Mercers of Innerpeffray and Inchbreakie, from 1400 to 1513

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in the King's hands since the death of John Rede, late
Janitor and Keeper of the Prison of Fowlis — that is,
Fowlis- Wester, the principal seat of the ancient Earls
of Strathearn. In the next year's accounts to 12th
July, 1446, the item of 13s 4d is repeated as rent of the
lands of the late Janitor of Fowlis.*
By his marriage with Margaret Murray, the Laird of
Inchbreakie had a son, Peter or Patrick, and a
daughter, Margaret. The latter became the second
wife of Maurice Drummond, fifth Laird of Concraig,
commonly called " Old Maurice," to distinguish him
from his son and grandson, who were both called
Maurice. "Margaret Mercer, daughter of the Laird
of Innerpeffry"— a mistake for Inchbreakie — " married
Maurice Drummond of Concraig, Stewart of Strathern,"
says a MS. in the Advocates' Library, " and heired his
estate, albeit she was bot his second wife." Concraig's
first wife was Marion Douglas, cousin to the Earl of
Angus: and in the year 1447 she witnessed a Disposition
made by her husband to John Drummond, second
Laird of Colquhalzie. It would appear that Margaret
Mercer's marriage took place in 1448; for a Crown
Charter was granted by James II., at Methven, on 18th
November, 1448, to Maurice Drummond of Concraig
and his wife, Margaret Mercer, for the lands of
Dalchilray, Glassinmurde, Achagarach, and Irelach, in
Strathern: to which Charter Sir David Murray of
Tullibardine was one of the witnesses. About 1452,
Concraig resigned the two merk land of Cultiwhaldich,
three-fourths of Mewie, Donira, Straith, Blaredarg, Dal-
whirra, and Sherrimare, reserving his own liferent, and a
reasonable terce to his wife, Margaret Mercer. Again,
on 20th April, 1455, Concraig, with consent of John,
his son and heir, and Andrew Mercer of Inchbreakie,
" amico meo carissimo," granted to John Drummond of
Colqwholly, a Charter of Wadset of the lands of
Dalcherach and Serimer, in the Earldom of Strathearn,
and County of Perth. Of even date therewith, at
* Chamberlain Rolls, vol. 3, pp. 408, 428.