Frasers of Philorth > Volume 1

140 THE FEASERS OF COWIE, DURRIS, AND PHILORTH.
Lord of the Isles, and arraigned this omission in the Court of the barony,
which adjudged the lands to have lapsed into his hands in consequence of it;
but upon the payment of a sum of money (probably the fines due for the
entries, with a penalty), he regranted them to William Fraser in the year
1495. 1
Although too young to have been personally engaged in the skirmish at
the Bridge of Balgounie, it fell to him, in company with John Fraser, James
Fraser of Memsie, who seem to have been his uncles, James Fraser the bailie,
William Fraser of the Kirktoun, and others of his kinsmen, to acknowledge
the receipt of 100 merks from Alexander Irvine of Drum, "for the assithe-
ment . . . ancle parte off . . . recompensation callit kynbutt, for the offences and
violence committit ande done be the said Alexander Iruyn and his complices,
one umquhile Schire Alexander Frasar of Philortht, knicht, and Alexander
Frasar, his sone ande air, fader to me the said William, till us and utheris,
our kyne and frendis, at the Brig of Polgony, of the quhilkis ane hundretht
merkis in pairt of payment of the said offence we hald us weil content, etc. ;"' 2
and although there is no notice of any other payment, from the tenor of
the receipt it would seem that the Laird of Drum had to make further atone-
ment for Ms outrage, possibly in the way of masses for the souls of those
killed by him or his associates.
William Fraser was served heir to his brother Alexander in the barony
of Philorth, by the verdict of an inquest held at Aberdeen on the 10th of
December 1501, 3 which also declared Alexander to have then been dead
about a year and a half ; and he married Elizabeth de Keith, daughter of
Sir Gilbert de Keith of Inverugie, 4 in or before 1494, as their son will be
seen to have attained majority in 1516.
In 1502, and the following years, various transactions took place between
Sir William Fraser, who had received knighthood before that date, and Sir
Gilbert, son and heir of Sir William de Hay of Ardendracht, respecting the
lands of Auchinshogill, Plady, Delgattie, etc., the estates given in 1376 by
Sir Alexander Fraser, first of Philorth, to his brother, Sir John Fraser, which,
1 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iii. p. 3 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv. p.
529. 94.
- Ibid. p. 304. * Ibid. vol. ii. p. 404.