Chapter XXXVI: Appendix: No. 1

INTERPOLATIONS AND VARIOUS READINGS IN THE EDITIONS OF
KNOX'S HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION, BY DAVID BUCHANAN,
PRINTED AT LONDON, 1644, FOLIO, AND REPRINTED AT EDINBURGH,
1644, QUARTO, (CONTINUED FROM VOL. I. PAGE 494.)

BOOK THIRD.

(THE PAGES AND LINES AT THE LEFT-HAND SIDE REFER TO THE PRESENT EDITION.)

Page 9, line 18. _that they destroyed not_--to stop them
from destroying.--22. _all credibility_--almost credit.--28.
_they slew_--was slain.

10, l. 9. _but a cowart_--a very coward.--13. _the
said_--and.

11, l. 10. _schybaldis_--scybalds and rascals.--13.
_glansing ... feirceness, stamered almost_--glasing ... fear
stumbled.--20. _scatring ... creatures_--straying and
wandering ... people.

13, l. 1. _xxiij. day_--the thirteenth.--3.
_sea-cost_--coast.--11. _seased_--seized upon.--15.
_foir-ryderis_--forwarners.--17. _the ryveing of a
baird_--pulling of bairds for anger.

14, l. 8. _Verry tyme reteiring_--time returning.--10.
_fouchtein_--foughton with.

15, l. 30. _of Ingland_--of State in England.

16, l. 7. _occupyed_--taken up.--10. _as it_--as the favour
it.--12. _these my presentis_--my present letter.--13.
_breve_--few.

17, l. 9. _and_ p. 21, l. 28. _defectioun_--desertion.

19, l. 9. _cruellie_--rudelie.--19. _guid_--cleare.

20, l. 14. _against_--against, or answered.

21, (_Marginal note wanting._)--9.
_dejectioun_--defection.--10. _thair faces_--faire
faces.--21. _ather yet of any continuance to remaine in
England_--or yet to remain any long time in England.--23.
_furthe to my awin_--thorow to my.

22, l. 12. _theirefter_, (_omitted._)--18. _Yff England_,
(_in margin_,) As England had interest then not to suffer
Scotland to perish, so likewise Scotland hath interest now
[1644,] not to see England undone.

25, l. 17. _naturall_--wise.--32. _humill_--most humble.

26, l. 6. _in tennour as efter followis_--The tenour whereof
follows thus.--11. _in_ a few and simple words of _my_.--15.
_writter_--writers thereof.

27, l. 1. _Chryst Jesus_--for Christ.--2, 3. _of the same
to_, (_omitted._)--7. _nott_--not should.--20. _Quenis
Grace_--Queen's favour.--21. _not_, (_omitted._)--23. _The_
common things here.

28, l. 17. _retract_--recant.--19. _that either your Grace,
either yitt ony_--that your Majesty, or any.--29.
_thristit_--wished.

29, l. 3. _that_--that book.--14. _crouche_--crouche and
bows.--23. _factioun_--fact.--27. _woman_--women to command
and bear rule over men.--30. _before men_, (_omitted._)

30, l. 4. _be long, prosperouse_--be both prosperous.--14.
_hasard_--travall.--21. idollatrie--_idolatry_, going to
Masse under your sister Mary, her persecution of God's
saints.--33. _contrair to nature_--contrary to the ordinary
course of nature.

31, l. 5, 6. _gif the premisses ... neglected, ye sall_--if
you neglect ... these things, and shall.--19. _discretioun
of spreittis_--direction of his spirit.

33, l. 8. _Lords_--Lords of the Congregation.

39, l. 7, 8. _amanges which ... is maid_, (_omitted._)

45, l. 27, 28. _Hamyltoun, second ... the
Counsalle_--Hamilton and others of the Councell.

46, l. 9. _ministeris_--Monsieurs, I had almost said
monsters.--14. _so intollerable_--hath been, I say, so
intolerable.--22. _gentillie ... covenantes_--willingly ...
conditions.

49, l. 10. (_Margin_,) Let us mark our advantage from
France.

53, (_The names arranged in a different order._)

57, l. 1. _army_--armie by land.--22. _catyveis awin
quhynger_--wretches own dagger.--29. _army be land_--of the
land.

61, l. 15. (_Margin_,) The Fourth Covenant.

63, l. 13. _before ... please_--as it pleaseth them.--_In_
pp. 63 _and_ 64, _the passage in brackets, and the marginal
note in_ p. 64, _omitted_.

64, (_Margin_,) Let the Princes now adayes make use of
this.--23. (_Margin_,) So now [1644] the worldlings speak
unto the King concerning the Scots into England.

65, l. 12. _geving us in_--delivering and giving into.--18.
_hir affectiouns_--their affections.--(_Margin_,) The
Hamiltons, namely.

66, l. 23. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

67, l. 19. (_Margin_,) We must go to the first cause in all
things.

70, l. 23. (_Margin_,) Let the Princes now make use of these
words of this dying Queen.

71, l. 12. _annoyntit of_--anointed with extreme unction,
after.--28 _to_ 72, l. 4. _God, for ... to appeir._ The
Guisian councells, as they were wicked and cruell to the
people, so they proved mischievous to themselves, and to
them that followed them, to this day.

72, l. 15. (_Margin_,) Note a Character of Popishly addicted
French Officers of State.

73, l. 3. _transactit and aggreit be the Reverend Father in
God, Johne_--translated and agreed by John--10. _anent
the_--and the.

74, l. 11. _be not affirm it_--be affirmit.--16.
_deprivation_--ruine.

75, l. 25. (_Margin_,) Note how they limit the Prince.

76, l. 27. (_Margin_,) Note how the Prince is limited; and
his will is not a Law.

77, l. 4. _sevintene_--five.--17. _the saidis xvii_--the
said five.

78, l. 10. _not be lefull_--be lawfull.

79, l. 4. _saidis sall oblisse thame_--said States shall
oblige them.--27. _pairtis_, (_omitted._)--31.
_denude_--take from these any of them, their subjects, the
_offices_.--32. _bruikit_--brooked, and enjoyed.

83, l. 7. (_omitted._)--11, 12. _To the loving ...
Christians_--To the glory of the Almighty Lord God, and to
the comfort of all Christians.--23. _charge to the
brekaris_--charge that none shall break the same.

86, l. 21. _aith and covenant_--(_margin_,) Note a Covenant
betwixt England and Scotland, 1560.

88, l. 8-12. (_Margin_,) Some Prelats left Antichrist and
did adhere unto Christ.

92, l. 8. _haif_--leave.--19, 20. (_Margin_,) See how this
agrees with our times.--22. _are not injust_--and are
unjust.

93, l. 8. _Godis word_--God.

95, l. 13. _laitlie_--now again _borne_.

97-120, l. 24 inclusive, (_The marginal notes to the
Confession of Faith are omitted, and the Scripture
references multiplied._)

102, l. 33. _visibillie_ and apparently _returne_.

103, l. 7. _unfaithfull_--unthankful.--12.
_refranit_--reservit.--22. _and supreame_, (_omitted._)

106, l. 6, 10, _and_ 20, _and_ 108, l. 6. (_Marginal notes
omitted._)

113, 114, 116, _and_ 117, (_Marginal notes omitted._)

120, l. 5, 13, 16. (_Clauses in brackets wanting._)--27. 28.
_August_--28. July.--(_Margin_,) This we confirmed, 1567, in
the first Parliament of James 6, held by the Earle Murray,
and all Acts in any Parliament before whatsoever, against
the truth, abolished.

121, l. 2. _Articles_, (_Margin_,) The Lords of the Articles
are a Committee of twenty-four, whereof in former times
there was eight Lords, eight Church-men, who were called
Lords, and eight Commons: So from the greater part they were
named Lords, and of the Articles, because all Articles and
Heads that are to passe in Parliament are first brought to
them, who, having discussed them, sends them to the House of
Parliament. The Latin Histories calls their (thir) Lords of
the Articles _Apolecti_.--7. _could, any_--could say any.

122, l. 2, 3. _and many, the rather, because that the
Bischoppis wold nor durst_--and the rather, because that
fain the Bishops wold, but durst.--(_Margin_,) _vote_ pious
voice.--7. _my God_, who _this day_.--21. _that thei_--that
have.

123, l. 6. (_Margin_,) This Act is particularly confirmed
1567, in the Parliament under James VI., holden by the Earl
Murray.--19. _usurpit_, (_omitted._)

124, l. 7. [ ... ] (_omitted._)--11. _justifieing to the
dead_--chastising by death.--14. _judges
whatsumever_--judges. The Act for abolishing of the Pope,
and his usurped authority in Scotland.--23. (_Margin_,) This
also was confirmed by one particular Act, 1567, by the
Parliament holden by the Earle Murray.

125, l. 2, 6. [ ... ] _omitted_.--8. _sute_--claim.

126, l. 6. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

127, l. 3. (_Margin_,) Note this, I pray you, for these
dayes sake.--11. great _counsallouris_.--12. just
_commandiment_.--21. _since it was_; (he meanes untill 1566,
when this book was written.)--22. misled _Prince_.

128, l. 10. (_Margin_,) See how this agrees with the
worldlings now adayes.--20. _hanged_--crucified.--23. _a
verray Jesabell_--a very evill woman.--(_Margin_,) What
blessings hath been since in the house of Erskin, they know
best.

129, l. 18. _Galloway_, (this Bishop of Galloway, as he
renounced Popery, so did he Prelacie, witnesse his
subscription of the Book of Discipline, as the rest of the
Prelats did who did joyne to the Reformation,) _Alexander
Campbell_, &c.

130, l. 2. _thairto eikked_--thereto asked.--(_Margin._)
Note how although the Prelats being convinced of the truth,
did subscribe unto it, yet it was with this Proviso, That
they should enjoy their rents for their lives.--17.
_invasion_, and common enemies.--(_The remainder of the
paragraph, referring to the Earl of Arran, omitted._)--20.
hard _besieged_.

131, l. 13. (_Margin_,) Note men to their own country.

132, l. 10. (_Margin_,) Note this for our dayes.--18.
(_ib._) Let this teach us to seek God.--25. (_Margin_,)
_Jesabell_--Queen.

133, l. 9. _Mother_ of the King.--11. _Prince_ of Conde _his
brother_.

134, (_Marginal note omitted._)--14. (_Date also on
margin._)

135, l. 3. _The godlie_ ... (_to_ 136, l. 19,) _devoir you_,
(_omitted._)

(_Instead of the verses, Buchanan has inserted the following
statement, and in thus bringing the matter down to his own
time, he has mistaken the allusion in the verses to the
Emperor Charles the Fifth, as if it referred to Charles the
Ninth of France_:)--Some in France, after the sudden death
of Francis the 2^d, and calling to mind the death of Charles
the 9^t in blood, and the slaughter of Henry the 2^d, did
remark the tragicall end of these three Princes, who had
persecuted God's servants so cruelly by their instruments
the Guisians; and by their pens, both in prose and verse,
did advise all other Princes not to authorize any
persecution or wrong done unto God's servants, lest they
should have the like end. And indeed the following Kings of
France unto this day hath found this true by their
infortunate and unexpected ends.

137, l. 4-8. _Ambassadouris ... the pryde_ (_omitted._)--12.
_The Erle of Arrane_ having suffered repulse in his designe
to marry the Queen of England, he begane to fancie unto
himselfe _that the Queen of Scotland_.--18. Such
_answer_.--21. _then_ his friends _wold have wissed_, for
grief he was troubled in his understanding.--24. _churches_
abroad, _and some_.--25. _letteris_, (_omitted._)

138, l. 4. _conference_ alone, the Erle of Arrane was in
Jedburgh, to whom.--11. _purposes; and he_ comforting them;
For _whill (we say) thei three_--18. _devulgat and_,
(_omitted._)--24. _sub-principall_, and under-master of one
of the schools _of Abirdene_.

139, l. 13. (_Margin_,) Note this well.

140, l. 16. _Messe is_ said to be _a sacrifice_.

141, (_First marginal note taken into the text.--Second
marginal note omitted._)--10. (_Margin_,) Note Lesly his
answer.--12. "That is Anno 1566 when this book was
written."--14. _for_ we understand _that_ ... _gett_ and
bastard.--20. _doted_ and endowed.

142, l. 18. (_Margin_,) Note the liberality of the Earle
Murray.

143, l. 30. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

144, l. 1, 3. _Superintendent_, and all other ministers at
Edinburghe.--4. _minister_--then preacher.--6, 7.
_Superintendents_, or overseers.--8. Fourth _and_.

145, l. 10. _Superintendent_ or overseer.--25. (_Margin_,)
Where then are pluralities and fatnesse of livings in our
dayes.

146, l. 5. _Marie_, (_omitted._)--31. (_Margin_,) Let the
Churchmen now adayes look to this.

147, l. 24. (_Margin_,) What can the Prelates say to
this.--29, 30. _Superintendent_, or overseer and minister.

148, l. 3. _ministry_ and watching over you _against_.--23.
_so luifit_--loved.--25. ignominious _deyth_ ... thy _most_
precious and _innocent_.--27. _thy_, (_omitted._)--_in_
recent _memory_.

149, l. 9. _dregis_--degrees.--22. _and then_, (_omitted._)

151 to p. 154 _inclusive_ (_omitted._--_See footnote_, p.
151.)

155, l. 10. _fleschour_ or boutcher.

156, l. 1. _boistit_ and threatened.--4. (_Marginal note
enlarged._)--See the study of France to divide the two
kingdoms newly bound for maintenance of Religion against the
common enemies.--21. (_Margin_,) The Protestants
faithfulness ill rewarded.

157, l. 7. (_Margin_,) A foolish play used in time of
darknesse, hence we say any foolish thing to be like a play
of Robin-Hood.

158, l. 20. _unhonest_--and honest.--28. _quhilk_--till.

159, l. 10. _five deaconis_--six deacons.--25. _penny_, or
afternoon's pint.

160, l. 5, 6. _spare it_, nor forget it.--11. _haif_ heard
_befoir_.--23. _to purge_--to repugne.--(_Margin_,)
death--_buriall_.--25. _was_ wrapped _in a_ coffin _of
lead_.

161, l. 3, 4. _It may ... this Realme_--As men do, so they
receive.--10. _calsay_ or street.--20. _usaris_--hanters.

162, l. 10. _and that ... thairupoun_, (_omitted._)

163, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--20. (_ib._) Let
this also be considered, and referred to our times.

165, l. 14. _upone the_ now decayed _Pont of Change_.

166, _after_ l. 16. The Lords answer to the French
Ambassadour.--17. (_Margin_,) Reader, remark the advantages
that Scotland hath from France.--29. (_Margin_,) A good
character of Bishops.

167, l. 9. (_Buchanan's edition has the words in brackets._)

168, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Let us stick to God, and he will not
leave us.

169, (_Inserted_,) The Ambassador's letter, _followed by_
Madame.--1. (_The date is put to the end._)--(_All omitted
before_) _I send_.--8. _so_, I told her, _did_.--10.
_offices_ of civilitie.--12. _proporte_--tenour.--20.
_answer_, as followeth, (_title_.)--23. a verray gude case,
and in way of a full recoverie.--26.
_respect_--defer.--(_Margin_,) Faire words to no purpose.

171, l. 24. (_Margin_,) _Lyet not_--said not amisse.

172, l. 15. _the King_ of France.--23. _dissimulatioun_ and
policy, as thay terme it now adayes.--30. (_Margin_,) _The
consecratioun ... you_, (_omitted._)

173, l. 9. _my Lord_, the.--12. _Caiaphas_--The High
Priest.--23. (_Margin_,) _Bot ... him self_, Notwithstanding
his own disorder.--30. (_Marginal note omitted._)

174, l. 13. _amitie_, of which there should be no want on
hir behalf.--23. _renuncit_--renewit.--_oure_ ill-counselled
and misled Queen.--29. _And ... thrid_, (_omitted._)

175, l. 25. (_Margin_,) Note this false lye, and see how it
answers to the calumnies of these dayes.

177, l. 1. (_Margin_,) _Princes hath_ regarded _that_.--4
_or_ 5. (_Marginal note omitted._)--30. (_Margin_,) All
power is not then in the Prince, if the States have any, as
they have. Note this.

178, l. 31. Madame, _Pleis_.

179, l. 8. _in Goddis presence_, (_omitted._)--13.
_allegeance_--obedience.--21. Note the Scots
acknowledgement.

180, l. 12. _Thorntoun_--Throgmorton.

181, l. 2. _Roman harlot_--Roman Antichrist.--7. _to_ p.
182, l. 5. (_This paragraph is wholly omitted; and in its
place we read_:--)

The Books of Discipline have been of late so often published, that we shall forbeare to print them at this time, hoping that no good men will refuse to follow the same, till God in a greater light establish a more perfect.

183-260, THE BUKE OF DISCIPLINE: _see_ No. II. _of this
Appendix, page_ 587.

BOOK FOURTH.

263, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Isaiah xl. 31.--9. (_ib._) A true
acknowledgement of man's weakness, to the glory of God; and
as it was then, so hath it been in this last Reformation.

264, l. 7. _(Margin_,) As it was then, so it is now, by
God's mercies to that nation.--11, 12. _our_ own
_wisdome_.--24. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted for example.

265, l. 5. _till that mo Pharaoes then_--till that now the
Pharaohs then.--11, 12. 1566 _in May_--in May 1561.--15.
(_Margin_,) _the words_, of the Kirk, (_omitted._)--26. _may
nott_ these men _have_ their _Masse_, _and the form of_
their.

266, l. 9. (_Margin_,) He means the Lord James, Earle
Murray.--16. _suche deape root in flesche and bloode_, and
was (as yet alas they are) _preferred to God, and to his
messengeris rebucking vice and vanity_, that from thence
_hath all our miserie proceeded_.--33. (_Margin_,) Wicked
Councellours fathers all their mischievous plots upon misled
Princes, and causeth them to take all things upon them.

267, l. 10. _to justice_, (_omitted._)--17. (_Margin_,) The
Queen's arrival from France, 1561.

268, l. 4. (_Margin_,) Triste et Lugubre Coelum.

269, (_Margin_,) (_Buchanan agrees with footnote 1._)

270, (_The footnotes 1, 3, and 5, agree with MS. G._)--16.
_to bolden_--to be emboldened.

271, l. 2. (_Margin_,) _Lord James_, notwithstanding his
former zeal to the Truth, complying with the Court,
favoureth Idolatry.--8. (_Note omitted._)--12. (_Margin_,) A
godly resolution.

272, l. 20. _may be_, to their serious consideration. _And_
lest _that_.

273, l. 1. _thame selflis_ in the meanetyme, while.--5.
_contentment of_ all, the law bidding, _That nane_.--20.
_derisioun_--assault.--31. (_Margin_,) The Lord Arran's
stout and godly protestation against the Queen's Masse.

274, l. 31. (_Margin_,) Good resolution, if followed.

276, l. 23. (_Margin_,) The _Courteouris_ making
(mocking.)--31. (_ib._) Note diligently how wise and godly
men are so mistaken oft, as to play after games: and this M.
Knox doth acknowledge here.

277, l. 5. (_Marginal note omitted._)--9.
_slokin_--slacken.--34. (_Margin_,) Note how that Princes
are informed against God's servant.

278, l. 11, 12. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted
diligently.--15. (_ib._) Let the Prince note this.--33.
(_ib._) Let this wise reply be noted.

279, l. 18. _Nero_, the Roman Emperour.--23.
_Jesabell_--Mary.--28. _authoritie_--anxietie.

280, l. 12. (_Margin_,) Note this undertaking.

281, l. 27, 29, _and_ 282, l. 10. (_Marginal notes
omitted._)--13. (_Margin_,) Note this comparison.

283, l. 1. _shall_ not only _obey you_. (_Marginal note
omitted._)

284, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Strong imagination called
conscience.--4. (_ib._) Question.--12. _and_ 23. (_ib._)
(_omitted._)

285, l. 20. _my lyeff_--my self.--25. _so say_ you, (quoth
the Queen,) and I believe it hath been to this day. (Quoth
he,) for how.

286, l. 7. (_Margin_,) Note this.--20. _faileth me_: and
this, I say, with a grieved heart, for the good I wish unto
her, and by her to the Church and State.--22. _chosen_,
where _were_.--24. _Lord James_, after Earle Murray; and
these were appointed as certain _to wait_.--27. _Duck
D'Omell_--Duke D'Anville.

287, l. 4. _idolatrie_--idolatrous Masse. _Fyre followed_
the Court, _commounlie_.--7. they _returned_.--8. the Queen
_was received_.

288, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Note the disposition of a misled
soul.

289, l. 9. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

290, (_Both marginal notes omitted._)--11. _iniquitie,
Jessabellis letter_--impiety, the misled Queen's
_letter_.--16. _that_ the Queen's unreasonable _will_.--19.
(_Margin_,) Yet in the Parliament holden in 1563, there is
ane express Act for punishing of adultery by death: It is
the Act 74.--25. _from_ this _bondage_ of sin.

291, l. 2. _Queen_ (evil men abusing her name and authority)
_took upoun hir_.--3. _Baalles_--Balaam's.--7. (_Margin_,)
Note this.

292, l. 26. _Liddisdaill_, except that _execution was_ then
_made in_ Edinburgh, _for_ her _twenty-aught_.

294, l. 12. _sche could_ dissemble _in full perfection, but
how soon that ever_ the French people had her _alone_, they
told her, "That since she came to Scotland," _she saw_
nothing there _but gravitie which repugned altogether to
her_ breeding, _for_.

296, l. 6. (_Margin_,) The Queen fain would have all
Assemblies discharged.--24. (_ib._) Note this diligently.

297, l. 8, 9. _Quene to_--be sent to her Majestie,
_if_.--14. _scripped at_--stopped. (_Margin as at_ 296, l.
24.)--28. _dayis_, the hearers thereof were resolved, _as
all_.--(_Margin_,) Note this passage.

298, l. 4. _The Baronis_--Thomas Borrows.--7.
_provisioun_--propositions.--13. _But_, when.--16, 17.
_intromitted_ and middled: _and so_.--19. _wold no moir_
cause rents to be paid unto any that formerly belonged to
the Churchmen, nor suffer any thing to be collected for the
use of any whosoever, _after the Quenis_.

299, (_The date of the Art_, vicesimo; _and the Sederunt
omitted_.)

300, l. 10. _the rest of_ the States _mycht have_
appeared.--23. _content_ with the two _partis ... and the
third parte_.

301, l. 3. _Ferd_--fourth.--8. _mair, quhill_--more, if.

304, l. 21, 22. _Superintendentis_, overseers, _ministers_.

306, l. 5. _mailles_, tythes, or teynds, _fermes_ ...
_canis_--fruits.--28. _furtheumand_--forth commanded.

307, (_The Sederunt omitted._)--11. _hir Majestie_'s present
wants, _and other particulare_.--25. _thair rentattis_,
whole and full, _intromissioun_.

308, l. 4. _fundin and declarit_--ordained and
declared.--33. _Elgin in Murray_--Elgmen, Murray.

309, l. 10. _the_ voting and _maiking_.--17, 18. (for) _the
Cleark of Registre, and the Secretar_--the Steward and
Controller.

311, l. 6. 100 markis, (_Margin_,) That is five old
pieces.--10. _nygartnesse_--ingratitude,--17, 18.
_Comptrollare ... his awin_--Controllers ... their own.--19.
(_Margin_,) _Ane Proverb_ upon Pittaro, Controller.

312, l. 16. _a thousand pound_--a hundred will suffice.--23.
_smyled_--singled.--29. (_Margin_,) The right that Princes
have to the patrimony of the Church.--32. _Quenis_
flatterers _bettir_.

313, l. 5 _Queene, and her_--Queene's.--7. _but_ her
flatterers.--10. _sche and hir faction_--the Court
faction.--13. _Quene_ and King.

314, l. 1. _Earle of_ Murray.--3. At the blessing of _the
marriage_.--(_Margin_,) _Marriage of the Earl of_ Murray.

315, l. 13. who was suspected to have been in love with the
said Alison.--14. _raritie_--veritie.

316, l. 21. 317, l. 10. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

318, l. 3, 4. _for sche lacks ... in especiall_,
(_omitted._)--10. _others_--Scotland.--_is free_--she did
see so _free_.

319, l. 15, 22. _joyousitie_--jollity. It had been good for
our Queene that she had been brought up in better company,
both for her credit and for the course of her life: And it
may be, that her excellent naturall endowments had been
better employed for her reputation and happinesse then they
were to her great misfortune, and to the grief of those that
wished her truely well. _But punishment_, &c.--(_Both
marginal notes in this place omitted._)--25 _to_ 320, l. 1.
_Some ... lamented_, (_omitted._)

320, l. 15, 16. _Erle Bothwell and his_ son, _that_.

321, l. 6, 7. _but as hap ... keapt him_, (_omitted._)--10.
_The Master of Maxwell_, (after Lord Herreis) _gave_.

322, l. 12. _convened_--remained.

323, l. 3. (_Margin_,) The Earl of Bothwell's communication
with John Knox, 1562.--25. _my_ great grandfather,
grandfather--and _father_.--(_Margin_,) Note the
compliment.

324, l. 7, 8. _of God_, wherefore he _often_.--12.
(_Margin_,) Note diligently.--21. _commonyng_--coming.--23.
_Borthwick_--Berwicke.

325, l. 3. _certane_--vertue--8. _Gavin_--Gabriel.

326, l. 6. _Gawane_--Gabriel.--7. _Kynneill_--Enmell.--11.
_upon_ the third _day_.--19. reasonably _betrayed_.

327, l. 8. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--24. (_line
omitted._)

330, l. 10. _dansing_--mirth.--14. _Quenne had_ been merry,
excessively dancing _till after_.--15.
_persecutioun_--pacification.

331, l. 21. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

333, l. 19, 22. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

334, l. 4. (_Margin_,) Let Princes note this.--24.
(_Margin_,) Let Court chaplains and unthrifts of the time
note this.

335, l. 20 _to_ 336, l. 3. _liked_ not our Queene one whit,
for as yet she could not resolve to be wife to the King of
Sweden, having been lately Queene of France: And yet she
refused not one much inferiour to a Soveraigne King.

336, l. 4. (_Margin_,) The Earle of Lennox and his lady
imprisoned in the Tower of London for traffiquing with
Papists.

337, (_Margin_,) _Anno 1566 in Maij_, (_omitted._)

338, l. 5, 6. _From_ the Father.--8, 9. _by the Eternall
God_, (_omitted._)--25. _and_ base _service_.--31. _Word
and_, (_omitted._)

339, l. 11. _and body_, if you do not repent.

340, l. 2. _for lack of punishment_,
(_omitted._)--(_Marginal note omitted._)--15. _neglecting_
the execution _of his_.--20. (_Margin_,) Note
diligently.--23, 24. _pay their_ hire, _that_.

341, l. 19, 20. _that some ... releaf and_, (_omitted._)

342, l. 17. _Last_--Sixthly.--22. Seventhly, _we
desire_.--33. _Farther, we most_--Eightly, we most.

343, l. 8. _dyttament_--judgment.--15. (_Margin_,) Note that
diligently.--20. (_Margin_,) Note this for our times.

344, l. 31. _and wemen_, (_omitted._)

345, l. 8, 9. _hurt, and_ was for a long time _mutilat_.

346, l. 2, 18. broke the prison.--(_Margin_,) _ward_ or
prison.

347, l. 10. (_Buchanan substitutes for the note_)--Note
another wavering of the Hamiltons.--21. (_Margin_,)
Commissionaris, (_omitted._)

348, l. 3. (_Margin_,) A new Covenant 1562.--6. _and
assist_, (_omitted._)--7. _offered_ and granted _unto_.--21.
Erratum 1552.

352, (_Marginal vote omitted._)

353, l. 25. _malice_--matter.

354, l. 6. _inflammed_--angred.--11. _sone_ to _James_.--12.
_of soldartis_, (_omitted._)--(_Margin_,) the day of
Corrichie-fiold, Octob. 22. 1562.

355, l. 9. _houris_ in the morning.

356, l. 5. _foote_ and _maid_.--10. (_Marginal note
omitted._)--16, 17. _keapt thame ... The Erle_,
(_omitted._)--(_Margin_,) _at Corrichie_, (_omitted._)

357, l. 2. _this day_, (_omitted._)--3, 4.
_injustlie_--justlie.--5. _on_ the _sweird_.--9.
_joyned_--rejoyned.--15. _ney_, (_omitted._)--21.
_over-thorte_ or upon _a pair_.--(_Marginal note omitted._)

358, l. 3. (_Note taken into the text._)--11, 12. _against
... plainess_, (_omitted._)--29. (_Margin_,) Let others that
yet live mark this.

361, l. 2. _unhappilie_--truely.--14. _tacken_ upon me
_the_.

362, l. 6. (_Margin_,) _Upon_ the Courteouris.--18. _Like
MS. G, in footnote._

363, l. 1. (_Marginal note altered_,) The end declared their
words to be true.--22. _youth_ amongst them, _whom_.

364, l. 25. (_Margin_,) The tryall of Paul Meffene's fact.

365, l. 6. _oppressed_--suppressed.--30. (_Marginal note
omitted._)

366, l. 6. _Edinburgh_--Dundie.

367, l. 1. _light and darknes betwix_, (_omitted._)

368, l. 3, 4. _fassionis_ not agreeable to the gravity of
_honest women_.--7 _to_ 13. _All this winter Chattellet was
so familiar_ with the Queen, that the Nobilitie being by
this means stopped to have so free accesse as they thought
fit and due unto them, were highly offended; at length
Chattelett having conveyed himselfe privately _under the
Quenis bed_.--30. _lyeth in me to_ give your Majestie
content.

369, l. 13. _luvaris may devine_--I leave to
conjecture.--18. (_Margin_,) death and famine.--22 _to_ 370,
l. 1. _the famyn_ in the wheat, the beare or barley, the
meale, the oates, beefe, mutton, &c., were exceeding dear
and scanty; yea, _all things_.

370, l. 4, 5. _wicked_ rulers.--_suffered hir_--suffered
them.--8. _court_--city--_that wicked woman_--the prophane
Court,--14. (_Note omitted._)

371, l. 18. _of God_, (_omitted._)--20, 21. _the Quene_--the
Court _she_, they.--22. _she send for Johne_--the Queen
advised to send.

372, l. 24-27. _And in this case_--_unpunissed_,
(_omitted._)--34. and that not, but in God ye are bound.

374, l. 23. (_Margin_,) Bishop of Cathnes.

375, l. 13. (_Margin_,) The Lady Argile was naturill Sister
to the Queen, as the Earle Murray was naturall Brother.

377, (_After the 7th, insert_) My Lord.--17. _withdraw_ your
conversation _from hir_.--21. _unto hir_ in all due
benevolence.

378, l. 9. _convict hir of_ any fault _since_.

379, l. 9. the Parliament of Pope's knights appeared. The,
&c.--16. _unfreindis_--friends.--19. (_Margin_,) The Clergie
did pretend to be free from all Jurisdiction, save the
Popes.

380, l. 1. _Norwell_--Horwell.--(_Marginal note
omitted._)--8, 9. parenthesis, (_omitted._)--13. _gioun._ At
that Parliament, (_new paragraph._)

381, l. 3. _Lairdis_--Earles.--5. _law_ or Counsellor.--5-7.
_in that ... Whytlaw_, (_omitted._)--12. (_Marginal note
omitted._)--16. _the_ superfluities of their cloathes,
_and_.

382, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note diligently. And so was
_religion_, &c.--8. (_Margin_,) Occasion painted with a bald
hind-head.--27. _long_ to.

383, l. 7. _betwix ... Knox_--betwixt them.--11.
_slocken_--slacken.--11. (_Margin_,) God knowes if our times
be better.

384, l. 2. (_Marginal note omitted._)--21. _the_ charges _of
Edinburgh_.

385, l. 3. _Queen_ sayes you _will not agree with us_.--6
_with_ them in.--27. But this my Lordis will (I say) note.

387, (_The marginal notes omitted._)

388, l. 4. (_Margin_,) Let this serve for our times.--17.
_conscience_--office.--20. _shall_ be content, and
_consent_.--_unfaythfull_--unlawfull.

389, (_Margin_,) Note women.

390, l. 4. _fard_--heat.--6. (_Marginal note omitted._)

391, l. 14. (_Marginal note omitted._)--22. (_ib._) Note
diligently.

392, l. 8. _wickedness_--fury, (_also_, 393, l. 5.)--18.
_thair ... throttes ... mouthes_--his ... throat ... mouth.

394, l. 19. _hamesukken_--having made.

395, (_2d marginal note_,) _quhingar_--weapon.

396, l. 2. _15th_--five and twentieth.--23. _Messe_,
publikely _to_.

397, l. 3. _be made_ to the country, _and that_.--7.
(_Margin_,) Bond to a mutuall defence in the cause of
Religion.--(_The note is omitted._)

398, l. 8. (_Margin_,) Note Pastors.

399, (_In the foot-note to line 12, Buchanan agrees with MS.
G. Instead of the 2d marginal note, he adds to the 1st_,
"and their reasoning together.")

400, l. 2. _day_, (_omitted._)

401, (_2d marginal note omitted._)

402, l. 19. (_Margin_,) Note a wise reply.--29. _trouble_
me.

403, l. 8. _noumer_--number.

401, l. 5. _lackit_ nathing of an _womanly gravitie_.--11.
caused me to crie, and shed _never_.--12. _greit_--grieve.

405, l. 23, 25, 27, 32. _convocation_--vocation.

406, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--23.
_unlauchfull_--lawfull.

408, l. 1. (_Margin_,) As the Irish Papists have done to
Protestants in Ireland.--18. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted
for this day.--28. _ane liar and_, (_omitted._)--32, 33. _I
am_ commanded in my conscience to speak the truth, and
therefore the truth I speak, _impugne_.

409, (_Margin_,) _quhat_, ensued.--11, 12. _and conjureit
... Christ_, (_omitted._)--_smyleit_--singled.

410, l. 2. (_Margin_,) Note Pastors.--5. _onie upfall_,
(_omitted._)--20-22. _to see ... rejoise_, (_omitted._)

411, l. 19. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

412, l. 17. (_Margin_,) Note _the craft of the Court_.--24.
(_Note taken into the text._)--27. (_Marginal note
omitted._)

413, l. 5, 6. _but of ... Borrowis_, (_omitted._)--18.
(_Margin_,) Note.

414, l. 10. _als_--all.--_haif_ power to.--23. _Sir Johne
Ballentyne_, (_omitted._)

415, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Remark false brethren.--(_ib._)
_Sempill and Levingstoun_, (_omitted._)

417, l. 1. _delyver us from the_ wickedness of this corrupt
Court, for thy own name's sake.--(_Margin_,) _Prayit ...
authoritie_, (_omitted._)--10-12. _And ... houris_--(_this
sentence is nearly repeated on margin._)--20. _the
suspitioune of_, (_omitted._)--(_The three last marginal
notes omitted._)

418, l. 20. _sik_, him.--_Nobill-wemin_--Nobleman.--23.
_coule_--kowll.--(_Margin_,) Cucullus.--29. (_Marginal note
omitted._)

420, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note how this agrees with our
time.--25. _Papists_--Priests.

421, (_Buchanan has the marginal notes mentioned in last
foot-note._)

422, l. 1. _began_ one David, an Italian, _to_.--3. _in
France_, (_omitted._)--5, 6. _to speik_, and refer it to
another fitter occasion of time and place, _becaus ...
whole_. The first day.--(_Clause in brackets and marginal
note omitted._)

423, l. 9. _Rothes_--Lord Rosse.

424, l. 10-14. _but, because ... publict audience_,
(_omitted._)--25, 26. (_By a semicolon misplaced, Hay
appears as Superintendent of Glasgow instead of Willok._)

425, l. 23. (_Margin_,) John Knox his answer.

427, l. 17, 24. (_Margin_,) Note diligently, and see how the
Bishops did forbid to pray for the conversion of the Queen
that now is in Britain.

435, l. 2. _present_--publike.

436, l. 6. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted diligently.--9.
[_the poweris_,] (_omitted._)

437, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note this.--23. (_ib._) Note this
Discourse diligently.

438, l. 7. _nocht_, (_omitted._)

439, l. 24. _but_, (_omitted._)

440, l. 3. (_Margin_,) God craves of us, that we oppose
ourselves to iniquity.

441, l. 4-7. _unless that ... the deith_, (_omitted._)

442, l. 13. _tuik_--think.

443, l. 9. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted for our times.--34.
_acknawlege_ and esteem the benefits received, _when_.

444, l. 9. (_Margin_,) Whether this hath come to passe or
not, let the world judge.

445, l. 8. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

447, l. 13. "_He be his owin commandment_," &c. _Between
these words and "sik as craif,"_ &c., 418, l. 13, _a whole
page is omitted_.--_Thus the passage in Buchanan's edition
is quite unintelligible_, viz., He by his own word confounds
all such as crave further approbation of God's will, &c.

449, l. 3. (_Margin_,) When the Prince does serve God
sincerely in private and publike, and hath a care that the
people do the same, then assuredly they are faithfull to
him: but if he faile in these, or in either of them, he
findes disobedience in his people, because he is not
carefull to obey God, and to see him obeyed. Deut. 13, 13. 2
Paral. 26.-24. (_Margin_,) Let this be applyed to the late
affairs of Scotland.

451, l. 15. _ye will_ not _say_.

452, l. 24. _deith_--punishment.--33.
_thairintill_--therefore.

453, l. 22. _either misknaw_--must either know.--29.
_tyrant_--misled King.

454, l. 1. _scripped_--stouped.

455, l. 10. _voit_--wrote. (_To each of the two names in the
margin of pages 455 and 456, is added_) his vote.

457, (_The Latin original of the_ Conclusio,
_omitted_.)--13. _deposed_--bridled.--_also_ 458, l. 12.

458, l. 23. (_Buchanan agrees with second foot-note._)--10.
(_Margin_,) Note diligently.--_also_ 459, l. 3.

460, l. 19. _be knawin_--he knew.

461, l. 17. (_In the second foot-note Buchanan agrees with
MS. L, 4. Marginal vote omitted._)

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A few particulars respecting DAVID BUCHANAN, the Editor of Knox's History, may be subjoined to the preceding collations. The author of the Genealogical Account of the Buchanans, in 1723, states that he was the second son of William [John] Buchanan of Arnpryor, an ancient family in the parish of Kippen, Stirlingshire. John Buchanan, eldest son of the late John Buchanan of Arnpryor, had a charter of the lands of Arnpryor, 3d May 1598; and having sold the estate of Arnpryor to Sir John Buchanan of Buchanan, he settled in Ireland. He was killed by the Irish rebels in 1641. "There was a younger brother, Captain William, a gentleman of very much courage, and of the greatest art and dexterity in managing a sword of any of his time;" and two instances of his prowess are related in that work, (p. 61.)

David Buchanan, whom the above author describes us "a gentleman of great learning, who flourished in the latter part of the reign of James the Sixth," was born towards the close of the sixteenth century, probably about the year 1592. He appears to have prosecuted his studies during part of the usual course in St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, where he matriculated or became an Intrant in the spring of 1610. It has not been ascertained at what University he took his degree of Master of Arts; or, indeed, any particulars of his mode of life for a period of upwards of twenty years. According to his own words, he must have spent many years on the Continent, and is not improbable he may have filled a Professor's chair in one of the Protestant Colleges in France. In 1636, he published a learned work under this title: "Historia Animæ Humanæ, Auctore Davide Buchanano, Scoto. (No place of printing,) M.DC.XXXVI." Small 8vo. This was followed by a similar treatise in French, entitled "Histoire de la Conscience, M.DC.XXXVIII." 12mo.

From a passage in Milton already referred to, (vol. i. p. xlii,) it would seem as if the publication of Buchanan's edition of Knox's History of the Reformation had been delayed by the Censor of the Press in 1644. The preceding collations, (for which, and also for those in the next Article of this Appendix, I am indebted to the unwearied care and accuracy of my venerable friend, MR. MEEK,) serve to show the actual liberties Buchanan has taken with the text. Frequent instances of palpable blunders will be observed, as if the Editor himself had not corrected the proof-sheets. In the marginal notes he has added various allusions to his own times; and the interpolations he has introduced into the text are remarkable, chiefly on account of the anachronisms; and as these have been laid hold of, in some measure, to discredit the authenticity of the original work, it has thus been rendered necessary to take so much pains in collating his editions with the genuine text. In regard to passages omitted, or expressions modified and softened, it is highly probable that this may have proceeded from the Licenser of the Press in London, rather than Buchanan himself; and whether similar or even greater liberties may have been taken with Book Fifth, we have unfortunately no means of ascertaining.

In the following year Buchanan published at London a little volume, which, with another tract printed in 1646, involved him in some trouble. Baillie, who was personally acquainted with him, in a letter to Spang, who was then Minister of Campvere in Zealand, in June 1645, speaks of "your cousigne, Mr. David Buchanan, as a most honest and worthy man." In a subsequent letter, dated 24th April 1646, he says, it was thought necessary that the Papers given into Parliament by the Scottish Commissioners should be printed; and "among others, Mr. DAVID BUCHANAN, _a most sincere and zealous gentleman, who has done both in write and print, here_ (in London) _and over-sea, many singular services to this Parliament, to his Nation, and to the whole Cause_; ... hazarded to print them with a Preface of his own, and an introduction, both very harmless and consonant to the three following papers which we had given in to both Houses." Baillie further adds, that within two or three days, 3000 or 4000 copies were sold; and that this having excited the indignation of "our small friends," both Houses of Parliament agreed in ordering the books to be burnt by the hands of the hangman, and in denouncing the publisher, Mr. Buchanan, as an incendiary. (Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. ii. p. 367.) The two publications thus referred to were,--

"Truth its Manifest; or a short and true Relation of divers main Passages of things, (in some whereof the _Scots_ are particularly concerned,) from the very first beginning of these unhappy Troubles to this day. Published by Authority. London, printed in the year 1645." 12mo, pp. xviii., 142.

"Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, given in lately to the Houses of Parliament, concerning the Propositions of Peace. London, printed for Robert Bostock, &c., April 11, 1646." 4to, pp. 26.

The following extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons confirm Baillie's statements:--

On the 10th April 1646, the House of Commons "Ordered, &c., That the Report concerning a Book, entituled, 'Truth's Manifest,' be made on Monday morning," &c. (Journals, vol. iv. p. 505.)

"Die Lunæ, 13^o Aprilis 1646. Mr. Lisle reports the state of the business concerning the printed book, intituled, 'Truth's Manifest;' read many passages out of it; and said, The Author of it was one Mr. Buchanan; who delivered one of the said books to the Committee, and did avow it to be his writing.

"Resolved, &c., That Mr. David Buchanan be forthwith sent for, as a Delinquent, by the Serjeant at Arms attending on this House; and brought to the Bar to-morrow morning.

"Resolved, &c., That the book intituled, 'Truth's Manifest,' does contain in it many matters false and scandalous; and they do _Order_, That the said book be forthwith burnt by the hands of the common hangman." (ib. p. 507.)

On the same day, the House also declared, that the book entituled, "Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, given in lately to the Houses of Parliament, concerning the Propositions of Pence, doth contain in it matters scandalous and false," &c., and was Ordered to be burnt, &c. (ib. p. 507.) But this declaration was so far modified on the 20th April, in restricting the sentence simply to the Editor's Epistle and Tract, "The State of the Question concerning the Propositions of Peace," (which are prefixed by the Editor, on three leaves, after the title page.) (ib. p. 517.)

During the latter period of his life, Buchanan was engaged with Gordon of Straloch in illustrating the topography and antiquities of his native country, in connexion with the great Atlas of Scotland, which was published in Holland, by Bleau, in 1654. His papers afterwards fell into the hands of Sir Robert Sibbald, by whom some of them were printed. Two MS. works, "De Scriptoribus Scotis," the one dated 1627, and attributed to Buchanan, were printed for the Members of the Bannatyne Club, with a learned Preface by the Editor, Dr. Irving, in 1837.

From his Confirmed Testament, it appears that "Mr. David Buchanan," who died at Edinburgh before the end of August 1652, on the 19th of that month, had nominated "his loving brother, Mr. William Buchanan," his only executor. Whether "Captain William," above mentioned as David's brother, should be identified with this "Mr. William Buchanan," may be left to conjecture.

No. II.

ON SPOTTISWOOD'S EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.

IT is well known that Queen Mary, both in France and after her return to this country, refused to ratify the Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT which met at Edinburgh in August 1560; and its Acts, were not included in the authorized collection of the public statutes. In order to obviate this legal want of the royal sanction, it was judged expedient that the CONFESSION OF FAITH, and some special Acts, should be renewed in the first Parliament of James the Sixth, during the regency of the Earl of Murray, in December 1567. It was proposed to have inserted in this Appendix a list of the Members and some passages relating to the proceedings of that Parliament, along with an account of the early editions of the Confession of Faith, 1560; and some notes respecting the First Book of Discipline. Want of space has rendered it necessary to omit these notices; but another opportunity may be afforded of introducing them in a subsequent volume.

It is also well known that the selfish rapacity of some of the Nobility who had supported the Reformed doctrines, and had obtained possession of Church-lands and property, prevented the Policy of the Kirk from being established according to the plan drawn up by Knox and his brethren. But the FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE must always be regarded as an important work to illustrate the form of Church government and discipline submitted for approval by our early Reformers; and it is now presented to the Reader in a much more perfect and authentic form than it has ever appeared.

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The following notes, selected from a careful collation of the Book of Discipline, with the copy inserted by Spottiswood in his History of the Church, will prove how very little reliance can be placed on the Archbishop's assertion of his having given it "word by word." As the omissions and emendations referred to might have been inside by the Editor in 1655, (see page 181, note 5,) the new edition, printing for the Spottiswoode Society, (edited by Bishop Russell, and collated with the author's original MS.,) has been employed.

Page 183-184, Spottiswood omits the whole of the Preface,
and introduces the Book of Discipline with the short
paragraph already quoted at page 181, note 5. There is a
slight variation in the new edit. (p. 331,) reading, "I
_have_ thought meet, word by word, to insert the same," &c.

187, There are several omissions in this page; for instance,
in line 7, the words "devysed by men;" various words in
lines 15 to 22; and nearly the whole of lines 24 to 26.

188, lines 21, 22, altered; and lines 24 to 29 abridged.

189, l. 10, omits "cursed" as applied to "Papistrie."

190, l. 12, reads, "in open audience of his flock, he may
preach and deliver his knowledge in the Articles," &c.

192, l. 4 to 6, "and so ... of the Kirk," omitted.

193, l. 4 to 19, varied and abridged; and lines 25, 26,
read, "The Ministers were publicly admitted."

195, l. 14, altered; and lines 21 to 27, "And gif," &c.,
omitted. The next head, "For Readeris," is partially
abridged.

198, l. 1, the words, "at the discretion of the
congregation," omitted.

199, l. 3, the words, "in Goddis presence we witness,"
omitted; and lines 7 to 15 amended.

200, l. 12 to 14, part of the sentence omitted; and the
paragraph that follows, "Restis yit," &c. concerning
provision for the poor, and the teachers of youth,
contracted to about one-third.

201 to 203, Under the head, "Off the Superintendents," the
original which here consists of 38 lines, is contracted by
Spottiswood to 6 lines.

204, l. 11, "to leave as your idill Bischopis," changed to
"to live idle as the Bishops."

205, The third head, "Of the Election of Superintendentis,"
appears as if re-written and abridged; l. 18, reads, "we
think it sufficient that the Council nominate;" and lines 22
to 25 omitted.

207, l. 6 to 12, "Yff the Ministeris," &c., omitted.

208, l. 16 to 26, "Of one thing, in the end," &c., omitted.

208, 209, "For the Schollis;" the introductory paragraph
omitted, and the next 14 lines contracted to 5 lines.

214, l. 24, reads, "New Testament, and shall finish his
course the same year. And in," &c.

221, l. 2 to 12, "not doubting," &c., omitted. Under the
"Sext Heid," except the first sentence, the whole of the
first paragraph, "But befoir we enter," &c., is omitted.

222, l. 4 to 9, "We dar not flatter," &c., omitted.

223, l. 27, &c. "Your Honouris," &c.; the whole of this
paragraph omitted.

225, l. 13, The "Additio" is not found in Spottiswood.

226, l. 23, "Yf this Ordour," &c., to the end of the
paragraph, omitted.

227, The second paragraph, "But becaus this accursit
Papistrie," &c., omitted.

230, l. 21 to 23, Spottiswood reads, "This sentence, as
being the most heavy censure which can be inflicted by the
Church, ought not to be rashly used but for grave causes,
and due process of time kept, but being pronounced, ought
with all severity to be maintained, and intimation thereof
made through the whole realm, lest any should pretend
ignorance of the same."

235, l. 3 to 18, "Yea, the Seniouris," &c. This paragraph is
thus altered: "If a Minister be of a loose conversation,
negligent in his study, and one that was little bent upon
his charge or flock, or one that proponeth not fruitful
doctrine to his people, he ought to be admonished by the
elders; and if he amend not, the elders may complain to the
ministry [of the two next adjacent churches, to whose
admonition, if he shall be disobedient, he ought to be
discharged of his ministry] till his repentance appear."

The words enclosed within brackets are omitted in the old
printed editions of Spottiswood's History, we may suppose by
accident, as this appears to be the only variation which
Bishop Russell has discovered upon collation with the MSS.

253, A great part of this page is omitted.

255, The last paragraph is somewhat altered, or at least
transposed.

255-8, "The Conclusioun" addressed to the Lords, with the
"Act of Secret Counsall," and the signatures, are wholly
omitted.

* * * * *

A great many lesser variations, consisting of words omitted, sentences abridged, &c., might have been specified, if such an enumeration would have served any useful purpose. The above may suffice to satisfy any impartial reader, who desires in this FORM OF POLICY "to see what were the grounds laid down at first for the government of the Church," that implicit reliance should not be placed upon the Archbishop's fidelity, although he does affirm, "I HAVE THOUGHT MEET, WORD BY WORD, HERE TO INSERT THE SAME." (History, vol. i. p. 331.)

No. III.

FUNERALS OF MARY OF GUISE, QUEEN REGENT OF SCOTLAND.

MARIE DE LORRAINE, daughter of Claude Duke of Guise, was born 22d November 1515. On the 4th August 1534, she was married to Louis of Orleans, Duke de Longueville; and after his death, in 1538, she became the second wife of James the Fifth, King of Scotland. (See vol. i. p. 61, note 6.) In this place it was proposed to collect merely a few notices respecting her death and funerals.

In the present volume, at page 71, Knox has given an account of the Queen's death, which took place in the Castle of Edinburgh--he says on the 9th June 1560. Dr. Robertson following Bishop Lesley, and other early authorities, says it was on the 10th; while according to Chalmers, and later writers, it happened on the 11th June. In the Diurnal of Occurrents the time is very precisely stated, yet it so happens that either the 10th or the 11th might be assigned for the date. The passage stands thus:--

"Upoun the tent day of Junij, the yeir foirsaid (1560,) Marie Quene Dowriare and Regent of this Realme, _at 12 houris at evin_, deceissit in the Castell of Edinburgh, and maid the Erie of Merchell, and Schir Johne Campbell of Lundy, knycht, hir executouris in Scotland." (p. 59; see also p. 276 of the same work.) This would seem to fix the 10th; but in the grant to Seigneour Francis, referred to in a note, page 507, the 11th of June was reckoned as the day of the Queen's decease. Sir William Cecil and Dr. Nicholas Wotton, in a letter written on the 17th June, intimate their having heard of the Queen's death, when they were on their way from Berwick; and in a subsequent letter from Edinburgh, dated the 19th June, they say, "The xith of this monethe, the Quene Dowagier dyed here at Edenboroughe, as we understande of a dropsie; by whose deathe the Nobilitie of Scotlande be entred into greater boldness, for mayntenaunce of their quarrell, then before they durst shew." (Lodge's Illustrations, vol. i. p. 329.) In the Treasurer's Accounts of that month are the following entries:--

"Item, to Johne Weir pewtterar, for ane wobe of leid weiand (blank)
stanis, to be ane sepulture to inclose the Quenis Grace in. iiij lb. xv s.

"Item, to the said Johne for sowdane of the said wobe of leid, xxxij s.

"Item, for ij^e dur nalis to the Quenis Grace sepulture, iij s.

"Item, for xxj elnis and ane half of blak gray, to hing the chapell
of the Castell of Edinburgh the Quenis G. bodie lyand thairin,
vj lb. ij s. iiij d.

"Item, foure elnys of quhite taffateis of the cord to mak ane cross
aboun the Quenis Grace, price of the eln xxiiij s. Summa, iiij lb. xvj s."

After these items, there follows a list of sums paid to the attendants, servants, and other persons connected with the Queen's household; in all 97, chiefly French, amounting to £1352, 8s.

Bishop Lesley, in noticing the Queen's death, says, "Hir bodie thaireftir was carried to France in ane ship, to the Abbey of Feckin in Normandie." (History, p. 289.) Knox, at page 160, speaks of her burial having been deferred, and that "lappet in a cope of leid," her body lay in the Castle of Edinburgh till the 19th October, "quhan sche by pynouris was caryed to a schip, and sa caryed to France." Another authority asserts, that it was not till the spring following that her body was removed from Edinburgh.

"Upoun the xvj day of the said moneth of March, [1560-1] at xij houris in the nycht, the corpes of vmquhile Marie Quene Douriare of Scotland and Regent, was convoyit secretlie furth of the Castell of Edinburgh, and put in ane schip in Leith, and convoyit thairfra to France, be Mr. Archibald Crawfurd person of Eiglishame; quhair sho was honourablie buryit." (Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 282.)

In mentioning the Queen Regent's funerals, Bishop Lesley, in his Latin History, is somewhat more circumstantial, by adding, that after reaching the sea-port of Fécamp in Normandy, and lying for a time in the Monastery, the body was finally removed to Rheims. His words are,--" Ejus autem corpus in Galliam postea transvectum primum ad Monasterium Feckamense, quod in Normania est, deinde ad coenobium S. Petri Rhemis in Campania, cui Soror ipsius pie tunc præerat, delatum, honorifice condebatur." (De Rebus gestis Scotorum, p. 569.)

Throckmorton also, in a letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth from Paris, 13th July 1561, says, "The said Queen of Scotland's determination to go home continues still: _She goeth shortly from Court to Fescamp, in Normandy, there to make her Mother's funerals and burial_, and from thence to Calais, there to embark." (Tytler's History, vol. vi. p. 398.)

After the funeral ceremonies at Fécamp, the Queen's body was transported to the city of Rheims, and interred in the Church of the Abbey or Convent of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames, of which her sister Renée de Lorraine was Abbess. This younger daughter of Claude de Lorraine, first Duke of Guise, was born in 1522. She became Abbess in 1546, and survived till the 3d of April 1602, when she was interred beside her sister the Queen of Scotland. There was a handsome marble monument erected in the choir of the church; but the Abbey itself was in a great measure destroyed during the excesses of the French Revolution in 1792. The monument was adorned with a full length figure in bronze of the Queen in royal apparel, holding the sword and the rod of justice, "tenant le sceptre et la main de justice." (Anselme, Hist. Genealogique, tome iii. p. 492.)

No. IV.

NOTICES OF JOHN BLACK, A DOMINICAN FRIAR.

FRIAR JOHN BLACK, of the Dominican Order, is celebrated by Lesley, Dempster, and other Roman Catholic writers, for his learning and exertions on behalf of the orthodox faith. In August 1559, the Queen Regent came from Dunbar to Edinburgh, and having taken possession of Holyrood House, it is stated, that Archbishop Hamilton, "upon a day, past to the pulpit in the Abbay," and after displaying "a little of his superstition, he declared he had not bene weill exercised in that profession, (_i.e._ of preaching,) therefore desyred the auditors to hold him excused. In the meantyme he showed unto them that there was a learned man, meaning Fryer Blacke, who was to come immediately after him into the pulpitt, who would declare unto them the truth; and therefore desyred them to lett him cease." (Hist. of the Estate of Scotland, Wodrow Miscellany, vol. i. p. 67.)

Bishop Lesley mentions a public disputation between Friar Black and John Willock, at Edinburgh, in the summer of 1561, which lasted for two days. As usual, however, in all such controversial disputes, "_in the ende, nothing was agreit_." (Hist. p. 295. See also Leslæus de Rebus Gestis Scotorum, p. 577, Romæ, 1578, 4to; and Sir James Balfour's Annals, Works, vol. i. p. 235.) Under the year 1560, (see this vol. p. 68,) Knox mentions Friar Black as performing Mass when the Queen Regent was in the Castle of Edinburgh, notwithstanding that she was aware of his licentious conduct. Two years later the Town Council of Edinburgh having apprehended and confined Friar Black "for manifest adultery," Queen Mary addressed the following letter to the Provost, Baillies, &c., of Edinburgh, commanding them to deliver the said Friar to the Captain of the Castle, to remain there till he should be brought to trial:--

"PROVEST, BAILLIES, AND COUNSALE OF EDINBURGH,--It is oure
Will, and we charge zow, that incontinent efter the sicht
heirof, ze deliver Freir Johne Black to the Capitane,
Constabill, and Keiparis of oure Castell of Edinburgh, till
be keipit thairintill surelie, unto sic tyme as we haue
ordanyt for the triell of his offences before oure
Justice-Generale or his Deputtis; and this on na wayis ze
leaf undone, as ze will ansuer to ws thairupoun. At Sanct
Androis, the 11th of April 1562.

(_Sequitur subscriptio_,) "MARIE R."

The records of criminal proceedings furnish no evidence of the Friar having ever been brought to trial; but this warrant, no doubt, saved him from the punishment which the Town Council at this time had adjudged to all fornicators, to be ducked in the North Loch. (See Maitland's Hist. of Edinb. p. 25.)

On the 12th February 1565, Andro Armestrang, and three other burgesses of Edinburgh, were brought to trial, "delatit of the hurting and wounding of Freir Johne Blak, betwix his schulderis, to the effusione of his blude, upon the fyft day of Januar last bypast, betwix aucht and nyne houris at evin, in the Cowgait, betwix Nwyderis Wynd and the Freir Wynd." (Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. i. pp. 475*, 476*.) From another authority, mentioned below, it would seem that the Friar was killed during the fray in Holyrood, on the same night when Riccio was murdered.

The transcriber of MS. W, of Knox's History, has introduced some lines, playing upon the Friar's name, "because he was borne in the _Blak_ Freirs in Edinburgh, and was a man of _Blak_ personage, called _Blak_ to his name, and one of the Ordour of _Blak_ Friers;" and in the margin of the MS. he says, "This was added be me, Tho. Wood, quhilk I heard, thocht not mentioned by Mr. Knox." Mr. Sharpe, who says, "this copy of verses affords an excellent (?) specimen of the satirical poetry of the Reformers," has inserted the lines, in a note to Kirkton's History of the Church, p. 10, Edinb. 1817, 4to.

In a MS. volume of Calderwood's History, written in the year 1636, we find introduced, as "A description of the Queen's Black Chaplane," a somewhat different version of the lines referred to:--

"Master Knox relateth, that the Queen Regent herself had a little before deprehended the said Frier Black with his harlot in the chappel. But whoordoome and idolatrie agrie weill together. This Frier Black was Black in a threefold consideration, first in respect of his Order, for he was a Black Frier by profession; secondlie in respect of his Surname; thirdlie in respect of his Black workes. Wherupon these black verses following wer made as a black trumpet to blaze furth all his blacknesses:--

"A certane Black Frier, weill surnamed Black,
And not nicknam'd: for Black wer all his workes,
In a black houre borne, in all Mack deedes frack;
And of his black craft one of the blackest Clerks;
He took a black whoor to wash his black sarks,
Committing with her black fornication:
Black was his soule to shoote at such black markes;
Frier Black, Black Frier, Black was his vocation."

It may be considered more important to notice, that Black had been promoted by Archbishop Hamilton, to the place of Second Master in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. This fact, not elsewhere recorded, appears from the following grant, in the Register of Presentations to Benefices:--

"Our Soverane Lord, &c., ordanis this letter under the Previe Seill, ratifiand and perpetualie confirmand the gift and provisioun maid and grantit be John Archebishop of Sanct Androis, foundar and erectar of our Lady College, within the citie of Sanct Androis, to Maister Robert Hamiltoun, then Third Maister of the said College _of the Secund place and Maister thairof_, usit to be possessit be ane theologe (the lyke quhairof he is) _vacand be deceis of Johne Black, Blackfriar_, last possessour of the samyn," &c., 12th November 1567. "Subscrivit at Saint Androis the last day of Maij 1569." (Register of Presentation to Benefices, vol. i. fol. 25.)

Dempster celebrates Black (_præclarus Christi miles_) for his eloquence and opposition to heresy, and for having sealed his constant profession of the faith with his blood. (Hist. Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, p. 85.) This alludes to the fatal termination of the Friar's career, not on the 7th of January 1562, for which he quotes Lesley, p. 577, but on the 8th March 1565-6, when he was slain on the night of David Riccio's murder, in Holyrood House. It is singular that no notice of this should occur in our own historical writers. But Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in a letter to Buttinger, giving him a summary of passing events, dated 21st August 1566, after noticing the murder of "Signor David, skilled in necromancy, and in great favour with the Queen of Scots," mentions that Black, a Dominican Friar, held in great estimation among the Papists, was also killed that night. But even this grave prelate cannot restrain his humour in reference to the Friar's name; his words are: "Fraterculus quidam, nomine Blacke (niger, _Swartz_,) Papistarum antesignanus, eodem tempore in Aula occiditur.

"Sic Niger hic Nebulo, nigra quoque morte peremptus,
Invitus Nigrum subito descendit in Orcum."

This letter, first published by Burnet, (Hist. Reform., vol. iii. App., p. 360,) is included in the collection of Zürich Letters, published by the Parker Society, p. 99. London, 1842, 8vo. The translator thus renders the above distich:--

"Seized by black Death, this blacker Knave
Descended to the gloomy grave." (Ib. p. 166.)

No. V.

NOTICES OF DAVID RICCIO.

IT appears somewhat doubtful whether Knox contemplated giving any detailed account of Riccio's life: compare vol. i. p. 235, and vol. ii. p. 422. If so, it would probably not have been so much a narrative of his private history, as an exposure of the influence which he seems to have exerted in public affairs, tending to the overthrow of the Reformed Religion. Although we cannot attribute to Knox the passages in the Fifth Book which relate the murder of Riccio, yet some detached notices exhibiting his progressive advancement at the Scotish Court, chiefly derived from the Public Records, may not be considered as out of place in this Appendix.

DAVID RICCIO, a native of Pancalieri, in Piedmont, was born about the year 1534, and was first in the service of the Archbishop of Turin. In December 1561, the Marquis de Morette, the Ambassador of Savoy, arrived in Scotland to congratulate Queen Mary on her return to her native kingdom. It was in the suite of the Marquis that Riccio, when about twenty-eight years of age, came to this country in quality of Secretary. (Labanoff, Recueil des Lettres de Marie Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse, vol. i. p. 120, vol. vii. pp. 65, 86.) His knowledge of the French and Italian languages, and his skill in music, recommended him to the Queen's notice, and led to his permanent residence in Scotland as "virlat," "chalmer-cheild," or one of the valets of her chamber. In the Treasurer's Accounts in the early part of the year 1562, we find the following payments:--

1561-2.--"Item, the said day, (viij day of Januar,) be the Quenis
Grace precept to David Ritio, virlat in the Quenis Grace chalmer,
1. lib. (£50.)

1562.--"Item, the xvj day of Aprile, be the Quenis Grace precept
to David Ritio, Italiane, chalmer-cheild, as his acquittance schawin
vpoun compt beris, xv. lib."

These payments seem to have been additions to the annual pension
granted to him by the Queen. In the "Compt of the Collector Generall
of the Thirds of Benefices," for the year 1561, and rendered
18th February 1563-4, we find among the pensions paid, the following
entry:--"And of the soume of threscoir fivetene pundis, pait be
the Comptare to DAVID RYCHEO, Italiane, vallet of the chalmer, for
his zeirlie pensioun, granted to him be the Quenis Majestie, of the zeir
compted, as hir Hienes letters vnder hir subscriptioun, and the said
Davidis acquittance schawin and producit upoun compt proportis,
lxxv. lib."

In 1564, Riccio's salary was £80, paid quarterly; and in December that year, he was nominated French Secretary to the Queen, in place of Raulet. (Randolph's Letter to Cecil, 3d December 1564, Keith's Hist., vol. ii. p. 259; and Labanoff, vol. i. p. 248.) In the Treasurer's Accounts in August 1565, there are numerous payments made "to David Riccio Secretar," for articles of furniture, dress, &c., "be the King and Quenis Graces precept," chiefly for the use of "the Kingis Grace." He had been an active promoter of the Queen's marriage with Darnley, which may have contributed to increase his interest at Court. Randolph, in a letter to Cecil, dated 3d June 1565, uses this strong language:--" David now worketh all, and is only governor to the King and his family; _great is his pride, and his words intolerable_. People have small joy in this new master, and find nothing but that God must either send him a short end, or them a miserable life. Tho dangers to those he now hateth are great, _and either he must be taken away, or they find some support, that what he intendeth to others may fall upon himself_." (Keith's Hist., vol. ii. p. 291.) It has been said that he was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal about this time. This undoubtedly is a mistake: see vol. i. p. 446. But the influence he had obtained, and the prospect that when the Parliament assembled he might prevail upon the Queen to proceed against the Earl of Murray and the chief Protestants, in connexion with the foolish jealousy of her husband, gave rise to that conspiracy which terminated in Riccio's murder--one of those deeds which disgrace the history of this country.

Referring again to the Treasurer's Accounts, one or two other entries may be quoted:--

"Item, be the Quenis grace command, the last of Januar [1565-6,]
to David Riccio, for reparatione of his chalmer, as his acquittance
schawin upoun compt beris, ij^c lib. (£200.)"

On the last of February he received, on the Queen's account, £2000 in part payment of 10,000 merks, for "the dewitie of the Cunzehouse." And after his death, we find,

"Item, the xxix day of Maij (1566) to ane boy passand of Edinburgh
with letters of our Soueranis, to be deliverit to Robert Commendator
of Halierudhouse, to command and charge all and sindrie
personis, intrometteris, havaris, withhalderis, and detenaris of the
horssis quhatsumevir partening to umquhill DAVID RICCIO, _Secretar_,
to be deliverit to the said Commendator, ix s."

The Collection of Queen Mary's Letters, formed with almost unexampled care and zeal by the Prince Alexander Labanoff, includes two long and interesting dispatches in Italian, (one without date, the other, 8th October 1566,) addressed to Cosmo Duke of Tuscany, which furnish various particulars both relating to Riccio's history and the events preceding his murder, on the evening of Saturday the 9th March 1565-6. "Ah povero Davit, mio buono et fedel servitore, Dio habbi misericordia di vostra anima!" (Recueil, &c., vol. vii. pp. 65, 86, 93.)

Calderwood repeats what George Buchanan states in his History regarding Riccio's funeral: "After the flight of the Noblemen from Edinburgh, the Queen caused to take up in the night Seigneur Davie his corps, which had been buried before the Abbey kirk doore, and lay it near to Queene Magdalene; which ministered no small occasioun to the people of bad constructions." (History, vol. ii. p. 316.)

"A Relation of the Death of David Rizzi, chief favourite of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland; who was killed in the apartment of the said Queen on the 9th March 1565. Written by the Lord Ruthen, one of the principal persons concerned in that action," was printed at London 1699, 8vo, and has been several times reprinted. One of these editions, forming part of a volume entitled, "Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana," London, 1815, 4to, is accompanied with a portrait of Riccio: It has much the look of an original by Zucchero, and is "painted on a small circular pannel; and on the back are rudely cut into the wood the name _Davit Rixio_, and the date 1564."

No. VI.

THE ABBOTS OF CULROSS AND LINDORES IN 1560.

IT is often impossible to identify persons at an early period who held high ecclesiastical appointments, from only their baptismal names and designations being given in deeds and the public records. But it is singular that any difficulty should have been experienced in regard to persons who flourished so late as the middle of the 16th century. Among the dignified clergy who were present at the condemnation of Sir John Borthwick for heresy, in May 1540, we find the names of William Commendator of Culross, and John Abbot of Lindores. Both of these individuals took their seats as Lords of Session, on the Spiritual side, 5th November 1544; they had also a seat in Parliament; and both of them having joined the Reformers, were present when the Confession of Faith was ratified and approved in August 1560.