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THE FRASERS LORDS LOVAT. 171
to the Bishop a certain sum for arrears upon his own account, and undertook
to use all diligence to recover what was due to the Bishop for the portion of
Kyntallergy, and Esse, etc., held by William de Fentoun. 1
In 1377 Hugh Fraser, dominus de Lowet, resigned the lands of Fayrele-
hope, in the barony of Linton and sheriffdom of Peebles, into the hands of
James de Douglas, Lord of Dalkeith and Linton, of whom he held them, who
granted them to Adam Forster, to be held by him for homage and service, as
Hugh Fraser had held them before his resignation. 2
At the coronation of Bobert n. in 1371, the name of Hugh Fraser appears
among those of the barons that had not then attained to the rank of knight,
who did homage and swore fealty. 3
Hugh Fraser, dominus de Kinnell, in 1390, at Inverness, gave a charter
of lands in the barony of Kinnell to Walter Tulloch, and he also granted
another, without date, but probably about that period, to William de Camera,
dominus de Auchnawys, in the same barony, which is situated in Forfarshire. 4
In 1394 Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Moray, made an agreement with Alex-
ander, Lord of the Isles, respecting the lands of the earldom within the
district of Inverness, from which the estates of Hugh Fraser, Thomas de
Cheshelme, and William de Fodryngham were excepted, as being subject to
an arrangement between those barons themselves. 5
In his History of the Family of Fraser, page 51, Mr. Anderson, quoting
MSS. in the Advocates' Library, says — " Hugh Fraser of Lovat died at Lovat
1397, and was interred at Beauly with great pomp," and, on the same
authority, he states that his son Alexander was served heir to him in 1398.
But he appears to have fallen into some confusion on this point, for at page
49 he had previously quoted the charter of 1407, which will immediately
be noticed, and as the Hugh Fraser of that date was certainly succeeded
by an Alexander, it is beyond doubt that the authors of the mss. were
mistaken as to the date of his death, and that it was the first Hugh Fraser,
dominus de Lowet et de Kinnell, who, in 1407, gave a charter of the lands
of Easter Breky, in the barony of Kinnell, to his cousin Peter de Stryveline
1 Reg. Episc. Morav., No. 166. 4 History of the Caraegies, Earls of South-
2 Reg. Hon. de Morton, vol. ii. No. 157. esk, by William Fraser, pp. 497, 498.
3 Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland,
vol. i. p. 181. 5 Reg. Episc. Morav., No. 272.