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

76 ROBERT FRENCH,
" Item the silver contenit in his purs to give thame
meit and drink that hes him to the erd." Sir Andro
Currie, the vicar of Bassendean, and Patrick French,
his brother, were both witnesses to this ancient docu-
ment.
Third, Patrick French. His name appears among
the witnesses to the marriage contract of the year
1549. He is mentioned again as a witness, with his
son, James French, to a charter dated at the burgh
of Haddington, on the 31st of March, 1568, of Pat-
rick Cockburn, prebendary of Petcokkis, belonging to
the Collegiate Church of Dunbar, wherein he grants
in gratitude and in free farm to Alexander Cockburn,
his own brother (sons of Cockburn of Langton,
county Berwick), and Alisone Vaus, his wife, one
acre of arable land in the said prebend, at Freirland,
in the western part of the territory of Dunbar, one
acre in the northern part of the prebend of Beltoun,
as well as other land, including common of pasturage
in the southern part of the village of Dunbar, in the
constabulary of Haddington, in the viscounty of Ed-
inburgh.
Besides James French, this Patrick French appears
to have had another son, George French. He is
mentioned in the will of Henry French immediately
after Patrick French, whom he calls his brother.
A George French is found as a witness to a docu-
ment dated 8th of December, 1569, in which the
contracting persons on the one part were Adam