Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn

SAINTECLAIRES OF ROSSLYN. 157
ly, in ftok and teyndis, perfonage and vicarage, 1 2 bolls of oates, and 8
bolls of bear, as the valuation bore, which was led and approved before
the Commiffioners of Dalkeith, as the true and juft worth and valuation
of the feverall landis above fpecified, in all time comeing, at the inftance
of Sir William Sinclair, who raifed liimmonds againft Mr. James Fowrlie
for that end, then parfbne of Lefwad. This was ratified by his Majeftie 1 s
Commiffioners appointed for the valuation of teyndis and plantation of
kirks, viz. John Earle of Loudon, Chancellour of Scotland, John Earle
of Crawford Lindelay, principall Threfaurer thereof, John Earle of
Caffills, William Earle of Lothiane, James Earle of Calendar, John
Lord Barganey, Sir James Carmichael of that ilk, knight, Threfaurer-
Deput, Sir John Hamiltoun of Orbeiftoun, knight, Juftice-Clerk, Sir
John Hope of Craighall, knight, Sir Alexander Belches of Toftis,
knight, Sir David Hume of Wedderburne, David Beatoun of Crei&he,
Sir Gilbert Ramfay of Balmaine, Sir James Fowlis of Colington, James
Macdougall of Garthland, Patrick Cockburne of Clerkington, Sir John
Smith, James Stewart, John Bennie, burgefs of Edinburgh, John Ken-
nedie, burges of Aire, and John Semple, burges of Dumbarton, the
twenty-eighth of July one thoufand fix hundred and forty-feven years.
CHARTER GRANTED BY THE MASONS TO SIR WIL-
LIAM SAINTCLER.
Be it kend till all men be thir prefent lettres, us deacons, maiftres and
freemen of the mafons within the realme of Scotland, with exprefs con-
fent and affent of William Schaw, mafter of work to our Soveraine Lord :
Forfomeikle as, from adge to adge, it has been obferved amongft us, that
the lairds of Roflin has ever been patrons and protestors of us and our
priviledges, like as our predeceffors has obeyd and acknowledged them as
patrons and protestors, while that within thir few years, throu negli-