Mercers of Innerpeffray and Inchbreakie, from 1400 to 1513

to the Abbot and Convent of Inchaffray, and their succes-
sors, serving, or that shall in future serve God in that
place, entire liberty and perpetual licence of fishing, by
mi-ans of enclosures, nets, or whatever other instruments
are necessary for catching eels and other fishes, in the
place which is vulgarly called the Polpefery, within my
lordship of Dullory, and of fixing, setting, and placing
upon the Polp?fery one or more enclosures, nets, or other
instruments convenient for holding such fishes, also of
making, constructing, and building piles of wood, heaps
of stones, and walls of earth, and of digging the ground,
and cutting and winning stones upon my foresaid lands of
Dullory, wherever it shall seem best to the said abbot and
convent and their servants, in the length and breadth of
the said lands, as the measures and limits thereof extend,
for the sustentation, construction, and conservation of the
said enclosure, or enclosures, or of other instruments
necessary for the capture of the foresaid fishes, when and
as often as it shall seem to the said abbot and convent,
and their foresaids, to be expedient, every impediment
and obstacle, as well as all deceit and fraud, on whatever
pretext conceived and imagined by us the foresaid Robert-
Alexander, and Andrew, and our successors, for prevent,
ing and obstructing the eels and other fishes from being
taken in the said enclosures, nets, or other instruments,
being altogether and for ever removed : To be holden and
had, all and whole the liberty and perpetual licence of
fishing, as beforesaid, by enclosurts, nets, and other in-
struments, in the foresaid place of the Polpefery, within
my said lordship of Dullory, with all advantages and con-
veniences suitable for the said fishing, by the foresaid
abbot and convent, and their successors, from me and my
heirs, freely, fully, well and in peace, with free ingress and
egress, and with the several commodities and just perti-
nents whatever thereof, as any charity by whomsoever
held or possessed within the kingdom of Scotland. And
I truly the foresaid Robert, and my heirs, and I also
Andrew Mercer of Inchbreky, during the above-men-
tioned phdge of the said lands, made to me in the manner
above written, and my heirs, shall warrant, acquit, and
for ever defend to the foresaid abbot and convent, and
their successors, who for the time shall be, in all and
through all, as is above said, against all mortals, the fore-
said liberty and licence of fishing by enclosures, nets, and
any other instruments whatever, in the foresaid place of
Polpefery, with all and sundry pertinents belonging or
that may in future belong to the said fishing. Moreover,
if it shall happen me or my heirs, or any person in our
name, either publickly or secretly, for any cause what-
ever, to contravene, contradict, or directly or indirectly,
some way or other to revoke the gift of the said liberty
and licence of fishing by enclosures, nets, or other instru-
ments in the foresaid place of Polpefery, as is before said,
I oblige me, my heirs, executors, or intromittors, and
assignees, and all our goods, movable and immovable, and