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 * 1) ‘Popish Glorying in Antiquity turned to their Shame,’ Aberdeen, 1626.
 * 2) ‘A Compend of the Controversies of Religion,’ Aberdeen, 1629.
 * 3) ‘Limbo's Battery, or an Answer to a Popish Pamphlet concerning Christ's Descent into Hell,’ Aberdeen, 1630.
 * 4) ‘The Humble Addresse both of Church and Poore … for the Vniting of Churches and the Ruine of Hospitalls,’ Aberdeen, 1633. The first part is a reprint of ‘Issachar's Asse.’
 * 5) ‘Sermon at the Funeral of Bishop Forbes,’ 1635.
 * 6) ‘Trueth Triumphant, or the conversion of … F. Cupif from Poperie. … Faithfully translated into English by W. Guild,’ Aberdeen, 1637.
 * 7) ‘An Antidote against Poperie;’ one of three treatises printed together at Aberdeen, 1639; its ascription to Guild is doubtful.
 * 8) ‘The Christian's Passover,’ Aberdeen, 1639.
 * 9) ‘The Old … in opposition to the New Roman Catholik,’ Aberdeen, 1649.
 * 10) ‘Antichrist … in his true Colours, or the Pope of Rome proven to bee that Man of Sinne,’ &c., Aberdeen, 1655.
 * 11) ‘The Sealed Book opened, being an explication of the Revelations,’ Aberdeen, 1656.
 * 12) ‘Answer to “The Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel,”’ Aberdeen, 1656.
 * 13) ‘The Noveltie of Poperie discovered and chieflie proved by Romanists out of themselves,’ Aberdeen, 1656.
 * 14) ‘Love's Entercours between the Lamb and his Bride, or A Clear Explication … of the Song of Solomon,’ London, 1658.
 * 15) ‘The Throne of David, an Exposition of II Samuel,’ published at Oxford, 1659, by John Owen, to whom it was to have been dedicated, and to whom the manuscript was sent by Guild's widow.

Guild was ‘a weak, time-serving man’ ; his literary works are forgotten, but his memory is kept fresh in his native city by his large benefactions to its public institutions, many of which he gave during his lifetime. ‘To this day at the annual gatherings the loving cup circulates in solemn silence to his grateful memory.’ A fine portrait of Guild (a copy by Mossman of a lost original by Jamesone) and a portrait of his father (copied by Jamesone from an older picture) are in the Trinity Hall, Aberdeen.



GUILDFORD, HENRY (1489–1532), master of the horse and controller of the royal household, was the son of Sir  [q. v.] by his second marriage. His mother was Joan, sister of Sir Nicholas Vaux. With the exception of an impossible story of his serving under Ferdinand and Isabella at the reduction of Granada, nothing is recorded of him before the accession of Henry VIII, when he was a young man of twenty, and evidently a favourite with the new king. On 18 Jan. 1510 he and his half-brother, Sir Edward, formed two of a company of twelve in a performance described by Hall, got up for the amusement of the queen. Eleven of them, arrayed ‘in short coats of Kentish Kendal, with hoods on their heads and hosen of the same,’ personated Robin Hood and his men, and with a woman representing Maid Marian surprised the queen in her chamber with their dancing and mummery. Next year, on Twelfth Night, he was the designer of the pageant with which the Christmas revelries concluded—a mountain which moved towards the king and opened, and out of which came morris-dancers. At the tournament next month, held in honour of the birth of a prince, he signed the articles of challenge on the second day. Immediately afterwards he went with Lord Darcy's expedition to Spain against the Moors, where the English generally met with such a cool reception; but he and Sir Wistan Browne remained a while after their countrymen had returned home, and were dubbed knights by Ferdinand at Burgos on 15 Sept. 1511 (Cal. Spanish, ii. No. 54). Early next year they had both returned, and received the same honour at the hands of their own king at the prorogation of the parliament on 30 March 1512. Hitherto he had been only squire of the body, a position he seems still to have retained along with the honour of knighthood. He was also a ‘spear’ in the king's service, and as such had an advance of 200l. wages in April 1511. And as early as 29 March 1510 he had a grant of the wardship of Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir John Langforde.

In May 1512 he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Bryan. The king's sister, Mary, at that time called Princess of Castile, made an offering of six shillings and eightpence at his marriage. On 6 June the king granted to him and his wife the manors of Hampton-in-Arden in Warwickshire and Byker in Lincolnshire. On 3 Dec. he was appointed bailiff of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire, and keeper of Sutton Park; on the 24th constable and doorward of Leeds Castle, and keeper of the parks of Leeds and Langley in Kent. In March 1513, and at other times, he received advances of money