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

SEVENTH LAIRD OF THORNYDYKES. 81
Brounfield, and all others the parishioners of the
vicarage of Greenlaw, lying within the diocese of
St. Andrews and sheriffdom of Berwick, for payment
of the fruits and teinds thereof, the collection of
the same having been gifted by the king to the
said Robert. Decerned asrainst the said defenders."
He was translated to Home about 1574, when Stit-
chell, Gordon, Eccles, and Greenlaw were also in his
charge. He is mentioned of Eccles on the 12th of
September, 1577, and again in 1583. In 1589-90 he
with David Hume and Johanne Clappertoun were
the ecclesiastical commissioners appointed for the
shire of Berwick to put an act of Parliament in force
against the Jesuits. Legerwood was conferred upon
him by the king on May 18, 1592. He returns to
Eccles in 1596, where he appears as late as 1601.
There is a record of a John French at Eccles in
1599, who may have been his son.
Eighth, Jonet French, who is mentioned in the wills
of her brothers Henry and Hue French. She mar-
ried first Robert Watson of Yiflie, in Westruther,
county Berwick, who appears to have died before
February 5, 1546. He left a son of the same name,
to whom his uncle Henry French refers as his sister's
son.
The record of the year 1546 shows "that she was
then married to Robert Cranstoun of Broxmouth," in
the parish of Dunbar, in Haddingtonshire.
On Sept. 25, 1550, Janet French renounces her