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1632.] CHARTERS NOT PRINTED. 443
engages to defend the Captain, his workmen and their families, from all wrong, hos-
tility, and invasion ; and to cause and move his tenants to serve the work for wages,
etc. And if an}' ironstone or minerals shall be found during the said time within his
lauds, Sir John binds himself to join in copartnership with Captain Mason, and to
furnish half of the charges for erecting ironworks, etc. For which causes Captain
John Mason binds himself, his heirs, executors, and assignees, to pay to Sir John,
his heirs and assignees, within the dwelling-house of Colonel Harie Bruce, in the
burgh of Cauogait, .£20,000 Scots, 20,000 merks to be paid before Whitsunday next
1631, under penalty of 1000 merks; and the other 10,000 merks before Whitsunday
1630 [sic], under a penalty of 500 merks: Under this reservation, that the said
Captain John Masone shall grant and hereb}' grants to Sir John and his tenants of
his lands of Abernethie, Cromdell, Innerewey, and Glencarne, to cut and transjjort
as much wood as they required for their own uses, etc. Dated at Freuquhie, 28th
August 1630. Witnesses, Patrick Earl of Tullibardine, Lord Murray and Cask,
Robert Murray his brother, Colonel Harie Bruce, Robert Grant of Clachaig, Walter
Innes apparent of Balvenie, and George Sterling brother to William Sterling of
Ardraich. The contract is registered in the Books of Council 6th June 1631.
354. Extract from the Books of Acts of Adjournal, of a decreet by the Court of Justiciar}',
held in the Tolbooth of the Burgh of Edinburgh, on the 4th of August 1632, by
Mr. Alexander Colvill of Blair and James Robertoune, advocate, justice-deputes of
William Earl of Stratherne and Monteith, etc., Justice-General of the King,
pronounced in the action and cause criminal pursued at the instance of John Grant of
Ballindollache, for himself, and as procurator for Archibald Grant of Dalvey, Patrick
Grant as brother to the deceased Thomas Grant in Dalvey, and as master to the late
Lachlan MTntosche, brother to James M c Intosche in Fones, also as procurator for
Alexander Tailzeour in Lyndarchie, William Glacien in Preisthill. and other pursuers
named in letters raised and executed against Allaster Grant in Waster Tulloche, as
also at the instance of Sir Thomas Hoip of Craighall, knight -baronet, his Majesty's
advocate for His Highness' interest, against the said Allaster Grant, bearing that the
said Allaster Grant, in the month of November 1628, accompanied by James Grant,
brother of the deceased John Grant of Carroun, and their complices, lawless and
broken men, came to the ground and lands of Leachvichgoun and Innerernan,
pertaining to the said John Grant of Ballindollache, and possessed by him and his
tenants, and stole and took away from the said lands, kine, oxen, horses, mares, ewes
and other plenishing, as narrated in the said criminal letters : And in like manner the
said Allaster Grant, with his complices, on the 23d April 1630, came to the lands of
Ballindalloche of purpose to have harried and " spuilzeit " the same, and there most