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BROTHERS OF SIR ALEXANDER FRASER,
THE CHAMBERLAIN.
SIR ANDREW FRASER,
YOUNGER SON OF SlR ANDREW FRASER, SHERIFF OF STIRLING, 1293.
1333.
It is difficult to determine which of the younger sons of Sir Andrew
Fraser should rank next to their eldest brother, Sir Alexander Fraser, the
Chamberlain.
The position of their names in Fordun's Gesta Annalia, 1 written by him-
self, in the continuation and amplification of that history by Walter Bowyer, 2
and in Wyntoun's Chronicle, 3 — Andrew, Simon, James, — would lead to the
inference that this was the order of their respective seniority, while little can
be gathered on the subject from Barbour's poem of The Bruce, for Simon is the
only one of the three mentioned by him ; it is, however, a matter of no import-
ance whether Andrew or Simon were the senior, for Andrew left no male issue.
No authentic record of this Sir Andrew Fraser remains, except that of
Ins death, as a distinguished leader, at the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, 4
in which he, Sir Simon, and Sir James Fraser, who also fell there, are called
brothers ; and this evinces him to have been a son of Sir Andrew Fraser the
Sheriff, for there is full proof of that Sir Simon Fraser having been the
Chamberlain's brother.
There is no positive evidence as to his possessions or his posterity, but in
a pedigree of the family of Hay, which the writer of this account has seen,
the estate of Tillibody, in Clackmannan, is said to have been acquired by a
branch of the Hays through a marriage with the heiress of a Sir Andrew
Fraser of Touch and Tillibody, who may have been this Sir Andrew ; and
although the Touch referred to in that pedigree cannot have been Touch-fraser,
which was inherited by the Chamberlain's grand-daughter, and remained in her
1 Fordun, Gesta Annalia, cxlix. 3 Wyntoun, Lib. viii. cap. xxvii.
2 Scotichronicon, Lib. xiii. cap. xxviii. 4 Ibid.