The popular complaint of Scotland by way of a general theme against learning . . . [manuscript], ca. 1620.

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The popular complaint of Scotland by way of a general theme against learning . . . [manuscript], ca. 1620.

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This treatise, by Peter Hay, on the state and the ways needed to redeem it from its straights is dedicated to James I and is in the form of six dialogues between Sacrophistes, a Puritan, and Aequipolites, a good and sincere statesman.

[6], 142 leaves.

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James I, King of England, 1566-1625

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James VI was born in Edinburgh Castle in 1566, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Lord Darnley. As Mary was forced to abdicate shortly after his birth, he acceded to the Scottish throne as an infant and was brought up to be distanced from his mother. He was learned, taught by some of the best tutors available in the Scottish Humanist school, but also deeply superstitious, secretive and something of a misanthropist. He married Anne of Denmark in 1590, though ...

Hay, Peter, fl. 1616-1627.

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