[15] The inscription sought and found in the Acta rectoria of the University of Paris by Professor Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire, at the request of Professor Lorimer, proves that Hamilton studied at Paris.

[16] ‘My great-grandfather, gudeschir, and father have served your Lordship’s predecessors, and some of them have dyed under their standartis’.—John Knox, Hist. of the Reformation, edited by D. Laing, ii. p. 323.

[17] Not to the university of St. Andrews, as was formerly supposed. ‘The name occurs ... in the year 1522.... He was seventeen years of age.’—M’Crie, Life of Knox, Note B.

[18] ‘Velut seditionis fax, volitaret armatus.’—Buchanan.

[19]

‘.... At tu, beata Gallia,

Salve, bonarum blanda nutrix artium,’ &c.

—Buchanani Poemata. Adventus in Galliam.

[20] ‘Potes hunc tyrannum occidere.’—Major, Sentent., fol. 139.

[21] ‘Reges legitimos ab initio creavimus, leges et nobis et illis æquas imposuimus.’—De Jure Regni apud Scotos, p. 24.