This humorous Grammatical Tragi-Comedy was not written by Hume,
but only revised by him.
King James's Progresses, collected and Published by John Adamson
afterwards Principal of the University of Edinburgh, entitled--
+TA TO:N MOUSO:N EISODIA+:
The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince James &c. At his
Majesties happie Returne to Scotland In Anno 1617. Edinburgh 1618,
folio.
At page 1: "His Majestie came from Bervik to Dunglas the xiij day
of Maye, where was delivered this [latin] speach following by A.
Hume."--At page 16, there is also a couple of Latin verses signed
"Alexander Humius."
MS. in the British Museum. The present work.
MS. in the Advocates' Library:--
Rerum Scoticarum Compendium, in usum Scholarum. Per Alexandrum
Humium ex antiqua et nobili gente Humiorum in Scotia, a prim{a^} stirpe
quinta sobole oriundum. This work is dated October 1660, and is
therefore merely a transcript. It is an epitome of Buchanan's
History, and Chr. Irvine in Histor. Scot. Nomenclatura, calls it
Clavis in Buchananum, and Bishop Nicholson (Scottish Hist. Lib.)
praises its Latin style.
The following three works are inserted by Dr.
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