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112 THE FRASERS OF COWIE, DURRIS, AND PHILOETH.
was in high favour with David n. ; and the king, who evidently remembered
the Earl's crime and its consequences, not only countenanced their union,
but took measures to prevent him from punishing his daughter's disobedience,
and for that purpose compelled him to resign his whole earldom and posses-
sions for reinfeftment.
Upon his resignation at Perth on the 23d of October 1370, the King
granted a charter of the whole earldom of Eoss, the lordship of Skye, and
all the other lordships, lands, and pertinents within the kingdom that had
belonged to the Earl before his resignation, with the exception of those within
the sheriffdoms of Aberdeen, Dumfries, and Wigtown, first, to the Earl himself
and the heirs-male of his body ; whom failing, secondly, to Sir "Walter de
Leslie and Euphemia, his wife, or the survivor of them, and to the heirs of
the body of Euphemia, with the proviso that if heirs-male should fail,
then the eldest daughter, whether of Euphemia or her heirs, should take
the whole earldom, lordships, lands, etc., granted by the charter, without
division or partition in any way ; and shoidd the issue of Euphemia fail,
then, thirdly, to Johanna, younger daughter of the Earl, and her heirs, with a
similar proviso as to the succession of the eldest daughter, failing heirs-male. 1
A " querimonia," or petition, is extant from the Earl of Eoss to Kobert II.,
complaining that his lands and those of his brother, Hugh de Eoss, in
Buchan, had been taken from them by David II. without their having been
cited, tried, and convicted of any offence, and that these lands had been
bestowed by that king upon Sir Walter de Leslie. The querimonia, after
detailing these and other grievances, affording a glimpse at the rough
proceedings of the age, goes on to declare that the Earl only ratified this gift
of his own, and his brother's, lands to Sir Walter under compulsion, and in
fear of the anger of King David if he had refused to do so. He also
complains that Sir Walter had married his daughter Euphemia against his
will, and says that up to the death of the late king he had not made any
concession of lands or goods to her, nor any agreement with her, except such
as he was compelled to enter into by David II. 2
1 Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. i. * Philortk Charter- room. Antiquities of
p. *177. Antiquities of Aberdeen, vol. ii. Aberdeen, vol. ii. p. 3S7.
l>. 3S6.