[244] _Essay on John Hampden._
[245] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, vol. vii, p. xxvii.
[246] Tytler, _History of Scotland_, p. 238.
[247] Tytler, _History of Scotland_, p. 238.
[248] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, vol. vi, pp. 581-2.
[249] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, vol. vi, p. 594.
[250] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, vol. vii, p. xxv.
[251] Westcott, _New Poems by James I of England_.
[252] Westcott, _New Poems by James I of England_.
[253] _Ibid._
[254] _Ibid._
[255] Op. cit., p. lxxx.
[256] Op. cit., p. lxxxi.
[257] Edited by R. P. Gillies, Edin., 1814; _The Authour to the Reader_.
[258] Westcott, op. cit., p. xlv.
[259] Calderwood, _Historie of the Kirk of Scotland_, vol. iii,
Appendix, p. 784.
[260] Op. cit., p. lxix.
[261] _Ibid._, p. 15-16.
[262] Op. cit., p. 39.
[263] "In the _Muses' Welcome to King James_, printed at Edinburgh in
1618, folio, the royal visitor greeted his Scottish subjects with a
string of punning rhymes on the names of certain learned professors,
which some of them were sagacious enough to turn into Latin. As a sample
of the literary taste which prevailed at this academic visitation, these
quibbling verses on the name of the college disputants are here
subjoined:--
As _Adam_ was the first of men, whence all beginning tak So _Adam-son_
was president, and first man in this act. The theses _Fair-lie_ did
defend, which though they lies contain, Yet were _fair-lies_ and he the
same right fairlie did maintain. The field first entred master _Sands_,
and there he made me see That not all _Sands_ are barren sands, but that
some fertile bee. Then master _Young_ most subtilie the theses did
impugne, And kythed _old_ in Aristotle, although his name bee Young. To
him succeeded master Reid, who though _reid_ be his name Neids neither
for his disput blush, nor of his speach think shame. Last entred master
_King_ the lists, and dispute like a _King_ How reason reigning as a
_queene_ should anger underbring. To their deserved praise have I thus
played upon their names; And wills their colledge hence be called the
Colledge of KING JAMES."
--Horace Walpole, _Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors_, Edit. 1806,
vol. i, p. 125.