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Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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elonging to a juniorbranch could be named, was by his office of tutor to the young heir, incident tohis relationship. The individual to whom the Laird of Craigston thus acted astutor, was no ordinary man—Sir Thomas Urquhart, the author of several strangeworks with long Greek names, the translator of Rabelais, and the narrator, if notthe inventor, of the wonderful incidents which form the biography of theAdmirable Crichton. The connexion of its inmates with this erratic genius is perhaps the mostremarkable circumstance that has to be recorded about this unobtrusive mansion. Ifwe may believe his own statement, his early progress did credit to his unclesguardianship ; for, when describing his companions as absorbed in the field-sportsof age, he says :— I was employed in a diversion of another nature, such as * Hays Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire, 100, 102. + Delitiae Poet. Scot. i. 618. t Tytiers Life of Craig, p. 2. Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 481.
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ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND lOI optical secrets, mysteries of natural philosophic, reasons for the variety of colours,the finding out of longitude, the squaring of a circle, and wayes to accomplish alltrigonometrical operations by sines without tangents, with the same compendiousnessof computation ; which, in the estimation of learned men, would be accountedworth six hundred thousand partridges, and as many moorfouls.* The work by which Sir Thomas Urquhart is best known to the world is hisJewel, in which he arranges the chronology of his history of the world, by deducing the true pedigree and literal descent of the most ancient and honourablename of the Urquharts in the house of Cromarty, since the creation of the worlduntil the present year of God 1652. It has often been supposed that, beingwritten by the translator of Rabelais, the Jewel is a satire on the flagrant gene-alogies of the seventeenth century ; but there is far better reason for believingthat it has been dictated by inordina

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