Scott writes in ch. viii. At least Cromwell was not sensitive there. warts and all," he said to Lely. 161. Vertumnus, the personification of the changing year. "Paint me as I am, 164. With an obvious hit at Rutherford's Lex Rex, published in 1644, the same year in which appeared Row's own Hebræa Lingua Institutiones, to which Rutherford had contributed the second set of commendatory verses. The "A. S." who writes the fourth is almost certainly Adam Steuart, the "A. S." of Milton's Sonnet xii. ("taught you by mere A. S. and Rutherford"). For Rutherford's Lex Rex, see Burton, History, vii. 155, 156. Add Kennedy's Annals, i. 253, for the local touch. "In the year 1660, a complaint was presented to the magistrates, charging him (Mr. Andrew Cant) with having published a seditious book, entitled Lex Rex, without authority." But the old Roundhead lifts the phrase and distorts its application, from Buchanan's De Jure Regni, xix. "Rex lex loquens, lex Rex mutus." 165. Pută, impersonal; "for example," as in 221. 184. Marginal note. "2 par." i.e. Paralipomena, tà mapaλeiñóμeva, 2 Chronicles. 185. The attacks by James VI., in his controversial writings, on the Church of Rome. Row's expectations of Charles's action seem ludicrous in the view of actual events. 191. Molossi acres, "keen tykes" (Horace, Sat. ii. 6, 114). Cf. 220, below. 194. The formation of the Macedonian phalanx, with its pikemen. 197. The construction apparently is " phalanges tormentûm," "brigades of artillery". Row flounders in his exuberant vocabulary. 203. "The Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant." -(Milton, Sonnet (1655), xviii. 11, 12.) 205. Genesis xli. 15-17, where the lean kine eat up the fat, and the thin ears the good. 208. Exodus vii. 12, where the rod of Aaron, the son of Amram, swallowed up those of the magicians. 215. Cf. Spenser, F. Q. i. ix. 46-49, for the stripping of Duessa, symbolical of the destruction of images at the Reformation. 219. 'Enтáλopos, seven hilled, of Rome (see Liddell and Scott, s.v.). 220. Complete the work of Gustavus Adolphus : "Lion of the North, Terror of Austria, and Bulwark of the Protestant Cause," as Dugald Dalgetty has it. 222. The Greeks steered by the Great Bear, Helice; the more scientific Tyrians by the Lesser Bear. So Ovid, Fasti, iii. 107: Esse duas Arctos; quarum Cynosura petatur This is the explanation of Milton's antithesis in Comus : And thou shalt be our star of Arcady 229. Bella-minans-armis. The compound with hyphens is significant. Row, the Independent, has in memory some Puritan. “Obadiah Bind-their-Kings-in-chains-and-theirNobles-with-Links-of-Iron, Sergeant in Ireton's Regiment," as Macaulay has it in his ballad of The Battle of Naseby. 232. Gangrænæ. Another side-cut at Thomas Edwards's "Gangræna, or a Discovery of the Errors, Heresies, etc., of the sectaries of the present time". London, 1646. Stopford Brooke's Milton, p. 46; Scott, Woodstock, Note E. This is the “shallow Edwards" of Milton's Sonnet xii. 237. Regalis, for the adj., see note on Ker's Donaides, 7. 238. Fotor, coinage by the writer. 239. Reparando (see on John Johnston's Martyrs (s.v.), Erskine of Dun, 1. 6). JAMES SANDILANDS. James Sandilands, "Utriusque Iuris Doctor" (of the civil and canon law), and Commissary of Aberdeen, demitted office in 1633 in favour of his son James Sandilands, junior. Father and son appear in David Leech's Allegoria, 147-158, 168-177. The father, the writer of the verses, was thought of such importance as to take the second place in the Epitaphia Metrica in the 1635 Funerals, Gordon of Straloch being assigned the first place. He was clerk to the General Assembly, and when the Glasgow Assembly met in 1638, his son Thomas was deputed by his father; but the meeting, in view of the fact that Sandilands was "aiged, and had excused himself by sicknesse," elected to the post Johnston of Warriston. He had been Rector of King's College in 1623, 1628; and for other contested years of office see Rectorial Addresses, p. 330. On the office of Commissary and its functions, see G. M. Fraser's Historical Aberdeen, pp. 64-67. Provost John Sandilands of Countesswells, 1690, was "descended of a family which settled in Aberdeenshire about 1606, the first of the family being James Sandilands, who bought the lands of Craibstone, in the parish of Newhills. He was an advocate in Edinburgh, and became Commissary Clerk of Aberdeenshire. His second son James, born in 1610, was the first proprietor of that name of Cotton, and married in 1640 Marjory Burnett, daughter of Baillie Alexander Burnett of Countesswells. This James Sandilands was first Regent, then Civilist of King's College, and afterwards Town Clerk of Aberdeen. By his marriage with Marjory Burnett he had issue, three sons and two daughters; the second son being the Provost" (Munro's Aldermen and Provosts, p. 187). Portrait of the elder Sandilands, by Jamesone, in possession of the University; his tombstone in St. Machar's Church. ON THE DEATH OF PATRICK FORBES OF CORSE. ARGUMENT. Does then that pious bishop, burning with holy zeal, and graced with every accomplishment, the marrow of eloquence and wisdom, the priesthood's glory, the gem of the royal senate, the lover of peace, the truest observer of law and justice, the restorer of churches and of universities, after quitting this mortal life, join the heavenly quire, leaving the earth in tears at his death? But on earth his life was ever such that he seemed to find it outside in heaven, his true home. So in quitting this world he enjoys his rest above, so as ever yet to survive by his writings, and his true part knows not death. The fame and the worth of so great a man will need no pompous funeral. God grant one like him, for a greater we shall never enjoy. IN OBITUM PATRICII FORBESII A CORSE, ETC. [Forbes' Funerals, 1635.] Ergone ille Deo flagrans omnique recoctus Sicque orbem linquens fruitur caeloque Deoque Detque Deus similem, nunquam maiore fruemur. 2. Of Cethegus, Ennius in Cicero, Brutus, 15, 58. Iac. Sandilandus I. U. D. 3. "He was most steadable to the whole Estate, whether he sate in Parliament or Counsell; and for it honoured and admired by the wisest of the kingdom" (Sibbald, Holinesse to the Lord, April 16, 1635). UU GEORGE STRACHAN. "The surname of Strachan,' anciently Strathechin, Strathaquin, Strathauchine, etc., is of great antiquity in Scotland. It is derived from a parish of the same name in Kincardineshire. We may suppose the family radiating from their original seat into the adjoining districts of Aberdeenshire to the north, and of Kincardineshire to the south. The name is now rare among the landed proprietors in either county, although anciently and down to the close of the seventeenth century it was very common" (Shand on Forbes's Funerals, ed. 1845, p. xxvii.). See Spalding, i. 166, for the "boundis of Straquhan, Drum and Petfoddellis ground; the Erll Marschallis boundis of Strathauchin,'" p. 180 and p. 208. The Catholic connection may be inferred from the James Strachan of the family, found in conjunction with Principal Alexander Anderson (Knox, History, 238, 239; Dempster, Hist. Eccl. ii. 597; Irving, Scotish Writers, i. p. 125). Dempster (ii. 601) states all that is known of our author. Omitting the list of his works, which he gives and which does not include the Lachrymæ, we may regard what he says as probable. "Georgius Strachanus Merniensis, nobili familia, Parisiis humaniores literas docuit in Cenomanico; ad aulam deinde transiit, et vitae illius pertaesus privatam ei praetulit; tum Duci Guisio in amicitiam et famulitium se dedit, sed et hanc etiam aspernatus vivendi rationem in Orientem est profectus, ut linguas Orientales Latinae, Graecae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Gallicae, et patriae, quas exacte loquebatur et scribebat, studiose coniungeret. "Vivit adhuc in Perside, iam enim toto sexennio Terram Sanctam lustravit, et non modo linguas percepit, sed et nobiliores, ut ad me scribit, bibliothecas compilavit” [“ rifled libraries:" scrinia compilasse: Hor. Sat. i. 1, 122]. He is apparently "a Scotch Jesuit George Strahan," mentioned in Pattison's Casaubon, p. 215. TO THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM CHISHOLM, The Chisholms were of that ilk in Roxburgh, and of Cromlix, near Dunblane. Three of the name are known. 1. William Chisholm, Bishop of Dunblane. Consec. 1527; d. 1564 (Tytler, History, ii. 363). 2. William Chisholm, Bishop of Dunblane; nephew and successor. He was the man sent by Mary to France and Rome to explain away the Bothwell marriage (Buchanan, 1 For the spelling of the name in twenty ways, see Lippe's Wodrow, p. 330. Scott knew the ubiquity of it and its landed connection, when he allies Dugald Dalgetty's estate with Hannah Strachan, Legend of Montrose, ch. xxiii. 18, 31; Tytler, iii. 253; Burton, iv. 229). In 1570 he became Bishop of Vaison, near Avignon. Resigned in favour of his nephew, became a Carthusian monk, and died at Rome, Sept. 25, 1593. He is the "Chesolinus" of Strachan's Lachrymæ, 139, 140: "Nobilis et veteres illustrat funere Thermas Chesolinus, stirpis lux patriaeque decus." Professor R. Lanciani, Rome, informs me that he is buried in the Church of Santa 3. William Chisholm, nephew of foregoing. He wrote the Examen in 1601, a work of very great rarity (Avenione, apud Jacobum Bramerau), dedicated "Serenissimo Scotorum Regi Jacobo Sexto". He is the Chisholm involved in the tortuous intrigues of James VI., famous through the Balmerino letter to the Pope (M'Crie's Andrew Melville, p. 224; Gardiner's History, i. 80, 81; Burton, v. 353). Died at Vaison, 1629. Dempster, Histor. Eccl. i. 181. For the dedication to Chisholm of Scot's 1601 Vocabularium Utriusque Juris, see Aberd. Quater. Studies, p. 243. ARGUMENT. Learned Chisholm, the Church's ornament and the glory of the faithful, to whom virtue has given renown, it is uncertain which of the two owes more, you to the Bride of the Lord or She to you. She in her care has bestowed virtues and wealth, and a splendid mitre. To the banished She has given a country, to the exile rest, and the world's admiration. You restore to Her life and honour, with you as guide liberty has been won for Her children. With the foe crushed, She revisits in triumph and joy Her country through your means. Which owes the more is uncertain; but the debt is mutual. For you are the ornament of the Bride, the Bride is glory to you. I. AD REVERENDISSIMUM DOMINUM D. GULIELMUM CHEYSOLMUM, EPISCOPUM VASIONENSEM, OPERIS AUCTOREM. [Examen Confessionis Fidei Calvinianae quam Scotis subscribendam proponunt. Aven. 1601.] Ecclesiae decus et sanctae pia gloria turbae, |