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SIR WILLIAM FRASER’S PAPERS
and thrette sex zeiris conteins proportis and beris vitnes
betuix honorabill men yat is to say georg striveling of
glorat1 on ye ta and Jhone drumond ye kingis graice
maister vryt2 on ye toyer pt in man forme and effect as eft
followis yat is to say ye said georg striveling hes Rasauit
fra ye forsaid Johne Drumond four gret gunis furnist vy*
stok quheill viss and veggis, sex faweunis vyt stok and
quheill furnist, thrette thre hagbuttis of found four
culuerynis of irne sewin barrall of powd and half ane
barrall of hagbut powdir aucht hundrith bullattis and
fourty and ane centem of hagbut bullattis ane dusan of
chargeouris and ramis for ye gret gunis And for ye
fawcunis sex irne crawis ane lang tow two short towis fyve
pair of heich quhelis schod for ye fawcunis vy1 fyve lang
extreis ane sleg of irne twelf lyn pynis of irne twelf fyrbawis
And all ye gunis fornemit all furneist vy1 irne verk and
I the said georg Striveling has deliuit to ye said Johne
drumond ane brasin gu of found cotenand x fut of lencht
vykmt ony graith And ay of ye saids parteis hes sub-
scrivit yis pnt vrit day zeir and plaice aboue vrittin Befor
y vitnes Maist James Striveling psoun of Kilmoden Johne
Smollet Johne Palmer Allan Grahame vy* vy drvs.
George Stlyng of Glorat.
1 William Stirling of Glorat, Captain of Dumbarton Castle, was murdered
Iry Humphrey Galbraith on Good Friday 1534. His son George, who succeeded
him in Glorat, succeeded him also as Captain of Dumbarton Castle conform
to ratification by James v. dated 13th April 1534 (The Stirlings of Keir,
P- 352)-
2 ‘John Drummond, second sone to James Drummond of Auchterarder, the
first of the House of Balloch, was something like Master of Work or Artillerie
to King James [the] fourth, and for his service done to that King and to his
sone King James the Fyfth he got a charter of the third part of the lands of
Balnacreefe in East Lothiane near to Haddingtonne and within the constabaline
thereof; and of the lands and miln of Milnab with the lands of Galdermore
in Strathern wherein he is designed Machinarum bellicarum ejaculaior et
carpentarius noster dated anno 1521. He wrought for King James the Fyfth
the fine timber work in the Castle of Stirline and set the roof upon the Castle
of Drummond 1493 for which he got a tack of some lands from John Lord
Drummond ’ (Lord Strathallan’s Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinr.,
.1831), p. 62).