Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn
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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. xix
In printing the following Genealogie, the text of the Author
has been carefully preserved, and only in a few instances, where
error was palpable, has any alteration been made. The reader
will be somewhat surprised at the different way in which the
same proper names are sometimes spelt, — this, however, is not
unusual in ancient writings, for even in original deeds, such
diversity of spelling is not unfrequent : that Father Hay has
been somewhat too liberal in this way, cannot be disputed, but
it was judged much better to retain his varieties of orthography
than to attempt any uniformity. It is with much regret that
the Editor observed a few errors have escaped correction, —
they are not of much importance, and are too obvious to mis-
lead the reader.
The Editor has to return many thanks to Mr. Riddell for
his kindness in favoviring him with much curious illustrative
matter. To that learned gentleman he is also indebted for the
arms of Egidia Countess of Orkney, which ornament the title-
page, and which were copied from a seal appended to a con-
firmation* granted by her Ladyship as " Comitissa Orcadie.
Domina Vallis de Nith et baronie de Harbartshire," of a charter
to Alexander de Levingston de Calentare, by John de Blare,
dominus de Adamtoun, of the lands of Catscleuch, dated 10th
September 1425. These arms are those of the Countess im-
paling those of her husband on the right. As daughter and
heiress of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale, she bears the
Douglas arms on the right, and in the fourth quarter, the Lion
* The Original is in the Wigton Charter-Chest.
In printing the following Genealogie, the text of the Author
has been carefully preserved, and only in a few instances, where
error was palpable, has any alteration been made. The reader
will be somewhat surprised at the different way in which the
same proper names are sometimes spelt, — this, however, is not
unusual in ancient writings, for even in original deeds, such
diversity of spelling is not unfrequent : that Father Hay has
been somewhat too liberal in this way, cannot be disputed, but
it was judged much better to retain his varieties of orthography
than to attempt any uniformity. It is with much regret that
the Editor observed a few errors have escaped correction, —
they are not of much importance, and are too obvious to mis-
lead the reader.
The Editor has to return many thanks to Mr. Riddell for
his kindness in favoviring him with much curious illustrative
matter. To that learned gentleman he is also indebted for the
arms of Egidia Countess of Orkney, which ornament the title-
page, and which were copied from a seal appended to a con-
firmation* granted by her Ladyship as " Comitissa Orcadie.
Domina Vallis de Nith et baronie de Harbartshire," of a charter
to Alexander de Levingston de Calentare, by John de Blare,
dominus de Adamtoun, of the lands of Catscleuch, dated 10th
September 1425. These arms are those of the Countess im-
paling those of her husband on the right. As daughter and
heiress of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale, she bears the
Douglas arms on the right, and in the fourth quarter, the Lion
* The Original is in the Wigton Charter-Chest.
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