Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple.
- Smith, John, of the Inner Temple
- Date:
- [1798]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![legitimate child, celebrated the marriage of one of his fix natural chil- dren, with the Mailer of Crawfurd, the Earl’s fon; and gave with her four thoufand marks Scots, which, in thofe days, was a (a) vail for- tune. The Cardinal (b) was by nature of immoderate (V) ambition; by long experience he had acquired addrefs and refinement; and info- lence grew upon him from continual fuccefs; his high llation in the Church, placed him in the way of great employments ; his (d) abilities were equal to the greatelt of thefe, nor did he reckon any of them to be above his merit; as his own eminence was founded upon the church of Rome, he was a zealous defender of that fuperflition, and for the fame reafon, an avowed enemy to the doHrine of the Reformers; po- litical motives alone determined him to fupport the one, or to oppofe the other; his early application to public bufinefs, kept him unac- quainted with the learning and controverfies of the age; he gave judgment, however, upon all points in difpute, with a precipitancy, violence, and rigour which hiflorians (e) mention with indignation ; he (/) was illuftrious for his dignity as a Cardinal, for the fplen- dor of his life, and the gravity of his difpofition ; (g) and abfolute in Scotland, as Wolfey was in England; he was eminently deferving of the Catholic Religion, and of his own country ; again. He was one of the worlt (h) of men, a proud, cruel unrelenting ty- rant, and fo licentious a prieft, and (i) fuperior to all decency, that if we believe (k) Knox, he publicly continued to the end of his days, a criminal correfpondence with Mrs. (/) Ogilvie, the mother of one of his natural (m) children, who was a woman of rank, and was juft gone out (a) Penn. Scotl. III. 245. (b) Rob. Hist. Scot, I. 97. (c) Penn. Scot. III. 245. (d) Beats. P. I. II. 30. (<?) Among whom is Monsieur Rapin de Thoyras, who says, he was a violent and cruel man, and had given many instances of his barbarous disposition towards the Protestants. Rap. Hist. Engl. V. 425. Fr. Edit, Quarto. [f) Dempster, ap. M‘Kenzie’s Scottish Writers, III. 28. calc. (g) Penn; Scotl. III. 136. (h) Beats, lit supra. (z) Penn. Scotl. III. 245. {k) Rob. Hist. Scotl. I. 147* (/) Howie’s, “ God’s justice,53 &c. ap, Biogr. Scot. 12, [m] Rob. Hist. Scot, ut supra.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28760955_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
