Genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond

134 THE GENEALOGIE OF
and inviolable peace ; which they concluded, to ftand betwixt the tuo
realmes for the fpace of three yeares, to begin September 9th 1484
and continow to September 1487.
I find, in the year 1474, before John was made Lord, ane indenter
betwixt him and Coline Earle of Argyle, wherein John oblidges him-
felfe, that his eldeft fone Malcolm, Mafter of Drummond, fliall marry
Lady Iflbbella Campbel, the Earles daughtei*, both then under age ;
and in cafe of failzie, by death or other chance, the next fone and
next daughter to be fubftitute for makeing up the marriage, for which
end John provydes for maintinance to his fone, the ten merk lands of
Fenwick, twenty merk lands of Cafhlie with the miln, lyand in the
earledome of Lennox and fhire of Sterlyne : Witnefies, Andrew Stuart
Lord Evendale Chancellor of Scotland, William of Drummond, Robert
of Drummond, &c. This Malcolm, Mafter of Drummond, dyed before
the fulfilling of this contract, and his brother William came in his
1474. place, for the contract is dated 1474 ; and in a charter granted by John
Lord Drummond, a year before he was made Lord, 1486, to Walter
Drummond of Ledcreefe, his uncle, one of the witnefies, ftands thus :
testibus Willielmo Drummond, jilio meo et haerede apparente.
John Lord Drummond, was made Juftice General of Scotland, but
fo deeply ingadged in friendfhip with the familie of Douglas, with
whom he joyned on a ftrict allyance, by giveing one of his daughters
in marriage to George Douglas, fone and air to Archbald Earle of
Angus, fyrnamed, ' Bel the Cat ; ' that he run many hazards upon
1482. theire accompt ; for in the year 1482 he affifted them to purge the
court at Lauder of fome unworthie obfcure plebeian perfones, who
had abufed and mhgoverned King James the Third ; whereof Robert
Cochran, from being a mafon and furveyor of the King's buildings,
wes made Earle of Mar, William Rogers of a mufician, made a knight,
1488. and James Homyl were principal; and, again, in the year 1488 he
was, by the Earle of Angus, ingadged, amongft the confederat lords,