[17]. Vol. iii. p. 227.
[18]. In the Presbytery of Aberdeen, 26th May 1642. He died in 1659, in the ninety-fifth year of his age.
[19]. Life of Bishop Bedell—Preface. Of most of these theological authors I am obliged to speak in the language of others. I have not even, in all cases, read the works which have formed their character.
[20]. Dr M‘Crie’s Life of Melville, vol. ii. p. 445. It is with hesitation that any one who has benefited by this work will express a difference of opinion from its author. But it seems to me that Dr M‘Crie has been led by his admiration for Andrew Melville to rate too highly an exercise in which he excelled. The writing of modern Latin poetry, however valuable as a part of grammatical education, has, in truth, never been an effort of imagination or fancy; and its products, when most successful, have never produced the effect of genuine poetry on the mind of the reader.
[21]. History of the Rebellion. Oxford, 1826. Vol. i. p. 145.
[22]. Life of Bishop Bedell—Preface.
[23]. Delitiæ poetarum Scotorum hujus ævi illustrium, and fifth volume of the Great Atlas—both published by John Blaeu at Amsterdam, the former in 1637, the latter in 1654.
[24]. Joannis Leochaei Scoti musæ. Londini, 1620. Leech was Rector of the University in 1619.
[25]. “Ad Senatum Aberdonensem;” “Tumulus Joannis Colissonii;” “De Abrenethæa;” “De aulæis acu-pictis D. Isabellæ Setonæ Comitissæ Laderdeliæ.” Epigrammata Arturi Jonstoni, Scoti, Medici Regii, Abredoniæ: excudebat Edvardus Rabanus, 1632.
[26]. Strachan’s Panegyricus. Among the strangers he distinguishes Parkins, an Englishman who had, the year before (1630), obtained a degree of M.D. in our University. The earliest diploma of M.D. I have seen is that which I have noted (somewhat out of place) among the academic prints, and which was granted in 1697.