Received in June 1677 from Mr. James Lauder in name of Mistris Ker inHadington.Francisci Connani Commentarius Juris Civilis in two volumes in folio. Ihad the first tome already, having bought it at Parise. Farderreceived from hir.Hottomanni partitiones juris et juris consultusand some other of his small tracts.Item, Lanfranci Balbi Decisionum et Observationum centuriae 5.The life of Pomponius Atticus, etc., 30 pence.A Guide to heaven from the world, 6 pence.For The 2'd pacquet of Advices to the men ofShaftsburie, 2 shills. sterl.For Madame Fickle a comoedy, 18 pence.For Johnstons History of King James the 6'th minority, 12 pence.Midletons Appendix to the Scots Church Historie, etc., 2 shills: sterl.Burnets Memoires of the 2 Dukes of Hamiltonfrom 1625 18 shillings sterling.Doctor Hamonds Annotations on the New Testament, 18 lib. Scot.Steelingfleets Origines Sacrae, 7 shills. sterl.Glanvills Philosophicall Essayes, 4 shills. 6 pence.The Art of Speaking, 30 pence.Thir last 5 I bought from Thomas Broun on the 15 of September 1677.Sir George McKeinzies Criminalls, 4 Lb. Scots.
The following books to the number of 13.15 I receaved from my Lord Abotshall in October 1677, because he haddoubles of them as we inventar'd his books, some of them I had myselfealready.Imprimis, a Latin and French bible in folio.2. The Review of the councell of Trent.3. Bacon's resuscitatio 2'd part.[4. Swinnock's Christian Man's calling.][719]given back to the Librarie.5. Rosinus Romanae Antiquitates.6. Goodwyns Moyses and Aaron.[7. Ja. Colvill's Grand Impostor discovered.][719]having another I gave this to Mr. Alexr. Drummond8. Sympson's compend of the ten persecutions.9. Brinsley's Ludus literarius.10. Hooll's grammatica Latino Anglica.11. Acts of parliament in 1669.12. Milton's Paradise Lost13. Hudibras mock poem.14. Caesars commentaries in English.15. Arcandam upon the constellations.16. Adam out of Eden on planting.
[719] Erased in MS.
A mesme temps je empruntée l'usage de ces sept livres suivans de lui pourles rendre quand il les demandoit.Imprimis Rutherfuird's Lex Rex.2. Wiseman's law of laws, etc.3. The accomplish't Atturney.4. Natalis comitis mythologiae.5. Stephanus praeparative to his apologie for Herodote.6. Imagines mortis et medicina animae.7. Dom Huarto's triall of wits.
The 3 following French books ware about that same tyme gifted me by Rot.Keith of Craig.Imprimis, Mr. Wicquefort's Memoires touchant ambassadeurs et lesministres publiques.2. Histoire de la Reyne Christine de Suede.3. Lettre sur la campaigne en Flandre, 1677.For the art to make love, 12 pence.For the countermine against the presb., 3 shils. stg.From John Nicol bought on the 18 Dec'ris 1677the 6 following books.Bodinus de daemonomania majorum, 2 marks.Hall's Cases of Conscience, 14 pence.Walker against Socinianisme, 12 pence.Juvenalis et Persius cum notis Farnab., 10 pence.Sylvestri summa summarum, 2 dollars.Scapulæ Lexicon Græco-Latinum, 2 dollars.Drusius de tribus-sectis Judeorum, 20 pence.Item, the book of fortune, 20 pence.Vincent on Christ's Appearance at the Day of Judgement, ij pence.Antonii Mornacii observationes ad pandectas etad Codicem, in 3 tomes in folio, at 22 shillingssterl. the tome, 40 lb. Scots.Gerardus Joan: Wossius de Historicis Latinis, 4 lb. Scots.Christophori Sandii animadversiones in istumVosii librum, 12 pence.For Divi Thomæ Aquinatis summa Theologica, 16 shillings stering.For Wallis Due correction of Hobs geometrie, 8 pence.Lipsius Notes on Tacitus, 4 pence.Dominici Baudii epistolæ et orationes, 34 pence.Elberti Leonini consilia, a dollar.
About the 19 of Aprill 1678, receaved from Abotshall a manuscript containing a most elegant summary and collection of sundry remarkable things from the 7 tomes of St. Augustins works.
A meme temps je emprunté de lui les livres suivans: 2 manuscripts in Latinde Decimis, contra Erastianos, Independentes, de politia civili etecclesiastica, de controversiis theologicis, etc., of Mr. Andrew Ramsayes:but now I have given him thir back:Rosse's Pansebeia or view of all Religions.Grotii de imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra.Florus Historie cum Lucii Ampelii memoriali.Catonis Disticha et Mimi Publiani by Hoole.Bought the 15 of Aprill 1678 from Mr. Charles Lumsdean thir six books,Imprimis,Andrew Willet's Hexapla upon Exodus and Leviticus.2 volumes in folio, 12 shillings sterling.vide infra in 1679 and Aprill 1684. 6 shillingssterling each volume.Jermynes commentarie and meditations on thebook of Proverbs, 6 shils. stg.Rosse's arcana microcosmi with a refutation ofBacon, Harvey, Broun, etc., 12 pence.The right of dominion, property, liberty, 10 pence.Mr. R. Baillie's antidote agt Arminianisme, 4 pence.Heraclitus Christianus, or the man of sorrow 12 pence.Lo. Hatton on Status and acts of parlia', 12 pence.Kirkwodi compendium Rhetorircæ, 2 pence.Godolphin upon legacies, last wills and devises, 6 shills. ster.Salernitana schola de conservanda bonavaletudine, 2 shillings and 6 pence.Juvenalls Satyrca Englished by Stapylton, 2 mark and a halfe.The Fulfilling of the Scriptures.
From Abotshall: …[720] [Greek: kaina kai palaia]: Things new and old, or a storehouse of similes, sentences, allegories, etc., by John Spencer.
[720] Word undeciphered.
Item, receaved Drummond's History of the lives of the 5 James's,Kings of Scotland, with memorialls of state.Item, Wilson's art of Rhetorique and art of Logick.Item, l'Estat de l'Eglise by Jean de Hainault and Jean Crespin, theybeing 4 books in number which at this tyme j'ay recu de Abotshall.Fur a manuscript containing some law dictats of the professors atPoictiers and Bourge en Berry annis 1611 and 1612, 12 pence.For Masuerii practica forensis with Montis Albaniexceptiones, 12 pence.Quintini Hedui Analecta juris ad Titul. Decretalde verborum significatione, 12 pence.For Jacobi de Voragine legenda aurea seu Vitæsanctorum, ij pence.Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis; being a Catalogueof all the manuscripts in thesse 2 universities, ij pence.Mr. D. Dickson's Therapeutica sacra.The Christian education of children, 36 pence.Gifted me by Mr. Wm. Henderson:Bibliothecar of Ed'r, H. Cardani arcana politica seu de prudentia civili.Gotten from Mr. Wm. Dundas WisseinbachiiManuale de verborum signifcatione, item, Nota nomico-philologica inpassionem Christi.Annibal Trabrotus his enarrationes ad Cuiacij paratitlain libros tres prinres Codicis, a mark.For A.S. Boetius de Consolatione philosophiæet disciplina scholastica, 6 pence.Gifted to me by Mr. John Craig of Ramorney, advocat, on the16 of November 1678, Davila's Historie of the civill warsof France.Leidington's practiques and some other papers bound togither by meat this time.Tbe Christians Patterne or A Kempis Imitationof Christ, 12 pence.For tuo volumes of Panormitans commentary upon thedecretales, which compleits what I had of him before.Item, for Giuidonis Papae decisiones parlamentiGrationapolitanæ and Lipsius de constantia,in all 4 books, 6 shillings sterling.For Lucas de Penna ad tres posteriores libros codicis, 40 pence.For Joannis Amos Comenii janua linguarum inGreek; Latin and English, 18 pence.I have another in Latin, French, and Dutch.Poemata Niniani Patersoni gifted me by the said Mr. Ninian the author.Code Lowis ou ordannances pour les matieres criminelles.Georgii Macropedii methodus de conscribendisepistolis, etc., 6 pence.Jer. Taylor's liberty of prophecieng.Lubbertus contra Socinum de Christo mediatore.Aurengzebe and the destruction of Jerusalem by TitusVespasian, 2 comedies.The Life of K. Charles the I. the pseudomartyr.Ane Accompt of the Scots greevances anno 1674.Mother Gregs Jests.Raphaell Holinsched's Chronicle of England fromWilliam the Conqueror till 1587, 9 shillings sterl.An Abridgement and written collection drawen furth of the Registerof the commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teynds,from 1661 till November 1673.Catalogus Librorum D. 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Erasmi concio de misericordia Dominiand other tracts, 10 pence.2. Erasmi encomion Moriæ et de Linguaand other tracts, a mark.3. Bezæ Responsio ad Castellionem deversione Novi testamenti, 10 pence.4. Flores Doctorum pene Omnium per Thomam Hibernicum, 18 pence.5. Sylva locorum communiuni perLudovicum Granatensem, 30 pence.6. Poetarum omnium flores, a mark.7. Refutatio Cujusdam libelli de Juremagistratuum per Beccariam, 8 pence.8. Chrysostomes Homilies and morals on the Ephesians, 24 pence.9. Virgil in English verse by John Ogilbie, 24 pence.10. Simon Patrick's Reflections on thedevotions of the Roman Church, 24 pence.
Having in September 1679 casten up the accompt of the wholle manuscript books I have besyde me, I find they are 94 in number of which see more in my other more full Catalogues of my books.
Letter by John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, to his Son[721]
[721] MS. in possession of Sir T.N. Dick Lauder.
The following letter from Fountainhall to his son, probably his eldest son and successor, John, is a characteristic specimen of his later style. It holds up to the young man as an example the character and career of his maternal grandfather, Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall.
[Illustration: SIR ANDREW RAMSAY, LORD ABBOTSHALL]
'Appryll 3d, 1691.
Sone,—The letters I formerly sent you, tho replenished with the best advyces that ather my reading or my experience and observatione or my paternall affection affoorded, and in thesse important affaires they handled, yet I conceive they might be the less effectuall that they had no other authority to back them but my own. Theirfor I am resolved a litle to trye another method, and so put thesse useful precepts in the mouths of some of your ancestors as if they wer allowed for some tyme to arryse from the dead and speak to those descended of them; and I shall set befor you some of their vertues and illustrious actions for ane pattern worthy your imitation, seeing there cannot be ane better direction in the stearing the compass of our lyves then by reading the lyves of good men, espccially wheir wee are nearly related to them, and in the using of this prosopopoea I have no less examples to follow then the prince of orators Cicero and the great Seneca who to give the greater weight and authority to the moral precepts they delyvered to the people of Rome they conjure up the ghosts of Scipio, Laelius, Cato, Appius and thesse other worthies, and bringe them upon the Stage, teaching their own posterity the principles of vertue which is observed to have left a far greater impression, and have proselyted and convinced the mynds of the hearers more than what the greatest philosophers delyvered only as their own sentiments and opinions. And because it is not usuall to wryte the lyves of men whyle[722] they be dead, Theirfor I will begin with your maternall lyne and sett befor you some of the most eminent transactions wheirin that excellent Gentleman, Sir Andrew Ramsay, your grandfather, was most concerned in, with the severall vertues and good qualities that made him so famous and considerable, which ought to be ane spurr and incitement to all good and vertuous actions, and to non so much as to his oun grand-chyld. And because it layes ane great tye and obligation wheir on is descended of ane race that never did anything that was base and unwurthy of a Gentleman, Theirfor I will also shortly as I can give you ane account of his pedegrie and descent befor I come to descrybe his oun personall merit and actions. For tho the poet sayes true,Et genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi, vix ea nostra voco, yet to be of ane honourable descent of good people as it raises the expectation of the wurld that they will not beley their kynd as Horace sayes,Fortes creantur fortibus, so they turn contemptibly hatefull when they degenerat and by their vices blacken and sully the glory and honour their ancestors had gained, and they turn a disgrace to the family and relations they are come of. Bot to begin: Sr Andrew was the 3d sone of Mr. Andrew Ramsay, minister of Edr., and Mary Frazer. He being a sone of the Laird of Balmaynes, and shee a daughter of the Laird of Dores, and it being fitt that a man should know his oun genealogie that wheir ane of them has been signalized for vertue it may be ane motive to provock our imitation, and if they have att any tymes been led out of the way of vertue that it may serve for ane beacon and scar-crow to the descendants to hold of thesse rocks and shelves wheir they may see the bones of their friends as the memento of Lots wyfe to beware of thesse fatall errors. And tho a man should know the history of his oun nation and not bedomi talpa, yet there is no part of that history so usefull as that of his genealogie, and therfor I would give you some account of that family of Balmayn and of some remarkable things have happened therin.
The first of them was John Ramsay, sone to the Laird of Corstoun in Fyfe, who being ane handsome young boy was made choyse of to attend Ki: Ja: 3d att the Grammar School. Their was pains taken for another Gentleman's sone, who had been bred in the high-school of Edr. and both read and wrote better, yet the young King thinking John had more the mean of ane Gentleman preferred him, tho choyses of such princes being lyke Rhehoboams, not so much founded upon merits as fancy and ane similitude of humor, and I have observed friendship and acquaintance contracted betwixt boyes att schooll to be very durable, and so it proved here, for K.J. 3d made him on of his Cubiculars and then Captain of his guards, with this extravagant priveledge that non should wear a sword within two myles of the Kings palace without his speciall warrand and licence, which created him much envy and hatred, that for supporting him against the same, he first knighted him and then gave him the lands of Kirkcanders in Galloway, Terinean in Carrick, Gorgie in Lothian, and Balmayn in the Mernes. All which lands his posterity hath sold or wer evicted from them by recognitions, except Balmayn. And tho wee doe not find him taxed as on of the bad counsellors that made ane discord betuixt the said K. James and his nobles, att least not so much as Cochran, who from being his Master Mason he had made E. of Marr, and other mean people about him whom he had advanced, yet it was impossible for him to be in so much favour with his prince without drawing the emulation and envy of great and auntient families, who thought non should come between them and their Soveraigne. For you will find from our Chronicles that this King was on of the worst of all the James's and came to ane fatall end by his variance with the Nobility, whom he studyed to humble as factious and tumultuary, bot they thought themselves slighted and disobleidged by his making use of mean men in all offices about him. Bot to return to Sr. John Ramsay. It shewes the Kings great affection to him att Lundie bridge when Archbald E. of Angus, called bell the cat (the reason wheirof you know), and the other barons seazed upon Cochran and the bad Counsellors and hanged them over the bridge, and some of them apprehending Ramsay for that same end, the King grasped him in his armes and plead with them to spare him as more innocent than the rest, which was yealded to by the Kings intercession. Bot after this he created him E. of Bothwell, ane title that hes been funest and unluckie to all the three possessors of it, viz., the Ramsay, Hepburn, and Stewart, and which the Ramsay bruiked shorter then any of the other two. For after the killing of the King in Bannock-burn myln when he had fled out of the battell, the parliament did annull that title of honour, and from that tyme they have only been designed Lairds of Balmayn. Some say he was killed with his master in that feild, bot I have two unansreable arguments agst it. The on is that in severall of K.J. the 4ths parliats. I find him on of the Commissioners as now but joyned two or three in ane deputation. Neither had thesse offices att that tyme such splendour and greatness annexed to them as now, and by this it appears the K.J. the 4th durst not resent his fathers death, yet he took speciall nottice of those freinds who had faithfully adhered to him. Instance the iron belt and bitter repartee he gave the Lord Gray. The second is, That Mr. Andrew Ramsay his great grand-chyld, in his Latine epitaph made on him, printed amongst his Epigrams, affirmes that he was killed att the battell of Floudan with K.J. 4th, which, if true, he has out-lived J. the 3d 25 years. I find the said Sr. John Ramsay's sone hath lived till about the year 1567. For in the Sederunt books that year there is ane gift of tutory dative mentioned, making Sr Robert Carnagie of Kinnaird tutor to Wm. Ramsay of Balinayne, left ane minor by the death of his fayr., and this Sr Robt. did afterwards bestow Katharine Carnagie his daughter upon the said Wm. Ramsay. The present Earles of Southesk are lineally descended of the said Sr Robt. bot wer not nobilitat for 30 years after that. Of this Wm. Ramsay and the said Katharine Mr. Andrew Ramsay was their second sone, and being educat in literature, wes sent abroad by his parents to the famous protestant University of Saumur in France, where he gave such eminent specimens of his great knowledge that in 1600 he was created professor of theologie yr. And I have seen that printed Latine oration he had att his inauguration, and tho the Scots wer soouner preserved in France than any other strangers, yet it behooved to be extraordinary merits that adjudged the divinity chair to him befor so many candidats and rivals of their own nation. Bot being desirous to improve the talents heaven had bestowed on him in his oun countrey, he returned home, and about the year 1608 married that vertuous Gentlewoman, Mary Frazer, daughter to the Laird of Dores, and wes by Sr. Alexr. Arbuthnot of that ilk her uncle by the mother called to his Church of Arbuthnot in the Mernes, bot he being ane star of ane greater magnitude than to be consigned to so obscure ane place he wes, in 1613,[723] invited to the toun of Edr. to be on of their ministers, which he accepted, and continued their till 1649 that he was laid asyde by that prevailling remonstrator faction in the church, because he wold not dissown the engadgement undertaken by James Duke of Hamilton the year befor for procuring K. Ch. the first's liberty, and so continued solaceing himself with thatmurus ahæneusof a good conscience till he resigned up his blessed soule into the hands of his merciful creator in the end of that year 1659, having, lyke Moses of[724] Mount-pisga, seen the designes and inclinations of this Island to bring back their banished King which he had much promoted by his prayers; and so this good man, lyke ane sheaff of rype corn, was gathered into his masters barn in the 86 year of his age, a man who for his singular piety and vast reading was the phenix of his tyme as his manuscripts yet extant can prove, so that his memory is yet sweet and fragrant, but especially to those who are descended of him who are more particularly oblidged to imitat his goodness, vertue and learning. Bot befor I leave Balmaynes family I shall only tell on passage because its remarkable of David Ramsay of Balmayn, the said Mr. Andrews nephew. Their is ane sheett of paper in form of ane testament wheron their is no word written bot only this, Lord, remember the promise thou hes made to thy servant David Ramsay such ane day of such ane moneth and such ane year, and then he adds, Let my posterity keep this among their principall evidents and subscrybes underneath it his name, and which paper is yet extant and keeped by Sr. Charles the present Laird, bot what the revelation was I could never learn. Now to give you but on word of the maternall descent, they wer aunciently Thanes of Collie, and were come of the great Frazer, who was named by the parliat. on of the governors of Scotland be-north Tay with the Cummings till the controversie should be decyded betuixt the Bruce and the Ballioll in 1270.
Of thir parents was my Lord Abbotshall born in May 1619, being their 3d sone, and from his very infancy promised good fruit by the airlie blossomes of ane sharp and peircing witt, and his two elder brothers having been bred schollars, providence ordered him to be educat ane merchand, bot by his oun industry in reading and his good converse he supplied that defect in his education, and haveing been elected youngest Bailzie of Edr. in thesse troublesome tymes of the English invading and subdueing our nation in 1652, he behaved so well that Provost Archbald Tod comeing to dye in 1654, he was not only recommended by him bot was lykewayes by the toun counsell judged fittest to succeed him; a step which few or non hes made to ryse from the lowest to the cheiff place of Magistracy in the burgh without passing throw the intermediat offices, and which station he keeped till Michaelmass 1658. Dureing which tyme the toun haveing many aflaires to negotiat att London with Oliver the protector, and those whose estates wer sequestrat haveing addresses to give in ather to have the sequestration taken of or are part allocat for their aliment, they all unanimously agreed to employ provost Ramsay as the fittest, which he discharged with great dexterity to all their satisfactions; which made some reflect upon him as complying too much with the usurper, bot when a nation is broke and under the foott of ane enemy, it has alwayes been esteemed prudence and policy to get the best termes they can for the good of their countrey, and to make the yoke of the slavery lye alse easy upon our necks as may be: and the toun was so sensible of his wise and equall administration that they after tryall of severall others brought him in again to be provost in 1662, which he keeped for eleven years together more then what any had ever done befor hira, Chancellour Seton haveing continued for 10 years. When he entered upon this second part of his government he found the toun at the brink of ruine by the cruell dissentions then sprung up betuixt the merchands and trades about their priviledges, bot he lyke ane skilfull Chirurgeon bound up and healled their wounds; and being lykewayes sunck under the burthen of debt he procured such gifts and impositions from his Mat'ie upon all sorts of Liquors that he in a short tyme brought doun their debt from eleven hundredth thousand merks to seven hundredth thousand: and being thrcatened by the Lord Lauderdale to erect the citadels of Leith in a burgh Royall, which wold have broke the trade of Edr., for preventing therof he purchased the same and annexed it to the toun, and finding that Sr. Wm. Thomson their Clerk by his influence upon the deacons of trades nominated and elected the Magistrats att his pleasure, he in 1665 caused the toun Counsell of Edr. depryve him, and notwithstanding all the pains he took by brybery of the then Statsmen and other wayes to reenter to his place, yet he was never able to effectuat it, and then he procured Mr. Wm. Ramsay his second sone to be made conjunct Clerk of Edr. Bot his death att Newcastell some few years after made the designe of this profitable place abortive.
Our Statsmen being att that tyme under great animosities and prejudices against on another, Lauderdale, Hamilton, and Rothes drawing three severall factions, Abbotshall, who could make a very judicious choyce, did strike in with Lauderdale, and upon his bottome reared up the fabrick of his enshueing greatnes. For by his favour he was both maintained in the provestrie of Edr., and advanced to the Session privy- Counsell and Excheqr. This could not but draw upon him the Vatinian hatred of the opposite parties. For they saw so long as Sr Andrew governed the toun of Edr. they could not expect non of those large donatives and gratifications which Lauderdale was yearly getting, besydes the citizens longed to have ane share in the government of the toun which they saw inhaunced and monopolized by Sr Andrew and his creatures, so that it was no wonder after so longe ane sun-shyne of prosperity their should come ane storm, that being alse usuall as after a longe tract of fair weather to expect foull, and envy and malice are alse naturall concomitants of greatnes and merite as the shaddow is of the body, and it was never found that good offices done to are society was ever otherwayes rewarded than by ingratitude. Themistocles, Coriolanus and the old worthies of Rome and Greece are sufficient proofs of this. And for compassing their end Sr James Rocheid Clerk, Sr Ffrancis Kinloch, who aspyred att the provistrie, and sevll. other burgers wer hounded out to accuse him in the parliat. held in 1673, and money was largely contributed and given to the Dutches of Lauderdale, and shee considering that his power was now so farr diminished in Edr. that he wold not be able for to drop those golden shoures that formerly he did, shee prevailled with the Duke her husband to wheedle Myn Lord Abbotshall into ane dimission of all his offices. For Plautus observes[725] inTrinummusholds alwayes true that great men expect that favours most be laid so many ply thick on upon another that rain may not win through, which goes very wittily in his oun language,beneficia aliis benefactis legito ne perpluant. It is true the Duke designed no more by this dimission bot to ward of the present blow, and promised to keep all those offices for his oun behoof till the speat and humour of the people agst him wer spent and runne out, bot the Dutchess and others about him did so violent him that he was not so good as his word. They insinuating to him that it was not safe to trust a man of sense and parts whom he had so highly enraged and disobleidged, and that the bringing him back to power was but the putting him in a capacity to revenge himself, and the truth is that has ever been the practice of the inconsiderat mad world to runne doun any man when he is falling, as Juvenal observes in the case of Sejanus, who brings in the mobile who had adored him the day befor with Hosannas crying with displayed gorge,dum jacet in ripa, calcemus Cæsaris hostem, and it is very fitt that divyne providence tryst us with such dispensations. For if wee had alwayes prosperous gales that is so inebriating are potion that lyke the herb mentioned by Homer, it's ready both to cause us forgett our selves and our dewty to God, and I speak it from my oun knowledge that Abbotshall was rauch bettered by thir traverses of fortune, for it both gave him ane ryse and opportunity with more leasure and tyme to examine what he had done in the hurry of publick busines, and to repent and amend our errors is in Seneca'sMorallsthe next best to the being innocent and not haveing committed thesse faults att all: the French proverb being of eternall truth that the shorter ane folly be it is the better; and tho' that physicall rule aprivatione ad habitium non datur regressusbe also true in politicks as in physicks that a man divested of his offices seldome ever recovers his former greatnes, yet Lauderdale being ashamed of the injustice with which he had treated Abbotshall, he made him many large promises of reparation, but ther was never any more performed bot the reponeing him again to his office as ane privy- Counsellor to teach us how litle the favour and assureances of great men are to be regarded, being lyke thesse deceiving brooks wherin you shall not find ane drope of watter in the drougth of summer, and to teach us to look up to God and to despyse the lubricity of this world and all its allurements, which ismodo mater statim noverca, and being blind, foollish, and arrogant, renders all who greedily embrace her alse foollish as herself, and instead of ane substance deludes us with ane empty shaddow of are Junonian cloud, and playes with men as so many tinnise-balls. I have oft blamed Abbotshall for his high manner of doeing bussines relyeing too much upon the strength of his oun judgement which, tho' very pregnant, yet in his oun concernes might be more impartially judged by other by-standers. I have wisht him, with the Marquesse Paulet, that he might have more of the complying willow and lesse of the sturdy oak, bot he oft acknowledged God's care of him in not suffering him to lose himself in ane false flattering world; and if it had been lawfull for him to have taken satisfaction in the calamities of others he had the pleasure in his lyfe to see Kincardyne, Dirltoun, Carringtoun, Lauderdale, and his other enemies turned out of their places more ignominiously than he. Thus wearied with troubles and the death of many of his children come to age, he devotly payed the last debt to nature in January 1688, being the 69 year of his age. This is all I can get at present proposed to you for one pattern and example, the sheat being able to hold no more.'
[722]i.e.until.
[723] Mr. Andrew Ramsay, Minister of the old Kirk in Edinr., was Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of Edinr. for six years successively preceeding the 8th March 1626, att which time he gave up both offices.—Note in MS.
[724]i.e.off, from.
[725]i.e.Plautus's observation.
Abbotshall was a man of great force of character. He was much respected by Lauder, who, on his marriage with his daughter, was probably a good deal indebted to him for his first start in professional life. For example, it was no doubt by his influence that he was very early appointed one of the Assessors to the town of Edinburgh along with Sir George Lockhart and soon afterwards to the whole of the Burghs. To the facts of his life as narrated in the letter it may be added that in the course of his career he acquired extensive estates. Besides Abbotshall in Fife, he became the owner, among other lands, of Waughton in East Lothian, a place often mentioned by Lauder, where his brother-in-law, Sir Andrew Ramsay, junior, resided. The eulogy in the letter is somewhat deficient in light and shade, more so than some other passages in which Lauder mentions his father-in-law (see Introduction, p. xxxvi). A good deal about Abbotshall may be read in Sir George Mackenzie's Memoirs, the following extract from which (p. 246) will help to supply thechiaroscuro.
'Sir Andrew Ramsay had, by obtaining 5000ll sterling to the Duke of Lauderdale for the Citadel of Leith, and other 5000ll to him for the new impositions granted to the town by the King upon ale and wine, insinuated himself very far into the favour of his Grace; and by his favour had, for ten successive years, continu'd himself Provost of Edinburgh, and consequently Preses of the Burghs; by which, and by having the first vote of Parliament, he was very serviceable to Lauderdale; who in requital of that favour obtained 200 ll sterling per annum settled upon the Provost of Edinburgh, and caused the king give him 4000ll sterling for his comprising of the Bass, a rock barren and useless. Thus they were kind to one another upon his Majesty's expenses. In this office of Provost he had governed most tyrannically for ten years, applying the Coramon Good to himself and friends, and inventing new though unnecessary employments within the town, to oblige those who depended upon him. But at last the citizens, weary of his yoke, resolved to turn him out at Michaelmas 1672.'
The attempt failed at that time.
Abbotshall, 207;church lands of, 195.—— lord.SeeRamsay, sir Andrew.Abercorn, lord, 184.Aberlady, 200, 210.Accounts, extracts of, 239.Acheson, 203.—— sir Archibald, 191.Ackland, Mr., 169.Addestone, 191, 192, 200.Adenstans easter and wester, 203.Administration of justice, xxxiv.Adrian's wall, 182.Adultery, punishment of, in France, 69-70, 110.Advocates, fees of, in France, 90, 214 andn.—— suspension of, xxii-xxiii, 224-226, 277;meeting of, in Cadell's, 278.Aickman, William, 253.Aikenhead, James, death of, 226.Ainsley, James, 283.Airth, earl of, 193.Albemarle, the duke of, his engagement with the Dutch fleet, 236.Albigenses, persecutions of, 66.Alexander III. killed near Bruntilland, 197.Alexander …, professor of law at Poictiers, 3, 128, 153, 157, 188;turns papist, 113.Alfred, king, founder of university college, Oxford, 172.Amboise, 19;arsenal of, 129.America, theory of the peopling of, 197.Amont water, 193.Anagram of Cornelius Jansenius, 75.Anderson, John, advocate, death of, 222.—— Marion, wife of Fountainhall, xxiii.Anecdotes of the blind, 132;of a thirsty cow, 133;of preachers, etc., 52, 114-115, 120, 126-128, 142, 148, 149, 151;of the king of Spain, 150;the queen of Sweden, etc., 151;of a faithless Frenchman, 199;of the earl of Cowrie, 199.Angleberne, le baron d', 17, 130-131.Angus, Archibald, earl of, 302.—— James, 279.Annand, M., distinguishes himself at the siege of Candy, 229.Anne of Austria, funeral oration on, 126;her heart preserved in the Val de Grace, 131.Apologetical Relation, 139 andn.Appeals, law of, in France, 60.Arbuthnot, lord, 216.—— sir Alexander, of that ilk, 303.Archerfield, 210.Ardrosse of Elie, 196.Argyll, Archibald, ninth earl of, xxx-xxxiii, xxxv, 139, 223, 232.Arley, lord, 176 andn.Arthur's Oven, 182.Ascletarion, a magician, 204 andn.Astrology, xxxix.Athelstanford, 274.Atholl, earle of, lord privy seal, 221, 223-225.Aubigné, the marquis d', 103.Augier, M., 153.Augustines, order of, 10, 61, 86;Augustinian sermon on the virgin Mary, 52-53.Auldcambus, 202, 208-210.Auldham, 210.Auldhamstocks, 202.Auldliston, 193.Ayton of Bannochie, 196.
Baccleuch, estate of, 208.Baillie of Jerviswood, trial of, xxx.—— lt-general, 191.—— John, advocate, death of, 227.—— William, advocate, rebuked by lord Newbyth, 217.Baird, sir John, of Newbyth, 109, 216 andn, 220, 224.Balbirny, 205.Balcarres, lady, 232.Bale'sSarro-Sancto Regum Maiestas,140.Balfour, laird of, 207.—— of Balbirny, 205.—— sir David, of Forret, 223, 224.Balgonie, 196, 203.Ballantyne, Andro, minister at Coldinghame, 210.Ballincreiff, 208.Balliol college, Oxford, 173.Balmanno, lord, 215.Balmayne, 205, 302.—— laird of.SeeRamsay.Balmerinoch, lord, 190, 193.Balquharge, 205.Balveirie, Fife, 196.Banished ministers' manifesto, 139 andn., 142.Bannatyne club, institution of the, xviii.Bannochie, 196.Barclay ——, 197.Barnbougall, 193.Barnes.SeeCunningham.Bartholomew, St., 52.Baruclan, 193.Bass, the, xvi, 203, 309.Beaton, Alexander, 191.—— Andrew, advocate, death of, 220.—— William, 256.—— of Blebo, 207.Beatons of Balfour, 196.Beaufort, the duc de, kilted at the siege of Candy, 229.Beaugency, 18.Beconsfields, 168.Bedlam, 174.Bedlan Green, 175.Bell, Adam, 201.—— Androw, 269.—— John, 185.—— Robert, 243, 251, 265.—— Thomas, 239, 287.—— family, origin of the name, 208.Bellenden, lord, 215.—— of Broughton, 191.Bell-ringing during thunder, 49-51;for the last agonies, 59.Bels milne, 191.Beltan, 203, 205.Benedictine friars, 10,convent of, at Marmoustier, 19;convent at Poictiers, 36;wealth of the order, 86.Bernard, St., abbot of Clareville, 52.Bernardines.SeeFullions.Beroalde de Verville, Francois, 103 andn.Bever castle, 176.Biccarton of Lufnes, 210.Bickerstaffe, sir Charles, 221.Binnie, 193.—— laird of, 186.—— bailzie, 264.Binning, William, 245, 251, 263.Biron, duc de, 77 and n.Biton, madame, 39.Blacader of that ilk, 201.Blacarstoun, 200.Black. Jo., 279.Blackbarrony, laird of, 279.Blackford burn, Edinburgh, 188.Blackfriars church in Glasgow struck by lightning, 228.Blaickburne, 200.Blaikerston, 210.Blair of Carberrie, 190.Blair, rev. Robert, anecdote of, 127.Blanerne, 201.Blantyre, lord, 185.Blasphemy, punishment of, 60.Blind men, anecdotes of, 132.Blois, 17,description of, 18,castle of, 130.Blythswood, 185.Bodley, Thomas, 170.Bogie, 196, 205.—— of Bannochie, 196.Bonar, Jo., of Bonytoun, 194.Bonnévette, 63.Bonnymoon ——, 174.Bonytoun, 192-194.Books, catalogues of, 153, 157, 160-162, 283-299.Bordeaux, 64;torture practised in, 70.Borseau, M., 128, 160.Borthwick, James, 268.—— Samuell, 268.—— William, apothccar, 250.—— col., 168.Boswel of Balmuto, 197.—— of Pittedy, 196.—— of Westmilne, 195.Bothwell ——, 203.—— Adam Hepburne, earle of, 205.—— earls of.SeeRamsay.—— castle of, 185.Boumaker, Robert, 256.Bouquiet, Mr., 34.Bourges, 65;university of, 66.Bourhouses, 200.Boyde, Hew, 246.Boyelet, Mr., merchant at Orleans, 153.Brackmont, 207.Braid burn, Edinburgh, 188.Brandenburgh, duke of, xxxvii.Brazennose college, Oxford, 173.Bread, price of, 59.Breda, peace of, 167 andn.Bridal gifts, 60.Bridgeman, sir Orlando, 221.Brisbane, Mrs., xxxi.Brothels in Rome, defence of, 83.Broun of Colston, 200 andn.—— of Gorgie, 191.—— of Thorniedykes, 210.—— père, 118.—— Daniel, 185.—— John, 280.—— Thomas, 267, 269, 270, 281, 283, 287, 289, 291, 293.—— William, 108, 250, 256, 257, 264, 281, 290, 291.Brace, rev. Mr., of Fife, anecdote of, 148.Brimstone, 26 andn, 188, 190.Bruntilland.SeeBurntisland.Brunton, 197.Bryson, Sandy, 270.Buchanan, George, 139; hisFrantiscanus, 10 andn;criticism of hisHistory, 205, 206.—— sir John, 206, 207.Buck, Thomas, advocate, death of, 222.Burgundy, duke of, 84.Burnet, Alexander, archbishop of Glasgow, xxxvii;his remonstrance with Charles II., 230.—— D., 168.—— Robert, advocate, death of, 212.Burntisland, 197, 279.Butterdean, 200.—— laird of.SeeHay, William.Byres, 208, 209.
CADDEL, captain, 132.Calder, 186.—— lairds of, 192.Calderhall, laird of, 189, 192.Calderwood, Thomas, 185.—— bailzie, 283, 284.Callender, earl of, 183.Calvin, John, tradition of, 36.Camelon, king of the Picts, 182.Camnetham, laird of, 281.Campbell of Blythswood, 183n.—— Archibald, 193.—— —— advocate, death of, 215.—— Barbara, 185.—— sir Colin, 220 andn.—— James, 185.—— Mary, 274.—— Robert, 185.—— —— apothecar, 272.Camron, Archbald, 247, 256, 276.Candie, tounc of, taken by the Turks, 228.Cants of Grange, 188.—— of Priestfield, 188.Capuchins, order of, 9, 10, 33, 86;anecdotes of, 62, 148.Carberrie, 203.—— laird of, his influence on the battle of Pinkie, 190.Carden, lord, death of, 212.Carington, laird of, 308.—— lands of, 239n, 248.Carmelites, order of, 61.Carmichael, master of, 185.Carnegie, Katharine, 303.—— James, 274.—— sir Robert, of Kinnaird, 303.Carthusians, 10.Caskieberry, 205.—— laird of.SeeShoneir.Cassilton, 203, 210.Castellaw, Mr., 3.Castlemilk, 185.Catechism of M. Drelincourt, 86.Catherine, St., of Sienna, convent of, 188n.Ceres (Cires), 207.Chabate, Mile., 128.Chabot, Philippe de, 63 andn.Chained books at Oxford, 170.Chalmers, James, advocate, death of, 225.—— Joan, 276.Chamberlayne, Joseph, barber, 267.Chambord castle, 18.Champigny, 25.Chancellor, Kate, 263.Chapman of Priestfield, 188.Charles IX., anecdote of, 147.Charles I., murder of, 91.Charles II., his object in desiring the union of England andScotland, 229-230;letter from, for indulging outedministers; establishment of his supremacy, 230;settles the disputes between the houses of parliament, 232;his debts paid by parliament, 233;grant of money to, by parliament, 273n;eulogy on, xxvii.Charleton, Richard, 59.Charteris, Laurence, advocate, 221;death of, 226.Chartreuse, founding of the order of, 78-79.Chatelerault, 64.Cheisly, John, of Dairy, xxxiv, 277.—— Sam., 261.—— William, 219.Cherries, 66, 69: cherry feast to the exchequer, 266.Chilperick, treatment of, 91.Chimney-sweeps from Savoy, 75.China, fertility of, 105-106.Chinon, 24.Chirnesyde, 201.Christ church, Oxford, 171.Christina, queen of Sweden, anecdote of, 151.Chrystie, Mr., 284.—— Adam, clerk of session, 215.Civil law of France, 64-65.Clan Macduff, 197, 206.Clarendon house, 168 andn.Clarke'sExamples108.Classics, pronunciation of the, 123.Clerical anecdotes, 52, 114, 115, 120, 126-128, 142, 148.Clerk, sir Alex., of Balbirny, 205.Clery, 130.Cleveland, dutchesse of, 233.Clifford, lord, treasurer of England, 222.Clifton hall, 186, 193.—— toune, 193.Climate of France, 117.Cluny, barony of, 205.Coal pits of Dysert, 207.Coalston pear, the, 200 andn.Cochrane, lord, 184, 226.Cockburne of Clerkingtone, 200.Cockenie, 203, 211.Coinage, heightening of gold and silver coinage of foreign nations, 80.See alsoMoney.Colbrandspath, 200.—— laird of, 209.Coldinghame abbey, 209.—— kirk, 210.—— moor, 209.Colerine, 197.Colison, Mr., 2.Colquhoun, sir John, of Luz, 184.Colt, Mr., 3.Columbus, anecdote of, 97.Colvill, Samuel, 266, 287.Colyear, David, 251, 272, 275, 276.Comedies played at Poictiers, 124, 127Comets, appearance of, xxxix.Comiston well, 274.Congilton, 208.Conspiracy laws, hardships of, 91.Constantine the emperor, statue of, 56.Consultation fees, 257, 258, 260.Convent of Marmoustier, 18-20;of the Bernardines, 47;at St. Florans, 22;of Notre Dame d'Ardiliers, 23 andn.Conventicles, laws against, 233.Convention of burrows at Glasgow, 281.Cook, Mr., 231.Cooking in France, 76, 79.Cordeliers, order of, 9, 86.Coronation stone, 1.Cothereau, Renatus, 117.Cotibby, M., 128.Cotteridge, Mr., 233.Court of session, constitution of, xxxiv-xxxv;court of session documents, 212-227.Courty, rev. Thomas, anecdote of, 151.Covenanters, xxviii, xxix.Covent Garden, 175.Craig, 203.—— of Riccarton, 191.—— John, of Ramorney, advocate, 297.Craighall, 197, 207.Craighouse, 187.Craigie, lord, 224.Craigiehall, 193.Craiglockhart, 191.Cranston, Christian, 269.Craw, 209.—— Rot., 260, 271, 280.—— of Eist Reston, 210.—— of Henchcheid, 210.Crawfurd, captain, 280.—— Thomas, 3, 4, 256.Creichton, ——, 22, 23, 203.—— John, 168.—— of St. Leonards, 205.Crime in Poictiers, 95.Cringelty, in Tweeddale, 191.Crocodile story, 38.Crosby, Mr., x.Crumstaine, 202.Cujas, Jacques, 65 andn.Cunyghame, ——, 208.—— Adam, 216.—— sir J., 224.—— W., 272.—— Walter, 239, 265, 270.—— William, 279.—— of Barnes, 203.Curators in French civil law, 64-65.Curriehill, 191.Customs and Laws of France, 74-75.Cuthbert, Mr., 18.
Daillé, Mr., 29, 30, 40, 58-60, 66, 101-102, 128, 158, 159.—— madame, 41, 43. 63, 67, 83, 102, 128.Dairsie, 207.Dalhousie, William, earle of, death of, 221.Dalkeith, lord, 188.Dalmahoy, 192.Dalrymple, sir David, lord Hailes, 202, 203.Dalrymple, James, 226.—— sir John, xxxiv, 247.Darling, Lilias, 270.Daulphinée, insurrection in, 229.Dauphintoun, 190, 203.Daves, Mr., bookseller in Oxford, 169.Dean, James, 255, 256, 268.Deans, Robert, advocate, 191.Death, customs connected with, in France, 125.Dechmond, 193.Del Camp, M., execution of, 132.Devil, the, being annoyed by the din of the gospel,favours the peopling of America from Christian lands, 197;his opinion of Scotland, 152 andn.Devils of Loudun, 77.Dewar, David, 196.Dick of Braid, 186.—— of Grange, 188, 242.—— sir Andro, 187.—— James, 5 andn, 6, 248.—— William, of Grange, 266 andn, 267, 268.Dickson, Alexander, of Binnie, 193.—— G., 243.—— Robert, advocate, death of, 223.Digbie, sir Kenelm, 169, 170.Dinmuire, David, 269.Dirleton castle, 210.Divorce in Rome, 116.Dobies of Stainehill, 189.Dog of Heriot's hospital hanged for refusing the test, xxxii.Dogs as guardians of a town, 85.Domenick, St., sermon on, 31.Dominicans, 10.Don, Mr., 168.—— Patrick, 247.Donibristle house, 258.Douell, ——, 4, 21, 23, 66 andn.Douglas, marquis of, 22, 185, 200.—— of Gogar, 191.—— of Kelheid, 213.—— of Lumbsdean, 201, 209.—— sir James, 202.—— William, of Kirknes, death of, 212.—— —— advocate and poet, death of, 216.—— Mr., 59, 102.Douy, James, 17.Downing, sir George, 235 andn.Drelincourt'sCatechism, 86.Drodden.SeeDryden.Drummond of Reidop, 194.—— of Riccarton, 194.—— Alex., 295.Drummond, generall-major, 224.—— bailyie, 253.Drumshorling moore, 186, 194.Dryden (Drodden), 187.Duaren, François, 66 andn.Du Bartas'sDivine Weeks, 82 andn.Dudinstone, Edinburgh, 190.Dumbarton castle, 184.Dumfries, earle of, 226.Dunbar, earle of, oppressor of the Craws, 210.—— lordship of, 200.Duncan of Ratho, 192.Duncombe, sir John, 222.Dundas, Wm., 297.—— of that ilk, 193.Dundasses of Fingask, 204.Dunfermline, 189.—— Alex., earle of.SeeSeton.—— Charles, earle of, death of, 219, 223.Dunkirk, sale of, 234.Dunybirsell.SeeDonibristle.Durhame of Lufnes, 210.Durie of that ilk, 197, 207.Du Serre'sHistoire, 82 andn, 108 andn.Dutch fleet, defeat of, 234-236.—— language, antiquity of, 81.Dysert salt pans, 196;coal pits, 207.
East Lothian militia, 275. Ecclesiastical revenues of France, 86. Edencraw, 201. Edgar, Edward, 113. Edinburgh's bond of assurance with the laird of Halton, 192; dissensions among the trades of, 305. —— university, removal of, to Linlithgow, 112 andn; gift of books to the library from Lauder, 289. Edmiston of that ilk, 188. Edmond, colonel sir William, 150 andn. Edringtone, 202. Eggs, price of, 97. Eistbarnes, 200. Eistfeild, 193. —— laird of.SeeGray, James. Eleis, John, 29, 1O2, 194, 251, 274. —— —— advocate, suspension of, 226. Eleiston.SeeIllieston. Elibank, lord, 208. Elphinston, 190, 200, 203 —— lady, 215. —— lord, 192n. Elsick, lady, 179. Errol, estate of, 208. Erskin, Arthur, 207. —— Jean, 192. —— of Innerteill, 196. Estampes, 131 andn. Ethelstanefield, 203 andn. Ethie, earl of, 14 andn. Excommunication, moderate use of, 79. Execution of a criminal in France, 119. Expenses, notes of, 153-163; expenditure in London, 180. Eyemouth (Haymouth), 210.
Fabritius, general, anecdote of, 116.Falconer, Alexander, lord Halkerton, death of, 215-217.—— sir David, of Newton, advocate, 213, 225, 275.—— Mr., 240.Farlies of Braid, 186.Fast kept by protestant churches of Poictiers, 88.Faustus, verses of, at Blois, 130.Fawsyde, near Tranent, 190, 203.—— James, 286.Fentontour, 203.Ferolme, Jo., of Craigiehall, 193.Fête de Dieu, 11.Fife, earl of.SeeRamsay.Figgate burn, near Edinburgh, 188.Filleau, M., 113, 124.Finglassie, 205.Fireworks at Saumur, 23.Fish as French food, 61.Fleming, James, 192.—— sir William, 191.Fletcher, sir Androw, of Abirlady, 200, 210.—— James, 179.—— sir John, king's advocate, 140, 179.—— sir Robert, of Salton, 109.Floors castle, 179.Forbes of Tolquhon fined for opprobrious speech, 223.—— Arthur, threatens a judge, 216-217.—— Duncan, 274.—— —— of Culloden, 132 andn, 160.Forfar anecdote, 133.Forrest, Mrs., 299.—— R., 270.Forrestor, 209.Forret, 207.—— lord.SeeBalfour, David.Foster of Corstorphine, 191.Fosterland, 200, 209.Fothringhame, Robt., 281.Foulden, 202.Foulis, Alexander, of Ratho, 192.Foulis, George, master-coiner, xlvi.—— James, of Colinton, lord Reidfurd, 30 andn,63, 64, 158, 196, 224, 240.Fouquet, Nicolas, 130 andn.Francion'sHistoire, 82 andn, 108.Francis I., anecdote of, 111.Franciscans, 10.Frazer, Mary, 301.Frederic, king of Bohemia, 151.French of Thorniedykes, 210.—— language, elegance of the, 82.—— people, barbarity of, 77;addicted to cheating strangers, 55.Fruits of France, 46, 66, 67, 83, 89, 95, 126, 132;of Scotland, 186.Fuirstoun, 200, 209.Fullerton, Samuel, 161, 162, 163.Fullions or Bernardines, 47 andn, 52, 61, 86.Funeral oration on the queen mother, at St. Pierre, 126.Furd, 209.Fyvie, 189.
Gairdner, George, 251, 252, 272.—— Tom, 265, 272.Gairnes, rev. William, 195.Game laws, 121-122.Games of children in France, 125.Gammelisheills, 210.Gandy, Mr., 14.Garnier, Mr., apothecary at Poictiers, 29.—— madame, 157.Garshoire, Mr., 269.Gaule, M. de, 128.Gaultier, Mr., 113.Gay, M. de, 128.—— Alexander, 279.Geismar, Mr., 161.Gelderland, duke of, 198.Geneva, rules for catholics in, 96;watches of, 66.German language, 77.Gibsone, Alexander, principal clerk of session, 225.—— G., 262.—— James, 258.—— sir John, of Adelston, 192, 226.—— Mr., 3.Giffard, lord, 203, 208, 211.Giffards of Shirefhal, 188, 211.Gilbert, Robert, 250, 270.Gilespie, Edward, 265, 276.—— Patrick, 200.Gilmerton estate, xxxvi.Gilmour, sir John, of Liberton, 181, 188, 191;resigns the presidentship of the court of session, 213;death of, 215.Glammes, lord of, 195.Glasgow, 183;Glasgow merchants and the exportation of herrings, 219;Blackfriars church struck by lightning, 228.Gledstan, Halbert, 255.Glenbervie, lairds of, 203.Glencairne, ladie, 193.Glencoe, massacre of, xxvi andn.Glendoick, lord.SeeMurray.Gogar, 191.—— laird of, 189.Gordon, Adam, of Edom, 134.—— Anna, 258.—— sir George, of Haddo, 174n, 175, 177.Gorenberry, 132.Gorgie in Lothian, 191, 203, 205, 207, 302.Goropius Becanus, hisOrigines Antwerpianz, 81.Gosford, 211.—— lord, 212, 213.Gouffier, Guillaume, admiral, 63n.Gourlay, H., 265.Gourlaybank, 202.Govan, Robt., 259.Gowrie, earl of, 203.—— conspiracy anecdote, 199.Grahame, Mr., 30, 35, 132, 153, 160, 161.—— Hary, 252.Grange, Fife, 196.—— laird of.SeeDick, William.Grant, major George, 184.Gray, lord, 303.—— James, of Eistfeild, 193.—— Mr., a converted papist, 268.Gruché, de, 128, 160.Guise, duke of, 18.Gunsgrein, 210, 250.Gustavus Adolphus, anecdote of, 150.Guthry, rev. James, 141.—— laird of, 258.—— Mrs., 239.
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, earl of, 188 andn, 208, 274. —— abbey of, 200. Hailes, lord.SeeDalrymple, sir David. Haliburton, James, 256, 260, 262, 263, 265. Haliburtons of Fentontour, 203. Halidoun hill, 202. Halkerton, lord.SeeFalconer, Alexander. Hall, Dr., 2. Halzeards, 193. Hamilton, Alexander, 247, 283. —— —— justice clerk depute, death of, 219. —— Henry, 162, 168. —— James, duke of, 177, 185, 226, 304, 306. —— —— 212. —— —— advocate, death of, 223. —— —— clerk of session, death of, 222, 225. —— Marie, 260. —— Mary, 279. —— Patrick, of Dalserf, 258, 261, 292. —— Robert, 212, 226, 266. —— Thomas.SeeHaddington, earl of. —— sir William, a lord of session and lord provost of Edinburgh, 218. —— of Dechmond, 193. —— of Eleiston, 194. —— of Orbiston, 184. —— Mr., 2, 3, 239. Happers of Bourhouses, 200. Hardins, D., 175. Hartsyde, dame Margaret, 207. Haswal, Isabell, 178. Hatfield house, 176. Hatton, 191. —— house, 192-193. Haukerstone, 216. Hay, Archibald, 132. —— sir George, of Nethercliff, 215 andn. —— Harie, 187. —— sir John, provost of Edinburgh, 218. —— John, principal clerk of session, 225. —— Thomas, 212, 225, 243, 275. —— William, of Butterdean, 200, 209. —— Dr., 213. Haychester, 210. Haymouth.SeeEyemouth. Helene, Ste., chapel dedicated to, at Auldcambus, 210. Hendersone, James, 269. —— William, bibliothecar in the colledge of Edenbrugh, 292, 297. —— of Laurenceland, 200. —— Mr., 239. Henry III. of France, 91. Henry IV. of France, 4, 91, 103, 108; anecdote of, 133. Hepburn, 203. —— Adam.SeeBothwell, earl of. Hepburnes of Wauchton, 202. Heriot of Ramorney, 206. Heriot's hospital, dog of, hanged for refusing the test, xxxii. Hermistone, 200. Herrings, exportation of, 219. Heuch-Home, 203. Hewes, D., 160. Hilary, St., legend of, 37; tradition relating to St. Hilaire and the devil, 56; miracles wrought by the cradle of, 56. Hilton of Huttonhall, 202. Hog, Ja., 256. Holland a 'sink of all religions,' 68; treatment of Jews in, 68. Home.SeeHume. Honieman, Andrew, bishop of Orkney, 231. Hope, Henry, 252. —— Mr., 39, 102. Hopes of Craighall, 207. Hotman, François, 66 andn. Houlle, a barber, 132. Household expenditure, 239-282. Howard, sir Robert, 223. Howel'sHistory of Venice, 82, 85; hisFamiliar Letters, 99 andn. Hume or Home, Alexander, xxix, 30, 63, 159. —— David, 30, 35, 63, 113. —— George, 258. —— sir John, of Renton, justice clerk, 210, 213; death of, 214, 215. —— lady, 252. —— sir Patrick, 30 andn, 35, 55, 113, 213. —— Peter, 158. —— of Coldinghame Law, 210. —— of the Maines, 201. —— of Nynewells, 201. —— of West Reston, 210. —— tavern keeper, 168. Humes of Blacader, 201. —— of Huttonhall, 202. Hunter, James, 8, 17, 131, 156. Huntley, the cock of the north, 58. Husband-beaters, punishment of, 110. Huttonhall, 202. —— laird of.SeeHilton: Humes. Hyde, sir Edward, lord chancellor, 168n, 172; hatred of, in England, 233; he escapes to France, 234.
Idington, 201.—— laird of.SeeRamsay.Illieston (Eleiston), near Edinburgh, 186, 193, 194.Inchekeith, 190-191.Ingleston, 193.Inglish, Edwards, 175.Inglish, James, 274.—— Mrs., 168, 175, 180.Innerask, 189.Innerleith, laird of, 187.Innerteill, 195, 196.Innerwick, 200.Innes, Robert, 267, 268.
Jacobins, order of, 10, 61 andn, 86. James II., ceremonies connected with the marriage of, 198 andn. James III., marriage of, 202; bestows favours on John Ramsay, 302; death of, 206, 303. James IV., 303; at Norham castle, 202; killed at Flouden, 206. James V. and the Franciscans, 10. James VII., xxviii, xxxi, xxxiv, 13 andn, 115, 235. Jesuits, order of, 9, 42; college of, at Poictiers, 77; lines on their college at La Flèche, 69; wealth of the order, and how obtained, 86; their cruelty, 99. Jews, treatment of, in Spain, Portugal, and Holland, 67-68; laws against, in Rome and France, 75. 'Jock of bread Scotland,' 213 andn. John of Austria, his victory over the Turks at Lepanto, 150. —— of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, armour of, 1. Johnston of Warriston, 191. —— Robt., 261. —— Mr., 168. Jossie, B., 190. Jousie, Jo., 211, 267.
Kar.SeeKer.Karkanders, 205.Keith, sir James, of Caddome, committed to the Tolbuith and fined, 213.—— Robert, of Craig, 295.Kellie, W., 200.Kello, John, 212, 222.Kelso abbey, 179.Kemnock, 207 andn.Kennoway, 207.Ker, Lancelot, 262.—— sir Mark, of Cockpen, 189.—— William, 146.—— of Itall, 202.—— Mr., 168.Kid, rev. Mr., of the abbey kirk, anecdote of, 127.Kilmundie, laird of, 240, 249.Kilpont, 193, 194.Kilsyth, battle of, 183 andn.Kincaid of Wariston, 191.—— John, 2.Kincardin, earle of, 221, 226, 308.King's evil, curing of, 72 andn.Kinghorne, 195, 281.—— earle of, 224.Kinglassy, 205.—— lord, death of, 212.Kingstone, lord, 193.Kinleith (Killeith), 191.Kinloch, sir Francis, 306.—— Francis, merchant in Paris, xxxvi, 5, 132, 153, 156, 158-161;Lauder's letter of introduction to, 3;letter from, to John Ogilvy, 7.—— Magdalen, 5.Kinneuchar, 207 andn.Kinninmont, 197.Kinninmonts of Craighall, 207.Kinnoul, lord, 109.Kirkcaldie, 196.—— G., 258.Kirkcanders, lands of, 302.Kirkhill, 193.Kirkwood, Mr., 168.
La Figonne, Ingrande, 128, 160. La Fleche, jesuit college at, 69. Lambert ——, 233. Lame people, large numbers of, in Orleans, 8. Lammerton, 202. Lanark, 186. Land, price of, in France, 107. Langeais, 20. Langhermistoune, 191. Langnidrie, 203 andn, 208. Language, antiquity of, 81. Lanty, Mr., minister of Chirnesyde, 201. Latin and Greek, pronunciation of, 123. Laud, archbishop, his gift of MSS. to the Oxford university library, 169. Lauder, Andrew, 283. —— Colin, 292. —— Elizabeth, 191n. —— George, 242. —— sir George, 240. —— James, 246, 289. —— John, of Newington, father of Fountainhall, xxii, xxiii; letter of introduction from, to Francis Kinloch, 3. —— sir John, lord Fountainhall, outline of his life, xxii-xxv; his political opinions, xxv-xxxiv; on the administration of justice, xxxiv-xxxviii; account of his MSS., ix-x; correspondence between sir Walter Scott and sir T.D. Lauder on the proposed publication of his MSS., xi-xxii; his early journals and accounts, xl-xlii; language and spelling of his MSS., xlix; sets out on his travels, I; lands in France, 2; in Paris, 3; at Orleans, 7; enters into theological and logical discussions, 16; at Blois, 17; visits the convent at Marmoustier, 18; at Saumur, 20-23; at Richelieu, 25-29; arrives at Poictiers, 29; angers the French by abusing them in Scots, 121; leaves Poictiers, 128; at Amboise, 129; arrives in Paris, 131; his essay on the study of law, 137 andn; visits the colleges and physick garden, 169-173; returns to London, 174; his journey north, 175-I76; at York, 177; reaches Edinburgh, 179; note of his expenses in London, 180; at Glasgow, 183, 185; at Hamilton, 185; returns home, 186; excursions in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 187-194; his marriage; birth of his son John, and his daughters Jannet and Isobell, 195; his tour through Fife, 195-197; in Haddingtonshire and Berwickshire, 200-204, 208-211; notes of journeys in Scotland in 1671-72, 205-207; notes of his expenditure, 153-163; arrives at London, 167; at Oxford, 169; admitted advocate, xxii, 181-182, 212; his marriage, xxii-xxiii, 195; appointed advocate for the poor, 223; his fees for consultations, 257-258; appointed assessor of Edinburgh, 212, 308; assessor for the convention of royal burrows, 281; his gift of books to the library of the university of Edinburgh, 289; letter from, to his son, on sir Andrew Ramsay, lord Abbots-hall, 300-308; catalogue of his books, 153, 157, 160-162, 283-299. —— sir Lues, 191. —— Richard, of Hatton, 191 andn, 192 andn, 193, 212. —— Robert, 222, 245, 251, 269, 270. —— sir Thomas Dick, his correspondence with sir Walter Scott on the publishing of Fountainhall's MSS., xi-xxii. —— William, 242, 245. —— of the Bass, 202n. —— sergeant, 185. —— Mr., 168. Lauders, murder of, xxi. Lauderdale, 179. Lauderdale, John, earl of, 192. —— —— duke of, xxxi andn, xxxv,n, 26n, 168, 189, 203, 213-215, 219-222, 232, 303, 306-308. —— duchess of, 215, 306, 307. —— Richard, earl of, 192. —— colonel, 189. Lauds, Ja., 242. Laurenceland, 200. —— laird of.SeeHenderson. Law of Brunton, 197. Law, essay on the study of, 137 andn. Laws and customs of France, 64-65, 74, 77, 87. Lawyers' fees in France, 90. Le Berche, Mr., 13, 123-124, 157. Leidingtoune, 200. Leighton, Robert, archbishop of Dunblane, afterwards of Glasgow, 214, 231. Leirmonts of Dairsie, 207. Leith citadel, purchase of, 305, 308. Leny (Leine), near Edinburgh, 193.Lepanthe (le) de Jacques VI., 82. Lery, Jean de, 94 andn. Leslie, Fife, 197, 205. Lesly, bishop of the Isles, anecdote of, 64. —— Patrick, 276. Leuchie, 203. Levine, earl of, 196, 201. Levinston, Dr., 186. Liberton, 187, 188. Lindsay, Henry, 258. Linktoune, Kirkcaldy, 195. Linlithgow palace, 182 andn. Lintlands, 200. Linton bridges, 202. Lithgow, lord, 194. Little, William, provost of Edinburgh, 187. —— —— of Over Libberton, 187. Lo ——, professor of music in Oxford 168, 172, 173. Lochlevin castle, 197. Lockhart, sir George, xxx, xxxvii, 212, 222, 224, 276, 308. —— sir James, of Lee, lord justice clerk, 185 andn, 218, 219; death of, 223. —— colonel sir William, of Lee, 215, 223, 233. death of, 224. Logans of Restalrig, 187. Loire, inundations of the, 20-21. London tower, 1. Loudun, the devils of, 77. Louis XIII., statue of, in Paris, 5; statue and portraits of, at Richelieu castle, 25-27; a gunmaker, 57; heightens the gold and silver of foreign nations, 80. Louis XIV., as a drummer, 57. Lovain, universities of, 204. Loyola, Ignatius, sermon on, 30-31. Lufnes, 203, 210. Lumsdean, Charles, 268, 296. Lundie, rev. James, 195. —— of that ilk, 196-197. Lundy, Mr., minister at Dysert, 272. Lylle, William, advocate, death of, 212. Lyon, rev. Gilbert, 195. —— Patrick, 221, 249.
Macbean, Mr., xv, xviii, xxi.Macduff clan, 197, 206.Macfud ——, 208.M'Gill, Alex., 279, 280.—— of Fingask, 204.—— of Rumgaye, 207.M'Gills of Kemnock, 207.Mackenzie, sir George, lord advocate, xxvii, xxxvi, xxxviii, 181, 226.—— Roderick, 181.Maclucas, Colin, 185.Macquare, Robert, 115, 139 andn.Madertie, lord, 208.Madmen, anecdotes of, 87.Madrid, near Paris, 5.Magdalen bridge, near Musselburgh, 188 andn.Maid of Orleans, festival of, 9-11.Mainart, lord, 222.Maitland, Charles, lord Halton, 191n, 192n, 208, 221, 227.—— Richard, of Pitreichy, 218.—— family, 192.Malcolm of Babedie, 196.Maps, price of, 264, 287.Mar, earle of, 224, 302.March, earle of, 203.Marior, Joseph, 2.Marjoribanks, 203.Markinch (Markins), 197.Marmoustier, convent at, 18.Marriage ceremonies, 99marriages of protestants in France, 79marriage laws of France, 65, 77.Marseilles, 64.Martin, St., celebration of, 100, 101;relics of, 19.—— Robert, justice clerk-depute, 219, 225.Mary, St., of Loretto, 188n.—— Magdalen, St., nunnery of, at the Sciennes, 188.Masterton ——, 262, 263.Maule, Mr., xix.Mawer, Mrs., 265.May island, 203.Mazarin, cardinal, 5, 63.Meadowbank, lord, xiii.Mede, Joseph, theory of, on the peopling of America, 197.Megget, Jo., 258.Mein, Mr., 5.—— Patrick, 3.—— Robert, 250, 256, 257.Meinzeis, rev. John, 231.Meiren, col., 185.Melvill, lord, 196.—— family, 203.Melvines of Touch, 204.Mendoza'sHistoire … de la Chine, 105.Mensen, Henry, 280Merton college, Oxford, 171 andn, 173.Metellan, Mr., 168.Meung, 18.Mexico, founding of the kingdom of, 198.Middleton, earl of, xli, 174.Midlothian militia, 189.Migill. See M'Gill.Milne, rev. Mr., 183.Milton'sIconoclastes, 116.Minimes, order of, 9, 10, 86.Miracles performed at the cradle of St. Hilaire, 56.Mitchell, Jo., 268.—— William, 22, 250, 257.Mompommery, Mr., 159.Monasterium Sancte Mariæ in Campis, 188.Moncreiff, Sam, 281.Money, comparative values of, xlii-xlviii, 81, 92 andn,154, 239, 242, 243 andn, 245 andn, 257 andn,269.Monmouth, the duck of, 222.Monro, Alexander, 212, 226.Monsoreau, 20, 24.Montaigne'sEssayes, 82.Monteith, earles of, 194.Montozon, M., 128.Montrosse, lord, 183.Monynet, 210.Moonzie, 207.Moor, Mr., 5.—— G., 2.—— Dick, 2.Moorefields, 174.Moray.SeeMurray.Mordington, 202.—— lord, 201, 202.Morisons of Dairsie, 207.Morton, earl of, 188, 226.Morton of Cummock, 207.Mortonhall, laird of, 189.Moubrayes of Barnbougall, 193.—— of Wauchton, 202.Mount Calvary, near Paris, 6.Mountebanks, 68-74.Moutray of Seafield castle, 195.Mow, laird of, 201.—— Patrick, of the Maines, 201.Mowat, Mr., 3, 160.Muire of Park, 271.Muires of Bourhouses, 200.Muirhead, John, advocate, death of, 223.Munster, bishop of, anecdote of the, 150.Murder of a judge in Paris, 49.discovery of murders at St. Lazare, 63.Murray, earle of, created justice-generall, 225.pensioned, 225.—— John, advocate, death of, 219.—— Mungo, 120.—— sir Robert, 214 andn.—— death of, 224.—— sir Thomas, of Glendoick, lord of session, 223-224.—— Wm., 274, 276, 279.—— of Levinstone, 186.—— Mr., 3.Musselburgh, 188, 189.Mylne, Robert, annotator of Lauder's MSS., xi, xii, xv, xx.Myre of Billie, 201.
Nairne, Mr., 231.Napier, origin of the name of, 211.Nasmith, John, 269, 272, 278, 279.Neilsone, Margaret, 253, 263.Newbyth, lord.SeeBaird, sir John.New college, Oxford, 171.New Cranston, 179.Newliston, 193.Newmilnes, 200.Newtonlies, 200, 209.Neidle Eye, near Bathgate, 186.Nicol, John, 242, 284, 295.—— P., 174.Nicolson, sir John, of Polton, 189.—— Jonet, 276.—— Thomas, advocate, death of, 212.Nidrie, 190.—— castle, 193.Nisbet, sir John, of Dirleton, 203n, 210, 213, 226, 308.—— of West Nisbet, 202.Norame castle, 202.Normand, Lance, 2.Northtoun (Norton), 192.Northumberland, earl of, 58.Norvell, George, advocate, death of, 222.Nunlands, 200, 202.Nynewells, 201.
Oaths of France, 147. Ogilvy, lord, 8 andn, 14, 16, 17, 130, 160. —— John, 4, 7, 11, 13, 23, 60, 109, 130, 157, 158, 161; letter to, from Francis Kinloch, introducing Lauder, 7. Oliphant, lord, 202. —— Laurence, advocate, death of, 212. —— Patrick, death of, 225. Olive trees, abundance of, in France, 89. Opdam, admiral, 13 andn; defeat of, 234-235. Orange trees, 89. Oriel college, Oxford, 172. Orleans, 8; festival of the maid of, 9-11; the fête de Dieu at, 11; drinking customs of, 133. —— duke of, statue of, at Blois, 18. Ormond, duke of, 58. Orrery, lord, 2 andn. Osborne'sAdvice to a Son, 99 andn. Oswald, Alex., advocate, death of, 212. Otterburne of Reidhall, 203, 207. Oxbridge.SeeUxbridge. Oxford and its library, 169-170; its colleges, 171-173.