it not that I know, (as Sir Philip Sydney sayes), that a wonder is no
wonder in a wonderful subject, and consequently not in him, who for his
learning, judgement, valour, eloquence, beauty, and good-fellowship was
the perfectest result of the joynt labour of the perfect number of those
six deities, Pallas, Apollo, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Bacchus, that
hath been seen since the dayes of Alcibiades; for he was reported to
have been inriched with a memory so prodigious, that any sermon, speech,
harangue, or other manner of discourse of an hour's continuance, he was
able to recite without hesitation, after the same manner of gesture and
pronuntiation in all points, wherewith it was delivered at first; and of
so stupendious a judgment and conception, that almost naturally he
understood quiddities of philosophy; and as for the abstrusest and most
researched mysteries of other disciplines, arts, and faculties, the
intentional species of them were as readily obvious to the interiour
view and perspicacity of his mind, as those of the common visible
colours to the external sight of him that will open his eyes to look
upon them; of which accomplishment and Encyclopedia of knowledge, he
gave on a time so marvelous a testimony at Paris, that the words of
_Admirabilis Scotus_, the Wonderful Scot, in all the several tongues and
idiomes of Europ, were, (for a great while together), by the most of the
echos resounded to the peircing of the very clouds. To so great a hight
and vast extent of praise did the never too much to be extolled
reputation of the seraphick wit of that eximious man attaine, for his
commanding to be affixed programs on all the gates of the schooles,
halls, and colledges of that famous university, as also on all the chief
pillars and posts standing before the houses of the most renowned men
for literature, resident within the precinct of the walls and suburbs of
that most populous and magnificent city, inviting them all, (or any
whoever else versed in any kinde of scholastick faculty), to repaire at
nine of the clock in the morning of such a day, moneth, and yeer, as by
computation came to be just six weeks after the date of the affixes, to
the common schoole of the colledge of Navarre,[261] where, (at the
prefixed time), he should, (God willing), be ready to answer to what
should be propounded to him concerning any science, liberal art,
discipline, or faculty, practical or theoretick, not excluding the
theological nor jurisprudential habits, though grounded but upon the
testimonies of God and man, and that in any of these twelve
languages,[262] Hebrew, Syriack, Arabick, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French,
Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian, in either verse or
prose, at the discretion of the disputant; which high enterprise and
hardy undertaking, by way of challenge to the learndst men in the world,
damped the wits of many able scholars to consider whether it was the
attempt of a fanatick spirit, or lofty designe of a well-poised
judgment; yet after a few days enquiry concerning him, when information
was got of his incomparable endowments, all the choicest and most
profound philosophers, mathematicians, naturalists, mediciners,
alchymists, apothecaries, surgeons, doctors of both civil and canon law,
and divines both for controversies and positive doctrine, together with
the primest grammarians, rhetoricians, logicians, and others, professors
of other arts and disciplines at Paris, plyed their studys in their
private cels for the space of a moneth, exceeding hard, and with huge
paines and labor set all their braines awork how to contrive the
knurriest arguments, and most difficult questions could be devised,
thereby to puzzle him in the resolving of them, meander him in his
answers, put him out of his medium, and drive him to a _non plus_; nor
did they forget to premonish the ablest there of forraign nations not to
be unprepared to dispute with him in their own material dialects, and
that sometimes metrically, sometimes otherwayes, _pro libitu_.[263] All
this while the Admirable Scot, (for so from thenceforth he was called),
minding more his hawking, hunting, tilting, vaulting, riding of
well-managed horses, tossing of the pike, handling of the musket,
flourishing of colours, dancing, fencing, swimming, jumping, throwing of
the bar, playing at tennis, baloon, or long catch; and sometimes at the
house games of dice, cards, playing at the chess, billiards, trou-madam,
and other such like chamber sports, singing, playing on the lute and
other musical instruments, masking, balling, reveling; and, which did
most of all divert, or rather distract him from his speculations and
serious employments, being more addicted to, and plying closer the
courting of handsome ladyes, and a jovial cup in the company of
bacchanalian blades, then [than] the forecasting how to avoid, shun, and
escape the snares, grins [gins?], and nets of the hard, obscure, and
hidden arguments, ridles, and demands, to be made, framed, and woven by
the professors, doctors, and others of that thrice-renowned university.
There arose upon him an aspersion of too great proness to such like
debordings and youthful emancipations, which occasioned one less
acquainted with himself then [than] his reputation, to subjoyn, (some
two weeks before the great day appointed), to that program of his, which
was fixed on the Sorbone gate, these words: 'If you would meet with this
monster of perfection, to make search for him ... in the taverne ... is
the reedyest way to finde him.' By reason of which expression, (though
truly as I think, both scandalous and false), the eminent sparks of the
university, (imagining that those papers of provocation had been set up
to no other end, but to scoff and delude them, in making them waste
their spirits upon quirks and quiddities, more then [than] was fitting),
did resent a little of their former toyle, and slack their studyes,
becoming almost regardless thereof, till the several peals of bells
ringing an hour or two before the time assigned, gave warning that the
party was not to flee the barriers, nor decline the hardship of
academical assaults; but, on the contrary, so confident in his former
resolution, that he would not shrink to sustaine the shock of all their
disceptations. This sudden alarm so awaked them out of their last
fortnight's lethargy, that, calling to minde, the best way they might,
the fruits of the foregoing moneth's labour, they hyed to the forenamed
schoole with all diligence; where, after all of them had, according to
their several degrees and qualities, seated themselves, and that by
reason of the noise occasioned through the great confluence of people,
which so strange a novelty brought thither out of curiosity, an
universal silence was commanded, the Orator of the University, in most
fluent Latine, addressing his speech to Crichtoun, extolled him for his
literature, and other good parts, and for that confident opinion he had
of his own sufficiency, in thinking himself able to justle in matters of
learning with the whole university of Paris, Crichtoun answering him in
no less eloquent terms of Latine, after he had most heartily thanked him
for his elegies, so undeservedly bestowed, and darted some high
encomiums upon the university and the professors therein; he very
ingeniously [ingenuously] protested that he did not emit his programs
out of any ambition to be esteemed able to enter in competition with the
university, but meerly to be honoured with the favour of a publick
conference with the learned men thereof. In complements after this
manner, _ultro citroque habitis_, tossed to and again, retorted,
contrerisposted, backreverted, and now and then graced with a quip or a
clinch for the better relish of the ear, being unwilling in this kind of
straining curtesie to yeeld to other, they spent a full half hour and
more; for he being the centre to which the innumerable diameters of the
discourses of that circulary convention did tend, although none was to
answer but he, any of them all, according to the order of their
prescribed series, were permitted to reply, or commence new motions on
any subject, in what language soever, and howsoever expressed; to all
which, he being bound to tender himself a respondent, in matter and form
suitable to the impugners propounding, he did first so transcendently
acquit himself of that circumstantial kinde of oratory, that, by
well-couched periods, and neatly running syllables, in all the twelve
languages, both in verse and prose, he expressed to the life his
courtship [courtliness] and civility; and afterwards, when the Rector of
the university, (unwilling to have any more time bestowed on superficial
rhetorick, or to have that wasted on the fondness of quaint phrases,
which might be better employed in a reciprocacy of discussing
scientifically the nature of substantial things), gave direction to the
professors to fall on, each according to the dignity or precedency of
his faculty, and that conform to the order given. Some metaphysical
notions were set abroach, then mathematical, and of those arithmetical,
geometrical, astronomical, musical, optical, cosmographical,
trigonometrical, statical, and so forth through all the other branches
of the prime and mother sciences thereof; the next bout was through all
natural philosophy, according to Aristotle's method, from the
acroamaticks, going along the speculation of the nature of the heavens,
and that of the generation and corruption of sublinary things, even to
the consideration of the soul and its faculties; in sequel hereof, they
had a hint at chymical extractions, and spoke of the principles of
corporeal and mixed bodies, according to the precepts of that art. After
this, they disputed of medicine, in all its thereapeutick,
pharmacopeutick, and chirurgical parts; and not leaving natural magick
untouched, they had exquisite disceptations concerning the secrets
thereof. From thence they proceeded to moral philosophy, where, debating
of the true enumeration of all vertues and vices, they had most learned
ratiocinations about the chief good of the life of man; and seeing the
[that] oecumenicks and politicks are parts of that philosophy, they
argued learnedly of all the several sorts of governments, with their
defects and advantages; whereupon perpending, that, without an
established law, all the duties of ruling and subjection, to the utter
ruin of humane society, would be as often violated as the irregularity
of passion, seconded with power, should give way thereto. The Sorbonist,
canonical, and civilian doctors most judiciously argued with him about
the most prudential maximes, sentences, ordinances, acts, and statutes
for ordering all manner of persones in their consciences, bodyes,
fortunes, and reputation; nor was there an end put to those literate
exercitations till the grammarians, rhetoricians, poets, and logicians
had assailed him with all the subtleties and nicest quodlibets their
respective habits could afford. Now when, to the admiration of all that
were there, the incomparable Crichtoun had, in all these faculties above
written, and in any of the twelve languages wherein he was spoke to,
whether in verse or prose, held tack to all the disputants, who were
accounted the ablest scholars upon earth in each their own profession;
and publickly evidenced such an universality of knowledge, and accurate
promptness in resolving of doubts, distinguishing of obscurities,
expressing the members of a distinction in adequate terms of art,
explaining those compendious tearms with words of a more easie
apprehension to the prostrating of the sublimest mysteries to any vulgar
capacity, and with all excogitable variety of learning, (to his own
everlasting fame), entertained, after that kinde, the nimble witted
Parisians from nine o'clock in the morning till six at night; the Rector
now finding it high time to give some relaxation to these worthy
spirits, which, during such a long space, had been so intensively bent
upon the abstrusest speculations, rose up, and saluting the divine
Crichtoun, after he had made an elegant panegyrick, or encomiastick
speech of half an houre's continuance, tending to nothing else but the
extolling of him for the rare and most singular gifts wherewith God and
nature had endowed him, he descended from his chaire, and, attended by
three or four of the most especial professors, presented him with a
diamond ring and a purse ful of gold, wishing him to accept thereof, if
not, as a recompense proportional to his merit, yet as a badge of love,
and testimony of the universitie's favour towards him. At the tender of
which ceremony, there was so great a plaudite in the schoole, such a
humming and clapping of hands, that all the concavities of the colledges
there about did resound with the echo of the noise thereof.
"Notwithstanding the great honor thus purchased by him for his
literatory accomplishments, and that many excellent spirits, to obteine
the like, would be content to postpose all other employments to the
enjoyment of their studyes, he, nevertheless, the very next day, (to
refresh his braines, as he said, for the toile of the former day's
work), went to the Louvre in a buff-suit, more like a favourite of Mars
then [than] one of the Muses' minions; where, in presence of some
princes of the court, and great ladies, that came to behold his
gallantry, he carryed away the ring fifteen times on end, and broke as
many lances on the Saracen.
"When for a quarter of a yeer together he after this manner had
disported himself, (what martially, what scholastically), with the best
qualified men in any faculty so ever, that so large a city, (which is
called the world's abridgement), was able to afford, and now and then
solaced these his more serious recreations, (for all was but sport to
him), with the alluring imbellishments of the tendrer sexe, whose
_inamorato_ that he might be, was their ambition; he on a sudden took
resolution to leave the Court of France, and return to Italy, where he
had been bred for many yeers together; which designe he prosecuting
within the space of a moneth, (without troubling himself with long
journeys), he arrived at the Court of Mantua, where immediately after
his abord, (as hath been told already), he fought the memorable combat
whose description is above related. Here it was that the learned and
valiant Crichtoun was pleased to cast anchor, and fix his abode; nor
could he almost otherwise do, without disobliging the Duke, and the
Prince his eldest son; by either whereof he was so dearly beloved, that
none of them would permit him by any means to leave their Court, whereof
he was the only _privado_, the object of all men's love, and subject of
their discourse; the example of the great ones, and wonder of the meaner
people; the paramour of the female sexe, and paragon of his own. In the
glory of which high estimation, having resided at that Court above two
whole yeers, the reputation of gentlemen there was hardly otherwayes
valued but by the measure of his acquaintance; nor were the young
unmaryed ladies, of all the most eminent places thereabouts, any thing
respected of one another, that had not either a lock of his hair, or
copy of verses of his composing. Nevertheless it happening on a
Shrove-tuesday at night, (at which time it is in Italy very customary
for men of great sobriety, modesty, and civil behaviour all the rest of
the yeer, to give themselves over on that day of carnavale, as they call
it, to all manner of riot, drunkenness, and incontinency, which that
they may do with the least imputation they can to their credit, they go
maskt and mum'd with vizards on their faces, and in the disguise of a
Zanni or Pantaloon, to ventilate their fopperies, and sometimes
intolerable enormities, without suspicion of being known), that this
ever renowned Crichtoun, (who, in the afternoon of that day, at the
desire of my Lord Duke, the whole court striving which should exceed
each other in foolery, and devising of the best sports to excite
laughter, neither my Lord, the Dutchess, nor Prince, being exempted from
acting their parts, as well as they could), upon a theater set up for
the purpose, begun to prank it, _à la Venetiana_, with such a flourish
of mimick and ethopoetick gestures, that all the courtiers of both
sexes, even those that a little before were fondest of their own
conceits, at the sight of his so inimitable a garb, from ravishing
actors that they were before, turned them ravished spectators. O with
how great liveliness did he represent the conditions of all manner of
men! how naturally did he set before the eyes of the beholders the
rogueries of all professions, from the overweening monarch to the
peevish swaine, through all the intermediate degrees of the superficial
courtier or proud warrior, dissembled churchman, doting old man,
cozening lawyer, lying traveler, covetous merchant, rude seaman,
pedantick scholar, the amourous shepheard, envious artisan, vainglorious
master, and tricky servant; he did with such variety display the several
humours of all these sorts of people, and with a so bewitching energy,
that he seemed to be the original, they the counterfeit; and they the
resemblance whereof he was the prototype. He had all the jeers, squibs,
flouts, buls, quips, taunts, whims, jests, clinches, gybes, mokes,
jerks, with all the several kinds of equivocations, and other
sophistical captions, that could properly be adapted to the person by
whose representation he intended to inveagle the company into a fit of
mirth; and would keep in that miscelany discourse of his, (which was all
for the splene, and nothing for the gall), such a climacterical and
mercurially digested method, that when the fancy of the hearers was
tickled with any rare conceit, and that the jovial blood was moved, he
held it going with another new device upon the back of the first, and
another, yet another, and another againe, succeeding one another for the
promoval of what is a-stirring into a higher agitation; till in the
closure of the luxuriant period, the decumanal wave of the oddest whimsy
of all, enforced the charmed spirits of the auditory, (for affording
room to its apprehension), suddenly to burst forth into a laughter,
which commonly lasted just so long as he had leisure to withdraw behind
the skreen, shift off, with the help of a page, the suite he had on,
apparel himself with another, and return to the stage to act afresh; for
by that time their transported, disparpled, and sublimated fancies, by
the wonderfully operating engines of his solacious inventions, had from
the hight to which the inward scrues, wheeles, and pullies of his wit
had elevated them, descended by degrees into their wonted stations, he
was ready for the personating of another carriage; whereof to the number
of fourteen several kinds, (during the five hours space that at the
Duke's desire, the solicitation of the court, and his own recreation, he
was pleased to histrionize it), he shewed himself so natural a
representative, that any would have thought he had been so many several
actors, differing in all things else, save only the stature of the body;
with this advantage above the most of other actors, whose tongue, with
its oral implements, is the onely instrument of their minds'
disclosing, that, besides his mouth with its appurtenances, he lodged
almost a several oratour in every member of his body; his head, his
eyes, his shoulder, armes, hands, fingers, thighs, legs, feet, and
breast, being able to decipher any passion whose character he purposed
to give.
"First, he did present himself with a crown on his head, a scepter in
his hand, being clothed in a purple robe furred with ermyne; after that,
with a miter on his head, a crosier in his hand, and accoutred with a
paire of lawn-sleeves; and thereafter, with a helmet on his head, the
visiere up, a commanding stick in his hand, and arayed in a buff-suit,
with a scarf about his middle. Then, in a rich apparel, after the newest
fashion, did he shew himself, (like another Sejanus), with a periwig
daubed with Cypres powder; in sequel of that, he came out with a
three-corner'd cap on his head, some parchments in his hand, and
writings hanging at his girdle like Chancery bills; and next to that,
with a furred gown about him, an ingot of gold in his hand, and a bag
full of money by his side; after all this, he appeares againe clad in a
country-jacket, with a prong in his hand, and a Monmouth-like-cap on his
head; then very shortly after, with a palmer's coat upon him, a bourdon
in his hand,[264] and some few cockle-shels stuck to his hat, he look'd
as if he had come in pilgrimage from St Michael; immediately after that,
he domineers it in a bare unlined gown, with a pair of whips in the one
hand, and Corderius in the other; and in suite thereof, he
honderspondered[265] it with a pair of pannier-like breeches, a
mountera-cap on his head, and a knife in a wooden sheath dagger-ways by
his side; about the latter end, he comes forth again with a square in
one hand, a rule in the other, and a leather apron before him; then very
quickly after, with a scrip by his side, a sheep-hook in his hand, and a
basket full of flowers to make nosegayes for his mistris; now drawing to
a closure, he rants it first _in cuerpo_, and vapouring it with gingling
spurs, and his armes a kenbol like a Don Diego he strouts it, and by the
loftiness of his gate, plaies the Capitan Spavento; then in the very
twinkling of an eye, you would have seen him againe issue forth with a
cloak upon his arm, in a livery garment, thereby representing the
serving-man; and lastly, at one time amongst those other, he came out
with a long gray beard, and bucked ruff, crouching on a staff tip't,
with the head of a barber's cithern,[266] and his gloves hanging by a
button at his girdle.
"Those fifteen several personages did he represent with such excellency
of garb, and exquisiteness of language, that condignely to perpend the
subtlety of the invention, the method of the disposition, the neatness
of the elocution, the gracefulness of the action, and wonderful variety
in the so dextrous performance of all, you would have taken it for a
comedy of five acts, consisting of three scenes, each composed by the
best poet in the world, and acted by fifteen of the best players that
ever lived, as was most evidently made apparent to all the spectators in
the fifth and last hour of his action, (which, according to our western
account, was about six a clock at night, and by the calculation of that
country, half an hour past three and twenty, at that time of the yeer),
for, purposing to leave off with the setting of the sun, with an
endeavour nevertheless to make his conclusion the master-piece of the
work, he, to that effect, summoning all his spirits together, which
never failed to be ready at the call of so worthy a commander, did by
their assistance, so conglomerate, shuffle, mix, and interlace the
gestures, inclinations, actions, and very tones of the speech of those
fifteen several sorts of men, whose carriages he did personate into an
inestimable _ollapodrida_ of immaterial morsels of divers kinds,
suitable to the very ambrosian relish of the Heliconian nymphs, that, in
the peripetia of this drammatical exercitation, by the inchanted
transportation of the eyes and eares of its spectabundal auditorie, one
would have sworne that they all had looked with multiplying glasses, and
that, (like that angel in the Scripture whose voice was said to be like
the voice of a multitude), they heard in him alone the promiscuous
speech of fifteen several actors; by the various ravishments of the
excellencies whereof, in the frolickness of a jocund straine beyond
expectation, the logofascinated spirits of the beholding hearers and
auricularie spectators, were so on a sudden seazed upon in their risible
faculties of the soul, and all their vital motions so universally
affected in this extremitie of agitation, that, to avoid the inevitable
charmes of his intoxicating ejaculations, and the accumulative
influences of so powerfull a transportation, one of my lady Dutchess'
chief maids of honour, by the vehemencie of the shock of those
incomprehensible raptures, burst forth into a laughter to the rupture of
a veine in her body; and another young lady, by the irresistible
violence of the pleasure unawares infused, where the tender
receptibilitie of her too tickled fancie was least able to hold out, so
unprovidedly was surprised, that, with no less impetuositie of
ridibundal passion then [than], (as hath been told), occasioned a
fracture in the other young ladie's modestie, she, not being able
longer to support the well beloved burthen of so excessive delight, and
intransing joys of such mercurial exhilations through the ineffable
extasie of an overmastered apprehension, fell back in a swown, without
the appearance of any other life into her then [than] what, by the most
refined wits of theological speculators, is conceived to be exerced by
the purest parts of the separated entelechises of blessed saints in
their sublimest conversations with the celestial hierarchies; this
accident procured the incoming of an apothecary with restoratives, as
the other did that of a surgeon with consolidative medicaments.[267] The
Admirable Crichtoun now perceiving that it was drawing somewhat late,
and that our occidental rays of Phoebus were upon their turning oriental
to the other hemisphere of the terrestrial globe; being withall jealous
that the uninterrupted operation of the exuberant diversitie of his
jovialissime entertainment, by a continuate winding up of the humours
there present to a higher, yet higher, and still higher pitch, above the
supremest Lydian note of the harmonie of voluptuousness, should, in such
a case, through the too intensive stretching of the already super-elated
strings of their imagination, with a transcendencie over-reaching Ela,
and beyond the well concerted gain of rational equanimitie, involve the
remainder of that illustrious companie into the sweet labyrinth and
mellifluent anfractuosities of a lacinious delectation, productive of
the same inconveniences which befel the two afore-named ladies; whose
delicacie of constitution, though sooner overcome, did not argue, but
that the same extranean causes from him proceeding of their pathetick
alteration, might by a longer insisting in an efficacious agencie, and
unremitted working of all the consecutively imprinted degrees that the
capacity of the patient is able to containe, prevaile at last, and have
the same predominancie over the dispositions of the strongest
complexioned males of that splendid society, did, in his own ordinary
wearing apparel, with the countenance of a Prince, and garb befitting
the person of a so well bred gentleman and cavalier, kat exochên full of
majestie, and repleat with all excogitable civilitie, (to the amazement
of all that beheld his heroick gesture), present himself to epilogate
this his almost extemporanean comedie, though of five hours continuance
without intermission; and that with a peroration so neatly uttered, so
distinctly pronounced, and in such elegancie of selected tearmes,
expressed by a diction so periodically contexed with isocoly of members,
that the matter thereof tending in all humility to beseech the
highnesses of the Duke, Prince, and Dutchess, together with the remanent
lords, ladies, knights, gentlemen, and others of both sexes of that
honourable convention, to vouchsafe him the favour to excuse his that
afternoon's escaped extravagancies, and to lay the blame of the
indigested irregularity of his wits' excursions, and the abortive issues
of his disordered brain, upon the customarily dispensed with priviledges
in those Cisalpinal regions, to authorize such like impertinencies at
Carnavalian festivals; and that, although, according to the meet
commonly received opinion in that country, after the nature of Load-him,
(a game at cards), where he that wins loseth, he who, at that season of
the year, playeth the fool most egregiously, is reputed the wisest man;
he, nevertheless, not being ambitious of the fame of enjoying good
qualities, by vertue of the antiphrasis of the fruition of bad ones, did
meerly undergo that emancipatorie task of a so profuse liberty, and to
no other end embraced the practising of such roaming and exorbitant
diversions but to give an evident, or rather infallible, demonstration
of his eternally bound duty to the House of Mantua, and all inviolable
testimony of his never to be altered designe, in prosecuting all the
occasions possible to be laid hold on that can in any manner of way
prove conducible to the advancement of, and contributing to, the
readiest means for improving those advantages that may best promove the
faculties of making all his choice endeavours, and utmost abilities at
all times, effectual to the long-wished-for furtherance of his most
cordial and endeared service to the serenissime highnesses of My Lord
Duke, Prince, and Dutchess, and of consecrating with all addicted
obsequiousness, and submissive devotion, his everlasting obedience to
the illustrious shrine of their joynt commands. Then incontinently
addressing himself to the Lords, ladies and others of that rotonda,
(which, for his daigning to be its inmate, though but for that day,
might be accounted in nothing inferior to the great Colisee of Rome, or
Amphitheater of Neems), with a stately carriage, and port suitable to so
prime a gallant, he did cast a look on all the corners thereof, so
bewitchingly amiable and magically efficacious as if in his eys had bin
a muster of ten thousand cupids eagerly striving who should most deeply
pierce the hearts of the spectators with their golden darts. And truly
so it fell out, (that there not being so much as one arrow shot in
vain), all of them did love him, though not after the same manner, nor
for the same end; for, as the manna of the Arabian desarts is said to
have had in the mouths of the Egyptian Israelites, the very same tast of
the meat they loved best, so the Princes that were there did mainly
cherish him for his magnanimity and knowledge; his courtliness and sweet
behaviour being that for which chiefly the noblemen did most respect
him; for his pregnancie of wit, and chivalric in vindicating the honour
of ladies, he was honoured by the knights, and the esquires and other
gentlemen courted him for his affability and good fellowship; the rich
did favour him for his judgment and ingeniosity; and for his liberality
and munificence he was blessed by the poor; the old men affected him for
his constancie and wisdome, and the young for his mirth and gallantry;
the scholars were enamoured of him for his learning and eloquence, and
the souldiers for his integrity and valour; the merchants, for his
upright dealing and honesty, praised and extolled him, and the
artificers for his goodness and benignity; the chastest lady of that
place would have hugged and imbraced him for his discretion and
ingenuity; whilst for his beauty and comeliness of person he was, at
least in the fervency of their desires, the paramour of the less
continent; he was dearly beloved of the fair women, because he was
handsome, and of the fairest more dearly, because he was handsomer: in a
word, the affections of the beholders, (like so many several diameters
drawn from the circumference of their various intents), did all
concenter in the point of his perfection. After a so considerable
insinuation, and gaining of so much ground upon the hearts of the
auditory, (though in a shorter space then [than] the time of a flash of
lightning), he went on, (as before), in the same thred of the conclusive
part of his discourse, with a resolution not to cut it, till the
overabounding passions of the company, their exorbitant motions and
discomposed gestures, through excess of joy and mirth, should be all of
them quieted, calmed, and pacified, and every man, woman, and maid
there, (according to their humour), resented in the same integrity they
were at first; which when by the articulatest elocution of the most
significant words, expressive of the choisest things that fancie could
suggest, and, conforme to the matter's variety, elevating or depressing,
flat or sharply accinating it, with that proportion of tone that was
most consonant with the purpose, he had attained unto, and by his verbal
harmony and melodious utterance, setled all their distempered pleasures,
and brought their disorderly raised spirits into their former capsuls,
he with a tongue tip't with silver, after the various diapasons of all
his other expressions, and making of a leg for the spruceness of its
courtsie, of greater decorement to him then [than] cloth of gold and
purple, farewel'd the companie with a complement of one period so
exquisitely delivered, and so well attended by the gracefulness of his
hand and foot, with the quaint miniardise of the rest of his body, in
the performance of such ceremonies as are usual at a court-like
departing, that from the theater he had gone into a lobie, from thence
along three spacious chambers, whence descending a back staire, he past
through a low gallerie which led him to that outer gate, where a coach
with six horses did attend him, before that magnificent convention of
both sexes, (to whom that room, wherein they all were, seemed in his
absence to be as a body without a soul), had the full leisure to
recollect their spirits, (which, by the neatness of his so curious a
close, were _quoquoversedly_ scattered with admiration), to advise on
the best expediency how to dispose of themselves for the future of that
[delightful] night."
FOOTNOTES:
[261] The College of Navarre was founded by Jeanne of Navarre, consort
of Philippe the Fair, in 1305. Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries it was the foremost foundation of the University of Paris (F.
W. S.).
[262] John Hill Burton points out the somewhat curious fact that, among
the hero's linguistic accomplishments, Gaelic, which must have been
talked at his own door, does not appear.
[263] In the matter of length this is surely a record sentence.
[264] "_A bourdon in his hand_"--"A musical instrument resembling a
bassoon, in use with pilgrims who visit the body of St James at
Compostella" (Sir John Hawkins).
[265] "_Honderspondered_"--_i.e._ floundered. Fr. _hondrespondres_
(_Rab._ iii. 42)--"hundred-pounders," heavy, burly fellows.
[266] "_Barber's cithern_"--"The instrument now ignorantly called a
guitar. It was formerly part of the furniture of a barber's shop, and
was the amusement of waiting customers" (Sir John Hawkins).
[267] This incident reminds one of the effect produced upon the lawyers
in court when "Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two
lords." Our readers will remember that it is the author of the above
description who is the translator of the narrative which tells of that
wonderfully satisfactory decision. "As for the counsellors, and other
doctors in the law that were there present, they were all so ravished
with admiration at the more than humane wisdom of Pantagruel, which they
did most clearly perceive to be in him, by his so accurate decision of
this so difficult and thornie cause, that their spirits, with the
extremity of the rapture, being elevated above the pitch of actuating
the organs of the body, they fell into a trance and sudden extasie,
wherein they stayed for the space of three long houres; and had been so
as yet, in that condition, had not some good people fetched store of
vinegar and rose water to bring them again into their former sense and
understanding, for the which God be praised everywhere. And so be it."
(_Rabelais_, ii. 13.)
INDEX
Aberdeen, 43.
Attitude towards covenant, 32, 36.
"Aberdeen Doctors," 37.
_Aberdeen Sasines_, 7 (note).
Aberdeen University, 19.
New constitution, 10, 11 (note).
Abercrombie, Sir Alexander, 7 (note).
Abernethie, Helen, wife of Thomas Urquhart, 141.
Abraham, Patriarch, 133.
_Acts of the Parliament of Scotland_, 61 (note 3), 71 (note 2), 93
(note), 101 (notes).
Adam, 130, 146.
_Advancement of Learning_, 118 (note).
Ægyptus' sons, 134.
Æquanima, sister of Marcus Coriolanus, 136.
Agamemnon, 135.
Ainsworth, W. Harrison, _Crichton_, 105 (note 2).
"_Airgiod cagainn_" (chewing-money), 77.
Airlie, Earl of, 19 (note).
Alcibiades, 136.
Alexander of Macedon, 27, 51.
Allibone, _Dictionary_, and Urquhart, 101.
Alsop, Captain, treatment of Sir Thomas Urquhart, 89.
_Amadis of Gaul_, 144 (note 2).
_Anastasius_, quoted, 77 (note 1).
Anderson, Gilbert, minister of Cromartie, 63, 66 (note 3).
---- Hugh, 66 (note 3).
---- P. J., 10, 11 (notes).
_Annals of Banff_, quoted, 8 (note 2), 19 (note), 47 (note 3).
Annand, John, minister of Inverness, and Sir Thomas Urquhart, 68, 82.
_Antiquarian Notes_, 7 (note), 69 70 (note).
_Apprizing_, 58 (note).
Arcalaus, 144 (note).
Archimedes, 124.
Arduamurchan, 136 (note 1).
Ardoch farm, 55.
Argyll, Marquis of, and Covenanters, 32.
Ariosto, 166.
Hippogriff and Astolfo, 107.
Aristotle, 124, 202 (note).
_Organon, Ethics, and Politics_, 10.
Arnold, Matthew, standard for judging literature, 143.
Arran, 136 (note 1).
Arren, Earle of, 115.
Arundel, Earl of, 116.
Astioremon, 137.
Asymbleta, 144 (note).
Atbara, battle of, 102 (note 3).
Atropos, 129.
Bacchus, 202;
conquers India, 135.
Bacon, Lord, Solicitor-General, 8.
On fate of solid and weighty things, 118.
Rules for young travellers in _Essays, Civil and Moral_, 26.
Baddeley, Richard, 128 (note), 149 (note).
Badenoch, 76.
Baillie, Robert, _Letters_, 81 (note 1), 82.
Baldwin, Richard, 185 (note).
Balquholly Castle, 35, 39, 102 (note 3): now Hatton Castle.
Account of, 39 (note 1).
Balvenie, battle at, 77 (and note 2), 79.
Banff, 8, 18.
Entry in Court-book of Burgh, 15, 19.
Barclay, Waiter, 41 (note 2).
Barclays, 38 (note 2).
Baron, Dr Robert, 37 (note 2).
Basagante, 144 (note).
Beaten, Cardinal, 55.
Bedell, William, idea of universal language, 175.
Belladrum, 70.
Bellay, Jean du, Bishop of Paris, 188.
Bellenden, Adam, 43 (note).
Beltistos, 2.
Bembo, 166.
Berwick, 44.
Besant, Sir Walter, 185 (note 2).
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 51 (note).
Biggar, 85.
Billing, _Baronial Antiquities_, 39 (note).
_Biographia Britannica_, quoted, 144 (note 2), 158 (note 2).
Birkenbog, 7 (note).
Birrell, A., 186.
Black Island, 62 (note 1).
_Blackwood's Magazine_, quoted, 181 (note 2).
(_See_ also names of subjects.)
Boece, Hector, fictions, 145.
_Book of Bon Accord_, 13 (note 1).
Bracegirdle, Mrs, 50 (note 2).
Braughton discovers Sir Thomas Urquhart's MSS., 155, 156.
Brisena, 144 (note).
Browne, Sir Thomas:
Phraseology, 2.
Quoted, 49, 137.
_Vulgar Errors_, 126.
Browning, Robert, 113.
Bruce, James, 126 (note 1).
---- King David, 4.
---- King Robert, grants Cromartie to Sir Hugh Ross, 4.
Bruklay, 7 (note).
Brydges, Sir Egerton, _Autobiography_;
_Mary de Clifford_, 152 (note 1).
Bullock, J. M., _History of University of Aberdeen_, quoted, 36.
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, 191 (note).
Burnet, quoted, 82 (note), 175.
Burns, Robert, 23.
Burton, John Hill:
On "Aberdeen Doctors" in _History of Scotland_, 37.
On description of Crichton's feats, 162, 223 (note 2).
On Sir Thomas Urquhart's writings, 157, 159.
_Scot Abroad_, quoted, 159.
Burton, Robert, _Anatomy of Melancholy_, 205 (note).
Cæsar, _De Bello Gallico_, 198 (note).
Caithness, 3, 70, 80 (note 2).
Calder, Campbell of, 7 (note).
_Calendar of Proceedings in Committee for Advances of Moneys-Taxes_,
50 (note).
Calvert, Giles, 176 (note).
Cambridge, Earl of, 115.
Cant at Aberdeen, 36.
Carberry Tower, 13 (note 3).
Carlisle, 85.
Carlyle, Thomas:
_Oliver Cromwell_, quoted, 86, 87.
_Sartor Resartus_, quoted, 189.
Cartadaque, 144 (note).
Castalia, 109.
Cawdor, 66 (note 3).
Chanonry Castle taken, 76.
Charles I.:
Endeavours to force Episcopacy on Scotland, 31.
Execution of, 69, 70, 168.
Letter of Protection to Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior, 15.
Licence to T. York, 50 (note 2).
On knowledge of law, 52.
Charles II., 97, 99.
Crowned, 84, 169.
Lands in Scotland, 83.
Charles VII., 187.
Chatterton, 152 (note).
Chinon, 187.
"Christianus Presbyteromastix," 150.
Cibber, _Apology_, 170 (note).
Cicero, 201; _De Officiis_, 10.
Cid, The, 27.
Clan Mackenzie, 72.
Clanmolinespick, 135 (and note).
Clanrurie, 136 (note 1).
Clare, Earl of, 50 (note 2).
Clare Street, 50 (note 2).
Clio, 109 (note).
Coleridge, on Rabelais' writings, 186.
College of Navarre, 160, 223 (note).
"Colophonian Poet," 109 (note).
Colophos, 109 (note).
Commission of General Assembly, 72, 79 (and note 1), 81.
Constantinople, 77 (note 1).
Cotgrave, _French Dictionary_, 191.
Cottrel, James, 149 (note).
Court of Session, Decisions of, 146.
Covenant signed, 47 (note 3).
Covenanting Movement, 31.
Coventry, 86.
Craig, John, 42 (note).
Craigfintray, 5, 19 (note), 60, 101 (note 2).
Cratynter, 132.
Craven, Earl of, 116.
---- Rev. J. B., 57 (note).
Crawford, Earl of, 146.
Crichton, James (the Admirable), 157, 158 (note 2).
Age on entering St Andrews, 9.
Sketch of, 159;
Appendix ii, 215.
Cromartie (Crwmbawchty or Crumbathy), 3, 70.
---- Castle, account of, 17 (and note 1), 18.
Library, 29.
Put in state of defence, 70, 71 (note 1).
Siege of, 139.
---- estate, proprietors of, 103.
---- Lady Dowager of, 120.
---- parish, 62 (note 1).
Cromwell, Oliver, 8, 32 (note), 84, 86, 96.
Cullicudden, 62 (note 1), 63, 71 (note 1).
Culloden, 19 (note).
Cumberland's, Duke of, headquarters, 19.
Curators, 5 (note).
Danaus' daughters, 133.
Dante, 166.
Quoted, 161 (note).
Darioleta, 144 (note).
Darwin, Charles, 131 (note).
_David Copperfield_, quoted, 51 (note 2), 59 (note), 62 (note).
Debora, Judge and Prophetess, 135.
Delgatie, Laird of, plunders Balquholly, 39.
Delos, 119 (note).
Demosthenes, 162 (note).
Dickson, David, Professor of Divinity, Glasgow, 82.
At Aberdeen, 36.
_Dictionary of National Biography_, quoted, 82 (note), 101 (note).
Diosa, daughter of Alcibiades, 136.
Dis, Father of Wealth, 198.
Don river, 126 (note 1).
Don Quixote, 104 (and note 2).
Donne, Age on going to Oxford, 9.
Dorset, Earl of, 116.
Douglas, Robert, Moderator of Commission of General Assembly, 81 (and
note 2).
Dove, Dr, 114 (note).
Duchat, Notes on Rabelais, 206.
Duff, Garden Alexander, 39, 102 (note 3).
---- Isabel Annie, 102 (note 3).
Dunbar, Battle of, 83, 87.
Dunlugas in Alvah, 47 (note 1).
Edward, King, 138.
Egypt, English peer in, 27.
Elgin, 4 (note), 70, 95.
Elibank, Patrick, Lord, buys Cromartie estate, 103.
Eliock, Perthshire, 159.
Elphinstone, Alexander, Lord, 6, 13 (and note 3).
---- Lady Christian, 6, 7 (note).
Englishman abroad, 22.
Entelechia, Queen, 158 (note).
Episcopacy in Scotland, 32, 102 (note 2).
Erasmus, 143.
Eromena, 144 (note).
Errol, Earl of, 146.
Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 131.
Euclid, 124, 142.
Falkirk, 84.
Famongomadan, 144 (note).
Farquhar, Sir Robert of Mounie, and Cromartie creditors, 60.
Fergus, King of Scots, 136, 145.
Findlay, Andrew, 43.
Findrassie. (_See_ Lesley, Robert.)
Firth of Cromartie, 62 (note 1).
---- of Forth, 38.
Fisherie, Barony of, 4, 8 (and note 1), 19 (note).
Fleetwood, 96.
Florence, 28.
Folengo, T., _Macaronea_, 205 (note).
Fontenay-le-Comte, 188, 204 (note).
Forbes, Alexander, 15, 41 (note 2).
---- Arthur, of Blacktown, 40.
---- Dr John, 37 (note 2).
Forestalling, 15 (note 2).
Fortrose Castle garrisoned, 76.
Fountainhall, _Decisions_, 146 (note).
Fraser, (Colonel) Hugh, of Belladrum, and Rising in North, 70.
---- (Sir) James, 71 (note 1).
---- Lord, garrisons Towie-Barclay Castle, 39.
---- Sir William:
_Earls of Cromartie_, quoted, 3 (note 2).
_The Lords Elphinstone_, quoted, 7 (note), 13 (note 3).
G. P., 128.
Gardenstoun Papers, 7 (note).
Gargantua, 190, 193.
Gathelus, 145.
Gaurin (Gowran), Earl of, 116.
_General Assembly Commission Records_, 72 (note), 74 (note), 75 (note),
78 (note), 79 (note 2), 80 (note).
Genoa, 28.
Gight, Laird of, 40.
Gladmon, Captain, 88.
Glasgow, General Assembly in, 35.
Glenkindie, 7 (note).
Glover, George, portraits of Sir Thomas Urquhart, 107.
Gonima, 144 (note).
Gonzaga, Vincenzio de, 164.
Goodwin, Captain, 94.
Gordon, James, _History of Scots Affairs_, 35 (notes), 41 (note 2),
132 (note).
---- (Sir) James, of Lesmoir, 7 (note).
---- John, 101 (note 3).
Granada, 27.
Granger, _Biographical Dictionary_, 107 (note 2), 112 (note 1), 206
(note 1).
Grimm, _Household Tales_, 180.
Guild, Dr William, 13 (note 1), 19 (note).
Sir Thomas Urquhart's account of, 12.
_Gulliver's Travels_, 144 (note 2).
Gustavus Adolphus, 81 (note 2).
Guthrie, James, 82.
Halket, General, 77 (note 2), 81 (note).
Hatton Castle. (_See_ Balquholly.)
Hamilton, Marquis of, 111, 115.
At Berwick, 44.
Harrison, 85.
Hawkins, Sir John, 232, 233 (notes).
_Life of Johnson_, 206 (note).
Hazlitt, quoted, 167 (note).
Heine, _Das Buch Le Grand_, 182 (note).
Henderson at Aberdeen, 36.
Henry II., 187.
Henry, Prince, 8.
Heraclitus the Obscure, 119(note), 201.
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, _Autobiography_, 25 (note 1).
Hercules Lybius, 133.
Herd, David, 101 (note).
Highland soldiers in Inverness, 76, 79.
Hippocrene, 109.
History of Clan Mackenzie, 70 (note).
_History of Scotland._ (_See_ under Burton, J. H.)
_History of Scots Affairs._ (_See_ Gordon, James.)
Holland, Earl of, 116.
Holles, Gervase, 50 (note 2).
---- John, Earl of Clare, 51 (and note 1).
Homer, Birthplace of, 109.
Works, 166.
Hope, _Anastasius_, quoted, 77(note).
Horace, _Odes_, quoted, 134 (note 1).
Houghton, in Nottingham, 51 (note 1).
_Hudibras_, Alexander Ross mentioned in, 126.
Huntly, Second Marquis of, 116.
Covenanters and, 33.
Family name (Gordon), 41 (note 2).
Taken prisoner, 38.
---- Third Marquis of, takes Ruthven Castle, 77.
Hypermnestra, 133, 134.
Innes, Alexander, 43 (note).
Inverkeithing, 84.
Inverness, 2, 32.
Capture of, 68, 70, 81.
Fortifications destroyed, 76.
Highland soldiers at, 76, 78.
_Sasines_, 101 (note 3).
Irving, Dr:
Account of Sir Thomas Urquhart leaving Scotland, 43.
_Lives of Scottish Writers_, 44 (note), 149 (note).
---- John, of Bruklay, 7 (note).
J. A., 124.
James III.:
Act of, 54.
Grant of Motehill of Cromartie to William Urquhart, 17.
James VI., 7, 147 (note).
Japhet, 131.
Jericho, 55.
Joan of Arc, 187.
Johnson, Dr, on--
Crichton in _Adventurer_, 159 (note 1).
Traveller in Egypt, 27.
Johnston and Mr Bedell, 175.
---- Arthur, 112.
Latin Poems, 57 (note).
Jonson, Ben, _Catiline_, 8.
Jovius, Panlus, 145.
Julius Cæsar, 27.
Ker, General, 77 (note 2).
Kinbeakie, Stone lintel at, 137 (note).
King-Edward, Aberdeenshire, 4, 8 (note 2), 19 (note).
_King's College: Officers and Graduates_, 10 (note).
King's Covenant, Account of, 42 (note 1).
Kippis, Dr, 158 (note 2).
On Urquhart's pedigree, 144 (note 2).
Kirkhill, 76.
Kirkmichael, 62 (note 1), 63.
Lamb, Charles, 132 (note), 167 (note).
Lambert, 85.
Laud, Archbishop, 32.
Leake, William, 116.
Leighton, Archbishop, 66 (note 1).
Lemlair, 70.
Lesley, Lieut.-General David, 32 (note).
March to England, 84.
Message of encouragement to, 75.
Takes Castle of Chanonry, 76.
---- Norman, 55 (and note 1).
---- Robert, of Findrassie, 59 (note), 71 (note 1).
Conduct towards Sir Thomas Urquhart, 55, 95.
Mortgage on Cromartie estate, 46.
---- Dr William, Sir Thomas Urquhart's account of, 12 (and note 2), 37
(note 2).
_Letters of Junius_, 103 (note 3).
_Lives of Eminent Men of Aberdeen_, quoted, 126 (note 1).
_Lives of Scottish Writers._ (_See_ under Irving, Dr.)
Logarithms, 123 (and note).
Lowndes, _Bibliographer's Manual_, 101 (note).
Lucian, 100 (note), 189.
Lumphanan, 3 (note 2).
Lunan, Alexander, 11 (note).
Luther, Martin, 187.
Lynceus, 134.
Macaulay, 174 (note).
_History of England_, quoted, 23.
Macbeth's titles, 3.
Macduff, 3 (note 2).
Mackenzie. Alexander, 70 (note).
---- (Sir) George, 102.
---- George, sells estate to Capt. W. Urquhart, 103.
---- (Sir) Kenneth, 103.
---- Thomas, of Pluscardine.
Enters Inverness, 76.
Proclaimed rebel and traitor, 71.
Rising in North and, 69, 70, 76.
Mackintosh, C. Fraser, (_See Antiquarian Notes._)
Macmillans of Knapdale, 135 (n.).
Madanfabul, 144 (note).
Madasima, 114 (note).
Madrid, 27.
M'Farlane, Genealogical Collections, 16 (note 1).
Maitland, on date of Sir Thomas Urquhart's birth, 6.
Mantua, 163.
Mantua, Duke of, 164, 215 _seqq._
Mantuanus, Baptista, 166.
Marischal College, 11 (note).
Marischal, Earl, 36, 146.
Enters Aberdeen, 43.
Martin, Sir Theodore, on--
_Trissotetras_, 119 (note).
Unpublished Epigrams of Sir Thomas Urquhart, 116.
Urquhart's account of his misfortunes, 61.
Death, 97.
Translation of Rabelais, 192.
Mary Queen of Scots, 104 (note 1).
Maubert, Place, 161 (note).
Meldrum arms, 139 (note).
Melville, Andrew, assists to remodel University education, 10, 11 (note).
Mercury, 198.
Messina, 27.
Micawber, Wilkins. (_See David Copperfield._)
Middleton, General, 32 (note).
Joins Mackenzie's force, 76.
---- Earl of, 102 (note 2).
Miller, Hugh, 102 (note 2).
Description of Cromartie Castle, 18.
On siege of Cromartie Castle, 140.
On stone lintel at Kinbeakie, 138.
On Urquhart's inventive powers, 180.
Reference to Sir Alexander Urquhart, 101 (note 3).
(_See_ also _Scenes and Legends of North of Scotland_.)
Milton, John, 8, 30, 91.
_Hymn on Nativity_, quoted, 201 (note 2).
_Paradise Lost_, quoted, 201 (n. 2).
Sonnet to Cromwell, quoted, 86.
Miol, 145.
Mitchell, Thomas, minister of Turriff, 41 (note 2), 42.
Molinea, 133.
Monboddo, Lord, on dual number, 182.
Montaigne, age on completing collegiate course, 9.
Montrose, Earl of, 36, 38, 78, 80 (note 2).
_Moral Tales_, 113 (note).
Moray, 3, 4 (note).
Moray Firth, 32, 62 (note 1).
Morley, _Universal Library_, 185 (note 2).
Morrison, _Dictionary of Decisions_, 146 (note).
Motteux, Pierre A., 97, 184, 203 (note 2).
Completes Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais, 192, 206 (and note 1).
On Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais, 98.
Monat (de Monte Alto) family in Cromartie, 4 (and note 1).
---- William, takes part of King Robert Bruce, 138.
Mounie, 60.
Mucholles, Lord, 41 (note 2).
Munro, John, of Lemlair, and rising in North, 70.
---- Colonel Robert, Mission to Marquis of Huntly, 34.
Nairn, 70.
Napier, John, of Merchiston, 119, 122 (and note 2), 124.
Naples, 28.
Narfesia, Sovereign of the Amazons, 132.
National Covenant, quoted, 31.
Newcastle, Earl of, 116.
_Nicholas Nickleby_, quoted, 11 (note).
Nicolia, 136.
Nimrod, 131.
Niort, 204 (note).
Nisbet, on Urquhart's property, 2.
_System of Heraldry_, 3 (note 1).
Noah, 131, 146.
_Noctes Ambrosianæ_ (Blackwood), version of Urquhart's death, 101 (note).
"Nonconformist Conscience," 187.
Northumberland, Earl of, 116.
Nottingham, 86.
Ogilvie, Lord, joins Mackenzie's force, 76.
Old Machar, 10.
Orkneys, 80 (note 2).
Orpah, 131.
Overton, 96.
Ovid, 195 (note).
_Metamorphosis_, 133.
Ozell, edition of Rabelais, 206.
Padua, 163.
Pantagruel, 158 (note), 161, 190.
(_See_ also Urquhart, Sir Thomas, Translation of Rabelais.)
Panthea, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha, 133.
Panurge, 158 (note), 197. (_See_ also Urquhart, Sir Thomas, Translation
of Rabelais.)
Pape, Charles, Minister of Cullicudden, 63.
Paris, 28.
Parnassus, Mount, 44, 109.
Pegasus, 109.
Pembroke, Earl of, 116.
Pentasilea, Queen of the Amazons, 135.
Penuel, 131.
Pericles, 149 (note).
Persius, 8 (note 2); quoted, 162.
Perth, 84.
Petrarch, 166.
Petric, James, 8 (note 2).
Pharaoh Amenophis, 133.
Philemon (Philomenes), death of, 100 (note).
Pillars of Hercules, 124.
Pistol, Ancient, 2, 109 (note).
Pitkerrie, 103.
Plato, 124, 202 (and note).
Pliny, 52 (note 2).
Pluscardine. (_See_ Mackenzie, Thomas.)
Plutus, 52, 198 (note).
Pococke's _Tour_, 17 (note 2), 103 (note 1).
Pope, Alexander--
_Dunciad_, 206 (note 2).
On Rabelais, 186.
Portia, 22, 25.
Portugal founded, 145.
Pothina, niece of Lycurgus, 136.
Prott, David, killed at Towie-Barclay, 40.
Providence, Rhode Island, 90.
Pulteney, Sir William, 103 (note 2).
Pythagoras, 124, 202.
Queen Elizabeth, 120.
---- Mary, of England, 102.
---- Mary, of Scotland, 104 (note 1), 168.
Queensferry, 84.
Raban, printer, Aberdeen, 57 (n.).
_Rabelais_, 107 (note 2), 119 (note), 185 (and note 2), 192 (note),
235 (note).
Rabelais, François, sketch of, 187.
_Gargantua_ and _Pantagruel_, 189.
(_See_ Urquhart, Sir Thomas, Translation of Rabelais.)
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 120.
_History of the World_, 8.
Raphael, 187.
Reay, Lord, joins Mackenzie's force, 76, 78 (note).
_Records of Court of Justiciary_, 16 (note 2).
_Redgauntlet_, quoted, 102 (note 1).
Resolis, 62 (note 1).
Riddell, J., _Scotch Peerage Law_, 55 (note).
Rising of Cavaliers in North, 69.
Robertson, William, of Kindeasse, Sir Thomas Urquhart's account of, 94.
Rolland, Catharine, 13 (note 1).
Rome, 28.
Ross, Alexander (1), minister in Aberdeen, 37 (note 2).
---- Alexander (2), 126 (note 1).
Recommends _Trissotetras_, 126.
Verses, 126, 127 (note).
---- George, of Pitkerrie, buys Cromartie estate, 17, 103.
---- (Sir) Hugh, owns Cromartie, 4.
---- (Major) Walter Charteris, of Cromartie, 103 (note 3).
---- William, Earl of, 4.
Rothes, Earls of, 55 (note).
Rothiemay, Banffshire, 35 (note 1), 43 (note).
Row, _Historie of Kirk of Scotland_, 42 (note).
Royalists escape to England, 43 (note 1).
Ruskin, John, 173 (note).
Rutherford, Samuel, Principal of St Andrews, 82.
Ruthven Castle taken by Marquis of Huntly, 77.
St Andrews, 82.
St Hilarion, 204 (note).
St Jerome, _Vita Sancti Hilarionis_, 204 (note).
_St Ronan's Well_, quoted, 186.
Salton, Lord, 141.
Saragossa, 27.
_Scenes and Legends of North of Scotland_, quoted, 18, 102 (note 2),
139 (note), 141 (note).
Scota, daughter of Pharaoh, 145.
Scotch army marches into England, 84.
_Scotch Peerage Law._ (_See_ Riddell, J.)
Scotchman abroad, 24.
Scotland:
Episcopacy in, 32, 102 (note 2).
Four armies in, 32, (note 1).
Mythical history of, 145.
University education in, 9. (_See_ also Aberdeen University.)
Scrogie, Dr Alexander, 37 (note 2), 43 (note).
Seaforth, George, Earl of, 69.
Seaton, Dr, in Paris, 28.
---- John, 11 (note).
---- William, 11 (note).
Sir Thomas Urquhart's account of, 13.
Seton, Alexander, of Meldrum, 102 (note 3).
---- arms, 139 (note).
---- Elizabeth, 102 (note 3).
Shafton, Sir Piercie, 124.
Shakespeare, William:
_Henry IV._, 165 (note).
_Merchant of Venice_, 25.
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, 174 (note).
_Twelfth Night_, 122 (note).
_Winter's Tale_, 8.
Shephard, Jack, 51 (note).
Shrewsbury, 86.
Sibbald, Dr James, 37 (note 2).
Smith, Sidney, "preaching to death by wild curates," 66.
---- W. F., Translation of Rabelais, 158 (note 1), 99 (note 1), 191.
Socrates, 119 (note), 124.
Sodom and Gomorrha, 133.
Solvatius, King, 137.
Somerled, Lord of the Isles, 136 (note 1).
South, _Sermons_, 199 (note).
Southcote, Joanna, 179 (note).
Southey, _Dr Dove_, 114 (note), 178 (note).
Spalding, mentions Sir Thomas Urquhart, 38.
_Memorials_, quoted, 40, 43 (note).
Spartianus, Ælius, _Life of Geta_, 205 (note).
Spenser, 120.
Spilsbury, Sir Thomas Urquhart stays with, 86, 153.
Stacker, James, 41 (note 2).
Steele, Richard, 50 (note 2).
Stirling, 84.
Strachan, General, 77 (note 2), 81 (note).
Strafford, Earl of, 116.
Stralsund, 69.
Stratford-on-Avon, 86.
Strathbogie, 34.
Strathearn, Earls of, family name, 135 (note).
Sutherland, Earl of, action against Earls of Crawford, Errol, and
Marischal, 146.
---- James, "Tutor of Duffus," 56.
Tamerlane, 67.
Tarbat, Viscount, First Earl of Cromartie, 103.
Termuth, daughter of Pharaoh Amenophis, 133.
Thaumast, 158 (note).
_The Lords Elphinstone_, quoted, 7 (note), 13 (note 3).
The Tables and Aberdeen, 35, 37.
Thelema, Abbey of, 193 _seqq._
Thelemites, 195 _seqq._
_Through the Looking-Glass_, quoted, 114 (note).
Thucydides, 149 (note).
Thymelica, daughter of Bacchus, 135.
Toledo, 27.
Torespay, 77 (note).
Tor Wood, 84.
Tomlius, Richard, 176 (note).
Towie-Barclay Castle, 38 (note 2).
---- laird of, plunders Balquholly, 39.
_Tristram Shandy_, quoted, 47 (note 3).
Trot of Turriff, 41 (and note 2).
Turriff, 38.
Inhabitants subscribe King's Covenant, 42.
"Tutor," Meaning of, 5 (note 1).
Tycheros, 131.
Tytler, Patrick F.:
_Life of the Admirable Crichton_, 159, 165, 190.
On Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais, 190.
University of Aberdeen, New Constitution, 10, 11 (note).
Urquhart, Adam of, owns Cromartie, 4.
---- Sir Alexander, 16.
Petition for compensation for losses, 61.
Petition for Sheriffship of Cromartie, 98, 100.
---- Annas, 7 (note).
---- arms, 132, 133, 137 (and note 1).
---- (Major) Beauchamp Colclough, 102 (note 3).
---- Cainotomos, 135.
---- Euplocamos, 134.
---- family, descent of, 130 _seqq._
---- George, 7 (note).
---- Helen, 7 (note).
---- Henry, 7 (note).
---- Hypsegoras, 133.
---- Colonel James, 102 (note 3).
Urquhart, Jane, 7 (note).
---- John, 7 (note).
---- Sir John, of Craigfintray, 101 (note 2).
Hereditary Sheriff of Cromartie, 60.
Death, 102 (note 2).
---- John, of Craigfintray, "the Tutor of Cromartie," 5 (and note 1),
6 (and note 1), 19 (note), 102 (note 3).
---- Jonathan, 102.
---- Margaret, 7 (note).
---- Mellessen, 136.
---- Molin, 133.
---- Names of Chiefs and Primitive Fathers, Appendix i. 211.
Names of Mothers of Chiefs, Appendix i. 213.
---- (de Vrquhartt), origin of name, 4 (note 2), 132 (note 1).
---- Pamprosodos, 133.
---- Phrenedon, 133.
---- Propetes, 133.
---- Rodrigo, 135.
---- SIR THOMAS (Urchard, Urquhardus, Wrqhward, Wrwhart), 132 (note).
Account of Aberdeen and eminent men, 12.
Account of Admirable Crichton, 157.
Account of impoverished estates, 45.
Ancestry, 2.
At Worcester, 86, 129.
Birth, 6.
Birthplace unknown, 8.
Book-hunting, 29.
Characteristics, 53, 104 (and notes 1, 2), 105, 130, 144 (note 2).
Conduct of creditors, 94.
Death, 97, 99 (note 1).
Description of his father's character, 14.
Enters University of Aberdeen, 9 (and note 1).
Escapes to England, 43.
Foreign Travel, 22, 25, 27.
Knighted, 44.
Lesley and, 55.
Liberated on parole, 89.
Literary achievements, 2, 148.
Lives at Cromartie--financial difficulties, 51.
Loses ancestral domains and jurisdiction, 60.
MS. of unpublished Poems quoted, 5 (note 2); described, 116.
MSS. lost after Worcester, 88, 129, 154.
On G. Anderson's preaching, 63, 66.
Papers seized, 93.
Portraits, 107.
Praise of "the Tutor of Cromartie," 5 (and note 2).
Prepares MSS. for publication, 89.
Prisoner in the Tower, 88.
Proclaimed rebel and traitor, 71.
Relations with Ministers of Church, 61.
Religious belief, 67.
Reminiscence of his youth, 20.
Rental, 51.
Reply to Commissioners' remonstrances, 72.
Resides in London, 50 (and note 2).
Returns home, 30.
Rising in North and, 69.
Schemes and inventions, 53.
Speed in composition, 117, 151.
Succeeds to estates, 47.
"Supplication" for pardon, 81.
Takes up arms for Stuarts, 38, 69, 84.
Vanity, 24 (note 3).
Works:--
EKSKYBALAURON: or, Discovery of a most exquisite Jewel, 92.
Account of, 148 _seqq._ (and note 1).
Description of Admirable Crichton, 157 _seqq._
In contemporary politics, 168.
On fame of Scots in battle, 157.
Quoted, 67, 153, 165, 168, 170, 172, 174.
_Epigrams_: Divine and Moral, 44.
Account of, 111 _seqq._
Dedication, 111, 115.
Quoted, 60 (note), 113, 114.
MS., quoted, 109 (note).
_Logopandecteision_; or, An Introduction to the Universal Language:
Account of, 175 _seqq._
Published, 96.
Quoted, 48, 57, 62 (note 2), 90.
PANTOCHRONOCHANON: Peculiar Promptuary of Time, 92.
Account of, 128 seqq.
Translation of Rabelais, 2, 96, 97, 161, 205.
Account of, 184, 190 _seqq._
Exploits of Pantagruel, 161 (note 2).
Genealogy of Pantagruel, 144.
Interpolations, 203.
Panurge, Sketch of, 197.
Sketch of Abbey of Thelema, 193.
Various editions, 206.
_Trissotetras_, 92, 114.
Account of, 117 (and note 1).
Unpublished Epigrams, Dedications of, 116.
---- Thomas, marries Helen Abernethie, their family, 141.
---- Sir Thomas, senior--
Action against his sons, 16.
Becomes caution for Alexander Forbes, 15.
Believes in long pedigree, 147.
Death, 47 (and note 3).
"Desk" or Pew in Banff Church, 19 (and note 1).
Episcopalian, 30, 33, 35.
Marriage-contract, 7 (and note 1).
Pecuniary difficulties, 13, 15, 45.
Residence in Banff, 18 (and note 2).
Sketch of, 5, 6.
---- (Captain) William, of Meldrum, buys Cromartie estate, 103.
---- William, receives grant of Motehill of Cromartie, 17.
Urquharts of Meldrum, 102 (note 3).
Valerius Maximus, 100 (note).
Venice, 28, 163.
Virgil, 166, 201 (note 1).
Vocompos, arms of, 137.
Voltaire, 189.
Wallace, Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh, on _Trissotetras_, 119.
---- William, and William Mouat, 139.
Wardlaw MS., 76, 78 (note).
Warrington Bridge, 85.
Westminster Abbey, 145.
Whibley, Charles, _New Review_, quoted, 112.
Williams, Roger, Missionary to Indians, 90, 91 (note 1).
Williamson, Robert, Minister of Kirkmichael, 63.
Windsor Castle, Sir Thomas Urquhart removed to, 89.
Wodrow, quoted, 81 (note 2), 102 (note 2).
Worcester, 86.
Battle of, 87.
---- Marquis of, _Century of the Names and Scantling of ... Inventions_,
181 (note 2).
Worldly Wiseman, 34.
Wyntown's _Cronykil_, quoted, 3 (note 2).
Yares of Udoll, 56.
York, 86.
---- Thomas, 50 (note 2).
Young, James, 118 (note).
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