Edwardus Longus, Scotorum Malleus, hic est.
(Our Longshanks, “Scotland’s Scourge,” lies here).
Drayton, Polyolbion, xvii. (1613).
So Longshanks, Scotland’s Scourge, the land laid waste.
Ditto, xxix. (1622).
Scots (scuite, “a wanderer, a rover”), the inhabitants of the western coast of Scotland. As this part is very hilly and barren, it is unfit for tillage; and the inhabitants used to live a roving life on the produce of the chase, their chief employment being the rearing of cattle.
Scots (The Royal). The hundred cuirassiers, called hommes des armes, which formed the body-guard of the French king, were sent to Scotland in 1633, by Louis XIII., to attend the coronation of Charles I., at Edinburgh. On the outbreak of the civil war, eight years afterwards, these cuirassiers loyally adhered to the crown, and received the title of “The Royal Scots.” At the downfall of the king, the hommes des armes returned to France.
Scott (The Southern). Ariosto is so called by Lord Byron.
First rose
The Tuscan father’s “comedy divine” [Dantê];
Then, not unequal to the Florentine,
The southern Scott, the minstrel who called forth
A new creation with his magic line,
And, like the Ariosto of the north [Sir W. Scott],
Sang ladye-love and war, romance and knightly worth.
Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 40 (1817).
*** Dante was born at Florence.
Scott of Belgium (The Walter), Hendrick Conscience (1812- ).
Scottish Anacreon (The), Alexander Scot is so called by Pinkerton.
Scottish Boanerges (The), Robert and James Haldane (nineteenth century). Robert died 1842, aged 79, and James 1851.