
bounds of gressings ; the Kirktown of Kincardine ; yaire,
and salmond fishing of the same, which will make yearly
ane last of salmond or thereby ; the town of Eddertoun and
pendicles thereof, which will hold twenty-three ploughs,
with fair meadows and wards adjacent thereto, with the
miln of Kincardin, which is worth twenty-four bolls vic-
tual!. The haill lands above written will occupie twenty-
four ploughs, besides shealls and grassings ; whilk land,
grassings, and fishings above written, when the said Bishop
gave them gratis to him, he desyred the said laird to re-
compence the said Mr. Thomas Ross for his fee and re-
ward, which the Bishop should have given him, in respect
he gave the said lands gratis to the laird of Balnagown
at the said Mr. Thomas his desire ; notwithstanding the
said Bishop took from the good SherrifF of Cromarty,
called Alex 1 ' Urquhart, three thousand marks for worse
land and less of profite, who held the said Bishop in his
house of Cromarty ane half year well treated and enter-
tained, in respect his own house of Chanonry was holden
from him by Mr. Donald Fraser, Archdean of Ross, and
such reward as the said Mr. Thomas Ross got from the
said laird of Balnagowan, it is known, viz., evil deeds for