[633] “Insuper hoc tempore (A.D. 1282) apud Invirchethin in hebdomada paschæ, sacerdos parochialis Johannes, Priapi prophana parans, congregatis ex villa puellulis, cogebat eas, choreis factis, Libero patri circuire; ut ille feminas in exercitu habuit, sic iste, procacitatis causa membra humana virtuti seminariæ servantia super asserem artificiata ante talem choream præferebat, et ipse tripudians cum cantantibus motu mimico omnes inspectantes et verbo impudico ad luxuriam incitabat,” etc. See the _Chronicon de Lanercost_, p. 109. [634] George Bannatyne’s _Ancient Scottish Poems_ (1770), p. 42. [635] _King James’s Works_, p. 301. [636] _Cardani, Philosophi ac Medici, Opera_, tome ix. p. 135. [637] Yet we find the Archbishop, who left some bastard offspring, when writing as an author, violently and virtuously declaiming against “all kind of lichorie.” See fol. li., etc., of “The Catechisme set furthe by the Most Reverend Father in God, John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews,” printed at St. Andrews, 1552. Perhaps the Archbishop held some of the other commandments in little more respect than the seventh, if we may judge by one of his sayings regarding Queen Mary, when a girl of nine or ten years of age, as reported by Sir James Melville in his _Memoirs_, p. 73. There is no wonder that Sir James found it difficult or impossible to translate the coarse saying of the Scotch Primate for the polite ears of Montmorency the Constable of France. See _Memoirs of his own Life_, p. 21. [638] See the edicts in Wilkins’s _Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ_, tom. iv. pp. 47-8. [639] See the forthcoming _Statuta Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, p. 155, edited for the Bannatyne Club by Mr. Joseph Robertson; also Wilkins’s _Concilia_, iv. 20. [640] See his note to Bannatyne’s _Scottish Poems_, p. 210. [641] _Book of Bon Accord_, p. 377; Keith’s _Historical Preface_, p. xv.; _Aberdeen Magazine_, 1796, p. 270. [642] See Prescott’s _Ferdinand and Isabella_, vol. ii. p. 354. In Spain, indeed, it was recognised and sanctioned by law, till the scandal was uprooted by strong hand of Ximenes. [643] _History of Edinburgh_, p. 497. THE END. _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. End of Project Gutenberg's Archaeological Essays Vol. 2, by James Y. Simpson