June 4. 1853.] 



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beth Jenny, so long as she shall live ; and after her de- 

 cease the use likewise thereof to her Sun, Offley Jenny, 

 during his natural life ; and after his decease to my own 

 right heirs male for ever; and so from Heir to Heir, to 

 be left so long as it shall please God of his Goodness 

 to continue any Heir Male of my name, desiring the 

 same Jewell be not concealed nor sold by any of them." 



Cestriensis. 



Numerous Progeny. — The London Journal of 

 Oct. 26, 1734, contains the following paragraph : 



" Letters from Holderness, in Yorkshire, mention 

 the following remarkable inscription on a tombstone 

 newly erected in the churchyard of Heydon, viz. 

 * Here lieth the body of William Strutton, of Padring- 

 ton, buried the 18th of May, 1734, aged 97, who had 

 by his first wife 28 children, and by a second wife 

 1 7 ; own father to 45, grandfather to 86, great-grand- 

 father to 97, and great-great-grandfather to 23 ; in all 

 251.' " 



T. B. H. 



^utxiti. 



SMITH, YOUNG, AND SCRTMGEOTJR MSS. 



Thomas Smith, in his Vitce lUu^trium, gives ex- 

 tracts from a so-called Ephemeris of Sir Peter 

 Young, but which Sir Peter compiled during the 

 latter years of his life. Thomas Hearne says, in a 

 note to the Appendix to Leland's Collectanea, that 

 he had had the use of some of Smith's MSS. This 

 Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young may be worth the 

 publishing if it can be found : can any of your 

 readers say whether it is among Smith's or Hearne's 

 MSS., or if it be preserved elsewhere ? Peter 

 Young, and his brother Alexander, were pupils of 

 Theodore Beza, having been educated chiefly at 

 the expense of their maternal uncle Henry Scrym- 

 geour, to whose valuable library Peter succeeded. 

 It was brought to Scotland by Alexander about 

 the year 1573 or 1574, and was landed at Dundee. 

 It was especially rich in Greek MSS.; and Dr. 

 Irvine, in his " Dissertation on the Literary His- 

 tory of Scotland," prefixed to his Lives of the 

 Scottish Poets, says of these MSS. and library, 

 " and the man who is so fortunate as to redeem 

 them from obscurity, shall assuredly be thought to 

 have merited well from the republic of letters." It 

 is much to be feared, however, that as to the MSS. 

 this good fortune awaits no man ; for Sir Peter 

 Young seems to have given them to his fifth son, 

 Patrick Young, the eminent Greek scholar, who 

 was librarian to Prince Henry, and, after his 

 death, to the king, and to Charles I. Patrick 

 Young's house was unfortunately burned, and in 

 it perished many MSS. belonging to himself and 

 to others. If Scrymgeour's MSS. escaped the fire, 

 they are to be sought for in the remnant of Patrick 

 Young's collection, wherever that went, or in the 

 King's Library, of which a considerable part was 



preserved. Young's house was burned in 1636, 

 and he is supposed to have carried off a large 

 number of MSS. from the royal library, after the 

 king's death in 1649. If therefore Scrymgeour's 

 MSS. were among these, it is possible that they 

 may yet be traced, for they would be sold with 

 Young's own, after his death in 1652. This 

 occurred on the 7th of September, rather suddenly, 

 and he left no will, and probably give no direc- 

 tions about his MSS. and library, which were sold 

 sub Jiastd, probably within a few months after his 

 death, and with them any of the MSS. which he 

 may have taken from the King's Library, or may 

 have had in his possession belonging to others. 

 Smith says that he had seen a large catalogue of 

 MSS. written in Young's own hand. Is this 

 catalogue extant ? Patrick Young left two 

 daughters, co-heiresses : the elder married to John 

 Atwood, Esq. ; the younger, to Sir Samuel Bowes, 

 Kt. A daughter of the former gave to a church 

 in Essex a Bible which had belonged to Charles I. ; 

 but she knew so little of her grandfather's history 

 that she described him as Patrick Young, Esq., 

 library keeper to the king, quite unconscious that 

 he had been rector of two livings, and a canon and 

 treasurer of St. Paul's. Perhaps, after all, the 

 designation was not so incorrect, for though he 

 held so many preferments, he never was in priest's 

 orders, and sometimes was not altogether free from 

 suspicion of not being a member of the Church of 

 England at all, except as a recipient of its dues, 

 and, of course, a deacon in its orders. 



But it may be worthy of note, as affording 

 another clue by which, perchance, to trace some 

 of Scrymgeour's MSS., that Sir Thomas Bowes, Kt., 

 who was Sir Symonds D'Ewes's literary executor, 

 employed Patrick Young to value a collection of 

 coins, &c., among which he recognised a number 

 that had belonged to the king's cabinet, and which 

 Sir Symonds had purchased from Hugh Peters, 

 by whom they had been purloined. Young taxed 

 Peters with having taken books, and MSS. also, 

 which the other denied, with the exception of 

 two or three, but was not believed. I do not know 

 what relation Sir Thomas Bowes was to Sir Sa- 

 muel, who married Young's second daughter, nor 

 to Paul Bowes, who edited D'Ewes's Journals in 

 1682. It is quite possible that some of Scrym- 

 geour's MSS. may have fallen into D'Ewes's hands, 

 may have come down, and be recognisable by some 

 mark. 



As to Scrymgeour's books, it is probable that 

 they were deposited in Peter Young's house of 

 Easter Seatoun, near to Arbroath, of which he 

 obtained possession about 1580, and which re- 

 mained with his descendants for about ninety 

 years, when his great-grandson sold it, and pur- 

 chased the castle and part of the lands of Aldbar. 

 That any very fine library was removed thither is 

 not probable, especially any bearing Henry Scrym- 



