Series 1 > Diary of Andrew Hay of Craignethan

ANDREW HAY’S DIARY
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[25 JAN.
but resolved to send my man to morrow to the lady Humble
to know.
I stayed within all this day and did read upon Rosse his
pansebeia, and did read the list of the heritiques and their
opinions, the first 600 years after Christ. The cheife of them
are Simon Magus, Menander, Nicolaitans, Carpocratians,
Valentinians, Marists, Archontices, Serdonites, Cataphrygians,
Pepusians, Quartodecimani, Adamians, Melchisedecians,
Cathari, Sabellians, Sammasardinians, Manicheans, Arrians,
Semiarrians or Macedonians, Appollinarists, Antidicomaria-
nites, Hermans, Colluthiane, Floriani, Donatists, Novativitarii,
Luciferians, Tertullianists, Pelagians, Nestorians, Exitichians,
Antiochians and their spanne, and many uther names they
carryed besydes thes, but all reducible to thes cheifiie.
I dyned alone w1 my wiffe, and in the afternoontTcaused my
man resave 4 bolls of malt which Wm Crightoun had made to
me of James Broun his beer. Therafter I wrote a letter to the
Lady Humble to know how she and her daughter is, becaus I
could not win to see her in respect I am indgaged in severall
trysts and bussines. Toward night having ended the New
Test, in my privat lecture, I began the book of Job as most
suteing to thes tyjnes. T^e Lord help me to understand the
word and grow by it.
This was a tollerable day to me.
A frost and strong east wind againe.
26 January, Thursday, 7 a cloak.—This morning, after I was
ready, I did read on Rosse his Pansebeia concerning the Jesuits,
which order was instituted anno 1540 by Ignatius Loyola of
Cantabria, and a relaoun of his life. I did read the generall rules
to which this order is tyed, and their constitutions and rules for
provincialls and for the provosts of houses, rectors of colledges,
masters of novices, and councillors, etc., also what rules they
have for travellers and pilgrimes, for the minister, for the
admonitor, and uther officers. How their priviledges have
been granted and confirmed by severall popes, especially Paul
ii, Julius 3, and Julius 4. They grew so numerous in 75 yeirs,
that they had 293 colledges, 123 houses in anno 1608, and of