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The Montgomery Manuscripts.
In March (according to forreign suppuration^ 8 ) 165 1 I fell into a Canal in Delft at twylight in
Vams S Chris V° morn i n g> g°i n S to a treck scnute39 for y" Hague, to see y e baptism of our present King, & hardly
tening. escaped Drowning ; which made mee the summer following, Learn to swim.
I applyed myself to study, & did print two severall Disputations (yet extant & bound up with
Theses. 6 my Opera Juvenilia) w ch I sustained publickly in y e schools at Leydan,4° and stayed there till June
1652, that I heard of my fathers death.* 1
Then my Tutors in Holland remitted me through Flanders by Ghent to Ostend, from whence
F^r'TV m y 8 packquet boate (with my trunck) I landed at Dover, and so came to London. Nunquatn
minus solus, quam cum solus : for all this while of my Travel I had no acquaintance, nor servant
but my thoughts, tongue, and hands, yet I was supplyed and supported by Gods friendship.
When his good Lor p the (late earle of Mount Alex r ) heard of his uncle my fathers death ; he
imploy d Cap Hugh M'Gill (whose brother therein (the s d Lords Hugh) had debt owing to him in
the north of Scotland, and my fathers Papers & some goods were there also) to goe to S r Alex r
Sutherlands house beyond Aberdeen, to get the Papers &c w ch my father left there* 2 and also to
get from the Lady Tweedale an hundred pieces of gold, which my father (in Like manner) had put
in her keeping for my use.«
D.Johanni Laovico\Sodalibus _ _
D. Antonio Scarpio I Commilitonibus charissimis
fiasco Quaestiones
D. D. D. Gail. Montgemenus
Auth. & Respond.
This dedication was kindly copied for the editor, from a
printed copy in the British Museum, by 'William Pinkerton,
esq., F.S.A.
3 8 Foreign supputation. — On the continent the year was
commenced on the 1st of January, as in Scotland — not
on the 25th of March, as in England. See p. 40, supra.
3' A treck schnte. —A drag-boat.
4 C Schools at Leydan. — The following is the title of one
of these Disputations as copied by William Pinkerton,
esq., F.S.A.:—
Qu&stiones Philosophic^
Aliquot It/ustres,
Quas
Divino Annuente Numine,
Snb Pracsidio
Clat isshni Doctissiiuique Viri,
D. Adami Stenarti, In Inelyta Acad.
Ludg. Bat. Philosophic Pro/essoris
ordinarii &■* priinarii,
Publico Examini subjecit
Culielmus Montgomenns, Scoto-Hyb.
A nth. b* Respondetts.
Ao diem 8 Maii, loco soli to, post Merid.
(Arms of the College of Leyden)
Lngd. Batavor.
Ex officina Bonaventnia &> Abraliami
Elsevir, Acadeni. Typograph.
CLOLDCLII.
"' My father's death.— See p. 344. supra.
*' My father left there.— See p. 337. supra.
43 For my use. — Lady Tweeddale, to whom sir James,
he author's father, had entrusted this money, was Margaret
Montoomerie. eldest daughter of the sixth earl of Eglinton
by his first wife, the lady Anna Livingstone. Lady
Margaret was born in 161 7, and became the second wife
of John Hay, first earl of Tweeddale, in the year 1642.
By this marriage, she had one son, William Hay of D.am-
melzier. She married, as her second husband, William
Cunningham, ninth earl of Glencairne, high chancellor of
Scotland, bvt left no children by the latter. She died at
Edinburgh in January, 1655, where she, no doubt, resided
when sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, in 1649, had
committed to her, for his son's use, the money — probably
his all — abovementioned. The well-known Mr. Robert
Baillie, minister of Kilwinning at the time of lady
Margaret's marriage with the earl of Tweeddale, has the
following record of his own doings on that occasion : — "I
had been often grieved with the excessive drinking of
sundry of my parochiners ; When my Lord Eglintoun's
daughter, Yester, was going to be married, I went over
and admonished my lord, and his children, and servants,
that they would beware of excesse; and in regard my Lord
Setoun, Lord Semple, and other papists, would be present,
I entreated the ordinar exercises in religion in the family
might not be omitted for their pleasure ; notwithstanding
all were omitted. My Lord Eglintoun himself stayed
out of- the kirk on Sunday afternoon to bear my Lord
Seatoun company. My Lord Montgomerie (Eglintoun's
eldest son) having invited all the company to his house,
there was among the lords more drink than needed :
among some of the gentlemen and servints evident drunken-
ness. One of the latter a few days afterwards, had a
quarrel with a person, at a place called Newcastle, and
was unfortunately killed by his antagonist. The fatal en-
counter had arisen from a drunken broil, but the slayer
was executed the following day. The day there
after, being Sonday, I was in high passion, Satan
having so much prevailed at my elbow, and in the
zeale of God, in presence of all, did sharplie rebuke all
sins came in my way, especiallie drunkenness and coldryf-
ness in religion: somewhat also of the breach of covenant
was spoken. This was evill taken by many of the Lords,
bot Callender was most displeased : Eglintoun thought
himself publickly taxed, and complained to every one he
mett. . . . When my Lord Eglintoun, some twenty