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John Gray, Clerk Register
In the index of missing royal charters in the time of King Robert II.,
there is one to John Gray, Clerk Register, ” of ane
tenement in Leith,” and another to the monastery
of Melrose of a tenement in the same place ;
and in 1357, among those who entered into an
obligation to pay the ransom, of King David II.,
then a prisoner of war in England, we find
“William of Leith,” no doubt a merchant of substance
in his day. (Burgh Charters, No. vi.)
Thomas of Leith, or another bearing the same
name, witnessed a charter of David, Earl of Orkney,,
in 1391.
source-Old and New Edinburgh
