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72 THE FRASERS OF TOUCH-FRASER, ETC., AND COW.IE.
the opposition and enmity of those whom he must have dispossessed in
doing so.
As required by the duties of his office of Chamberlain, Sir Alexander
Eraser's attendance upon the King was very constant; his name is found as a
witness to numerous royal charters, and he seems to have accompanied him
in most of his expeditions or changes of residence. In 1323 a peace was
concluded with Edward n., and he was one of the barons of Scotland that
swore to the observance of it. 1
Lady Mary de Bruce did not survive the year 1323 (although the date of
her death is unknown), for at Kinross, on the 2 2d of September in that year,
the King gave a charter of confirmation of six acres of land in the royal
tenement of Auchincarnie, near the royal manor of Kincardine, together with
a right of pasturage in the thanage of Kincardine, to his beloved and faithful
Sir Alexander Eraser, to be held by him and his heirs legitimately procreated
between him and the late Mary de Bruce, the King's sister. 2
He had also obtained the barony of Cluny, in Aberdeenshire ; but no
charter or notice of a charter granting it to him is extant, except that of the
18th of June 1325, by which he received from the King the lands of
Cardenye, with the fishings of the loch of Skene, in augmentation of his
barony of Cluny. 3
He also obtained the barony of Kinnarde, probably by purchase, as it was
granted to him on the resignation of Thomas de Kinnarde ; and he had a
charter of "an annual furthe of Pendreche," in Stirlingshire, but to what
amount is not said. 4
Sir Alexander Eraser appears to have held the office of Chamberlain of
Scotland for seven years, from 1319 to about 1326. Crauford, "Lives of
Officers of State," pp. 275-6, says that he did not become Chamberlain until
1325, and retained that office until the close of the reign of Eobert i. in 1329,
and also that he succeeded Eobert de Peebles in it. But Sir Alexander's tenure
of the Chamberlainship, and the fact of Eobert de Peebles having succeeded
1 Rynier's Fcedera, vol. iii. p. 1025. 3 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iii. pp.
a Robertson's Index, p. 17, No. 51. Had- 116, 117. Robertson's Index, p. 16, No. 24.
dington Collections, in Advocates' Library, 4 Ibid. p. 17. No. 45 ; p. 23, No. 7.
vol. ii. p. 53, last division.