470               GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS [VOL. II

Petrus de Pollock long before the time of King Robert the 1^st
and that Norman this Second or third Son of Sir Norman

Lessly of that Ilk in that Reign might get off the Lands
of Rothes in Patrimony from his father and got many lands
and a fair Estate by the Marriage of Margaret the Neice and
heir of Alexander de Lamberton and had Issue by her a Son

SIR GEORGE LESSLY of Rothes and Fechyll from which
Lands he is promisscously designed and who in the 1371 Gets
the Estate of Banbrigh Tailzied to him He Married Elizabeth
Hay Neice to King Robert the third [by Dame Elizabeth his
Sister the Daughter of King Robert II] by Sir Thomas Hay
and had

SIR NORMAN LESSLY¹ of Rothes who by his wife Cristian
Seatton had

GEORGE the first Earl of Rothes

There is a note of Mr. Lesslys from the Charter-chest that
mentions that Norman Lessly was Ancestor to the house of
Rothes

¹ Brother to Walter Earl of Ross married the heiress of the Lands of Tessy in
Fyfe and that She was of the Sirname of Blair and that he had a Son by her
George Lessly the first Designed of Rothes.