Notes on the surnames of Francus, Franceis, French, etc. in Scotland

74 ROBERT FRENCH,
Children of the Seventh Laird.
First, Adam French, his heir who succeeded.
Second, Henry French, who evidently went to the
north of Scotland very early in life; for he is found
at Orkney on the 28th of October in the year 1544,
and then among the many witnesses to a charter of
Bishop Robert Reid to the cathedral church of Ork-
ney, where it was dated.
Bishop Robert Reid was evidently referred to in
the will of Henry French as " my lord of Orkney,"
from whom he "gat ane coit of Franche blak," which
" he left to the abbot of Kinlos " * (who was at that
time Walter Reid, a nephew of Bishop Reid), " and
desirit his lordship to deliver the same to the Laird
of Thornydykis, with ane velvet cap."
The name of Henry French again appears as a
witness to the following charters, namely: —
Linlithgow on the 7th of October, 1535, and confirmed by the
king at Striveling on the 8th of May, 1536.
James Frank. At Edinburgh, the 4th of September, 1546,
Queen Mary, with consent of James, Earl of Aranie, and Lord
of Hammiltoun, her tutor and gubernator, grants to James Frank,
son of a certain William Frank, and his heirs and assigns, " terras
Frankislandis nuncupatas " in the viscounty of Peblis, which
before had been enfeoffed to the said William, but in the trouble-
some times he was deprived of it. Reserving for the said William
6 capita and the half-part of the infeoffment.
* The monastery of Kinloss was founded by King David I.
by establishing in it a colony of his favorite Cistercians from
Melrose Abbey.