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THE FRASEBS OF COWIE, DURRIS, AND PHILORTH.
He does not appear to have had any issue from his second marriage,
but by his first wife, Magdalen Ogilvie, he had five sons and three
daughters —
Alexander.
William, died unmarried.
James, a party to the contract of 1613 with the feuars of Fraserburgh.
See Frasers of Tyrie, in appendix.
Simon, also a party to the contract of 1613.
Thomas, said by Crawfurd to have written an account of the family,
but it is doubtful whether it is still extant, and nothing more is known
of him.
Magdalen, married Patrick Cheyne of Esselmont.
Margaret, married Hay of Ury.
Elizabeth, married Sir E. Keith of Athergill.
In the portrait 1 of this Sir Alexander Fraser, his armorial bearings are
depicted, and the shield displays, quarterly, three rosettes or cinquefoils for
Fraser, and a lion rampant for Ross. From the annexation of the Earldom
of Eoss to the Crown in 1476, and the consequent disuse and disappearance
of the arms belonging to that dignity, it would seem that one lion rampant,
argent, had come to be regarded as the cognisance of the name of Eoss by
the heralds of the succeeding century, instead of three, which the seals of
Euphemia, Countess of Eoss, and of Hugh Eoss of Earichies, evince to have
been the ancient insignia, and which were also borne by the Lords of the
Isles, Earls of Eoss, down to their forfeiture in 1476. 2
The achievement of Sir Alexander Fraser also shows the motto, " The
glory of the honourable is to fear God," which was disused by his successors
until its restoration in the present generation.
1 The name of the painter of this portrait cessive proprietors of Philorth, lithographs
has not been preserved ; it is by a master- of which, and of portraits of some other
hand, somewhat in the style of Vandyck, members and connections of the family, are
but it was painted about the year 1593,
before the birth of that eminent artist. It
is the earliest in a series of portraits of suc-
inserted in this work.
2 Laing's Scottish Seals, vol. i. Nos. 451-4.
and Plate xn. figs. 4, 6.