Mercers of Innerpeffray and Inchbreakie, from 1400 to 1513

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Murray of Tullibardine, and Humphrey ColquhouD,
brother to the Laird of Luss, empowering them to
resign the lands of Easter and Wester Dollarie into the
King's hands: and the following is a translation of the
document from the Latin:
Procurator!/ of Resignation.
Be it known to all men, by these presents, that I, Robert
Mercer of Innerpeffry, have made, constituted and or-
dained, and hereby do make, constitute, and ordain, the
noble and potent m n, John of Colquhoun of Luss,
William Murray of Tullibardine, knights, and Humphrey
of Colquhoun, brotber-german of the said Sir John, con-
junctly and severally, my true, lawful, and undoubted
procurators, agents, factors, doers, and special emissaries
of my affairs, giving and granting to the saids Sir John,
and Sir William, and Humphrey, brother-german of the
said Sir John, and to each of them, my procurators, con-
junctly and severally, my free and full power, to compear
on my behalf, and in my name, in the presence of our
mosti excellent lord, James King of Scots, or any having,
or that shall have, power from his Majesty to that effect,
to resign, and by staff and baton, purely and simply, as
the manner is, to surrender, into the hands of our said
Lord the King, or of another having, or that shall have,
his authority, all and sundry my lands of Easter Dowlary
and Wester Dowlary, with their whole pertinents, lying
in the earldom of Stratherne, within the shire of Perth ;
and to do, perform, and exercise all and sundry other
things which, in the foresaid resignation and surrender,
are needful and convenient, and which I myself, the said
Robert, would or could do in the premises, if I were per-
sonally present ; holding and to hold lawful and good, all
and whatsoever my said procurators, or any of them, con-
junctly and severally, may judge proper to be done in the
premises, under the pledge and security of all my goods,
moveable and immoveable, present and to come.— In wit-
ness whereof, I have set my seal to these presents, at
Innerpeffry, the sixth day of July, in the year of the Lord
one thousand four hundred and sixty-five.
Among the Tullibardine Charters there is a Deed of
Sale, of the same date, by Robert Mercer of Inner-
peffray to Patrick Murray of Tullibardine, son of the
deceased David Murray of Tullibardine, of the lands
of Easter Dullary; and on 19th June, 1467, the said
Patrick Murray obtained a Crown Charter of Easter
and Wester Dullary, which on the 11th of the same
month had been, resigned into the King's hands by
William Murray of Tullibardine, Knight, as Procurator
for Robert Merqer of Innerpeffray. This Patrick