Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

THE HOUSE OF DRUMMOND. 29
5. Sir Malcolm Drummond, the fone of John, was the fyfth Thane 1228.
or Senefcall of Lennox, and lived in the time of King Alexander the
Second. He had tuo fones, Malcolme who fucceeded, called Malcolme
Beg, and Gilbert Drummond. We have nothing material recorded of
this Sir Malcolm the father ; bot of his fecond fone Gilbert it feems one
Bryce Drummond was defcended, whome the Monteiths bafely killed
about the year 1330, when the quarrell begune betwixt them and the
Drummonds ; as fhall be declared in the third partitione following.
Albeit there be no wreat extant to give us a precife accompt of all
the fones and daughters of thefe foregoeing heads of the family of Drum-
mond, nor whom they married ; yet there is fufficient ground to be-
leive that they matched both themfelves and theire children with none
of the fmall or inconfiderable trybes of the nation. For makeing this
appear, there is found amongft the Earle of Perths old evidents (where-
of many are loft) one wonderfully preferved, which is a large fkin of
parchment, writen in very ornat Latine, containeing ane Indenture of
aggreement betwixt the Drummonds and Menteiths before the judges
delegat be King David Bruce for compofeing theire bloody difference,
(as fhal be more particularly mentioned in its proper place), wherein
the Nobles who interpofed, and did ftipulat as fureties that both fydes
fliould ftand to the arbitrators determination, are faid to be in the fame
degree of kindred to both the differing parties ; and thofe noble media-
tors who ratifyed the treatie were Robert Stuart, the Kings nephew,
then Earle of Strathern, afterward King Robert the Second, William
the firft Earle of Douglas, and Thomas Stuart Earle of Angus, three of
the prime perfones of the kingdome. Robert is mentioned in this
maner, Infuper Robertus Dominus Senejcattus Scotice Comes de
Strathern, tanqaam principalis parentelce utriufque partis, tyc. : fo
that from hence it appeares, that the Drummonds have been long before
that time nearly related not only to the ancient houfes of Douglas and