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THE ERASERS OF COWIE, DURRIS, AND PHILORTH. 145
our seruandis, and all that we may latt in tyme cumming, bot fraude or gyle
bot as law will, under the pane of fuve thousand pundis, to be paide be me
to the kingis grace, and his successouris, in case I, my saidis sonnis, or our
seruandis, or any that we ma latt happen to brek the said lawborowiss in
tyme to cum," etc. etc. 1
It may have been in the course of this feud, or in some affray consequent
upon it, that the Laird of Philorth killed David Scott ; but no information
is to be found on the subject of this affair, except the record of his having
appeared on the 8th July before the itinerant court of justice then sitting at
Aberdeen, and proffered a payment of ten pounds to the nearest relations and
friends in satisfaction of that homicide, besides providing masses and other
divine suffrages for the repose of the slain man's soul during a whole year,
and engaging to undertake such pilgrimage or other penance as the Lords of
the Council might impose upon him. 2
He was ordered to perform a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. John of
Amess, — Amiens, — in France ; and as one of the preparations for an absence
that was likely to be of some duration, he made his Will and Testament, which
affords some idea of the personalty of a landed gentleman in those days.
" Testamentum Alexandei Frasek de Philorth.
Inuentarium omnium bonorum honorabilis viri, Alexandri Eraser de
Philorth, factum apud Aberdein . . . tempore sue itinerationis apud Galliam.
Imprimis fatetur se habere in Pittouly viii xx oves matrices, et ii veruices.
Item, in agnis, v xx xiiij.
Item, in Tarwathie, etatis unius, duorum, et trium annorum, xx xx xviij
oves.
Item, in agnis in Tarwathie, viii xx ix.
Item, in Cairnbulg, xii xx oves matrices, ij veruices.
Item, in Pettowly, xxviij boves.
Item, viij vaccas, cum vitulis.
Item, vi buculos, iiij illorum quinque annorum, ij quatuor annorum.
1 Council Register of Aberdeen, vol. i. pp. 2 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv.
131-9. p. 96.
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