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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[294 5. No1., Jaw. 5. 56. 
count of him and his inventions? and, if so, where 
may it be found ? W. H. 
{We cannot find that any portrait of John Harrison 
has been published. The longest biographical notice of 
him is given in Hutton’s Mathematical Dictionary, and 
for works treating of his inventions, a list will be found 
under his name in Watt's Bibliotheca. ] 
Replies. 
DAVID LINDSAY. 
(1* S. x. 266. 335. 390. 436.) 
Will you allow me to correct some of the state- 
ments made by your correspondents regarding 
this individual ? David Lindsay, who wrote The 
Godly Man's Journey to Heaven, is not the same 
David Lindsay as was afterwards Bishop of Ross. 
Nor, so far as I can discover, were they related to 
each other, though of the same name, and minis- 
ters of the same parish. ‘The Bishop of Ross was 
second son of Sir William Lindsay of Edzel in 
Angusshire. He was born in 1530, and was the 
first Protestant Minister of Leith, being appointed 
by the committee of parliament in July, 1560. 
He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 
1582. He performed the marriage ceremony be- 
tween James VI. and Anne of Denmark, at 
Upsala, Nov. 28, 1589, in the French language. 
In October, 1600, he was appointed Bishop of 
Ross* ; and on Dee. 23, he baptized Prince Charles 
(afterwards Charles I.) at Dunfermline, on which 
occasion he preached from Rom. xiii. 11. He 
died at the end of 1613, aged eighty-three, and 
was buried at Leith by his own desire. His 
stipend in 1576 was 200/. (Scots), viz. the third 
of the parsonage of Restalrig, 82/. 8s. 10d., with 
four acres of kirk land, &e. 
David Lindsay, author of The Godly Man's 
Journey, §c., was at first Minister of St. Andrew’s 
(Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical 
Affairs of Scotland, vol. i. p. 40., and Leith Session | 
Records). In the year 1606 George Gladestaines, 
Bishop of St. Andrew's, wrote to the king, com- 
plaining of David Lindsay's “intemperance in 
preaching;” though it had been under the bishop's 
own recommendation that he had been appointed 
to St. Andrew’s. Gladestaines mentions that he 
had reproved him, and made him recant some of 
his words, and ealls him “a foole nocht worthie of 
your Majestei’s wrathe.” (Jb.) In consequence of 
the above remonstrance, Lindsay was removed to 
the parish of Forgan, hard by St. Andrew's. It 
would seem that this translation did not tame him 
sufficiently, for on April 17, 1608, we find the 
‘not I cannot say. 
bishop again complaining of him to the king as 
“the vanest and unrulyest man in Scotland.” 
(1b. p. 130.) But by 1609 the good man had 
learned to demean himself more patiently to the 
yoke, or the bishop had become weary with the 
contest, for having been translated to Leith at the 
recommendation of Spottiswoode in that year*, 
we find the bishop speaking more favourably of 
him in a letter to the king, of date Sept. 19, 1610. 
(2b. p. 258.) He died at Leith in 1627. 
In the year 1622 he published at St. Andrew’s, 
in a thin quarto, the first two parts of what he 
afterwards called The Godly Man's Journey, &e. 
I have not seen a printed copy of this, but T 
possess a manuscript of it, whether the author's or 
The title is: 
“ Ane heavenlie Chariot layed open for transporting the 
neiy-borne Babes of God, from tyme infected with sinne, 
towardis that eternitie in the which dwelleth righteous- 
nesse, made up of some rarest peeces of that purest Gold, 
which is not to be founde but in that richest thesaurie of 
sacred Scripture. Divided in Two Parts. Be (by) Mr. 
David Lindesay, Minister of Christis Evangeil, at Leith.” 
The title-page of the MS. is so soiled that I 
can with difficulty read even the above; the im- 
print, if there was one, is quite illegible. There 
are a good many verbal alterations and small 
additions made in the subsequent edition, and the 
above title-page to part i. does not appear in 
them; the book was not a “posthumous work,” 
as one of your correspondents calls it. Your cor- 
respondent makes it “ from Rome infected with 
sin,” instead of “ ¢ime infected with sin;” but he 
gives correctly the title of the second edition, with 
the exception of writing “ ghosts of the inne,” in- 
stead of “cuestes.” Of this work I have seen 
three copies. One now before me, belonging to 
David Laing, Esq., another in the possession of a 
friend, and a third in the British Museum. The 
last of these has a peculiar, and in some respecis, 
inaccurate title-page of part iil., which has -been 
cancelled in the other copies, and replaced by a 
new one. The British Museum is not “ Part 
Third,” but “ The Way to Everlasting Life, con- 
taining Six Treatises.’ The amended title is, 
“The Third Part of the Heavenly Chariot, wherein 
are Hight several Treatises, of Meditations tend- 
ing to Everlasting Life.’ The other alterations 
and corrections I need not specify. 
Tf it will not be thought very mugh aside from 
my purpose, I should like to extract a curious 
paragraph at p. 107.: 
“Dare I forget the strange spectacle presented to mine 
owne eyes, being in the churchyard of Leith in the moneth 
of June, anno 1615! For being there, delighting to be- 
hold for awhile those honest men, who were there busied 
* Could any of your readers tell me whether any of 
these Scottish bishops were re-ordained or re-baptized 
when they were consecrated? or was their Presbyterian 
baptism and ordination recognized ? 
* He is sometimes called “ Minister of Leith,” and 
sometimes “ Parson of Restalrig,” the latter being a part 
of the parish, about a mile and half from Leith, and pos- 
sessing originally a chapel of its own. 
