CRICHTON, Nicholas ¹

   Another name for Nicholas was DE CREYGHTON, Nicholas.¹

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  General Notes:

"On 20 February 1311-12, Nicholas de Creyghton was one of an inquest, appointed by writ of Edward II., to determine the value of certain lands in the Lothians belonging to adherents of King Robert I. The same person also appears to have formed one of the garrison of Edinburgh Castle in the same year, and to have been possessed of a horse described as badium cum stella." (page 53) "By charter dated 27 May 1338, William de Kreitton, rector of the Church of Kreitton, and son and heir of the deceased Thomas de Kreitton, burgess of Berwick, for the wellbeing of his own soul, and the souls of his father Thomas, his mother Eda, and his step-mother Isabella, and also of the souls of Thomas Nicholas and Sir John de Kreytton, granted to the Abbey of Newbottle his lands in the holding of New Cranston in Lothian, and this grant was confirmed the same day by Radulph de Cranston dominus de Newcranston, son and heir of the deceased Andrew de Cranston, from whom Thomas de Kreitton, burgess of Berwick, and father of the said William, had originally received the said lands.

About the same time there appear among the witnesses to an undated charter by the same Radulph, dominus de Cranystoun, in favour of the Hospital of Soltre, dominus Johannis, dominus de Crechtoun, and dominus Willelmus, rector ejusdem." (page 54)

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)

Nicholas married.