Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale
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40 GENEALOGIE OF THE
of Bara, or the lands, Lord Register of Scotland. I don't mutch rely
upon the forgoing accompt of Linplum, which was given me verbally by
my aunt, the Ladie Kettlestoun, remembring what Buchanan says : —
Expendat apud se quisque quantum eis fidei sit habendum hominibus,
qui sine litterarum auxilio, soli confidunt memoriae, quae in cultu solet
imminui, et aetate debilitari, et morbo penitus extingui. Nevertheless, I
thought to add here what I was told anent that house, that in times
comeing I might make use therof to discover more easily the truth, in
examining the severall evidences of the formention , d families ; as for Sir
John Hay, he was a man of rare endowments, being as yet very young,
he was imployed by the City of Edinburgh to welcome King James the
Sixt att the West Port, in the name of the Town, which he did by ane
eloquent oration, as yet extant in a book calFd the Muses Welcome : he
was first Town-Clerk, then Provost of Edinburgh ; thereafter ane Or-
dinar Senator of the College of Justice ; a Lord of the Councell and Ex-
chequer ; and after the death of John Hamilton, Magdelenis Knight,
he was prefer'd to be Lord Register, — he was one of Balmerino , s as-
sisers ; and things becomeing troublesome in 1641, he demits and
overgives in the King's hands the office of Clerk Register, the
place of ane Ordinal* Senator of the Colledge of Justice, and of the
Councell andExchequer, to the effect his Majestie might dispose thereof; —
his Majestie haveing first pay'd to Mr. William Hay clerk of the Ses-
sion, 5000 pound sterling, and during the not-payment thereof, 400
pound sterling of yearly pension, contain' d in the signature sign'd by his
Majestie, the 12th of July 1641, or els causeing the new entrant to
pay and secure him in the same, reserving also to himself the bygone
fie of, and arrears due to him, and owen by the collector of the taxa-
tions. This demission he sign'd the 17th of July 1641, and deliver'd it
to the Earle of Lanerick's secretarie: the 10th of August the forsaid year,
the King takes post att London, and comes to Edinburgh, and orders to
hold a Parliament. In this Parliament, Alexander Gibson of Durie,
of Bara, or the lands, Lord Register of Scotland. I don't mutch rely
upon the forgoing accompt of Linplum, which was given me verbally by
my aunt, the Ladie Kettlestoun, remembring what Buchanan says : —
Expendat apud se quisque quantum eis fidei sit habendum hominibus,
qui sine litterarum auxilio, soli confidunt memoriae, quae in cultu solet
imminui, et aetate debilitari, et morbo penitus extingui. Nevertheless, I
thought to add here what I was told anent that house, that in times
comeing I might make use therof to discover more easily the truth, in
examining the severall evidences of the formention , d families ; as for Sir
John Hay, he was a man of rare endowments, being as yet very young,
he was imployed by the City of Edinburgh to welcome King James the
Sixt att the West Port, in the name of the Town, which he did by ane
eloquent oration, as yet extant in a book calFd the Muses Welcome : he
was first Town-Clerk, then Provost of Edinburgh ; thereafter ane Or-
dinar Senator of the College of Justice ; a Lord of the Councell and Ex-
chequer ; and after the death of John Hamilton, Magdelenis Knight,
he was prefer'd to be Lord Register, — he was one of Balmerino , s as-
sisers ; and things becomeing troublesome in 1641, he demits and
overgives in the King's hands the office of Clerk Register, the
place of ane Ordinal* Senator of the Colledge of Justice, and of the
Councell andExchequer, to the effect his Majestie might dispose thereof; —
his Majestie haveing first pay'd to Mr. William Hay clerk of the Ses-
sion, 5000 pound sterling, and during the not-payment thereof, 400
pound sterling of yearly pension, contain' d in the signature sign'd by his
Majestie, the 12th of July 1641, or els causeing the new entrant to
pay and secure him in the same, reserving also to himself the bygone
fie of, and arrears due to him, and owen by the collector of the taxa-
tions. This demission he sign'd the 17th of July 1641, and deliver'd it
to the Earle of Lanerick's secretarie: the 10th of August the forsaid year,
the King takes post att London, and comes to Edinburgh, and orders to
hold a Parliament. In this Parliament, Alexander Gibson of Durie,
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| Description | By Father Richard Augustin Hay, Prior of St. Pieremont, including memoirs of his own times. Edited by James Maidment. Edinburgh : T. G. Stevenson, 1835. Contents: Introductory notice by the editor; including a list of the mss. of Father Hay now in the Library of the Faculty of advocates.--Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale.--Father Hay's memoirs of his own times.--Appendix: 1. Carta Adæ comitissæ. 2. Ane epitome or abridgement of what past at the L(ord) B<almerino> his arraignment criminall before the justice. 3. Ceremonial of burning the pope, 30th November 1689. 4. Account of John Chiesly of Dalry. 5. An account of the misfortunes of Mrs. Erskine of Grange, commonly known as Lady Grange. 6. elegy on the lamented death of Lord John Hay, marquis of Tweddel. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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