42 on Drummond of Hawthornden. May 16. 
on some of the ancient Englifh poets, said to . be 
Mr le Neve) there is not one, after Shakespeare, 
whom a general reader of the Englifh poetry of 
that age will regard with so much and so deserved 
attention as William Drummond. He was born at 
Hawthornden, near Edinburgh, in 1585, and was the 
son of Sir John Drummond, descended of the family 
of Stobhall, who, for ten or twelve years, was ufher, 
and afterwards knight of the black rod to king 
James 1. of England. ‘The poet was educated at 
Edinburgh, where he took the degree of master of 
arts in the year 1606, and was afterward sent by his 
father to study civil law at Bourges in France ; but 
having no taste for the profefsion of a sawyer, he re- 
turned to Hawthornden, and there applied himself 
with great afsiduity to clafsical learning and poetry. 
Haying courted a daughter of Cunningham of 
Barnes, whom he celebrates in his poems, and to 
whom her accomplifhments, congentfality of taste, 
and propensity to retirement, had strongly attached 
him,—he was succefsful in his addrefses, and a day 
was fixed for their marriage. 
Soon after fhe was seized by an illnefs which pro- 
ved fatal, upon which Drummond again quitted his 
native country, and resided eight years on the con- 
tinent, chiefly at Rome and Paris. 
In the year 1630 he married Margaret Logan of 
Restalrig, by whom he had several children, the el- 
dest of whom, William, was knighted by king 
Charles 1*. He spent very little time in England, 
* The heirefs general of Hawthornden was married to Dr Abernethy a 
non-juring bifhopin Scotland, of the ancient family of Abernethy of Sal- 
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