Historical account of the family of Frisel or Fraser, particularly Fraser of Lovat

FAMILY OF FHASER. 183
1. Marion, married to Mr James Craig, advocate, Professor of Civi]
Law in the College of Edinburgh. Contract of marriage, dated 26th
, , , . ^ Records of
March 1715. " strictei.
JAMES ERASER, of Strichen, was servedheir-in-general to his father, 6th Stricken.
Alexander, ^ as the eldest son of his marriage with Lady Emilia Stewart, ' ^J'Jx^f'- ^\-
on the l6th April 1702. He died without issue, and was succeeded by
bis brother,
ALEXANDER, as appears by the record of his service, as heir-in- 7th Strichen.
general to his brother James, 14th August, 1725. ' He embraced the ^ix." fofij^.''''
profession of the law, and was admitted a Lord of Session, June 5,
1730, and appomted a Lord of Justiciary, 1736. He held likewise the
honourable office of General of the Scottish mint. ^ ditionfof Edi J/""
His Lordship was infeft in the barony of Strichen, 4th May 1732, on ^^|^' ^°- '• P'
Crown charter, dated 12th February 1732; and, upon ihe 5th February " Sasine in Re-
•' ^ •' cords at Strichen.
1759, he executed a disposition' of the same lands and others in favour ' Extract at
Strichen.
of himself, in liferent, and Alexander Fraser, " his only son, by the now
deceased Ann, Countess of Bute, his spouse, in fee." To this lady Lord
Stilchen was married in 1731. Her first husband was grand-son to the
celebrated Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, and, after an obstinate
litigation, succeeded to his estates. A range of houses in the High Street
of Edinburgh, of old denominated " Rosehaugh Close," were called
after Lord Strichen, on his Lordship's occupying one of the houses, and
they still retain his name. " didonstrEdin^'"
The Countess of Bute appears to have been a woman of most amiable
character. She exhibits a great deal of esprit in a lively correspondence
with the Honourable Mrs Macneil of Ugadale, her intimate friend and
relation. As any specimens of the epistolary intercourse of the haut ton
of Scottish society, in the early part of last century, cannot but be in-
teresting, the Countess's letters are here inserted, care having been
takfen to preserve the original orthography.