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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"' S. VI. 137., Aug. 14. '58. 



Swift confound the adjustment of the theory or 

 tables of a celestial body with the adjustment of 

 the celestial body itself? 



AVhen Swift brings forward Scotus and Ramus, 

 and presents them to Aristotle as standing to him 

 in the same relation as Didymus and Eustathius 

 to Homer, he shows more ignorance than a scholar 

 ought to have had. Had he written now, he 

 might as well have presented M'CuUoch and 

 Cobbett as in one and the same relation to Adam 

 Smith. Ramus would have offered to maintain 

 Qucecunque ah Arintotele, et multo viagis a Scoto, 

 dicta essent, commenticia esse : while Cobbett 



would have asked Swift what the he meant 



by bringing him acquainted with two " Scotch 

 i'eelosophers." 



Of the voyage to the Houyhnhms there is 

 nothing to be said : for there are no proportions 

 in the story, geometrical or moral. Oi' its details 

 I shall only say, first, that Swift was quite wrong 

 when he said no animal is fond of salt except man ; 

 next, that Queen Anne was quite right when, 

 years before, she refused to allow Swift to be made 

 a bishop. A. De Morgan. 



BAPTISM OP JAMES PRINCE OF SCOTLAND, AFTER- 

 WARDS KING JAMES SIXTH OF SCOTLAND AND 

 FIRST OF ENGLAND. 



The baptism of this prince is noticed by Bu- 

 chanan and Robertson, but without any particular 

 details. The latter says that the Earl of Bedford, 

 the English ambassador, was attended by a nu- 

 merous and splendid train. Francis, the second 

 Earl of Bedford, K.G., called by his biographers 

 " the Great Earl of Bedford," the brightest orna- 

 ment of his eminent family," was, after many 

 public employments, sent by Queen Elizabeth in 

 the year 1566 to stand surety for her Majesty in 

 the oflice of godmother, which she had taken upon 

 herself at the request of Queen Mary. The Earl 

 carried with him, as is said, a font of pure gold, 

 as an honorary gift at the solemnity of the chris- 

 tening, which took place 1 5 December in that year. 



The Earl of Bedford was honourably employed 

 on many subsequent occasions, wherein one was 

 to treat with the ambassadors of France sent to 

 negotiate a marriage between the Duke of Anjou 

 and Queen Elizabeth. He stood godfather to the 

 renowned navigator Sir Francis Drake, who took 

 from him his Christian name. The earl diec. at 

 Bedford House in the Strand, July 25, 1585. 



In a manuscript in the College of Arms is pre- 

 served the following account of the Earl of Bed- 

 ford's progress and reception : — 



" A brefe notle of my Lord of Beddford^s enter- 

 taynement into Scotland to the Chrystening of 

 iheyre young prynce. 



"1586. — Monday being the ix'" of December, my 

 lord of Bedforde toke his Jorney w'" all the Eng- 



lyshe gent, towards Donebare, and at the bownde 

 Redde ther mett him the Lord Horome, the Lord 

 of Shefford, the 1. of Ormeston, the L. Heaton, the 

 Le Hatton, the le Howsto, the Le Langton, and 

 James Lader of the privie chamber, w"" divers 

 others, to the nomber of one hundreth horse, or 

 ther a boutts, and w"*in iiij myles of Donne barre, 

 at a place called Enderwik, ther mett my L. of B., 

 M"' jaymes Melvyn, a sarvant to the Queue of 

 Scotts ; agayne w"'in one myle of the said towne 

 ther mett him the L. Whitlawe, Captayne of Don- 

 barr, w"" xij or xvj horsse ; and at our entrynge 

 of the said towne, we had a volye of ordenaunce 

 out of the castell of xxiiij" shott ; that night my 

 1. was p'sented from the Captayne w"' wyldfowle, 

 wyne, and conyes, &c. The next daye, the x"' of 

 the same monthe, ther went out of the towne of 

 Donbarr w"" my L. of B., the Lord Herune and 

 his trayne, ij myles or therabotts towards Eten- 

 borowgh, and ther mett w"" him therle of Sother- 

 land and one Justice Clarke, the Le. of Basso, 

 the Le. of Waroghto, the Le of Trebrowne, the 

 Le of Sownton, the le of Colston, the Le of 

 Brymston, the Le. of Caveston, the le of Edmes- 

 ton, and Oliver Synkler, w"" many other, to the 

 nomber of vij"'' horse ; and at mosselborowgh they 

 mett w**" him ther the Lord of Bortyck w"" xx" 

 horse ; and a myle from Etenborowghe ther mett 

 w*'' him the le of Cragmyle, otherwise cawled the 

 Provest of Etenbowrghe, w'" divers the burgeses 

 and marchaunts of the towne to the nomber of viij"' 

 horse, and so entered the towne of Etenborowghe ; 

 and being in the myds of the streat, ther was shott 

 XV greate pecs of ordinaunce out of the castell, and 

 then we past to the Duk Shatteleroys, w'^'" was 

 ffurnyshed w"" hangings, and a riche bedde of the 

 Queues for my Lord of Bedford to lye in, and 

 a nother for m"^ Gary. The xi'" daye of Decem- 

 ber, in the morning erly, my Lord of Bedford, w"" 

 all the gent, went to a sarmond in S' Gyles 

 Churche ; and after dyner he went to the French 

 in." , G. 



INSCRIPTIONS ON MEMORIAL STONES OF THE 

 SCOTTISH COVENANTERS. 



{Concluded from p. 105.) 

 Tablet on the South Wall of the High Cliurchyard. 

 " Here 13'es the Body of y" Rev<i. M"'. Robevt JIaxwell who 

 Served Chryst in the work of the Gospel at Monk-toun 

 & Prestick from 1640 to 1665 when he was Ejected for 

 'Son Conformity & after that Exercised his Ministry 

 Partlj' there and partly in this City & the Countrey 

 Round till March 26, 1686 when he fell asleep 

 In Christ at Bogtoun House Cathcart aged 75 

 & Robert Maxwell his Son and Euphan Paton his Spouse 

 & belong' to Mr. Patrick Maxwell Min"' at Inchenan * 

 And now to his Son the Rev* Mr. Thomas Maxwell 

 Minister of Stewarton 1777.t" 



* He died in 1749. 



t I possess a document, very carefully written, from 

 the hand of this minister, granted to my grandmother by 



