Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fraser, John (d.1605)
FRASER, JOHN (d. 1605), Scotch Recollect friar, was the fourth son of Alexander Fraser, and grandson of Sir William Fraser of Philorth, Aberdeenshire. He was educated for the church, took the degree of bachelor of divinity, and became abbot of Noyon or Compiègne in France. He died at Paris on 24 April 1605, and was buried in the Franciscan convent. He was the author of: 1. ‘Offer maid to a Gentilman of Qualitie by John Fraser to subscribe and embrace the Ministers of Scotlands religion, if they can sufficientlie prove that they have the true kirk and laufull calling,’ Paris, 1604, 8vo; another edition, ‘newlie corrected,’ printed abroad, s.l., 1605, 8vo. 2. ‘A lerned epistle of M. Iohn Fraser: Bachler of Divinitie to the ministers of Great Britanie. Wherein he sheweth that no man ought to subscribe to their confession of faith. And that their presumed authorite to excommunicate anie man, especially Catholiques, is vaine and foolish’ [Paris?], 1605, 8vo. 3. ‘In universam Aristotelis Philosophiam Commentarii.’
[Dempster's Hist. Ecclesiastica (1627), lib. vi. n. 549, p. 291; Anderson's Scottish Nation, ii. 260; Watt's Bibl. Brit.]