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CADETS OF FAMILY OF COWIE,
DURRIS, AND PHILORTH.
THE FRASERS OF FORGLEN AND
ARDENDRACHT.
SIR JOHN FKASEK, 1373-1390. MAEJOEY,
DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN OF MONYMUSK.
f\N the 18th of June 1373, Eobert n. granted a charter of the lands of
Wester Essintuly to John Fraser, son of the late Sir AVilliam Fraser, to
he held of the Crown for payment of a silver penny annually, if demanded,
at the castle of Mount Durris, in the same manner as they had been held by
John of Dalgarnok, who had resigned them into the King's hands. 1
On the 19th of May 1376, Sir Alexander Fraser, Lord of the barony of
Cowie, granted to his brother, John Fraser, the lands of Auchinschogill,
Loncardy, Plady, Delgady, etc., in the valley of the Deveron, to be held of
him and his heirs, for payment of a pair of gilt spurs on each Feast of
Pentecost, at the manor-place of Philorth; 2 and on the 31st of July 1385, the
same Sir Alexander gave him a letter of obligation, to the effect that if by
any lawful proceeding, at the instance of any of Sir Alexander's heirs, he
should be deprived of and ejected from those estates, he should have the
whole barony of Durris in lieu of them. 8
This obligation was probably given in consequence of some doubt having
arisen as to whether it was in Sir Alexander's power to dispose of these lands,
1 Reg. Mag. Sig., Roll n. No. 17. Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iii. p. 355.
2 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. i. p. 470. 3 Charter-room, Philorth.