History of the Frasers of Lovat

522 HISTORY OF THE FRASERS.
through the Lovat territories, Montrose killing many of the
country people, pillaging and burning their houses and all
they possessed. On this occasion Sir James entertained
Middleton at Lovat, and afterwards conducted him across
the Ferry of Beauly, through the Black Isle, to the Chan-
onry of Ross, which at once surrendered to them. For
fuller details of his life, see pp. 169-184. He sold, while
in authority at the head of the clan, several of the Lovat
lands, including the baronies of Kinmylies and Kingillie,
the lands of Belladrum and Buntait. There are assigna-
tions and minutes signed between him and Sir Thomas
Urquhart of Cromarty in 1637, 1638, and 1639.
In the Valuation Roll for the counties of Inverness and
Ross in 1644 Sir James Fraser of Brea is returned for lands
in the parish of Inverness to the value of £133 6s 8d ; in
Kiltarlity .£190; in Kilmorack .£375; and in Cullicudden,
county of Ross, £1573 6s 8d — a total of £22"] 1 13s 4d,
all Scots money.
Sir James married Beatrix, daughter of Wemyss of
Fairkley, in Fife. In 1647 Dame Beatrix Wemyss, Lady
Brea, discharges Alexander Fraser, servitor to the Tutor
of Strichen, of the custom wedders of Moniack. By this
lady he had issue —
1. James, his heir and successor.
2. David of Mayne. This David appears to have had a
son — Simon. Of this latter the notorious Simon of Lovat
writes in 1699 that as soon as King William had signed
" this unlimited pardon " to himself, " Lord Lovat dispatched
his cousin, Simon, son of David Fraser of Brea, express,
in order to cause the Great Seal of Scotland to be affixed
to it. But whether this cousin, who is an unnatural traitor,
and a rascal worthy of the gallows, had at that time sold his
chief for the money of Lord Atholl, as he repeatedly did
afterwards, or the timidity of Lord Seafield induced him to
stop this pardon in its passage through the remaining forms,
this much is certain, that the pardon executed in Holland
was suppressed."* It has been already seen that the pardon
* Memoirs of his Life, by himself, p. 105.