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107227522.23.Pdf £be Scottieb Zext Society The Works of Sir David Lindsay The Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount 1490-1555 EDITED BY DOUGLAS HAMER, M.C., M.A. VOLUME IV. 'INTRODUCTION BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES TO ANE SATYRE APPENDICES AND INDEXES GLOSSARY Ikmtelf for tlje Societg fjg WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS LTD. EDINBURGH AND LONDON 1936 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NOTE. In presenting the last volume of my edition of Lindsay I have to thank those who have rendered assistance during the compilation of the Bibhography : the Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres ; Sir R. L. Harmsworth ; F. S. Ferguson, Esq. ; the late R. A. Scott Macfie, Esq. ; C. K. Edmonds, Esq., of the Hunt- ington Library, California; and Dr Lauritz Nielsen, Librarian of the Royal Library in Copenhagen ; and the Librarians and officials of the following public and private libraries : the British Museum ; the National Library of Scotland; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Cambridge University Library ; Lambeth Palace Library ; St John’s College Library, Cambridge; Trinity College Library, Cambridge ; Peterborough, Lincoln, York, and Durham Cathedral Libraries ; Edinburgh University Library; Glasgow University Library; St Andrews University Library ; Edinburgh Public Library; Mitchell Library, Glasgow; Stirhng’s Library, Glasgow; W. Wright Roberts, Esq., of the John Rylands Library, Manchester ; and H. J. Hardy, Esq., of the Fellows’ Library, Winchester College, who kindly answered enquiries. Thanks to the unfailing courtesy of these many private owners and librarians, I have seen all the copies noted in the Bibliography, except those in America and on the Continent, and those few marked “ Not seen.” The Bibliography was originally designed for Vol. III., and VI NOTE. pages 1-96 were printed off in 1934. The alteration has necessitated overprinting the volume numbers on pp. 1, I7» 33> 49. 65, and 81. In the meantime other changes have taken place. Mr R. A. Scott Macfie has died ; the copy noted as belonging to Professor G. Bullough is now in my possession ; and I notice some changes of press- marks. I would like to express my great indebtedness to the General Editor, R. F. Patterson, Esq., D.Litt., and to Messrs Blackwood’s compositors, who have helped me on many occasions. I owe thanks to the officials of the Register House and the Lyon Office, Edinburgh, for kindness during visits ; to the Librarian, Miss Iliffe, and Miss Mather of Sheffield University Library, who have borne with me many a day ; to my wife, who accompanied me on journeys to libraries in search of copies, and endured my theories and lamentations alike ; and to Professor R. K. Hannay and two friends who were kind enough to call my attention to some errors in the third volume. DOUGLAS HAMER. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix ADDITIONAL NOTES Iv BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 NOTES— DESCRIPTION OF A PAGEANT ..... 123 ANE SATYRE OF THE THRIE ESTAITIS— VERSION I. 125 VERSIONS II. AND III. 129 APPENDICES— I. DOCUMENTS OF BIOGRAPHY .... 241 II. THE LATER LINDSAYS OF THE MOUNT 277 III. DESCENT OF THE LINDSAYS TO 1715 . 283 IV. THE MEMBER FOR CUPAR ..... 285 V. WHEN DID LINDSAY BECOME LYON KING OF ARMS ? 288 VI. ANE BALLAT OF THE CREATIOUN OF THE WARLD . 290 INDEXES— INDEX OF ROMANCES AND ROMANCE CHARACTERS 297 INDEX OF HISTORICAL PERSONS .... 298 INDEX OF BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFERENCES— 1. GENERAL REFERENCES 302 ii. INDEX OF SAINTS 307 INDEX OF CLASSICAL REFERENCES .... 318 INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 321 GLOSSARY 329 Vlll CONTENTS. FACSIMILES. Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, printed by John Scot, c. 1554 [Bibliography, pp. 23-26, 33-37] .... Facingp. 23 The Works of Sir David Lindsay, printed by John Scot for Henry Charteris, Edinburgh, 1568 [Bibliography, pp. 45-51] . „ 45 The Historic of Squyer Meldrum, printed by Henry Charteris, Edinburgh, 1594 [Bibliography, pp. 63-64] . • „ 63 Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, printed by Robert Charteris, Edinburgh, 1602 [Bibliography, pp. 67-74] 67 INTRODUCTION. Sir David Lindsay, of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, whose dates are usually given as 1490-1555, seems to have been born a little before October 19, i486, for on that day twenty-one years later he received a grant from Patrick, Lord Lindsay of the Byres, of the lands of Garmilton-Alexander, Haddingtonshire, as eldest son of David Lindsay of the Mount, Fifeshire.1 He must then have been of legal age. His family, which had possessed both estates for several generations,2 was probably descended from Sir William de Lindsay3 (11420), the father of the first Lord Lindsay, and from either Sir William’s second son, William, or from an illegitimate son, Andrew,4 were descended the Lindsays of the Mount. Lindsay’s grandfather, David, was an alderman at Cupar, Fife, in 1484, 1498, and 1499.5 The Mount, from which the family estates took their name, lies about three miles north-west of Cupar, and is now represented by the Mount Farm. Remains of an old square keep still exist inside one of the byres, and in the farmyard is a well from which tradition states James V. once drank. But it is sentiment, rather than tradition, which would make the poet the ‘ David Lindsay ’ who is recorded 1 Appendix I., 22. 1 App. I., 9-12, 14-16, 18-21, 27, 40, 42 ; App. IV.,' Table,’ p. 284. * App. I., 3-5. 1 App. I., 3-6. 5 App. I., 13, 20, 21. X INTRODUCTION. as an ‘ incorporate ' of the University of St Andrews in 1508-9, along with David Beaton.1 Lindsay never received the title ‘ Master/ and “ one called Lyndsay ” is recorded in the Exchequer Rolls for 1507-8, “ in averia quondam domini principis.” 2 The prince was James, Prince of Scotland and the Isles, born February 21, 1507 ; died February 17, 1508. Lindsay cannot have been at the same time at both Court and University, though as early as about 1645 this record had been used to supply a biographical fact: “ Qui postquam literis humanioribus in scholis trivialibus operam dedisset, ad majora studis promotus Andreapolitanae Academiae alumnus factus est.”3 Nor is there any proof of Mackenzie’s statement that after Lindsay had left the University, “ his parents sent him abroad ; and having travelled (as he himself tells us) through England, France, Italy, and Germany, he re- turned to his native country about the year 1514.”4 Mackenzie did not have access to the State records, and though those for the period August 1508 to August 1511 are lost, there is no need to assume that Lindsay was absent from Court service during those years. When he next appears in the records it is for a play- coat of blue and yellow taffety, for his part in an un- named play at Holyrood Abbey before James IV. and Margaret Tudor, the record being dated October 12, 1511.5 In the same year he received his pension of £40.6 Pitscottie tells us,7 on Lindsay’s own authority, that he was present at that extraordinary happening in the church at Lin- lithgow, when an ‘ apparition ’ warned James IV. against the invasion of England which resulted in the disaster at 1 App. I., 23. 2 App. I., 24. 3 Davidis Buchanani de Scriptores Scotis Libri Duo, Bannatyne Club >(1837). PP- 99-100. 4 Lives of Scots Writers, Edinburgh (1708-22), 3 vols., III. 35-40. 6 App. I., 26. 6 App. I., 25. 7 App. I., 29, from Pitscottie, Croniclis (S.T.S.), I. 258-9; also Buchanan, Historia, xiii. 31. INTRODUCTION. XI Flodden in 1513. If it was a trick played on James by those opposed to the war, Lindsay was not a party to it. He and John Inglis thought to have laid hands on the man, who, however, escaped without difficulty. Lindsay does not mention having been at Flodden, and he was probably not there. The death of James IV. at Flodden brought promotion of a kind to the poet, and from now onwards his career can be traced with considerable fulness. He became usher to the infant King, James V., and in after years could appeal to the King’s generosity on the score of his long personal service. In The Dreme he recounts the offices he has held. He had entered the King’s service, he says, on the day the King was born :— So, sen thy birth, I haue continewalye Bene occupyit, and aye to thy plesoure; And, sumtyme, seware, Coppare, and Caruoure, Thy purs maister, and secreit Thesaurare, Thy Yschare, aye sen thy Natyuitie, And of thy chalmer cheiffe Cubiculare.1 There are here noted finer degrees of service than in the State records. These describe him as hostiarius domini regis [1514],2 “ kepar of the Kingis grace” [1515],3 “ the Kingis uschare ” [1516-17],4 “ the Kingis maister uschar ” [1516],5 “the Kingis master of houshald ” [1517],6 “ maister Ischare to the King ” [1522] ;7 after his temporary dis- missal from service in 1524 or 1525 he is described as quondam hostiarius domini regis [1525],8 and after his restoration to personal favour, though apparently without an official appointment at Court, familiarius domini regis [1528, 1529].9 Two famous passages in The Dreme10 and The Complaynt11 recall, with emotion, his care for the 1 The Dreme, 11. 19-24 ; The Complaynt, 11. 13-16. 2 3 4 App. I., 30, 33-35. App. I., 31. App. I., 36. 5 App. I., 37. 6 App j 3g 7 App L> 43. 8 App. I., 48. 8 App. I., 57, 60. 10 The Dreme, 11. 8-18. 11 The Complaynt, 11. 79-100. Xll INTRODUCTION. King in his infancy and boyhood. There is no evidence for the oft-repeated statement that he was one of the King’s tutors.
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