| He had obtained a charter of Roslin on the resignation of his father in 1574. Before his marriage he had chosen curators, and thereafter when he was over twenty-one years, being childless, in 1582 he resigned the barony in favour of his brother-german William, a witness to the Deed of Resignation eing Henry Sinclair of Whitekirk. Upon this, litigation ensued, for at Edinburgh 4 May 1583 entry is found for Caution in £400 by Sir Wm. Sinclair of Roslin and William his second sone as principals, Manis Sinclair of the Leyis and Mr. John Henrysone of Drydane as sureties that Christiane Douglas, daughter of Geo. Douglas of Parkhead, her tenants and servants of the lands of Herbertshire, said to belong to her in conjunct fee, shall be skaithless. On the 15th same she prefers complaint that her husband, Edward Sinclair, fiar of Roslin, had been abducted and kept captive in Roslin to his own prejudice, and also to that of her dower, etc. On the 23 September following there is caution for Edward Sinclair that Christian Douglas his spouse shall have peaceable access to him at Roslin.3 |