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MEMORIALS

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GEORGE BANNATYNE.

M.D.XLV.— M.DC.VITI.

FEINTED AT EDINBURGH:
M.DCCC.XXIX.

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AT A MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF
THE BANNATYNE CLUB, held at Edinburgh, 19th Decem-
ber, 1827,

RESOLVED, That a Volume of MEMORIALS of GEORGE BAN-
NATYNE, by whose name the CLUB is designated, to contain Ex-
tracts from an original Manuscript in the possession of his descend-
ant, SIR JAMES FOULIS of Woodhall, Baronet, with other Papers
and Documents, be printed for the use of the Members, under the
superintendence of the PRESIDENT.

DAVID LAING,
Secretary.

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M.DCCC.XXIX.

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BARONET,
[PRESIDENT.]

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T.

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM, LORD CHIEF COMMIS-
SIONER OF THE JURY COURT.

SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, BART
5 JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ.

SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE.

LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.

GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ.

ROBERT BELL, ESQ.
10 WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.

JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ.

WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.

REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L.

GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.
15 THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY.

JOHN CALEY, ESQ.

JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ.

HON. JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN.

WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ.

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20 HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ.

DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ.

ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ.

JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.

WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.
25 HON. GEORGE CRANSTOUN, LORD COREHOUSE.

THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE.

JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.

ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ.

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM DUNDAS, LORD CLERK

REGISTER.
30 HENRY ELLIS, ESQ.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, ESQ.

ROBERT FERGUSON, ESQ.

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR RONALD C. FERGUSON.

THE COUNT DE FLAHAULT.
3.5 HON. JOHN FULLERTON, LORD FULLERTON.

LORD GLENORCHY.

THE DUKE OF GORDON.

WILLIAM GOTT, ESQ.

SIR JAMES R. G. GRAHAM, BART.
40 ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ.

LORD GRAY.

RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE.

THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.

THE DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON.
45 E. W. A. DRUMMOND HAY, ESQ.

JAMES M. HOG, ESQ.

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COSMO INNES, ESQ.

DAVID IRVING, LL.D.
50 JAMES IVORY, ESQ.

REV. JOHN JAMIESON, D.D.

ROBERT JAMESON, ESQ.

SIR HENRY JARDINE.

FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.
55 JAMES KEAY, ESQ.

JOHN G. KINNEAR, ESQ.

THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ. [TREASURER.]

THE EARL OF KINNOULL.

DAVID LAING, ESQ.
60 THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, K.T.

REV. JOHN LEE, D.D.

THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.

COLIN MACKENZIE, ESQ.

HON. J. H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE.
65 JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ.

JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ.

THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ.

GILBERT LAING MEASON, ESQ.

THE VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T.
70 WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ.

THE EARL OF MINTO.

HON. SIR J. W. MONCREIFF, LORD MONCREIFF.

JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, ESQ.

WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ.

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7.) JAMES NAIRNE, ESQ.

MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ.

FRANCIS PALGRAVE, ESQ.

HENRY PETRIE, ESQ.

ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.
80 JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ.

THE EARL OF ROSSLYN.

ANDREW RUTHERFORD, ESQ.

THE EARL OF SELKIRK.

RIGHT HON. SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD. LORD CHIEF

BARON OF SCOTLAND.
s., ANDREW SKENE, ESQ.

JAMES SKENE, ESQ.

GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ.

THE EARL SPENCER, K.G.

JOHN SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ.
90 THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD, K.G.

MAJOR-GENERAL STRATON.

SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD STEWART, BAR1

HON. CHARLES FRANCIS STUART.

ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ.
05 THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. [ VICE-PRESIDENT.]

W. C. TREVELYAN, ESQ.

PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, ESQ.

ADAM URQUHART, ESQ.

RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WARRENDER, BART
100 THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

THE CONTENTS.

VACE.

MEMOIU OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD,
BARONET, 1

EXTRACTS FROM THE " MEMORIALL BUIK" OF GEORGE BANNATYNE, in the pos-
session of Sir JAMES FOULIS OF WOODHALL, BARONET.

No. 1. The Tyinis of the Nativiteis, &c 25

No. 2. Memorandums of certain Evidentis, &c 33

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONTENTS OF GEORGE BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

By MR. DAVID LAING, 43

Alphabetical Table of the Poems contained in Bannatyno's Manuscript, . . 91
Poems which have been inserted in the Manuscript at a later date, .... 102
Names of Authors of the Poems contained in the Manuscript, 103

APPENDIX. No. I. Note by SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE, respecting
GEORGE BANNATYNE, 105

APPENDIX. No. II. Additional Notices respecting GEORGE BANNATYNE and his
connexions, communicated by JOHN RIDDELL, Esq. Advocate, 108

APPENDIX. No. III. Notes from the Register of Confirmed Testaments preserved
in the Consistorial Court, Edinburgh, communicated by ROBERT PITCAIKN, Esq. 109

APPENDIX. No. IV. Poems by GEORGE BANNATYNE, from his Manuscript, 1568, 116

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MEMORIALS

OF

GEORGE BANNATYNE.

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

1 HE pious care with which some of GUI' associates have searched
out every particular which Time has spared respecting the honoured
Patron under whose name our Institution is formed, has been ma-
terially aided by the discovery of George Bannatyne's " Memoriall
JBuik," in the possession of his descendant, Sir James Foulis of
Woodhall, Baronet, who has obligingly lent it for that purpose.
The result of the enquiry does not indeed throw much light on his
personal character, or the incidents of his life, but yet conveys to
the Members of the Bannatyne Club some information which can-
not but be acceptable. It is interesting to learn, that the indefa-
tigable preserver of Scottish literature was by birth, education, and
fortune, above the middling class of society ; and still of greater
consequence to know, that in an age of inveterate feuds and bloody
violence, the outrages of the time did not reach the lover of the
Muses, by whose unwearied exertions so much of the ancient Scot-
tish poetry has been preserved from oblivion.

The father of our Patron was James Bannatyne of the Kirktown
of Newtyld, near the village of Meigle, in Angus-shire. He was a

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burgess and writer in Edinburgh, and was probably the person al-
luded to by Robert Semple, —

For men of law, I wait not quhair to luke :
James Bannatyne was anis a man of skill.1

Of the descent of this James, we know nothing with certainty ;
but it has been ascertained by our venerable associate Sir William
MacLeod Bannatyne, chief of the name, that he was connected with
the ancient family of the Bennauchtyne, more recently spelled Ban-
nantyne, of Camys, in the Isle of Bute.2 The name was sometimes
spelled Ballenden and Ballantyne.

James Bannatyne of New Tyld had a numerous family by his
wife, Katherine Tailliefer. She is recorded by her son to have been
" a woman of godly conversation, with whom her husband led a
godly, Christian, and pleasant life." Their children were twenty-
three in number. Had each, or any considerable number of this
large family been gifted with a moderate share of the taste and
perseverance of our Patron George, the literature of Scotland would
have been in a state of preservation which might have been the
envy of Europe. But the taste and patience which selected and
executed the Bannatyne Manuscripts could only be indulged to one
individual. The number of persons of condition whose names occur
as god-fathers and god-mothers to the numerous family of our Pa-
tron's father, attest the respectability of the parents. We may dis-
tinguish the respectable names of Mr James Mat-Gill, Clerk Regis-

1 The Defens of Grissell Samlylands. — BANNATYNE'S Manuscript, fol. 124-.
'-' See Appendix, No. II.

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 5

ter, Fowlis of Collington, with a branch of which family George
Bannatyne was afterwards connected, the relict of Henderson of
Fordel, the spouse of Sir Niel Layng, Symon Preston, and other
names belonging to the landed gentry. It is perhaps scarce worth
while to notice, that Patrick Hepburne of Wauchton, a confident of
the too well known Earl of Bothwell,3 was in the bonds of spiritual
kindred with the family of our George Bannatyne, being godfather
to his brother Patrick.

George Bannatyne himself, the seventh child of his parents, was
born on the 22d day of February, 1545 years. His godfathers were
George Tailliefer, his maternal uncle, and William Fischear, his cou-
sin ; his godmother Mawise Fischear. He was bred up to trade, but
does not appear to have been engaged in business in his own behalf
early in life. Reverting to the death of his mother at the age of
fifty-seven years, he adds, that she left alive behind her eleven
children, of whom eight were still under the paternal roof, and did
not possess any independent means of livelihood.

To this seclusion from active life during his youth we owe the
possession of that rich collection of Scottish Poetry which forms our
Patron's title to our respect. We will speak of it more at large

3 Francis and Mary, Mar. 23, 1558, Confirm a Charter of Sale by Patrick,* Bishop
of Moray, Commendator of the Monastery of Scone, (Augustine order,) in favour of
JAMES BANNATYNE, Burgess of Edinburgh, and Katherine Tailliefeir his spouse in
conjunct fee, and the heirs of their bodies, whom failing, to the heirs whomsoever, and
the assignees of the said James, of the lands of Balquhomerye and Formonthills, in
the barony of Leslie and shire of Fife. To be holden a se of the barons of Leslie for
payment of a silver penny at Whitsunday yearly. Dated 21 Mar. 1558. — Reg. Mag.
Sig. XXXI. 446.

• Patrick Hepburn, son to Patrick, first Earl of Boihwc-ll.

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hereafter ; in the meantime it is sufficient to say, that it was com-
piled and transcribed in the year 1568, and must have been a labour
of love to the collector, since he pursued it with an earnest zeal
which seems almost miraculous. The volume, written in a very
close hand, and containing near eight hundred pages, appears to
have occupied the transcriber only three months, an assertion which
we should have scrupled to receive upon any other authority than
his own.

In 1572, George Bannatyne was provided in a tenement in the
town of Leith by a gift from his father. He was then twenty-seven
years, and probably about to enter on business on his own account.
But it was not until the 27th October, 1587, that, being then in his
thirty-third year, he was admitted in due and competent form to
the privileges of a merchant and guild-brother in the city of Edin-
burgh.

We have no means of knowing what branch of traffic George
Bannatyne chiefly exercised ; it is probable that, as usual in a Scot-
tish burgh, his commerce was general and miscellaneous. We have
reason to know that it was successful, as we find him in a few years
possessed of a considerable capital, the time being considered, which
he employed to advantage in various money-lending transactions.
It must not be forgot that the penal laws of the Catholic period pro-
nounced all direct taking of interest upon money, to be usurious and
illegal. These denunciations did not decrease the desire of the
wealthy to derive some profit from their capital, or diminish the ne-
cessity of the embarrassed land-holder who wished to borrow money.
The mutual interest of the parties suggested various evasions of the

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

law, of which the most common was, that the capitalist advanced to
his dehtor the sum wanted, as the price of a corresponding annui-
ty, payable out of the lands and tenements of the debtor, which an-
nuity was declared redeemable upon the said debtor repaying the
sum advanced. The moneyed men of those days, therefore, imitated
the conduct imputed to the Jewish patriarch by Shylock. They did
not take

interest — not as you would say

Directly interest,

but they retained payment of an annuity as long as the debtor re-
tained the use of their capital, which came much to the same thing.
A species of transaction introduced for the purpose of evading the
laws against usury was continued, as affording a convenient mode
of securing the lender's money.

Our researches have discovered that Mr George Bannatyne had
sufficient funds to enter into various transactions of this kind, in
the capacity of lender ; and as we have no reason to suppose that
he profited unfairly by the necessities of the other party, he cannot
be blamed for having recourse to the ordinary expedients, to avoid
the penalties of an absurd law, and accomplish a fair transaction
dictated by mutual expediency.

We do not find the exact date of George Bannatyne's marriage, but
it may have taken place about 1587, the term of his entering the
community of guild-brothers. His spouse was Isobel Mawchan, re-
lict of Bailie William Nisbett, whom he has celebrated as a " godly,
honest, wise, virtuous, and true matron." Of her beauty he says
nothing, either because there was no room for speaking of such va-

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nities, or because they would rank ill among the moral attributes
with which his sober prose has invested her. If the worthy relict
of Bailie William Nisbett was the lady of his love when, " in the
time of his youth," he collected the works of the learned Makers
of his day, and added to them his own effusions, our patriarch had
made up beforehand the omissions of graver eulogium, by telling
us, that as the pale moon to the bright eye of day,

My lady so in beauty dois abound,
Above all other ladeis on the ground.

The earliest mention of their family is the birth of a daughter, Ja-
net Bannatyne, born on the third of May, 1587, who survived her
parents ; a son, born sixth September, 1589, named James, died in
childhood. From these circumstances, it may perhaps be inferred,
that George Bannatyne's marriage took place about 1586.

It is certain that the subject of this imperfect Memoir, on the first
January, in the year of God 1583, lost his father, James Bannatyne,
of the Kirktown of Newtyld, at the age of seventy-one years, leaving
behind him, in life, six sons and three daughters, all well and suffi-
ciently provided by him, under God. " He was a man honourable,
wise, and of an upright conscience," so proceeds the pious memorial
of his son ; " of all men well beloved, and to no man hurtful or
wrongeous, and ended his life by praising God with a penitent heart,
and an assured hope of his mercy, through Christ." He was suc-
ceeded in his estate of New Tyle by his eldest living son, Thomas,
who became one of the Lords of Session by that designation, an
appointment which forms an additional voucher for the general re-
spectability of the family.

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 9

In 1591, the aforesaid Master Thomas Bannatyne Lord New
Tyle, brother of George, and one of the Lords of the College of Jus-
tice, died, at the age of fifty-one years, leaving a numerous family.
In 1597 he was followed by James Bannatyne, another of George's
brothers, who pursued his father's profession of a writer. The same
record of mortality announces, that on the 29th January, 1597, our
compiler lost his only son, James Bannatyne, a boy of between eight
and nine years old ; and that on the 27th of August, 1603, he was
deprived of his affectionate helpmate, Isobel Mawchan, at the age of
fifty-seven. Her death is affectionately recorded by her husband.
" She lived," says his memorandum, " a godly, honourable, and vir-
tuous life, all her days ; was a wise, honest, and true matron, and
departed in the Lord in a peaceful and godly manner."

The remaining stay of our compiler's old age was his daughter,
and only surviving child, Jonet or Janet Bannatyne. This young
lady was married, on the 1st of June, 1603, to George Foulis of
Woodhall and Ravelstone, second son of James Foulis of Colingtoun.
It appears that, after his wife's death, George Bannatyne resided in
family with his daughter. He mentions in his Memoranda, that in
1606 he was dwelling with his son-in-law and daughter in Dreg-
horn, near Colingtoun, when a nurse in the family caught the pes-
tilence which was then raging. She died on the 26th day of August
in that year after two days' illness. But this alarming visitation made
no farther progress, for which our author devoutly expresses the
gratitude due to Heaven. George Bannatyne was at this time sixty-
one years old ; how much longer he continued to live we have not
found means to ascertain, nor do we know by what summons he

B

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was finally removed from the scene.4 But we have no reason to
doubt that the end of his life corresponded with its tenor, and that
his death was peaceful and timely.

This string of dates is all we have to record of our Patron's
life.5 But it is proper to take some notice of the work to which he
owes his celebrity, and for which we acknowledge our gratitude
to his memory.

It is seldom that the toils of the amanuensis are in themselves in-
teresting, or that even while enjoying the advantages of the poor
scribe's labour, we are disposed to allow him the merit of more
than mere mechanical drudgery. But in the compilation of George
Bannatyne's Manuscript there are particulars which rivet our at-
tention on the writer, and raise him from an humble copyist into a
national benefactor.

Bannatyne's Manuscript is in a folio form, containing upwards
of eight hundred pages, very neatly and closely written, and de-
signed, as has been supposed, to be sent to the press. The labour
of compiling so rich a collection was undertaken by the author du-
ring the time of pestilence in the year 1568,6 when the dread of in-

4 Tlmt George Bannatyne deceased previous to December 1608, appears from the
Testament dative ad omissa of his spouse Isobell Mawchan, printed in the Appendix,
No. II.

5 Our knowledge of these dates is chiefly derived from " The Tymes of the Na-
tivities," &c. contained in the Extracts from Bannatyne's " Memorial! Buik" which
follow this Memoir.

6 Upon the audit day of September, [1568,] aue callit James Dalgleische, mer-
chant, brocht in the pest in Edinburgh. — MS. Chronicle, in the possession of Sir
John Maxwell of Pollock.

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fection compelled men to forsake their usual employments, which
could not be conducted without admitting the ordinary promiscuous
intercourse between man and his kindred men.

In this dreadful period, when hundreds, finding themselves sur-
rounded by danger and death, renounced all care save that of sel-
fish precautions for their safety, and all thoughts save apprehensions
of infection, George Bannatyne had the courageous energy to form
and execute the plan of saving the literature of a whole nation ; and,
undisturbed by the universal mourning for the dead, and general
fears of the living, to devote himself to the task of collecting and re-
cording the triumphs of human genius ; — thus, amid the wreck of all
that was mortal, employing himself in preserving the lays by which
immortality is at once given to others, and obtained for the writer
himself. His task, he informs us, had its difficulties; for he complains
that he had, even in his time, to contend with the disadvantage of
copies old, maimed, and mutilated, and which long before our clay
must, but for this faithful transcriber, have perished entirely. The
very labour of procuring the originals of the works which he tran-
scribed must have been attended with much trouble and some risk,
at a time when all the usual intercourse of life was suspended, and
when we can conceive that even so simple a circumstance as the bor-
rowingor lending a book of ballads, was accompaniedwith some doubt
and apprehension, and that probably the suspected volume was sub-
jected to fumigation, and the precautions practised in quarantine.

As therefore, from the contents of the work in general, we may
conclude our Patron to have been both a good judge and an ener-
getic admirer of literature, we will not perhaps be too fanciful in

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deeming him a man of calm courage and undaunted perseverance,
since he could achieve so heavy a labour at so inauspicious a period.
In endeavouring to form an estimate of his character, we natu-
rally look to his literary efforts. That which we love we usually
strive to imitate ; and we are not surprised to find that George Ban-
natyne, the preserver of so many valuable poems, was himself ac-
quainted with the art of poetry. Amid the various examples which
he has compiled of the talents of others, he has obliged the reader
with two poems of his own. They are ballads " tuned to his mis-
tress's eyebrow ;" but even we, his children, cannot claim for them
a high rank amongst the productions of the Scottish Muse, for the
power of loving and admiring with discrimination the poetry of
others, is very far from implying the higher faculties necessary to
produce it. The reader will, however, find these two specimens of
our father George's amatory poetry in the Appendix, No. IV ; and
may probably be of opinion, that our Patron showed himself merci-
ful in the sparing and moderate example which they afford of his
poetical powers. The verses are a string of extravagant conceits,
setting forth his lady's beauties and his own despair in a tone of
frigid extravagance, which must have astonished Isobel Mavvchan,
if to her they were addressed. We are somewhat startled to hear
that the lady's locks altogether resembled a bush burning in red
flames, but without smoke ; and scarce less so at finding our Patri-
arch demanding for himself as dead, an instant and hasty funeral,
" because Aclseon had been slain by his own fell dogs ;" since the
position that George Bannatyne should be forthwith buried, be-
cause Actaeon was dead, seems to approach to what the learned Par-

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tridge calls a non scquilur. Actseon, we suppose, brought Adonis
into our Patron's head, for we find him next remonstrating with
the boar for not slaying him, and calling as loudly for death as he
had done for burial in the preceding stanza.

Oli, thundering Boar, in thy most awful rage,
Why wilt thou not me with thy tuskis rive?

But our Members will probably themselves apprehend an invasion
of the thundering Boar, if we proceed any farther in this subject.
Our respect is not paid to George Bannatyne as a poet, but as a
friend and lover of poetry, and one to whom the Scottish Muses
are eternally indebted, whether we consider his industry, or the
taste by which it was directed.

In the reign of James IV. and V. the fine arts, as they awakened
in other countries, made some progress in Scotland also. Archi-
tecture and music were encouraged by both those accomplished so-
vereigns ; and poetry, above all, seems to have been highly valued
at the Scottish court. The King of Scotland, who, in point of
power, seems to have been little more than the first baron of his
kingdom, held a free and merry court, in which poetry and satire
seem to have had unlimited range, even where their shafts glanced
on royalty itself. The consequence of this general encouragement
was the production of much poetry of various kinds, and concern-
ing various persons, which the narrow exertions of the Scottish
press could not convey to the public, or which, if printed at all,
existed only in limited editions, which soon sunk to the rarity of
manuscripts.

There was, therefore, an ample mine out of which Bannatyne

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made his compilation, with the intent, doubtless, of putting the Lays
of the Makers out of the reach of oblivion, by subjecting the col-
lection to the press. But the bloody wars of Queen Mary's time made
that no period for literary adventure ; and the tendency of the sub-
sequent age to polemical discussion discouraged lighter and gayer
studies. There is, therefore, little doubt, that had Bannatyne lived
later than lie did, or had he been a man of less taste in selecting his
materials, a great proportion of the poetry contained in his volume
must have been lost to posterity ; and if the stock of northern litera-
ture had been diminished only by the loss of such of Dunbar's
pieces as Bannatyne's Manuscript contains, the damage to posterity
would have been infinite.

This darling of the Scottish Muses has been justly raised to a
level with Chaucer by every judge of poetry, to whom his obso-
lete language has not rendered him unintelligible. In brilliancy of
fancy, in force of description, in the power of conveying moral pre-
cepts with terseness, and marking lessons of life with conciseness
and energy, in quickness of satire, and in poignancy of humour,
the Northern Maker may boldly aspire to rival the Bard of Wood-
stock. In the pathetic, Uunbar is Chaucer's inferior, and accord-
ingly in most of his pieces he rather wishes to instruct the under-
standing, or to amuse the fancy, than to affect the heart. It is with
pleasure we understand that an edition of the excellent poet, unri-
valled by any which Scotland ever produced, is soon to appear under
the auspices of our Secretary. We shall then be in possession of
what a correct text can give. But where is the Dryden to be found,
who is to translate, for the benefit of more modern times, the wis-

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dom, the wit, the humour, which can now only be comprehended by
the scholar and antiquary ?

But although Dunbar be in himself a host, it is not for his pieces
only that we are called to thank our Patron. The beautiful pas-
toral of Robin and Makyne, the works of Lyndesay, Scott, Hen-
ryson, and other poets of the sixteenth century, have been also pre-
served by the care of George Bannatyne, who, if he had merely
acted under the impatience arising from want of employment, would
perhaps have gone no farther for subjects of transcription than the
" drafty rhimings," which gave so much displeasure to honest Harry
Bailly, mine Host of the Tabard. But he aspired at collecting and
preserving that which was really worthy of preservation, and his
Manuscript must be considered as comprehending a copious selec-
tion of the best Scottish poetry. The Manuscript, therefore, which
bears his name, eminently deserving of our veneration as a monu-
ment of ancient times, a record of early literature and of ancient
manners, is yet more worthy of respect, from the genius and talent
displayed by most of the authors whose works Bannatyne has trans-
cribed and preserved. There is yet another point of view in which
the collection may be regarded. Independent of the intrinsic merit
of the poems collected in Bannatyne's manuscript, the insight which
they afford respecting the manners of Scotland at that early period,
is as valuable to the historian and antiquary, as their poetical merit
renders them acceptable to readers of taste and judgment.

At the beginning of the Manuscript is the following Address by
Bannatyne, detailing the general nature of the contents of the five
parts or divisions under which the poems are classed :

16 MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

THE WRYITTAR TO THE REIDARIS.

YE reverend Redaris, thir workis revolving richt,
Gif ye get crymes, correct thame to your iniclit,

And curse na Clark that cunnyngly tliame wrait,
Cut blame me baldly broclit tills bulk till lioht
In tenderest tyme, qulien knawlege was nocht bricht,

Cut lait begun to lerne, and till translait

My copeis awld. mankit and mutillait,
Qnhais trcwth as standis, (yit liaif I, sympill wicht,)

Tryd furtli, Thairfoir excuse sura pairt my estait.

Now ye liaif heir this ilk bulk sa provydit,

That in fyve pairtis It is dewly devydit :

1. The first concernis Godis gloir and our saluatioun ;

'2. The nixt are morale, grave, and als besyd it,

3. Grund on glide counsale; The third, I will nocht hyd it,
Ar blyith and glaid, maid for our consollatioun ;

4. The ferd of luve and thair ric'it reformation!! ;

5. The fyift ar tailis and storeis will discydit : —
Reid as ye pleiss, I ueid no moir narrationn.

After the introductory verses is the following title —

" Ane most Godlie, mirrie, and lustie llapsodie, maide
be sundrie learned Scots poets, and written be
George Bannatyne, in the tyme of his youth."

The First part, " contenand ballatis of theologie," extends to folio
43. — " Followis the Secound pairt of the bilk, conteueand verry
singular ballatis, full of wisdome and moralitie," etc. — At folio 97
ends the Second part, and " Heir begynnys the Third pairt of this

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 17

buik, contenand balletis mirry, and vther solatius consaittis, set
furth be diners ancient Poyettis. 1568." These " mirry and so-
latius consaits," include Christ's Kirk on the Grene, The Wyfe of
Auchtermuchty, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and many
other pieces of broad humour, made, as Bannatyne expresses it,
" for our consolation." The most conspicuous place, however, in this
division, is occupied with Sir David Lyndsay's well-known Play,
" The Satyre of the Three Estates ;" from which, on account of " the
long process of the play," Baunatyne contented himself with tran-
scribing detached portions, in the form of " certane mirry Inter-
ludes thairof, very plesand, levand the grave mater thairof, becaus
the samyne abuse is weill reformit in Scotland, praysit be God !"

These 'mirry' Interludes extend to folio 210 ; and, on the next
leaf, " Heir followis Ballatis of Luve, devydit in four partis. The
first, Sangis of Luve. The second are contemptis of Luve and evill
wemen. The third ar contemptis of evill fals vicius men. And the
fourt ar ballatis detesting of luve and lichery." — Bannatyne com-
mences this Fourth part with the following appropriate address :

To the Redur.

Heir half ye, Luvaris, ballattis at your will,
How evir your natur directtit is untill.
Bot, wald ye luve eftir my counsalling,
Luve first your God aboif all uder thing ;
Nixt, as your self your nichtbur beir gud will.

Among these " Ballattis of Luve," for the preservation of which
we are indebted to our Patron, we may notice the love verses of
Alexander Scott, who has been styled " the Scottish Anacreon."
On proceeding to folio 298, we read, " Here follouis the Fyift

c

18 MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

part of this buik, contenying the ffabillis of Esop, with diners uthir
fabillis and poeticall workis, maid and compyld be diuers lernit
men. 1568. — This part of the manuscript is likewise introduced by
an address from the compiler " To the Redar."

My freindis, thir storeis subsequent,
Albeid hot Fabillis tbay present,
Yit devyne Doctowris of jugement

Sayis, tbair ar bid but dowt,
Graue meteris wyis and sapient,
•Vndir the workis <rf Poyetis gent ;
Tbairfoir, be war that thow consent

To blame thir, heir set owt I

The chief poems contained in this division are several of Henry-
son's fables, with his exquisite pastoral of Robin and Makyne ; the
ancient allegorical poem of the Howlat ; the Freirs of Berwick ;
Dunbar's Goldin Targe, and his Thrissill and the Rois ; together
with the singular rhapsody of Colkelbie's Sow. On the last leaf
(folio 375) is inserted this valedictory address :

The Wrlttar to the Eedare.

Heir endis this Buik, writtin in tyme of pest,
Quhen we fra labor was compeld to rest,
In to the thre last monethis of this yeir,
Frome oure Redimaris birth, to knaw it heir,
Ane thowsand is, ffyve hundred], threscoir awclit.
Off this purpoiss na mair it neiddis be tawcht.

Swa, till conclude, God grant ws all gude end ;

And eftir deth EternaU lyfe ws send.— ffinis. 1568.

Any farther notice of the contents of Bannatyne's Manuscript is
rendered unnecessary, by the detailed list which forms part of this
publication, exhibiting the titles and first lines of all the poems

,!

• rrfTTTWn ' - '

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 19

contained in the manuscript, with references to the works in which
they have been severally printed.

After the death of George Bannatyne, the industrious compiler,
this Manuscript became the property of his grandson, George Foulis,
of Ravelston. His daughter, Jonet Bannatyne, died on the 31st of
March, 1631, and her husband, George Foulis of Ravelston,7 (who
was Master of the King's Mint,) on the 28th May, 1633. They lie
buried on the west side of the Grey Friars Churchyard, where a
very handsome tomb was erected to their memory. The emblema-
tical figures which adorn this monument, for the purpose of attest-
ing the wealth and respectability of our Patron's descendants, have
been much mutilated ; but the centre part, as represented in the
accompanying engraving, is better preserved, and highly creditable
to the state of the arts at that period ; and it is the more interesting,
as containing portraits of George Foulis and Jonet Bannatyne.8

7 The old house of Ravelston was built about the year 1622, and is ornamented in
various parts of the building with the ciphers of George Foulis and Jonet Bannatyne
intertwined, and the ceiling of the principal room is painted with considerable ele-
gance. A view of the house, from a sketch by James Skene, Esq. is given as a vignette,
at the end of this Memoir. From the prominent manner in which Jonet's name is uni-
formly exhibited in conjunction with her husband's, we may infer, that as an heiress;
she had inherited considerable wealth from her father, George Bannatyne.

" The inscription is become illegible : Monteith, however, in his " Theater of Mor"
tality," copied it more than a century ago, and we insert it from his curious work : —

"MEMORISE SACRUM

" VIRI optimi GEORGII FOULIS, a Ravilstoun, ex Nobili familia Colintonia, Rei mo-
netarise Regiae Magistri, Civitatis Edinburgense Prsetoris, ac per annos 16. Senatoris ;
Qui, in omni munere publico privatoque egregia fide et integritate ; in florentis
familise splendore et fortunte amplitudine ; eximia anirni modestia ; bonis omnibus

20 MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

It only remains to observe, that on the 20th of November, 1712,
William Foulis of Woodhall (the great-grandson of George Banna-
tyne,9) bestowed this Manuscript, the monument of his ancestor's
taste and labours, upon the Honourable Mr. William Carmichael
of Skirling, advocate. Finally, in the year 1772, the liberality of
John third Earl of Hyndford made this Corpus Poetarum Scoto-
rum public property, by depositing it in the Library of the Faculty
of Advocates.

Such is all we have been able to learn of George Bannatyne, and
such the general history of the compilation which he formed. It
is a lesson to the Society of persons who have used his Name as
a rallying word to mark their attachment to Scottish literature,

charus ; nemini etiam improbo invisus ; ad maturam usque senectutem provectus, ho-
nestam vitam, pia morte, feliciter clausit, 28 Maij 1633, tetatis 64.

" Mortalitatis exuvias, in novae vitse spem, hie deposuit, una cum charissima Con-
juge JONETA BANNATINA ; cum qua 29. annos vixit, in sumraa concordia.

" Reliquit filios superstites 6, totidemque filias ; prtemortuos 5. filios et filiam, in
regnum coeleste, ante ambulones habuit." — [Theater of Mortality, 1704, 8vo, p. 32,
and reprinted in Maitland's History of Edinburgh, folio, p. 197.]

5 In Bannatyne's Manuscript " Memoriall Buik," a register has been kept of his
grandchildren and their posterity ; from which it appears, that George Fowlis and Jonet
Bannatyne had a family of eleven sons and five daughters. The godfathers of Ja-
net Foulis their eldest daughter, (born the 18th of April, 1604,) were Mr Thomas
Craig and Henry Nisbett ; and of James, their eldest son, (born 15th March 1605,)
were (says the writer) James Foulis of Colintoun, " my father," Sir James Foulis,
"my brother," and Mr James Bannatyne of Newtyld, one of the commissaries
of Edinburgh. The godfathers of George, then- second son, (born 6th April, 1606,)
were GEORGE BANNATYNE, " my gudfather, " and George Heriot, elder ; his god-
mother, Dame Beatrix Chirnsyd, spous to Sir Lewis Craig of Wrychtis Landis, one
of the Lords of Session.

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 21

for it serves to show how much the patience and energy of one
individual, directed by taste and good sense, was able to achieve
for the preservation of the poetry of a nation within the limited
space of three months.

Besides affording assistance to almost every antiquary who has
written upon the ancient history of Scotland, " Bannatyne's Manu-
script" has afforded exclusively materials for the collection by Allan
Ramsay, called the Evergreen, in two little volumes, printed in the
year 1724, and for a selection of ancient Scottish poetry, subse-
quently published by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

Ramsay has left traces of his labours by some lines written at the
end of the Manuscript itself. I0 In his preface, he praises with truth
and spirit the works of the ancient Masters, to whom he had be-
come Editor. " I have observed," he says, " that readers of the
" best and most exquisite discernment frequently complain of our
" modern writings, as filled with affected delicacies and studied
" refinements, which they would gladly exchange for that natural
" strength of thought and simplicity of stile our forefathers prac-

10 These lines, dated July 6, 1726, are as follows : — " On the EVER GREEN'S being
gathered out of this Manuscript by Allan Ramsay, who had the loan of it from the Ho-
nourable Mr William Carmichaell, advocat, brotber-german to the Earl of Hynford," —

In Seventeen hundred, twenty-four, Fashions of words and witt may change,
did ALLAN RAMSAY keen- and rob in part their fame,

-ly gather from this Book that store, And make them to dull fops look strange,
which fills his EVER GREEN. but sence is still the same.

Thrice fifty and sax Towmonds neat And will bleez bright to that clear mind
frae when it was colected ; that loves the antient strains,

Let worthy Poets hope good fate, Like good CARMICHAEL, Patron kind
thro' Time they'll be respected. to whom this BOOK pertains.

22 MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

" tised ; to such, I hope, the following Collection of Poems will not
" be displeasing.

" When these good old Bards wrote, we had not yet made use of
" imported trimming upon our cloaths, nor of foreign embroidery
" in our writings. Their Poetry is the product of their own Coun-
" try, not pilfered and spoiled in the transportation from abroad :
" their images are native, and their landskips domestick ; copied
" from those fields and meadows we every day behold. The morn-
" ing rises (in the Poet's description) as she does in the Scottish ho-
" rizon. We are not carried to Greece or Italy for a shade, a stream,
" or a breeze. The groves rise in our own valleys ; the rivers flow
" from our own fountains, and the winds blow upon our own hills.
" I find not fault with those things, as they are in Greece or Italy :
" but with a Northern Poet for fetching his materials from these
" places, in a poem, of which his own country is the scene ; as our
" Hymners to the Spring and Makers of Pastorals frequently do.

" This Miscellany will likewise recommend itself, by the diver-
" sity of subjects and humour it contains. The grave description
" and the wanton story, the moral saying and the mirthful jest,
" will illustrate and alternately relieve each other.

' The Reader, whose temper is spleen'd with the vices and fol-
" lies now in fashion, may gratifie his humour with the satyres he
" will find upon the follies and vices that were uppermost two or
" three hundred years ago. The Man, whose inclinations are turn-
" ed to mirth, will be pleased to know how the good Fellow of a
" former age told his jovial tale ; and the Lover may divert him-
" self with the old-fashioned Sonnet of an amorous Poet in Q. Mar-

MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 23

" garet and Q. Mary's days. In a word, the following Collection
" will be such another prospect to the eye of the mind, as to the
" outward eye is the various meadow, where flowers of different
" hue and smell are mingled together in a beautiful irregularity." —
This passage contains a deserved, and not an inelegant compliment,
both to the merit of the ancient poets and the taste of George Ban-
natyne, who selected and arranged their compositions.

In point of editorial accuracy, Ramsay took greater license than
would be now admitted. He never scrupled altering the text where
he thought he could make an improvement, and very frequently he
was of that opinion when it was a very mistaken one. This, how-
ever, was not the fault of honest Allan, who, as observed by Lord
Hailes, was certainly a man of singular natural genius, although
incompetent to editing a collection of ancient Scottish Poems, for
want of the antiquarian lore essential to such a task. He had
announced his intention to publish two additional volumes of the
Evergreen, with lives and characters of the different Scottish poets,
but the success attending his first publication was probably not
sufficient to encourage him to proceed in completing the design.

The publication of Lord Hailes, is entitled " Ancient Scottish
Poems, published from the Manuscript of George Bannatyne. 1568.
Edinburgh, 1770," 12mo. It was designed to correct the many
infidelities and inaccuracies of the Evergreen, and is accompanied
with notes and a glossary, valuable as coming from the pen of so
celebrated an antiquary. Yet aliquando dormitat — Lord Hailes,
himself the most accurate of men, after spelling the name of our
patron correctly in the title page, calls him in the first page of his

24 MEMOIR OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

preface " one Ballantine." Had he discovered this misnomer in the
work while in the bookseller's hands, he would certainly have can-
celled the preface. The publication is an excellent specimen of
Bannatyne's Collection, though the severe delicacy of Lord Hailes's
taste has excluded some curious matter.

Here, therefore, must end our brief account of our Patron, Ban-
natyne, his Manuscript, and the use which has been made of it. Let
us conclude with the classical wish —

-Sine pondere terrain,

Spirantesque crocos, et in urna perpetuum ver.

EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK
OF GEORGE BANNATYNE.

. I.

THE TYMIS OF THE NATIUITIES OF MY FADER

JAMES BANNATYNE OF THE KIRKTOUN OF NEWTYLD,

AND OF HIS BAIRNIS GOTTIN BETUIX HIM AND

KATHERYNE TAILLEFEIR MY MODER, fcc.

HE wes borne, upoun the thrid day of Maij 1512 5eiris ; his godfader
was Mr James Kincragy, dene of Abirdene, and Joline Lichtoun, burges
of Edinburgh.

1. — LAURENCE BANNATYNE, his eldeft lone, borne upoun the xiiij
day of September, the 3eir of God 1539; his godfaderis war Mr Lau-
rence Tailliefeir, thefaurar of Dunkeld, and Mr Henry Balnavis of Hal-
hill ; his godmoder, .... Winde3ettis, the fpous of Johne Filchear.
— [Deceiffit the vj of October 1557.1]

2. — THOMAS BANNATYNE, his fecound lone, borne the lail day of

1 The words printed within brackets are inserted at a subsequent time as marginal notes
in the original MS.

D

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Auguft 1540 3eivis ; Mr Thomas Bellenden and Symone Prefloun, his
godfaderis ; Agnes Cokburne his godfmoder. — [Deceiflit the xiij of Au-
guft 1591- Levand eftir him on lyve xj bairnis ; to wit, vij fonis and
four dochteris.]

3. — JONET BANNATYNE, his eldeft dochter, borne the Lift day of
September 1541 3eiris ; hir godfaderis, Thomas Hammiltoun of Preift-
feild ; hir godmoderis, Jonet Purves, the fpous of Mr Thomas Marjori-
bankis, and Elizabeth Sung, tne fpous of Dauid Tod. — [Mareit to Hen-
ry Nifbet]

4. — AGNES BANNATYNE, his dochter, borne upoun the . . day of
. . . . the jeir of God 1542 3eiris ; hir godfader was George Taille-
feir, elder, his gudfader ; her godmoderis was Agnes Liddardaill, his
moder, and Dame Paterfone.

5. — ITEM. Upoun the viij day of Julij 1543, his wyf partit with ane
lone deid borne.

6 — BARBARA BANNATYNE, his dochter, was borne the v day of
Auguft, the 3eir of God 1544 ; hir godfaderis, Johne Paterfone, fone of
Thomas Paterfone ; hir godmoderis, Jonet Fifchear and Jonet Yrland.
— [Mareit, firft to Robert Paterfon, nixt to James Nicoll, merchantis.]

7. — GEORGE BANNATYNE, his fone, borne the xxij day of December
1545 5eiris , his godfaderis, George Taillefeir, his moderis broder, and
William Fifchear, his erne ; and his godmoder, Mawife Fifchear. — [Ma-
reit to Iflbbell Mawchan, &c.]

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 27

8. — JAMES BANNATYNE, his fone, borne the viij day of December
1546; his goclfaderis, James Corfby and James Baffintyne ; and his
godmoder, Agnes Bannatyne. — [Mareit firft to Margret Hay, dochter
to the Clark of Regifter ; and nixt to Helene Rutherfurd, dochter
to . . . .]

9. — CKISTIANE BANNATYNE, his dochter, borne the xxvij day of
Junij 1547; hir godfader was Johne <3un&> wryttar ; and hir god-
moderis war Cristiane Yrland, relict of umquhile Thomas Ryud, and
Margret . .

10. — MARION, my [his] dochtir, first of that name, borne the xij
day of December, 1548 3eiris ; hir godfader was Sr George Clapparton,
proveft of the Trinitie College ; hir godmoderis, Marioun Scott, relict
of George Henderfone of Forder, and Iffobell Rynd, fpous to Sr Neill
Layng, &c.

11. — ITEM. The ferd of Augufl 1549, his wyf parti t with ane lone.

12. — MARIOUN BANNATYNE, fecound of that name, borne the firft
of November 1551 ; hir godfader, Sr Robert Daniftoun, perfone of Dy-
fart ; hir godmoderis, Agnes Blakftok and Marioun Yrland. — [Mareit
to Thomas Akinheid, baillie.]

13. — ITEM. The xxvj day of Auguft, the jeir of God 1552 3eiris, his
wyf partit with ane fone.

14. — CATHARENE BANNATYNE, his dochter, borne upoun the le-

S8 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK

cound day of Februar, the 3eir of God 1553 jeiris; liir godfader was Johne
Carkettill of Fynglen ; and hir godmoder, Catherene Winde5ettis and
.Tonet Rynd, the fpous of Johne 5ung» wryttar.— [Mareit, firft to James
Bannatyne, 3ungar ; and nixt to William Steward, wryttar. Deceiffit
the xij of Julij 1592, levand eftir hir vj bairnis ; thrd to the firft, and
thre to the fecound.]

15 — JOHNE BANNATYNE, my [his] forie, was borne the xxviij day
of Appryll, the 3eir of God 1555 3eiris ; his godfaderis, Sr Johne Bellen-
den of Awchnowll, knycht, Juflice dark, and Mr Arthour Tailliefeir,
perfone of Crythmond, his gudfir bruder ; and his godmoder, ....
Swynttoun, the fpous of Mr Robert Herreott, &c. — [Deceiffit, the laft
day of Marche, 1571-]

16. — PATRIK BANNATYNE, his fone, borne the thrid day of Julij
1556 3eiris ; his godfaderis, Patrik Hepburne of Wawchtoun, Alexr.
Guthrie, burges of Edinburgh ; and his godmoder, .... Bertoun, the
fpous of Thomas Thomfone, Ypoticar.— [Mareit to Sara Johnftoun.]

17.— MARGARET BANNATYNE, his dochter, borne the thrid day of
December 1557; hir godfader, Sr Williame McDowell; hir godmoder,
Katherene Heudirfone, the fpous of Thomas Hendirfone, and Margret
Taillefeir, his wyffis filler. — [Deceiffit . . . .]

18. — CRISTIANE BANNATYNE, his dochter, borne the xv day of
Maij 1559 seiris; hir godfader was Maifler Henry Fowlis of Colling,
toun ; and hir godrnoderis, Criftiane Abircrumby, dochtir to Mr Johne
Abircrumby, and Katherene Irland. — [Deceiffit . . . .]

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 29

19. — ROBERT BANNATYNE, his fone, wes borne the xxiiij day of
December 1560 3eris ; his godfaderis, Robert Scott, wryttar, and Jolme
Mcneill, wryttar ; his godnioder, Katherene Murray, the fpous of Nicoll
Ramflay, &c. — [Mareit to Mariouu Blyth, &c.]

20. — HENRY BANNATYNE, his fone, borne the xiij day of Januar
1561 ; his godfaderis, his fone in law Henry Nifbett, and James Millar,
wryttar ; and his godmoder, Elizabeth Danielftoun, fpous of Sr Neill
Layng, kepar of the fignet, &c.

21. — SAMUAI,L BANXATYNE, his fone, borne upoun the fyift day
of Maij, the 3eir of God Im v° Ixiij 3eiris ; his godfaderis, Mr William
Scott of Balvery, and Mr James M°Gill, dark of regiftre ; and his god-
moder, Margret Lundy, Lady Wauchtoun, &c.

22. — ISSOBEI,L BANNATYNE. his dochter, borne upoun the xxij day
of Junij, the 3eir of God Im vc Ixiiij 3eiris ; hir godfader was Robert Pa-
terfone, his godfone ; and hir godmuderis was Iffbbell Banuatyne his
filler, and Jonet Bannatyne his dochter, &c. — [Deceiffit 3ung.]

23. — ANNA BANNATYNE, his 3ungeft dochter, borne upoun the xxly
day of Februar, the 3eir of God Im vc Ixv 3eiris ; hir godfader, Robert
Hendirfone, chirurgiane ; and hir godmoder, Margret Taillefeir, his
wyvis filler. — [Deceiffit 3ung.]

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KATHEKENE TAILLIEFEIR, his fpous and my moder, off the aige of
xlvij 3eiris, Deceiffit upoun the penult day of Junij, the 3eir of God lm v"
Ixx jeiris ; levand behind hir on lyve, ellevin bairnis ; off quhome viij ar
3it in his houfe unput to proffeit. Scho was ane woman cf godly con-
verfatioun, with quhome he led ane godly, cheretable, and plefand lyfe ;
quhais fawle ringis with God eternally, thruch Chryfl. Amen.

MY fader, JAMES BANXATYNE, wryttar, and of the Kirktoun of
Newtyld, being of the aige of Ixxj 3eiris, deceiffit upoun the firft day of
Januar, the 3eir of God Im vc Ixxxiij 3eiris ; levand behind him on lyve,
fax fonis and thre dochteris, all weill and fufficiently provydit be him,
undir God. He was a man, honorable, wyiie, and of ane upricht con-
Icience ; off all men weilbelovit, and to no man hurtfull or wrangus :
and endit his lyf, prayfing God with ane penitent hairt, and ane afTurit
howp of his merceis thruch Chryfl. Amen.

BARBARA BAXNATYXE, deceiffit the aucht day of Junij 1577, and of
hir aige 33 3eiris, levand behind her viij childryne ; to wit, tua laidis of
Ro' Paterfbnis ; and tua laiddis and four maidin bairnis of James Nicollis.

MAISTER THOMAS BANNATYNE, mybruder, deceifit the xiij of Au-
guft 1591 3eiris, being of the aige of Ij 3eiris, and ane of the Lordis of
the College of Juftice, &c. He left of childryne, vij fonis and four doch-
teris, &c.

KATHERYNE BANNATYNE, my fifter, deceifit the xij of Julij 1592,
levand of hir born vj chyldryne. Scho was of the aige of 35 3eiris.

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 31

MAISTKR JAMES BANNATYNE, my bruder, deceiffit the xvij of
September 1597, leivand thrd femell childryne begottin of him ; being
of the aige of Ij 3eiris.

JAMES BANNATYNE, my fone, deceiffit the xix day of Januar 1597
3eiris, off" the aige of audit 3eiris and fyve monethis, or thairby.

ISSOBELL MAAVCHAN,2 my fpous, departit this lyf the xxvij day of
Auguft, Anno I™ vj and thre 3eiris, off the aige of Ivij 3eiris ; ane god-
ly, honeft, wyife, vertewis, and trew matrone. Scho was firfl mareit to
nmquhile William Nifbett, baillie ; and laft to George Baunatyne,
merchand burges of Edinburgh.

The thrid day of Maij, the 3eir of God Im vc Ixxxvij 3eiris, JONET
BANNATYNE/ my dochter, was borne at fyve houris eftirnone, or thair-
by. Hir godfader is Mr James Bannatyne, wryttar, my brudar ; hir god-
moderis, Jonet Bannatyne, my fifler, and Jonet Miller, my ant, &c.

The faxt of September, 1589, my fone, JAMES BANNATYNE, wes
boi'ne abowt foure houris in the mornyng. His godfaderis war Mr Pa-
trik Bannatyne, my bruder, and James Nill)ett, my filler fone ; and his
godmoder is Katheryne Dick, the relict of umquhile William Biflett,
chirurgiane. — [Deceiffit.]

2 On the margin is written, " Iffobell Mawclian, my fpous, twyifs writtin," in reference
to the fimilar entry whicli follows on the next page.

3 On the margin is written in a different hand from the rest of the MS., " Jonet
natyne, my mother, departit the lajt of Marche 1631 ^eiris."

32 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK, &c.

The xxiij day of Merche 1592 jeiris, my wyf wes deliuerit of anedeid
maid bairne, at the plefour of God, &c.

*•
ISSOBELL MAAVCHAN, my fpous, depairtit this lyf the xxvij day of

Augutt 1603 3eiris,4 fcho being enterit in the Ivij 3eiris of hir aige. Scho
levit ane godly, honorable, and vertewis lyf all hir dayis. Scho wes ane
wyife, honeft, and trew matrone, and departit in the Lord in peice and
maift godly maner; quhais faule, I am aflurit, is in the Hevin, amangis
the faithful!, thruch the mereitis of Jefus Chryift our Saviour.

The 24 of Augnft 1606.

GEORGE FOWI,IS, JONET BANNATYNE, his fpous, my dochter, and
I, GEORGE BANNATYNE, thair fader, being dwelland in Dreghorne,
befyde Colingtoun, the nureife infectit in the peft, being upoun ane
Sounday, and the fecound day of the change of the mone, and Sanct Bar-
tilmo his day ; and fcho deceiflit upoun the Tyfday nixt thaireftir, tlie
26 day of the fame moneth. And eftir ane clenging, na forder truble
come to our houiliald, bliffit be the Almichty God, off his Majefteis mi-
racoulufe and mercifull deliuerance, &c.

4 On the margin of the MS. is repeated, " Illobell Mawchan departit the 27 of Augult
J003."

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 33

No. II.

MEMORANDUMS OF CERTAIN EVIDENTIS AND UTHERIS

WRITTIS CONCERNING GEORGE BANNATYNE.

ANNO 1582.

THE HOUSE OF LEITH.

RENUNCIATION maid be George Bannatyne of the first seisin
gevin be James Bannatyne bis fader to him upon the redemptioun
of xl s. of his tenement of land lyand in Leith, " betwix the lands
of umquhile Andro Tynnynghame, and now pertyning to the airis
of Florence Cornetoun upon the sowth, and the tenement of land per-
tening to Wm Fovvlar upon the north, and the common cloise and
street upon the west, and the tenement of the land of Corstorphyne
now pertening to the airis and successors of umquhile David Mel-
vill upon the eistsyd, &c." — Done at Leith the last day of June,
1572.

NEW CHARTER OF THE HOUSE OF I.EITH.

Ane new charter maid to the said George Bannatyne be his said
fader of the said house and tenement of Leith, reserving the said
James lyftyme thairof. Daitit at Dysert, first July 1572, &c. Wit-
ness, " Sir George Strawchan, vicar of Dysert, Johne Sampsone,
panter, Patrik Bannatyne his sone."

Sasine followed in favour of the said George, under the above re-
servations of same date.

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34 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK

Contract maid betvvix James Banna tyne, burges of Edinburgh,
and William Fowlar, sone and air of umquhile John Fowlar, bur-
ges of the said burgh. Dated at Edinburgh, 8th July 1553, sub-
scrivit with baith thair handis. Witnesses, " Johne Carkettill of
Fynglen, Mr Johne Bannatyne and Gilbert Greg," &c. " This said
contract concernis the vendition and allienation of the tenement and
west land pertening to the said William being brunt be Ingland
lyand in Leith .'

ANE CHARTER THAIRUPOUN.

Charter of venditioun to James Bannatyne and Katheryne Tallie-
feir his spouse, be William Fowlair burges of Edinburgh, makand
Johne Carkettill of Finglen his baillie, for sesing to be geven to
thame of his said west tenement of land, lyand in maner befoir spe-
cifeit, " with the sowth half of the close lyand at the backsyd of the
said William uthir tenement of land lyand on ye north syd of the
said tenement now said." Dated at Edinburgh, 24th July, 1553.
Witnessis, " Gilbert Greg burges of Edinburgh, David Kingome,
James Libbertoun and Johne Robesone, with utheris diverse."

SEISING THAIRUPOUN.

Sasine followed upon this charter in favour of the saids James
Bannatyne and Katherine Tailliefer, and " the langer levar of thame
twa, thair airis and assignayis heretablie of the said tenement."
Dated 24th July, 1553 years. Witnesses, " Sir George Clappertoun
provost of the Trinitie College, Sir Cuthbert Patersone, James Lib-
bertoun, Johne Robesone notar."

CHARTER OF THE LAND OF GARTHLAND.

Charter maid be Owthreid M'Dowall of Garthland to James Ban-
natyne of the Kirktoun of Newtyld, and Jonet Cokburne his spouse

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 35

in lyfrent, and George Bannatyne his sone, heretably, of the twa
merk land of Ardwall of awld extent, lyand in the barony of Cors-
walt, parish of Kirkcum and sheriffdom of Wigtoun, sealed and
subscribit 3d August, 1577. Witnesses, John Henderson writer,
Alexander Lesk, David Moysie and Gavyne Alexander.

Sasine followed theron the 23d August, 1577- "Redemit

at Merti-

Ane uthir charter maid be the said Laird of Gartland to the mes,ii9<;.
said James Bannatyne in lyferent, and George his sone, in fee of the
said merk land of Ardwall. Dated third August, 1577.

Sasine followed theron 23d August, 1577.

CONTRACT MAID THERUPOUN.

" Memorandum, Robert Gourlaw and Adame Wallace, burgesses
of Edinburgh, as cautionaris for the yeirly payment of thir twa
annuallis foresaidis untill the full redemptioun therof, confonne to
ane obligation and decreit of the dait at Edr, the day and 3eir
of God foirsaid, and the said land of Garthland to releif thame."

MEDOP.

Ane charter maid be Alexr Drummond of Medop to James and " Payit."
George Bannatynes, for infefting the former in liferent and latter in
fee of ane annuallrent of forty pounds yearly, to be uplifted of the
lands of Medop, with the fortalice, &c. lying in the sherifdorn of
Linlithgow. Dated at Edinburgh, 14th June, 1578.

Sasine followed thereon 23d July, 1578. " Payit."

Mem: Rob1 Abercromby is surety for payment of the annualrent, " Payit."
in terms of aue decreit of the Lords of Counsale, 14th June, 1578.

Item, ane contract maid be John Logan of Sherifbra and Cow-
stoun, Thomas Young wryter, surety for him on the ane part, and
George Bannatyne merchand burgess of Edinburgh, on the uder

36 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK

part, for infeftment to be given the said George Bannatyne, of an
annualrent of fyfty merks furth of his acres and lands of Hillhouse-
field. Dated at Edinburgh, 21st May, 1588.

Item, a charter made by the said Johne Logan to the same effect,
of the same date.

Instruments of seising thereupoun followed in favour of George
Bannatyne and of Isobell Mauchan his spouse, 24th April, 1590.
Amongst the witnesses occurs " Henry Bannatyne, brudar to the
said George Bannatyne."

GOGAR. CHARTER.

Ane charter maid to me be James Bannatyne, my fader, of ane
yearly annualrent of forty merks out of " all and haill his annuall
rent of ane hundred pounds, quherin he is infeft be ye laird of Res-
talrig, and Dame Agnes Gray, Lady Home his moder, in the lands
and toun of Gogar." Dated 10th Nov. 1577.

Sasine followed thereon 16th January, 1577.

Obligation of Dame Agnes Gray Lady Home lyfrenter, and Ro-
bert Logan of Restalrig heritor of the lands of Gogar, upon which
a decreet followed in favour of James Bannatyne, of a hundred
pounds during his lifetime, and to the heirs particularly iufeft " be
the said James, after his deceiss, quhairof the said George Banna-
tyne is infeft in maner foresaid of xl markis. The decreet is dated
at Edinburgh, day of 1585."

WALK MYLNE.

Charter by Sir Lues Bellenden of Awchnoull knight, clerk of
Justiciarie, to James Bannatyne elder, and George Bannatyne his
sone, of the yearly annuall of fifty merks for infeftmeut in their fa-
vour of the Walk Mylne and mylne therof. Dated 6th August, 1580.

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 37

Witnesses, Patrick Bellenden of Stenhouse his fader-bruder, Johne
Bannatyne and Johne Crychtoun his servitouris.

Sasine followed 18th August, 1580. Witness, James Bannatyne
younger, writer, Robert Huntar tailor at the Westport, William Blak
in Walk Mylne, Andro Kello servitor to Archibald Thomsone at the
said mylne.

GIRVAL MAINS.

Ane charter maid for sesing to be gevin be Alex1 Kennedy, sone " Huk-
and air to Gilbert Kennedy of Bog, &c., to James Bannatyne elder,
in liferent, and George Bannatyne in fee of ane annualrent of twenty
punds furth of the lands of Girval Mains, pertaining to Gilbert
Kennedy of Bog. Dated last day of April, 1580.

Sasine followed 24th August, 1580. "Payit.

Ane obligation to the said James and George Bannatyne, regis- " Payit.
tered in the books of council by Gilbert Kennedy of Girval Mains,
as principal, and William Home burgess of Edinburgh, as surety
for payment of the said annualrent. Dated 29th April, 1580. Wit-
nesses, James Logane clerk of the Canongate, Peter M'Gowen son
to Patrick Provost of Whytehorn, John Huntar and Mr James.
Bannatyne son to the said James.

Memorandum, ane reversion grantit and given be thame thair-
upoun for the payment of the soum of iijc merkis, with the byrunis.

CANNOMYLNIS.

Ane charter maid be Sir Lues Bellenden of Awchnowll knight,
&c. for infeftment to be given to George Bannatyne his heirs and
assignees, of an annualrent of fourscore ten merkis, to be tane up
yearly and termly of his myllis and mill lands of the Cannomylnis,
conforme to the charter maid therupon, of date at Edinburgh, 12th.

38

EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK

'• Bot my name
borrovvit herin."

" Pertenis to
James Bannatyn
yunger."

Nota."

December, 1580. Witnesses, Johne Grahame, Mr Gavvyne Borth-
wik and John Bannatyne servitours to the said Sir Lues Bellenden.

Sasine followed thereon in favour of the said George Bannatyne
the penult day of December, 1580.

Ane obligation maid to the said George be the said Sir Lues
Bellenden, and Wm Adamsone, as surety for him, for payment of
said annualrent. Dated 3d December, 1580. Witnesses, Henry
Nisbet, Johne Grahame and Johne Bannatyne, servitors to the
said Sir Lues.

Ane reversion gevin by the said George Bannatyne to the said
Sir Lues for redemptioun of the said annualrent, " be deliverance to
me or Katheryne Bannatyne and hir airis off the sovvme of nyne
hundreth merks, with the byrunis and mailis, gif ony happinis to be
awin." Dated at Edinburgh, the day of 1580.

" Memorandum, this said nyne hundred merkis laid upoun the
said Cannomyllis, appertynis to my said sister Katheryne Banna-
tyne, relict of umquhile James Bannatyne burges of Edinburgh,
quhilk silver was ressavit fra Johne Towris of Inverleyth in hir and
hir sonis name, for the renunciatioun maid be hir, and to be maid
be hir sone, of the ten aikaris of land qlk the said James hir hus-
band was infeft into be David Mawchan, for payment to the said
David of certane sowmes of mony quhilk he and his predecessors
had layit therupoun in the handis of the lairdis of Inverleyth. The
quhilkis aickaris the said Johne Towris of Inverleyth has redemit be
payment of the principale sowme of vjc merks or therby, and be
satisfeing of the said Katharine of hir kyndnes, lies payit vthir iijc
merkis, extending to the said sowme of ixc merkis, quhilkis aickaris
and land my brethir Maister Thomas Bannatyne and Henry Nisbet

: OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 39

lies obleist thame, be way of contract registrat in the buikis of
counsale the day of , the 3eir of God jmvclxxx 3eiris,

to the said Johne Towns of Inuerleyth, at the resset of the said
sowme, to cause the said Katherynes airis to remince all tytill had
be thame in and to the same at his perfyt aige. " And thairfoir
thay, be the avyce and consultation of freindis, with the consent of
the said Katheryne lyfrentar therof, lies thocht glide and expedient
to infeft me in to the annuallrent therof jeirly untill the redemption
of the same, provyding that the said Katheryne and hir airis intro-
met and uptak the samyn, and dispone therupoim at hir plesure ;
quhilk annuallrent extendis 3eirly till fourscoir ten merkis, &c.

" In witness hereof, I haif subscrivit this my intention and decla-
ration, with my hand, at Edinburgh, the aucht day of December, the
3eir of God jmvc and Ixxx seiris, befoir thir witnesses, Maisteris
James Bannatyne, Patrick Bannatyne my brethir, and Robert Ban-
natyne also my bruthir, with utheris diA'erse."

" George Bannatyne, with my hand."

Ane charter maid be James Guthrie of Bannabicht, with consent
of Cristiane Barroun his spous, and Mr James Guthrie, his eldest
sone and aire, to George Bannatyne burges of Edinr, and Issobell
Mauchan his spouse, of all and haill ane annuallrent of jc merkis
yeirly, to be upliftit out of the samyn landis of Bannabicht, quhere-
upon the said George hes given ane reversioun contenand the
sowme of ane thowsand merkis. Dated 24th May, 1588.

Sasine followed thereon 22d Oct. 1589.

Item, ane contract past betuix thame for the yeirly annuall therof,

40 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK

Dated 24th May, and the last day of August, 1588, and registered
in the books of Council, at Edinburgh, the last day of July, 1594.
" This is dischargit by me, George Faults, to the Laird Kin-
ff/tms."

" The copy of my burgess-schip and gild bruder, &c. &c.

" At Edr, the xxvij of October, 1587 3eiris.

" The quhilk day, in presens of the provost and baillies and
counsale of the burgh of Edr, George Bannatyne, sone lawchfull to
umquhile James Bannatyne wry ttar, burges therof,is maid burges and
gild bruder of the said burgh, be his said umquhile fader ; and hes
payit thretty thre s. iiij d. for his dewty, to Mr Michaell Chisholme
dene of the gild of the said burgh. Extractit furth of the buk of
dene of gild, be me, Mr Alex1 Guthry, commoun clerk of the said
burgh."

Acquittance of Mr Peter sung of Seytoun maid to John Camp-
bell of Ardkiules principall, and George Bannatyne, John Cunning-
hame, merchandis, and John M'Cure, his sureties for him, for pay-
ment of vm. merkis at Martimes 1591, quhilk wes satisfeit and payit
to the said Mr. Petir. Dated xiiij June, 1591 ; recorded in the books
of Councell, 16th Nov. 1592.

"Redemit Ane contract maid betwixt James Hamiltoun of Ruchbank, and
and payit."

Dame Margaret Dischingtoun of Langherdmestoun, and James Ha-
milton, the eldest son, and George Bannatyne, anent the alienation
of an annualrent of two hundred merkis vpoun the reversion of
two thousand merks to the said George, forth of their lands of

OF GEORGE BANNATYNE. 41

Linghardmestoun and Curry, and Henry Nisbett, and W'n Hamil-
ton, and John Gardin Lytstar, as cautioners with thame to the said
George. Dated 19th and 26th November, 1591-

Charter by the saidis James, Dame Margaret, and James Hamil-
ton younger, their son therupon ; of the dait foirsaid.

Sasine following theron. Dated 26th day of Novr, 1591.

Item, ane contract or obligation maid be umquhile Andro Jowssy
burgess of Edinr, and Sara Himtar his spouse, to George Banna-
tyne and Issobell Mauchan his spouse, of ane annualrent of ane hun-
dreth poundis to be payit furth of their twa tenements, the ane ly-
and in Libbertons wynd, the other lyand at Alex. Bruces closs
head. Dated 26th May, 1593. Registered in the towns books 2d
December, 1595 — Sasine following theron, 15th June, 1597.

Retour and service of said Henry Jowssy as heir to his umquile " Quhilk

retour is

father William Smaill being baillie, 6th April, 1596. deliverit

agane to

Confirmation of said Andro Jowssys testament, 27th February, John Ho"

wisone."

1595, contenand that he leives his spous, Sara Huntar, tutrix to his
haill bairnis ; and in caise of his marriage heireafter, nominatis
John Howison merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, spous to Margaret
Jowssy, his brother's daughter, in tutor.

Note. — The writings relative to the two tenements delivered to
Patrick Moscrop and his wife, 1st July, 1597.

" The first of Appryle, 1598.

" I haif registrat ane acquittance of Edward Nesbit my gudsone
maid to me George Bannatyne, and Isobell Mauchan his moder and

F

42 EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIALL BUIK, &c.

spous to the said George, of the deliverance of the particulars air-
schip guidis pertening to the said Edward, and of all and sundry his
writtis, evidentis, acquittance, contractis and utheris writtis quhat-
sumever pertenyng to him ; and siclyk, of the sowme of sevin hun-
dreth ten pounds mony of this realme, and of all manner things he
may clame of thame. Of the dait, at Edinr, the last day of August
j"1 vc fourscoir and twelff yeiris, and registrat in the borovv con-
tract buk of Edinr the first day of Appryl, the yeir of God jm vc
fourscore auchteen yeris."

Nota — That E. Nisbett wes borne the 18 day of Appryll, 1571>
and wes bapteisit the xx day of the same month, and is of perfyt
age of xxi yeir at the dait foirsaid.

Ane Acquittance maid be Jonet Bannatyne and John Nisbett his
spouse, to George Bannatyne, of the sowmes of fyve hundred and
one hundred merks. Dated 22d February, 1597. Registered in
the contract book of the burgh, 1st April, 1598.

" The 22 of December, 1601.

" Redemit " I and Isobell Maucb.an my spous ressavit seisin conforme to our
andpayit."

contract of the propertie of the foirland now pertening to Margaret

Carkettill dochter and air of umquhill George Carkettill of Munk-
rig with consent of Archd Hamilton of Beirfurd now her spouse."

This seisin, gevin be Margret Carkettill and hir spous is redeinit,
and therfor is deleit and renuncit.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONTENTS

OF

GEORGE BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT.

THE Manuscript Collection of Poems, written by George Banna-
tyne in the year 1 568, is, as stated in the preceding Memoir, a folio
volume,1 containing upwards of 800 pages. That it was compiled
and written at one or nearly the same period, is evident from a
careful examination, although a few short poems, which belong to
the end of the 16th, or early part of the 17th century, have been
inserted on some blank leaves of the volume. These interpolations
are pointed out in the following list of contents.

The care bestowed by Bannatyne in making so extensive a col-
lection of the remains of our early Makers, and his occasional ad-
dresses to the reader, seem to denote that it was intended for pub-
lication. We cannot, however, claim for him the merit of being the
only or even the earliest collector ; and it is worthy of remark, that
Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, when advanced age had ren-
dered him incapable of taking any active part in public affairs,

1 The Manuscript recently Las been inlaid, and bound splendidly in two volumes.

44 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONTENTS OF

should have amused himself about the same time in a similar oc-
cupation ; and indeed the task of collecting our popular literature
may have been attempted by other individuals, although the result
of their labours has been less fortunate.

The earliest known collection of miscellaneous Scotish poetry
worthy of notice, is a volume, in the Auchinleck Library, written
by JOHN ASLOAN about the year 1515 ; but, unfortunately, only a
portion of the original volume has been preserved. In this portion,
however, we find ' the Buke of the Chess,' Henryson's ' Orpheus
and Eurydice,' ' the Buke of the Howlat' by Holland, ' the Buke of
the Sevin Sages,' and a fragment of ' the Preistis of Peblis,' besides
some prose writings, including the valuable contemporary Chro-
nicle of the reign of James II. of Scotland. From a table of con-
tents at the beginning of the volume, it appears originally to have
consisted of 71 articles, 36 of which have been preserved, but par-
tially mutilated. Among the articles in the portion which is lost,
were the Bukes ' of Half Coilzear,' ' of Sir Golagrus, and Sir Ga-
wane,' and ' of Colkelby ;' with ' Mr Robert Hendersone's Doune
on fut by Forth,' and his ' Fablis of Esope ;' ' the Buke of Curtasy
and of Nurtur,' ' the Document of Sir Gilbert Hay ;' and various
other interesting ' bukes' and ' ballatis.'

The Manuscript of Sir Richard Maitland is confessedly one of
great importance, without admitting with Pinkerton that it is " the
chief treasure of ancient Scotish poetry ;" and it is matter of regret
that it should not have been deposited in a place easier of access for
literary purposes than the Pepysian Library, in Magdalene College,
Cambridge. The Manuscript is a small folio of 366 pages, and con-

GEORGE BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT. 15

tains 176 articles, enumerated by Mr Pinkerton in his two volumes
of Ancient Scotish Poetry, selected from that Manuscript2 in the
year 1786. A very considerable number of the poems (about one-
third) are common to both collections ; those of most value, pecu-
liar to the Cambridge Manuscript, being ' Peblis to the Play ;' ' King
Hart,' by Bishop Douglas ; Dunbar's Tale of the ' Twa Married Wo-
men and the Wedow ;' ' The Murning Maiden ;' and the original
Poems by the venerable Collector himself, which are included in
the publication referred to.

Another Manuscript which may be here noticed is one less known,
and of less extent, in consequence of many leaves having been torn
out of the middle of the volume. It is deposited with Bishop More's
MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, and was written by
one John Ridpath, in the year 1623 ; and is chiefly valuable, as
containing several poems by Dunbar, not elsewhere preserved ; but
in other respects it might be considered as a transcript of part of
Sir Richard Maitland's Manuscript.

As " Mr Dunbar," and several other of our old poets, are under
great obligations to Allan Ramsay, who was the first to recom-
mend them to public notice, we shall here insert some lines by him,
which are not included in any edition of his works. They were
intended to have been prefixed to the Evergreen, and are worthy of
preservation, not so much in regard to any merit which they possess,

- Appendix, p. 437-467. — There is also a 4to MS. dated 1585, in the hand-wri-
ting of Mary Maitland, daughter of Sir Richard. It consists of 96 pieces, chiefly
transcripts from the folio MS. of Sir R. Maitland's own poems and of others by
contemporary poets, during the latter half of the 16th century.

46 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONTENTS OF

but as expressing his sentiments respecting the merits of some of
our early Makers : —

SOME FEW OF THE CONTENTS.3

HEIR mighty JAMES the First, the best of Kings,
Imploys the merry Muse, and smyling sings.
Grave BALANTYNE, in verse divinely wyse,
Maliis Vertew triumph owre fals fleechand Vyse.

And heir DUNBAR does with unbound ingyne,
In satyre, joke, and in the serious schyne.
He to best poets skairslie zields in oclit ;
In language he may fail, but not in thocht.

Blyth KENNEDIE, contesting for the bays,
Attackis his freind DUNBAR in comick layis,
And seims the fittest hand (of ony then)
Against sae fell a fae to draw his pen.

Heir LETHINGTON the Statisman courts the Nyne,
Draps politicks a quhyle, and turns divyne ;
Sings the Creation, and fair Eden tint,
And promise made to man, man durst not hint.

To rouse couragious fyre behald the field,

Quhair Hardyknute, with lanss, bow, sword and scheild,

With his braif Sonis, dantit the King of Norss,

And cleithed the plain with mony a saules cors.

At Harlaw and Redsquire, the sonis may leir,

How thair forbeirs were unacquaiut with feir.

Quhen frae the dumps ze wald zour mind discharge,
Then tak the air in smiling SEMPLIS Berge :

5 From a copy printed as a broadside, in double columns, without date.

GEORGE BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT. 17

Or heir him jyb the carlis did Grissy blame,

Quhen eild and spyte takis place of zouthheids Flame.

Licht skirtit lasses, and the girnand wyfe,

FLEMING and SCOT haif painted to the lyfe.

SCOT, sweit tungd SCOT, quha sings the Welcum hame

To MARY, our maist bony Soverane Danie ;

How lyflie he and amorous STUART sing !

Quhen lufe and bewtie bid them spred the wing.

To mend zour morals, with delyt attend,
Quhyle HENRYSOX dois guidness recommend ;
Quhyle Truth throw his transport Fablis scbynes,
And all the mynd to quhat is just inelynes.

Amangst these starnis of ane immortal bleis,
MONTGOMERY'S quatorsimes sail evir pleis ;
His eisy sangs, his Cherry and the Slae,
Sail be esteimd quhyle siehs saft lufe betray.

LINDSAY the Lyon, hardly here is sene,
But in the third Apartment of the Grene,1*
He sail appeir as on the verdant Stage ;
He towind the vyces of a corrupt aige.

Thair Warkis I've publisht, neat, correct, and fair,
Frae antique rnanuscriptis, with utmost cair.
Thus to their fame, a monument we raise,
Quhilk sail endure quhyle Tymis telhl out be days.

In the following list of the contents of the Manuscript, the first
line of every poem is printed in Italic letters ; the titles, the number
of stanzas and lines, and the names of authors when they occur,
are carefully specified, and references given to works in which they
have been printed.

4 Ramsay announced his intention to publish a third and fourth volume of the Evergreen.

48 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONTENTS OF

The following abbreviations are used for the works to which most
frequent reference is made, being those, the editors of which, with
more or less fidelity, appear to have had immediate recourse to
Bannatyne's Manuscript, in compiling their several publications :

Rams. — The Ever Green, being a Collection of Scots Poems, wrote
by the ingenious before 1600. Published by Allan Ram-
say. Edinburgh, 1724, 2 vols. 12mo.

Hailes. — Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of
George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII. [Edited by Sir David
Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.] Edinburgh, 1770, 12mo.

Pink. M. P. — Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print ;
but now published from the MS. Collections of Sir Rich-
ard Maitland of Lethington, Knight. [By John Pinker-
ton.] London, 1786, 2 vols. post 8vo.

Sibb. — Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, from the thirteenth century
to the union of the Crowns. By John Sibbald. Edin-
burgh, 1802, 4 vols. 8vo.

Scott. — Poems by Alexander Scott, from a Manuscript written
[by George Bannatyne] in the year 1568. Edinburgh,

1821, post 8vo. [This volume was not printed for sale,
and the impression was limited to one hundred copies for
private distribution, at the expense of the editor.]

Select Remains. — Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry
of Scotland. [Edited by David Laing.] Edinburgh,

1822, small 4to.

Dunb. — The Poems of William Dunbar, and of some of his Con-
temporaries. 1829- 2 vols. post 8vo. (now in the press.)

:, A \ ff

'iwr ctodly

" Ane most Godlie, mirrie, and lustie Rapsodie maide be sundrie Folio 1.
learned Scots Poets, and written be George Bannatyne, in
the tyme of his youth."

THIS title is written at the left hand corner of the first folio, according to the
facsimile given on the opposite page. There is prefixed, however, a leaf not num-
bered, at the head of which is written, " Edin. Nov20lh, 1712. — This book is
gifted to Mr WILLIAM CARMICHAELL, be me

WILL. FOULIS.

On the same page are two introductory stanzas of nine lines, by BANNATYNE,
describing the order followed in classing, under five heads, the Poems contained in
the MS. They are entitled, " The Wryttar to the Reidaris," and begin, —

1. "56 reverend redaris tldr workis revolving richt."

The reader will find them printed at page of the present volume. The
reverse of the leaf contains seven anonymous lines, beginning,

" God is a substance for ever durable."

2. " HEIR begynis the richt excellent, godly, and lernitwerk callit theBennerof I.

Pietie, compylit be the famous and renowmit poet, Mr Jo. Bellenden, Arche-
den of Mvrray, concerning the incarnatioun of our Saluiour Chryist."
" Quhen goldin Phebus movitfra the ram."

22 stanzas of eight lines, with this colophon," Heir endis the Benner of Pietie,
compylit be Maister Johine Bellentyne, Archedene of Murray. "

Duplicate copy, No. 373.

" And followis the proheme of the cosmographie of the cuntre of Scot-
land, compylit be the said Mr Johine Bellentyne."

3. " The proheme of the Croniculs, compylit be the famous and renownit clerk, 4.

Maister Johine Bellentyne, Archedene of Mvrray, direct to King James the
Fyift, verry lernit and morale."
" Qulien silver Diane full ofbemis Iricht."

40 stanzas of nine lines. " ffinis. Compyld be Maister Johine Bellenden."
Rams. 1. 31 Sibb. 11. 49. Prefixed also to the editions of Bellenden's transla-
tion of Hector Boece.

50 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

4. " The prollog of tbe tent bulk of Virgill, compyld be the noble poet Mr. Gawyn Fol. 9.

Dowglafs, Bischop of Dumkeld : of Godis workis, to be incomprehensible
be man, wit, or refsone, as for exaple of the Trinitie."
" He plasmatour ofthingis vniuersall."

35 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Mr. Gawyne Dowglas.
Douglas's translation of Virgil, folio, p. 308, &c.

5. " Ane ballat of the creatiou^ of the warld, man, his fall ami redemptioun, maid 12.

to the tone of the bankis of Helecon."
" God be his word his work began."

14 stanzas of the same measure as the Cherrie and the Slae.
" ffinis. q. Sr Richart Maitland of Lethingtoun, Knycht."

Rams. 1. 161. — Poems of Sir K. ]\Iaitland, (now printing at Glasgow,) 4to.

C. " The Ixxxiii Psalme of Dauid." 14.

" God for thy grace, tfioio keip no moir silence"

7 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

7. " Ffollowis a song of him lying in poynt of deth." 14b.
" O Lord my God, sen I am brocht To grit distress."

32 lines.* Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 37 j.

8. Six anonymous stanzas, of seven lines, beginning, 15.

" Off all the gude createuris of Goddis creating"

They are entitled, " The Sawle of man" — " The Lyfe in man" — " Conscience"
— " Prayar and Repentance" — " Fi'aith" — and " Ffeir of God." After these
verses are the following lines :

" ARISTOTLE. 15b.

Bettir it is to dye, The sawlis lyfe to save,
Than to loiss the sawle, The bodyis lyfe to have.

SENECA.

It is better to half the sawle garnissid w' vertew,
Than the body deckid w' purple, gold, or blew.
Duplicate copy of some of the stanzas, No. 389.

9. " The first Salme. Beatus vir." 10h.
" Happie is hie, hes hold him/re."

8 stanzas of four lines, ffiuis. q. Alex. Scott.

Scott's Poems, p. 1.

* The number of lines contained in the different poems is generally reckoned according as they are
written in the manuscript.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 51

10. " The fyifty Pslialme." Fol. 16.
" Lord God deliuer me, allace."

1 1 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Scott, 2 Duplicate copy, No. S76.

11. " To tttf, O mercifull Salviour Jesus." 17b.

20 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dunibar.
Duub. 1. 239 — Duplicate copy, No. 377.

12. " O most heich and eternall king." 20.

10 stanzas, with this burden,

" He that will leifmost lerne to dy." ffinis. q. Norvall.
Duplicate copy, No. 378.

13. " Christe qui lux es et Dies, 21.

O Jesu Chryst, the rcrry lie/it."

7 stanzas of eight lines — the first and last lines of each stanza in Latin. Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 379.

14. " O file/it ofhicht, and Held oflicht most cleir." 21b.

5 stanzas of five lines. Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 380.

15. " Spair me gud Lord, and mak me clvne."

6 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,
" Thau parce michi Domiite." Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 382.

16. " Cum Italy Spreit maist sitperne."

3 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,

" Veni creator Spiritus." Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 383.

17. " 56 sonis of men be mirry and ff laid."

6 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,
" Laudatc servi Dominion." Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 38-t.

18. " ze lhat contreit benc and confest."

4 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,

" Letamini Justi in Domino.' Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 385.

19. " Ane prayer for the pest."

" O cterne God ofjioicer infm>/t."

52 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

11 stanzas of eight lines. After ffinis, (in a different hand,) q. Henrysone.
Duplicate copy, No. 387.

20. " The song of the Virgin Mary." Fol. 2 jb.
" With lawd andprayiss my saule lies magnifeid."

10 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Duplicate copy, No. 388.

Ffollowis ballads of the nativitie of Chryste.

21. " Now glaidith euery liffis creature." 27.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Dunb. 11. 55.

22. " Rorate cell desuper." ~i~.

Heuins distill $our balmy schouris.

7 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumhar.
Hailes, 83 — Dunb. ). 236.

23. " Jerusalem rejoss for joy." 27b.

5 stanzas of eight lines, the hurden of each,
" Illuminare Jerusalem." Anon.

Dunb. 11. 57.

2-1. " Haill Goddis Sone of myelitis maist." 28.

13 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each alternately,
" Beatus venter qvi te portauit,"
" Beata vbera que suxisti." Anon.

25. « We that ar bocht w' Chrystis blude." 29.

13 stanzas of eight lines — the hurden of each,
" Virgo peperit Salualorem" Anon.

26. " Omnipotent Fader, Sone, and Holy Gaist." 30b.
4 stanzas of eight lines — the hurden of each,

" Pro nobis Chrishis homofactus est."

27. " TJie sterne is rissin of our rcdemptioun" 30''.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Dunb. 11.59.

ffinis nativitatis Dei. Sequitur de eius passione quedeni
cantilenas.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 156S. 53

28. " My wofullhairt me stoicndis throw the ranis." Fol. 31.

10 stanzas of eight lines — the burden of each,

" Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas." After ifinis (in a different hand) q. Clerk.
Dunb. 11. ...

29. " O wondit spreit and saule in till exile" 32.

16 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

30. " Compacience perssis, rewth and mercy stoundis." 33b.
8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

ffinis. De passione et sequitur de resurrectione.

31. " Thoiv that hes bene obedient," 34.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

32. " Surrexit Dominus de sepulchre." 34b.
5 stanzas of eight lines, with this burden,

" Surrexit sicut dixit, Allelue." Anon.

Dunb. 11. 61.

33. " Done is a battell on the dragon blah." 35.
5 stanzas of eight lines, each ending,

" Surrexit Dominus de sepukhro." ffinis. q. Dunbar.
Hailes, 85 Dunb. 1. 247.

Ffollowis exortationis of Chryst to all synnaris to repent
thaine of the same.

34. " O man, remember, and prent in to thy tho'." 35b-

20 stanzas of eight lines, eacli ending,

" Amend thy miss this plaig sail pass thefra." ffinis. q. Stewart.

35. " To the hie potent blissfull Trinitie." 37.

5 stanzas of eight lines each, ending,

" A summo celo egressio eius est." Anon.

36. " O man, vnthanlifull to thy Creator." 37b.

6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

37. " Chryist croivnit king and conquerour" 38b.

16 stanzas of eight lines. (Only the first 2 lines of the 9th stanza are found
in the MS.) Anon.

Duplicate copy, NO. 380.

54 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

38. " Eternal/ King, that sittis in hcvin so hie." Fol. 39b.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Duplicate copy, (with an additional stanza,) No. 381.

39. " Quhen be devyne deliberatioun." 39b.

7 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.
Duplicate copy, No. 374.

40. " O Lord my God, on qultome I do depend.' 41.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

41. " O creaturis creat of me $our Creator.'' 41b.

12 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Ledgait, Monk of Bery.
Duplicate copy, No. 391.

Heir endis the First Pairt of this Biike, contenaiid ballads of 43.
Theoligie.

Followis the Secound Pairt of this Buk, conteneand verry sin- 43^.
gular Ballatis, full of wisdome and moralitie, &c.

Tu vircndo bonos, scribendo sequare peritos.

On the same page are 7 lines on " Wit," beginning, 44.

" The grittest tresour w'otvt comparison." Anon.

42. " Furth throw aneforrest as I fure." 44.

15 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,
" In alkin materis mesur iM." Anon.
Duplicate copy, No. 390.

43. The Prollog of the Nynt Buk of Virgell. In comendatioun of Vertew. 45.

" Tliir lusty versis of he nobilite"
3 stanzas of six lines, ffinis. q. Gawyn Dowglas.
Douglas's Translation of Virgil, folio, p. 271, &c.

44. " QuhyJome in Grecc, that nobill rcgioun." 45''.

9 stanzas of seven linos, ffinis. q. Chawseir.
Duplicate copy, No. 392.

45. " Allone as I went up and doun." 4i;\

7 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,

" Obey and thank thy God of all." ffinis. q. Mr Ro* Henrysonc.
Hailes, 10j Sibli. i. 183 — Duplicat,- copy, No. 393.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 55

46. " Memento homo quod cinis es." Fol. 47.

6 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Hailes, 94 Dunb. 1. 249.

47. " O mortall man, remembir nycht ami day." 48.

6 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Lichtoun Monicus.
Duiib. 11. ...

48. " Off lentron in the first mornyny," 48b.

10 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Hailes, 87 Dunb. 1. 209.

49. " Doun by anc rever as I red." 48''.

10 stanzas of eight lines, the burden of each,
" Do for thy self qultill tlww art heir." Anon.
Duiib. 11. 51. — Duplicate copy, No. 39.3.

50. " C'onsidder man all is lot vanitie." 50.

8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.
Duplicate copy, No. 396.

51. " Letters of gold writtin I fund" 5l)b.

17 stanzas of eight Hues, ffinis. q. \V» Broun.

Dunb. 11. ... — Duplicate copy, No. 397.

52. " At matyne home in midis of the nicht." 52b.

5 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Kennedy.

Hailes, 189 Sibb. 1. 305 Dunb. 11. .. Duplicate copy, No. 398.

53. " Walking allone among thir lecis grene." 53.

18 stanzas of seven lines, the burden of each,

" To mend our lyfe, and restoir wrangus geir." Anon.
Duplicate copy, No. 399.

54. " The reasoning betuix aige and 5owth." 55.

" Quhenfair Flora the Codes of the Flowris."

9 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mr. Robert Hendersone.
Hailes, 131 Sibb. 1. 186 Duplicate copy, No. tOO.

55. " The reasoning betuix deth and man." 56.

" O mortall man behold tah tent to me."

6 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Hendersone.
Hailes, 134- Duplicate copy. No. 401.

56 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

56. " Within ane garth, vndir a reid roseir." Fol. 57.

4 stanzas of eight lines ; the burden of each, ..

" Tfte moir of aige tko nerrir her ins blisse." ffinis. q. Hendersone.
Ilailes, 107. — Pinkerton's Scottish Poems, 1702, (from copy printed by Chep-
man,) 111. 128 — Duplicate copy, No. 402.

57. " Followis the thre deid powis." 57b.

" O sinf/ill man in to this mortal! se."

8 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Patrick Johnstonn.
Hailes, 139 — Sibb. 1. 191 — Dunb. 11. ...

58. " Sen throw vertew incressis dignitie" 58b.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

In Godly and Spiritual Songs, &c. (attributed to James the First )— Duplicate
copy, No. 394.

Followis certaine ballads aganis the vyce in Sessioun, Court,
and all Estaitis.

59. " Ane murlandis man ofvplandis mak." 59.

8 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 98— Hailes, 40 — Sibb. 1. 247 Duub. 1. 102.

GO. " Devorit with drone, devysing in my shimmer" 60.

16 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 102 Hailes, 42 Sibb. 1. 374 Dunb. 11. (in Sir R. Maitland's

MS., attributed to Sir James Inglis.) — Duplicate copy, Xo. 407.

61. " Off every asking follou-is twcht." 01.

9 stanzas of five lines, " Off asking." [by Dunbar.]

Rams. II. 82 — Hailes, 46 — Dunb. 1. 165 Duplicate copy, X» 401

Ffollowis discretioun of geving.

62. " To speik of gift or atmouss deid." 61b.

12 stanzas of five lines, of " Discretioun in giving." [by Dunbar.T
Rams. 11. 84.— Hailes, 48— Dunb. 1. 167 Duplicate copy, No. 405.

Ffollowis discretioun in taking.

63. " Eftir geving I speik of taking."

8 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 87 — Hailes, 51 — Sibb. 11. 8 Dunb. 1. 170.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 57

64. « Musing cdlone this hinavi^ nicht" Fol. 63b.

• 3$.

10 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 11. 90 — Ilailes, 62 — Sibb. 11. 2 Dunb. 1. 181.

65. " Sons ties bene ay exilit owt of sic/it." 64.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

Rams. 11. 93 — Hailes, 142 — Sibb. 11. 27 — [Ramsay adds the name of Clerk
to this poem, without any authority from the MS. ; and it is not improbable
that the same name was interpolated by him in one or two places of the Manu-
script itself.]

66. " Fredome, honour, and nobilnes." 64b.

11 stanzas of four lines. Anon. [By Dunbar.]
Rams. II. 95 Ilailes, 168 Sibb. 11. 17 Dunb. 1. 175.

67. " My mynd quhen I compos and cast." 65.

8 stanzas of five lines. Anon.

Ilailes, 161 — Sibb. 11. 46 — Duplicate copy, No. 403.

68. " How sowld I reivill me, or quhat wyiss" 65 .

9 stanzas of five lines. ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Hailes, 60 — Sibb. 11. 4 — Dunb. 1. 184.

69. " Foure mener of men ar evill to ken." 66b.

6 stanzas of four lines. Anon. [By Dunbar.]

Hailes, 167 Sibb. 111. 224 — Dunb. 1. 173 — Duplicate copy, No. 406.

70. " Sumtyme this world so steidfast was and stabill." 67.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

Pink. M. P. 11. 271. [The Editor erroneously supposed it to have been address-
ed, " To King James VI." In Chaucer's Works, Urry's edition, p. 547, it is
printed as the conclusion of a Moral Ballad by Scogan.]

71. " Fals titlaris note groins vpfull rank." 671".

7 stanzas of eight lines. ftinis. q. Mr. Robert Hendersone.

Hailes, 1.36.

73. " To dwell in court my freind gif that thow list." 68.

6 stanzas of eight lines. ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Hailes, 96 Dmib. 1. 179.

73. " In to this warld we so sic variance." 69.

6 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

74. "Man ofmaistfragilitie." 691i-

6 stanzas of ei<<ht lines. Anon.

58 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1508.

75. " In bittirncs ofsawill call vnto mynd." Fol. 70'1.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

76. " Moving in mynd of many diuerss tiling" 71.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

77. " Certane preceptis of gud counsale." 71b.

" Tak heid and harkin to my taill." 40 lines. Anon.

Ffollow preceptis of medecyne.

78. " Qufia icald tltair bodyis hold in hcill." 84 lines. Anon. 72.

79. " For helth of body colter twill thy heid." 73.

10 stanzas of 8 lines. Anon. [By Lydgate.]

DOCUMENTA.

80. " In grit tribulationn / and mchle vcxatioun." 16 lines. 74.

81. « Serve thy God mcikly / mid the u-arld besely." 4 lines.

82. " Grand the in patience / Hind not thy conscience." 4 lines.

83. " Mcikncs and mesure / lawte and lau'bur." 12 lines.

84. " /;/ u-arld is no* / be natur wro* / that ay man left." 4 lines.

85. " Remembir, man, on cndles hellis vexatioun." 6 lines.

86. " Remembir, man, that thaw hes no thing heir" 6 lines.

87. " Tlty beginning is bair and bitternes" 7 lines.

88. " This warldisjoy is only botfantesy." 8 lines.

89. " Dissait dissauis and salbe dissauit." 7 lines.

90. " Quito u-uld do weill / he mon begin at n-cill" 7 lines. ?,">.

91. " Quho will be gud / he may be gud, ifyc." 6 lines.

92. " Befoir the tyme is wisdome to prowyd." 14 lines.

93. " Remembir riches, reme/nbirpouertie." 9 lines.

94. " Leifhtve my luve no langar it lyft." 8 lines.

95. " Vohiptouss li/fe, quhij thinhis thoiv so sueit." 8 lines. 75b.

96. " Quhat is this lyfe / cine drancht icay to the deid." 7 lines.

97. " Rtf as jiouertie caussis sobirnes." 8 lines.

98. " Now quhen one wreche is sett to he estait." 7 lines.

99. " Better it is to suffer fortoun and abi/d." 12 lines.

100. " Dred no1 / that is no1 / compel! wo' / that irald no'." 4 lines.

101. '; Kiti/'tix full of hardiiies / clcrhis full of science." 4 lines.

102. " Call no' the manfals and unJtynd." 12 lines. 76.

103. " He that llnj freiml hes bene rye/it long." 4 lines.

104. " Be Jsynd to thame that luvand is to the." 1 lines.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 59

105 " Me think thair suld no taitt be troicit." 8 lines.

1 06. " Bruther be wyse in to zour goiternance" 8 lines.

107. " Justice wold half ane godly presedent. 7 lines.

108. " Grit fide is he that put/is in denger." 7 lines. Fol. 76b.

109. " Sen that revolt rynnis vpoun rege." 8 lines.

110. " Quha wilbc ricfie half & to Jtonor aye." 7 lines.
No. 95. Dunb. 11. . No. 96. Dunb. 1. 235.

111. " O wretchit man full of iniquitie." 76b.

16 stanzas of 7 lines each. Anon.

112. " Me meruellis of this grit confusioun" 78.

9 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, 1792, (from printed copy by Chepmau,) 111, 153.

1 13. " We lordis hes chosin a cliiftane meruellus," 78b.

5 stanzas of 8 lines. Anon.

Dunb. 11. 47.

114. " TJiingis in hynd desyris thingis lyke." 79.

8 stanzas of 8 lines — the burden of each stanza —
" It may weill ryme, lot it accordis nocht"

Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, 1792, (from printed copy by Chepman,) 111, 121.
— Sibb. 1. 153.

115. " All rychtouss thing the quhilk dots now proceid." 79b.

6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Hailes, 165 Sibb. 111. 221.

1 16. " Oft ti/mes is bettir hold nor len." 80.

6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Sibb. 111. 225.

117. « This world is all hot fenzeit fair." 80b.

8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Rams. 1. 265 Hailes, 18-1 — Sibb. 111. 319. [Omitting the last stanza.]

118. " I saw ane rob rich of hew." 81b.

7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

119. " O God t/int in tyme all things did begin." 82.

13 su.im.is ot'e'glit lines. Anon.

120. " Sci;/ it-fill is ticicly ane wirthy gud thing" 83.

60 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

121. " To gyd the tongue. — Imprent thir tfire in thy remmembrance." Fol. 83b.

13 lines. Anon.

122. " Sustene / absttne / Imp weill in thy mynd" 83.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

123. " Qufiome to sail I complene my wo." 84.

17 stanzas of five lines. ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Hailes, 70 Sibb. 11. 14 Dunb. 1. 195.

124. " Certaine wyiss sentences drawin furtli of the buik callit Morall Pliilosafie. 85.

These are of ' Vertew,' ' Wisdome,' ' Pacience,' and ' Liheralitie.' "
" Vertew in all workis is ffritly to le praysed."
4 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

[The verses on the reverse of fol. 1, and 43, as well as No. 8, were
probably ' drawin furth' of the same ' buik.']

125. " Certane sayingis of wyiss Philosapheris." 85b.

" Gije tliat in rcrtcw thow tak ony paine"

In all 28 lines, in the names of Musonius, Plato, Solon, Socrates, and

Pitagoras.

126. " Be gratioits ground and gate of sapience." 86.

13 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

127. " Be rychtutis Regent, and wele exerce thy cure." 86b.

8 stanzas of eight lines. — " Contra septem peccata mortalia." Anon.

128. " Be gouernour bait/i guid and gratious.'' 87b.

5 stanzas of eight lines. ffinis. q. Henrye Stewart.

129. " This /tinder ny' neir by the hour oftiyne." 87b.

11 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

In Maitlund's MS. this poem is attributed to William Stewart.

130. " Precellcnd Prince havatid prerogatyuc." 88b.

7 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Stewart.

Rams. 1. 150 Ilailes, 148 Sibb. 11. 38. — [Ramsay ascribes this poem to

" Hen. Stewart," in the MS. it appears to be " VV. Stewart."]

131. " Suppoiss I war in court most he." 89.

3 stanzas of twelve lines. Anon.

132." Quhcn docfouris prechit to win the goy eternal 1." 89b.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Rams. 1. 159. [lie attributes this poem, without any authority, to one of the Stewarts.

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133. « Ane New geir Gift to tbe Quene Mary quhen scho come first Lame, 1562." Fol. 90.

" Welciim illitstrat Ladye, and oure Quene."

28 stanzas of eight lines. " Send be thy sempill seruand, Sanderis Scott."
Rams. 11. 1 — Hailes, 19 1 Sibb. 111. 117 Scott, p. 5.

134. " The richtouss fontane of hailfidl sapience" 92.

12 stanzas of eight lines. ffinis. q. Mr Alex'. Kid.

135. "Jem Clmjst that deit on tre." 03.

8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.
Dunb. 11. 42.

136. " Now is our king in tendir aige." 931'.

4 stanzas of thirteen lines. Anon.

Rams. 1. 231. — Hailes, 14-4. — Sibb. 11. 31. — [Ramsay, without any authority,
affixes the name of Kennedy to this poem.]

137. " Rolling in my remembrance" 94.

10 stanzas of five lines. Anon.
Hailes, 163 Sibb. 11. 42.

133. " Schir, zit remember as ofbefoir." 9<lb.

17 stanzas of five lines ; the burden of each, —

" Excess of tliochl dois me miscfieif." ffinis. q. Dunibar.
Hailes, Gl Dunh. 1. 161.

139. "Lerges, lerges, lerges ay, / Lerges of this New Zeirday." 95''.
" First lerges tlie king my cheife"

10 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Stewart.
Rams. 11. 38 Hailes, 151 Sibb. 11. 40.

140. " Sir, sen of men, ar diuerss sort is." 96.

10 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Stewart to the Kingis grace.
Hailes, 146 Sibb. II. 35.

Heir endis the Second Parte of this Buke. 07.

On the same page are some verses inserted at a later period, viz.
(1.) " Sould I wrestfe in dispair; die because a icomans fair.''

12 lines, in three stanzas.

(2.) " Sail a womans goodness move/ Me to periscJie for hir love."
8 lines, in two stanzas.

A note in Bishop Percy's hand-writing says, " This is very modern, being a song of
George Withers's, put into Scoti&h idiom."

62 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

Heir begynnys the Thricl Pairt of this Buik, contenand Ballettis Fol. 97-
mirry and vther solatius cosaittis. Set furth be diners
ancient Poyettis, 1568.

On tbe reverse of the leaf is written, 97b.

HERMES the Philosopher.
Be mirry and glaiil, honest and vertewous,
For that suffisis to anger tlie invyous.

141. " Be mirry man, and tak no* far in mynd" 98.

5 stanzas of eight lines. ffiuis. q. Dumbar.

Hailes, 54 — Dui.b. 1. 193.

142. " Full oft I muss, and lies in tf/o'." 98b.

8 stanzas of five lines. ffinis. q. Dunihar.

Hailes, 58 Dunb. 1. 187.

143. Chrystis Kirk on the Grene. 99.

" Was nei-ir in Scotland hard nor senc."

22 stanzas of ten lines. ffinis. q. King James the First.

Rams. 1. 1. — Sibb. 11.350; — and in a variety of other publications. (See
tlie fac simile of the last stanza, on the leaf facing page 49.)

1-14. " Quha dotittis dremis is bot phanfasye," 101.

90 lines. Explicit. q. Lichtoun monicus.

Early Metrical Tales, &c. Edin. 1826. 12mo, p. 213.

145. " The Dregy of Dubar, maid to King James the Fyift, being in Striuilling." 102.

" We tltat ar heir in herinis fffory." — 111 lines, with this colophon,
Heir enilis Dnnbaris Dergy to the King / Bydand too lang in Stirling.
Rams. 11. 4-1— Sibh. 1. 234 — Dunb. 1. 86.

146. "/« secreit place tJtis Jiindir nycht" 103b.

9 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Clerk. [Probably in a modem hand.

See note to No. 65. — In other MSS. the poem is attributed to Dunbar.]
Rams. 11. 18.— Sibb. 1. 370.— Dunb. 11.27.

147. " Heir followis the cursing of Sir Johne Rowlis, 104b.

Vpoun tin1 stfluris of his fowlis."
" Dcri/nr power of michtis maist."
i(rj I iii-s. ffinis. q. Rowll.

Si-l-i-t Remains, &c. (No. 9.) — Dunb. 11. ...

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148. " Qulty son-Id no1 allane honorific." Fol. 107.

12 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Allane Matsonis Suddartis.
[This poem on Ale has been erroneously attributed to Allan Watson,
in Pinkerton's List of the Scotish Poets.]

U. Jarnieson's Popular BaUads, 11. 231 Select Remains, &c. (No. 18.)

A leaf of the Manuscript appears to be wanting in this place.

149. " I that in heill ices and glaidncss." 109.

25 stanzas of four lines ; the burden of each, —

" Timor mortis conturlat me." ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 129 [He omits the first stanza, and adds three others at the end, as

a Postscript to the poem.] — Hailes, 74. — Sibb. 1. 325. — Dujih. 1. 211.

150. " The Dance. — Off' Febrnar, thefyiftene nycht." 110.

11 stanzas of twelve lines, (the 3d and 9th have only six lines.)
Rams. 1. 240 Hailes, 27 Sibb. 1. 282 — Dunb. 1. 49.

151. " Nixt that a tunwment wes cryid."

9 stanzas of twelve lines, with this colophon, —

Heir endis the Sowtar and Tailzouris war,
Maid be the nobill poyet, Mr. Wm. Dumbar.
Hams. 1. 247 Dunb. 1. 54.

152. Followis the amendis maid be him to the Telzouris and Sowtaris, for the Tur-

nament maid on thame.
" Beluix (well ftouris and ellevin."

10 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Rams. 1. 253 Dunb. 1. 59.

153. " Imcik it kend he that will spend." 113.

4 stanzas of eleven lines, ffinis. q. Johne Blyth.

Rams. 1. 268 Hailes, 182 Ritson's Scotish Songs, 1794, 1. 261.

154. " Sanct Sfihta/our send silver sorrow." 113b.

7 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar to the King.
Hailes, 08 Sibb. 1. 280 Dunh. 1. 157.

155. " Listis lordis, I sail zoiv tell." 1 !•*•

95 lines. Explicit. Anon.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, I. clx Select Remains, (No. 16.)

156. " Followis how Dunbar wes desyrd to be an freir." 115.
" This nycht Icfoir the dan-ing cleir."

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10 stanzas of five lines, [ffinis.] q. Dumbar.
Hailcs, 2o — Sibb. 1. 240 — Dunb. 1. 28.

156*. " Full oft I muse and hes in thoc/it." Fol. 1 15b.

The first nine lines of a poem by Dunbar, but scored out. See No. 1 42.

157. " He that hes gold and grit richcss." 1 15''.

5 stanzas of five lines. Qffinis.] q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 204.— Hailes, 53.— Sibb. 1. 315 — Dunb. 1. 107.

158. " Followis the wowing of the King, quhen he wes in Dumfermeling." 110.

" This Itindirnycht in Dumfermeling."

10 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Rams. 1. 200 Sibb. 1. 244 Dunb. 1. 83.

159. " Anc ballat of the Fen5eit Freir of Tungland, 1 17.

How he fell in the myre fleaml to Turkland."
" As $ung Awrora with cristall haile."
16 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Rams. 1. 91 Hailes, 191.— Sibb. 1. 305 — Dunb. 1. 39.

160. " Ane littell Interlud of the droichis part of the Play." 118b.

" Hiry, Hurt/ Hubbilschow"

17 stanzas of eight lines. Anon, ffinis. Off the droichis part of the play.
Rams. 1. 258 Hailes, 173 — Sibb. 11. 350 — Select Remains, (No. 15.)

161. " The Wyf of Auchtirmwchty." 120.

" In Amhtirmwchty thair dwelt ane man."

15 stanzas of eight lines. ffinis. q. Mofat. [in a different hand.]

Rams. 1. 137. [with considerable alterations.] — Hailes, 215. — Select Remains,
(No. 20.) and in many otber publications.

162. "A ^ung man chiftane witles," $c. 12 lines. Anon. 122.

Rams. 1. 107. (in part.)

163. « The slicht remeid of Luve." 122.

" Luvaris lot be thefrennessy of Luve."
7 stanzas of eight lines. ffinis. q. Alex Scott.

Scott, p. 13.

164. " Followis the Ballat maid vpoun Margret Fleming, callit the Flemyng bark in 123.

Edinbur'."

" I half a lit/ill Fleming barge"
8 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Sempill.
Rams. 1.67 — Sibb. 111. 445.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 65

165. " Heir followis the defence of Crissell Sandelandis, Fol. 124.

For vsing hirself contrair the Ten Commandis ;
Being in ward for playing of the loun
With every ane list git" liir half a croun."
" Pernitious pcph, perciall in despyte."

14 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Semple.
Rams. 1. 71.

166. " Followis the Ballat maid be Robert Semple, of Jonet Reid, Ane Violet, and 125b

Ane Quhyt. Being slicht wemen of lyf and conversation!!, and tavernaris."
" Off cullouris cleir, qu/ta [ykis to weir."
13 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. R. Semple.
Ranis. 1. 170 Sibb. 111. -141.

167. " Ffollowis of a wenche with chykl." 127.

" Be chance lot ei-iii thin rthir day."

10 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Ane Inglisman.

168. " Ane ballat maid to the derisioun and scorne of wantoun wemen." 128.

" ge lusty ladyis hike."
13 stanzas of eight lines, ffiuis. q. Scott.
Rams. 1. 123 — Sibb. 111. 119 — Scott, 23.

169. " Ffollowis the justing and debait vp at the Drum, 130.
Betuix Wil. Adamsone and Joliine Sym."

" The grit del/ait and tournament"
21 stanzas of nine lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Rams. 11. 175 Sibb. 111. 137 Scott,17.

170. " Thus I propone in my carpi iir/." 132.

7 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. Anon.

(The first five stanzas in) Pink. !H. P. I. 211 Dunb. 11. 39.

171. " TJtis nycht in my sfeij) I ices ayast." 132b

17 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 171.— Hailes, 31 — Sibb. 1. 290 — Dunb. 1. 45.

172. " Lurytia scliynning in silence of the nic/it." 133.

10 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar. (On the margin is written
" Ane vther ballat following vpoun this same Abbot [of Tungland] in
the 117 leif."

Hailes, 23 — Sibb. 1. 313 — Dunb. 1. 30.

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173. " All to lufe, and nocht tofenzie." 72 lines. Anon. Fol. 134.

174. " Many man makis ryme and lukis to no reasotin." 71 lines. Anon. 134b.

175. " My guddame wes one gay wyfe, hot scho wes rycht gend." 135b.

3 stanzas of thirteen lines. Anon.

Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, 1792, (from printed copy by Chepman,) 111. 141.
Dunb. 11. 37.

176. " Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir" 136.

10 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. G4 — Hailes, 56 — Sibb. 1. 342 — Dunb. 1. 191.

177. " In Tiberius tyme the trew imperiour." 136b.

3 stanzas of twelve lines. Anon.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 11. 171. — Select Remains, &c. (No. 14-.)

178. " Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday." 137.

6 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Dunbar.

Pink. M. P. 1. 113 — Sibb. 1. 232 — Duiib. 1. 81.

179. " Robeyns Jok come to wow our Jynny." 137.

10 stanzas of eight lines. [The signature, q. Clerk, has been affixed to this
poem in the MS., probably in a modern hand, and afterwards partially

erased. 3

Hailes, 158 — Sibb. 111. 230 — Ritson's Scotish Songs, 1794, 1. 192.— Select
Remains, &c. (No. 21.); and frequently elsewhere, with alterations, as in
Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany.

180. " 0 gallandis all, I cry and call." 138.

28 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Balnevis.
Rams. 11. 197 — Sibb. 111. 181.

181. " The flytting hetuix the Sowtar and the Tailzour." 139b.

(1.) " Tliow leiss, loan, thow leiss." 3 stanzas of eight lines.
Rams. 1. 118.

(2.) " Ffals clatterand kensy, kitkald finaif." 5 stanzas of eight lines.

Rams. 1. 120.
(3.) " To the Sowtar. — TJwu leiss, loun, be this lie/it."

7 stanzas and a half of eight lines.

(4.) " Tlwu leiss loun, be this lie/it." 140.

6 stanzas of eight lines, with twelve additional lines, ffinis. q. Stewart.
" Answer to this foireaid in folio 144," (No. 188.)

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 67

182. " In Somer quhenjlouris will smell." Fol. 141.

12 stanzas of six lines. Anon.

Sil.b. 111. 203.

183. " Sum practysis of medecyne." 141''.

" Guk, gitft, giidday, Sir, gaip qiilidl :c get it"

7 stanzas of thirteen lines, ffinis. q. Mr. Rol. Henrysoue.

184. " Sym of Lyntoun be the ramis horn." 48 lines. Anon. 142b>

Select Remains, &c. (No. 13.)

185. " / met my lady iveill arrayit." 143.

9 stanzas of five lines. Anon.

186. " I saw, me thocht, tltis Idiulir nyclit." 143b.

7 stanzas of five lines. Anon.

Sibb. 111. 201.

187. " Rychtfane ivald I my qmntans mak." 144.

7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Rams. 1. 27 — Ilailes, 1J3 — Sibb. 111. 227.

188. " The Sowtar inveyaml aganis tlie Talzeour say is :" 144b-

(5.) " Quhen I come by zone teheouris stall." 4 lines. Anon.
(6.) " Ane vder — Bcttnx twafoxis a mutiny cok." 6 lines. Anon.
• (7.) " Ansuer — Ffoxcs urfcll at crawing cokkis." 4 lines. Anon.

Rams. I. 122 These verses are probably by Stewart, and form part of the Fly-
tings of the Sowtar and Tailzeour. — See No. 181.

189. " He that hes na will to ivlrk." 8 lines. Anon. 145.

Pink. M. P. 1. 20k

190. " And tliou Ic drmikin thow suld nocht think." 4 lines. Anon. 145.

191. " Tfiair wes erne channone in this toiui." 5 lines. Anon. 145.

192. " Quha hcs gnd malt, and inakis ill dri,ik." 145.

2 stanzas of eleven lines. This is an anonymous poem, under the assumed
name of " q. Allanis subdert." — See No. 148.
Early Metrical Tales, &c. Edin. 1826, 12mo, p. Ixi.— Dunb. 11. 39.

193. " Followis Sym and his brudir." " Thair is no story thai I of heir." 145''.

15 stanzas of nine lines. Anon. [There appears to have been some
author's name added in the MS. but it is effaced.]
Select Remains, &c. (No. 17.)— (Extracts from) Sibb. 1. 360

68 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

194. « If that Iffife I/uiif, I If that I kn I cm!/." Fol> 147.

24 lines. " ffinis. q. quliay to quhome."
(In part) Rams. 1. 107.

195. " The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, 147
Heir efter followis, jocound and mirrie."

" Sir Johne the Ross, one thing thair is compild."

In all 69 stanzas of eight lines. Ends on folio 154, with the lines,
Quod Kennedy to Dmnbar,
Juge 36 now heir qitha gat the war.
Rams. 11. 47 — (Extracts from) Sibb. 1. 351 Duiib. 11. 63.

196. " / maister Andro Kennedy" J54

14 stanzas of eight lines, (the last stanza has 12 lines)— with this colophon,
" Heir endis the Tesment of Mr. Andro Kennedy,
Maid be Durabar, quhen he wes lyk to dy."

Rams. 11. 70 — HaUes, 35 — Sibb. 1. 296 Dunb. 1. 137.

197. " lzeidtliega.it wes nevir gone." 48 lines. Anon. 1555,

198. " Of May — May is the moncth maist awene." l,56b,

14 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Rams. 11. 180 — Sibb. 111. 161.— Scott, 27.

199. " The nyne Ordour of Knavis / Thair vse and thair feir, 157"
In mynd quha thame havis / Lo heir thame heir."

" Troll trottes on befoir and tahis no liciil."

In all 98 lines, in 9 irregular stanzas. Anon.

200. " Epigrammis of Mr. Haywod." 159

(1.) " One blindman to supper am vdcr bad." 8 lines.

(2.) " Jane / q. James, to ane schort demand ofmyns." 14 lines.

(3.) " A rewlar thair was in cuntre afar." 12 lines.

(4.) " Twenty clyantis to one man of law." 16 lines.

(5.) " Inpresone apresoner condempnit to die." 8 lines.

ffinis. q. Mr. Haywod.

Other verses by .Tc.liu Heywood, copied probably from the edition of his Poems
printed at London, 1562, 4to, follow the next article.

201. " Be mirry, brethcrene, ane and all." ]gO.

12 stanzas of eight lines. Explicit, q. Flemyng.

Rams. 1. 51 — Hailes, 178 — Ritson's Scotish Songs, 1. 250 Sibb. 111. *I2.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 69

202. (6.) " A number of rattis mistaken for a number of diuellis." Fol. 161.

" A biff bruc/it manfering a deir zier to cum." 39 lines, ffinis. q. Mr. Haywoil.

(7.) " Jak and his father." " JaL; quoth Jus fader, how sail I eiss tak."

7 lines. Ends — " Sen all thais eiss no best :e hang a while." — " ffinis idem."
Rams. 11. 2-23.

(8.) " Of one askin for scheip at maidynis."

" Come thair any sclieip this way, zow scheipisch maidis ? — Nay ;
Sot evin as ze come thair come a calf this way." — ffinis. q. Ilaywod.
See Note to No. 203.

203. " Ane discriptioun of Peder Cofieis having na regaird till honestie in thair 162.

vocatioun." " It is my purpoiss to discryve."

9 stanzas of eight lines, films, (in a different hand) q. Linsdsay.
Rams. 11. 219 — Hailes, 170 — Sibb. 111. 216 — Select Remains, &c. (No. 19.)

204. " How the first Heland man of God was maid," &c. 162b.

" God and Sanct Petir was gangand be. the way." 22 lines. Anon.
Sibb. 111. 396.

[The next two articles are in a different hand from the rest of the MS. and
were probably inserted about the close of the 16th century. The same
remark may, perhaps, be applicable to Nos. 160. and 161. J

205. " Ane ansueir to ane Ileland mauis invective. Maid be AIexr. Montgomry." 16:3.

" Fyndkty McConnoquhy,fuf M'Fadzan" 13 lines, q. Montguairnary.
Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, 1821. p. 166.

206. "Ane Ansueir to ane Ingliss railar praysing his awin genalogy." 163.

" Ze Inylische hursone sumtyme will avant." H lines.
Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, 1821, p. 165.

207. " Heir begynis the Proclamatioun of the Play, maid be Dauid Lynsayis of the 164.

Month, kniclit, in the Playfield, in the moneth of , the 5eir of God

155 jeiris."
" Richt famous pcpill zc sail vndirstaitd."

[This Introductory Interlude, which commences with the " Proclamatioun maid
in Cowpar of Fyffe," is not contained in the old edition of the Play, printed
at Edinburgh by Robert Charteris, 1602, 4to, under the title of " Aue Satyre
of the Three Estaitis." The nature of its local allusions, and not its indecency,
may have occasioned its omission when the Play was subsequently exhibited

70 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

at Edinburgh, in 1554. Mr. Chalmers, in his edition of Lyndsay's Works,
Las rejected this Interlude, but on insufficient grounds, as not being the com-
position of his author.]

After the Proclamation and first Interlude — is written, " Heir begynnis Schir Fol. 1G8.
Dauid Lyndsay^is] Play maid in the Grenesyd besyd Edinburgh, quhilk I
[half] writtin bot schortly be Interludis, levand the grave mater therof, bc-
caws the samyne abuse is weill reformit in Scotland, praysit be God ; quhair-
throw I omittit that principall mater, and writtin only Sertane rnirry Inter-
ludis thairof, verry plesand, begynning at the first part of the play."
In another part (fol. 177.) he writes, " Heir followis certane mirry and sportsum
Interludis, contenit in the play rnaid he Schir Dauid Lindsay of the Month,
Knycbt, in the Playfeild of Edinbur1, to the mocking of abusionis usit in
the cuntre be diverse sortis of Estait." And, at the beginning of another In-
terlude, (fol. 196b.) " I tak heir bot certane schort pairtis out of the speiches,
becaus of long process of the Play."

" Heir endis the schort interludis of Sr Dauid Lyndsayis Play, maid in the 210.
Grenesyd bcsyd Edinbur', in anno 155[4] seiris."

Tlie Play is divided into Interludes, as printed in Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, re-
printed from scarce editions, 1792, vol. ii. pp. 198, which also contains the ad-
ditional passages from the edition of 1602, p. 199 — 259.

Extracts from, in Sihbald's Chronicle, 11. 257 — 348 — Also, in a separate volume,
by Sibbald, Ediu. 1802, 8vo, of which (it is said) 50 copies only were printed.
— Lyndsay's Works, (from Charteris1 edition, 1602,) by Geo. Chalmers, vol. i.
358 — 470, and vol. ii. 1 — 156. Allan Ramsay had transcribed these Inter-
ludes for publication, and his transcript (or a copy from il ) afterwards passed into
Garrick's possession.

On the reverse of the last leaf some anonymous verses are written in a later hand.

(1.) " Daiit/e and dortie to all mans eyes." — 4 lines. 210b.

(2.) " Whyt as the egg, rid as the sharlet." — 4 lines.

(3.) " Now, gossop, I must neids be gon." — 2o lines.

(4.) " Mymistres is in musilt passing sMIfull." — 5 stanzas of 6 lines. 211.

" Heire endis the bnik of mirry ballettis, set furtli be diners
new and ancient poettis."

Below this is the signature of " Jacobus Foulis, 1623."

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" Heir followis Ballattis of Luve, devydit in four pairtis : The
first ar Songis of luve, the secound ar contemptis of luve
and evill wemen — the thrid ar contempis of evill, fals, vicius
men — and the fourt ar ballattis detesting of luve and lichery.
The Fourth Pairt of this buick."

208. On the reverse of the leaf—" To the Reader." Fol. 211.
" Heir haifze, Invar is, ballattis at zour will." — 5 lines. See page 17 of the

present volume.

209. " Sonet" — " LyJte as the littill emme haitk hir gall." 14 lines, inserted in a

later hand.

" Ballattis of Lufe."

210. " Ofoli) hairt /Merit in fantesye." 212.

9 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

211. " Be ze ane luvar, think ze no1 ze swld." 212b.

3 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Dunb. 1. 177.

212. " Off" luve quhay tykis to fiaifjoy or comfort." 212b.

8 stanzas of seven lines, (the first 2 stanzas have eight lines.) ffinis. q. Mersar.
Dunb. 11. ...

213. " Luve prey sis but comparesone." 213.

5 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

Rams. 11. 205 Hailes, 192 Sibb. 111. 158 — Scott, 15.

214. " Sen that I am a presoneir." 214.

14 stanzas of eight lines. Anon, [by Dunbar.]
Dunb. 1. 22.

215. " Wald my gud lady Itife me best." 215.

10 stanzas of four lines.

ffinis of the Garment of gud Ladeis. q. Mr. Ro'. Henrysoun.
Rams. 1. 234 — Hailes, 103.

216. " Was not gud King Salamon." 215lj.

10 stanzas of six lines, ffinis. q. Ane Inglisman.

72 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

217. " For to declair the M magnifcens." Fol. 216.

8 stanzas of eight lines, flinis. q. Stewart.

Hams. 1. 237. This poem is repeated in the M.S., at folio 277, ( Xo. 335.)

218. " My hairt is lost onliefor lufe of one." 217.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Aiion.

Hams. 11. 203.

219. " Q/if/ai I think on my lady deir." 217.

7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

220. " Tlic bewfy of her amorus ene." 217b.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

221. " Quhen Flora Jtad our/ret thejirth." 218.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Rams. 1. 256 HaUes, 191 Sibb. 111. ICO.

222. " The well ofvertew and flour of ivomanheid."

4 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

Rams. 11. 207 Sibb. 111. 1G4.

223. " To 5ow that is the harbre of my hairt." 218b.

6 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

224. " Moist arncyn roseir, gratiows and resplendent." 219.

5 stanzas of seven lines (the last has only six lines.) fh'nis. q. Stewart.

225. " Frcschefrcigrent flour of lewty sotic ro ne." 219b.

8 stanzas of nine lines. Anon.

226. " O maistres myn till zow I me commend." 220.

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Dunb. 11. 35.

'22/. " In to my hairt emprentit is so soir." 2201'.

3 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

228. " Off lufe and trewih u-ith lang continivans." 220b.

7 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

229. " Off' every Joy most joyful! joy it is.''

7 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

230. " Bryclit stcrne ofbeu-tie, and well of lustines."

4 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 73

231. " Baith gud, and fair, and wornanlie." Fol. 222.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

232. « Now in this mirthfull tyme of May" 222".

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

Dimb. 11

233. " My heart is thrall begone me fro." 222"'.

7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

234. « Ma commendationis with humilitie." 223.

G stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

235. " My son/full pane and wo for to compkne." 224.

7 stanzas of nine lines. Anon.

236. " O Cupid, king, cjuhome to sail I complene." 224l).

6 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

237. " Fair weill, my hairt,fair wcill baithfreind andfo."

4 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

238. " Allace, departing grand of wo."

4 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

239. " In May, in a morning, I movit me one." 225b.

7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

240. " My u-oful werd complene I may rycht soir." 226.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

241. " Thus wairfull tliocht / myne E hes wrocht / to wo. 15 lines. Anon. 226b.

242. " O ivrechit, infernal!, crewall element." 227.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

243. " Flour of all fairheid / gif I sail found ilivfra" 227.

5 stanzas of five lines. Anon.

244. " O Maistres myld ha if my nd on me." 227b.

6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

245. " Haifhairt in hairt, ye hairt ofhairtis haill." 228.

3 stanzas of seven lines. Anou. " The ausueir heirof is in the ccxxxv. leif."
Scott, 31.

246. " Wald my gud ladye that I Mf:' 228b.

17 stanzas of four lines. Anon.

74 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

247. " Support your servand, peirles paramour." Fol. 228b.

3 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

248. " Quhen Tayis bank wes blumyt bnjcht." 229.

15 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

British Bibliographer, IV. 186 Select Remains, &c. (No. 10. )

249. " O lusty May, with Flora quene." 4 stanzas of fire lines. Anon. 229b.

Sibb. 111. 192 Scott, 98 — Aberdeen Cantus, 1062, 4to, &c.

250. " Allffor one j is my mane." 8 lines. Anon. 229b.

251. " Ba glaid, all ye that luvaris bene" 54 lines. Anon. 229b-

Sibb. 111. 193 Select Remains, &c. (No. 11.)

252. " Gifye wahl lufe, and luvit be." 230.

6 stanzas of four lines. Anon.
Dimb. 11. 3.3.

253. " The song of Troyelus."— " Gife no hive is, O God, qnhatfeill I so" 230b.

5 stanzas of seven lines. £ffinis.H " q. Cliauseir of Troyelus.'

From Chaucer's Troilus and Cresseid, said to be "out of Petrarche," Urry's edit. p. 272.

254. " As P/iebus bricltt, in spcir merediane." 230*.

8 stanzas of seven lines, ffiuis. q. Bannatyne.

Poems by George Bannatyne, 8vo, 1824 — and Appendix to the present volume.

255."Myhairtisfieichaboif,mybo(lyisftillofbliss." 28 lines. Anon. 231.

British Bibliographer, IV. 190 Scott, 93.

256. " Lait, lait, on skip as 1 wes laid." 23 1 b.
Two leaves of the MS. (folios 232 and 233) are wanting. The poem

last mentioned is in octave stanzas, and breaks off at the 3d line of
stanza 5. In the old index at the end of the volume, the following poem
is entered —

257. " Being ourtjulielmed wi/h dolour and with cair." 232.

258. " No ivondir is alt/ioc/it my fiairt be thrall" 234.

9 stanzas of eight lines, by George Bannatyne — with two lines, direct-
ing how to find out the author's name.

Poems by Bannatyne, 8vo, 1821 — and in the Appendix to the present volume.

259. " My tren-th is plicltt vnto my lufe bemjng." 234b.

3 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit, q. Fethy.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 75

260. " Lanterne cflvfe, and lady fair of hew." Fol. 235.

3 stanzas of eight lines, [ffinis.] q. Steill.
Dunb. II. ...

261. " Hence, hairt, u-t Jtir that rnvst departe." 235.

5 stanzas of eight lines. [[ffinis/] q. Scott.

Sibb. 111. 166 — Scott, 20.

262. " The answeir to the ballat of hairtis, in 'the 228 leiff.1' 235|.
" Considdir, hairt, my trcw intent."

9 stanzas of five lines. Qffinis.] q. Scott.
Scott, 3-2.

263. " Quha is perfyte / to put in icryte." 236.

6 stanzas of six lines. Qffinis.]] q. Scott.

Sibb. 111. 168 — Scott, .33.

264. " It cumis $ow luvaris to be kill." 236.

9 stanzas of four lines, £ffinis.]] q. Scott.
Scott, 36.

265. " Absent I am, ryeht soir aaanis my will." 237.

3 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Steill.

Dunb. 11. ...

266. " / icilbe plane , / and liife offline, \ffor as I meite, / so tah me. 237b.

16 of these lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Scott, 35.

267. " Only to ymo in erd t/iat I lufe best." 37b.

6 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.
Scott, 37.

268. " My didlit corss dois hairtly recommend" 238.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

269. " O lusty four oj ^ow1, benyng and bricht." 238b.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

British Bibliographer, IV. 191 Dunb. 11. 35.

270. " Sueit hairt, sen I j your freind only / wes ay." 8 lines. Anon. 239.

271. " My hairt repois the, and the rest." 239.

8 stanzas of six lines. Anon.

76 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

272. " Rycht as the glass lene thirlit thru' wf Icmis." Fol. 239b.

3 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.

Scott, 39.

" Ffollowis the ballatis of the prayis of wemen."

273. " I marvell of thir vane fantastik men." 239b.

34 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Wedderburne.

274. " Vp, hdsimi hairt, thy nttis rais, and lowp." 242b.

4 stanzas of ten lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.

British Bibliographer, IV. 189 Scott, 40.

275. " Quhair hive is hendlit confortles" 243.

8 stanzas of eight lines, and two additional lines of " L'envoy." Anon.
Rams. 1. 108 Sibb. 111. 179.

276. " Gifc languor mahis men licht" 244.

5 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. King Hary Steward

Hailes, 220 Sibb. 111. 179.

277. " How suld myfebill bodyfure." 244b.

8 stanzas of six lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.
Scott, 43.

278. " Anc laid my hfc ane leddy ofestait." 7 lines. Anon. 244b.

Scott, 83. (Notes.)

279. " Marvilling in mynd, quhat ailisfortoun at me" 245.

5 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.

Scott, 41.

280. " Pausing in hairt w' spreit opprcst." 245.

8 stanzas of eight lines, [ffinis.] q. Fethe.
Hailes, 212 Sibb. 111. 206.

281. " Departe, dcparte, departe, / allacc I must departe." 245b.

6 stanzas of four lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott of the Mr. of Erskyn.

Hailes, 203 Sibb. 111. 115 Scott, 45.

282. " T/tat ei-ir I limit allace thairfoir." 246.

7 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

Scott, 46.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1563. 77

283. " So f remit is myfortoun and my icerd." Fol. 246.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

284. " Oppressit hairt indure / in dolor and distress" 246".

8 stanzas of four lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.
Scott, 49.

285. « Leifluve and lot me kifaUom." 247.

6 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.^ q. Scott.

Scott, 47.

286. " J7to' I in grit distress / suld de in to dispair" 24"b.

5 stanzas of four lines. [ ffinis. J q. Scott.
Scott, 53.

287. « QuJiat art tliow / lufe,for till allow." 248.

7 stanzas of six lines. Anon. (" ffinis. Amen, q. he.")

288. " Lamenting soir my weird and bissy cure." 248b.

5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

289. " In to the nyt / quhen to ilk wicht / Natur derekis rest." 22 lines. Anon. 249.

290. « TJie moir I lufe and serf at all my myc/it." 249 .

3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

291. « QuJten Phebus fair, w* his bemis bricht." 249".

6 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

" Ballatis of Remedy of Luve as followis : And to the Re- 2*9b-

proche of Evill Weme." — " Remeidis of Luve."

292. " So prayiss me as ze think causs qu/iy." 250.

8 stanzas of four lines. Anon.

293. « / am as I am, and so will I be" 250.

10 stanzas of four lines. Anon.

294. " Langour to leii-e, allace." 251.

12 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Scott, 51.

295. " Favour is fair / in luvis lair." 25 lb.

6 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

* -

Scott, 56.

78 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

296. " Tltir knterne dayis ar luvely long." Fol. 252.

6 stanzas of eight lines. f_ffiuis.~| q. Stewart.

297. " Returns the, hairt, liamewart agane" 252b.

4 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Alexr Scott to his liert.

Rams. 11. 15 Ilailes, 201 Sibb. 111. 171 Soott, 50.

298. " Quhen $e we r plesil to pleiss me her/fully." 4 lines. Anon. 253.

299. " Qulry sowld I luve but gif I war limit'' 8 lines. Anon. 253.

300. " Irkit I am tit langsitm luvis lair" 253.
9 stanzas of four lines. QThe signature, q. Montgomery, is in a different hand.^j

Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, 1821, p. 167, along with the two i>receding Nos.
(298 and 299.)

301. " / muse and mcrvellis in my mynd." 254.

13 stanzas of six lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Hailes, 207 Sibb. 111. 155 Scott, 57.

302. " Fane icald I lure, lot quhair abowt." 255.

7 stanzas of five lines. [The signature, q. Clerk, is in a different hand.]

Sibb. 1. 3G8 Dunb. 11. 31.

303. " In June tficjcm / of joy and geme." 255b.

5 stanzas of eight Hues, ffinis. q. Scott.

Scott, 51.

304. " Thair is no' one winche that I se." 256.

4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

305. " To hive vnluvit it is one pane." 256.

5 stanzas of five lines, ffinis. q. Scott quhen his wyfe left him.

Ilailes, 206 — Sibb. 111. 170 Scott, 60.

306. " My hart is rjiihyte / and no delyte / I Jiaifofladeisfair." 256b.

5 stanzas of six lines. Anon.

307. " In all this world no man may wit." 257.

10 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

" Schorl epigrammis aganis women." 258.

308. " My lau-ty yarris me be Uchtleit, allaik." 8 lines. Anon.

309. " Ane vthir." — " / luve and I say not." 6 lines. Anon.

310. " Ane of the warst that evir icas in erd." 7 lines. Anon.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 79

311. " Thcf all the wod vnder Hie hevin that growls" 8 lines. Anon. Fol. 258.

312. " G if all the erth warperchmene scribable." 7 lines. fBnis. q. Chawcer.

313. " 77(e diuill is not to dabj slryf." 6 lines. Anon.

314. " J7tis work qulia sa sail sie or reid." 258.

1 1 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Chawseir.

Part of " The Remetlie of Love." — Chaucer's Works, Urry's edition, p. 527.

315. " Bruthir, be wyiss I reid ^pw now. 259b.

9 stanzas of five lines, [[ffinis/] q. Sr Johne Moffett.
Hailes, 187 Dunb. 11. ...

316. " My luve wasfals, and full offlattry" 260

9 stanzas of seven lines, ffiuis. q. Weddirburne.
Sibb. 111. 235.

317. " TJdr lady is fair, / that makis repair." 261.

6 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Rams. 1. 206.— Sibb. 1. 251 — Dunb. 1. 92.

318. " Tlie vse of court richt weill I knaw." 2GJb.

5 stanzas of six lines. Anon.
Rams. I. 209.

[Where it follows the preceding poem, (No. 317.) and Ramsay entitles it, with
out any authority,

"Another nfthe samen cast,
Pfnd be the Poet wrote the last."}

" Ballatis aganis evill \vemen."

319. " The beist/y lust, thefurius appetyt." 262.

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

320. " Devyce, proves, and elk hutnilitie." 262b.

7 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Chawseir.

PinkiTton's Scotish Poems, 1792, 111. 130 Sibb. 1. 197.

321. " O wicket wemen, wilfull and variable." 263,

3 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Chauceir.

322. " Aganis mariage of evill wyvis." 263b,
" Tltankit be God and his appostillis twelf."

6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

323. " Conunonyng betuix the Mester and the Heure." 264.
" Lord God, my hairt is in distres."

8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

80 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

324. " Off luve."— " Luve that is het can no skill." 8 lines. Anon. Fol. 265.

325. " Ane vther." — " Sum man luvisfor kill luve and delyte" 7 lines. Anon. 265.

326. " Furth ouer the mold at morrow as I ment" 265.

8 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Stewart.

327. " Ane v]>ir ballat of vnpossibiliteis, compaird to the trewth of Wemen in luve." 266.
" Quhen that tlic Mone lies dominatioun"

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

328. « Ane vfer ballat of vmpossibiliteis." 266b.

" Quhen Phebus in to the west rysis at morrow."

5 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.

329. " My hairt is gone, j confort is none." 267.

10 stanzas of four lines. Anon.

330. " Ane ait/it man, tityssfourty geiris." 268.

6 stanzas of eight lines. Qffinis.] q. Kennedy.

Rams. 1. 115 — Sibb. 1. 163 — Dunb. 11

" Followis ballatis of the prayiss of wemen, and to pe re- 2(>8b-

proclie of vicious men."

" The thrid pairt of luve, — to the reproche of fals vicius
men, and prayiss of guid wemen."

331. " Allace, so sobir is the micht." 269.

4 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mersar.

Hailes, 156 — Sibb. C. I. 195 — Dunb. 11

332. " Ffollowis the Letter of Cupeid." 269.

Cupeid vnto githois commandiment,

68 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Chauseir.

Printed among Chaucer's Works, Urry's edition, p. 534 ; but the poem itself is
the composition of Thomas Occleve, in the year 1402.

333. " All tho that list of icemen evill to speik." 275.

25 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. ( 'Imusru
Chaucer's Works, Urry's edition, p. 456.

334. " Ladies be war / that plesand ar." 276b.

6 stanzas of four lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Scott, p. 61.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 81

335. " For to dcclair the lie magnificcns." Fol. 277.

8 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Stewart.
Repeated from fol. 2 1C. (No. 217.)

336. " Thir billis ar brevit to birdis in speciall" 278.

6 stanzas of seven lines. ffinis. q. Mersar.

Dunb. 11

337. " Now, ofwemen tfiis I say for me." 278k.

34 lines. Qffinis.] q. Durabar.
Dunb. 1. 95.

338. " / think thir men ar verryfals and vane" 279.

14 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.] q. Weddirburue.

339. " Fra raige of ^oiif the rynk lies rune" 280.

7 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

Sibb. 111. 153— Scott, 62.

" Heir endis the Prayiss of Wemen, and followis the Con-
tempt of Blyndit Lixve, &c."

340. " Quha iL-ill bchald of luve the chance" 281.

3 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
British Bibliographer, IV. 192.— Dunb. 1. 172.

341. " Leifhtve, my lure, no langar tlww it lyk." 281.

2 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.

342. " Quhat menetfi this / Quhat is this windir me t" 281.

21 stanzas of seven lines, [ffinis.] q. Cbauser.

343. " In May as that Aurora did vpspring." 283.

15 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Hailes, 89 — Dunb. 1. 216.

344. " Now cumis aige guhair zeiuth lies bene, 284.
And trew luve rysisfro the sp/ene." [being the burden of each stanza of]

" Now ndit is dame Venus brand"

15 stanzas of six lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.

Hailes, 79 Sibb. 11. 20 Dunb. 1. 221.

L

82 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

345. " Quha lykis to luve, or that law pruve." Fol. 285 ".

6 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

Scott, 65.

346. « Lo, qultat it is to lufe" 286.

4 stanzas of six lines, [ffinis.] q. Scott.

Hailes, 211 — Sibb. 111. 173 Scott, 64.

347. « Pausing of lufe, quhat lyf it leidis" 286".

5 stanzas of four lines. Anon.

Sibb. 111. 206.

348. " Quhome sould I ityt of my mischance." 287.

7 stanzas of six lines, ffinis. q. Scott.

Rams. 1. 112 — Sibb. 111. 171 — Scott, 66.

349. " O man, transformit and vnnaturall" 287L,

18 stanzas of seven lines, ffiuis. q. Weddirburne.

350. « ze blindit luvaris, hike." 289.

19 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Scott.
Sibb. 111. 144 — Scott, 68.

351. " The Prollog of the fourt buik of Virgill, treting of the incomtnoditie of 291.

luve, and reraeid thairof, compyld be bischop Gawyne Dowglas."
" With bemes scfienc, thow bricht Cyilierea"
In stanzas of seven lines, ending with the 37th.
Douglas's Translation of Virgil, folio, p. 93.

295, 296, and fol. 297 are wanting. In the old Table of Contents, " Dik
and Dune' is marked as occurring on fol. 295.

" Heir endis the ballatis of Luve, Remedy thairof, and

Contempt of Luve." 298-

" Heir followis the fyift part of this buik, contenyng the
Fabillis of Esop, with diuerss vthir fabillis and poeticall
worlds maid and compyld be diuers lernit men. 1568."

352. " To the Redar." — " Myfreindis, tkir storeis subsequent" 298b.

8 lines, by Bannatyne, see page 18 of the present volume.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 83

353. [Fable 1. The Preiching of the Swallow.] Fol. 299.
" The he prudence, and wirking mervellus."

47 stanzas of seven lines. Anon, [by Henryson.]

354. [Fable II.] " The Houlate. Maid be Holland." 302.
" In the middis of Maij at morne, as I ment."

77 stanzas of 12 lines. Explicit, q. Holland.

Pinkerton's Scotish Poems, 1792, 111. 145 — 188 — (Extracts from) Sibb. 1.
61 ; and (from Asloane's MS.) as a separate publication, for the Members of
the Bannatyne Club, 1823, 4to, by Mr. David Laing.

355. [Fable III. The Fox and the Cock.]—" The Tod followis." 3101'.
" Thoucht bruta/e beistis, be irrationale."

31 stanzas of seven lines. Anon. Hby Henryson.]

356. [Fable IV. The Fox and the Wolf.] " Indpit alia Fa." 312\
" Leive we this icedow ffled, I yow assure."

26 stanzas of seven lines, " Explicit exemplum Veritatis et Falsitatis.''
Anon. Qby Henryson.]

357. [Fable V. The Fox tryed before the Lyon.] 3U.
" Tliis foil-said fox, thus deidfor his misdcde."

48 stanzas of seven lines. Anon. Qby Henryson.]

358. [Fable VI. Orpheus and Eurydice.] 317b.
" The noli/ties and grit magnificens"

57 stanzas of seven lines. (Five of the stanzas have ten lines.) The
" Moralitas" of this poem, which is in a different measure, begins,
" Now wirthy folk, Bocce that senatour," and contains 220 lines. 3221'.

ffinis. q. Mr. R. H[enryson.]
Ancient Poems, &c. Edinburgh, 1827, -ito, from the old printed copy in 1508.

359. [Fable VII. The Bludy Serk.] 325.
" This hinder :eir I hard be tald"

15 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mr R. Henrici.
Pinkerton's S. P. 1792, 111. 189 Sibb. 1. 178 Select Remains, &c. (No. 8.)

360. [Fable VIII. The Cock and the Jewell.] 328b.
The prologue begins, " TJio1 fen:eit fables of auld poetrie."

The fable itself begins, " A cok sumtyme with fethreme fresche and gay."
23 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Mr. 11. H[enryson.]
(The Moralitas, or last six stanzas,) Hailes, 125.

84 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

361. [Fable IX. The Mouss and the Paddock.] Fol. 3281-.
" Vpone a tyme as Ysop can reports."

28 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Mr. R. H[enryson.]
(The Moralitas, or last nine stanzas,) Hailes, 122.

362. [Fable X. The twa Myss.] 33 R
" Isap myne autour makis mcntioun."

33 stanzas of seven lines, q. Mr. R. H[envyson.]

Rams. 1. 144 (The Moralitas, four stanzas,) Hailes, 127 — Sibb. 1. 107.

363. [Fable XI. The Dog, the Sheip, and the Wolff.] 334.
" Isope a taill puttis in memorie."

25 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Mr. R. H[enryson.]
Hailes, 109 Sibb. 1. ICO.

364. [Fable XII. The Wolff and the Lamb.] 336".
" A crewatt wolf revamts and fell."

23 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Mr. R. H[enryson.]
Hailes, 116 Sibb. 1. 94.

305. [Fable XIII. The Lyon and the Mouss.] 338^.

The Prologue begins — " In middis of June that jolly sueit sessoun."
The Fable begins — " A It/one at his pray, ivery for run."
43 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Mr. R. Henrysone.

Rams. 1. 185 (The Moralitas, six stanzas,) Ilailes, 129 — (The Prologue,

12 stanzas) Sibb. 1. 90.

[Fable XIV. The Thrissill and the Rois.]

366. " Quhen Merc/ie wes w' variand winclis past." 342b.

27 stanzas of seven lines. Explicit q. Dumbar.

Hams. 1. 15. — Hailes, 1 Sibb. 1. 264 — Dunb. 1. 3 — A fac-simile of the

first stanza in the MS. is given on the opposite loaf.

307. [Fable XV.] « Followis the Goldin Terge." 345.

" Rycht as the sierne of day began to schytie."

31 stanzas of nine lines. " Explicit q. Dumbar of the Goldin Terge."
Rams. 11. 22 Hailes, 8 — Sibb. 1. 253 — Dunb. 1. 11.

368. " Heir begynnis the Freiris of Berwik." 348b.

" As it befell and happinnit in to deid."
In all 567 lines. Anon.

Pink. M. P. 1. 65 Sibb. 11. 372.— Dunb. 11. 3.

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On folio 355 are seme verses written by a later hand — (1.) " Go siceit
lines, love loill not take them." 22 lines ; also 4 lines. — (2.) " Amongst
the monsters that wefynd," being probably the commencement of a
poem, the next two pages being left blank. — (3.) " Once slumbering as
Hay within my bed." 13 lines, in the same hand, inserted on folio 356b.

369. " Heir begynnis Colkelbie Sow."

" Quhen rial/cst most redoictit and he."

Of this singular Poem, the Prohemium contains sixty-six lines. At
the end, " Explicit prohemium Et sequitur prinia pars," and the shield
of arms, &c., of which a facsimile is here inserted.

The poem or rhapsody is divided into three parts. The first part in the
MS. (written in double columns) contains 494 lines ; the second 258
lines ; and the third 156. — Explicit tertia pars et ultima.
Select Heniains, &c. (No. 12.)

370. Robene and Makyne. — " Robenc sat on. gud yrene hill."

16 stanzas of eight lines, [ffinis.] q. Mr. Robert Henrysone.

Rams. 1. 50 Ilailes, 78 — Sibb. 1. 115; and as a separate publication for the

Members of the Bannatyne Club, 1824, 4to, by the late George Chalmers,

Esq A fac-simile of the first stanza in the MS. is given on the leaf facing

p. 84.

871. " Heir followis the Secouud Prolloge or Proheme of the History of the
Croniclis of Scotland; maid be Mr. Johne Bellenden, Archedene of
Murray. Saying to bis buik, as eftir followis, verry notable and wirdy
of commendatioun." — " Thow marciall buke, pas to the nobill Prince."
la stanzas of eight lines ; the MS. wanting fol. 368 and 369.

Fol. 357.

365.

86 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

This prolog ends on fol. 370a, with this colophon — " ffinis. Compyld be Mr.
Jolme Bellenden, Arclidene of Murray. Contenit in the volume of the
Scottiss Croniculis ; be him translaittit in our vulgar tung."

Sibb. 11. 62. Prefixed to the editions of Bellenden's translation of Boece's Chronicle.

" Followis the Table of the haill Bulk." Fol. 370b.

This Table of the first lines of a considerable number of the poems, contained
in the MS., fills seven pages, with some of the omissions supplied on the
margin in the handwriting of Bishop Percy, who had been favoured with
the loan of the Manuscript for a very considerable period, soon after it had
been deposited in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. A more exact
Table of the first lines is given at page 91.

Fol. 374. contains the following poems, written in a hand about the end of the
17th century : — (1.) " A song in praise of Tobacco. — Much meat doethglut-
tonye procure" 8 lines. — (2.) " Meditatioun on Tobacco. — Why sould we
so much despyse'' 4 stanzas of five lines. — (3.) " A Songe. — Iff thow
canst not hire chast." 28 lines, with Latin terminations.

On the reverse of the leaf, Allan Ramsay has inserted his lines, " On the Ever-
Green's being gathered out of this Manuscript, &c." " In seventeen hundred
ticenty-four" of which a facsimile is given on the opposite leaf.

Fol. 375, which is the last leaf in the volume, contains, in BANNATYNE'S hand,

and probably of his own composition, the following lines,
372. " Offbeginnying and ending."

" God, that is maist glorius, was the michty begynnar
Off all thingis that in hevin or erd lies thair being ;
Quha was withowt begynnyng ! He is the only helpar

And furtherrar of gude worlds, to cum till gud ending!
Withowt counsale and avysement begin nocht ony thing,
Bot considder weill the end, and wey it discreitly;
For happelly it preservis baith sawle and body."

372.* " The Wryttar to the Redar." — " Heir end is this bulk, wriltin in tymeofpest"
This concluding Address, by BANNATYNE, is printed at p. 18, and a facsimile is
given on the leaf feeing page 84. The reverse of the leaf contains the sig-
natures of several of the Foulis's of Ravelston.

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" Heir begynnis ane Ballat Buik, writtin in the 3eir of God
1568."

[!N addition to the preceding Contents, there is inserted at the beginning of
BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, a fragment of 54 pages, with the a'love title.
The poems contained in this fragment are all duplicate copies, with the
exception of two or three at the end, which are evidently written at a later
period. It is prohahle, therefore, that Bannatyne had proceeded to a cer-
tain length in transcribing the poems which he had collected, before he
adopted the resolution of a systematic arrangement, as already described.
The writing is less careful, and the names of the authors either omitted,
or inserted afterwards.

For the greater facility in referring to the poems in this fragment, I shall con-
tinue the numbering from the end of the Fifth and last part of the larger
Manuscript. — The pages on the margin are recently added.]

373. " QuJien goldin Phebus movit fra the ram" p. 3.

22 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mr. J. Ballentyne.
Duplicate of No. 2.

374. •' Followis the Conceptioun of Chryst." — " Qu/ten be devyne deliberation)}." p. 6.

7 stanzas of seven lines. Anon.
Duplicate of No. 37.

375. " Followis ballads of the birth of Chryist." p. 7.
" 0 Lord my God, sen I am broc/it / In grit distress." 32 lines.

Duplicate of No. 7.

376. " Followis the first Psalme." p. 8.
" Happy is he / lies Jiald 1dm fre / ffromefolkis of defame"

16 lines. Anon. [By Alexander Scott.]

Duplicate of No. 9.

377. -" To t/tee, O mercifull Saluiour Jesus." p. 9.

20 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Dumbar.
Duplicate of No. 1 1.

88 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

378. " O mostheich and eternal! kinff." 1 1 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Ro. Norvell. p. 12.

Duplicate of No. 12, with an additional stanza.

870. '• Christe qui lux cs ct dies." 7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 13.

Duplicate of No. 13.

380. " O /iic/it ofJiicht, and licht of lie/it most cleir." 5 stanzas of five lines. Anon. p. 14.

Duplicate of No 14.

381. "Eternal Ki»ff that sits in hcvin so he." 5 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 15.

Duplicate of No. 38, with an additional stanza.

382. " Spair me, gud Lord, and mak me dene." 6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 15.

Duplicate of No. 15.

383. « Cum Halt/ Spreit most svperne." 3 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 1G.

Duplicate of No. 16.

38%."3esonisofmc>i,lemirryandglad." 6 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 17.

Duplicate of No. 17.

385. " ge that contrcit bcne and confest" 4 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 18.

Duplicate of No. 18.

386. " Chryst crownit King and conquerour" 9 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 18.

Duplicate of No. 37.

387. " 0 eterne God, of power infinyt? p. 20.

11 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. [By R. Henrysone.]
Duplicate of No. 19.

388. " Followis J>e song of fe Virgin Mary, callit, Magnificat anima mea dna." p. 22.

" W' laud andprayiss my saule lies magnified." 10 stanzas of eight lines. Anon.
Duplicate of No. 20.

389. " God is a substance for evir durable." p. 24.

4 stanzas of seven lines, — entitled, ' God,' — ' Saule of Man,'— ' The Lyf
of Man,' — and ' Prayare and Repentance.' Anon.
Duplicate of Nos. 1* and 8.

390. " Fttrt/i throw a forrest as Ifure." — 15 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 25.

Duplicate of No. 42.

391. " O crcaturis creat of me zour Creatour." p. 27.

12 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Ledgait, Munk of Berry.
Duplicate of No. 41.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 15G8. 80

392. " QitJiylome in Grccc, that nobill rfgiomi." p. 29.

9 stanzas of seven lines, ffinis. q. Chauser.

Duplicate of No. 44. Printed among Chaucer's Works, CITY'S cilit. Pn I.

393. " Allone as I went up and cloun." 7 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 30.

Duplicate of a poem by Henryson, No. 45.

394. " Sen through vertew incressis dignitie." 3 stanzas of seven lines. Anon. p. 32.

Duplicate of No. 58.

395. '• Doun by one rever as I raid." 10 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 32.

Duplicate of No. 49.

396. " Considder, man, all is lot vanitie." 8 stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 34.

Duplicate of No. 50.

397. « Letters of gold writtin I fund." 17 stanzas of eight linrs p. 35.

ffinis. q. Sr. Wa Broun.
Duplicate of No. 51.

398. " At matyne hour in myddls of the nijcJd." p. 38.

5 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Kennedy.
Duplicate of No. 52.

399. " Walkin allone amangis thir levis grene." 18 stanzas of seven lines. Anon. p. 38.

Duplicate of No. 53.

400. " Quhenfair Flora, the Godes of the flouris." p 42.

9 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mr Robert Henrysone.
Duplicate of No. 54.

401. " O mortall man, behald, tah tent to me" G stanzas of eight lines. Anon. p. 43.

Duplicate of a poem by Henryson, No. 55.

402. Wt in a garth, vnder a reid roseir." p. 44.

4 stanzas of eight lines, ffinis. q. Mr R. Henrisone.

Duplicate copy of No. 5G.

403. [" My mynd quhen I compos and cast."~\ p. 45.

The first nine lines of this poem are wanting, and the MS. has prolmlily

lost one or more leaves at this part. Anon.
Duplicate of No. 67'.

404. " Off everye ashing followis nocht." p. 45.

9 stanzas of five lines. — " Endis Discretion!! in Asking." [hy Dunl)nr.J

Duplicate of No. Gl.

90 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

405. " To speik of gift, or almouss deidis." p. 46.

Another hiatus in the MS. There is little doubt that the above poem by
Dunbar q. " On Gevintr," (which breaks off at the third line of stanza
seventh,) was followed by " Discretioun in Taking."
Duplicate of No. 62.

406. {_" Fort re maner of men ar mill token.'"] Anon, [by Dunbar.] p. 47.
Only the last sixteen lines of this poem have been here preserved.

Duplicate of No. 09.

407. " Devorit wt dreme, / devysiiiy in my shimmer." p. 47.

16 stanzas of five lines, ffiuis. q. Dumbar.
Duplicate of No. GO.

408. " Ane godlie ballat, maid be the poet Montgomery."] p. 49.

" Peccavi Pater, miserere mei." 9 stanzas of eight lines. " ffiuis. q. Robert
[err. for Alexander] Montgomery, poet." [This ami the four following
are evidently written at a later period.]
Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, 1821, p. 273.

409. « The first Pschalme." " Weill is the man" 20 lines. " ffinis. Montgomery." p. 51.

Rams. 11. 215. — Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, p. 249.

410. " The xxiij Sphalme, translait be him." — " The Lord most he," dye. p. 51.

2 stanzas of ten lines. " ffinis. Translait be Montgomery."
Hams. 11. 217 — Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, p. 250.

411. '' Lyik us the dum Solscquium, with cair ouircum" 4 stanzas of ten lines.

" ffinis. q. Montgomery." p. 52.

Rams. 11. 211 Montgomery's Poems, 8vo, p. 169.

412. " In vice maist vicious he excellis." 8 stanzas of six lines. p. 53.

" ffinis. q. Dunibar, for Donald Oures epitaphe."
Rams. 11. 209 Duiihar's Poems, 1. 135.

This portion of the MS. concludes with sixteen lines of Comparisons, entitled, 'Oft' p. 54.
Conquerouris,' ' Off Kingis,' ' Off an ennemy,' ' Off man,' ' Off the erth,'
and ' Off man,' as six distichs, with four lines of ' A comparisone betuix
heich and law estaitis.' " ffinis. q. William Alexr. of Menstry."

There is added, " The Song of the Redsquair, fought on the 7. of Jully 1576."—
" On July seventh, the suthe to say." 40 stanzas of four lines — two leaves
in the hand-writing of the Hon. William Carmichaell, Advocate, circa, 1720.
Rams. 11. 22-1.— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. <J1

ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE POEMS CONTAINED IN
BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT.

A big brucht man fering a deir qeir to cum, No. 202.

Absent I am ryelit soir aganis my will, 265.

A cok sumtyme with fethreme fresclie and gay, 360.

A crewall ivolf, revanus and fell, 364.

Allace, departing grand of wo, 238.

Allace, so sobir is the inicht, 331.

All ftbr ane / is my mane, 250.
Allone as I went up and doun, 45, 393.

All rychtouss thing, the quhilk dois now proreid, ] 15.

All tho that list of wemen evill to speik, 333.

All to lufe, and nocht to fen^ie, 173.

A lyone at his pray wery forrun, 365.

And tliou be drunkin thow suld nocht think, 190.

Ano aigit man, twyss fouvty 5eirig, 330.

Ane laid my lufe ane leddy of estait, 278.

Ane rnurelandis man of uplandis mak, 59.

Ane of the warst that evir was in erd, 310.

A rewlar thair was in cuntre afar, 200.

As it befell and bappinnit in to deid, 368.

As Phebus bricht, in speir merediane, 254.

As jung Awrora, with cristall haile, 159.
At matyne lioure in oiidis of the nicht, 52, 398.

A ^ung man chiftane witles, &c. 162.

Baith gud, and fair, and womanlie, 231.

Be chance, hot evin this vthir day, 167.

Befoir the tyme is wisdome to prowyd, 92.

Be glaid all ye that luvaris bene, 251.

Be gouernour baith guid and gratious, 128.

Be gratious ground and gate of sapience, 126.

92 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

Being ourquhclmed with dolour and with cair, No. 257.

Be kynd to thame that luvand is to the, 104.

Be mirry and glaid, nonest and vertewous, Fol. 97b.

Be mirry, bretherene, ane and all, No. 201.

Be mirry man, and tali not far in mynd, 141.

Be rychtuus Regent, and wele exerce thy cure, 127.

Bettir it is to dye / the sawlis lyfe to save, 8.*

Bettir it is to suffer fortoun, and abyd, 99.

Betuix twa foxis a crawing cok, 188.

Betuix twell houris and ellevin, 152.

Be je ane luvar, think 56 no1 ^e suld, 211.

Bruther, be wyse in to 5 our gouernance, 106.

Bruthir, be wyiss I reid ^ow now, 315.

Brycht sterne of bewtie and well of lustines, 230.

Call no' the man fals and unkynd, 102.

Chryist crownit king and conquerour, 37, 386.

Christe qui lux es et dies, 13, 379.

Compacience perssis, rewth and mercy stoundis, 30.

Come thair ony scheip this way, 202.

Considdir, hairt, my trew intent, 262.

Considdir, man, all is bot vanitie, 50, 396.

Cum Haly Spreit most superne, 16, 383.

Cupeid, vnto quhoia commaudiment, 332.

Departe, departe, departe / Allace ! I must departe, 281.

Devorit with dreme, devys'ung in my shimmer, 60, 407.

Devyce, proves, and eik humilitie, 320.

Devyne power, of michtis maist, 147.

Dissait dissauis, and salbe dissauit, 89.

Done is a battell on the dragon blak, 33.

Doun by ane rever as I red, 49, 395.

Dreil no' that is no', &c. 100.

Eftir geving I speik of taking, t>3.

Eternall King, that sittis in Levin so hie, 38, 381.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 93

Fair weill, my hairt, fair weill, baitli freind and fo, No. 237.

Fals clatterand ken^y, 18].

Fals titlaris now growis vp full rank, 71.

Fane wald I luve, hot quhair abowt, 302.

Favour is fair in luvis lair, 295.

Flour of all fairlieid, gif I sail found the IVa, 243.

For helth of body couer weill thy heid, 79.

For to declair the he magnificens, 217, 335.

Foure inener of men ar evill to ken, 69, 406.

Foxes ar fell at era wing cokkis, 188.

Fra raige of 5owth the rynk hes rune, 339.

Fredome, honour, and nobilnes, 66.

Freindis heir may 56 find, will ^e tali heid, 334.

Fresche fragrent flour of bewty souerane, 225.

Full oft I muse, and hes in thocht, 142, 156*.

Furth ouer the mold, at morrow, as I ment, 326.

Furth throw ane forrest as I fure, 42, 390.

Fyndlay McConnoquhy, fuf M°Fad5an, 205.

G if all the erth war perchmene scribable, 312.

Gife langour makis men licht, 276.

Gife no luve is O God, quhat feill I sp, 253.

Gife that in vertew, thow tak ony pain, 125.

Gif ye wald lufe, and luvit be, 252.

God and Sanct Petir was gangand be the way, 204.

God be his word his work began, 5.

God, for thy grace thow keip no moir silence, 6.

God is a substance for evir durable, 1,* 389.

God, that is maist glorius, was the michty begynnai, 372.

Grit fule is he that puttis in denger, 108.

Grund the in patience / blind not thy conscience, 82.

Guk, guk, gudday, Sir, gaip quhill 30 get it, 183.

Half hairt in hairt, 36 hairt of hairtis, haill, 245.

Haill Goddis Sone of myelitis maist, 24.

Happie is hie hes liald him fre, 9, 376.

Heir endis this buik, writtin in tyine of pest, 372*.

94 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 15G8.

Heir half 5e, luvaris, ballattis at jour will, No. 208.

Hence, hairt, w' hir that must departe, 261.

He plasmatour of tbingis vniversall, 4.

He that lies gold and grit richess, 157.

He that lies na will to wirk, 189.

He that thy freind lies hene rycht lang, 103.

Hiry, hary, hubbilschow, 160.

How sowld I rewill me, or quhat wyiss, 68.

How suld my febill body fure, 277.

Jak, quoth his fader, how sail I eis tak, 202.

I am as I am, and so will I be, 293.

Jane / q. James to a scliort demand of myne, 200.

Jerusalem rejoss for joy, 23.

Jesu Chryst that deit on tre, 135.

I half a littill Fleming barge, 164.

I luve, and I say not, 309.

I maister Andro Kennedy, 196.

I mak it kend he that will spend, 153.

I marvell of thir vane fantastik men, 273.

I met my lady weill arrayit, 185.

Imprent thir thre in thy remmembrance, 121.

I muse and mervellis in my mynd, 301.

In all this warld no man may wit, 307,

In Awchtirmwchty thair dwelt ane man, 101.

In bittirnes of sawill call vnto mynd, 75.

In grit tribulatioun and niekle vexatioun, 80.

In June the jem of joy and geme, 303.

In May, as that Aurora did vpspriug, 343.

In May, in a morning, I movit me one, 239.

In middis of June, that jolly sueit sessoun, 365.

In presone a presoner condempnit to die, 200.

In secreit place this hinder nicht, 14,6.

In Somer, quhen flouris will smell, 182.

In the middis of Maij, at morne, as I ment, 354.

In Tiberius tyrne, the trew imperiour, 177.

In to my hairt emprentit is so soir, 227.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 95

In to the ny< / quhen to ilk wicht / nature derckis rest, No. 289.

In to tliis warld we se sic variance, 73.

In vice niaist vicious he excellis, 412.

In warld is no', / be natur wro', / tliat :iy mon left, 84.

Irkit I am wl langsum luvis lair, 300.

1 saw ane rob rich of hew, 118.

I saw, me tlmcht, this hindir nycht, 186.

Isope a taill putis in memorie, 363.

Isop, myne autour, makis mentioun, 362.

It cumis 5ow luvaris to be leill, 261.

I that in heill wes and glaidnes, 149.

1 think tliir men are verry fals and vane, 338.

It is bettir to haif the sawle, 8*.

It is my purpoiss to discryve, 203.

It that I gife I haif, 194.

Justice wald haif ane godly presedent, 107.

I wilbe be plane / and lufe affane / ffor as I mrne /. so tak me, 266.

I jeid the gait wes nevir gano, 197.

Knyclitis full of hardines, 101.

Ladeis be war that plesand ar, 334.

Lait, lait on sleip as I wes laid, 256.

Lamenting soir my weird and bissy euro, 288.

Langour to leive allace, 294.

Lanterne of lufe and lady fair of hew, 260.

Leif luve and lat me leif allone, 285.

Leif luve, my luve, no langar it lyk, 94.

Leif luve, my luve, no langar thow it lyk, 341.

Leive we this wedow gled I yow assure, 356.

Lerges, lerges, lerges ay / Lerges of this New seirday, 139.
Letters of gold writtin I fand, 51, 397.

Listis, lordis, I sail ^ow tell, 155.

Lo quhat it is to lufe, 346.

Lord God deliuer me, allace, 10.

Lord God, my hairt is in distros, 323.

Lucyna Bchynning in silem-e of the nirlit, 172.

9G CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

Luvaris lat be the frennessy of Luve, No. 163.

Luve preysis but cotnparesone, 213.

Luve that is bet can no skill, 324.

Lyik as the duui solsequium with cair ouircuni. 411.

Lyk as the littill emmet haith bis gall, 209.

Ma commendationis with humilitie, 234.

Maist ameyn roseir, gratious and resplendent, 224.

Man of maist fragilitie, 74.

Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir, 176.

Marvilling in mynd quhat ailis fortoun at me, 279.

May is the moneth maist ainene, 198.

Meiknes and mesure, 83.

Memento bomo quod cinis es, 46.

Me meruellis of this grit confusioun, 112.

Me think thair suld no taill be trowit, 105.

Mony man makis ryme, and lukis to no reasoiui, 174.

Moving in mynd of mony diverss thing, 76.

Musing allone this hinder nicht, 64.

My dullit corss dois bairtly recommend, 268.

My freindis thir storeis subsequent, 352.

My guddame wes ane gay wyfe, / hot sclio wes rycht gend, 175.

My hairt is gone, / contort is none, 329.

My hairt is lieich aboif, my body is full of bliss, 255.

My hairt is lost onlie for lufe of one, 218.

My hairt is quhyto, / and no delyte / I baif of ladeis fair, 306.

My hairt is thrall begone me fro, 233.

My hairt repois the, and the rest, 271.

My lawty garris me be lichtleit, allaik, 308.

My luve was fals and full of flattry, 316.
My mynd quhen I compas and cast, l>/, 403.

My sorufull pane, / and wo for to compleue, 235.

My trewth is pliclit vnto my lufe benyng, 259.

My wofull hairt me stoundis throw the vanis, 28.

My woful werd, complene I may rycht soir, 240.

Nixt that a turnament wes cryid, 151.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 15iis 97

Now culit is dame Venus brand, No. 344-.

Now cumis aige quhair ^ewth lies bene, 344.

Now glaidith euery liflis creature, 2 1 .

Now, in this mirthful! tyrae of May, '-3:2.

Now is our king in tendir aige, 130.

Now, of wemen this I say for me, 337.

No wondir is althocht my hairt be tin-all, -.!.~>S.

Now quhen ane wreche is sett to he estait, 9H.

O creaturis creat of me jour Creatour, II, 391.

O Cupid, king, quhome to sal! I cotnplono, 230.

O eterne God, of power infinyt, 19, 387.

Off all the gude createuris of Goddis creating, 8.

Off cullouris cleir, quha lykis to weir, l(i(>.

Off every asking followis nocht, (> 1 , 404.

Off every joy most joyfull joy it is, 2:29.

Off Februar, the fyiftene nycht, 150.

Off lentron in tlie first mornyng, 48.

Off lufe and trewtli with lang continwans, 228.

Off luve, quhay lykis to haif joy or cunfurt, 212.

O foly hairt, fetterit in fantesye, 210.

Oft tymis is bettir hald nor len, 1 10.

O gallandis all, I cry and call, 180.

O God that in tyme all thingis did begin, 119.

O Iiicht of hicht, and licht of licht most cleir, 1 V, 380.

O Lord my God, on quhome I do depend, 40.

O Lord my God, sen I am brocht in grit, distress, 7, 375.

O lusty flour of jow1 benyng and bricht, 209.

O lusty May with Flora queue, 249.

O maistress myld liaif mynd on me, 244.

<) maistres myn till jow I me commend, 220.

O man, remember and prent in to thy tho', 34.

O man, transformit and vnnaturall, 349.

O man, vnthankfull to thy Creatour, 30.

Omnipotent Fader, Sone, and llaly Galst, 20.

O mortall man behold tak tent to me, .">.}, 401.

98 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

O mortall man, remember nycht and day, No. 47.

O most heich and eteniall king, 12, 378.

Once slumbering as I lay within my bed, 368.

One blindman to supper ane vdder bad, 200.

Only to yow in erd that I lufe best, 267.

Oppresit liairt indure in dolor and distress, 284.

O sinfull man, in to this mortall se, 57.

O wicket wemen, wilfull and variable, 321.

0 wondit spreit and saule in till exile, 29.

O wrechit, infernall, crewall element, 242.

O wretchit man full of iniquitie, 111.

Pansing in hairt, w* spreit opprest. 280.

Pansing of lufe, quhat lyf it leidis, 347.

Peccavi Pater, miserere mei, 408.

Pernitious peple, perciall in despyte, 165.

Precellend prince havand prerogatyue, 130.

Quha douttis dremis is bot phantasye, 144.

Quha lies gud malt, and makis ill drink, 192,

Qulia is perfyte to put in wryte, 263.

Quha lykis to luve, or that law pruve, 345.

Qulia wald do weill, 90.

Quha wald thair bodyis liald in heill, 78.

Quha will be gud, 91.

Quha will behald of luve the chance, 340.

Quha wilbe riche half e to honor aye, 110.

Quhair luve is kendlit confortles, 275.

Quhat art thow lufe for till allow, 287.

Quhat is this lyfe, ane draucht way to the deid, 96.

Quhat meneth this, quhat is this windir vre, 342.
Qulien be devyne deliberatioun, 39, 374.

Quhen doctouris prechit to win the joy eternal!, 132.
Quhen fair Flora, the Codes of the Flouris, 54, 400.

Qulien Flora hed ourfret the firth, 221.
Quhen goldin Phebus movit fra the ram. 2, 373.

Quhen I come by sone teljeouris stall, 188.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 99

Quhen I think on my lady deir, No. 219.

Quhen Merche wes w1 variand windis past, 366.

Quhen Pliebus fair, w' his beiuis bricht, 291.

Quhen Phebus in to the west lysis at morrow, 3"28.

Quhen riallest most redowtit and lie, 369.

Quhen siluer Diane full of bemis bryclit, 3.

Quhen Tayis bank wes blumyt brycht, 248.

Quben that the inone lies dominatioun, 327.

Quhen 50 wer plesit to pleiss me hertfully, 298.

Quhome sould I wyt of my mischance, i ts

Quhome to sail I complene my wo, 123.
Quhylome ia Grece, that nobill regioun, 44, 392,

Quhy sowld I luve but gif I war luvit, 299.

Quhy sowld no1 Allane honorit be, US.

Remembir, man, on endles bellis vexatioun, 85.

Remembir, man, that thow lies nothing heir, 86.

Remembir riches, remembir pouertie, 93.

lleturne the, hairt, hamewart agane, 297

Richt famous pepill 36 sail vndirstand, 207

Robene sat on gud grene hill, 370.

Robeyns Jok come to wow our Jynny, 179.

Rolling in my remembrance, 137.
Rorate cell desuper,

Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday, 17H.

Rycht as pouertie caussis sobernes, 97.

Rycht as the glass bene thirlit thru' w' bemis, 272.

Rycht as the sterne of day began to schyne, 367.

Rycht fane wald I my quentans mak, 187.

Sanct Salvatour send siluer sorrow, 15*.

Say weill is trewly ane wirlliy gud thing, 120.

Schir Johne tbe Ross, ane thing- thair is compild, 195.

Schir, sen of men, ar diuerss sortie, 140.

Schir, 5 it remember as of befoir,

Sen that I am a presoneir,

Sen that revolt rynnis vpoun regp,

100 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

Sen throw vertew iricressis dignitie, No. 58, 394.

Serve thy God uieikly, / and the warld bescly, 81.

So fremmit is my fortoun and my werd, 283.

Sons lies bene ay exilit owt of sicbt, 6.5.

So prayiss me as je think causs quhy, 292.

Spair me, gud Lord, and mak me clene, 15, 382.

Sueit hairt, sen I your freind only wes ay, 270.

.Sum man luvis for leill hive and delyte, 3:25.

Sumtyme this warld so steidfast was and stabill, 70.

Suppoiss I war in court most he, 131.

Support your servand, peirles paramour, 247.

Surrexit Dominus de sepulchro, 32.

Sustene, abstene keip weill in tliy mynd, 122.

Sym of Lyntoun be the ramis lion), 184.

Tak heid and harkin to my taill, 77.

Thair is no1 ane wiuche that I se, 304.

Thair is no story that I of heir, 193.

Thair wes ane channone in this toun, 191.

Thankit be God and his appostillis twulf, 322.

That evir I luvit, allace thairfoir, 282,

The beistly lust, the furius appetyt, 319.

The bewty of her amorus ene, 220.

The diuill is not to daly stryf, 313.

The grit debait and tournament, 169.

The grittest tresour withowt comparison, 41*.

The be prudence and wirking mervellns, 353.

The Lord most he, &c. 410.

The moir I lufe and serf at all my myclit, 290.

The nobilnes and grit magnificens, 358.

The nyne Ordour of Knavis, 199.

The richtouss fontane of hailfull sapience, 134.

The sterne is rissin of our redemptioun, 27.

The vse of court richt weill I knaw, 318.

The well of vertew and flour of womanheid, 222.

Thingis in kynd desyris thingis lykp, 114.

Thir billis ar brevit to birdis in spuc'iall, 336.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 101

Tbir ladyis fair that makis repair, No. 317.

Thir lenterne dayis ar luvely lang, 296.

Thir lusty versis of he nobilite, 43.

This foirsaid fox, thus deid for his roisdede, 357.

This hinder nycht in Dumfermeling, 158.

This hindir ny' neir by the hour of nyne, 129.

This hindir 5eir I hard be tald, 359.

This nycht befoir the dawing cleir, 156.

This nycht in my sleip I wes agast, 171.

This warld is all bot fenjeit fair, 117.

This warldis joy is only bot fantesy, 88.

This work quha sa sail sie or reid, 314.

Thocht all the wod vndir the herin that growis, 311.

Tbocht bratale beistis, be irrationale, 355.

Thocht fenseit fables of auld poetrie, 3(iO.

Thocht I in grit distress suld de in to dispair, 286.

Thou leiss loun, be this licht, 181.

Thow leiss, loun, thow leiss, 181.

Thow marciall buke pas to the nobill Prince, 371.

Thow that lies bene obedient, 31.

Thus I propone in my carping, 170.

Thus wairfull thocht myne E hes wrocht to wo, 241.

Thy beginning is bair and bitternes, 87.

To dwell in court my freind gif that thow list, 72.

To luve unluvit is ane pane, 305.
To speik of gift or almouss deidis, 62, 405.

To the hie potent blissfull Triiiitie, 35.
To the, O mercifull salviour Jesus, 11, 377.

To ^ow that is the harbre of my hairt, 223.

Troll trottes on befoir and takis no heid, 199.

Twenty clyantis to one man of law, 200.

Vertew in all workis is gritly to be praysed, 124.

Voluptouss lyfe quhy thinkis thow so sueit, 95.

Vp, hclsum hairt, thy rutis rais, and lovvp, 274.

Vpone a tyme as Ysop can reporte, 361.

102 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1668.

Wald my gild ladye, that I luif, No. 246.

Wald my gud lady lufe me best, 215.

Walking allone amang tliir levis grene, 53, 399.

Was nevir in Scotland hard nor senc, 143.

Was not gud King Salamon, 216.

Weill is the man, &c. 904.

Welcum illustrat Ladye and oure Queue, 133.

We lordis hes chosin a chiftane meruelus, 113.

We that ar bocht w' Chrystis blude, 25.

We that ar heir in hevinis glory, 145.

With bemes schene, thow bricht Cytherea, 351.

Within ane garth vndir a reid roseir, 56, 402.

W' laud and rjrayiss my saule hes magnified, 388.

ge blindit luvaris luke, 350.

ge Inglische hursone sumtyme will avant, 206.

ge lusty ladyis luke, 168.

ge reverend redaris tliir workis revolving riclit, I.

ge sonis of men be mirry and glaid, 1 7, 38 1.

ge that contreit bene and confest, 18, 385.

POEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN INSERTED IN BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT

AT A I.ATEK DATE.

Amongst the monsters that we fynd, l-'ol. 355.

Dan tie and dortie to all mans eyes, 210b.

Go sweit lines, love will not take them, 355.

Iff thow canst not leive c-hast, 370b.

In seventeen hundred twenty four, (by Allan Ramsay,) 374.

Lilies of comparisons, (by Sir William Alexander of Menstry,) Page 54.

Much meat doeth gluttonye procure, Fol. 370.

My mistres is in rmisik passing skilful!, 211.

Now, gossop, I must neids be gon, 21 Ob.

Once slumbering as I lay within my bed, 356^.

On July seventh, the suth to say, Page 55.

CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568. 103

Sail a woman's goodness move, (by George Wither,) Fol. 97.

Soukl I wrestle in dispnir, 07.

Why soukl we so much despysp, 371.

Whyt as the egg, rid as the skarlet, 210'1.

NAMES OF AUTHORS.

ALLANE MATSOUN, (an assumed name), No. 148, 192.

BALNAVE.S, No. 180.

BANNATYNE (George), No. 1, 208, 254, 258, 372, 372*.

BELLENDEN, or BEL LENT YNE, (John), No. 2, 3, 371, 373.

BI/VTII (John), (an assumed name), No. 153.

BROWN (Sir William), No. 51, 397.

CHAUCER, No. 44, 253, 312, 314, 320, 321. 332, 333, 342, 392.

CLERK, No. 28, 65, 146, 179, 302.

DOUGLAS (Bishop Gawyn), No. 4, 43, 351.

DUNBAR (William) No. 11, 22, 33, 46, 48, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 69, 72, 123,

138, 141, 142, 145, 149, 150, 151, 132, 154, 156, 146, 156,* 157, 158, 159, 171, 172,

176, 178, 195, 196, 211, 214, 317, 318, 337, 340, 343, 344, 366, 367, 377, 404, 405,

406,407,412.
FETHY, No. 259, 280.
FLEMYNG, No. 201.
HAY WOOD (John), No. 200, 202.
HENRYSON (Robert), No. 19, 45, 54, 55, 56, 71, 183, 215, 353, 355, 356, 357, 358,

359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 370, 387, 393, 400, 401, 402.
HOLLAND, No. 354.

JAMES THE FIRST (King), No. 58, 143.
INGLIS (Sir James), No. 60.
JOHNSTON (Patrick), No. 57.
KENNEDY (WTalter), No. 52, 136, 195, 330, 398.
KIDD (Alexander), No. 134.
LYCHTOUN, Monicus, No. 47, 111.

Ui4 CONTENTS OF BANNATYNE'S MANUSCRIPT, 1568.

LYDGATE, No. 41, 79, 391.

LYNDSAY (Sir David), No. 203, 207.

MAITLAND (Sir Richard), No. 5.

MERSAR, No. 212, 331, 336.

MOFFAT (Sir John), No. 161, 315.

MONTGOMERY (Alexander), No. 205, 206. 300, 408, 409, 410, 411.

NORVALL (Robert), No. 12, 378.

OCCLEVE (Thomas), No. 332.

ROWLL (Sir John), No. 147.

SCOGAN, No. 70.

SCOTT (Alexander), No. 9, 10, 133, 163, 168, 169, 198, 213, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266,

267, 272, 274, 277, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 294, 295, 297, 301, 303, 305, 334,

339, 345, 346, 348, 350, 376.

SEMPLE (Robert), No. 164, 165, 166.

STEILL, No. 260, 265.

STEWART, No. 34, 130, 132, 139, 140, 181, 188, 217, 224, 296, 326, 335.

STEWART (Henry), No. 128.

STEWART (King Henry), No. 276.

STEWART (William), No. 129, 130.

WEDDIRBURNE, No. 273, 316, 338, 349.

APPENDIX.

No. I.

NOTE, CONNECTED WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN FAMILY, BY

GEORGE BANNATYNE, whose Manuscript Collection of Scottish
Poems furnished part of its materials to Ramsay's Evergreen, and
a subsequent publication by Lord Hailes.

(Communicated by SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE of Kaims.)

IN that account lie states himself to be son of James Bannatyne of the Kirktoun of Neu-
tyle and Catherine Taillefer, and a younger brother of Thomas Bannatyne, who, by the death
of his elder brother, Lawrence, under age, and without children, became the eldest of his
sons, succeeded to him in his lands of Neutyle, and whom he states to have become a Se-
nator of the College of Justice.

Agreeably to this statement we find, in the List of the Lords of Session published by
Lord Hailes, from a Manuscript Abridgment of the Acts of Sederant, which had belonged
to Lord Pitmeddin, Mr. Thomas Ballenden's name entered as a Judge in 1577, in room of
Auchinoul — and as deceased 26th November, 1591 — the year in which George Bannatyne
states Thomas to have died ; and we find Andrew Wemyss, Myre-Cairne, named as a Judge
on the decease of Newtyle — a circumstance which, with some other entries in it, shows that
the writer of that Catalogue used the names of Ballenden and Bannatyne indifferently for
each other ; and that the Thomas Ballenden of Neutyle, who is entered as becoming a
Judge in 1577, and dying in 1591, is no other than Thomas, the elder brother of Georgo
Bannatyne.

Respecting James, their father, whom George states as proprietor of the Kirktoun of Neu-
tyle, and as married to Catharine Taillefer, mother to Thomas, himself, and the other children
mentioned in his account, there appear (in Mr. Thomson's Register of the Great Seal) two
charters obtained by him, the one 1st June, 1548, Jacobo Bannatyne, burgensi de Edinburgh,
" superioritatis terarrnm de Kinclevin," Perthshire ; the other, 23d March, 1558, " Jacobo
Bannatyne, burgensi de Edinburgh, etCatharinae Taillefer sua; sponsse terrarum do Little Bal-
chonre, et Torwathwy," Fyfeshire ; which last, by mentioning Catharine Taillefer as his wife,

o

106 APPENDIX. No. I.

shows this James Bannatyne, burgess of Edinburgh, to have been no other than James Ban-
natyne of the KirUtoun of Neutyle, father to Thomas, Lord Neutyle, and to George himself.

There appear, also, iu the Register of the Great Seal, 1527, a charter to John Bannatyne,
designed Scribo signet! ; and another, 1540, to James Bannatyne, also designed Scriho sig-
neti, of certain tenements in Edinburgh, though it is not known whether either of these per-
sons were connected with, or of the same family with. James Baunatyne of the Kirkton of
Neutyle, and his sons George and Thomas.

However that may be, Thomas Bannatyne, Lord Neutyle, and brother of George, had
a son carrying the same name with his grandfather, James Bannatyne of the Kirktoun of
Neutyle, burgess of Edinburgh, as appears from the Retour, No. 1073, vol. ii., of Thom-
son's Inquis. Retorn. Abbreviatio, dated 24th May, 159G, Perthshire ; being that of " Ma-
gistcr Jacobus Bannatyne, Hares Magistri Thornae Bannatyne de Neutyle, unius Sena-
torum Collegii Justili;e, patris, in Molendino de Migell, cum terris Molendinariis et as-
trictis rnulturis."

Among the. writings of tlie Bannatynes of Camys, who, as did also the Eannatynes of
Corehouse, originally spelt their names Bannachtyne, there is a charter by James Banna-
tyne, designing himself son of Alexander Bannatyne, burgess of Edinburgh, conveying to
Hector Bannat.yne, Elder of Camys, in liferent, and Ninian, Younger of Camys, his sou, in
fee, the lands of Camys, and others in the Isle of Bute ; as also those of Baunatyne Yards,
iu Ayrshire, as standing in his person by an apprising, apparently in trust for a particular
purpose, appearing from other parts of the family writings ; and by which they are destined,
failing heirs of Ninian, successively to Angus, Ronald, and Charles, the brothers of Hector'
and tailing them, to James Bannatyne the granter — a circumstance which points him out, at
the date of that charter, 31st July, 1577, to have been the nearest male relation of the fa-
mily failing Hector, his son, and brothers ; and makes it probable, that his father Alexander,
designed burgess of Edinburgh, was himself an immediate son, or perhaps a grandson of the
family ; as, in a Crown-charter, 20th December, 1475, of their lands in Bute, Ayr, and Ar-
gyleshire, Robert, the grandfather of Hector, therein designed Robert de Bannatyne, appears
to have had two brothers, Alexander the elder, and Walter the youngest, of the first of whom,
Alexander, burgess of Edinburgh, if not an immediate son of the family,might be a descendant ;
and as among the witnesses to the first mentioned charter of James, the son of Alexander,
burgess of Edinburgh, it is observable that we find, along with Alexander Bannatyne of
Searrol, proprietor of the lands of that name in Bute, and a well-known descendant of the
Kames family, James Bannatyne of Kirktoun, evidently the father of George and Thomas,
Lord Neutyle, that circumstance, with the appearance of George having carried their armo-
rial bearing, as delineated on the manuscript of his Poems, seemed to make it highly proba-
ble, that James Bannatyne of Kirkton, or his sons, were nearly connected with Alexander

APPENDIX. No. I. 107

Bannatyne, also a burgess of Edinburgh, and Iris son James, and all of them equally de-
scended from the Kames family.

It would seem, however, that there now appears some uncertainty as to what was the ar-
morial bearings of George ; either that the marking on the manuscript of his poems [/See
page 85] has been misunderstood, or that he himself had erroneously marked it as three
mullets and a bend, being the armorial bearing of Kames ; as, on the manuscript containing
the account of his father's family, [Sen facsimile facing page 25] it is marked as a cross
sable in a field arsent between four mullets, the armorial bearing of the Bannatynes of Core-
house and Newhall ; a circumstance which rather points at George and his brother Thomas
being cadets of the Bannatynes of Corehouse ; of which it can be clearly shown that the
Auchinoul family, afterwards Lord Ballemlen, though chusing to assume a different armorial
bearing, and a different mode of spelling their name, were also descendants.

However this might be, as it has been seen that an intercourse, marking the probability
of a connexion with each other, took place between James Bannatyne of Kirktoun, the fa-
ther of George and Thomas Lord Neutyle, and James, the son of Alexander Burgess of
Edinburgh, and a near descendant of the Bannatynes of Camys or Kames ; so this last would
appear to have maintained a similar degree of intercourse with the Ballendens of Auchi-
noul— for a dispute which had arisen between Hector Bannatyne of Kames, and his brother
Charles Bannatyne of Crasslagloan, being by a submission, 17th January 1592, referred to
the above-mentioned James Bannatyne, therein designed writer, and Mr. Patrick Banna-
tyne, his brother, Mr. Thomas Ballenden, designed brother-german to Sir Lewis Ballenden
of Auchinool, is named as oversman ; and in the decreet-arbitral which followed upon it,
8th February 1592, we find among the witnesses Mr. Adam Ballenden, also brother to Sir
Lewis.

It may be further observed, that while as both the families of Camys and Corehouse ori-
ginally spelled their name Ban, or Benachtyne, and afterwards Bannatyne; in the first of
which forms (as to the family of Kames) it frequently occurs in their early writings, and so
(as to that of Corehouse) it appears in the Rolls of David the Second [Thomson's Reg.
Magni Sig. p. 28, art. 47.] ; both wore mullets in their arms, and both carried the same crest
and motto ; circumstances which leave no doubt as to their being of the same descent.

The Camys or Kames family derive their descent from Gilbert, the son of Gilbert, who,
under the designation of Gilbertus filius Gilberti, obtained a charter of part of the family-
lands in the island of Bute, from Walter, Steward of Scotland, witnessed by Robertus Illtis-
trissimus Rex Scotire ; Edwardus, Dominus Gallovidiae, frater ejus, and several of the
most distinguished barons of that period ; and whose son, John, who also obtained a charter
from him of several other parts of the family lands, appears from entries in the Chamberlain
Rolls, and other evidence, to have been chamberlain of Bute under the Steward.

108 APPENDIX. No. II.

They had many branches in Bute and its neighbourhood, including the Bannatynes of
Kelly in Renfrew and Ayrshires, and the Ballantines, now of Castleliill, in the latter.

They had been always considered as a head family ; and their title to be so was strongly
pointed out by the circumstance, that while all the Bannatynes of Bute carried the Gaelic
patronymic of M'Amlyne, derived from an older ancestor than either of the Gilberts, the
family of Kames, as their head, carried that of M'Amli/itc Hlfier ; circumstances which, joined
to the others already noticed, and particularly of their liotli having originally borne the name
of Bannachtyne, evidently one of Gaelic origin, much more likely to be assumed by a family
in Bute, where that language prevailed, than by one in Lanarkshire, entitle its present
representative to hold that the Kames family was the general root of the name, and that of
Corhouse one of its branches, though certainly not the oldest of them.

No. II.

ADDITIONAL NOTICES RESPECTING GEORGE BANNATYNE AND

HIS CONNEXIONS.

(Communicated by JOHN RIDDELL, ESQ. ADVOCATE.)

CONTRACTS, dated Edinburgh, 4th April, 1571, between Sir John Bellenden of Auchi-
noul, knight, and Jonet Leyton, his spouse, on one part, and Henri/ Nisbet, burgess of
Edinburgh, and Janet Buniiati/ne, his spouse, on the other part, by which, for the sum of 500
nierks, paid by Henry Nisbet and Janet Bannatyne, the latter agree to infeft the former in
an annual rent of 50 merks out of the lands of Nether Carlourie, Linlithgowshire, under re-
versions. Witnesses, Mr. Thomas Bannatyne, GEORGE and Mr. James Bannatynes, sons to
James Bannatyne, burgess of Edinburgh, and James Bannatyne, younger, his servand. —
[Bonds and Obligations, vol. xi.]

James Bannatyn, WRITER, bitrges of Edinburgh, GEORGE and Mr. James Bannatynes, his
sones, and James Bannatyne, servand to the said James, mentioned in a deed dated 1569. —
[Bonds mid Obligations, vol. xi.J

The above Henry Nisbet was undoubtedly the ancestor of the knightly family of Nisbet of
Dean, near Edinburgh, his elder representatives, and of their cadets, the Nisbets of Craigin-
tinnie and Dirleton. Sir John Nisbet of Diileton, Lord Advocate to Charles the Second,
is well known. These facts can be proved by legal evidence, and are mentioned by Nisbet
in his Heraldry, vol. i. p. 315, new edition.

Nisbet, or rather the author of Historical and Critical Remarks on Ragman Roll, ob-
serves, " Nisbet of Dean is now the best family of the name," [ib. vol. ii. Hist, and Criti-

APPENDIX. No. III. 109

cal Remarks, p. 42] ; and that of the Nisbets of Dalzell, of the ancient family of the Nisbets
of that ilk, " flowed the Nisbets of Dean, being descended of Adam Nisbet, a son of the
Barons of Dalzell, who came to Edinburgh a merchant in King James thu Fourth's time, as
Sir Patrick Nisbet of Dean, Bar1, informed the author of these remarks." — [Ib.p. 48.] Adam
was the father of Henry above mentioned.

Nisbet, author of the Heraldry, again says, [article, Exterior Ornaments, vol. ii. p. 32,
new edit.] " that the family of Dean is the only family of the name in Scotland that has
right, by consent, to represent the old original family of the name of Nisbet ; since the only
lineal male representer, the author of this System, is like to go soon off the world, being an
old man, and without issue, male or female. On winch account he had a right," lie adds,
" to the ancient supporters of Nisbets of that ilk, which he had, indeed, previously borne
by authority." It is to be observed, that Nisbet, author of the Heraldry, was the un-
doubted chief of the name.

ANE Lettir, maid with awife and confent of the Lordis of our Soverane Lordis Secreit
Counfall, makand, conftituand and ordinaml his lovittis fervitouris JAMES BANNATYNE, of
the Kirktoun of Newtyle, Tabular of the College of Juftice, and Mailler Thomas Bannatyne
his fone and apperand air, and the langeft levar of thanie twa, ather of thame bronkand eftir
ntheris as thai ar ordanit be thir lettiris, Tabnlaris of his Hienes Senate and College of Juf-
tice, of all and fundrie fnmmomlis to be callit thairin, be ordour of tabill, for all the dayis of
thair lyffis, &c. &c. At Halierudhous. the fecond day of May, the yeir of God l'"Vc foure-
fcour thre yeiris [Regift. Secret! Sigilli, xlix. 112.]

No. III.

NOTES FHOM THE REGISTER OF CONFIRMED TESTAMENTS PRESER-
VED IN THE CONSISTORIAL COURT, EDINUUUGH.

(Communicated by ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ.)

(I-)

BARBARA BANNATYNE, " fpous to James Nicol in Edinburgh." (Memorials, p. 26 and
30.) Her Last Will and Testament was confirmed, March 25, 1579.

KATHERINE TAILZEFER, " Ipous to James Banuatyne of Newtyle." (Memorials, p. 30.)
Testament confirmed Nov. 8, 1570

JAMES BANNATYNE, 5ounger, wrytter in Edinburgh. Testament confirmed Nov. 26, 1582.

110 APPENDIX. No. III.

JAMES BANNATYNE of Kirktoun of Newtyle. (Memorials, p. 30.) Testament confirm-
ed April 6, 1584.

Mr JAMES BANNATYNE, wrytter in Edinburgh. (Memorials, p. 31.) Testament con-
firmed Feb. 24, 1598.

MARIOUN BANNATYNE, relict of vmquhile Thomas Akenheid, merchant burges of Edin-
burgh. (Memorials, p. 27.) Testament confirmed March 10, 1606.

HENRY NISBET, merchand, fumtyme Proveft of Edinburgh. (Memorials, p. 26 and
107.) Testament confirmed Jan. 16, 1608.

JONET BANNATYNE, relict of vmquhile Hendrie Nilbet, merchand burges of Edinburgh.
(Memorials, p. 26.) Testament confirmed July 19, 1621.

(II.)

THE TESTAMENT TESTAMENTAR and INUENTAR of the guidis, geir, fovrmes of money ami
dettis, pertening to vmqle ISSOBELL MAUCHANE, fumtyme /pans to GEORGE BANNA-
TYNE, merchand burges ofEdiii', the time of hir deceis ; quha deceift vpoun the xxvij day
of Auguft, the 5611- of God ImVIc thrie 5eiris ; ffaythfullie maid and gevin vp be the faid
George Bannatyne, hir fpous, onlie executour nominat be hir, in hir Latter Will vnder-
written : As the famyn, of the dait at Edinr, the xv and xvj days of Auguft, the 5eir of
God foirfaid, in prefence of the notar and witneliis vnderwritten, at lenth proportis.
IN THE FIRST, the faid Ilibbell Mauchane and hir laid fpous had the guidis, geir, fowmes of
money and dettis, of the awaill and proces eftir following, pertening to thame, the tyme of
his deceis foirfaid.

ITEM, ane cheyne of gold, wyand thrie vnce thrie quarteris of ane vnce, price of the vnce
wecht, xxviij li. — Summa, ..... Ixxxxj li.

ITEM, vtenciles and domiciles, by the airfchippe, with the abui^emenlis of hir body, elti-
mat to ...... iiijc li.

Summa of the Inuentar, ..... iiijclxxxxj li.

Followis the Dettis awin to the Dcid.

ITEM, thair was awin to the faid vmqle Iffobell Mauchaue and hir faid fpous, be Andro

Wardlaw, eklare of Tony, and Henry Wardlaw, 5ounger, the fowme of jm li.

ITEM, be Johnne Houlloun of Lany . . . iijcxxxiij li. vj s. viij d.

ITEM, be vmqle Williame Mauchane, his airis, executouris and intromitteris with his

guidis and geir, ...... ijc li.

ITEM, be James Douglas of Spot, ane hundreth pundis.

Summa of the dettis awin to the Deid, . . jmvjcxxxiij li. vj s. 8d.

Summa of the Inuentar, with the dettis, ijmj°xxiiij li. vj s. 8d.

APPENDIX. No. III. Ill

Followis the Dettis awin be the Deid.

ITEM, thair was awin be the faid vmqle Klbbell Maucliane and hir faid fpous to Mr. Patrick
Bannatyne, wrytar, of lent money, .... xlvj li.

ITEM, to IJJ'ubdl Mauchane, dochter to Dauid Maxhcanc, tail^eour, burges of Edinr,
put intrillede in the defunctis liandis and hir faid 1'pous, . . Fiftie pundis.

ITEM, to Janet Cwninghame, feruaud, for hir ^eiris fie, in anno 1603, Fyve markis.

ITEM, to Effie Thomfoune, feruand, for hir fie in anno foirfaid . . v markis.

ITEM, to Margaret Woddell, feruand, for hir 5eiris fie, in anno foirfaid . v nierkis.
Suinma of the dettis awin he the deid, .... jcrj li.
lleftis of free geir, the dettis deducit, . . ijmxviij li. vilj s. 8d.

To be divided in twa pairtis, deidis pairtis, . . jmix li. iij s. iiij d.

Quhairof the quot is componit for xx li.

Followis the Deidis Legacie and Latter Will.

AT EDIN", the xv day of Augult, 1G02: The quhilk day, in prefence of me notarpuhlict
and witneffis vnderwrittin, ISSOBELL. MAUCHANE, Jpous of George Bannatyne, mercJiand
burges of Edinr, being feik in bodie, and perfyte in mynd, knawing nathing mair certane than
deitli, an<l nathing mair vncertane than the hour and tyme, leuis hir faull to the mercie of hir
gracious God Almychtie, lioiping throw the mereittis of Chryll Jefus hir Sauiour, to be faivit ;
Makis hir Latter Will and Teilament in inaner following : FIRST, fcho nominatis and confli-
tutis George Bannatyne, hir 1'pous, hir onlie execr and intromittar with hir guidis and geir
quhatfumeuir : Item, fcho leuis to Eduard Nijbet hir elde/fjbne, the fowme of audit hun-
dreth markis : Item, fcho leuis to IJJbbdl Nijbet hir dochter, the fowme of thrie hundreth
markis : Item, to Williame Nijbet hisfone hir oy, ane himdreth pundis, quhilk fcho ordanis
hir faid fpous hir execr to pay to him, quhan he fall cum to the aige of xv jeiris compleit ;
liir faid exec1 alwayis payaud the annuell thairof to his fader, for fuftentatioun of him at the
fcholes : And lykewayis, ordanis that the thrie hundreth mark left to Ijjbbdl Nejbithir oy, he
put in the handis of George Foulis hir gnidjbne, for tlie were of the faid Ifibbell ; the faid Ed-
uard hirfone alwayis reffaiveing the annuell thairof, quhill fcho be provydit: Item, to Jonet
Bannatyne hir dochter, the fowme of aucht hundreth markis ; witli hir befl gowne, wyliecoit
and cloke, and ane chain -5 ie of gold, weyand thrie vnce thrie quarteris of ane vnce : Item, to
Eduard Ki/bet hir fone, ane ring of gold fett with ane ruble ftane : Item, to Tffbbell Nijbet
hir oy, and fail^eand hir be death, (as God forbid,) to Tffbbell Mauchane hir broder-dochter,
tif fecond bell gowne, cloik and vyliecoit : Item, to Dauid Mauchane, hir broder, ane
hundreth markis : Item, to I/Jbbell Mauchane hir broder-doclitcr, Ixxx markis ; with ane blak
goun and ane new blak furrit clok : Item, to BeJJie and Janet Mauchane, Jiir broder-doch-
teris, ilk aae xx markis : Item, to Mariovn Mauchane thairjijter, ten markis : Item, to Ja-

112 APPENDIX. No. III.

net Cwnynghame, x li.: Item, to Ewffam e Thomefone, liir feruand, ten li. : Item, to Mar-
garet Wodhall, ten markis : Item, to the pure of the Hofpitall, xx markis : Item, fcho leuis
hir daylie goune and vyliecoit to Janet Cwnynghame ; and ane vihir gowne to Ewifame
Thomfoun : Item, to Beffie Craig, the Jpous of Dau'ul Mauchane, Mr broder, ane goun of
blak clayth, with veluot pafinentis : And to Iffbbell Muuchane, hir bed veluot paitlet : And
the vthir to Janet Cwnynghame, hir feruand. This hir Latter Will and Teftament wes maid
in hir awin dwelling hous, about xj liouris at ewin : Befoir thir witneflis, Mr. Patrik Banna-
tyne, wryter ; James and William Nefbittis, merchandis ; George Fowlis, hir fone in law ;
Gilbert Kirkwod, hir feruand ; William Ila, merchand ; with vtheris diuerfe.

(Sic fubfcribitur) Ita eft, JOANNES NISBET, Notarius publicus in premiflls requifitus,

teftante hac mea fubfcriptione manualj. Jo. NISBET.

AFUD EDINB, xvj Augufli 1603. ISSOBELL MAUCHANE, the fpous of George Bannatyne,
merchand, being feik in body, and perfyte in mynd ; vnderftanding, that in hir Latter Will
befoir writtin, maid the xv day of Auguft inflant, fcho lies left to Janet Bannatyne hir doc/t-
ier, thefpous of George Fouiis, the fowme of audit hundreth markis, to be payit be George
Baimatyne hir fpons, hir onlie executour ; fcho now as tlian, and tlian as now, revoikis and
difchairgis that pairt of the faid teftament, fa far as coiicernis the faid Janetis pairt ; towart
the payment of the faid fowme fimpliciter. Quhairvpoun the faid George Bannatyne afkit
inftrumentis ; befoir thir witneflis, George Fouiis, Eduard Nijbct, Gilbert Kir/ncood, with
vtheris diuerfe.

(Sic fubfcribitur.) Ita eft, Joannes Nilbet, Notarius publicus in premiflls, teftante hac

mea fubfcriptione manual!. Jo. NISBET.

WE, Maifteris Jon Nirolfoun, &c, geuis and committis the intromiflioun witli the famin to
the faid George Bannatyne, cure executour teftamentar, to the faid vmquhile Iffbbell
Mauchane, his fpous ; referuand compt, &c. Quha being fuorne, &c. And Henry Banna-
tyne, wryter, is becuni rautioun, &c. ; as ane act beiris.

(III.)

THE TESTAMENT DATIUE and IN VENTAR, ad omffit, of the guidis, geir, fowines of money
and deittis perteining to vmquhile ISSOBEL MAUCHANE, fttm/i/inr fpous to George
Bannatyne, merchand burges of Edinr, the tyme of hir deceis ; quha deceift vpoun the
xxvij day of Auguft, the jeir of God ImVIc thrie jeiris, omittit out of hir principall
Confirmed Teftament Teftamentar, be the faid VMUUHILE George Bannatyne hir Jpous,
onlie executour tertamentar confirmit to hir be the CommifTaris of Edinr. As the famin,
of the dait the nynt day of Februar, the 5eir of God lmVIc four Beiris, beiris. And
now faytlifullie maid and gevin up be JONET BANNATYNE, fpous to George Fouiis,

APPENDIX. No. III. 113

gold/myth, barges of Edinburgh, dodder lauclifull to the defunct, and executrix datiue
ad omijjli, decernit to hir (aid vmquliile modcr, be decreit of the Commiflaris of Ediur ;
as the famyn decreit, of the dait, at Edinr, the fext day of December, anno ImVIc audit
5eiris, in the felf at mair lenth beiris.

IN THE FIRST, the faid I/Jbbell Maitcltanc and hir faid vmquliile fpous had the guidis, geir,

fuwmes of money and dettis of the awaill and proces eftir following-, perteining to thame the

tyme of hir deceis foirfaid, omittit out of hir principal! Confirmit Teilament Telianientar,

viz.: Thair was awin to the laid vmqle l(lbbe) Mauchane, and hir faid vmqle fpous, omittit

out of hir prin11 Confirmit Teilament Teftamentar, be James Gutliric, proprietar of the landis

of Bannabreiche, ane annuelrent of the fo wines of jc markis out of the faidis landis 5eirlie,

and ilk 3eir, fra the 3eir of God ImVc Ixxxxij geiris, to the xxvij day of Augufl ImVIc and

thrie 3eiris, extending to the fpace of twelf Beiris, to the fovvme of audit hundreth pundis.

Summa of the dettis awin to the deid, ad omiffii, .... viij c li.

Na diuifion. — Quhaircf the quot is componit for xl s.

WE, Mr John Artliour, &c. vndirltanding that eftir dew fummoning and lauclifull wairning,
maid be forme of edict oppinlie, &c. omittit and left out of bis principal! Confirmit Tefta-
ment Teilamentar, &c. or ellis to fchaw ane cans quhay, &c. We decernit thairintill ; as our
decreit thairvponn beiris. Conforme to the quhilk, &c. Quhairvpoun Johnne Somervell, fkyn-
ner, burges of Edinr, is becum cautioun, &c. ; as ane act beiris.

(IV.)

Edinburgi, fexto die Decembris 1608. — ANENT the Edict raiiit at the inftance of George
Abernatliie, procuratour fifcal to our Soucrane Lord, fummonand the executour teltament-
arie, the fpous, bairnes, gif ony be, and intrometteris witli the guidis and geir of vmquliile
ISSOBELL MAUCHAyEjJiiinfyme fpous to vmquliile GEORGE BANNATYNE, merchand burges
of Edinr, to have hard and fene executoures datiue decernit, &c.

Compeirit the faid George Abirnathie, procuratour for JONET BANNATYNE, dochter
lauchful to the defunct, and defyrit hir to be gevin in executour datine ad omiffa to the faid
vmquliile Illbhell, hir mother: Quhome the faidis commifTaris decernit and gave in maner
foirfaid, quha produceit Inventar of the defunctis gudis and geir, and maid fuitli ; and Jo»
Somervell, fkinner, burges of Edinr, becom cautioner, and George Foullis, hirfpmts, becom
actit to relief him.

THE TESTAMENT TESTAMENTAH and INUENTAR of the guidis, geir, fowmes of money and
debtis pertening to vmq1'' JONET BANNATYNE, fumtyme fpous to George Foidis of Ka-

i>

114 APPENDIX. No. III.

vel/Fone, Moi/ii-r ( '/tn^eour to his 3f uit'/tic within the hliujdume of Scotland., the tyine of
hir deceis ; quha deceilt vpone the . . . day of March the ^eir of God ImVIe threttie ane
;eiris ; rt'aithfullie maid and gevin vp be the laid George Foules, liir fpous, quhom fcho
iiominatis hir onlie executour, in liir Latter Will vnderwrittine ; as the famyn, of the dait
at Edinr the tuentie ane day of Februare, the 5eir of God foirfaid, fubfcryuit with his
awin hand, in prefens of tlie witneffis wnderwrittin, mar at lenth beires.
IN THE FIRST, the faid Jonat Bannatyiie, and liir faid fpous, had the guidis, geir, fowines
ot money and debtis, of the availl and prices eftir following, pertening to thame the tyme
of liir deceis foirfaid, viz.

In utenceillis, and domiceillis, and filver werk in thair duelling places in Edinr and Revel-
lloune, by (i. e. besides) the herfchip, with the abuiljementis and ornamentis of liir bodie,
eftimat to the fowme of Ane thowfand pundis money.

Summa of the Inventar, . . . . Im lib.

Followcs the Dfbtis awin be the Deid.

ITEM, thair was awin be the faid vmquhile Jonet Bannatyiie, and liir faid fpous, to John

Brodie, thair feruand, of fie and bounteth, xx lib.

ITEM, to Alex1 Donaldfone, thair feruand, for his fie, . . five puudis.

ITEM, to Margaret Waddell, thair fervitrice, for her fie and bounteth, tuentie pundis.

ITEM, to Jonet Aikman, thair fervitrice, for hir fie and bounteth, . xx lib.

ITEM, to Williame Dobic, thair fervitour, for his, . . iiij lib.

Summa of the debtis awin be the deid, . . . Ixix lib.

Reflis of frie geir, the debtis deducit, . . . lmixclj lib.

To be devydit in thrie pairtis. Deidis pairt, j s. . vjcl li. vj s. 8 d.

Quota, 24 lib.

Followis the Deidis Lcf/acie and Latter Will.

I JONET BANNATYNE^/^OZW to GEORGE FOULES of Ravel fioune, calling to mynd the cer-
tantie of death, and the vncertaintie of the tyme thairof, liave refolved to declair my mynd, in
fo far as concernes my worldlie efferes ; to the effect, my foull profperit, may with the moir
fridome and alacritie attend the gudwill and plelour of my Creatour, Saviour and Sancttifiar ;
as followes : I nominal and appoint my faid deirlie and beft beloved hulband my executour,
for geving vp inventar of the guidis and geir pertening to me, for confirming this my Teftament
and doing all vther thingis heirin, as is wnderwrittine. Item, I will and ordane my weilbe-
lovit hufband, to provyde and bellow fucb competent provifiones and portiones of geir as he
fall think fitt to our childring, PATRICK, ISSOBELL and ELIZABETH FOULES, quho are not
as jit vtberwayes provydit, and that out of the fidl and reddieft of the moveables; and the

APPENDIX. No. III. 115

fuperplus of the famyne to he devydit equallie amongft the reft of our childrene, prooreat
betuixt ws. Item, I ordane two hundreth markis Scottis money to be gevin to the poore of
the Hofpitall of Edinr, to he irnployit to the vfe of the poore within the famyn, be the Minif-
teris of the faid hofpitall, with the advyce of my faid beloved hnlbaiul. Item, I leive, in
takine of my love and motberlie aftectione, to my guid docliter Jonet Kirhicood, docliter to
Gilbert Kirliwod of Pilrig, and to Elizabeth Ward/aw, docliter to Mr. William Wimllaw
of Balmule, everie ane of thame ane goldin chenie, weyand at leifl thrie vnce wecht the
peice. Item, I leive, in takine of my bleffing and motherlie aftectione, to my oycs, Sybil/a
and Jonet Primroiffis, dochteris to Mr. Gilbert Primro/s, Clerk of his Mali" Secreit Counfulb
and to Jonet Hepbunte, docliter to Mr. Adam Hepburnc, feruitour to the Erie of Hading-
toun, everie ane of my faid thrie oyes, ane gold chaine, weyand thrie vnce wecht the piece
Item, I love to William Xijbitt, merchand burges of Edinr, and to IJJbbell Xi/oift, hisjj/tcr,
and to IJJbbell and Marione Maicehenes, my kinsfolk, everie ane of thame ane hundreth
pundis Scottis. Item, I leave to my kinfwomene Barbara Hay and Beffic. Mawckane,
everie ane of thame, fowrfcoir merkis Scottis. Item, I leave to my kinfman William Ban-
natyne, fan to James Bannatyne, M' of work to the iowne of Ed'tn!', ane hundreth merkis
Scottis money, to be employit in helping him to (urn honeft trade. In witnefs of the pre-
mifles, I have fubfcryuit thir prole mis (ivrittene be the faid Mr. Adeline Hepburne) with my
hand, AT EDIN" the tuentie-ane day of Februare, JmVIc threttie and ane jeiris; hefoir thir
witneffes, the faid Mr. Gilbert Primrois, Mr James Foules, my cldejt Jbne, and the laid Mr.
Adam Hepburne. (Sic fubfcribitur) JONET BANNA TYNE.

Mr. G. Prymroi/e, witnes ; J. Foules, witnes ; A. Hepbvrne, witnes.

We Sr Jerome Lindfay, &c. ratifies, &c. and geves and commutes the intromiffione with
the famyne to the faid, &c. reforvand ane compt, &c. And being fivorne, &c. and fand
George Foules, his Jeeond Itiirftil/Jbne cfitiliovne : As ane act maid thairanent beris.

(VI.)

THE TESTAMENT DATIUE and INVENTAR of the guidis, geir, fowmes of money and
debtis, pertaining to vmquhile GEORGE FOWLLIS, Maifter of his Majejiies Cunyie-
honfe, the tyme of his deceis, quha deceift vpone the xxviij day of Maij, 1635 5eris ;
taithfullie maid and gevin vp be George Fonllis of Revelfioun, Jbne lawfull to the de-
funct, and executor dative furrogat to him, in plaice of the Procuratour Fifcall, be
Decreet of the CommiUkris of Edinr: As the famyn Decreet, of the dait at Edinr the

day of 1638 5eris, mare at lenth beris.

IN THE FIRST, the faid vmquhile George Fonllis had nane utliir guidis, gere, fowmes

of money nor debtia pertening to him the tyme of his deceis forefaid, except the particular!*

following, viz.

Ilfi APPENDIX. No. IV.

ITEM, in utenceillia and domiceillis, witb the abulzementis of the clefunctis bodie, by the
airfchip, eftimat to the fowme of . Imiijcxxxiij lib. vj s. viij d.

Na debtis awin to tlie deid.

Followis the Debtis awin be Utc Deid.

ITEM, tliair was awin be the faid George Foullis to Agnes FouWis^/ervand, for an jeris
tie and bounteth, . ..... xl lib.

ITEM, to Elfpeth Saidler, fervand, for ane seris fie and bounteth, . xj lib.

ITEM, to Marg' Fergufone, fervand, for ane 5eris fie and bounteth, . xiijlib. xs.

ITEM, to Alexr Donaldfone, fervand, for ane 5eris fie and bounteth, xxvj lib. xiij s. iiij d.
ITEM, to Williame lluflell, fervand, for ane jeris Se and bounteth, . xxiiijlib.

ITEM, to Jolm Tait, gairner, for ane 5eris fie and bounteth, Ixvj lib. xiijs. iiij d.

ITEM, to , for drogis and medicameutis, fnrniflit to the

defunct the tyme of his feiknes, .... jcliiij lib. xj s.

Summa of the debtis aiwin be the deid, . . iijcx'j lib. ij s. viij d.

Reft of frie geir, the debtis deducet, . . ix°lxxxxij lib. xij s.

To be devydit in twa pairtes.

Quota, 18 lib. Deidis pairt, j s. . . . iiijclxxxxvj lib. ij s.

No. IV.

POEMS BY GEORGE BANNATYNE.

FROM HIS MANUSCRIPT, M.D.LXVIII.

As Phebus bricht in fpeir mercdiane,
E of the warld. and !amp etheriall,

Paffis tlie licht that cleipit is Dyane,
Quhen fcho is lucent, round as ony ball,
And Lucifair all vther fternis fmall ;

My Lady fo in bewty dois abound

Aboif all vthir ladeis on the ground.

Hir hair difplayit as the goldin wyre

APPENDIX. No. IV. 117

Aboif hir held, with bemys radient,
Is lyk ane bus that birnys iu the fyre 10

With flatninys reid but fumys elevant ;

War nocht fcho is furn tiling too variant,
I niyclit of refibue fay, that ilame Nature
Forinit nevir in erd fo fair a creature.

My liairt, that nevir wes thirlit vnto wicht, 15

In deidly dwalmys fowpit is for evir,
For luve of hir that is my Lady bricht ;

Quhois plefant lials is quliytter tlia the evir,

Or fnaw but fpot that fallis in the revir j

Tlie fragrant balme of odour confortatyve 20

May noclit for fweitnefs with hir lippis ftrive.

Thow drery goll, that dwynriis in difpair,

Pafs witli this bill vnto my Lady fweit,
And, in to prefens of hir vifage fair,

Vpon thy kneis tliow fall befoir hir feit, 2 5

Afkand hir mercy, with thy cheikis weit,
To confort me of my woundis fmert,
Quhome dart of luve lies perfit throw the liert.

Sen Athropos my fatell threid lies worne,

In plenyug foir, and rewthfull womentiug, 30

And that afperans is non vnto the morne,

Of my pure hairt dyand in lang wyfing,

Thow bury my corps but ony tareing ;
For Acteon wes llanit at the well,
Be wreth of Dyane, with his awin houndis fell. 33

O thunderane boir, in thy moft awfull rege,

Quhy will tliow nocht me with thy tufkis ryve ?
Sen no thing may my grevous paine affuage

Bot fcho, quhilk is the revar of my lyve,

With fichis foir, and cairis pungetyve;

118 APPENDIX. No. IV.

Quhairthrow my blude refoluit is in tains,
And 5 it no rewtb in to hir hairt appeiris.

God gife it wer my fatell aventure

To fecht aganis hir fayis to the deid,
With fpeir and fcheild, and all that I might fare, 45

To pruve hir flour and well of womanheid !

Howbeit it wer nocht to my lyfe remeid ;
It wald me fuffyifs, fen that fcho hes no maik,
Till end my lyfe iu battell for hir faik.

3it I befeik hir for the grit delyte 50

That femyt in hir bewty natural!,
With rewthfull prefens of her vifage quhyt,

Scho wald decoir my feiftis funerall !

That luvaris mycht efpy, in general!,

Gif that hir ene, for weping, mycht indure 55

To luke vpon my rewthfull fepvilture.

FINIS, QUOTH BANNATYNE.
(II.)

No woundir is althocht my hairt be thrall

To 5ow, I wifs, the flour of rourtefy,
For quliy? 5 our name and fame fo fpreidis our all

That 30 ar held to be the A perfe

In vyrtew, meiknefs, trewtli, and equitie ; 5

And eik to this, jour proper perfoun fair

Is fo weill maid in all maner degre,
That non to me falbe fo fingulare.

Heirfoir I will rycht humly 5ow imploir

To lat fum ftremys of grace on me diflil ; 10

For non hot 30 my gladnes may reftoir,

Becaus both lyfe and deth lyis in 5 our will ;

For, as je lift, ^e may me faif or fpill
With 5 our one wirrl, fo ftand I in ^our cure ;

APPENDIX. No. IV. 119

Sen I thairfoir am fubject 3OW vntill, 15

Latt me noclit fuerf jour faytlifull feruiture.

For my grene ^owtli is lyk the withering hay,

So foir I am ourfett with iichingis feir ;
My rofy lippis are woxin paill and blay,

Thruch only thocht of ,ow, my Lady deir ; 20

And tliair is non may be my medfoneir,
Bot 5 our favour, quhilk gif I do obteine,

I fall revert, as dois the reid rofeir,
Frefeheft of hew in fomer fefoon grene.

And fen I am fo trublit in my thocht, 25

Lat noclit deley be ane occafioun
To place difpair quhair howp and trull lies wrocht ;

Bot grant with fpeid fum confolatiouu,

That pety having dorm'natioun
Within 5 our breift, I may fum grace purchefs SO

Of my murnyng and lamentatioun,
Quhilkis I fullene for jOW, my fair Maiftrefs.

No thing of rycht I aflc, my Lady fair,

Bot of fre will and mercy me to faif ;
Sour will is 5 our awin, as reffoun wald it ware, 35

Thairfoir of grace, and noclit of rycht, I craif

Of 5OW mercy, as je wald mercy haif
Off God our Lord, quhois mercyis infeneit

Gois befoir all his werkis, we may perfaif,
To thame quhois handis with mercy ar repleit. 40

And gif that I be fund to 50W vntrew,

Wilfull, heichty, or eik in ony wayis
Jeloufs, vnkynd, or chengeing for ane new ;

A value wantour, or rebelling to your fervyia,

As traitouris fals lies bene befoir oft fyis, 45

Quhois vntrew hairtis garris trew folkis leif in wo;

120 APPENDIX. No. IV.

Than for my gilt no torment culd fuffyis,
Bot I prayfe God it ftandis noclit ivith me fo.

Now to conclude with wordis compendious :

Wald God my tong wald to my will refpond, 50

And eik my fpeich wer fo facundious,

That I wer full of rethore termys jocond !
Than fuld my lufe at moir lenth be expend,
Than my cunnyng can to 5ow heir declair;

For this my ftyle inornetly compond, 55

Efchamys my pen 3 our eiris to truble mair.

Nocht ellis thairfoir I wryt to 3ow, my fweit,

Bot with meik hairt, and quaking pen and hand,
Proftratis my feruice law doim at jour feit,

Bot nycht and day quhill I may gang or (land ; 60

Praying the Lord, of pety excelland,
To plant in ^ow ane petifull hairt and mynd,

Conducting jow to joy everlafland,
Both now and ay, and fo I mak ane end.

Go to my deir with huinmill reuerence, 65

Thow bony bill, both rude and jinperfyte,
Go nocht will forgit flattery to hir prefence,

As is of falfet the cuftome vfe and ryte ;

Caufs me noclit BAN that evir I thfi indyte,
NA TYNE my travell, turnyng all in vane;

Bot with ane faithfull hairt, in werd and wryte,
Declair my mynd, and bring me joy agane.

My name qulia lift to Jmaw, lot him tak tent
Vnto this littill verfe nixt prefedent.

EDINBURGH :

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