Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn

SAINTECLAIRES OF ROSSLYN. 3
likewife the honour of knighthood. Att firft, our Kiugs beftowed upon
their fubjects 1 lands, as a reward of their fervice, but after their liberality
finding no futch way of gratification towards thofe who behaved them-
felves manfully, they fell upon ane eafier way, which was in giveing them
place amongft the nobility of their realm, and ranking them above the
moft common fort, either in creating them knights, which was perfornrfd
by girding them with a belt, or in makeing them Earles, which was done
by other ceremonies. This Sir Henry married Margaret Grathenay,
daughter to the Earle of Marre, upon whom he begot a fone named
William, to whom he refigned his lands, and fhortly after chaug'd his in-
constant habitation for a perpetual] one herafter.
The Hiftory of the Saintclairs says, that Malcolme Keanmoore made
fome earles, fome barons, and fome knights, att Forfar in 1057, or as
Buchanan fays in 1061, Malcolmus Scotorum, Rex 86, Scone coronatus,
anno 1061, inde Forfarum generale indixit concilium, volens ut Pri-
mores, quod antea non fuerat, aliarum more gentium, a praediis fuis cog-
nomina caperent ; quofdam vero etiam Comites, vulgo Earles, quofdam
Barones, vulgo Lords, alios Milites aut Equites auratos, vulgo Martiall
Knights, creavit. Mak-Duffum Fife Thanum, Fife Comitem ; Patricium
Dumbarum Marchiarum Comitem, aliofque viros praeftantes, Monthetia?,
Atholiae, Marriae, Cathaneffe, Rofffe, Angufiae dixit Comites, — Johan-
nem Sowls, Davidem Dardier ab Abernethia, Symonem a Tweddell,
Gullielmum a Douglas, Gillefpium Cameron, Davidem Briechen, Hugo-
nem a Culdella, Barones, cum diverfis aliis, — Equites auratos perplures,
pauci vero Thani relicti. Many new furnames were given to the fami-
lies of the Scots, as Mar, Calder, Lockhart, Meldrum, Gordon, Seaton,
Liberton, Eawder, Shaw, Leirmont, Strachane, Dundafs, Lefly, Cock-
burn, Abercrombie, &c. Many were named from the lands they had in
pofleffion, fome from their office, as Stewart, Dorward, Bannerman, For-
man, &c. Some from the proper names of valiant men, as Kenneth,
Gray, Keth, &c. This worthy Prince, according to the fame hiftory,