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Of Freskyn or Fretheskin I, the founder of the line, we have no mention in any charter direct to him, either of his Linlithgowshire lands at Strabrock, or of his estate near Spynie in Moray with its Castle at Duffus. To us he is as Melchizedek; for neither his father nor his mother is known.
Lawrence in the Church of Duffus, which he had founded and endowed with lands at Dawey in Strath Spey, and Duffus.
Collier is accused at least of "inaccuracy" and "ignorance" on account of some of these variations. Thus, in Mrs. Alleyn's Letter, she says that a boy "would have borrowed x's." Collier reads "would have borrowed x'li." Whereupon Mr. Duffus Hardy, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, produces this as one of "the most striking" of Mr.
Freskin de Moravia, dominus de Duffus by 1248, who about that date had married the Lady Johanna, had with her obtained not only her lands in Strathnaver and Caithness, but also the bulk of the Erlend share of the earldom lands of Caithness, while Magnus held the rest of Caithness, and William, second Earl of Sutherland, then a mere boy, had succeeded to that earldom on his father's death in 1248.
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