[See also bibliography to the chapter on
Chroniclers
in the present work.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03
497 (#519) ############################################
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497
(2) Modern.
Beloe, W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce books. 1814, 1808-12.
Black, W. G. Folk-Medicine. A chapter in the history of culture. F. L. S.
1883.
Brand, J. Popular Antiquities. Revised by Hazlitt, W. O. 1870.
Burckhart, J. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien. Ed. by Geiger, L.
Leipzig, 1896, 1908. Trans. by Middlemore, 8. G. C. 1890. IIe Abschnitt,
Die Entwicklung des Individuums. VIe Abschnitt, Sitte und Religion.
Busch, W. England unter den Tudors. I. K. Henry VII. Stuttgart,
1892 ff.
Cooke, J. Vagrants, Beggars and Trampe. Quarterly Review, Oct. 1908.
Courtney, W. P. The Secrets of our National Literature. 1908.
Creighton, M. The Age of Elizabeth. 1876.
Disraeli, I. Amenities of Literature. (Books for the people. Difficulties
experienced by a primitive author. Spoliation of the monasteries. A
crisis and a reaction. The discovery of witchcraft. Dr Dee, the occult
philosopher. Early writers, their dread of the press. War against books. )
Curiosities of Literature. (Trials and proofs of guilt. Songs of trade or
songs for the people. Ancient and modern Saturnalia. ) 1841 ff.
Dixon, J. H. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of
England. Percy Society. 1846.
Douce, F. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners with disser-
tations on Shakespeare's Clowns and Fools, on Gesta Romanorum and
on the English Morris Dance. 1807.
Dyer, T. F. T. British popular customs. 1876. Folk-Lore of Shakespeare.
1883. Old English Social life as told by the parish registers. 1898.
Furnivall, F. J. Forewords to Early English Meals and Manners. E. E. T. S.
1894.
Child-Marriages and Divorces, Trothplights, etc. E. E. T. 8. CVIII.
Gairdner, J. Henry VII. 1889.
Letters and Papers . . . Henry VII. Rolls Series. 1858.
Hall, H. Society in the Elizabethan Age. 4th ed. 1901.
Halliwell, J. O. A Random Note on the Good Old Times. 1862.
The Private Diary of Dr John Dee (1527-1608). Camden Society. 1842.
See also Manchester portion, ed. Bailey, J. E. , 1880, and Thompson
Cooper's article on him in the D. of N. B.
Hazlitt, W. C. Natural tales and legends. 1892.
How, F. D. Clerical Humour of the Olden Time. 1908.
Lodge, E. Illustrations of British history, biography and manners in the
reign of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and James I.
1838.
Mackay, C. Songs of the London Prentices . . . during the Reigns oł
Henry VIII, Elizabeth and James I. Peroy Society. 1841.
Moore, M. History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles.
1908.
Pauli, R. England. Vol. 5. (Gesch. d. europ. Staat. ) Gotha, 1858.
Rolfe, W. J. Shakespeare the Boy. 1900.
Rye, W. B. England as seen by Foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and
James I. 1865.
Stratt, J. Dress and habits of the People of England. Ed. by Planché,
J. R. 1842. Sports and Pastimes. Ed. by Cox, J. C. 1903.
Stubbs, W. Seventeen Lectures on Medieval and Modern History. Oxford,
1886.
Traill, H. D. Social England. Vol. II. 1895. (Especially the biblio-
graphies, pp. 167-9, 302-3, 411-413. )
32
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Wilkinson, R. Londina Illustrata. 2 vols. 1819-25.
Wright, T. The Homes of Other Days. 1871.
History of Caricature and Grotesque in literature and art. 1865.
History of domestic manners and sentiments in England. 1862.
Womankind in Western Europe. 1869.
[See also bibliography to the chapter on Chroniclers in the present work. ]
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
Arbuthnot, A. (1538-83). See Pinkerton's Ancient Scottish Poems. 1786.
Burel, J. (f. 1590). Descriptioun, and The Passage of the Pilgrims in
Watson's Collection of Scots Poems, Part 11, 1710; the former is also
included in Sir Robert Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 1807.
Hume, Alexander. Poems, ed. Lawson. Scottish Text Society. 1902.
James VI. The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie. 1585.
Poetical Exercises. 1591.
Lauder, William. The Compendious and Breve Tractate. Ed. Hall, F.
E. E. T. S. 1864.
Minor Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. 1870.
Lyndsay. The complaynte and testament of a Popiniay which lyeth sore
wounded and maye not dye, tyll every man hathe herd what he sayth:
Wherefore gentyll readers haste you yt he were oute of his payne.
Colophon. Here ends the complaynt, and testament of the Kynge of
Scottes Papingo, compyled by David Lyndesay of the Mount, and finysshed
the xiiij. day of Decembre, in the yere of our lorde, 1530. Imprynted at
London in Fletestrete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by John Byddell. 1533.
[The orthography has been a little anglicised and differs somewhat from
that published with other poems of Lyndsay in 1558. There is a copy of
the early edition in the British Museum and two others are known to
exist. ]
The Tragicall Death of David Beaton, Bishoppe of Sainct Andrews in
Scotland: wherunto is joyned the Martrydom of Maister George Wysharte
etc. Imprinted at London by John Daye and William Seres dwellinge
in Sepulchre parish at the signe of the Resurrection, a little above Hol-
bourne conduite. [Of this anglicised volume, probably printed in 1547,
the only copy known is that in the British Museum. ]
Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour. Though having
the imprint 'Copmanhouin,' it was printed by John Scott, St Andrews,
between 1552 and 1554.
The Dialog, The Tragedie, The Testament and Complaynt of the
Papyngo and the Dreme, in quarto and in octavo, were ‘Imprinted at the
command and expences of Maister Samuel Jascuy in Paris, 1558. '
The Deploration of the Death of Queene Magdalen was first included in
an edition of Lyndsay's works published by Thomas Parfoote, London, in
1566. The volume is entitled: A Dialogue betweene Experience and a
Courtier, of the Miserable State of the worlde, first compiled in the
Schottishe tongue be Syr David Lyndsay Knight (a man of great learning
and science) now newly corrected, and made perfit Englische, pleadaunt
and profitable for al estates but chefly for gentlemen and such as are in
## p. 499 (#521) ############################################
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499
authoritie. Hereunto are annexed pithy pieces of woorks invented by the
said Knight, as shal largely appeare in the table after following.
Lyndsay. The Warkis of the famous and Worthie Knicht Schir David Lynde-
say of the Mont, Alias, Lyoun King of Armes. Newly correctit, and
vindicate from the former errouris quhairwith thay war befoir cor-
ruptit: and augmentit with sindrie warkis quhilk was not befoir Im-
prentit. Newlie Imprentit be Johne Scot at the expensis of Henrie
Charteris: and ar to be sauld in his Buith, on the north syde of the gait,
abone the Trone. 1568. [This edition includes the whole of Sir David
Lyndsay's works that are known to exist, with the exception of the
Pleasant Satyre, which was first printed by Robert Charteris at Edinburgh
in 1602, and the Historie of the Squyer William Meldrum of the Beins,
which was first printed in the 1582 edition of Lyndsay's works. ]
Besides numerous editions of Lyndsay's works by Henry Charteris,
there was published, in 1574, an edition, 'Imprentit at Edinburgh by
Thomas Bassandyne, dwelland at the nether Bow. An edition, in
Danish, was published at Copenhagen in 1591. Modern editions are
those of Chalmers, G. , 3 vols. , 1806; the English Text Society, ed. Small, J. ,
1865 ff. ; and David Laing, 3 vols. , Edinburgh, 1879 (full bibliography).
The only surviving MSS not copied from printed texts are those of the
interludes of the Pleasant Satyre in the Bannatyne MS.
Maitland, Sir Richard. See the collections of Pinkerton and Sibbald; also
ed. Maitland Club, 1830.
Montgomerie, A. The Cherrie and the Slae was published in 1597 and an
edition 'new altered, perfyted,' &c. by himself appeared in 1615. The
Flyting was published in 1621 and The Mindes Melodie in 1605. Mont-
gomerie's Collected Poems, ed. Irving, 1821 ; Scottish Text Society, ed.
Cranstoun, J. , 1887. See also Brotanek, R. , Untersuchungen über das
Leben und die Dichtungen M. 's, Vienna, 1896; Hoffmann, O. , Studien zu
Alexander Montgomerie, Altenburg, 1894. The MS authorities for
Montgomerie are the Bannatyne, the Maitland and the Drummond
(University of Edinburgh).
Rolland, J. Court of Venus. Edinburgh, 1575. Scottish Text Society, ed.
Gregor, W. 1884.
The Sevin Seagis. Edinburgh, 1578 ff. Bannatyne Club, vol. LIX.
Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation. Ed. Cranstoun, J. Scottish
Text Society. 3 vols. 1884-93. See also Wollmann, Über politisch-
satirische Gedichte aus der Schott-Reformationzeit, Vienna and Leipzig,
1898, and T. G. Stevenson's ed. of The Sempill Ballads, 1872.
Scott, Alex. See Ramsay's Evergreen, 1724; Lord Hailes's Ancient Scottish
Poems, 1770; and Sibbald's Chronicle, 1802. A complete edition (rather
bowdlerised) by Laing appeared in 1821, another was printed privately at
Glasgow in 1882, a third, ed. Cranstoun, J. , was published by the Scottish
Text Society in 1895, and a fourth, ed. Donald, A. K. , by the Early
English Text Society, 1902.
Among modern books dealing with this period of Scottish literature,
are G. Gregory Smith's The Transition Period, 1900, and Specimens
of Middle Scots, 1902; A. W. Ward's A History of English Dramatic
Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, vol. I, 1899; and the general
literary histories given in the following bibliography.
For bibliography of the Bannatyne and other MSS see vol. 11, chap. XI.
H. G. Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700, Edinburgh, 1904,
should also be consulted. For Prosody, see Saintsbury, Guy A History of
English Prosody, vol. 1, 1906, pp. 277 ff.
32_2
## p. 500 (#522) ############################################
500
Bibliography
CHAPTER VII
REFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
I. GENERAL LITERARY HISTORIES OF THE PERIOD.
Eyre-Todd, G. Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century. Glasgow, 1892.
This book is meant as a popular introduction to its subject.
Henderson, T. F. Scottish Vernacular Literature. 1898. 3rd ed. 1910.
Irving, D. The Lives of the Scottish Poets, with Dissertations on the
Literary History of Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1804.
Lives of the Scottish Writers. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1839.
The History of Scottish Poetry. Ed. Carlyle, T. L. Edinburgh, 1861.
The literary criticism in Irving's books is antiquated, but they are
valuable for the facts they contain.
Millar, J. H. A Literary History of Scotland. 1903.
Ross, J. M. Scottish History and Literature to the Period of the Reforma-
tion. Glasgow, 1884. This work was left unfinished by its author.
Walker, H. Three Centuries of Scottish Literature. 2 vols. Glasgow, 1893.
Treats Buchanan and Knox at considerable length.
II. WRITERS.
Alane (Alesius), Alexander. Alexandri Alesii Epistola contra decretum
quoddam Episcoporù in Scotia, quod prohibet legere Noăi Testamenti
libros lingua vernacula. (No place nor date on title-page, but at the end
of the book the date M. D. XXXIII is given. In Cooper's Athenae Canta-
brigienses (I. 239), 1542 and 1543 are given as the dates of other editions. )
Alexandri Alesii Scoti Responsio ad Cochlaei Calumnias. (No date nor
place. )
Cohortatio ad concordiam pietatis ac doctrinae christianae defensionem,
Leipzig, 1544.
Edinburghi Regiae Scotorum Urbis Descriptio. (Contributed to Sebas
tian Munster's Cosmographia. Basel, 1550. )
Bibliographies of Alane are given by Ward, A. W. , article on Alesius
in D. of N. B. , and by Hay Fleming in A. F. Mitchell's The Scottish
Reformation, Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders and Distinctive Character-
istics, 1900.
Later authorities on Alane: M'Crie, T. , Life of John Knox, vol. 1,
note 1; Lorimer, P. , The Scottish Reformation: A Historical Sketch,
London and Glasgow, 1860; Precursors of Knox, or, Memoirs of Patrick
Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the
Mount, 1857.
Bannatyne, Richard. Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, M. D. LXIX-
M. D. LXXIII. Ed. Pitcairn, E.
Chapter V
497
(2) Modern.
Beloe, W. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce books. 1814, 1808-12.
Black, W. G. Folk-Medicine. A chapter in the history of culture. F. L. S.
1883.
Brand, J. Popular Antiquities. Revised by Hazlitt, W. O. 1870.
Burckhart, J. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien. Ed. by Geiger, L.
Leipzig, 1896, 1908. Trans. by Middlemore, 8. G. C. 1890. IIe Abschnitt,
Die Entwicklung des Individuums. VIe Abschnitt, Sitte und Religion.
Busch, W. England unter den Tudors. I. K. Henry VII. Stuttgart,
1892 ff.
Cooke, J. Vagrants, Beggars and Trampe. Quarterly Review, Oct. 1908.
Courtney, W. P. The Secrets of our National Literature. 1908.
Creighton, M. The Age of Elizabeth. 1876.
Disraeli, I. Amenities of Literature. (Books for the people. Difficulties
experienced by a primitive author. Spoliation of the monasteries. A
crisis and a reaction. The discovery of witchcraft. Dr Dee, the occult
philosopher. Early writers, their dread of the press. War against books. )
Curiosities of Literature. (Trials and proofs of guilt. Songs of trade or
songs for the people. Ancient and modern Saturnalia. ) 1841 ff.
Dixon, J. H. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of
England. Percy Society. 1846.
Douce, F. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners with disser-
tations on Shakespeare's Clowns and Fools, on Gesta Romanorum and
on the English Morris Dance. 1807.
Dyer, T. F. T. British popular customs. 1876. Folk-Lore of Shakespeare.
1883. Old English Social life as told by the parish registers. 1898.
Furnivall, F. J. Forewords to Early English Meals and Manners. E. E. T. S.
1894.
Child-Marriages and Divorces, Trothplights, etc. E. E. T. 8. CVIII.
Gairdner, J. Henry VII. 1889.
Letters and Papers . . . Henry VII. Rolls Series. 1858.
Hall, H. Society in the Elizabethan Age. 4th ed. 1901.
Halliwell, J. O. A Random Note on the Good Old Times. 1862.
The Private Diary of Dr John Dee (1527-1608). Camden Society. 1842.
See also Manchester portion, ed. Bailey, J. E. , 1880, and Thompson
Cooper's article on him in the D. of N. B.
Hazlitt, W. C. Natural tales and legends. 1892.
How, F. D. Clerical Humour of the Olden Time. 1908.
Lodge, E. Illustrations of British history, biography and manners in the
reign of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and James I.
1838.
Mackay, C. Songs of the London Prentices . . . during the Reigns oł
Henry VIII, Elizabeth and James I. Peroy Society. 1841.
Moore, M. History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles.
1908.
Pauli, R. England. Vol. 5. (Gesch. d. europ. Staat. ) Gotha, 1858.
Rolfe, W. J. Shakespeare the Boy. 1900.
Rye, W. B. England as seen by Foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and
James I. 1865.
Stratt, J. Dress and habits of the People of England. Ed. by Planché,
J. R. 1842. Sports and Pastimes. Ed. by Cox, J. C. 1903.
Stubbs, W. Seventeen Lectures on Medieval and Modern History. Oxford,
1886.
Traill, H. D. Social England. Vol. II. 1895. (Especially the biblio-
graphies, pp. 167-9, 302-3, 411-413. )
32
B. L. III.
## p. 498 (#520) ############################################
498
Bibliography
Vatk, E. F. T. Kulturbilder aus Alt-England's Tudor-Zeit. Berlin, 1887.
Wilkinson, R. Londina Illustrata. 2 vols. 1819-25.
Wright, T. The Homes of Other Days. 1871.
History of Caricature and Grotesque in literature and art. 1865.
History of domestic manners and sentiments in England. 1862.
Womankind in Western Europe. 1869.
[See also bibliography to the chapter on Chroniclers in the present work. ]
CHAPTER VI
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY
AND THE LATER SCOTTISH 'MAKARIS'
Arbuthnot, A. (1538-83). See Pinkerton's Ancient Scottish Poems. 1786.
Burel, J. (f. 1590). Descriptioun, and The Passage of the Pilgrims in
Watson's Collection of Scots Poems, Part 11, 1710; the former is also
included in Sir Robert Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, 1807.
Hume, Alexander. Poems, ed. Lawson. Scottish Text Society. 1902.
James VI. The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie. 1585.
Poetical Exercises. 1591.
Lauder, William. The Compendious and Breve Tractate. Ed. Hall, F.
E. E. T. S. 1864.
Minor Poems. Ed. Furnivall, F. J. 1870.
Lyndsay. The complaynte and testament of a Popiniay which lyeth sore
wounded and maye not dye, tyll every man hathe herd what he sayth:
Wherefore gentyll readers haste you yt he were oute of his payne.
Colophon. Here ends the complaynt, and testament of the Kynge of
Scottes Papingo, compyled by David Lyndesay of the Mount, and finysshed
the xiiij. day of Decembre, in the yere of our lorde, 1530. Imprynted at
London in Fletestrete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by John Byddell. 1533.
[The orthography has been a little anglicised and differs somewhat from
that published with other poems of Lyndsay in 1558. There is a copy of
the early edition in the British Museum and two others are known to
exist. ]
The Tragicall Death of David Beaton, Bishoppe of Sainct Andrews in
Scotland: wherunto is joyned the Martrydom of Maister George Wysharte
etc. Imprinted at London by John Daye and William Seres dwellinge
in Sepulchre parish at the signe of the Resurrection, a little above Hol-
bourne conduite. [Of this anglicised volume, probably printed in 1547,
the only copy known is that in the British Museum. ]
Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour. Though having
the imprint 'Copmanhouin,' it was printed by John Scott, St Andrews,
between 1552 and 1554.
The Dialog, The Tragedie, The Testament and Complaynt of the
Papyngo and the Dreme, in quarto and in octavo, were ‘Imprinted at the
command and expences of Maister Samuel Jascuy in Paris, 1558. '
The Deploration of the Death of Queene Magdalen was first included in
an edition of Lyndsay's works published by Thomas Parfoote, London, in
1566. The volume is entitled: A Dialogue betweene Experience and a
Courtier, of the Miserable State of the worlde, first compiled in the
Schottishe tongue be Syr David Lyndsay Knight (a man of great learning
and science) now newly corrected, and made perfit Englische, pleadaunt
and profitable for al estates but chefly for gentlemen and such as are in
## p. 499 (#521) ############################################
Chapter VI
499
authoritie. Hereunto are annexed pithy pieces of woorks invented by the
said Knight, as shal largely appeare in the table after following.
Lyndsay. The Warkis of the famous and Worthie Knicht Schir David Lynde-
say of the Mont, Alias, Lyoun King of Armes. Newly correctit, and
vindicate from the former errouris quhairwith thay war befoir cor-
ruptit: and augmentit with sindrie warkis quhilk was not befoir Im-
prentit. Newlie Imprentit be Johne Scot at the expensis of Henrie
Charteris: and ar to be sauld in his Buith, on the north syde of the gait,
abone the Trone. 1568. [This edition includes the whole of Sir David
Lyndsay's works that are known to exist, with the exception of the
Pleasant Satyre, which was first printed by Robert Charteris at Edinburgh
in 1602, and the Historie of the Squyer William Meldrum of the Beins,
which was first printed in the 1582 edition of Lyndsay's works. ]
Besides numerous editions of Lyndsay's works by Henry Charteris,
there was published, in 1574, an edition, 'Imprentit at Edinburgh by
Thomas Bassandyne, dwelland at the nether Bow. An edition, in
Danish, was published at Copenhagen in 1591. Modern editions are
those of Chalmers, G. , 3 vols. , 1806; the English Text Society, ed. Small, J. ,
1865 ff. ; and David Laing, 3 vols. , Edinburgh, 1879 (full bibliography).
The only surviving MSS not copied from printed texts are those of the
interludes of the Pleasant Satyre in the Bannatyne MS.
Maitland, Sir Richard. See the collections of Pinkerton and Sibbald; also
ed. Maitland Club, 1830.
Montgomerie, A. The Cherrie and the Slae was published in 1597 and an
edition 'new altered, perfyted,' &c. by himself appeared in 1615. The
Flyting was published in 1621 and The Mindes Melodie in 1605. Mont-
gomerie's Collected Poems, ed. Irving, 1821 ; Scottish Text Society, ed.
Cranstoun, J. , 1887. See also Brotanek, R. , Untersuchungen über das
Leben und die Dichtungen M. 's, Vienna, 1896; Hoffmann, O. , Studien zu
Alexander Montgomerie, Altenburg, 1894. The MS authorities for
Montgomerie are the Bannatyne, the Maitland and the Drummond
(University of Edinburgh).
Rolland, J. Court of Venus. Edinburgh, 1575. Scottish Text Society, ed.
Gregor, W. 1884.
The Sevin Seagis. Edinburgh, 1578 ff. Bannatyne Club, vol. LIX.
Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation. Ed. Cranstoun, J. Scottish
Text Society. 3 vols. 1884-93. See also Wollmann, Über politisch-
satirische Gedichte aus der Schott-Reformationzeit, Vienna and Leipzig,
1898, and T. G. Stevenson's ed. of The Sempill Ballads, 1872.
Scott, Alex. See Ramsay's Evergreen, 1724; Lord Hailes's Ancient Scottish
Poems, 1770; and Sibbald's Chronicle, 1802. A complete edition (rather
bowdlerised) by Laing appeared in 1821, another was printed privately at
Glasgow in 1882, a third, ed. Cranstoun, J. , was published by the Scottish
Text Society in 1895, and a fourth, ed. Donald, A. K. , by the Early
English Text Society, 1902.
Among modern books dealing with this period of Scottish literature,
are G. Gregory Smith's The Transition Period, 1900, and Specimens
of Middle Scots, 1902; A. W. Ward's A History of English Dramatic
Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, vol. I, 1899; and the general
literary histories given in the following bibliography.
For bibliography of the Bannatyne and other MSS see vol. 11, chap. XI.
H. G. Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700, Edinburgh, 1904,
should also be consulted. For Prosody, see Saintsbury, Guy A History of
English Prosody, vol. 1, 1906, pp. 277 ff.
32_2
## p. 500 (#522) ############################################
500
Bibliography
CHAPTER VII
REFORMATION AND RENASCENCE IN SCOTLAND
I. GENERAL LITERARY HISTORIES OF THE PERIOD.
Eyre-Todd, G. Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century. Glasgow, 1892.
This book is meant as a popular introduction to its subject.
Henderson, T. F. Scottish Vernacular Literature. 1898. 3rd ed. 1910.
Irving, D. The Lives of the Scottish Poets, with Dissertations on the
Literary History of Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1804.
Lives of the Scottish Writers. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1839.
The History of Scottish Poetry. Ed. Carlyle, T. L. Edinburgh, 1861.
The literary criticism in Irving's books is antiquated, but they are
valuable for the facts they contain.
Millar, J. H. A Literary History of Scotland. 1903.
Ross, J. M. Scottish History and Literature to the Period of the Reforma-
tion. Glasgow, 1884. This work was left unfinished by its author.
Walker, H. Three Centuries of Scottish Literature. 2 vols. Glasgow, 1893.
Treats Buchanan and Knox at considerable length.
II. WRITERS.
Alane (Alesius), Alexander. Alexandri Alesii Epistola contra decretum
quoddam Episcoporù in Scotia, quod prohibet legere Noăi Testamenti
libros lingua vernacula. (No place nor date on title-page, but at the end
of the book the date M. D. XXXIII is given. In Cooper's Athenae Canta-
brigienses (I. 239), 1542 and 1543 are given as the dates of other editions. )
Alexandri Alesii Scoti Responsio ad Cochlaei Calumnias. (No date nor
place. )
Cohortatio ad concordiam pietatis ac doctrinae christianae defensionem,
Leipzig, 1544.
Edinburghi Regiae Scotorum Urbis Descriptio. (Contributed to Sebas
tian Munster's Cosmographia. Basel, 1550. )
Bibliographies of Alane are given by Ward, A. W. , article on Alesius
in D. of N. B. , and by Hay Fleming in A. F. Mitchell's The Scottish
Reformation, Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders and Distinctive Character-
istics, 1900.
Later authorities on Alane: M'Crie, T. , Life of John Knox, vol. 1,
note 1; Lorimer, P. , The Scottish Reformation: A Historical Sketch,
London and Glasgow, 1860; Precursors of Knox, or, Memoirs of Patrick
Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the
Mount, 1857.
Bannatyne, Richard. Memorials of Transactions in Scotland, M. D. LXIX-
M. D. LXXIII. Ed. Pitcairn, E.
