Frasers of Philorth > Volume 2

126 APPENDIX OF CADET FAMILIES.
" Into Schir Alexander the Fraser
He trastit, for tha frendis war,
And in his brothir Symon, tha twa."
" Quhar Alexander Fraser him met,
And als his brothir, Symon hat." 1 (Hecht, named.)
And he also gives an extract from a charter by Eobert Janitor (Porter) of
Kincardine, and dominus de Portarestoun, to which the two brothers were
witnesses, as follows : —
" Et ad pleniorem evidenciam hujus facti sigilla Domini Alexandri Fraser,
tunc vice-comitis de Mernys, Simonis Fraser fratris sui, Johannis Crag, et
Johannis Benvoin, ad instanciam meam presenti carte gratia testimonium
perhibendi apponi procuravi." 2
The charter is without date ; but from Sir Alexander Fraser being styled
knight in the body of the deed, it is certainly later than 1312, when, as seen
in the account of his career, he had not attained to that dignity.
Mr. Anderson mentions that Sir Andrew Fraser was Sheriff of Stirling in
1293, that he received the manor of Ugtrethrestrother (which may be called
by its modern name, Struthers), in Fife, from Edward I. in 1297, and states
that he was Dominus de Touch, in the county of Stirling, which can only mean
the estate of Touch-fraser, and says, " This property was in all probability
first conferred on him when he attained to the dignity of Sheriff of the county
of Stirling, and afterwards possessed, apparently as his appanage, by Sir
Alexander Fraser, his younger son." Mr. Anderson was certainly mistaken
in supposing that this estate was so conferred upon Sir Andrew Fraser, and
appears to have been ignorant of Sir Eicbard Fraser's tenure of it down to
1307, and probably later; and it has already been seen in the account of
that family to be the fact that Sir Andrew never actually possessed Touch-
fraser, although heir to it, for it is evident that he died before Sir Pdchard.
The lands and emoluments which he held may therefore be enumerated
as Dripp, or Drippis, in Stirlingshire ; Struthers, in Fife ; the Sheriffship of
Stirling, and the property in the district of Caithness, to which he had right
through his wife, stated to be lands to the annual value of one hundred merks.
1 The Bruce, pp. 187, 192.
2 History of the Family of Fraser, note to p. 39. Arbuthnot Charter-room.