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436, 1. 6. (Margin,) Let this be noted diligently.—9. [the poweris, ] (omitted.) 437, 1.1. (Margin,) Note this.—23. (id.) Note this Discourse diligently.
438, 1. 7. nocht, (omitted.) 439, 1. 24. but, (omitted.) 440, 1. 3. (Margin,) God craves of us, that we oppose ourselves to iniquity.
441, 1. 4-7. unless that .
. the deith, (omitted.) 442, 1. 13. tuzk—think.
443, 1.9. (Margin,) Let this be noted for our times.—34. acknawlege and esteem the benefits received, when.
444, 1. 9. (Margin,) Whether this hath come to passe or not, let the world judge.
445, 1. 8. (Margin,) Note this diligently.
447, 1.18. " Hebe his awin commandment," &c.
Between these words and "sik as craif," &c., 448, 1. 18, a whole page ts omitted.— Thus the passage in Buchanan's edition is quite unintelligible, viz., He by his own word confounds all such as crave further approbation of God's will, &c.
449, 1. 3. (Margzn,) When the Prince does serve God sincerely in private and publike, and hath a care that the people do the same, then assuredly they are faithfull to him: but if he faile in these, or in either of them, he findes disobedience in his people, because he is not carefull to obey God, and to see him obeyed.
Deut.
13, 13. 2 Paral. 26.—24. (Margin,) Let this be applyed to the late affairs of Scotland.
451, 1. 15. ye will not say.
452, 1. 24. detth—punishment.—33. thairintill—therefore.
453, 1. 22. either misknaw—must either know.—29. tyrant—misled King.
454, 1. 1. seripped—stouped.
455, 1. 10. voit—wrote.
(To each of the two names in the margin of pages 455 and 456, is added) his vote.
457, (The Latin original of the Conclusio, omitted.)—13. deposed— bridled.—also 458, 1. 12.
458, 1.23. (Buchanan agrees with second foot-note.)—10. (Margin,) Note diligently.—also 459, 1. 3.
460, 1. 19. be knawin—he knew.
461, 1.17. (In the second foot-note Buchanan agrees with MS. L, 4.
Marginal note omitted.)
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No. IJ.
A few particulars respecting Davip Bucuanay, the Editor of Knox's History, may be subjoined to the preceding collations.
'The author of the Genealogical Account of the Buchanans, in 1728,. states that he was the second son of William [John] Buchanan of Arnpryor, an ancient family in the parish of Kippen, Stirlingshire.
John Buchanan, eldest son of the late John Buchanan of Arnpryor, had a charter of the lands of Arnpryor, 3d May 1598; and having sold the estate of Arnpryor to Sir John Buchanan of Buchanan, he settled in Ireland.
He was killed by the Irish rebels in 1641. 'There wasa younger brother, Captain William, a gentleman of very much courage, and of the greatest art and dexterity in managing a sword of any of his time ;" and two instances of his prowess are related in that work, (p. 61.) David Buchanan, whom the above author describes as " a gentleman of great learning; who flourished in the latter part of the reign of James the Sixth," was born towards the close of the sixteenth century, probably about the year 1592.
He appears to have prosecuted his studies during part of the usual course in St. Leonard's College,
St. Andrews, where he matriculated or became an Intrant in the spring of 1610.
It has not been ascertained at what University he took his degree of Master of Arts; or, indeed, any particulars of his mode of life for a period of upwards of twenty years.
According to his own words, he must have spent many years on the Continent, and is not improbable he may have filled a Professor's chair in one of the Protestant Colleges in France.
In 1686, he published a learned work under this title: " Historia Anime Humane, Auctore Davide
Buchanano, Scoto.
(No place of printing,) mpc.xxxvr."
Small 8vo.
This was followed by a similar treatise in French, entitled '" Histoire de la Conscience.
M.pc.xxxvim." 12mo, From a passage in Milton already referred to, (vol. i. p. xlii,) it would seem as if the publication of Buchanan's edition of Knox's
History of the Reformation had been delayed by the Censor of the Press in 1644.
The preceding collations, (for which, and also for those in the next Article of this Appendix, I am indebted to the unwearied care and accuracy of my venerable friend, Mr. Mrrx,) serve to show the actual liberties Buchanan has taken with the text.
Frequent instances of palpable blunders will be observed, as if the Editor himself had not corrected the proof-sheets.
In the marginal
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notes he has added various allusions to his own times; and the interpolations he has introduced into the text are remarkable, chiefly on account of the anachronisms ; and as these have been laid hold of, in some measure, to discredit the authenticity of the original work, it has thus been rendered necessary to take so much pains in collating his editions with the genuine text.
In regard to passages omitted, or expressions modified and softened, it is highly probable that this may have proceeded from the Licenser of the Press in London, rather than Buchanan himself; and whether similar or even greater liberties may have been taken with Book Fifth, we have unfortunately no means of ascertaining.
In the following year Buchanan published at London a little volume, which, with another tract printed in 1646, involved him in some trouble.
Baillie, who was personally acquainted with him, in a letter to Spang, who was then Minister of Campvere in Zealand, in June 1645, speaks of " your cousigne, Mr. David Buchanan, as a most honest and worthy man."
In a subsequent letter, dated 24th April 1646, he says, it was thought necessary that the Papers given into Parliament by the Scottish Commissioners should be printed ; and " among others, Mr. Davip BucHANAN, a most sincere and zealous gentleman, who has done both in write and print, here (in London) and over-sea, many singular services to this Parliament, to his Nation, and to the whole Cause; .
. hazarded to print them with a Preface of his own, and an introduction, both very harmless and consonant to the three following papers which we had given in to both Houses."
Baillie further adds, that within two or three days, 3000 or 4000 copies were sold; and that this having excited the indignation of *¢ our small friends," both Houses of Parliament agreed in ordering the books to be burnt by the hands of the hangman, and in denoun-_ cing the publisher, Mr. Buchanan, as anincendiary.
(Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. ii. p. 867.) The two publications thus referred to were,— " Truth its Manifest; or a short and true Relation of divers main
Passages of things, (in some whereof the Scots are particularly concerned,) from the very first beginning of these unhappy Troubles to this day.
Published by Authority.
London, printed in the year 1645."
12mo, pp. xviil., 142.
" Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, given in lately to the Houses of Parliament, concerning the Propositions of Peace.
London, printed for Robert Bostock, &c., April 11, 1646."
4to, pp. 26.
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No. I.
The following extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons confirm Baillie's statements :— On the 10th April 1646, the House of Commons " Ordered; &c.,
That the Report concerning a Book, entituled, ' Truth's Manifest,' be made on Monday morning," &c.
(Journals, vol. iv. p. 505.) "Die Lune, 13° Aprilis 1646.
Mr. Lisle reports the state of the business concerning the printed book, intituled,
' Truth's Manifest ;' read many passages out of it; and said, The Author of it was one
Mr. Buchanan; who delivered one of the said books to the Committee, and did avow it to be his writing.
** Resolved, &c., That Mr. David Buchanan be forthwith sent for, as a Delinquent, by the Serjeant at Arms attending on this House; and brought to the Bar to-morrow morning.
" Resolved, &c., That the book intituled, ' Truth's Manifest,' does contain in it many matters false and scandalous; and they do Order,
That the said book be forthwith burnt by the hands of the common hangman."
(ib. p. 507.) On the same day, the House also declared, that the book entituled,
'"* Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, given in lately to the Houses of Parliament, concerning the Propositions of Peace, doth contain in it matters scandalous and false," &c., and was Ordered to be burnt, &c.
(ib. p. 507.) But this declaration was so far modified on the 20th April, in restricting the sentence simply to the Kditor's Epistle and Tract, " The State of the Question concerning the Propositions of Peace," (which are prefixed by the Editor, on three leaves, after the title page.) (ib. p. 517.) During the latter period of his life, Buchanan was engaged with Gordon of Straloch in illustrating the topography and antiquities of his native country, in connexion with the great Atlas of Scotland, which was published in Holland, by Bleau, in 1654.
His papers afterwards fell into the hands of Sir Robert Sibbald, by whom some of them were printed.
Two MS. works, " De Scriptoribus Scotis," the one dated 1627, and attributed to Buchanan, were printed for the Members of the Bannatyne Club, with a learned Preface by the Editor, Dr. Irving, in 1837.
From his Confirmed Testament, it appears that " Mr. David Buchanan," who died at Edinburgh before the end of August 1652, on the 19th of that month, had nominated " his loving brother,
Mr. William Buchanan," his only executor.
Whether " Captain William," above mentioned:as David's brother, should be identified with this " Mr. William Buchanan," may be. left to conjecture.
Nowe
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No. IL.
ON SPOTTISWOOD'S EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.
Ir is well known that Queen Mary, both in France and after her return to this country, refused to ratify the Proceedings of the PartiaMENT which met at Edinburgh in August 1560; and its Acts were not included in the authorized collection of the public statutes.
In order to obviate this legal want of the royal sanction, it was judged expedient that the Conresston or Farry, and some special Acts, should be renewed in the first Parliament of James the Sixth, during the regency of the Earl of Murray, in December 1567.
It was proposed to have inserted in this Appendix a list of the Members and some passages relating to the proceedings of that Parliament, along with an account of the early editions of the Confession of Faith,
1560; and some notes respecting the First Book of Discipline. Want of space has rendered it necessary to omit these notices; but another opportunity may be afforded of introducing them in a subsequent volume.
It is also well known that the selfish rapacity of some of the Nobility who had supported the Reformed doctrines, and had obtained possession of Church-lands and property, prevented the Policy of the Kirk from being established according to the plan drawn up by Knox and his brethren.
But the First Boox or DiscirLINE must always be regarded as an important work to illustrate the form of Church government and discipline submitted for approval by our early Reformers; and it is now presented to the Reader in a much more perfect and authentic form than it has ever appeared.
The following notes, selected from a careful collation of the Book of Discipline, with the copy inserted by Spottiswood in his History of the Church, will prove how very little reliance can be placed on the Archbishop's assertion of his having given it " word by word."
As the omissions and emendations referred to might have been made by the Editor in 1655, (see page 181, note 5,) the new edition, printing for the Spottiswoode Society, (edited by Bishop Russell, and collated with the author's original MS.,) has been employed.
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No. II.
Page 183-184, Spottiswood omits the whole of the Preface, and introduces the Book of Discipline with the short paragraph already quoted at page 181, note 5.
There is aslight variation in the new edit. (p. 331,) reading, "I have thought meet, word by word, to insert the same," &c.
187, There are several omissions in this page; for instance, in line 7, the words " devysed by men ;" various words in lines
15 to 22; and nearly the whole of lines 24 to 26.
188, lines 21, 22, altered; and lines 24 to 29 abridged.
189, 1. 10, omits ' cursed" as applied to " Papistrie."
190, 1. 12, reads, ** in open audience of his flock, he may preach and deliver his knowledge in the Articles," &c.
192, 1.4 to 6, "andso ..
. of the Kirk," omitted.
193, 1. 4 to 19, varied and abridged; and lines 25, 26, read, " The Ministers were publicly admitted."
195, 1. 14, altered; and lines 24 to 27, " And gif,"&c., omitted.
The next head, " For Readeris," is partially abridged.
198, 1. 1, the words, " at the discretion of the congregation," omitted.
199, 1. 8, the words, 'in Goddis presence we witness," omitted ; and lines 7 to 15 amended.
200, 1. 12 to 14, part of the sentence omitted; and the paragraph that follows, "' Restis yit," &c. concerning provision for the poor, and the teachers of youth, contracted to about one-third.
201 to 203, Under the head, '" Off the Superintendents," the original which here consists of 38 lines, is contracted by Spottiswood to 6 lines.
204, 1. 11, '* to leave as your idill Bischopis," changed to " to live idle as the Bishops."
205, The third head, " Of the Election of Superintendentis," appears as if re-written and abridged ; 1. 18, reads, " we think it sufficient that the Council nominate ;" and lines 22 to 25 omitted.
207, 1. 6 to 12, " Yff the Ministeris," &c., omitted.
208, 1. 16 to 26, "Of one thing, in the end," &c., omitted.
208, 209, " For the Schollis ;" the introductory paragraph omitted, and the next 14 lines contracted to 5 lines.
214, 1. 24, reads, '' New Testament, and shall finish his course the same year.
And in," &c.
221, 1. 2 to 12, " not doubting," &c., omitted.
Under the " Sext Heid," except the first sentence, the whole of the first paragraph, " But befoir we enter," &c., is omitted.
222,1. 4 to 9, " We dar not flatter," ae. omitted.
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223, 1. 27, &c. " Your Honouris," &c.; the whole of this paragraph omitted.
225, 1. 18, The " Additio" is not found in Spottiswood.
226, 1. 23, "* Yf this Ordour," &c., to the end of the paragraph, omitted.
227, The second paragraph, "' But becaus this accursit Papistrie,"
&c., omitted.
230, 1. 21 to 23, Spottiswood reads, "' This sentence, as being the most heavy censure which can be inflicted by the Church, ought not to be rashly used but for grave causes, and due process of time kept, but being pronounced, ought with all severity to be maintained, and intimation thereof made through the whole realm, lest any should pretend ignorance of the same."
235, 1. 3 to 18, " Yea, the Seniouris," &c.
This paragraph is thus altered: "Ifa Minister be of a loose conversation, negligent in his study, and one that was little bent upon his charge or flock, or one that proponeth not fruitful doctrine to his people, he ought to be admonished by the elders; and if he amend not, the elders may complain to the ministry [of the two next adjacent churches, to whose admonition, if he shall be disobedient, he ought to be discharged of his ministry ] till his repentance appear."
The words enclosed within brackets are omitted in the old printed editions of Spottiswood's History, we may suppose by accident, as this appears to be the only variation which Bishop
Russell has discovered upon collation with the MSS.
253, A great part of this page is omitted.
255, The last paragraph is somewhat altered, or at least transposed.
255-8, '"' The Conclusioun" addressed to the Lords, with the " Act of Secret Counsall," and the signatures, are wholly omitted.
A great many lesser variations, consisting of words omitted, sentences abridged, &c., might have been specified, if such an enumeration would have served any useful purpose.
The above may suflice to satisfy any impartial reader, who desires in this Form or Poricy
"to see what were the grounds laid down at first for the government of the Church," that implicit reliance should not be placed upon the Archbishop's fidelity, although he does affirm, "I nave THOUGHT
MEET, WORD BY WORD, HERE TO INSERT THE SAME."
(History, vol. i. p. 331.)
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No. III.
No: IU
FUNERALS OF MARY OF GUISE, QUEEN REGENT OF SCOTLAND.
Marie pe Lorraine, daughter of Claude Duke of Guise, was born 22d November 1515.
On the 4th August 1534, she was married to Louis of Orleans, Duke de Longueville; and after his death, in 1538, she became the second wife of James the Fifth, King of Scotland.
(See vol. i. p. 61, note 6.) In this place it was proposed to collect merely a few notices respecting her death and funerals.
In the present volume, at page 71, Knox has given an account of the Queen's death, which took place in the Castle of Edinburgh—he says on the 9th June 1560.
Dr. Robertson following Bishop Lesley, and other early authorities, says it was on the 10th; while according to Chalmers, and later writers, it happened on the 11th June.
In the Diurnal of Occurrents the time is very precisely stated, yet it so happens that either the 10th or the 11th might be assigned for the date.
The passage stands thus :— " Upoun the tent day of Junij, the yeir foirsaid (1560,) Marie
Quene Dowriare and Regent of this Realme, at 12 houris at evin, deceissit in the Castell of Edinburgh, and maid the Erle of Merchell, and Schir Johne Campbell of Lundy, knycht, hir executouris in Scotland." (p. 59; see also p. 276 of the same work.) This would seem to fix the 10th; but in the grant to Seigneour Francis, referred to in a note, page 507, the 11th of June was reckoned as the day of the Queen's decease.
Sir William Cecil and Dr. Nicholas Wotton, in a letter written on the 17th June, intimate their having heard of the Queen's death, when they were on their way from Berwick; and in a subsequent letter from Edinburgh, dated the 19th June, they say, 'The xith of this monethe, the Quene Dowagier dyed here at Edenboroughe,, as we understande of a dropsie; by whose deathe the Nobilitie of Scotlande be entred into greater boldness, for mayntenaunce of their quarrell, then before they durst shew."
(Lodge's Illustrations, vol. i. p. 329.) In the Treasurer's Accounts of that month are the following entries :— "Ttem, to Johne Weir pewtterar, for ane wobe of leid weiand (blank) stanis, to be ane sepulture to inclose the Quenis Grace in. iiij lb. xv s.
" Item, to the said Johne for sowdane of the said wobe of leid, ©. 40 "saree | SP Ee GS ee ee | 8
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" Item, for ij' dur nalis to the Quenis Grace sepulture, . _ iij s.
"Item, for xxj elnis and ane half of blak gray, to hing the chapell of the Castell of Edinburgh the Quenis G. bodie lyand thairin, vj lb. ij s. ilij d.
"' Item, foure elnys of quhite taffateis of the cord to mak ane cross aboun the Quenis Grace, price of the eln xxiiij s. Summa, iiij lb. xvjs."
After these items, there follows a list of sums paid to the attendants, servants, and other persons connected with the Queen's household; in all 97, chiefly French, amounting to £1352, 8s.
Bishop Lesley, in noticing the Queen's death, says, " Hir bodie thaireftir was carried to France in ane ship, to the Abbey of Feckin in Normandie."
(History, p. 289.) Knox, at page 160, speaks of her burial having been deferred, and that " lappet in a cope of leid," her body lay in the Castle of Edinburgh till the 19th October,
"' quhan scho by pynouris was caryed to a schip, and sa caryed to France."
Another authority asserts, that it was not till the spring following that her body was removed from Edinburgh.
** Upoun the xvj day of the said moneth of March, [1560-1] at xij houris in the nycht, the corpes of vmquhile Marie Quene Douriare of Scotland and Regent, was convoyit secretlie furth of the Castell of Edinburgh, and put in ane schip in Leith, and convoyit thairfra to France, be Mr. Archibald Crawfurd person of Eiglishame; quhair sho was honourablie buryit.""
(Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 282.) In mentioning the Queen Regent's funerals, Bishop Lesley, in his
Latin History, is somewhat more circumstantial, by adding, that after reaching the sea-port of Fécamp in Normandy, and lying for a time in the Monastery, the body was finally removed to Rheims.
His_ words are,—' Ejus autem corpus in Galliam postea transvectum primum ad Monasterium Feckamense, quod in Normania est, deinde ad ceenobium §S. Petri Rhemis in Campania, cui Soror ipsius pie tune preerat, delatum, honorifice condebatur."
(De Rebus gestis Scotorum, p. 569.) Throckmorton also, in a letter addressed to Queen Elizabeth from Paris, 13th July 1561, says, "* The said Queen of Scotland's determination to go home continues still: She goeth shortly from Court to Fescamp, in Normandy, there to make her Mother's funerals and burial; and from thence to Calais, there to embark."
(Tytler's History, vol. vi. p398.) After the funeral ceremonies at Fécamp, the Queen's body was transported to the city of Rheims, and interred in the Church of the Abbey or Convent of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames, of which her sister
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Renée de Lorraine was Abbess.
This younger daughter of Claude de Lorraine, first Duke of Guise, was born in 1522.
She became Abbess in 1546, and survived till the 3d of April 1602, when she was interred beside her sister the Queen of Scotland.
There was a handsome marble monument erected in the choir of the church; but the Abbey itself was in a great measure destroyed during the excesses of the French Revolution in 1792.
The monument was adorned with a full length figure in bronze of the Queen in royal apparel, holding the sword and the rod of justice, ' tenant le sceptre et la main de justice."
(Anselme, Hist. Genealogique, tome iii. p. 492.) No. IV.
NOTICES OF JOHN BLACK, A DOMINICAN FRIAR.
Friar Jonun Brack, of the Dominican Order, is celebrated by Lesley, Dempster, and other Roman Catholic writers, for his learning and exertions on behalf of the orthodox faith.
In August 1559, the Queen Regent came from Dunbar to Edinburgh, and having taken possession of Holyrood House, it is stated, that Archbishop Hamilton,
** upon a day, past to the pulpit in the Abbay," and after displaying "a little of his superstition, he declared he had not bene weill exercised in that profession, (¢.e. of preaching,) therefore desyred the auditors to hold him excused.
In the meantyme he showed unto them that there was a learned man, meaning Fryer Blacke, who was to come immediately after him into the pulpitt, who would declare unto them the truth ; and therefore desyred them to lett him cease."
(Hist. of the Estate of Scotland, Wodrow Miscellany, vol. i. p. 67.) Bishop Lesley mentions a public disputation between Friar Black and John Willock, at Edinburgh, in the summer of 1561, which lasted for two days.
As usual, however, in all such controversial disputes, "in the ende, nothing was agreit."
(Hist. p.295. See also Lesleus de Rebus Gestis Scotorum, p. 577, Rome, 1578, 4to; and Sir James
Balfour's Annals, Works, vol. i. p. 2385.) Under the year 1560, (see this vol. p. 68,) Knox mentions Friar Black as performing
Mass when the Queen Regent was in the Castlé of Edinburgh, notwithstanding that she was aware of his licentious conduct.
'Two
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years later the Town Council of Edinburgh having apprehended and confined Friar Black " for manifest adultery," Queen Mary addressed the following letter to the Provost, Baillies, &c., of Edinburgh, commanding them to deliver the said Friar to the Captain of the Castle, to remain there till he should be brought to trial :—
"« Provest, Barnes, AND CouNSALE oF EpinsurGH,—It is oure Will, and we charge zow, that incontinent efter the sicht heirof, ze deliver Freir Johne Black to the Capitane, Constabill, and Keiparis of oure Castell of Edinburgh, till be keipit thairintill surelie, unto sic tyme as we haue ordanyt for the triell of his offences before oure Justice-Generale or his Deputtis; and this on na wayis ze leaf undone, as ze will ansuer to ws thairupoun.
At Sanct Androis, the 11th of April 1562.
(Sequitur subscriptio,) ' Marte R."
The records of criminal proceedings furnish no evidence of the Friar having ever been brought to trial; but this warrant, no doubt, saved him from the punishment which the Town Council at this time had adjudged to all fornicators, to be ducked in the North Loch.
(See Maitland's Hist. of Edinb. p. 25.) On the 12th February 1565, Andro Armestrang, and three other burgesses of Edinburgh, were brought to trial, "'delatit of the hurting and wounding of Freir Johne Blak, betwix his schulderis, to the effusione of his blude, upon the fyft day of Januar last bypast, betwix aucht and nyne houris at evin, in the Cowgait, betwix Nwyderis
Wynd and the Freir Wynd."
(Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. i. pp.
475*, 476*.) From another authority, mentioned below, it would seem that the Friar was killed during the fray in Holyrood, on the same night when Riccio was murdered.
The transcriber of MS. W, of Knox's History, has introduced some lines, playing upon the Friar's name, "because he wasborne in the Blak
Freirs in Edinburgh, and was a man of Blak personage, called Blak to his name, and one of the Ordour of Blak Friers ;" and in the margin of the MS. he says, "' This was added be me, Tho. Wood, quhilk I heard, thocht not mentioned by Mr. Knox."
Mr. Sharpe, who says, " this copy of verses affords an excellent (?) specimen of the satirical poetry of the Reformers," has inserted the lines, in a note to Kirkton's
History of the Church, p. 10, Edinb. 1817, 4to.
In a MS. volume of Calderwood's History, written in the year 1636, we find introduced, as " A description of the Queen's Black
Chaplane," a somewhat different version of the lines referred to :— VOL. Il.
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" Master Knox relateth, that the Queen Regent herself had a little before deprehended the said Frier Black with his harlot in the chappel.
But whoordoome and idolatrie agrie weill together.
This Frier Black was Black in a threefold consideration, first in respect of his Order, for he was a Black Frier by profession; secondlie in respect of his Surname ; thirdlie in respect of his Black workes.
Wherupon these black verses following wer made as a black trumpet to blaze furth all his blacknesses :-— " A certane Black Frier, weill surnamed Black,
And not nicknam'd: for Black wer all his workes, In a black houre borne, in all black deedes frack;
And of his black craft one of the blackest Clerks ; He took a black whoor to wash his black sarks,
Committing with her black fornication :
Black was his soule to shoote at such black markes; Frier Black, Black Frier, Black was his vocation."
It may be considered more important to notice, that Black had been promoted by Archbishop Hamilton, to the place of Second
Master in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews.
This fact, not elsewhere recorded, appears from the following grant, in the Register of Presentations to Benefices :-—
"Our Soverane Lord, &c., ordanis this letter under the Previe Seill, ratifiand and perpetualie confirmand the gift and provisioun maid and grantit be John Archebishop of Sanct Androis, foundar and erectar of our Lady College, within the citie of Sanct Androis, to Maister
Robert Hamiltoun, then Third Maister of the said College of the Secund place and Maister thairof, usit to be possessit be ane theologe
(the lyke quhairof he is) vacand be deceis of Johne Black, Blackfriar, last possessour of the samyn," &c., 12th November 1567.
'"Subscrivit at Saint Androis the last day of Maij 1569."
(Register of Presentation to Benefices, vol. i. fol. 25.) Dempster celebrates Black (preclarus Christi miles) for his eloquence and opposition to heresy, and for having sealed his constant profession of the faith with his blood.
(Hist. Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, p. 85.) This alludes to the fatal termination of the Friar's career, not on the 7th of January 1562, for which he quotes Lesley, p. 577, but on the 8th March 1565-6, when he was slain on the night of David Riccio's murder, in Holyrood House.
It is singular that no notice of this should occur in our own historical writers.
But Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in a letter to Bullinger, giving him a summary of passing events, dated 21st August 1566, after noticing the
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murder of "Signor David, skilled in necromancy, and in gréat favour with the Queen of Scots," mentions that Black, a Dominican Friar, held in great estimation among the Papists, was also killed that night.
But even this grave prelate cannot restrain his humour in reference to the Friar's name; his words are:
" Fraterculus quidam, nomine Blacke (niger, Swartz,) Papistarum antesignanus, eodem tempore in Aula occiditur.
"Sic Niger hic Nebulo, nigra quoque morte peremptus, Invitus Nigrum subito descendit in Orcum."
This letter, first published by Burnet, (Hist. Reform., vol. iii. App., p360,) is included in the collection of Ziirich Letters, published by the Parker Society, p.99.
London, 1842, 8vo.
The translator thus renders the above distich :— " Seized by black Death, this blacker Knave
Descended to the gloomy grave."
(Ib. p. 166.) No. V.
NOTICES OF DAVID RICCIO.
Ir appears somewhat doubtful whether Knox contemplated giving any detailed account of Riccio's life: compare vol. i. p. 235, and vol. ii. p422.
Ifso, it would probably not have been so much a narrative of his private history, as an exposure of the influence which he seems to have exerted in public affairs, tending to the overthrow of the Reformed Religion.
Although we cannot attribute to Knox the passages in the, Fifth Book which relate the murder of Riccio, yet some detached notices exhibiting his progressive advancement at the Scotish Court, chiefly derived from the Public Records, may not be considered as out of place in this Appendix.
Davip Riccio, a native of Pancalieri, in Piedmont, was born about the year 1534, and was first in the service of the Archbishop of Turin.
In December 1561, the Marquis de Morette, the Ambassador of Savoy, arrived in Scotland to congratulate Queen Mary on her return to her native kingdom.
It was in the suite of the Marquis that Riccio, when about twenty-eight years of age, came to this country
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(Labanoff, Recueil des Lettres de Maric Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse, vol. i. p. 120, vol. vii. pp. 65, 86.)
His knowledge of the French and Italian languages, and his skill in music, recommended him to the Queen's notice, and led to his permanent residence in Scotland as " virlat,' ' chalmer-cheild," or one of the valets of her chamber.
In the Treasurer's Accounts in the early part of the year 1562, we find the following payments :-—
1561-2.—" Item, the said day, (viij day of Januar,) be the Quenis Grace precept to David Ritio, virlat in the Quenis Grace chalmer,
1. lib. (£50.) 1562.—" Item, the xvj day of Aprile, be the Quenis Grace precept to David Ritio, Italiane, chalmer-cheild, as his acquittance schawin vpoun compt beris, .
: xv. lib."
These payments seem to ee heen additions to ine annual pension granted to him by the Queen.
In the " Compt of the Collector Generall of the Thirds of Benefices," for the year 1561, and rendered
18th February 1563-4, we find among the pensions paid, the following entry :—" And of the soume of threscoir fivetene pundis, pait be the Comptare to Davin Rycuxo, Italiane, vallet of the chalmer, for his zeirlie pensioun, granted to him be the Quenis Majestie, of the zeir compted, as hir Hienes letters vnder hir subscriptioun, and the said
Davidis acquittance schawin and producit upoun compt proportis, Ixxv. lib."
In 1564, Riccio's ices was £80, paid quarterly; and in December that year, he was nominated French Secretary to the Queen, in place of Raulet.
(Randolph's Letter to Cecil, 3d December 1564, Keith's Hist., vol. ii. p. 259; and Labanoff, vol. i. p. 248.)
In the Treasurer's Accounts in August 1565, there are numerous payments made " to David Riccio Secretar," for articles of furniture, dress, &c.,
"be the King and Quenis Graces precept," chiefly for the use of " the Kingis Grace."
He had been:an active promoter of the Queen's marriage with Darnley, which may have contributed to increase his interest at Court.
Randolph, in a letter to Cecil, dated 3d June 1565, uses this strong language :—' David now worketh all, and is only governor to the King and his family ; great is his pride, and his words intollerable.
People have small joy in this new master, and find nothing but that God must either send him a short end, or them a miserable life.
The dangers to those he now hateth are great, and either he must be taken away, or they find some support, that what he intendeth to others may fall upon himself." _
(Keith's Hist., vol. ii. p. 291.) It has been said that he was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal
Now We
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about this time.
This undoubtedly is a mistake: see vol. i. p. 446.
But the influence he had obtained, and the prospect that when the.
Parliament assembled he might prevail upon the Queen to proceed against the Earl of Murray and the chief Protestants, in connexion with the foolish jealousy of her husband, gave rise to that conspiracy which terminated in Riccio's murder—one of those deeds which disgrace the history of this country.
Referring again to the Treasurer's Accounts, one or two other entries may be quoted :— "Item, be the Quenis grace command, the last of Januar [1565-6, | to David Riccio, for reparatione of his chalmer, as his acquittance schawin upoun compt beris, .
. ise May ibe C200.) "
On the last of February he eeewed, on the Queen's account, £2000 in part payment of 10,000 merks, for "the dewitie of the Cunzehouse."
And after his death, we find, * Item, the xxix day of Maij (1566,) to ane boy passand of Edinburgh with letters of our Soueranis, to be deliverit to Robert Commendator of Halierudhouse, to command and charge all and 'sindrie personis, intromeiteris, havaris, withhalderis, and detenaris of the horssis quhatsumevir partening to umquhill Davin Riccio, ee to be deliverit to the said Commendator,
. ag BS ALS Bethy The Collection of Queen Mary's Letters, ured with almost unexampled care and zeal by the Prince Alexander Labanoff, includes two long and interesting dispatches in Italian, (one without date, the other, 8th October 1566,) addressed to Cosmo Duke of Tuscany, which furnish various particulars both relating to Riccio's history and the events preceding his murder, on the evening of Saturday the 9th
March 1565-6.
''Ah povero Davit, mio buono et fedel servitore, Dio habbi misericordia di vostra anima!"
(Recueil, &c., vol. vii. pp65, 86, 93.) Calderwood repeats what George Buchanan states in his History regarding Riccio's funeral: " After the flight of the Noblemen from Edinburgh, the Queen caused to take up in the night Seigneur Davie his corps, which had been buried before the Abbey kirk doore, and lay it near to Queene Magdalene; which ministered no small occasioun to the people of bad constructions."
(History, vol. ii. p. 316.) «" A Relation of the Death of David Rizzi, chief favourite of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland; who was killed in the apartment of the said Queen on the 9th March 1565.
Written by the Lord Ruthen, one of the principal persons concerned in that action," was printed at London 1699, 8vo, and has been. several times reprinted.
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One of these editions, forming part of a volume entitled, '' Miscellanca Antiqua Anglicana," London, 1815, 4to, is accompanied with a portrait of Riccio: It has much the look of an original by Zucchero, and is "painted on a small circular pannel; and on the back are rudely cut into the wood the name Davit Rizio, and the date 1564."
No. VI.
THE ABBOTS OF CULROSS AND LINDORES IN 1560.
Ir is often impossible to identify persons at an early period who held high ecclesiastical appointments, from only their baptismal names and designations being given in deeds and the public records.
But it is singular that any difficulty should have been experienced in regard to persons who flourished so late as the middle of the 16th century.
Among the dignified clergy who were present at the condemnation of Sir John Borthwick for heresy, in May 1540, we find the names of William Commendator of Culross, and John Abbot of Lindores.
Both of these individuals took their seats as Lords of Session, on the Spiritual side, 5th November 1544; they had also a seat in Parliament; and both of them having joined the Reformers, were present when the Confession of Faith was ratified and approved in August 1560.
I. Witi1aAm CoMMENDATOR OF CuLRross, 1539-1564.
I have two deeds dated in 1539-40, and 1541, granted by " William Commendator and Usufructuar of Culross, and John be the permission of God Abbot of that ilk, and Convent of the samyn," signed, "* VILLELMUS Commendatarius de Culross,
Jonannres COLVILE Abbas," and by " Frater Johannes Christeson," and the other brethren of the convent.
Another deed, dated 20th March 1564-5, is signed by William Commendator, &c., along with the brethren of the Convent;
John Colville, Abbot, having probably died before this.
William Commendator of Culross filled the office of Comptroller from 1546 to 1550.
His name occurs among the signatures to the. Book of Discipline, see page 258.
That the Commendator as well as the
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Abbot was a Colville might be shown from several incidental notices.
One instance may suflice; in the Register of Signatures, there is recorded the Confirmation of a pension of £61, 6s. 8d., and " twenty bollis rynnand met of quheit, granted by umquhill Wm11ame Commendator of Culross, and Convent thairof, ro Marster Rosert
CoLVILL BROTHER
TO THE SAID UMQUHITL ComMENDATOR," 15th April 1569.
II. Joun Axssor or Linnorss, 1540-1566.
There is much less certainty in regard to this Abbot.
In a deed dated 19th February 1539-40, John Abbot of Lindoris signs as Coadjutor and Administrator of the Abbey of Kelso, during the minority of Lord James Stewart Commendator, who was then under age.
In 1540, John Abbot of Lindores had a seat in Parliament; and four years later he appears as one of the Lords of Session.
In the Provincial Council held at Edinburgh in 1549, he sat as Abbot; and, as Knox states under the year 1559, (vol. i. p. 392,) having submitted to the Congregation, he was stigmatized as an apostate.
In August 1560, he gave his sanction to the Confession of Faith.
John Commendator of Lindoris is named as having been present at the meeting of the General Assembly, 25th June 1566, but probably did no long survive.
In the " Epistole Regum Scotorum," there is a letter addressed by John Duke of Albany, Governor of Scotland, to Pope Hadrian the Sixth, dated 9th March 1521-2, which may assist in ascertaining this point.
It states that the venerable father, Henry Abbot of Lundoris, on account of the increasing infirmities of age, ' ad solicitudines et vigilantiores loci sufferandos labores, preecipyum et probatum virum JoHANNEM PHILP, inibi professum Monachum Presbyterum, delegit;" and therefore he had resigned to him the Abbacy, reserving to himself for life the revenues of this benefice, requesting his Holiness to confirm the said John Philp as Abbot.
' Johannes Philp" appears in the list of Determinants in St. Salvator's College,
St. Andrews, in 1536; and the following year ''M. Johannes Philp" is included among the Licentiates for the higher degree of Master of Arts.
That this person may have been the son or nephew of the Abbot is by no means improbable.
It is not ascertained how long Abbot Henry, who sat in Parliament in 1513, may have survived the appointment of his coadjutor in 1522.
That Abbot John may have held the office for a period of forty-five years, is, at least, a probable conjecture; and in the ab-
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Among others, (1.) James Philp of Ormeston, (who died in 21st January 1579-80,) and Margaret Forrest his spouse, had a charter of lands in the Grange of Lindores, 24th
March 1574.
According to his testament, confirmed 26th April 1583, John Philp, burgess of Newburgh, was his brother-german, and mention is made of Henry and John Philpis, as his lawfull barnes.
(2.) James Philp, junior, and Margaret Philp his spouse, had a lease of 34 acres of land in the regality of Lindoris, 18th October 1580.
(3.) Letters of Legitimation of Henry Philp, bastard, natural son of Mr. John Philp in Newtoun of Lindoris, were granted 10th September 1580.
(4.) The same person styled simply Henry Philp, son of Mr. John Philp in Newburgh, had a charter of five acres in the Hauch of Lundores in Fife, 21st December 1592.
Ill.
Joun Bisuor or Ross anp Aspor or Linpores, 1560.
A few particulars may be added respecting another Abbot of Lindoris, who was much more distinguished both in his literary and political career—Joun Lestny, Bishop of Ross.
He was born 29th September 1527.
Knox, at page 141 of this volume, calls him "a priest's gett," or bastard ; and this assertion is fully confirmed by some original documents which Bishop Keith examined, showing that he was the natural son of Gawin Lesley, parson of Kingussie in Badenoch, and Official of the See of Murray.
In 1537, John Lesley obtained a dispensation, notwithstanding the defect of his birth, to become a clergyman.
He was inducted to a canonry in the Cathedral Church of Aberdeen and Ellon in August 1550.
He then spent four years abroad, in the study of the civil and canon laws in the University of Poictiers; and was created a Doctor of Laws at Paris.
He returned to Scotland in April 1554; four years later, in April 1558, he was appointed Official at Aberdeen; and in July 1559, he was inducted to the parsonage, canonry, and prebend of Oyne.
In April 1561, he was deputed, on the part of the Roman Catholic party, to invite the Queen to Scotland, after the death of Francis: the Second.
He returned to Leith in the same vessel with her; and for a period of upwards of twenty years continued one of the most active and zealous adherents and assertors of the rights and character of his Royal Mistress.
On the 19th January 1563-4, he took his seat as a Lord of Session, by his designation as Parson:of Oyne.
Soon afterwards he
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obtained the Abbacy of Lindores in commendam ; and upon the death of Henry Sinclair, Bishop of Ross, having been promoted to the vacant
See, his appointment was confirmed in April 1566.
Among the various documents relating to John Lesley parson of Oyne, and afterwards Bishop of Ross, of which Keith has given some account, is one, No. 7, which, if correctly stated, would have shown that the name of the Abbot, his immediate predecessor, was also John
Lesley.
It will be seen, however, that this is a mistake.
Having obtained a sight of the original paper, which is written in a small hand, and full of contractions, it may be described as a petition intimating in the usual form, that Jonn, AsBor or THE MonastTERY or Liyporis, of the Order of St. Benedict, in the diocese of St.
Andrews, had resigned the Abbacy in favour of Joun Lestin, Clerk in the diocese of Murray, and a Doctor of both Laws, who had a seat on the bench as one of the Lords of Council in Scotland.
To this added the fiat ut petitur, granting Lesley, a dispensation to hold this benefice in commendam.
It is dated " Rome apud Sanctum Petrum sexto Kal. Martij, Anno Primo."
That this was during the first year of the Pontificate of Pius V., (who was elected on the 7th, and crowned on the 17th January 1565-6,) is evident from the document itself, which refers to letters in favour of Lesley, " by Henry and Mary, King and Queen of Scotland," thus fixing the date to the 24th
February 1566.
In June following, John Bishop of Ross, and Commendator of Lindores, obtained a Royal mandate, and took an active part in regard to the confirmation of various feu-farms of lands pertaining to the Abbey of Lindores.. In the letter describing Riccio's murder and the Queen's conduct, addressed to the Council of England by the Earl of Bedford and Sir Thomas Randolph, the 27th March
1566, it appears that Bishop Lesley, along with his colleague James Balfour, Parson of Flisk, was that night in Holyrood,—" Atholle had leave of the Kinge, with Flyske and Landores, (who was lately called Lyslaye, the Parson of Ovne,) to. go where they wolde; and being convoide oute of the courte," &c.
(Wright's Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 229.) The latter portion of Bishop Lesley's life is well known, and need not be detailed—his imprisonment in England in 1571—his long residence in different parts of the continent, and his death near
Brussels on the 31st May 1596, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.
See in particular the account of his life and writings, by Dr. Irving in his '"' Lives of Scotish Writers," vol. i. p. 122, &c.
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