Mercers of Innerpeffray and Inchbreakie, from 1400 to 1513

especially my lands, rents, and possessions of Innerpeffry
and of Dullory, under the firmest and strictest style of
obligation that can be made, in one hundred pounds of
the usual money of Scotland, to be faithfully paid, with-
out any fraud or deceit whatever, to the said abbot and
convent and their successors, and my said lands of Inner-
peffry and of Dullory, an^l also my goods whatever, to be
seized and distrained, taken and led away, at the will of
the said abbot and convent, and without licence of any
judge whatever, temporal or spiritual, no remede of law,
canon or civil, availing in the contrary, until full satis-
faction and payment be made to the foresaid abbot and
convent, of the said hundred pounds, together with costs,
expenses, and interest. Also I will and grant that if it
shall happen that I and my heirs, or any others whatever
in our name, shall set or place an enclosure or enclosures,
net or nets, or other instruments whatever for catching
fishes in the said place of Polpefery, that then it shall be
lawful to the foresaid abbot and convent, and their succes-
sors, to take, sei?e, dispone, and appropriate to their own
use, and from me and my heirs to alienate without reclam-
ation or asking back, the same enclosures, nets, or instru-
ments, whenever and as often as they shall be made by
me or my heirs whatever in the foresaid place. In wit-
ness whereof the seal of me Robert Mercer, and the seal
of Andrew Mercer, my uncle, are appended to my pre-
sent charter, before these witnesses, Tristram of Gorty,
John Quhyston, Alexander Cardeny, William Bonar of
Kelty, Alexander Sharp of Strathy, and John Crab,
shieldbearer, will many others, on the twenty-fourth day
of the month of June in the year of the Lord one thou-
sand four hundred and fifty-four.
In the year 1461, Robert Mercer, with Andrew
Drummo'id, Rector of Kirkconnel, son of Sir John
Oruunnond, second Laird of Colquhalzie, wituessed a
Disposition by the said Sir John to a natural son,
Thomas, and his heirs, whom failing, to William
Drummond, his son and heir, of the lands of Deuchlas,
Pelchar, and a third part of the lands of Meggar.
This Deed was confirmed by the Queen Regent, mother
of James III., in the same year.
Towards the close of his days, Robert of Innerprffray
appears to have fallen into such pecuniary difficulties
as to necessitate the disposal of various of his paternal
lands, which passed to the Oliphants, Lundies,
Colquhouns of Luss, and Murray s of Tullibardine.
On the 6th July, 1465, he executed a Procuratory of
Resignation to Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, Sir William