Darlington.
[Dr. Drake was not the author, but merely the editor of _Historia
Anglo-Scotica_. In the dedication he says, "Upon a diligent
revisal, in order, if possible, to discover the name of the
author, and the age of his writing, he found that it was written
in, or at least not finished till, the time of Charles I." It is
singular, however, that he does not give the least intimation by
what mysterious influence the manuscript came to be wafted into
his library. It was ordered by the parliament of Scotland, on the
30th of June, 1703, to be burned by the common hangman.]
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