Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

AN
ACC UNT
MR. GEORGE BUCHANAN.
HAVING finished my account of the family of
Drumikill, I return, according to promise, to give
some memoirs of the famous Mr. George Buch-
anan, who brought such a mighty accession of
honour both to his name and country. It agrees
not with my design to give a complete history of
this great man ; for that would be to give a history
of Scotland during the age in which he lived, in
the affairs whereof he bore so considerable a part.
He was born, as he himself informs us, in the
year 1506. The death of his father, and the
breaking of his grandfather, brought the family
under very great difficulties. His mother being
left a widow with eight children, did all she could
for their education, though under the greatest dis-
couragements. But it was George's peculiar good
fortune to be taken notice of by a brother of his
mother's, who finding him extremely capable of