“In the time of the said _Reynold Scot_ and before, have been conversant among the Muses in _Hart_ hall, the _Sackviles_ of _Sussex_, the _Colepepers_ of _Kent_ and _Sussex_, the _Sedlies_ of _Kent_, and the _Scots_ before mentioned, with others of inferiour note of the said Counties.” _Notes added in Bliss’s Reprint._ “7. The learned author in his _Discovery_ is as vehement against Popery as against witchcraft, and quite indecent in his abuse of the saints of the Romish church.”—COLE. [His indecency being for the most part a narrative of, and obvious reflections on, their indecency. And this I say understanding the sense in which he uses the word.] “8. See a full account of this curious book, as Mr. Oldys calls it, in his _British Librarian_, p. 213. All the copies of the first edit. 1584, that could be found were burnt by order of K. James I. an author on the other side of the question.”—Vid. _Hist. Dictionary_, sub voce “Scot”. [“REGINALDUS SCOTUS, _Anglus_, _tractatum de Incantamentis_ scripsit, in quo plerasque traditiones de Magia Melancholiæ, & morbis variis, aut artibus histrionicis adscribit.”] “Hunc in Anglia publica auctoritate combustum, sibi autem nunquam fuisse visum refert Thomasius de crimine magiæ § 3.”—Vide [J. V.] Vogt., _Cat. Libr. rar._, p. 617 [1713]. “Liber in folio scriptus Anglica lingua a Reginaldo Scoto in quo plurima occurrunt contra magiæ existentiam argumenta. Est ille etiam in Belgicam linguam conversus: sed plenior editio est ultima Anglica.”—_Morhof._, ii, 459. [Then a short note on the three editions.] In 1874 there were privately printed, _Memorials of the Scot Family_, by Jas. Renat Scott, Esq., and from them I extract the following tables: Rich. Scott==Mary Whetenhall. | +---------+-------------+------------+-------------------+-+ | | | | | Reginald Richard _ancestor of the Edward==May, d. of [2 d.] author. Scotts of Shrewsbury | John Warren. and elsewhere._ | +----------------------------------------+ | _À quo_ the Scotts of Glemsford Suffolk _and afterwards of Ohio and Massachusetts in America_. Reg. Scott, b. 1541,==Alice Cobbe, d. of Th. Cobbe of Cobbes mar. 11 Oct. 1568, | Place, Aldington, Kent. died Oct. 1599. | +---------+-----+ | | Collyar==Marie. Elizabeth==Sackville Turnor of Tablehurst, Sussex.