Frasers of Philorth > Volume 1

142 THE FRASERS OF COWIE, DTJRRIS, AND PHILORTH.
the King, in 1505, upon Sir William's resignation, regranted the lands to him,
to be held in chief of the Crown, 1 which property, with the fishings attached
to it, he soon afterwards sold to Sir John, the son of John Ogilvie of
Mylnetoun, and the charter of sale was confirmed by the King in 1506. 2 On
the 11th of October 1505, Sir William Fraser had received a remission for
resetting, supplying, and intercommuning with sundry of the King's rebels ;
but there is no record of the occasion upon which he had committed the acts
for which he was pardoned. 3 Walter Ogilvie, nephew and heir of the late Sir
Walter Ogilvie of Boyne, with consent of his tutor, Sir William Ogilvie of
Strathearn, in 1512 resigned the lands of Fetyhede, in the barony of Philorth,
into the hands of the superior lord, Sir William Fraser, for disposal accord-
ing to his pleasure. 4
This sixth Laird of Philorth seems to have been an active man of busi-
ness. He served on numerous inquests, and was a witness to many documents
of the period. 5 He died in the autumn of 1513. Crawfurd says at Paris, on
the 5th September ; but as no other notice of his having gone abroad is to be
found, and as his son and successor did make a journey to France, which
Crawfurd does not mention, that author seems to have been misled upon this
point, and it is more probable that Sir William Fraser was one of the many
slain at the battle of Flodden, on the 9th of September in that year, whose
names are not recorded.
By his wife, Elizabeth de Keith, he left one son —
Alexander, his successor.
And in all probability a daughter —
Christina, married to Andrew Chalmers of Strichen.
ALEXANDER FRASER, KATHERINE MENZIES,
SEVENTH OF PHILORTH. DAUGHTER OF, GILBERT MENZIES OE PITTODELS,
PROVOST OP ABERDEEN.
Two years and a half after the death of his father, Sir William, Alexander
Fraser received sasine of the barony of Philorth by precept from the King's
1 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. ii. p.. 3 Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. i. p. 104.
361. 4 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv. p.95.
2 Ibid. vol. iii. p. 530. 5 Ibid, in many documents.