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Excerpt from Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie: From The Ancient Manuscript in The Advocates Library At Edinburgh
On a fly-leaf, at the beginning of the volume, is written, Henrici Sinclar decani Glasgue'x'i. Ex dono BJ pris Vilelmj Epi Dfiblanensis This eminent member of the Roslin family was highly favoured by King James V., who wrote se veral letters to the Holy See to have him confirmed in the Rectorship of Glasgow in 1539. Subsequently he was Abbot, or perpetual Commendator, of the Abbey of Kilwinning, in 1541. This, in 1550, he exchanged with Gavin Hamilton for the Deanery of Glasgow, where he had previously, for two years, been person. In 1537 he was an Ordinary Lord of Session, and in 1558, on the death of Bishop Reid, he became President of the Court. In 1560 he succeeded Bishop Cairncross in the See of Ross. Being much af?icted with the stone he went to France, where he was lithotomised by Laurentius, a celebrated surgeon; but fevering after the Operation, be died January 2, 1564-5. He was a man of considerable diplomatic powers, and was em ployed in several embassies to the courts of France, the Low Countries, &c. His successor in the Bishoprick of Ross was the renowned John Lesly, in whose History of Scotland much re lating to the prelate will be found.
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