. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . tJ>,s-Marof) ftOSIXtf CASTIE^J/^v/W t London.: JPu&lir/itf as th&Actdtrecfo, i£ OctTijjg, by R O S L I N CASTLE Is fituated upon a rock, in a fmali but delightful vale about fix milesfouth of Edinburgh, in the Shire of Mid-Lothian ; it is furrounded byeminences richly covered with wood, under the (hade of which, in a deepbed of rocks, on the fouth fide of the Caflle, runs the North Eik Thederivation of the word Rofiin is faid to be from Rofs, a Peninfula, andLin,
. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . tJ>,s-Marof) ftOSIXtf CASTIE^J/^v/W t London.: JPu&lir/itf as th&Actdtrecfo, i£ OctTijjg, by R O S L I N CASTLE Is fituated upon a rock, in a fmali but delightful vale about fix milesfouth of Edinburgh, in the Shire of Mid-Lothian ; it is furrounded byeminences richly covered with wood, under the (hade of which, in a deepbed of rocks, on the fouth fide of the Caflle, runs the North Eik Thederivation of the word Rofiin is faid to be from Rofs, a Peninfula, andLin, or Llyn, a lake, or according to fome writers , a glen ; this etymo-logy of the name agrees particularly well with the fituation of the Caflle. The Barony of Rofiin appears to have been in the family of St. Clair,fo early as the reign of Malcolm Kenmuir ; the genealogy of which repre-fents Sir William St. Clair, of an honourable houie in France, as comingwith the anceftors of the Foulis, Preftons, Maxwells, Biffets, Rofss,Wardlaws, Lindfays, Towers, Ram fays, &c. foon after the battle ofHafKngs, into Scotland; where, from a difguft conceived at the behaviourof William of Normandy, in whofe army fome of them had f
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