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THE FRASEES OF FRENDRAUGHT. 137
Under the designation of Jacobus Fraser, dominus de Frendraught, Miles,
he is found a witness to numerous charters down to the year 1395, when he
received from Eobert HI. the grant of an annual rent of 20 merks, from the
lands of Carnousie and Culmesty, in his barony of Frendraught, which a Sir
Eichard Comyn, who had enjoyed it to that time, resigned into the royal
hands. 1
In all probability Sir James Fraser did not long survive the year 1395,
when he must have been nearly, if not quite, seventy years of age ; but there
is no record of his death.
JAMES FEASEE of Frendraught, 1402-1404.
There is a little obscurity in the next generation of this family. In 1402
James Fraser, dominus de Frendraught, but not styled " Miles," or knight,
granted to the Abbey of Melrose the lands of Cambestone, in the barony of
Lossidwyn and sheriffdom of Eoxburgh, 2 which had been possessions of
the old Frendraught family. Mr. Laing has given an engraving of the seal
of this James Fraser in his valuable work, and says that it is appended
to the charter of these lands. 3 The arms upon this seal are a bar sinister
indented, between three rosettes or cinquefoils, 2.1. No reason, however,
can be discovered for the change of the fess cheque' into the indented bar,
but James Fraser, who was of the same generation as Margaret Fraser, the
Chamberlain's grand- daughter, had reduced the number of his rosettes or
cinquefoils from six to three.
James Fraser of Frendraught also granted the lands of Little Glensauche,
in Kincardine, to the White Friars of Aberdeen, and he was a vassal of the
Abbot of Dunfermline for the lands of Cupermaculty, Fordoue, Dulmernak,
and Lytilkethic, in the sheriffdom of Perth, the last of which he granted to
Henry de Ferendrache, and the charter was confirmed by Abbot John de
Torry in 1404. 4
1 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. i. pp. 3 Laing's Scottish Seals, vol. i. p. 352.
289, 540; vol. iii. p. 471. Reg. Episc. Abev- i Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. i. pp.
don., vol. ii. p. 287. 523, 524.
2 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. i. p. 524.
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