Works in the Scottish Language Author:George Buchanan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT. That Mr George Buchanan is the author of the preceding satire is evident, not only from an old (if not an original) copy thereof in the Cotton ... more »Library, bearing this title, " Chamjsleon, written by Mr George Buchanan, against the Laird of Lidingtone, 1570;" but likewise from the testimony of his contemporary, the learned Mr Cam- den, who, in his Annaies Rerum Anglicarum et Hibcrnicarum, regnante Elizabetha, Part II. ad annum, 1573, says, Lidingtonius Letham missus, vi morbi, nee sine suspicione veneni exspiravit, 'this account given by the learned Mr Ornidcn of the disastrous and calamitous exit of this variable monster, and enemy of his king and country, and all good men,(at least according to Mr Buchanan's description of him) is confirmed by Sir James Mel- vil, a writer of undoubted credit, and contemporary with Liding- ton, who informs us in. his memoirs, that the secretary died at Leith, after the old Koman fashion, to prevent his coming to the shambles with the rest, . e. in plain English, he took a doze of poison (as Mr Camden says here) and made a scurvy elopement out of life, in order to avoid a more painful or shameful death by the hands of the public executioner, to which his merits so well intitled him; for, besides innumerable other most flagrant, notorious, and abominable crimes, he had some short time before his death, counterfeited the hand-writing of the regent of Scot- hind ; which piece of arrant villany alone, being detected, would have brought him to the gibbet. And may all such enemies ofyir inter Scotos maximo rerum usu, et ingehio splendidissimo, si minus versatili: quo nomine G. Buchananus amiulus cum viventem scripto quodam cui Chumteleon titulum fecit, ut Chamaeleonte mu- tabiliorem depinxit, nee non ut regis aviae, matri, moravio, i...« less