| He was served heir of his father in the barony of Tullibardine 6 October 1461, and in ward 1463, had sasine of the barony of Tullibardine 10 May 1465. In 1490 occurred an outrage by the Drummonds, who caused the death of a number of Murrays, by setting fire to the church of Monivaird, where they had taken refuge. The chief offenders were brought to trial in October 1490, and on 9 January 1491 Lord Drummond entered into a bond with Tullibardine to make reparation for the misdeeds of his second son, then an outlaw, for the destruction of Monivaird church, and the slaughter of the King's subjects. Ten years later the whole matter was brought to an amicable conclusion between the two families. Sir William was granted by royal letters the offices of Steward, Forester, and Coroner within the earldom of Strathearn and lordship of Balquhidder, 18 January 1482-83. He sat frequently in Parliament, and was one of the commissioners for a treaty with the English, and with other ambassadors had a safe-conduct for six months into England, 22 May 1495, and in 1507 was exonerated from attending courts or the King's host on account of his age. He had a charter of Trewin, and the loch and isle of Dry Isle, etc., 17 April 1506, and a new charter, 2 March 1511-12, of the Bordland of Glencoy in the barony of Tullibardine, which had been apprised for £100, a sum adjudged against him for the non-entry therein of one called Mackintire, which sum at the instance of the Earl of Argyll was remitted, and the said land re-incorporated in the barony of Tullibardine. His arms were the same as those borne by Sir David Murray in 1442, with the addition of a double tressure.7 |