Historical account of the family of Frisel or Fraser, particularly Fraser of Lovat

FAMILY OF FRASEB. 61
to be as therein set down in all time thereafter."' In this decreet, Lord ■» Carmichaei's
Lovat is placed between Lords Oliphant and Ogilvy; after the first, Peerage, p. 32, «.
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and before the latter : The whole nobility that day (5th March I6O6),
being 1 Duke, 2 Marquises, 24 Earls, and 37 Lords — In all 64.
Of the vouchers tendered by Lord Lovat in proof of his creation
and precedency as a Lord of Parliament, there is this entry : " " Lovat. <> ibid.
Compeirit not Lord Lovat. Ex Regisfro. Ane indentour maid in Eng-
iich, 3 Martij 1426, ° betwixt tua nobil and myghtie lords, Vdliame " Error, should be
Fenton, Lord of that ilk, one the ane pairt, and Hew Eraser, Lord Lovat,
one the other pait, anent the marriage of the said Lord Lovat with
Janet Fenton, sister of the said VUliame Lord Fenton ; quilk indentour
is confinnit be the King, l6th September, anno 1430, in Libro Regist.
Chartarum."
When, therefore, we see this document thus publickly relied on, (al-
though the words of the confirmation bear no such interpretation,) it
may fairly be concluded, that the family of Lovat had been ennobled
in James the I.'s reign, at a period subsequent to 1430. *
Upon what authority Nisbet takes it upon him to say, that they
were elevated to the peerage by the title of Lord Lovat by James I.
on 3d March 1426, I am ignorant. ^ The assertion must be gratuitous ; ' Heraldry 389.
for no record hitherto discovered sanctions it, and Lord Lovat himself,
in the lawsuit in 1730, admitted there was no patent.
Lord Lovat died in 1440,'' and was interred at Beauly, " wardiaw mss.
Fraser MSS. Ad,
Lib. p. 156.
* The annals of the Erasers have traditionally handed it down, that their ancestor sat in
Parliament the same year his contract with Miss Fenton was confirmed, — Annals, p. 6 ; as
does Nisbet, Heraldry, 389. In the Genealogical History of the Earls of Sutherland, p. 17,
narrating the conflict at Clagnahayrc, between the Monroes and M'Intoshes, it is men-
tioned that John Monroe, the tutor of Foulis, being left for dead , was taken up by the Lord
Lovat, his predecessor ; an incidental intimation, exactly tallying with the period when the
Jirst lord's father flourished. The fight took place anno 1341,* (a date different from the * Laurie's Scots
MS. above quoted.) Hugh, the father, was then alive, and succeeded to Simon in 1348
—and Hugh, the son and Lord, succeeded in 1415.
Wars, 116.