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330, l. 10. _dansing_--mirth.--14. _Quenne had_ been merry, excessively dancing _till after_.--15. _persecutioun_--pacification.

331, l. 21. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

333, l. 19, 22. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

334, l. 4. (_Margin_,) Let Princes note this.--24. (_Margin_,) Let Court chaplains and unthrifts of the time note this.

335, l. 20 _to_ 336, l. 3. _liked_ not our Queene one whit, for as yet she could not resolve to be wife to the King of Sweden, having been lately Queene of France: And yet she refused not one much inferiour to a Soveraigne King.

336, l. 4. (_Margin_,) The Earle of Lennox and his lady imprisoned in the Tower of London for traffiquing with Papists.

337, (_Margin_,) _Anno 1566 in Maij_, (_omitted._)

338, l. 5, 6. _From_ the Father.--8, 9. _by the Eternall God_, (_omitted._)--25. _and_ base _service_.--31. _Word and_, (_omitted._)

339, l. 11. _and body_, if you do not repent.

340, l. 2. _for lack of punishment_, (_omitted._)--(_Marginal note omitted._)--15. _neglecting_ the execution _of his_.--20. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--23, 24. _pay their_ hire, _that_.

341, l. 19, 20. _that some ... releaf and_, (_omitted._)

342, l. 17. _Last_--Sixthly.--22. Seventhly, _we desire_.--33. _Farther, we most_--Eightly, we most.

343, l. 8. _dyttament_--judgment.--15. (_Margin_,) Note that diligently.--20. (_Margin_,) Note this for our times.

344, l. 31. _and wemen_, (_omitted._)

345, l. 8, 9. _hurt, and_ was for a long time _mutilat_.

346, l. 2, 18. broke the prison.--(_Margin_,) _ward_ or prison.

347, l. 10. (_Buchanan substitutes for the note_)--Note another wavering of the Hamiltons.--21. (_Margin_,) Commissionaris, (_omitted._)

348, l. 3. (_Margin_,) A new Covenant 1562.--6. _and assist_, (_omitted._)--7. _offered_ and granted _unto_.--21. Erratum 1552.

352, (_Marginal vote omitted._)

353, l. 25. _malice_--matter.

354, l. 6. _inflammed_--angred.--11. _sone_ to _James_.--12. _of soldartis_, (_omitted._)--(_Margin_,) the day of Corrichie-fiold, Octob. 22. 1562.

355, l. 9. _houris_ in the morning.

356, l. 5. _foote_ and _maid_.--10. (_Marginal note omitted._)--16, 17. _keapt thame ... The Erle_, (_omitted._)--(_Margin_,) _at Corrichie_, (_omitted._)

357, l. 2. _this day_, (_omitted._)--3, 4. _injustlie_--justlie.--5. _on_ the _sweird_.--9. _joyned_--rejoyned.--15. _ney_, (_omitted._)--21. _over-thorte_ or upon _a pair_.--(_Marginal note omitted._)

358, l. 3. (_Note taken into the text._)--11, 12. _against ... plainess_, (_omitted._)--29. (_Margin_,) Let others that yet live mark this.

361, l. 2. _unhappilie_--truely.--14. _tacken_ upon me _the_.

362, l. 6. (_Margin_,) _Upon_ the Courteouris.--18. _Like MS. G, in footnote._

363, l. 1. (_Marginal note altered_,) The end declared their words to be true.--22. _youth_ amongst them, _whom_.

364, l. 25. (_Margin_,) The tryall of Paul Meffene's fact.

365, l. 6. _oppressed_--suppressed.--30. (_Marginal note omitted._)

366, l. 6. _Edinburgh_--Dundie.

367, l. 1. _light and darknes betwix_, (_omitted._)

368, l. 3, 4. _fassionis_ not agreeable to the gravity of _honest women_.--7 _to_ 13. _All this winter Chattellet was so familiar_ with the Queen, that the Nobilitie being by this means stopped to have so free accesse as they thought fit and due unto them, were highly offended; at length Chattelett having conveyed himselfe privately _under the Quenis bed_.--30. _lyeth in me to_ give your Majestie content.

369, l. 13. _luvaris may devine_--I leave to conjecture.--18. (_Margin_,) death and famine.--22 _to_ 370, l. 1. _the famyn_ in the wheat, the beare or barley, the meale, the oates, beefe, mutton, &c., were exceeding dear and scanty; yea, _all things_.

370, l. 4, 5. _wicked_ rulers.--_suffered hir_--suffered them.--8. _court_--city--_that wicked woman_--the prophane Court,--14. (_Note omitted._)

371, l. 18. _of God_, (_omitted._)--20, 21. _the Quene_--the Court _she_, they.--22. _she send for Johne_--the Queen advised to send.

372, l. 24-27. _And in this case_--_unpunissed_, (_omitted._)--34. and that not, but in God ye are bound.

374, l. 23. (_Margin_,) Bishop of Cathnes.

375, l. 13. (_Margin_,) The Lady Argile was naturill Sister to the Queen, as the Earle Murray was naturall Brother.

377, (_After the 7th, insert_) My Lord.--17. _withdraw_ your conversation _from hir_.--21. _unto hir_ in all due benevolence.

378, l. 9. _convict hir of_ any fault _since_.

379, l. 9. the Parliament of Pope's knights appeared. The, &c.--16. _unfreindis_--friends.--19. (_Margin_,) The Clergie did pretend to be free from all Jurisdiction, save the Popes.

380, l. 1. _Norwell_--Horwell.--(_Marginal note omitted._)--8, 9. parenthesis, (_omitted._)--13. _gioun._ At that Parliament, (_new paragraph._)

381, l. 3. _Lairdis_--Earles.--5. _law_ or Counsellor.--5-7. _in that ... Whytlaw_, (_omitted._)--12. (_Marginal note omitted._)--16. _the_ superfluities of their cloathes, _and_.

382, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note diligently. And so was _religion_, &c.--8. (_Margin_,) Occasion painted with a bald hind-head.--27. _long_ to.

383, l. 7. _betwix ... Knox_--betwixt them.--11. _slocken_--slacken.--11. (_Margin_,) God knowes if our times be better.

384, l. 2. (_Marginal note omitted._)--21. _the_ charges _of Edinburgh_.

385, l. 3. _Queen_ sayes you _will not agree with us_.--6 _with_ them in.--27. But this my Lordis will (I say) note.

387, (_The marginal notes omitted._)

388, l. 4. (_Margin_,) Let this serve for our times.--17. _conscience_--office.--20. _shall_ be content, and _consent_.--_unfaythfull_--unlawfull.

389, (_Margin_,) Note women.

390, l. 4. _fard_--heat.--6. (_Marginal note omitted._)

391, l. 14. (_Marginal note omitted._)--22. (_ib._) Note diligently.

392, l. 8. _wickedness_--fury, (_also_, 393, l. 5.)--18. _thair ... throttes ... mouthes_--his ... throat ... mouth.

394, l. 19. _hamesukken_--having made.

395, (_2d marginal note_,) _quhingar_--weapon.

396, l. 2. _15th_--five and twentieth.--23. _Messe_, publikely _to_.

397, l. 3. _be made_ to the country, _and that_.--7. (_Margin_,) Bond to a mutuall defence in the cause of Religion.--(_The note is omitted._)

398, l. 8. (_Margin_,) Note Pastors.

399, (_In the foot-note to line 12, Buchanan agrees with MS. G. Instead of the 2d marginal note, he adds to the 1st_, "and their reasoning together.")

400, l. 2. _day_, (_omitted._)

401, (_2d marginal note omitted._)

402, l. 19. (_Margin_,) Note a wise reply.--29. _trouble_ me.

403, l. 8. _noumer_--number.

401, l. 5. _lackit_ nathing of an _womanly gravitie_.--11. caused me to crie, and shed _never_.--12. _greit_--grieve.

405, l. 23, 25, 27, 32. _convocation_--vocation.

406, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--23. _unlauchfull_--lawfull.

408, l. 1. (_Margin_,) As the Irish Papists have done to Protestants in Ireland.--18. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted for this day.--28. _ane liar and_, (_omitted._)--32, 33. _I am_ commanded in my conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, _impugne_.

409, (_Margin_,) _quhat_, ensued.--11, 12. _and conjureit ... Christ_, (_omitted._)--_smyleit_--singled.

410, l. 2. (_Margin_,) Note Pastors.--5. _onie upfall_, (_omitted._)--20-22. _to see ... rejoise_, (_omitted._)

411, l. 19. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.

412, l. 17. (_Margin_,) Note _the craft of the Court_.--24. (_Note taken into the text._)--27. (_Marginal note omitted._)

413, l. 5, 6. _but of ... Borrowis_, (_omitted._)--18. (_Margin_,) Note.

414, l. 10. _als_--all.--_haif_ power to.--23. _Sir Johne Ballentyne_, (_omitted._)

415, l. 5. (_Margin_,) Remark false brethren.--(_ib._) _Sempill and Levingstoun_, (_omitted._)

417, l. 1. _delyver us from the_ wickedness of this corrupt Court, for thy own name's sake.--(_Margin_,) _Prayit ... authoritie_, (_omitted._)--10-12. _And ... houris_--(_this sentence is nearly repeated on margin._)--20. _the suspitioune of_, (_omitted._)--(_The three last marginal notes omitted._)

418, l. 20. _sik_, him.--_Nobill-wemin_--Nobleman.--23. _coule_--kowll.--(_Margin_,) Cucullus.--29. (_Marginal note omitted._)

420, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note how this agrees with our time.--25. _Papists_--Priests.

421, (_Buchanan has the marginal notes mentioned in last foot-note._)

422, l. 1. _began_ one David, an Italian, _to_.--3. _in France_, (_omitted._)--5, 6. _to speik_, and refer it to another fitter occasion of time and place, _becaus ... whole_. The first day.--(_Clause in brackets and marginal note omitted._)

423, l. 9. _Rothes_--Lord Rosse.

424, l. 10-14. _but, because ... publict audience_, (_omitted._)--25, 26. (_By a semicolon misplaced, Hay appears as Superintendent of Glasgow instead of Willok._)

425, l. 23. (_Margin_,) John Knox his answer.

427, l. 17, 24. (_Margin_,) Note diligently, and see how the Bishops did forbid to pray for the conversion of the Queen that now is in Britain.

435, l. 2. _present_--publike.

436, l. 6. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted diligently.--9. [_the poweris_,] (_omitted._)

437, l. 1. (_Margin_,) Note this.--23. (_ib._) Note this Discourse diligently.

438, l. 7. _nocht_, (_omitted._)

439, l. 24. _but_, (_omitted._)

440, l. 3. (_Margin_,) God craves of us, that we oppose ourselves to iniquity.

441, l. 4-7. _unless that ... the deith_, (_omitted._)

442, l. 13. _tuik_--think.

443, l. 9. (_Margin_,) Let this be noted for our times.--34. _acknawlege_ and esteem the benefits received, _when_.

444, l. 9. (_Margin_,) Whether this hath come to passe or not, let the world judge.

445, l. 8. (_Margin_,) Note this diligently.

447, l. 13. "_He be his owin commandment_," &c. _Between these words and "sik as craif,"_ &c., 418, l. 13, _a whole page is 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, l. 3. (_Margin_,) 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, l. 15. _ye will_ not _say_.

452, l. 24. _deith_--punishment.--33. _thairintill_--therefore.

453, l. 22. _either misknaw_--must either know.--29. _tyrant_--misled King.

454, l. 1. _scripped_--stouped.

455, l. 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, l. 12.

458, l. 23. (_Buchanan agrees with second foot-note._)--10. (_Margin_,) Note diligently.--_also_ 459, l. 3.

460, l. 19. _be knawin_--he knew.

461, l. 17. (_In the second foot-note Buchanan agrees with MS. L, 4. Marginal vote omitted._)

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A few particulars respecting DAVID BUCHANAN, the Editor of Knox's History, may be subjoined to the preceding collations. The author of the Genealogical Account of the Buchanans, in 1723, 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 was a 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 us "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 1636, he published a learned work under this title: "Historia Animæ Humanæ, Auctore Davide Buchanano, Scoto. (No place of printing,) M.DC.XXXVI." Small 8vo. This was followed by a similar treatise in French, entitled "Histoire de la Conscience, M.DC.XXXVIII." 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. MEEK,) 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 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. DAVID 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 denouncing the publisher, Mr. Buchanan, as an incendiary. (Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. ii. p. 367.) 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. xviii., 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.

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 Lunæ, 13^o 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 Pence, 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 Editor'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.

No. II.

ON SPOTTISWOOD'S EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.

IT is well known that Queen Mary, both in France and after her return to this country, refused to ratify the Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT 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 CONFESSION OF FAITH, 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 BOOK OF DISCIPLINE 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.

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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 inside 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.

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 a slight 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, l. 10, omits "cursed" as applied to "Papistrie."

190, l. 12, reads, "in open audience of his flock, he may preach and deliver his knowledge in the Articles," &c.

192, l. 4 to 6, "and so ... of the Kirk," omitted.

193, l. 4 to 19, varied and abridged; and lines 25, 26, read, "The Ministers were publicly admitted."

195, l. 14, altered; and lines 21 to 27, "And gif," &c., omitted. The next head, "For Readeris," is partially abridged.

198, l. 1, the words, "at the discretion of the congregation," omitted.

199, l. 3, the words, "in Goddis presence we witness," omitted; and lines 7 to 15 amended.

200, l. 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, l. 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; l. 18, reads, "we think it sufficient that the Council nominate;" and lines 22 to 25 omitted.

207, l. 6 to 12, "Yff the Ministeris," &c., omitted.

208, l. 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, l. 24, reads, "New Testament, and shall finish his course the same year. And in," &c.

221, l. 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, l. 4 to 9, "We dar not flatter," &c., omitted.

223, l. 27, &c. "Your Honouris," &c.; the whole of this paragraph omitted.

225, l. 13, The "Additio" is not found in Spottiswood.

226, l. 23, "Yf this Ordour," &c., to the end of the paragraph, omitted.

227, The second paragraph, "But becaus this accursit Papistrie," &c., omitted.