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380 ABSTRACT OF GRANT [1555-
303. Letter of Lease by Mr. John Thorntoun, younger, parson of Advey and Crowmdaill,
with consent of Mr. James Thorntoun, his brother, parson of Ancraim, and Patrick,
Bishop of Moray and Chapter thereof, whereby he sets, and to maill lets to John
Grant of Fruquhy, his heirs and assignees, the said parsonage of Advey and Crowm-
daill, with the fruits, teinds and emoluments, glebes and kirklands thereof, with their
pertinents, in the sheriffdoms of Moray and Inverness, for nineteen years following
Beltane next, called the Invention of the Cross, entry to the rights and duties of the
kirk of Crowmdaill to be at that date ; but to that of Advey not to be till the issue
of John the Grant of Ballendalloch's three years' tack, which would be at Beltane in the
year of God 1557, and thence to endure till the end of the nineteen years. Paying
therefor yearly to the granter and his successors on entry to the whole taxes and kirks
the sum of forty merks Scots, in the town of Edinburgh, at the feast of St. Bartholomew,
with eight merks for the " stallaris " fees, with procurations used and wont. The lease
contains clause of warrandice, and is subscribed by the granter and his brother James,
and sealed with the granter's seal, the seal of the Bishop, the common seal of the
Chapter, and his brother's seal, at Edinburgh, 30th November 1555, before these
witnesses, William Ogiluy of Allaneboy, David Symmer, burgess of Edinburgh.
Subscribed thus : " Ita est Joannes Thornton, iunior, qui manu sua subscripsit."
" Ita est Ja. Thornton, teste manu gpria." Only two seals remain, those apparently
of the granter and his brother.
304. Contract of Marriage entered into between John Grant of Fruquhye for himself,
and in name of his daughter, Elspet Grant, on the one part, and William Fraser,
Tutor of Lovett, on the other part, whereby the said William Fraser agrees to
solemnize and complete the band of matrimony with the said Elspet Grant duly " as
effeirs" between the date and Whitsunday next ; before which solemnisation he binds
himself to infeft the said Elspet in his lands of Strowemoir and Cullegrane, in the
sheriffdom of Inverness, in liferent, to be held in blenchfarme of Lord Lovett ; and
if the said William obtain from Dame Jonet Eos, his mother, the goodwill of any
sums of money, or apprisings, or decreets that she has against Lord Lovett, or any
others, whereby the said William might obtain or conquest any lands, he binds
himself to infeft the said Elspet in the said lands in liferent within 40 days after
obtaining the said lands and being seized therein : If after marriage the said
William move any cause of divorce against the said Elspet, either of affinity or
consanguinity, whereby he may repudiate her, " or giff it sail happin in tymes to
cum the facioun of mareage now presentlie vsit in this realme to be thocht null and
of nayne awaill in respect of the facioun and vse of the aid ceremonies of mareage
vsit in aid tymes, without the said William of new solemnizat the said mareage with