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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.
EFICIENT as the following Memoirs of the
Family of Saintclairs of Rofslyn may be, in
the usual ornaments of compofition, they
will be efteemed interefting by all thofe
whole purfuits lead them to minute en-
quiries into the hiftory and antiquities of
the country, and the manners and cuftoms of its inhabitants.
To the genealogift they are perhaps ftill more valuable, from
the numerous charters, including the chartulary of Rofslyn,
which they comprehend. Thefe confiderations have induced
the prefent publication from the MS. of Father Hay, whofe
curious, but fometimes inaccurate, colle6tions are preferved in
the Library of the Faculty of Advocates.
Of Father Hay, fome account will be found prefixed to the

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Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn
DescriptionBy Father Richard Augustin Hay, prior of St. Pieremont, Including the chartulary of Rosslyn. Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson, 1835. Edited by James Maidment.
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