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gotten of them and all that comes of them, and this Bond
perpetually to endure for evermore, & to the Security of this
either of the Pairties has made till other their great bodily
aithes, the haly Evengell tuched, and whosoever brakes in
any of thir Conditions shall be hauldin unfamous, mensworn
& to renounce their Faith of Christ, and never to be heared
in Proof na Witness na Ly in Kirk nor Christin Burial.

In Witnes hereof the said Pairties to their Indentures inter-
changeablie had affixed their Seales for the langer livand of
either Pairties.

DUNCANUS accepit confirmationem Juris Senasculatûs Balli-
vatus Dominii de Lochaber et terrarum quas in illa regione
possidebat a Jacobo 3 Rege Annis 1475 et 1476.

POST hæc, præsidio, quod Johannes, Comes Rossiæ, in arce
Invernessensi posuit, semoto, prædictus Crightonius, arcis
possessionem sibi resumpsit. Sed, quia hoc sine Regis man-
dato egit, Ferquhardus Makintosh, præfati Duncani filius,
arcem machinamento quodam (quod Sus vocatur) suffodit, et,
magnâ parietis parte diruta, Crightonium aufugere cogit Anno
1491.

ET tunc Duncanus arcem reparavit, et tenuit usque ad
Annum 1495, in quo Comes Huntleus, eandem cum officio vice
Comitatus de Invernes a Rege accepit, et, Anno sequenti,
Duncanus Annum agens 86 Invernessæ vitam morte commu-
tavit, ubi cum antecessoribus in humatus est. Lauchlanus

Duncan received from King James the Third, in the years 1475
and 1476, confirmation of the right of stewartry of the bailiery of
the lordship of Lochaber, and of the lands which he possessed in
that country.

After these things, the guard which John, Earl of Ross, had placed
in the castle of Inverness, having been removed, the aforesaid
Crichton resumed to himself possession of the castle. But because
he did this without the king's mandate, Ferquhard Mackintosh,
son of the aforesaid Duncan, undermined the castle by a certain
machine (which is called a sow), and a great part of the wall
having been thrown down, he forced Crichton to take flight, in
the year 1491.

And then Duncan repaired the castle, and held it till the year
1495, when the Earl of Huntly received it from the king, along
with the office of Sheriff of Inverness. In the following year
Duncan died at Inverness in his eighty-sixth year, and was buried
there with his forefathers. Lauchlan, brother of Duncan, lived