Volume 2

The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland / by William Anderson.

Date:
1863
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    the acute judgment and judicious spirit of investi- gation for wliicli lie was so remarkable, admii ahly fitted liim for the branch of historical inquiry on whicli he entered, and his Annals continue to be consulted and followed by all writers desirous of attaining to the truth on the most obscure portion of our national history. It is only to be re- gretted that he stopped at a period of no less interest, the accession of the House of Stuart. In his labours and studies, he was persevering and indefatigable, scarcely allowing himself any recrea- tion or exercise whatever. Except regular motion in his carriage five days a-weok during session between his seat at New Hailos, five miles from Edinburgh, and the Court, with his journeys dur- ing the circuit twice a-year, and sometimes after it short excursions to England, his habits were almost quite sedentary. Predisposed by corpulence and by the form of his body, which was shortnecked, he was attacked by symptoms of apoplexy on his way from the court of session, when about to come out of his carriage near his owni door at New Hailes, on the 26th November 1792. He obtained some tempo- rary relief, but died of a second attack, on the 29th, in the sixtj'-seventh year of his age. A funeral sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Dr. Carlyle of Invcresk. He was twice married, as alread}' stated. A list of his works is subjoined: Sacred Poems, or a Collection of Translations and Para- phrases from the Holy Scriptures ; by various authors. Ed- inburgh, 1751, 12ino. Dedicated to Charles Lord Hope; with a Preface of ten pages. Proposals for carrying on a certain Public Work in the city of Edinburgh. Edin. 1751, 8vo. A jeu-d'esprit. The Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus. Edin. 1755, 12mo. World, No. 140. Sept. 4,1755. A meditation among books. Ditto, No. 147. Thursday, Oct. 23, 1755. Both these papers are replete with wit and humour; and the last one is introduced with a high character of it and of the author, by Mr. Moore, the editor and chief author of the World. Ditto, No. 204. Thursday, Nov. 25, 1756. A piece of admirable wit, on Good T/iini^n, and the propriety of tax- ing them. Select Discourses, (in number nine.) by ,Tohn Smith, hate Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. Edin. 1756, 12mo.; with n Preface of five pages— many quotations from the learned langu.ages translated—and notes added, containing allusions to ancient mythology, and to the erroneous philoso- pliy which prevailed in tlie d.ays of the author—various inac- curacies of style have been corrected, and harsh expressions softened. British Song.s, Sacred to Love and Virtue. Ivlin. 1756,12ino. A Discourse of the unnatural and vile Conspiracy attempted by John Earl of GowTy and his brother, against his Majesty's person, at St. Johnstoun, upon the 5th of August 1600. Edin. 1757, 12mo. Edition and notes by Lord Hailes. A Sermon which might have been preached in East Lotliian upon the 25th day of October, 1761, from Acts xxviii. 1, 2. The barbarous people showed us no little kind- ness. Edin. 1761, 12mo. Occasioned by the country people pillaging the wreck of two vessels, viz , the BelKy Cunnim/ham, and the Leith packet, Pitcairn, from London to Leith, cast away on the shore between Dunbar and North Bei-wick. All the passengers on board the former, in number seventeen, perished; five on board the latter, October 16, 1761. Reprinted at Edinburgh, 1794, 8vo. The first edition is scarce. An affecting Discourse, which is said to have pro- duced the restitution of some part of the pillage. Memorials and Letters relating to the History of Britain in the reign of .lami's L; published from the originals. Glasgow, 1762, 8vo. Addressed to Philip Yorke, Viscount Roystoun. From a collection in the Advocates' Library, by Balfour of Denmyln. An enlarged edition was printed at Glasgow, 1766, 8vo. Memorials and Letters relating to the Histoiy of Britain, in the Reign of Charles I.; published from the originals. Glasgow, 1766, 8vo. Chiefly collected from the manu- scripts of the Rev. Robert Wodrow, author of the History of the Church of Scotland. Inscribed to Robert Dundas of Amiston, Lord President of the Court of Session. The Works of the ever memorable Mr. .lolm Hales, of Eton, now first collected together. Glasgow, 1765, 3 vols.— preface of three pages. Dedicated to William (Warburton) bishop of Gloucester. A Specimen of a Book, entitled, Ane compendious Booke of Godlie and Spiritual Sangs, collectit out of sundrie parts of the Scripture; with sundrie other Ballates changed out of prophaine Songs for avoyding of Sin and Harlotrie, with augmentation of sundrie Gude and Godlie Ballates, not con- tained in the first edition. Printed by Andro Hart. Edin. 1765, 12mo., with a glossary of 4 pages. An Account of the Presei-vation of Charles ] L after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself. To which are \ added, his Letters to several Persons. Glasgow, 1766, 8vo. From the MSS. of Mr. Pepys, dictated to him by the King himself, and communicated by Dr. Sandby, ULasterof Jl.agda- len College. The Letters are collected from various sources, and some of them are now first published. Dedicated to Thomas Holies, duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the Univer- sity of Cambridge. Some copies have a reprinted title-page, dated Edinburgh 1801, witli one or two additional Letters, and a Portrait prefi.xed of General Thomas Dalziel. The Secret CoiTespondence between Sir Robert Cecil and James VL 1766, 12mo. A Catalogue of the Lords of Session, from the Institution of the College of Justice in 1532; with Historical Notes. Edin. 1767, 4to. A Specimen of Notes on the Statute Law of Scotland. No date, 8vo, veiy rare. A Specimen of similar Notes during the Reign of Marv Queen of Scots. No date, 8vo, very rai'e. The Private CoiTespondence of Dr. Francis Atterburv, Bishop of Rochester and his Friends, in 1725. Never before published. 1768, 4to. An Examination of .some of the Arguments for tlie high antiquity of Regiam M.ajestatem, and an Inquiry into the authenticity of the Leges Malcolmi. Edin. 1769, 4to.