Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

HAYES OF TWEED DALE. 55
said Mess att the Capucins the following day, the Dominican Nuns re-
fusing him that libertie, because he was in a secular habit. About two
a'clock in the afternoon the same day, he departed from thence in a small
vessell goeing for England. He lay in the midle of the night betwixt
the two Kingdomes, whilst the thundering Canons of Calais made a ter-
rible noise, the account of sutch joy proceeded from the birth of the Dau-
phin's sone. Munday, about nine in the morning, he landed at Dover,
and after some trouble by the waitters and seamen, he went to Canter-
bury, where he met with a Canon or Chaplain of the Cathedrall of Cam-
bray, and his spouse, a Nun of Saint Julian's, in Cambray, who had
born him eight childring, whereof fower were dead of the gravell, and the
fower resting alive very griveously tortur'd with the stone. The 8 of
Septembre, according to the English account, he arriv'd at London, and
some few dayes therafter, kiss'd the King's hands att Windsore ; and after
he had stay'd some weeks att Court, he took ship upon Saturday, after
All Saint's Day, att Gravesend, and the third day after sailing, being
Saint Martin's Eve, he strook upon a bank, either of the Leimmun or
Ore, and after great storms, landed att Leith 12 days after his departure
from Gravesend. The King's Chapell was open'd upon Saint Andrew's
Day following : Mr. Dunbar read the office. Upon our Ladie's Day of
Decembre therafter, High Mess was sung att one Mr. Alexander's by
the Jesuwits, and some few devot women brought over from France ;
and upon Christmess, in the Abbay Chapell, by one Canteau and some
maids. Mr. Abercrombie, of the Order of Saint Benedict, a man not
mutch skill'd in singing, did officiat. There was a song in French called
a Noel, sung by a quire of women att that time ; and from thence, High
Mess was sung by one of the chaplains, and vespers, which consisted of
one hymne, the psalme, Laudate Pueri Dominum, and the Litanies of the
Virgin Marie, by Abercrombie. Few moneths after, one Strachquan
came from Italic My Lord Chancellour imploy'd him to copy his let-
ters from abroad. The Easter following, he was intrusted to hear privat