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Title: Memoirs of the life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, baronet, baron of the Exchequer, extracted by himself from his own journals, 1676-1755
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Clerk, John, Sir, 1676-1755 Gray, John Miller, 1850-1894, ed
Subjects: Finance
Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish history Society
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has been thought to imitate in some of his earlier'.—See Burtons Life
of Boerhaave.
³ Frederick Spanheim, a Swiss, was born at Geneva in 1632. In 1670 he
accepted the Chair of Theology, which his father had held before him, at Leyden ;
and in the following year he added to theology ecclesiastical history. He was
three times rector of the University, and died at Leyden in 1701. He is credited
with sixty-four publications, the most of which were collected in 3 vols, fol.,
Leyden, 1701-1703.—L.
⁴ The name is evidently given incorrectly here, for Francis Mieris the
elder died in 1681 ; and his grandson, Francis Mieris the younger, was only
born in 1689. William Mieris, his son, however, was born in 1662, and, at
the time when Clerk arrived in Leyden, was practising his art there. In his
MS. Travels Clerk states simply that ' I resolved, after finishing my studies, to
travel into Germany, Italy, and France, and for that reason, that I might travel
with the more satisfaction, I studied frequently painting and drawing under the
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V
BARON SIR JOHN CLERK
Aetatis 19


1696] VISITS TO THE HAGUE 17

inclination and partly from the advice I had from some of
my Dutch friends, for all their young Folks learn to drau from
their being 7 years of age, and find it vastly useful to them in
most stations of Life.
The only relaxation, if it may be called such, was spending
my vacations at the Hegue. There I went for about 3 months,
each summer I staid in Holand, yet I was far from being
idle, for except a few houres of the day in which ; I attended ^{fol. 12}
the soveraign Courts of Holland as often as I cou'd get
admission, I continued in a course of great Application to
my studies. Here at the Hegue I learnt both French and
Dutch, and, in order to prepare me for a journey to Italy, I
had an Italian Master who brought me a considerable length
in the language of that country, and which I found afterwards
was of great advantage to me.
Such were my occupations in Holand ; as for companions, I
had no particular one but the famous Herman Bouerhave,¹ he

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famous Miris' — giving no Christian name — ' which I afterwards reaped the
advantage of in a sort of pleasure that is not to be comprehended by any body
except such who understand a little of this study.'

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