The Bannatyne Miscellany; containing original papers and tracts, chiefly relating to the history and literature of Scotland.
Notes:
Vol.i.
Editor:
Edited by Sir Walter Scott and David Laing.
Contents:
Pt. 1: A proposal for uniting Scotland with England, addressed to King Henry VIII, by John Elder, clerke, a reddshanke. [1542.]
The progress of the regent of Scotland, with certain of his nobility, June 1568. [Also contains letter of Sir William Dury to the Earl of Leicester, 1 July 1568, with which the 'progress' of the Earl of Moray was enclosed.]
An account of a pretended conference held by the regent, Earl of Murray, with the Lord Lindsay, and others, January 1570. [A forgery, indicating that the regent intended to dethrone James VI. From Richard Bannatyne's journal (see 6.54) and other mss.]
An opinion of the present state, faction, religion, and power of the nobility of Scotland, 1583. [Attributed to an English agent.]
Instructions from Henry III, King of France, to the Sieur de la Mothe Fenelon, ambassador at the court of Scotland, 1583. [French.]
The heads of a conference between King James VI and Sir Francis Walsingham, September 1583.
Notes presented by Mr John Colville, to Lord Hunsdon, 1584.
The manner and form of the examination and death of William Earl of Gowrye, May 1584.
The apology of Mr Patrick Galloway, minister of Perth, when he fled to England, 1585.
Relation by the Master of Gray, concerning the surprise of the king at Stirling, November 1585.
The application of three several discourses delivered on occasion of the Gowrye conspiracy, August 1600. I. By Mr Patrick Galloway, at the Cross at Edinburgh. II. By Mr William Cowper, at Edinburgh. III. By Mr Patrick Galloway, at Glasgow.
Narrative by Mr Robert Bruce, one of the ministers of Edinburgh, concerning his troubles in the year 1600.
Pt. 2: Edinburgi regiae Scotorum urbis descriptio, per Alexandrum Alesium Scotum, S.T.D., 1550. [Alesius (or Alan) had left Scotland in 1532. From Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia, Basle 1550.]
Elegy on Sir Robert Kerr, of Cessford, first Earl of Roxburghe, 1650. [Verse. By S.M.]
A relation of the imprisonment and examination of James Cathkin, bookseller, June 1619. [Examination before the English Privy Council.]
Letter from Robert of Dunhelm, monk of Kelso, to the prior and convent of Tynemouth, 1257. [Latin. Account of the discovery of the bodies of Malcolm III and his son Edward.]
Reasons against the reception of King James's metaphrase of the psalms, 1631. [Probably by David Calderwood.]
Declaration in the court of the Superintendent of Fife, 1561, upon the articles and sentence against Sir John Borthwick, knight, by Cardinal Beaton, 1540. [Partly Latin. From minutes of St Andrews kirk session, for which see 24.4.]
A diary of the expedition of King Edward I into Scotland, 1296. [Two versions are printed, from a contemporary ms. (French) and an early 16th century English translation. For another version see 6.50.]
Extracts from the obituary of the Rev. Robert Boyd of Trochrig, principal of the college of Edinburgh, 1609-1625. [French. Notes by Boyd on the deaths of friends, as transcribed by Robert Wodrow in 1701.]
Poems by Sir Robert Ayton. [Collected from various printed editions. Ayton lived 1570-1638. For other editions see 11.38 and 34.1.]
Letters of Florentius Volusenus. [Latinised version of a Scots name, perhaps Wilson or Williamson. Letters to Thomas Cromwell, 1531 or 1532 (English), to John Starkey, 1535 (Latin), and from Cardinal Sadoleto, 1546 (Latin).]
Meditation faite par Marie Royne d'Escosse et Dovairiere de France, 1572. [Verse. Reprinted from a work by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, Paris 1574.]
Letters of John Earl of Gowrye, 1595. [To James VI and Mr John Malcolm.]