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 Urquhart and Exact Manner of Resolving all sorts of Triangles, whether Plain or Sphericall … by T. U. Student in the Mathematick, for William Hope,’ London, 4to (Brit. Mus.) 3. ‘Παντοχρονοχανον: or a peculiar Promptuary of Time; wherein (not one instant being omitted since the beginning of motion) is displayed A most exact Directory for all particular Chronologies in what family soever: and that by deducing the true Pedigree and Lineal descent of the most ancient and honorable name of the VRQVHARTS in the house of Cromartie since the Creation of the world until this present year of God,’ 1652. London, printed for Richard Baddeley, Middle Temple Gate, 1652, sm. 8vo (Brit. Mus.; Douce). 4. ‘Ἐκσκυβάλαυρον: Or The Discovery of A most exquisite, more precious than Diamonds enchased in Gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-street, the day after the fight and six before the Autumnal Equinox, anno 1651. Serving in this place to frontal a Vindication of the honour of SCOTLAND from that Infamy, whereinto the rigid Presbyterian party of that Nation out of their Covetousness and ambition most dissembledly hath involved it. …’ London, printed by James Cottrel … for Richard Baddeley, 1652, 12mo (Brit. Mus.; Bodl.). 5. ‘Logopandecteision; Or an Introdvction to the Vniversal Langvage … digested into these Six several Books. Neaudethaumata, Chrestasebeia, Cleronomaporia, Chryseomystes, Neleodicastes & Philoponauxesis.’ London, 1653, 4to, with an ‘Epistle Dedicatorie to No-Body’ (Grenville Libr., Brit. Mus.).

Though an English version of ‘Gargantua his Prophecie’ was licensed in 1592, and was probably then issued, no translation of Rabelais is extant prior to Urquhart's ‘The First [and ‘The Second Book’] Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick … now faithfully translated into English by S. T. U. C.,’ London, for Richard Baddeley, 1653 (2 vols. 8vo). Prefixed is a poem addressed ‘to the honoured noble Translatour of Rabelais,’ signed J. de la Salle (i.e. John Hall, 1627–1656, [q. v.]). The first two books, ‘written originally in French and translated into English by Sr Thomas Urchard, knight,’ reappeared in 1664, London, 8vo, and ‘The Third Book … now faithfully translated by the unimitable pen of Sir Thomas Urwhart, Kt. and Bar. The Translator of the Two First Books. Never before printed,’ in 1693, London, 12mo. A ‘second’ edition of the first two books appeared in 1694, with introductory matter by Peter Anthony Motteux [q. v.], who published a complete version in 1708 as ‘by Sir Thomas Urchard, kt., Mr. Motteux, and others,’ 2 vols. 8vo. Motteux's sequel bears the same relation to Urquhart's works as Cotton's completion of Walton's ‘Angler’ does to the original. Subsequent editions, embodying the somewhat blundering ‘amendments’ of Ozell (see Notes and Queries, 5th ser. v. 32–3), appeared in 1737, [Dublin] 1738, 1750, 1784, and 1807. The Urquhart portion alone was edited by (Sir) Theodore Martin in 1838, and by Henry Morley in 1883. The Urquhart and Motteux version has been reissued in 1846 (Bohn), 1871 (illustrated by Gustave Doré), 1882, 1892 (illustrated by Chalon), 1896, and 1897. Another edition with introduction by Charles Whibley appeared in 1900 in ‘Tudor Translations’ (3 vols.). Urquhart's ‘Tracts,’ including his genealogy and the ‘Jewel,’ were published at Edinburgh in two parts 12mo, in 1774, under the careful editorship of David Herd (some remainder copies dated 1782); and his miscellaneous ‘Works,’ exclusive of his translation of Rabelais, were edited by G. Maitland for the Maitland Club in 1834, Edinburgh, 4to.

[Of the very scanty materials for Urquhart's Life good use is made in John Willcock's Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, 1899. See also the Introduction to the Works in the Maitland Club volume of 1834, and in the memoir in David Irving's Lives of Scottish Writers. Those notices may be supplemented in minor points by reference to the Fasti Aberdonenses, to the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1651–60, the Registr. Magni Sigilli Scot. 1634–51, and Scotland and the Commonwealth and General Assembly Records, both in the Scottish Hist. Society. See also Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends of North of Scotland, 1850, pp. 86–104; Spalding's Memorials of the Trubles, 1851; Fraser's Earls of Cromartie; Tytler's Life of Crichton, 1819, pp. 238 sq.; Burton's Scot Abroad, pp. 255 sq.; Bruce's Eminent Men of Aberdeen, p. 254; Davidson's Inverurie, 1878, passim; Fraser Mackintosh's Antiquarian Notes, Inverness, 1865, and Invernessiana, 1875; Charles Whibley's introduction in Tudor Translations, 1900, and his Literary Portraits, 1904; Hazlitt's Handbook and Collections and Notes; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn); Urquhart and Motteux's Rabelais, ed. Wallis, 1897; Rabelais, translated by W. F. Smith, 1893, i. pp. ix, xv, xvii; Quarterly Review, lxxxvi. 415; Edinburgh Review, xcii. 334; Retrospective Review, vi. 177–206; Blackwood's Mag., vols. v. xxxii. and lxii.]  URY or HURRY, JOHN (d. 1650), soldier, was the son of John Urry of Pitfichie in the parish of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, by his wife, Mariora Cameraria