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INTRODUCTION.
(Protocol Book, fol. 26.)
Qiiedam pent Domini nostri Jhesu Christi citra omnia vulnera
ejus sequuniur.
Preputium simul exilium, cedem puerorum
Linquo, famemque sitim, sudores, frigora, verba
Acria cum colaphis, lapides, iter atque labores,
Triste cor et fletus, derisus, probra, procellas,
Imbres et ventos, jejunia, demonis artem,
Actus orandi vigiles, miracula spreta,
Tedia, pauperiem, pensi vilipendia furis,
Fellis amarores, blasphemantes stolidosque,
Sepe sibi angores generantem plebis amorem,
Membra fatigata, Deus erumnas reliquasque
Humanas Domino non aptas sic quotiesque
Passus est pro nobis, ter denis, et tribus annis.
Numerus vulnerum Cristi sequitur
Quinquies M | c quater | bis terdecies [ quoque quinque1
Pro nobis Christus vulnera pertulerit.
Heu quare peccavimus cernentes Christum creatorem et redemptorem
nostrum tot penas et vulnera pro nobis patientem, cum scriptum sit,
Serviamus illi in sanctitate et justitia coram ipso omnibus diebus
nostris.
Q.2 Gaw, vicarius pensionarius de Abirnethy, anno 1545.
(Protocol Book, fol. 27.)
9 die mensis Junii 1552, befoir thir vitnes Wilyam Pitcarn, Schir
Robert Laing and Wiliam Bykartoun byndis thaim be the faith in
thair body to deliver agane to Schir Alexander Gaw his airis a[n]d
executouris and assignais his buik callit Ortus vocabulorum atYoul
nyht the dait heirof. In vitnes heirof we have subscrivit this vrit
wyth our hand, yeir, day and vitnesis abone vrytyn.
Gaw recepit librum vocat-
um Vocabulorum ortus sic sua
subscriptione testante.
Gaw notarius subscripsit.
Johne Ramsay of Corston,
with my hand.3
Walter Baward,4 burges
in Pertht.3
In all probability it is this Alexander Gaw who appears as a wit¬
ness to several charters in the Register of the Great Seal, and who,
along with Sir David Lindsay and others, witnessed the execution
by the Bute pursuivant of a summons at the cross of Cupar-Fife in
1543. See Thomson’s ‘Acts of Pari.,’ vol. ii. pp. 428, 438.
1 According to another medieval legend, however, it was revealed to St Birgitta,
Queen of Sweden, by our Lord Himself, that the number of His wounds was
"quinque millia, quadringenta et octoginta."—' Anthidotarius Animas,'fol. 1.
2 /.«., quoth. 3 Autograph signatures. 4 Balvaird.

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