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 2d, and calling to mind the death of Charles the 9t in blood, and the slaughter of Henry the 2d, 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.
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 Cœlum.
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.)
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, 13o 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.