[637] Yet we find the Archbishop, who left some bastard offspring, when writing as an author, violently and virtuously declaiming against “all kind of lichorie.” See fol. li., etc., of “The Catechisme set furthe by the Most Reverend Father in God, John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews,” printed at St. Andrews, 1552. Perhaps the Archbishop held some of the other commandments in little more respect than the seventh, if we may judge by one of his sayings regarding Queen Mary, when a girl of nine or ten years of age, as reported by Sir James Melville in his Memoirs, p. 73. There is no wonder that Sir James found it difficult or impossible to translate the coarse saying of the Scotch Primate for the polite ears of Montmorency the Constable of France. See Memoirs of his own Life, p. 21.
[638] See the edicts in Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. iv. pp. 47-8.
[639] See the forthcoming Statuta Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, p. 155, edited for the Bannatyne Club by Mr. Joseph Robertson; also Wilkins’s Concilia, iv. 20.
[640] See his note to Bannatyne’s Scottish Poems, p. 210.
[641] Book of Bon Accord, p. 377; Keith’s Historical Preface, p. xv.; Aberdeen Magazine, 1796, p. 270.
[642] See Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella, vol. ii. p. 354. In Spain, indeed, it was recognised and sanctioned by law, till the scandal was uprooted by strong hand of Ximenes.
[643] History of Edinburgh, p. 497.
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