Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn
(17) Page iii
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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. iii
" The laft Rofslyn," fays Sir Walter Scott, " (for he was uni-
formly known by his patrimonial defignation, and would pro-
bably have deemed it an infult in any who might have termed
him Mr. Sinclair,} was a man conliderably above fix feet, with
dark grey locks, a form upright, but gracefully fo, thin-flanked
and broad fhouldered, built, it would feem, for the bufinefs of
the war or chace, a noble eye of chaftened pride and undoubt-
ed authority, and features handfome and ftriking in their gene-
ral effect, though fomewhat harfh and exaggerated when con-
sidered in detail. His complexion was dark and grizzled, and
as we fchoolboys, who crowded to fee him perform feats of
ftrength and fkill in the old Scottilli games of golf and archery,
ufed to think and fay amongft ourfelves, the whole figure re-
feinbled the famous founder of the Douglas race, pointed out,
it is pretended, to the Scottifh monarch on a conquered field
of battle, as the man whofe arm had achieved the viftory, by
the expreffive words, Sholto Dhuglas, — ' behold the dark grey
man.' In all the manly fports which require ftrength and
dexterity, Roflin was unrivalled ; but his particular delight was
in archery." *
Upon the demife of this gentleman, who, in the year 1736,
had surrendered the office of Grand Mafter Mafon of Scotland,
which, it was alleged, had been hereditary in his family from
the time of James II., a folemn funeral lodge, as it is termed,
was held. " On this occafion the mafters, officers, and brethren
of all the lodges in Edinburgh, to the number of near 400, ap-
* Scott's Prose Works, Vol. III. p. 369.
" The laft Rofslyn," fays Sir Walter Scott, " (for he was uni-
formly known by his patrimonial defignation, and would pro-
bably have deemed it an infult in any who might have termed
him Mr. Sinclair,} was a man conliderably above fix feet, with
dark grey locks, a form upright, but gracefully fo, thin-flanked
and broad fhouldered, built, it would feem, for the bufinefs of
the war or chace, a noble eye of chaftened pride and undoubt-
ed authority, and features handfome and ftriking in their gene-
ral effect, though fomewhat harfh and exaggerated when con-
sidered in detail. His complexion was dark and grizzled, and
as we fchoolboys, who crowded to fee him perform feats of
ftrength and fkill in the old Scottilli games of golf and archery,
ufed to think and fay amongft ourfelves, the whole figure re-
feinbled the famous founder of the Douglas race, pointed out,
it is pretended, to the Scottifh monarch on a conquered field
of battle, as the man whofe arm had achieved the viftory, by
the expreffive words, Sholto Dhuglas, — ' behold the dark grey
man.' In all the manly fports which require ftrength and
dexterity, Roflin was unrivalled ; but his particular delight was
in archery." *
Upon the demife of this gentleman, who, in the year 1736,
had surrendered the office of Grand Mafter Mafon of Scotland,
which, it was alleged, had been hereditary in his family from
the time of James II., a folemn funeral lodge, as it is termed,
was held. " On this occafion the mafters, officers, and brethren
of all the lodges in Edinburgh, to the number of near 400, ap-
* Scott's Prose Works, Vol. III. p. 369.
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