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 Mal-
colme Beg, and Gilbert Drummond. We have nothing material
recorded of this Sir Malcolm the father; hot of his fecond fone
Gilbert it feems one Bryce Drummond was defcended, whome the
Monteiths bafely killed about the year 1330, when the quarrell begun e
betwixt them and the Drummonds ; as mall 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
Drummond, nor whom they married ; yet there is fufficient ground to
beleive 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 (whereof 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 ftial be more particularly mentioned in its proper
place), wherein the Nobles who interpofed, and did ftipulat as fureties
that both fydes mould ftand to the arbitrators determination, are faid
to be in the fame degree of kindred to both the differing parties ; and
thofe noble mediators 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, Insuper Robertus Dominus Senescallus
Scotice Comes de Strathern, tanquam principalis parentel& utriusque
partis, §c. : fo that from hence it appeares, that the Drummonds have
been long before that time nearly related not only to the ancient