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more than once held out hopes of its publication, 

 will make to Labbe's request. 



No. 328. p. 173- Paris. Jan. 22, 1603. To 

 Charles Labbe. 



Sends a letter of Thomson's, the bearer of 

 which also brought Photius's Lexicon, which shall 

 be forwarded by the first opportunity. 



For nearly seven years no letter to Thomson, 

 nor any allusion to him, can be found in the 

 bulky volume of the Epistola. The next letter, 

 however, proves that the correspondence had not 

 been interrupted, at least not to such an extent as 

 the great gap in the extant series might lead us 

 at first sight to conclude. 



No. 652. p. 339. Paris. Dec. 28, 1609. To 

 Thomson. 



Fears that Thomson will detect faults in his 

 version of Polybius on farther acquaintance. 

 Their friend Tomkys, who has spent some months 

 in Paris, will testify how greatly he is distracted 

 by religious controversy. He is aware of the 

 danger of plain-speaking, but by God's help will 

 not flinch. His principal adversary is Cardinal 

 Perot tus ; with whom, from his position in the 

 Royal Library, he is constantly brought into con- 

 tact, " not without the orders of Agamemnon." 



I propose to go through the remainder of Ca- 

 saubon's letters and his Ephemeridts in another 

 communication. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



ANDERSON PAPERS. 



The following is a copy of a paper found among 

 Rev. John Anderson's MSS., being " No. VI." of 

 " Anderson's Papers." The handwriting, not Mr. 

 Anderson's, is bold and lawyer-like, and the paper 

 was very possibly concocted between the reverend 

 gentleman and some legal friend at Dumbarton, 

 equally zealous for the royal cause and staunch 

 in adherence to Argyll. It is endorsed in Mr. 

 Anderson's handwriting : " Advertisement to have 

 been put in y e Western Intelligence about y c so- 

 lemnities at Dumbarton (sic) after y e victory of 

 Dumblaine, 1715," better known as the " Shirra- 

 muir," the finishing blow to the rebellion of '15 : 

 as, born the endorsement, it docs not seem ever 

 to have; been published as intended in the news- 

 papers of the day, as well as from the interest of 

 the account itself, and in honour of the last toast 

 to the 3 Ps — " Peace, Plenty, and Presbytery" — 

 you may perhaps think it deserving of a place in 

 the columns of " N. & Q." In this hope, I tran- 

 scribe it at length : — 



" Dumbarton, Nov r . 14"', 1715. This day at noon we 

 received the joyfull news of the victory obtained yester- 

 day beyond Dumblane by his Majesties forces under the 

 Command of his Grace the Duke of Argyle over the Re- 

 bells under the Command <if the Bar! of Mar. There- 

 upon the great guns of the Castle were discharged, the 



Militia of the Shire was drawn out in the afternoon, and 

 reviewed by their Colonell, the honourable Mr. John 

 Campbell of Mamore, uncle to his grace the Duke of 

 Argyle. In the Evening there were Bonfires, illumina- 

 tions, and ringing of bells. The Magistrates of the town 

 gave a handsome treat of wine at their Bonfire at the 

 Cross to the Lieutenant, Deputs Justices of the peace, 

 Officers of the Militia, and the other Gentlemen of the 

 Shire, who were present; at which His Majesty's, the 

 Prince's, Princess's, Duke of Argyle's, with all the other 

 loyall healths, were drunk, each under a volley of small 

 shot [arms I presume!] of a large detachment of the 

 Militia, which gave a close fire as any regular forces 

 could possibly have done; all which healths were con- 

 cluded with one to Peacp, Plenty, and Presbytry. Next 

 morning, at nine of the clock, M r Anderson, the minis- 

 ter of the Town, assembled the Congregation in the 

 Church, where before a very frequent [frequent, p.p. i.e. 

 well-attended] meeting, not only of the parish, but of the 

 above-mentioned gentry, he offered up Solemn praise and 

 thanksgiving to God for the said victory. 



" The keeping of this solemnity in the head toun of the 

 Shire had a good influence on the Country adjacent, 

 particularly about the water of Enrick *, where some 

 Jacobits had essayed to put people into a Confusion by 

 spreading false reports that the Duke of Argyle himself 

 was dead in Battell, and his whole Army cut off to seven 

 men; and tho' the Common people know very well how 

 little faith is to be given to Jacobite news, q ch [which] 

 in so many hundred instances they have found false, yet 

 these reports put them into some Consternation, because 

 the}' knew that the Army of the Rebells was well nigh 

 thrice the number of the Duke's. However, the Keeping 

 this Solemnity in the toun, where, they knew the best in- 

 formation was, undeceived the Country ; so much the 

 rather that in the midst of the Jollity at the Cross, there 

 providentially came two Expresses, one upon the back of 

 another, confirming the news of the victory." 



On the same piece of paper which bears the 

 foregoing, a large sheet of lawyer's post, without 

 date, but doubtless of the same year and day, and 

 unsigned, is the following legal memorandum, 

 which brings us back to an old volunteer period of 

 1715 in Scotland, to be read by the new light of 

 the volunteerage of 1860 — pregnant as our move- 

 ment is with all good for our country, and instil- 

 ling a wholesome awe in every mind hereabouts, 

 and respect for Britain in every council of Europe. 



" Rob. Semple, Heritor for Auchintullich, in y e [the] 

 paroch [parish] of Lusses [Luss, Lochlomondside], was 

 al waves willing to offer his proport" for a militiaman, 

 according to the valuat" of y< [that] fraction, as he hath 

 done for other lands wherein he was concerned, and not 

 being received by Pluscarden, who furnishes the Stan- 

 dard, Intreats y' [that] his Quota may be received, and 

 his land not poynded for ' de Silencie.' " 



We wonder if Rob. Semple of Auchintullich, 

 the unready, saved his lands from legal process ; 

 but our friend of 1715 vanishes into space, and 

 makes no answer. If you will grant me space, 1 

 will conclude "Anderson's Papers" with a letter 

 from J. Martin of Inverary, 5th Jan. 1716, giving 



* "The water of Enrick," is the river Endrick, which 

 falls into Loch Lomond, at the lower or southern end of 

 the Loch, on Montrose's side of Loch Lomond, benee 

 Jacobite ground.. 



