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ABSTRACT OF CHARTERS IN APPENDIX. 313
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Meldrum, knights, and had written a letter to each of them, entreating
them to be his attorneys to ask from the king his lands under pledge,
with a letter to the king and another to Eufamia, the complainant's
sister, on the same subject; that he intrusted these to Sir John de
Gamery, canon of Caithness, his clerk, who was waylaid on his journey
by John de Aberkyerdor, calling himself the esquire of the said Sir
Walter de Lesley, who arrested him, abused his servant because he
would not tie his master to the tail of his horse, despoiled him of the
letters, and took him into woods and waste places, compelling him to
deliver up the box containing the letters to the said Sir Walter, and
pay a ransom; that the Earl went as far as Aberdeen to the king's pre-
sence, where he found he could not get his lands to pledge unless he gave
up to John de Logy his right to the Platan of Forfar, etc. ; that on the
king coming to Inverness, the Earl and his brother Hugh, seeing Sir
Walter very powerful at Court, were compelled, for avoiding greater
perils, to ratify the king's grants to the said Sir Walter, Hugh being
then in hiding in woods and inaccessible places ; that it was of truth
that his daughter was married to Sir Walter de Lesley against his will,
and that no grants were made by the Earl to him, save owing to
King David's rigour and in fear of his indignation. Dated at Edin-
burgh, 24th June 1371, 208
13. Transumpt, made 18th April 1455, at the instance of Alexander Fraser
of Philorth, of a charter by Walter de Leslie, knight, lord of Eoss,
to his brother and sister, Sir Alexander Fraser, knight, and Johanna
his spouse, and the lawful heirs of their bodies, of the lands of
Philorth, namely, the lands of Kirktoun, Cairnbulg, and others therein
specified : To be held as compensation for the said lands of Eoss, of
the king, as freely as the said Walter and Euphemia his spouse held
them. Dated at Aberdeen, 4th June 1375, 209
14. Transumpt, made 6th March 1480, by David Meldrum, official principal
of St. Andrews, at the instance of Alexander Fresell, eldest son and
apparent heir of Alexander Fresel of Philorth, — of a transumpt,
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