Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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The student of Scottish history will find much useful and important information in Robertson's Index of Charters ; Sir Joseph Ayloffe's Calendars of Ancient Charters ; Documents and Records illustrative of the History Of Scotland , edited by Sir Francis Palgrave, 1837; Jamieson's History of the Culdees ; Toland's History of the Druids ; Balfour's History of the Picts ; Chalmers' Caledonia ; Stuart's Caledonia Romana ; History of the House and Clan Mackay ; The Genealogical Account of the Barclays of Ury for upwards of 700 Years ; Gordon's History of the House of Sutherland ; M'Nicol's Remarks on Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles ; Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen ; Dalrymple's Annals , &c. &c.
Abredonensis.
Looking over Evelyn's Diary , edited by Mr. Barry, 4to., 2nd edit., London, 1819, I came upon the following. Evelyn being at Rome, in 1644, says:
I was especially recommended to Father John, a Benedictine Monk and Superior of the Order for the English College of Douay; a person of singular learning, religion, and humanity; also to Mr. Patrick Cary, an abbot, brother to our learned Lord Falkland, a witty young priest, who afterwards came over to our church.
It immediately occurred to me, that this witty young priest might be Sir Walter Scott's protégé , and the author of Triviall Poems and Triolets , written in obedience to Mrs. Tomkins' commands by Patrick Carey, Aug. 20, 1651, and published for the first time at London in 1820, from a MS. in the possession of the editor.
Sir Walter, in introducing his forgotten poet, merely informs us that his author appears to have been a gentleman, a loyalist, a lawyer, and a rigid high churchman, if not a Roman Catholic.