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Genealogie of the Saintclares of Rosslyn. (Hay, Fr. R. A.), 1835.
Author:- Hay, Fr. R. A.
Date:- 1835 -
UGLE Classification:- 1190(SIN) HAY - History (Non-masonic): Biography, Collective
WMLMT Classification:- Biography
Order:- Non-Masonic
Details
By Father RICHARD AUGUSTIN HAY, Prior of St. Pieremont, including the Ohartulary of Rosslyn. (Coat of Arms.)
Hay’s work is of special value, besides being very scarce, as it concerns the family of St. Clair, and particularly the Representative of that honoured name of Rosslyn, who was the first Grand Master of Scotland, on the formation of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736, and seems to have obtained that proud position through his resignation of the office of “Protector” of the Freemasons, secured to the St. Clair’s by Deeds 1600 and 1628 circa. For many important facts concerning this illustrious Freemason and his “forbears,” Bro. Lyon’s History, with the above volume, should be duly noted. It will be found that the belief, surviving to this date in some quarters, of his being hereditary Grand Master of Scotland, by virtue of these patents, is wholly erroneous, and never could be sustained by reference to the text of those two invaluable grants, still preserved.
Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, 87 Princes Street. MDCCCXXXV.
Properties
pp. xxii. 176. 8½”x6½”. Thos. C. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1835.
