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XIV
INTRODUCTION.
Seal explains how the money was divided among them.
Their names occur again in 1580 in the Estait of the kingis
maiesties Hous maid be his hienes ... at Striviling,
1580,” 1 where their yearly salary is again put down at
£210. The Treasurer is also ordered in it to make them
an allowance of £200 “ for thair leveray claithis.”
In the preceding year, 1579, Thomas Hudson had been
the pursuer in the lawsuit which has already been referred
to. A copy of his pleadings was engrossed in the Register
of Deeds,” 2 and these form a somewhat lengthy document,
since they run to over three thousand words. But,
stripped of the legal verbiage, their tenor is quite clear.
It is this. Thomas Hudson had discharged for one
Thomas Kay, a burgess of the Fife Burgh of Crail, two
debts which amounted in all to £984, is. 8d. One
of them, and by far the larger, since it amounted to
£706, 13s. 4d., had been owed to Hudson’s own cousin,
John Hudson, described in the record as a citizen of
York. As security for the money which he had advanced
to pay Kay’s debts, Hudson had been granted a wadset
over certain heritable subjects which Kay owned in Crail,
a tenement in the town itself, and a “ fische hous lyand
besyid the portt and hevin of the said burgh.” Now the
debtor was refusing to implement his engagements and the
action was raised in order that Hudson might gain posses¬
sion of the properties. How it ended we do not know.
The most important year in Hudson’s life for posterity
was 1584, the year in which appeared his Histone of
Judith, a translation of La Judith, a long narrative poem
1 Preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh. The date
of the endorsement is 1584, but H. M. Paton, Esq., Curator of Historical
Records, informs me that he thinks 1580 to be the correct date. Atten¬
tion was first drawn to the entries relating to the Hudsons by Irving
in The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (1821), p. 302.
2 Register of Deeds, vol. 17, fol. 1386 sqq. H.M. General Register House,
Edinburgh. See Appendix A, p. 148 sqq.
INTRODUCTION.
Seal explains how the money was divided among them.
Their names occur again in 1580 in the Estait of the kingis
maiesties Hous maid be his hienes ... at Striviling,
1580,” 1 where their yearly salary is again put down at
£210. The Treasurer is also ordered in it to make them
an allowance of £200 “ for thair leveray claithis.”
In the preceding year, 1579, Thomas Hudson had been
the pursuer in the lawsuit which has already been referred
to. A copy of his pleadings was engrossed in the Register
of Deeds,” 2 and these form a somewhat lengthy document,
since they run to over three thousand words. But,
stripped of the legal verbiage, their tenor is quite clear.
It is this. Thomas Hudson had discharged for one
Thomas Kay, a burgess of the Fife Burgh of Crail, two
debts which amounted in all to £984, is. 8d. One
of them, and by far the larger, since it amounted to
£706, 13s. 4d., had been owed to Hudson’s own cousin,
John Hudson, described in the record as a citizen of
York. As security for the money which he had advanced
to pay Kay’s debts, Hudson had been granted a wadset
over certain heritable subjects which Kay owned in Crail,
a tenement in the town itself, and a “ fische hous lyand
besyid the portt and hevin of the said burgh.” Now the
debtor was refusing to implement his engagements and the
action was raised in order that Hudson might gain posses¬
sion of the properties. How it ended we do not know.
The most important year in Hudson’s life for posterity
was 1584, the year in which appeared his Histone of
Judith, a translation of La Judith, a long narrative poem
1 Preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh. The date
of the endorsement is 1584, but H. M. Paton, Esq., Curator of Historical
Records, informs me that he thinks 1580 to be the correct date. Atten¬
tion was first drawn to the entries relating to the Hudsons by Irving
in The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (1821), p. 302.
2 Register of Deeds, vol. 17, fol. 1386 sqq. H.M. General Register House,
Edinburgh. See Appendix A, p. 148 sqq.
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| Description | Edited by James Craigie ; with introduction, notes, appendices, and glossary. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1941. Translation of La Judith by Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas. With facsimile of original title page: The historie of Ivdith in forme of a poeme. Penned in French, by the noble poet, G. Salust, lord of Bartas. Englished by Tho. Hudson. Imprinted at Edinburgh, by Thomas Vautroullier, 1584. |
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