Re: An Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of Sir Henery Echlin
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Re: An Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of Sir Henery Echlin
Beth Echlin 3/13/05
The first Echlins then of whom there is reliable information are those whose names appear on the "RAGMAN ROLL" which they signed at Berwick on Tweed
in the twenty fourth year of EDWARD 1.28th August 1296.
The Scottish Eclines, Lairds of Pittadro, whose line failed in Captain Henry Echline, of of William Echline and Margaret Henderson, the witch.This William Echline had, however, a younger brother 'ROBERT, referring to whom, in immediate continuation of his observation upon the failure of the Pittadro Echlines, Crawford proceeds as follows:"But a younger branch of the family, by the blessing of Almighty God who favours the seed of the righteous, who was transplanted to Ireland, where they have attained to a far greater fortune and estate that ever the House of Pittadro was possessed of when they were in their greatest splendour.The Root and founder of the Irish Family of the Echlins was Dr Robert Echlin, Bishop of Down and Conyr, second son of (the brave and loyal Andrew)or rather Henry "Echline of Pittadro"...Dr Robert Echline being the younger Brother, and the son of a very worthy father, was educated in view of serving in the Church;what was the first step he made in it is more than I can say.His Majestie King James the first of England, calling to mind the memory and merit of the Laird of Pittadro, his father and his long sufferings, was graciously pleased to promote Dr Echlin to the Bishopprick of Down and Conyr in Ireland, the see being coid by the death of his countryman Dr. James Dundass, anno 1613 and was soon settled with all the necessary forms of consecration.
The is an extract from the Echline Memoirs.
Hope this clears up any mis-understandings.
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Kind regards
Valerie