ders which Cullen mentions, we find that John Wishart, cordwainer, was slain by James Paterson, hangman of Aberdeen; and the said James hanged, and his head set on the port, therefor. But slayers and slain were generally people of condition, and in such cases we do not perceive that any punishment was inflicted. obtained, in 1528, the king's letters commanding | was stricken by John Master, of Forbes, and Adam the Earl of Moray, lieutenant, "to pass upon the Gordon, brother to Lord Huntly, where the said Clan Chattan and Badenoch, for to destroy them John lost the field, and was taken, and sundry of alutherlie." his kin and friends slain, to the number on both These dreadful letters state that the king and sides of threescore, or thereby; and good Duncan his council (this was under the dominion of the Forbes slain the said day. Gilbert Knowis, elder, Douglases, during the minority of James V.) ad- Burgess of Aberdeen, was slain by James Gordon, visedly considering the great harms and contemp-brother to the Laird of Abergeldy, at the causeway tions done by the Clan Chattan and their assisters end, going to the Cross, on the 1st of December, against the common weal, have determined to 1574. Gilbert Knowis, his son, also was slain on make utter extermination and destruction of all that the same day, by the said James, having in comclan, their assisters and part-takers. They company with him William Davidson, Burgess of mand the Earl of Moray, as lieutenant of the Aberdeen. Among the many other private murnorth, and the sheriffs of the northern counties, to go up in full force, in military array, upon the Clan Chattan, and invade them to their utter destruction, by slaughter, burning, drowning, and other ways, and to leave no creature living in that clan, except priests, women, and children. The destroyers are to take to themselves, for their pains, all the goods of the Clan Chattan which they can seize; and are promised in addition a reward from the king for good service. All who take part with the Clan Chattan are to be treated like them; and not only are the persons executing this decree to be free from all question in respect of the intended invasions, slaughters, burnings, taking of goods, and other mischiefs done to the Clan Chattan or their assisters; but all sharpness done, and to be done upon them, shall be deemed to be lawfully and righteously done. The women and children of the clan are to be taken to the coast, where ships shall be provided, at the public expense, to sail with them forth of the realm, and land with them in Jesland, Zealand, or Norway, because (oh! exquisite tenderness of the royal mercy!) it were inhumanity (!) to put hands in the blood of women and children. The Earl of Moray,* having provided himself with this commission, assembled an army, and surprised the Clan Chattan. He took about 200 of them, together with William, the brother of Hector Macintosh, who had commanded in the incursions. They were all hanged; and William, after his death, was quartered, and his head was fastened upon a pole at Dyke, in Morayshire. His quarters were sent to Elgin, Forres, Aberdeen, and Inverness, there to be set up for an example to others. Not one man of all the 200 could be induced to confess where Hector was, though life was severally promised to every one of them upon this condition, as they were led along to the gallows. Their faith was so true, that they could not be persuaded, either by fair means, or by any terror of death, to betray their captain. Thus were these gallant and true-hearted men destroyed by a stretch of tyrannical wickedness not surpassed in history, Innumerable were the deeds of violence and bloodshed everywhere in those days. Many such acts, public and private, are confusedly chronicled in a sort of rambling diary and obituary kept by one Cullen, Vicar of Aberdeen. Thus, (not to mention the conflicts among the great nobles at court,) on the 10th of October, 1571, the field of Tulliangus was stricken, between Adam Gordon and Arthur Forbes, brother to Lord Forbes, where the said Arthur was slain, with sundry others of his kin on the other side, John Gordon, of Buckie, with divers hurt on both sides. On the 20th day of the succeeding month, the field of Craibstane The massacre of St. Bartholomew is especially noticed: "On the 24th day of August, in the year of God 1572 years, Jasper Cullen, (as the chronologer thinks proper to style Coligny.) great admiral of France, was cruelly murdered in Paris, under color of friendship, at the King of Navarre's bridal, and under night, by the most cursed King of France, Monsieur his brother, and by the device of the pope, cardinals, bishops, abbots, priors, monks, friars, canons, priests, nuns, and whole rabble of that devilish sort of papists, devised at the Council of Trent, whose cruel murder we pray God to revenge. So be it." The country gentlemen appear to have been very glad to serve the offices of provost and bailie, and the borough equally glad to secure their assistance. There was even some struggle for the supremacy in town politics, and a conflict between the open and the close system of elections. Moreover there was a sort of aristocracy among the citizens themselves, consisting of those who were of "the old blood of the town." A deficiency in this kind of gentility was apt to be made matter of reproach against persons in high office. Thus, when Mr. Alexander Jaffray was chosen provost, many held cheap both the man and the election, as he was not of the old blood of the town," but the grandson of a baxter, (baker;)" and, therefore, was set down in the provost's deass, before his entering, ane baken pye to sermon:"* but he had the good sense to take no notice of the indignity. The ancient acts of the Scottish parliament contain interesting notices of what was passing in public and in private life. They evince great solicitude for the public defence. All classes are to be prepared with arms according to their degree; and in order to promote skill in archery, (the great accomplishment of the English yeoman and the vital want of the Scotch, by which they frequently suffered in war,) the old Scottish games of football, and golf, are actually prohibited, and the regular practice of archery is commanded in every parish. It is ordered that there shall be made at each parish church a pair of butts, and that shooting shall be practised every Sunday; that each man shall shoot six shots at least, and those who do not come to shoot, shall be fined twopence a piece, for the archers to drink. There is abundant evidence that the country was extremely poor and unsettled. Lepers formed a numerous * See Sir R. Gordon's History of the House of Suther-class, and they are ordered to remain (except at land. + Spalding Miscellany, vol. ii. * Spalding's History of the Troubles. sive furs; and the men are directed (a difficult, if not impossible task) to make their wives and daughters be habilimented according to their estate; that is to say, on their heads short curches with little hoods, such as are used in Flanders, England, and other countries. As to gowns, it is commanded that no woman wear "tails" of unbecoming length, nor gowns furred under, except on holidays. stated times) at their hospitals and other places bailies, and other good men who are of the counwithout the boroughs. Statute after statute en-cil of the town, and their wives,) are not to wear joins the king's justices to take inquisition of sor- cloths of silk, or costly scarlet in gowns, or expennars, i. e. persons who forcibly took up their quarters in the houses of others;-bards, (Oh Helicon!) masterful or sturdy beggars, and feigned fools; and either to banish them the country, or to send them to the king's prison. If sornars or masterful beggars have any property, it is to be applied to their support in prison as long as it lasts; their ears are then to be nailed to the trone, or some tree, and cut off; after which they are to be banished, and, if found again, to be hanged. No direction is given as to the property of bards; probably because the law did not contemplate the possibility of their having any. Copyright, apparently, had not acquired any great value. Familiar as we are with the early extinction of wolves in England, it is startling to find the Scottish legislature providing in the fifteenth century that wolves' whelps should be hunted by every baron, four times a year, or as often as a wolf appeared; any man who failed to go to the hunt was liable to a fine, while he who brought in the head of a wolf or a fox was entitled to a reward, for the crime of vulpicide, so justly odious in the nineteenth century, was actually encouraged in the dark ages! All birds of prey are to be slain, in order that wild fowl may be preserved; not for sporting, but "for the sustentation of man :" partridges, plovers, gray hens, and moor-cocks, are not to be taken with any manner of instrument from the beginning of Lent until August, and a penalty is fixed for the killing of hares or conies in snow time. The preservation of salmon was also most anxiously provided for; and we have heard of an enactment that the openings in all cruives should we wide enough for a sow (dimensions not stated) to turn in without touching either side with snout or tail! Absenteeism was common, owing to the concentration of estates in a few hands, a process which many of the great families continually carried on, by every kind of fraud and oppression. Proprietors are, therefore, required to repair their castles and manor-houses, and to occupy them either in person or by their friends, so that the produce of the estate may be spent upon it. The planting of trees and hedges, and even the sowing of broom, are from time to time commanded, with an anxiety which shows that little deference was paid to the injunction. * It was hardly to be supposed that in such a state of society it could be thought necessary to enact laws to restrain excess in personal expenditure; yet so it was for all rude governments fall into the error of attempting to govern too much; and at a time when the law was not strong enough to give anything like safety to life or property, all persons except noblemen and their heirs were forbidden to wear embroidery, pearls, or bullion, under pain of escheat of the "array" to the king. And in another act† the lords of parliament, after declaring that the realm in each state is greatly impoverished through sumptuous clothing, both of men and women ("Tis pride that pulls the country down," says the old ballad; and so thought that economical sovereign King Stephen, when he complained of his tailor's charges,) proceed to lay down a vestiary code with edifying minuteness. People in boroughs, living by merchandise, (with the exception of persons in dignity, as aldermen, These rules are prescribed not only to burgesses, but also to poor gentlemen and their wives, living in the country, and having less than a certain income. Workpeople are restricted on workdays to clothes of gray and white, and on holidays to light blue, green, and red; and the women's curches must be of their own making, and not exceeding the price of forty pence the ell, and no woman is to come to kirk or market with her face muzzled or covered, so that she may not be known, under pain of escheat of the curch! The clergy are forbidden to use robes and furred gowns, with the exception of persons "constitute in dignity" in cathedral or college kirk, persons spending 200 marks a year, great nobles, and doctors. These regulations are to be obeyed under pain of the escheat of the habit. It is to be feared, however, that they were not much attended to, for even in the article of "tails" it appears that in the time of James IV. the utmost lawlessness prevailed-since Dunbar speaks of the ladies' trains as "Sic foul tails, to sweep the causeway clean;" and it may be doubted whether the practice has ever yet been brought into conformity with the law. The dainties of the table in Dunbar's time, are noticed by him as follows. He wishes for the king's return from his penance at Linlithgow. "To eat swan, crane, partridge, and plover, And every fish that swims in river; To drink with us the new fresh wine That grew upon the river of Rhine; Fresh fragrant clarets out of France, Of Angers, and of Orleans." It was not till a much later period, that the word claret became restricted to the wines of Bordeaux. There were savans about the court in those days, and, in particular, a native of Lombardy, who caused the king to believe, that he, by his chemical skill, would make fine gold of other metal, which science he called the Quintessence, whereupon the king made great cost, but all in vain! That age aspired, like our own, to the accomplishment of flying, for the king, having despatched an embassy to France on the 27th of September, 1507, the Lombard philosopher took in hand to fly with wings, and to be in France before the ambassadors. And to that effect, he caused a pair of wings to be made of feathers, which being fastened upon him, he flew off the Castle of Stirling, but shortly fell to the ground, and broke his thighbone. This accident he ascribed, not to any imperfection in his theory, but to the circumstance that there were some hen-feathers in the wings, which naturally yearned for and coveted the dunghill, and not the skies. In this attempt, it seems he imitated one Bladud, king of England, who, as histories mention, decked himself in feathers, and *See Bishop Lesley's History. presumed to fly in the air, but falling on the temple of Apollo, broke his neck. A very lofty theoretical view was taken at first of the conscientious obligations of an advocate. Advocates and for-speakers in temporal court pleading, and also the parties that they plead for, if they be plaintiffs, are ordered, before they be heard in any cause, to swear that they believe the cause they are to plead is good and lawful; and if the principal party be absent, the advocate must swear in his stead, according to the sentiments contained in the following "metres :" "Illud juretur, quod lis sibi justa videtur, Alas for all sovereign ladies, and alas for all lords governors! the doom was gone forth-it was too late to interfere with the publication of “books, ballads, songs, blasphemations, rhymes, and tragedies;" that fierce contest of pen and tongue, and hand and heart, had begun, by which Scotland was so long to be distracted, and which was to exhibit such wonderful traits of good and evil, and to develop so remarkably the character of her people. Of the extent to which the spirit of theological discussion pervaded society during this great struggle, an amusing instance is given in one of Howell's letters, written from Edinburgh in 1639, during the sitting of the General Assembly: "The bishops are all gone to wrack, and they have had but a sorry funeral; the very name is grown so contemptible, that a black dog, if he have any white marks about him, is called Bishop. Our Lord of Canterbury is grown here so odious, that they call him commonly in the pulpit, 'The priest of Baal,' and the son of Belial.' It is directed by the same parliament, that when a man wished to appeal against a sentence, he was not to use strong language, but "only to say that the doom is false, stinking, and rotten in itself." It is to be observed, with reference to modern "I'll tell your lordship of a passage which haphabits of speech upon similar subjects, that this pened lately in my lodging, which is a tavern: I license is only given by the statute where the de- had sent for a shoemaker to make me a pair of cision is subject to appeal. But indeed the phrase-boots, and my landlord, who is a pert, smart man, ology of those days of chivalry and romance was rather energetic. The language of the legislature itself is on one occasion a little to the north side of civil towards the king of England. “And because it is verily trusted and supposed that the revare (robber) Edward [IV.] calling himself King of England, through burning avarice, and for false reif (rapine) and conquest, not dreading God, nor the effusion of Christian blood, nor having respect or remembrance that he was obliged and sworn to have kept the truce, but postponing the bond of his loyalty and honor that he should have had, is absolutely set to continue in the way that he has moved and begun, and by all his power tends and shapes to invade and destroy, and, in so far as he may, to conquest this realm," the three estates grant to King James III. supplies for the defence of his kingdom. King Edward, after this, could scarcely inform his parliament " that he continued to receive from all foreign powers assurances of their friendly disposition.' 6 brought up a chopin of white wine (and for this particular there are better French wines here than in England, and cheaper; for they are but at a groat a quart, and it is a crime of a high nature to mingle or sophisticate any wine here.) Over this chopin of white wine, my vintner and shoemaker fell into a hot dispute about bishops. The shoemaker grew very furious, and called them the firebrands of hell, the panders of the whore of Babylon, and the instruments of the devil,' and that they were of his institution, not of God's.' [In short he had a quarrel with episcopacy altogether.'] My vintner took him up smartly, and said, Hold, neighbor there, do not you know as well as I, that Titus and Timothy were bishops? that our Saviour is entitled the bishop of our souls that the word bishop is as frequently mentioned in Scripture, as the name pastor, elder, or deacon? then why do you inveigh so bitterly against them?' The shoemaker answered, I know the name and office to be good, but they have abused it.' My vintner replies, Well then, you are a shoemaker by your profession, imagine that you, or a hundred, or a thousand, or a hundred thousand of your trade should play the knaves, and sell calfskin leather boots for neat's leather, or do other cheats, must we therefore go barefoot? must the gentle craft of shoemakers fall therefore to the ground? It is the "Inasmuch as there are divers printers in this fault of the men, not of the calling.' The shoerealm who daily and continually print books con-maker was so gravelled at this that he was put to cerning the faith, ballads, songs, blasphemations, his last, for he had not a word more to say; so my rhymes as well of churchmen as of temporal per- vintner got the day." sons, and tragedies as well in the Latin as in the English tongue; not seen, viewed, and considered by the superiors, and tending to the defamation and slander of the lieges of the realm; to put a stop to such inconveniences, it is ordained that no printer presume to print any books, ballads, songs, blasphemations, rhymes, or tragedies, either in the Latin or the English tongue, in time to come, until the same be seen, viewed, and examined by some wise and discreet persons, deputed thereunto by the ordinaries, and thereafter a license had and obtained from our sovereign lady, by the lord governor, for printing such books; under pain of confiscation of all the printer's goods, and banishing him from the realm forever." It appears from the following act of parliament,† which is no doubt familiarly known to Lord Campbell, the reformer of the law of libel, that, at a later period, the licentiousness of the press, and its free discussion of questions, sacred and profane, alarmed and irritated the priesthood and the gov ernment : * Statute of 1429. † 1551. ‡ Mary, then in France. The tone and temper of the Assembly of 1638, are strikingly depicted in "Gordon's History of Scots Affairs," printed by the Spalding Club: "How soon the commissioner was gone, candles were brought into the Church, and the moderator began for to exhort the members of the Assembly that since kings were Christ's subjects, no members of that meeting should suffer themselves either for fear of a favor to any man for to be reduced from the obedience to Christ's commands in the least; that now they were to rely upon Christ's immediate presidence amongst them, whom from the very beginning of their business they had found going favorably along with them; that Christ bids all expect that things shall come for best to those who commit themselves to him for their guide; that they needed not for to be discouraged, for any was able to get, according to the king's former blocks that should be cast into their way, specially letters and requests; and to make true report, by with those whereby it was manifestly discovered writing, of every man's forwardness and good will how prejudicial this work they were about was to in this behalf. the kingdom of Satan and of Antichrist, as also how acceptable it was to Christ, the general of this combat, for to rebuild the ruins of his beloved Zion." Nothing, probably, that ever wore a crown was addressed with more outward forms of reverence than the "most dread sovereign" King James; and the following letter from his chancellor, the Earl This was spoken in 1638, not in 1843, by cove- of Dunfermline, displays a thorough acquaintance nanters, not by non-intrusionists. We are not dis- with his learned tasks and the other peculiarities posed to argue the questions then or now under of his character, which, however, were more in discussion, which, indeed, are vitally different from accordance with the prevailing habits of the age, each other; but it is impossible not to observe how than we are wont to imagine. closely the style of the covenanters has of late" Most sacred Sovereign, been imitated; with what quiet assurance it is still assumed that the regulations of an infallible assem"I crave your majesty's favor that it may be bly are equivalent to immediate declarations of lawful to me give entry to this letter, with some divine will, and that opposition can only proceed report of the antiquity. I think to a man that has from the worst agency and the worst motives. delighted all his days in letters, writing to the most The recent troubles of the presbytery of Strath-learned and wise king in the world, it cannot be bogie are well known. It is odd to find their imputed to great amiss, albeit some memory of decessors two centuries ago, in a very similar learning be intermixed therein. I read that Mardilemma. Gordon says that "after the rising of cus Scaurus, a man of great renown among the the assembly, the two commissioners for the pres-tus Varius of a very odious crime, that he should Romans, florente republica, being accused by Quinbytery of Strathbogie went to the king's commissioner, humbly desiring his grace to tell them what they should do, they being cast in two extremes; betwixt disobedience to the king's command, and the members of the assembly, who were resolved all to sit, with whom they would gladly concur, if they thought the hazard were not great to fol low." pre But let us touch no longer upon controversial matters. It will be remembered that the feudal sove have received money from the King Mithridates had deduced all arguments and probations he could for to betray the affairs of Rome: after his accuser devise, he used no other defence than this, Quintus Varius ait, Marcum regia pecunia corruptum, rempublicam prodere voluisse. Marcus Scaurus huic culpa affinem esse negat; utri magis credendum putatis? Which defence was followed with the acclamations of the whole people, condemning the reigns seldom had much money at their disposal, edging the defender's undoubted virtue and honaccuser as a calumniator and a liar, and acknowl and that their only means of exercising any extensive hospitality was by putting in force their rights for his rebellious and seditious conventicles, holden esty. Master John Forbes, a condemned traitor of purveyance and levying contributions on their loyal subjects and vassals. Accordingly, King as general assemblies against your majesty's James VI., his marriage being concluded, writes authority and command, accuses your majesty's to the Laird of Arbuthnot on the "penult" day of chancellor to have given advice, counsel, or conAugust, 1589, stating his hourly expectation of the sent to the holding of the said mutinous assembly. arrival of his queen, and the necessity of receiving and if it might stand with his honor and dignity of Your majesty's chancellor says it is a manifest lie, her, as his ambassador had been received in Den- his place to enter into contestation with such a mark, with honorable entertainment. To this end he throws himself upon the good will of his loving Master John Forbes and all his colleagues abides condemned traitor, could clearly verify the same. subjects, and earnestly desires the laird to send still at the maintenance and justification of that him, in aid of the honorable charges to be made in their assembly, as a godly and lawful proceeding. this action, such quantity of fat beef and mutton, Your majesty's chancellor, by his public letters, wild fowl, and venison, or other stuff, meet for the purpose, as he could possibly provide or fur- he has since condemned the said assembly as a discharged and countermanded the said assembly; nish of his own, or procure from others. The royal feast, however, did not take place so soon as and maintainers of the same as mutinous and sedi seditious and unlawful deed, and all the partakers was expected; for King James's single and soli- tious persons. Your sacred majesty has to judge tary act of gallantry, his voyage to Norway, placed which of those two is most worthy of credit. Furhim at the mercy of the northern storms, raised "by the conspiracies of witches and such devilish ther, I think not needful to trouble your majesty in dragons," (several of whom were executed for this this matter, but some information I have sent to crime,) which detained him for a whole winter. He consoled himself by a free participation in Scandinavian merrymaking, as we learn from his famous letter of promise to Sir Alexander Lindsay, which is dated" from the Castle of Croneburg, where we are drinking and driving ower in the auld manner." [Dunbar says in The Tua maryit wemen and the Wedo, "Thus drave they ower that dear night with dances full noble."] But on his return to Scotland, he again addresses the Laird of Arbuthnot, on the 11th of May, 1590, as hungrily as ever; and requests him, since the voyage has been prosperous, and the day of the queen's coronation is approaching, to bring up" such support of stuff and provision" as the laird had already got, or Mr. Alexander Hay, which it may please your Highness to accept and hear of, when best leisure So most humbly taking my leave, and praying the from more weighty affairs may permit the same. eternal God long to preserve your majesty in all felicity, I rest, "Your sacred majesty's most humble and obedient subject and servitour, "Edr. 25 May, 1606." "Dunfermline. It is well known that persons in high station were in many cases most carefully educated. The Earl of Gowrie, who perished in that fatal mêlée in his castle at Perth, the victim probably of his own vindictive ambition, had lately returned from the continent, rich in all the learning and accom plishments of Europe. The Earl of Aboyne, son | ing any friend who could inform him how the of the Marquis of Huntly, has left lines sufficiently world went; so that he saw many things, but obgraceful and sprightly, of which a specimen follows. EARL OF ABOYNE'S LINES. 1. "It's not thy beauty nor thy wit, That did my heart obtain; Yet true as heretofore, 4. 'Think not my fancy to o'ercome By proving thus unkind, Nor soothing smile, nor seeming frown, 6. "I mean to love and not to doat, I'll love for love again; And still I'll constant be; And, if the time does change your mind, 66 was instructed with A very favorable account is given of the Chancellor Dunfermline, in a little piece of autobiography by his brother-in-law, John, second Earl of Perth. The "chancellor,” he says, most virtues, learned, and heroic qualities, as having spent a great part of his youth in the best towns of Italy and France, where all good literature was professed. A man most meek, just, and wise, deserving greater commendation than paper can contain." 66 served little; for though he always was in good company, yet his companions were unfit for managing affairs, as being mere scholars, and not caring for anything else. At length he went, in 1609, to Paris, "where more was to be seen than in all France else, by reason of the king and court's abiding there with all that great dependence." In the next spring, Henry IV. perished by the hand of Ravaillac, in the midst of his warlike preparations, and Drummond in the same year returned home, where he soon after succeeded his brother in the earldom. The estate was but small, yet by the help of friends and honest management, it proved better than was expected. At that time the Highland district where he lived was much disquieted by the Macgregors, and he exerted himself against them. One of the clan," he says, "for reasons known to himself, alleging that his comrades and followers were to betray him, was content to, take the advantage and let them fall into the hands of justice. The plot was cunningly contrived, and six of that number were killed upon ground, where I with certain friends was present. Three were taken, and one escaped, besides Robin (the traitor) and his man. This execution raised great speeches in the country, and made many acknowledge that these troubles were put to an end, wherewith King James himself was well pleased for the time." After this not very glorious exploit the earl married, and lived an easy life, but lost his wife after a few years. He sent his two eldest sons to France, Dr. Olipher being their govCountess of Roxburgh, sometimes at home, and ernor: his daughters were bred with his sister, the then at court, till they were married. He says that "Though all men were then quiet, yet wanted we not our own particular grievances; sometimes for one cause, and sometimes for another; so that in this life no man with reason can propose rest or security for himself, vexation of spirit and vanity often molesting us. I had much difficulty in settling of differences among friends and neighbors, to keep marches right, [the ancient and modern scurce of discord in Scotland: Dandie Dinmont's plea is familiar to our readers ;] whereupon there The Earl of Perth's account of his own life possesses that interest which a minute and naturallywritten record of occurrences, and, still more, of thoughts, must always in time acquire. He was originally a younger brother. Special care was taken of the education of the eldest, James, Master of Drummond, who was sent to France for his education, like all Scotchmen of condition; and who turned out very well. John was all this time little regarded, and was sent to the school of Dunblaine, where he was but carelessly looked to for seven or eight years, his teachers being ignorant persons, using their slavish discipline, conform to their own humors, teaching Ramus his grammar unpro-and the ruin and confusion of the country, and he He then laments the king's dethronement, fitable." After two years spent in Edinburgh at college, he obtained leave to go to France upon a very mean allowance. This was in his nineteenth year, in the end of 1603. After a very tedious voyage he made his way to Bordeaux, where he met with his countryman, Monsieur Balfour, principal of the college, and a great mathematician, who used him kindly, and with whom he remained three years, and more. He then went to Toulouse, a fair city, and stayed in company with Monsieur Cadan, or Kid, a learned doctor in the laws, and with Monsieur Red, a doctor in physic. nearly a year he frequented the public lectures on the laws, not understanding anything else, nor concludes by complaining that he had been severely fined, and his son subjected to a long imprisonment, and that only for a visit made by the son to his cousin Montrose! Montrose, however, was not such a man that the usurping government could well set down the visit to the score of cousinship only. "No contentment had I all this while, but continual losses either at home or abroad; so that in præsentia, annum agens septuagesimum tertium, senectutis malis quasi fractus, portum exoptans requiem in Christo sempiternam expecto, 20 June, hav-1657." He died five years afterwards, having survived the Restoration. For It is to be regretted that the Earl of Perth did not give us any of the details of rural life, or notice |
