Recalled Home--The Covenanting Movement--The Trot of Turriff--Our Author escapes to England--Is Knighted--Publishes his _Epigrams_--His Father's Embarrassments increase--Lesley of Findrassie--Death of Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior--Our Author struggles in vain to keep his Creditors at bay--Other Wrongs and Losses--On bad Terms with the Church 30 CHAPTER III Unsuccessful Rising in the North--Sir Thomas makes his Peace with the Church--Return of Charles II. to Scotland--Invasion of England--Battle of Worcester--Sir Thomas a Prisoner in the Tower--Makes Friends--Is liberated on Parole--Great Literary Activity--Revisits Scotland--Dies--Later History of the Urquharts of Cromartie--Characteristics of our Author--Glover's Portraits of him 69 CHAPTER IV EPIGRAMS: DIVINE AND MORAL--THE TRISSOTETRAS 111 CHAPTER V ΠΑΝΤΟΧΡΟΝΟΧΑΝΟΝ, OR THE PEDIGREE 128 CHAPTER VI ΕΚΣΚΥΒΑΛΑΥΡΟΝ, OR THE JEWEL,--LOGOPANDECTEISION OR THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE 148 CHAPTER VII TRANSLATION OF RABELAIS 184 APPENDICES 209 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS URQUHART _Frontispiece_ 2. SIGNATURE OF SIR THOMAS URQUHART _Page_ vii 3. THE POET SURROUNDED BY THE MUSES _Facing page_ 109 4. FAC-SIMILE OF HIS HANDWRITING " 116 5. SCULPTURED STONE AT KINBEAKIE HOUSE " 137 SIR THOMAS URQUHART CHAPTER I The Urquharts and their Predecessors in Cromartie--Sir Thomas Urquhart, senior--Birth of our Author--School and University Days--Pecuniary and other Troubles at Home--The Castle of Cromartie--Our Author's Studious Bent--Foreign Travel--The Englishman Abroad--The Scot Abroad.