Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn

28 GENEALOGIE OF THE
veillcd, not thinking what fhould follow ; but within fower days after,
towitt, upon the feaft day of Saint Leonard, in the year of our Lord 1 447,
the Princefs, who tooke great delight in little dogs, caufed one of the
gentlewomen to goe under a bed with a lighted candle to bring forth one
of them, that had young whelps, which fhe doeing, and not being very
attentive, fet fire on the bed, wherat the fire rofe and burnt the bed,
and then paffed to the feeling of the great chambre in which the Prin-
cefs was, wherat fhe, with all that were in the dungeon, were compelled
to fly. The Prince's Chaplain fieing this, and remembring of all his
Mafters writtings, paffed to the head of the dungeon where they were,
and threw out fower great trunks where they were. The news of this
fire comeing to the Prince his ears, through the lamentable cries of the
ladys and gentlewomen, and the fight therof comeing to his view in the
place where he ftood, to witt, upon the Colledge Hill, he was forry for
nothing but the lofi" of his Charters and other writtings ; but when the
Chaplain, who had faved himfelf by comeing down the bell-rope tyed to
a beam, declared how his Charters and writts were all faved, he became
chearfull, and went to recomfort his Princefs and the Ladys, defireing
them to put away all forrow, and rewarded his Chaplaine very richly.
Yet all this ftayed him not from the building of the Colledge, nether his
liberality to the poor ; but was more liberall to them then before, — ap-
plying the fafety of his Charters and writings to God's particular Provi-
dence. Not long after this dyed the Lady Margaret Dowglafs, his Prin-
cefs, after fhe had borne to the Prince one fone named William, and fower
daughters, to witt, Katherine, who was married to Alexander Stew-
art Duke of Albany, Earle of Marche, and brother to King James
the Third ; ane other, who was married to the Lord Borthwick ; ane
other, who was married to the Earle of Kothfay, and ane other who was
married to M'Clane of the Lewes. Prince William, after the deceafe
of his Princefs, the Lady Margaret Douglas, married in fecond marriage
ane Honourable Lady, defcended of the blood royall of Scotland, as yet