Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn

62 GEN.EALOGIE OF THE
Comites Henricus Sanfti Clari, Orcadum Comes aliique nonnulli.''''
Buchanan, lib. x, pag. 343, (Imp. Francoforti ad Maenum 1594. " Igitur
parata nave, ad Baffam, Scopulum, verius quam infulam, adhibito redtore
Henrico Sinclaro Comite Orcadum, confcendit, ac, dum littus legit, ad
Flamburgum promontorium, five tempeftatis vi coactus, five ut e naufea
marina fe paululum recrearet, defcendit, ab Anglifque retentus, et a rege
confulto quid eo fieri velit, in aulam accerfitus.'" Boethius, lib. xvi,fol. 352.
" Comparata igitur nave, ac compofitis ad utrumque regem Uteris com-
mendatitiis, ut quo eos fortuna ferret, parati accederent quam poflunt,
secretiffime, adjun£to Henrico Sandti Clari, Orcadum Comite, nonnullisque
aliis, a Bafs caftello munitiffimo folvunt.' 11
King Bobert the Third frees him of the Caftle Warde dew for his
lands of Bofline and others in 1404. Archibald Earl of Dowglas, Lord
of Galloway, grants him in 1407 the barony of Herbertfhire, which he
had difpoPd before to his fone William Dowglas and ^Egidia Stewart,
daughter to King Robert the Second. He married iEgidia Dowglas,
daughter to the Lord Nithfdale, and got by that marriage the Lordfhip
of Nithfdale, with the offices of Justice, Wardine, Chamberlane, &c.
All this is juftified by the following charters : —
CHARTA ROBERTI REGIS DE CASAMARDA.
Robertus, &c. dediffe, &c. Dilecto et fideli noftro, Henrico de Sanfto
Claro, Comiti Orcadian, totam caftimardiam per ipfum nobis debitam de
Baronia sua de Rofline, de Pentland, de Pentland Moor, de Colfland, de
Merton, et de Mertonehall, infra vicecomitatum de Edinburgh : Tenen-
dam et habendam, praediftam caftimardiam, per ipfum ut fupra nobis
debitam de baroniis et terris fuis praadiftis, fibi et heredibus suis, de nobis
et heredibus noftris, in feodo et hereditate, libere, quiete, plenarie, integre,
honorifice, bene et in pace, fine aliquo retinemento ; et ipsum et heredes