History of the Frasers of Lovat

V. HUGH, FIRST LORD FRASER. 51
the vouchers tendered by Lord Lovat in proof of his
creation and precedency as a Lord of Parliament we find
this entry — " Lovat. Compeirit not Lord Lovat. Ex
Registro. Ane indentour maid in Englich, 3 Martij, 1426
[should be 14 16] betwixt two noble and myghtie lords,
Villiame Fenton, Lord of that ilk, on the ane pairt, and
Hew Fraser, Lord Lovat, on the other pairt, anent the
marriage of the said Lord Lovat with Janet Fenton, sister
of the said Villiame Lord Fenton ; quilk indentour is con-
firmit be the king, 16th September, anno 1430, in Libro
Regist. Chartarum." This, however, does not prove that
he was a Lord of Parliament.
In 1422 the following curious contract of marriage was
entered into between Hugh and the Earl of Moray on
behalf of unborn children : —
"At Elgin, the ninth day of the month of August, the year of
our Lord a thousand four hundred and twenty-two years, between a
noble lord and a mighty Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Moray, on the
one part, and a nobleman Hugh Fraser, Lord of Lovat, on the other
part, it is 'traitit, concordit, and impointit' in form and manner as
after follows, that is to say, that the said Lord Lovat is obliged and
by this letter obliges himself that his son and his heir will marry and
take to wife a daughter of the said Lord the Earl gotten or to be
gotten on Isobell of Innes ; and the daughter gotten between the
said Lord the Earl and Isobell of Innes, failing, as God forbid they
do, the said Lord of Lovat is obliged that his said son and his heir
shall marry and take to wife a daughter of the said Lord the Earl,
to be gotten between him and his spoused wife ; and this heir, the
son of the said Lord Lovat failing, as God forbid he do, but if he
leave a daughter heir or daughters heiresses, the said Lord Lovat, is
obliged, as before, to give that daughter his heir or his daughters
heiresses, to the said Lord the Earl's son, or son to be gotten between
him and his spoused wife ; and these heirs, male or female, sons or
daughters, of the said Lord Lovat, failing, as God forbid they do,
the said Lord Lovat is obliged and by these letters obliges himself,
that his heirs, whatsoever they be, shall hold and fulfil the treaty,
concordance, and impointment, now as before-written, to the said
Lord, the Earl of Moray ; for the which marriage, leally and truly
to be kept in form and manners as is before written, to the said
Lord the Earl, without fraud or guile, the said Lord the Earl has
given and granted to the said Lord Lovat, and to his heirs, the
barony of Abertarff, in blench farm, after the tenor of his charter