A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . IV. Touch (Seton-Steuart) >N the thirteenth century the estate of Touch wasin the possession of the family of Fraser, and inmany of the documents of a later period it isdescribed as Tulch-fresell or Touch-fraser. SirAlexander Fraser, of the Frasers of Oliver Castle,was sheriff of Stirling and Dominus de Touch in1296. Touch House, which is three and a halfmiles west of Stirling, was originally a squarekeep of great antiquity, to which
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . IV. Touch (Seton-Steuart) >N the thirteenth century the estate of Touch wasin the possession of the family of Fraser, and inmany of the documents of a later period it isdescribed as Tulch-fresell or Touch-fraser. SirAlexander Fraser, of the Frasers of Oliver Castle,was sheriff of Stirling and Dominus de Touch in1296. Touch House, which is three and a halfmiles west of Stirling, was originally a squarekeep of great antiquity, to which additions weremade in the seventeenth century, and which arenow incorporated with a modern mansion. The property passed bymarriage to the Hays, and from them to the Setons. By his second wife,Egidia or Giles, daughter of John Hay of Tullibody,1 heretix of the Enye(Enzie) and vtheris grit landis, Alexander Seton, first Earl of Huntly,had a son,. 1. Sir Alexander Seton, first lard of Tuche and Telibodie! There appears to have been a somewhat formidable dispute betweenSir Alexander and his younger half-brother, George, second Earl of 1 Tilibody (? Tily-bo-dubh) = \h& cows blackhill, in Clackmannanshire, is referred to in aninscription on the arch of a recess tomb in the Church of Cullen.—Proceedings of theSociety of Scottish Antiquaries, 12th June1871. 336 TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENT
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