_Fresick and Freswick._--In the map of the kingdom of Scotland, occurring
in the _Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine_, by John Speed, 1614, pp.
131-2., on the north-east point of Scotland a place is noted as _Fresick_
East, in the present maps _Freswick_. Is _Fresick_ a contracted form of
_Freswick_? and if so, has it some reference to a settlement of the
Frisians (anciently Fresians) on this coast? The village Freswick, on the
borders of the Lek, and another Freswick in the neighbourhood of Deventus,
both in the Netherlands, near the Frisians, are supposed to owe their names
to a settlement or refuge of those first parents of the Anglo-Saxons.