[146] _Scotichronicon_, vol. i. p. 286 [ed. G. F. S. Gordon, Glasgow, 1867]. Naude, in his _Apologie pour les grands hommes soupconnez_ de Magie, writes: "Ceux qui recherchoiant les Mathematiques et les Sciences les moins communes etoient soupconnez d'etre enchanteurs et Magiciens."--p. 15. [147] "Curam agebat Medicus ex constituto Medicorum Lutetianorum."--_De Vita Propria_, ch. xl. p. 137. Cardan makes no direct mention of any other physician in Scotland besides Cassanate; but the Archbishop would certainly have a body physician in attendance during Cassanate's absence. [148] "Per totam tunicam sicut in linteis."--_Opera_, tom. ix. p. 128. [149] "Accipe testudinem maximam et illam incoque in aqua, donec dissolvatur, deinde abjectis corticibus accipiantur caro, et ossa et viscera omnia mundata."--_Opera_, tom. ix. p. 140. [150] Another piece of advice runs as follows: "De venere certe non est bona, neque utilis, ubi tamen contingat necessitas, debet uti ea inter duos somnos, scilicet post mediam noctem, et melius est exercere eam ter in sex diebus pro exemplo ut singulis duobus diebus semel, quam bis in una die, etiam quod staret per decem dies."--_Opera_, tom. ix. p. 135. [151] "Interim autem concurrebant multi, imo pene tota nobilitas."--_Opera_, tom. l. p. 93. [152] _Scotichronicon_, vol. i. p. 234. Larrey in his _History of England_ seems to have given currency to the legend that Cardan foretold the Archbishop's death. "S'il en faut croire ce que l'Histoire nous dit de ce fameux Astrologe, il donna une terrible preuve de sa science a l'Archeveque qu'il avoit gueri, lorsque prenait conge de lire, il lui tint ce discours: 'Qu'il avoit bien pu le guerir de sa maladie; mais qu'il n'etoit pas en son pouvoir de changer sa destinee, ni d'empecher qu'il ne fut pendu.'"--Larrey, _Hist. d'Angleterre_, vol. ii. p. 711. [153] _De Vita Propria_, ch. xxxii. p. 101. [154] "Scotic[u=] nomen antea horruer[a=], eorum exemplo qui prius coeperunt odisse quam cognoscere. Nunc cum ipsa gens per se humanissima sit atque supra existimationem civilis, tu tamen tantum illi addis ornamenti, ut longe nomine tuo jam nobilior evadat."--_De Astrorum Judiciis_, p. 3. [155] Cardan evidently carried the MS. with him, for he writes (_Opera_, tom. i. p. 72): "Hoc fuit quod Regi Angliae Edoardo sexto admodum adolescenti dum redirem a Scotia ostendi." [156] "Cumque ibi esset nodus eti[a=] venenum, quod utin[a=] abfuerit."--_Geniturarum Exempla_, p. 411. [157] Edmund Dudley, the infamous minister of Henry VII. [158] _Geniturarum Exempla_, p. 412. [159] In the prologue to _Dialogus de Morte_, Opera, tom. i. p. 673, he gives a full account of this transaction. Of the boy himself he writes: "hospes ostendit mihi filium nomine Guglielmum, aetatis annorum duodecim, probum, scitulum, et parentibus obsequentem. Avus paternus nomine Gregorius adhuc vivebat, et erat Ligur: pater Laurentius, familia nobili Cataneorum."