Clan Fraser in Canada

CHANGE OF SURNAMES. 35
Kilmorack, published in that repository of Highland lore,
the Celtic Magazine : —
" Bishop Hay, maternal uncle to Agnes Lovat, carried
away by Kenneth Mackenzie (a Bhlair), Seventh Baron of
Kintail, when he sent away his first wife Margaret, daughter
of John, Earl of Ross, advised Kenneth and the lady's friends
that a commission should be sent to the Pope in 1491 to pro-
cure the legitimation of their union. This was agreed to, and
the following is the account of the commissioners : —
" ' To that effect one called Donald Dhu McChreggie,
priest of Kirkhill, was employed. This priest was a native
in Kintail, descended of a clan there called Clan Chreggie,
who, being a hopeful boy in his younger days, was educated
in Mackenzie's house, and afterwards at Beullie by the fore-
mentioned Dugall Mackenzie (natural son of x^lexander
' Ionraic ' VI. of Kintail pryor yrof). In the end he was
made priest of Kirkhill. His successors to this day are
called Frasers. Of this priest are descended Mr. William
and Mr. Donald Fraser.'
" The author of the Ardintoul MSS. gives a slightly
different version, and says : ' To which end they sent Mr.
Andrew Fraser, priest of Kintail, a learned and eloquent
man, who took in his company Dugald Mackenzie, natural
son of Alexander Inrig, who was a scholar. The Pope enter-
tained them kindly, and very readily granted them what they
desired, and were both made knights to the boot by Pope
Clement VIII., but when my knights came home they
neglected the decree of Pope Innocent III. against the mar-
riage and consentricate of the clergy, or, otherwise, they got
a dispensation from the then Pope Clement VIII., for both of
them married. Sir Dugal was made priest of Kintail and