Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn

32 GENEALOGIE OF THE
This Prif 'ner laft turned King, call'd James the firft,
Who Saintclaire's credit kept in honor's thirft.
The galley was the badge of Cathnes Lords
As Malcolme Canmoire's reigne att length records ;
Which was to Magnus given for fervice done
Againft Mackbeth, Ufurper of the Crowne.
The Lyon came by ane Heretrix to paffe
By marriage, whofe Sire was furnamed Dowglas ;
Where after him, the Saintclaire now record,
Was Sheriff of Dumfreife and Nithfdale's Lord,
Whofe wife was niece to good King James the Third,
Who, for exchange, 'twixt Wick and fouthern Nidde,
Did lands incambiat ; whence this Cathnes foile
Stands faft for them, the reft their friends recoile.
Their circle bounded Cathnes, Saintclaire's ground
Which Pentland firth environs, Orknay's found,
Whofe top in Duncan's Bay, the root the Ord ;
Long may it ftand faft for their true Lord :
And fo long too Heavens grant what I require,
The Race of May may in that ftock afpire,
Till any adge may laft, time's glaffe be runne,
For earth's laft darke Eclipfe of no more funne.
The Hiftory of Southerland derives the Saintclairs from Walderin or
Woldonius in France, whofe fone, Guillielmus de Sancto Claro, did, as
they alledge, marie Agnas Dunbar, daughter to Patrick, firft Earle of
Marche. They fay that Kathrin Forteeth, daughter to the Earle of
Strathern, married Sir Henry Saintclair, whofe fone, Henry, married
Margaret Gratney, daughter to the Earle of Marre. This Henry's fone,
Sir William, paffed into Spaine with good Sir William Douglas, who
carried the Bruce's heart to Hierufalem ; he was married to Elizabeth