St. Andrews, "not", he says, "to do them good, which I know is impossible, but to heap mischief upon their heads". Nevertheless, Randolph afterwards describes him as "of that sort of men the best in Scotland". On 20 February 1564, Queen Mary applied to Elizabeth for a safe-conduct for Sinclair to go into France, that he "might seek cure and remedie of a certain maladie". The malady was the stone, for which he underwent an operation; but he died at Paris on 2 January 1565. Works Sinclair wrote some additions to Hector Boece's History of Scotland, which his brother, John Sinclair, bishop of Brechin, brought from Paris after his death. It is supposed that John, rather than Henry, was the author of Sinclair's Practicks, a legal work contained in manuscript in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. Dempster (Historia Eccl.) and, following him, Thomas Tanner (Bibliographia Britannica) split this Sinclair into two persons, one of them being represented as dean of Glasgow and lord of session and nephew of the bishop of Ross. The nephew is credited by Dempster with the following legal works: Legum Romanorum ad Leges Scotiæ Municipales Reductio, Lib. i.; Novæ Judiciarii ordinis Leges, Lib. i.; Abrogatio Juris Antiqui, Lib. i. Henderson wrote in the Dictionary of National Biography that "These appellations are doubtless all paraphrastic amplifications by Dempster of the full title of the Practicks above referred to". Sinclair and Conrad Gesner Sinclair supplied descriptions and illustrations of Scottish animals to the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner for inclusion in his Historiae Animalium. These included the solan goose found on the Bass rock, the Scottish bloodhound, and the White cattle of Cumbernauld. Notes References Attribution The entry cites the following sources: Cal. State Papers, For., 1550 to 1565 Reg. P. C. Scotl. vol. i. Further reading 1508 births 1565 deaths Abbots of Kilwinning Alumni of the University of St Andrews Bishops of Ross (Scotland) 16th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Lords President of the Court of Session 16th-century Scottish people Roman Catholic deans Privy Council of Mary, Queen of Scots