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H hands at Windsor, he proceeded to Leith. His efforts to establish his order in Scotland were frustrated by the revolution. He was ordered to leave the kingdom, and the council of state made him give a bond in a thousand marks Scots that he would not go to England or Ireland, nor return to Scotland. He landed at Dunkirk on 5 June (N.S.) 1689, and proceeded to Paris. On 9 Nov. the same year he was made sub-prior of Hérivaux, on 11 Aug. 1692 sub-prior of Essomes, on 1 Aug. 1694 prior of Bernicourt in Champagne, and on 21 Jan. 1694–5 prior of St.-Pierremont-en-Argonne.

At a later date he returned to Scotland, and in 1719, while residing in Edinburgh, issued proposals for printing the ‘Scotichronicon’ of John de Fordun [q. v.] His latter days were embittered by poverty, and he died in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, in 1735 or 1736.

His works are: 1. ‘Descriptio Scotiæ Historico-Geographica,’ 1696, manuscript. 2. A letter in French to the Duke of Perth, dated 4 Sept. 1715, appended to a ‘Reponse de Mathieu Kennedy,’ Paris, 1715, 8vo. 3. ‘Proposals for printing the Chronicle of John Fordun, with the additions and continuation of Walter Bowmaker,’ Edinburgh, 1719. 4. ‘Origine of the Royal Family of the Stewarts; in answer to Dr. Kennedy's … Dissertation,’ &c., with an appendix of charters, Edinburgh, 1722 and 1793, 4to. 5. ‘Vindication of Elizabeth More from being a concubine, and her children from the tache of bastardy, confuting the critical observations of the publisher of the Carta Authentica, and of some other late writers,’ Edinburgh, 1723, 4to; dedicated to President Dalrymple; reprinted in Robert Buchanan's ‘Scotia Rediviva,’ Edinburgh, 1826, 8vo, art. i. 6. ‘Account of the Templars’ [Edinburgh, 1830?], 4to, from the original manuscript in the Advocates' Library. 7. ‘Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale, including Memoirs of his own Times,’ Edinburgh, 1835, 4to. Only 108 small-paper and twelve large-paper copies privately printed. 8. ‘Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn, including the Chartulary of Rosslyn,’ Edinburgh (privately printed), 1835, 4to.

Most of his manuscripts were purchased by the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and are now preserved in their library. A list of them is given in the ‘Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale.’ They include ‘Hay's Memoirs, or a Collection of several things relating to the historical account of the most famed families of Scotland,’ 3 vols.; and ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio,’ 3 vols., documents relating to the history of Scotland. 

HAY, ROBERT (1799–1863), Egyptian traveller and archæologist, born 6 Jan. 1799, was fourth son of Robert Hay of Drumelzier and Whittinghame in Scotland (a great-grandson of John Hay, first earl of Tweeddale) and Janet, daughter of James Erskine of Cardross. Hay, who inherited the estate of Linplum from his brother James, was a pioneer of Egyptian exploration. He was in Egypt as one of the leading members of an archæological expedition between 1826 and 1838. Among his companions were the artists Arundale, Catherwood, J. Bonomi the younger, and E. W. Lane. Besides Egyptian antiquities presented to the British Museum, there are in the department of manuscripts there forty-nine large volumes of archæological and other drawings made during this expedition (Add. MSS. 29812–60), and also part of Hay's own diary (Add. MS. 31054). In 1840 Hay published a folio volume of ‘Illustrations of Cairo,’ lithographed by J. C. Bourne from drawings by O. B. Carter [q. v.] and others. Some of the original drawings for this work are in the print room at the British Museum. Hay married, in 1828, Kalitza, daughter of Alexandros Psarakè, chief magistrate of Apodhulo in Crete, by whom he left two sons. He died at Amisfield, East Lothian, on 4 Nov. 1863. 

HAY, THOMAS, eighth (1710–1787), eldest son of George Hay, seventh earl [q. v.], was carefully educated, and attained some reputation as a classical scholar. In 1736, when Lord Dupplin, he was elected member of parliament for Scarborough, but was unseated on petition. At the general election in 1741 he was returned for the borough of Cambridge, of which he was recorder, and was re-elected in 1747 and 1754. In the last two parliaments he was chairman of the committee of privileges and elections. In 1741 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the revenue in Ireland, and in 1746 was made a lord of trade and plantations. As a member of parliament he gradually rose to a position of influence. In 1751 he was described by Horace Walpole as ‘fond of forms and trifles,’ but ‘not absolutely a bad speaker.’ He took a prominent part in the efforts to improve the condition of Nova Scotia, and in April 1754