Mary Queen of Scots-continued. Lord Ruthven," and declared that, though at Maitland's instance he had been made one of her privy council, she could not love" him, for she knew him "to use enchantment." The first wife of Ruthven having been a Douglas, and his children by her being cousins -German of Lord Darnley, Ruthven was naturally a supporter of the Darnley marriage. Randolph represents him as the "chief councillor" of those who were bent on the marriage; and Knox states that at Mary's council at this time were only the Earls of Atholl and Lennox and Lord Ruthven. It was Ruthven and Atholl who, with three hundred horsemen, escorted the Queen safely from Perth through Fife to Callendar House, when a plot was suspected to have been formed by Moray for her capture on the journey south. During the rebellion of Moray, after the Queen's marriage to Darnley, Ruthven also joined the forces of the Queen with a command in the rearguard of the battle. The rise of Rizzio in the favour of the Queen, accompanied as it was by the declining influence of Darnley and of the relatives and friends who had been the main supporters of the marriage, was observed by Ruthven with feelings of deep resentment. As early as 12 October, 1565, Randolph wrote that Morton and Ruthven "only spy their time, and make fair weather until it come to the pinch." It was probably at the suggestion of Morton or Ruthven that George Douglas inspired Darnley to apply to Ruthven to aid him against the villain David." Ruthven, although then so ill that he 66 was scarcely able to walk twice the length of his chamber," agreed to assist him to the utmost of his power, and formally made known the proposal to Morton. It was Ruthven and Morton who agreed to undertake the management of the arrangements for seizing Rizzio. Their names are the only ones known to have been attached to the bond signed by Darnley, and probably they were attached as witnesses. Ruthven, in complete armour and pale and haggard from his long sickness, was the first of the conspirators to enter into the Queen's supper chamber after Darnley had taken his seat beside the Queen. The first conjecture of the Queen and her attendants was that he was "raving through the vehemency of a fever.' In a stern voice Ruthven commanded Rizzio to come out from the presence of the Queen, as it was no place for him"; and as he was about to seize Rizzio, who clung to the garments of the Queen, the other conspirators broke in and hurried Rizzio to the outer chamber. When Atholl, Huntly, Bothwell, and other nobles then in attendance on the Queen in the palace, alarmed at the uproar, appeared to be meditating a rescue, Ruthven went down, and, explaining to them that harm was intended to no one except Rizzio, and that they were acting at the instance of Darnley, who was present, persuaded them to retire to their chambers. He then returned to the Queen's chamber, and, being faint, sat down and called for a cup of wine. Then followed the remarkable conversation with the Queen detailed at length by Ruthven in his Relation." After the murder, Ruthven, ill though he was, took part with the other conspirators in the deliberations as to the future government of the country. After the arrival of Moray the Queen was also persuaded to admit him and Morton into her presence and grant them a promise of pardon; but on the Queen's escape to Dunbar they fled into England. While in England Ruthven penned the description of the murder known as the " Relation"; but as it was specially intended for the perusal of Elizabeth, and as a justification of the conspiracy on the only ground that would be acceptable to Elizabeth-that Mary had been unfaithful to her husband-its statements, notwithstanding the graphic ferocity of their tone, are open to suspicion. The excitement of the assassination, followed by a hurried flight into England, brought about a serious reaction in Ruthven's health, and after several months of great weakness he died at Newcastle on 13 June, 1566. (D.N.B.) PLATE XI. The preface of Alexander Barclay preet/vnto the REVERENDISSI, mo in Chrifto patrí ac dño:dño Ioanni Veyly Exonien epifcopo Alexander Barclay prefbyter de bita cum obferuantia.S. Ight myghty bye/* magnificent prince: mpne bumble ferupce / Due bnto Pour grace. And the behe met affection whiche ha ue bnto your honoura pers petual fame/impelleth me often tymes to Deuple/and reuolue in mynde: what Ceruice o: pleafur my fimplenelle might Do/cóuentent and acceptable bnto your hygh, nelle: therby to testify the honour/ the loue/tiffime: tuis fuafionibus incitată: obfequy:whiche knowlege my felfe to owe vt Crifpi Saluftij hyftoria(quá l'u bnto your magnificece. But whan cofyder gurthy nun bella vocant) e romas M EMINI me fuperi oribus annis cú ada huc facelli regij pres ful effes:paftor vigila naline 1703 SCHOOL BOOKS (EARLY). Bird (John, Schoolmaster of Gloucester). Grounds of Grammar. 1704 1705 1706 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original calf. Printed at Oxford and are to bee sold by William Hope, 1639. £4 4s Comenius (Johan Amos, Moravian linguist, 1502-1671). Porta Linguarum Trilinguis Reserata & Aperta sive Seminarium Liguarum & Scientiarum omnium. London, 1640. The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened: a short way of teaching the Latine, English, French, and other Tongues. London, 1639. 2 vols. in I, small 8vo, full calf. £1 10s Twells (J.). Grammatica Reformata; or, A General Examination of the Art of Grammar. As it hath been successively delivered by Franciscus Sanctius in Spain, Gaspar Scioppius in France, Gerardus Joannes Vossius in Germany. 12mo, original calf. London, 1683. £1 5s Greenwood (J.). The London Vocabulary, English and Latin, put into a new Method proper to acquaint the learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. 26 woodcuts. 12mo, original calf (rebacked). London, 1759. Small piece out of top of title. 15s 1707 SEDLEY (Sir Charles). Bellamira, or the Mistress, A Comedy. As it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants. FIRST EDITION. 4to, morocco. London, Printed by D. Mallet, for L. C. and Timothy Goodwin, 1687. £3 10s ***"This is the single one of Sedley's plays which may both for better and for worse be said to come near to his reputation; it is both the grossest and, from a literary point of view, the best executed of his plays. The character of the heroine was said to be intended as an exposure of the Duchess of Cleveland. The author, in his prologue, wrote: Is it not strange to see, in such an age, The pulpit get the better of the stage?" (D.N.B.) 1708 SEGAR (Sir William). The Booke of Honor and Armes. Wherein is discoursed the causes of Quarrell, and the nature of Injuries, with ther repulses. Also the meanes of satisfaction and pacification with divers other things necessarie to be knowne of all Gentlemen and others professing Armes and Honor. Title within woodcut border, reverse of title occupied with armorial bearings. With five woodcut illustrations of Tournaments and Duels, besides Coats of Arms, etc. Small 4to, full calf gilt, g. e. (London, 1590). £5 5s *** This volume throws light on the manners of the Elizabethan Gallants, and elucidates many passages of Shakespeare. "The Booke of Honor and Armes' is rarely to be met with. Shakespeare, in his boundless display of characters, has not failed to mark the pedantic manners of the courtiers of his time in the play of As You Like It,' an allusion was probably intended to this very book; see Touchstone's reply to Jacques, 'O, Sir, we quarrel in print by the book,' etc. Malone is of the same opinion. Consult, too, Dr. Furness's edition of 'As You Like It,' pages 275, 276; also Douce's Illustrations of 'The Winter's Tale,' where he remarks: This ("a gentleman borne ") is a satire on certain ridiculous punctilios very much in use at this time. Thus in "The Booke of Honor and Armes, 1590, "In saying a gentleman borne, we meane he must be descended from three degrees of gentry, both on the mother's and father's side." The same work has many particulars relating to the circumstances in which the giving the lie is to be resented.'" (Shakespeareana.) 1709 SELDEN (John). The Discourse of Jno. Selden Esqr, or His Sence of Various Matters of Weight & high Consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State. *** AN EARLY MANUSCRIPT OF SELDEN'S TABLE TALK, WRITTEN PROBABLY BEFORE THE FIRST EDITION OF THE PRINTED BOOK WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1689. Folio, full straight-grain morocco gilt. £8 8s It was not till 1689, when the revolution had given freedom to the press, that the Table Talk of Selden, the book by which he is generally known to fame, was first printed. This work was composed by Richard Milward, a secretary of Selden, and contains reports of Selden's utterances from time to time during the last twenty years of his life. Its authenticity was doubted by Dr. Wilkins, but for reasons which have not satisfied the world; and the work may safely be accepted as the most vivid picture extant of the habits of thought and the modes of expression of the great Erastian lawyer. The conversations cover a great range of subjects relative to human life and history; but Selden was never metaphysical and rarely philosophical. The book exhibits him with a great and varied knowledge of life; as a man of strong and somewhat scornful intellect; as delighting to illustrate his discourse by similitudes; as solving all questions in church and state by a reference to one or two simple principles-the sovereignty of the state, and the contract be |