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tallie (Additional Case of Elisabeth . . . Countess of Sutherland
[Edinburgh, c. 1770], 139). Even if a charter had existed, it is doubtful if
it would have changed the situation. Alexander Sutherland was not the
only aggrieved claimant to find that there was not, in the last resort, an
unquestioned male right of succession; the cases of Denoon of Pitnellie
(see 14) and MacCulloch of Tarrel (see 52) are instructive.
83 2° Maii obiit Thomas Heriot thesaurarius Rossensis anno 1518.
1521
84 Obitus Andree Forman legati 1520 xj Martii.
Archbishop of St Andrews and legatus a latere: Watt, Fasti, 296-7.
1522
85 Obitus quondam egregii viri Dauidis Dunbar de Durris in Granyhill
23 mensis Februarii anno 1521.
Son of 75; brother of 91, 98; father of 92, 97.
86 Obitus Elizabethe Tulloch uxoris Jacobi Urquhat burgensis de
Fores 1522 [at 20 May].
87 Obitus honorabilis viri Alexandri Wrquhat de Buris Zardis 15
Aprilis 1523.
I Father of William (109), retoured heir, 31 July 1522 (NLS D. 175/184/2/
14). The Calendar year may be incorrect. Alexander Urquhart was
sheriff-depute of Elgin and Forres before 1505 (RMS, ii, 2621, 2865,
2887). For family of Burdsyards see Tayler, Urquhart, 224-41.
88 10 Julii obiit Robertus Fraser decanus Rossensis anno 1523.
Watt, Fasti, 234. As executor of Bishop John Fraser, he had the
temporality of the bishopric for one year, 1 May 1507 (RSS, i, 1469).