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174 HIGHLAND PAPERS
XXIX. Obligation by Duncan Cambell Lorde of
Lochaw to Sir John Skrymgiour, Lord of Glasry,
upon not fulfilling of an appoyntment and conditions
anent changing lands, July 10, 1432. 1
Be it kende to all men be thir present letteris me Duncan
Cambell Lorde of Lochaw to have hecht and be thir letters
truly to be oblist to a noble man Sir John Skrymgiour
knycht Lord of Glasry that because at the appoyntment
and conditions made betwix me and the saide Sir John
anent the changing of my lands of Menstry to him and
his lands of Glasry to me as wes contenyt be our lettres
and selis thairupon made, may nocht be fulfillit and kepit
as was accordit, 2 I the said Duncan resignis et [sic] giffis
up purly and symply all rycht and clame of rycht sesing
and possession that I have tane of the saide lands of
Glastry to the said Sir John his ayres and his assigneis
but exception or clame to be made thro me myne ayris
or myne assigneis in ony maner of wyse in tyme to cum for
ony cause bigane to the day of the making of thir letters.
Item I oblyse me that all wryte and evident that I had or
has of the said Sir John langande the saide changing I sal
gif up and deliver to the saide John but fraude or gyle.
Item I oblise me that I shall mak the saide lands of Glasry
fre of all unlawis of Justice ayr et [sic] Seraf Courte at
the saide lands ar fallin in, fra the tyme thai come in my
hands to the day of the makyng of thir presents all fraude
and gile away put and removit. In the wytnes of the
quhilk thing to thir letters I have gart hung my sele at
Perth the tende day of July the zer of our Lorde a thousande
four hundreth and thretty and twa zer before thir
witness Gillaspy Cambel of Ergile 3 John Stewart of Lorn
Colyne Cambel Dugall Cambell Alexr the Grame Sir John
of Atheray and mony others.
1 Printed from Macfarlane transcript in Adv. Bib.
2 Vide ante, p. 169, note 3.
3 The designation is noteworthy. Sir Duncan had in 1423 been designed
Duncanus Dominus de Argill and Dunkan Cambel de Argyle (Foedera, 3rd ed.,
iv. 4. 101-2). But it was not till 1457 that his grandson Colin was created Earl
of Argyll.