a Scs. , 15 J PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XV MISCELLANY {First Volume) December 1893 1 KITING EXERCISE BY JAMES V MISCELLANY OF €l)e £>cotttsl) $tstorp Sottetp {First Volume) THE LIBRARY OF JAMES VI., 1573-83 DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING CATHOLIC POLICY, 1596-98 LETTERS OF SIR THOMAS HOPE, 1627-46 CIVIL WAR PAPERS, 1643-50 LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE, 1660-77 TURNBULL’S DIARY, 1657-1704 MASTERTON PAPERS, 1660-1719 ACCOMPT OF EXPENSES IN EDINBURGH, 1715 REBELLION PAPERS, 1715 and 1745. Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1893 NOTE This Miscellany has been prepared in accordance with the Resolutions adopted by the Council at meetings held on March 28 and May 30 of this year. As the volume was passing through the press it was found that the editorial matter of the several pieces composing it had considerably exceeded the estimated quantity, but it was thought better to issue the work as it is than to divide it into two volumes. Mr. Warner has himself compiled the Index to the Library of James vi.; and this Index, on account of its special biblio- graphical character, has been printed separately. The General Index covers the contents of the remainder of the volume. T. G. L. Dec. 4, 1893. CONTENTS I. THE LIBRARY OF JAMES VI. in the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583, Edited by G. F. Warner Introduction, ..... xi The Library, ..... xxxi II. DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING CATHOLIC POLICY in the reign of JAMES VI., 1596-1598, Edited by Thomas Graves Law Introduction, ..... 3 Summary of Memorials presented to the King of Spain by John Ogilvy of Poury and Dr. John Cecil, 1596, . .21 Apology and Defence of the King of Scotland by Father William Creighton, S.J., 1598, . 41 Memoranda following c Criton’s Apologie,’ • 65 HI. TWENTY-FOUR LETTERS OF SIR THOMAS HOPE, Bart., of Craighall, Lord-Advocate of Scot- land, 1627-1646, Edited by The Rev. Robert Paul Introduction, . .73 Letters, 85 CONTENTS IV. CIVIL WAR PAPERS, 1643-1650, Edited by H. F. Morland Simpson Introduction, ..... 143 Correspondence of Sir John Cochran and others, with James, Duke of Courland, 1643- 1650, . .149 Montrose in Sweden, 1649-1650, . 213 Intelligence Letter from London, 1649, . 216 Montrose’s Flight from Carbisdale, 1650, . 221 V. THIRTY-FOUR LETTERS WRITTEN TO JAMES SHARP, Archbishop of St. Andrews, by the Duke and Duchess of LAUDERDALE and Charles Mait- land, Lord Hatton, 1660-1677, Edited by The Right Rev. John Dowden, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh Introduction, ..... 229 Letters, ..... 247 VI. THE DIARY OF JOHN TURNBULL, Minister of Alloa and Tyninghame 1657-1704, Edited by The Rev. Robert Paul Introduction, ..... 295 Diary, . .311 VII. THE MASTERTON PAPERS, 1660-1719, Edited by V. A. Noel Paton Introduction and Genealogy, . 449 Some Remarques upon severall things since the Happie Restauratione, . 467 Adwise and Memorandum, . 486 A Few Desyres too my wife, . 489 Notes by Charles Masterton, . 491 CONTENTS vii VIII. ACCOMPT OF EXPENSES IN EDINBURGH by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715, Edited by A. H. Millar Introduction, ..... 497 Accompt, . .501 IX. PAPERS ABOUT THE REBELLIONS OF 1715 and 1745, Edited by Henry Paton Introduction, ..... 507 A JoURNALL OF SeVERALL OCCURRENCES IN 1715 by Peter Clarke, . .513 Eight Letters by William Nicholson, Bishop of Carlisle, to the Archbishop of York, 1716, 523 Leaves from the Diary of John Campbell, an Edinburgh Banker, in 1745, . 537 GENERAL INDEX . .561 INDEX TO THE LIBRARY OF JAMES VI. 586 ILLUSTRATIONS I. Writing Exercise by James VI. (facsimile), . Frontispiece II. Index Librorum Regis, 1578 (facsimile), at page liii III. Entry of Golf Clubs, etc., given to James VI. (facsimile), . ' . „ Ixx IV. Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, . „ 85 V. The Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale, . „ 247 VI. Charles Maitland, Lord Hatton, . „ 288 THE LIBRARY OF JAMES YI. 1573-1583 FROM A MANUSCRIPT IN THE HAND OF PETER YOUNG, HIS TUTOR Edited with Introduction and Notes, by GEORGE F. WARNER, M.A., F.S.A,, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum b INTRODUCTION The matter here edited is taken entirely from Additional MS. 34,275 in the British Museum. Properly speaking, this manuscript is not, as its number implies, a recent acquisition, for, although its very existence was unknown until a year ago,1 there is every reason to believe that it came to the Museum when the Royal Library was removed thither, as far back as 1759. Probably it was regarded merely as a rough list of some portion of the collection made public property by George xi.; in any case, instead of being classed and cata- logued, as it ought to have been, among the mss., it was kept with the printed books, and the result was that, without being catalogued at all, it was put away in a cupboard and lay there undisturbed for more than a century. With keener eyes or better fortune than his predecessors, Mr. Garnett, the present Keeper of Printed Books, has at length brought it to light, and, as an interesting memorial of the early years of James vx., its publication by the Scottish History Society has an obvious fitness. The ms. is a small quarto of twenty paper leaves, bound in limp vellum. Both within and without it is much soiled and worn, so as to render the writing in some places almost illegible, and it was evidently treated from the first as a rough note-book, without any particular care. In the centre, how- ever, of each cover is stamped a small gilt crown between the initials I R, and this evidence of royal ownership is fully 1 An account of it was communicated by me to the Athenceuvi of 7th January 1893. xii THE LIBRARY OF JAMES VI. borne out by the contents, which not only supply curious information as to the library of James vi. between 1573 and 1583, but include supplementary matter of even more directly personal interest. In two instances, indeed, James has left his own mark upon the volume, having utilised the fly-leaves for the purpose of a copy-book. As he was born in 1566, he was only seven years of age at the earlier of the above dates, and one specimen of his penmanship consists merely of the letters of the alphabet, followed by his signature in three different shapes. A facsimile of this elementary effort is given here as a frontispiece. The other exercise (p. Ixxi) is of the ordinary moral precept kind, and is written in a stiff boyish hand showing all the characteristics of James’s writing in later years. The sentence copied represents a familiar Latin maxim quoted from Cato the Censor by Aulus Gellius (Noct. Jtt., lib. xvi. c. i.)1 James’s wording of it, however, is a literal translation from the later Greek of Musonius as quoted by the same author {loc. tit.), and, unless derived from some printed source, it was no doubt due to one of his tutors, and not to himself. It is a curious coincidence that in an English form the same maxim exists also in the hand of James’s cousin Mary Tudor, written before she became queen. In this case it is inscribed in a fifteenth century ms. Book of Hours, which afterwards belonged to Henry, Prince of Wales, and is now preserved in the Bodleian at Oxford. Apparently when giving the volume to one of her attendants, Mary inserted in it some words of good advice, which end thus:—‘ Yf you take labour and payne to doo a vertuous thyng, the labour goeth away and the vertue remayneth; yf through pleasure you do any vicious thyng, the pleasure goeth away and the vice remaynethe. i Under the title T/ie Contrast: duty and pleasure, right and wrong, upwards of forty variations of it have been printed by Dr. W. A. Greenhill, 6th ed. 1893. George Herbert’s, at the end of his ‘Church Porch’ (The Temple, 1633, p. 16), is as good as any :— ‘ If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains ; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.' V INTRODUCTION xiii Good madame, for my sake remember this. Your lovyng mystres, Marye Princesse.’ 1 The bulk, however, of the ms. is in the hand of Peter Young, who shared with George Buchanan the responsibility of James’s education. Probably he is not too well known even in Scot- land, and a few particulars about him will therefore not be superfluous.2 A native of Dundee, he was horn in 154<4, and was educated under the eye of his maternal uncle, Henry Scrymgeour, Professor of Philosophy and Civil Law at Geneva, Theodore Beza being his principal teacher. On his return home he was appointed joint preceptor to the king in 1569.3 No doubt he owed the post to his uncle’s friendship with Buchanan, and he seems himself to have completely won the esteem of his much older colleague, who in writing to Plantin a few years later speaks of him as ‘ oh perpetuam erga me observantiam mihi longe carissimus.’4 Although overshadowed by the other’s fame, he probably did quite as much of the real work of teaching, and deserves a full share of credit for James’s undoubted proficiency as a scholar. On the other hand, the admiring tone in which he records in this ms. the not very 1 2 W. D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library, second edition, 1890, p. 53. The fullest account of him (though somewhat ill-digested) is given in Sir G. D. Gibb’s Life and Times of Robert Gib, Lord of Carribber, 1874, vol.