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SCOTS LAWYERS.

THOMAS CRAIG† de Ricartoun, eques, jurisconsultus Edinburgensis, in Scotia. Vertue sc. 1731.

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Sir Thomas Craig was author of a learned and accurate treatise on the feudal law, entitled, "Jus Feudale," Lond. 1655. "Epistola Nuncupatoria" is addressed to James the First. was also author of "Scotland's Sovereignty asserted," being a dispute concerning homage, 1698; 8vo. In Nicolson's "Scottish Historical Library" is part of a speech by Sir George Mackenzie ; in which is the following beautiful passage concerning this able lawyer: "Qui (advocati) ante Cragium floruere nobis vix aliter cogniti sunt quam montes illi qui distantia, non humilitate, minuuntur. Ipse autem Cragius tam recondita doctrina auctus erat, ut eloquentiam sperare vix possit; ejus tanta in foro auctoritas ut eloquentia non indigeret, et trunco, non frondibus, effecit umbram."

ADAMUS BLACUODEUS, Regis apud Pictones Consiliarius. Joan. Picart delin. & fecit, 1644. In a lawyer's habit.

Adam Blackwood, a Scotsman, who had been a retainer to the unfortunate Queen Mary, and who had great obligations to her, distinguished himself as a violent advocate for that princess. In 1587, he published, in French, his "Martyrdom of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland," written with all that bitterness of resentment which is natural for a man of spirit to feel, who, by an act of flagrant injustice, was deprived of his mistress and his sovereign, his friend and his benefactress. He addresses himself, in a vehement

Dalton's daughter Dorothy married her uncle, Sir Giles Alington; for which she did penance in St. Mary's church, Cambridge, 1631. She died of the smallpox 1644. Her husband was fined 12,000l. and did penance.

+ He never was knighted: James 1st wished to knight him; but Craig, to avoid that honour, kept away from court: upon which the king said, "Though he will not be a knight, let every one call him Sir Thomas."-LORD HAILES.

This book is commended by Dr. Hurd, in his " Moral and Political Dialogues," p. 261, 2d edit.

strain of passion, to all the princes of Europe to avenge her death; declaring that they are unworthy of royalty, if they are not roused on so interesting and pressing an occasion. He laboured hard to prove that Henry the Eighth's marriage with Anne Boleyn was incestuous, a calumny too gross to merit a formal refutation. He continued many years in the station of a counsellor, or senator, at Poictiers. He died in 1613. His writings, which shew him to have been a civilian, a poet, and divine, were collected and published at Paris, by Sebastian Cramoisy, 1644. See more of him, in Nicolson's "Scottish Historical Library," in Samuel Jebb's second folio, concerning Mary, queen of Scots, and in his preface to it. Henry Blackwood, royal professor of physic at Paris, of whom there is an octavo print by Mellan, was of the same family.

Made lord dep. 1604. Cr. baron,

1612.

CLASS VII.

MEN OF THE SWORD.

OFFICERS OF THE ARMY.

ARTHUR, lord Chichester, lord-baron of Belfast lord high-treasurer of Ireland, and some time lorddeputy of that kingdom; eleven years, and upwards, one of the privy council in England; in armour; rare.

Lord Chichester, in his youth, robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's purveyors, who were but little better than robbers themselves. He soon after, to avoid a prosecution, fled into France, where he signalized himself as a soldier, under Henry IV. who knighted him for his gallant behaviour. He was shortly after pardoned by the queen, and employed against the rebels in Ireland. In 1604, he was, for his eminent services in reducing and civilizing that kingdom, made lord-deputy, and created baron of Belfast by James. During his government, the Irish began to assimilate themselves to the manners and customs of the English, and the harp was first marshalled with the British arms. This great general, and wise statesman, died 1605.

SIR HORATIO VEER (VERE), knt. lord-general, &c. Delaram sc. 4to. Compton Holland exc. rare.

SIR HORACE VERE. G. Mountain.

SIR HORACE VERE. Pass.

SIR HORACE VERE; fol. M. Miereveldt; G. Vertue. In Collins's "Historical Collections."

SIR HORACE VERE, on horseback; scarce.

SIR HORACE VERE, with autograph. Thane.

SIR HORACE VERE, since baron of Tilbury. Faithorne sc. In Sir Francis Vere's "Commentaries."

Sir Horace Vere, younger brother to Sir Francis, had the command of the forces sent by James to recover the Palatinate. He was a man of a most steady and sedate courage; and possessed that presence of mind, in the greatest dangers and emergencies, which is the highest qualification of a general. It was owing to this quality, that he made that glorious retreat from Spinola, which was the greatest action of his life.* His taking of Sluys was attended with difficulties which were thought insuperable. Created baron of Tilbury by King Charles the First.

General CECIL, son to the Earl of Exeter, "employed by his majesty over his forces, &c. in the aid of the Princes of Juliers and Cleve." S. Passæus sc. 1618; 4to. scarce.

EDWARD, viscount Wimbleton, with autograph.

Thane.

His portrait, known by the name of Lord Wimbleton, is in the possession of Lord Craven.

Sir Edward Cecil, second son of Thomas, the first earl of Exeter,

A great general, who commands a small army, against another general with a large one, must act with more propriety in securing a good retreat, than in fighting. Spinola said, that Sir Horace Vere, " escaped with four thousand men from between his fingers."

was one of the most considerable generals of his time; he having served for thirty-five years in the Netherlands, the best school for war in this age. He had the command of the English forces at the battle of Newport, and was, in the beginning of the next reign, admiral of the fleet sent against Cadiz. This expedition was attended with some disgrace; as the fleet arrived at that place too late in the year for action, and returned without effectuating any thing. He was, by Charles I. created viscount Wimbleton. Ob. 16 Nov. 1638.

Generosissimus GULIELMUS FAIRFAX, præfectus cohortis Ang. in Palat. R. Gaywood f. 1656;

4to.

"To Frankenthal* when siege Cordoua laid,

So was our British king-craft over-knaved
By Gondomar, as in it martyr made

This honourable cadet; and so stav'd

Off all recruits, that Burroughs their commander,

Our glorious Burroughs, was compell'd to render."

GULIELMUS FAIRFAX, &c. four Latin verses; 8vo. (Droeshout.)

Captain William Fairfax was one of the brave officers who lost their lives at the siege of Frankendale, in attempting impossibilities; who, without hope of success, fought with all the ardour of the most determined courage, actuated by a prospect of victory.

SIR HENRY RICH, captain to the guard, &c. W. Pass sc. 4to. Sold by Thomas Jenner; scarce.

The handsome person of this gentleman attracted the notice of King James, who created him baron of Kensington, and earl of Holland. He greatly improved the fine old house at Kensington, called after his name. It was the seat of Sir Anthony Cope, whose sister he married.

ARTHURUS SEVERUS O-TOOLE NONESUCH, Et. 80, 1618; an old man in armour, with a sword in his hand, on the blade of which are many crowns:

Frankendale.'

at the bottom are the following verses, representing him

as an adventurer:

"Great mogul's landlord, both Indies king,

Whose self-admiring fame doth loudly ring;

Writes fourscore years, more kingdoms he hath right to,
The stars say so, and for them he will fight too :
And though this worthless age will not believe him,
But clatter, spatter, slander, scoff, to grieve him;
Yet he and all the world in this agree,

That such another Toole will never be."

F. Delaram sc. h. sh.

I am informed, that this print was prefixed to Taylor, the Water Poet's "Honour of the noble Captain O'Toole," first edition, 1622. This pamphlet is reprinted in the folio edition of his works.

ARTHURUS SEVERUS O'TOOLE NONESUCH, Et. 80; eight verses. W. Richardson.

Captain O'Toole was a man of an odd aspect, and a singular composition of vanity, courage, and caprice. He took every occasion of exercising and boasting of his precipitate valour, which he abundantly displayed against the Irish rebels. Ireland was not the only scene of his romantic bravery; he served as a volunteer in various nations, and was as notorious and ridiculous in other parts of Europe as he was in his own country. He, like Tom Coryat, was the whetstone and the but of wit. John Taylor has exercised his rude pen in an ironical panegyric on him, dedicated "To the unlimited memory of Arthur O'Toole, or O'Toole the Great; being the son and heir of Brian O'Toole, lord of Poore's Court and Farre Collen, in the county of Dublin, in the kingdom of Ireland; the Mars and Mercury, the Agamemnon and Ulysses, both for wisdom and valour, in the kingdoms of Great Britaine and Ireland." In the argument to the history or encomium on him, in verse, the author classes him with Thersites, Amadis de Gaul, Don Quixote, Garagantua, and other wild and redoubtable adventurers; and informs us, that Westminster is now honoured with his residence.

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