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 n 8. i. FEB. -26, mo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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SCOTCHMEN IN FRANCE (11 S. i. 48). There is no lack of literature on this subject. The book that occurs to my recollection as being most nearly in the line of the query is Francisque Michel's ' Les ^cossais en France : les Fran^ais en lilcosse,' published by Trubner & Co., 1862, 2 vols. Also, no doubt, the Marquis de Ruvigny's ' The Jacobite Peerage,' 1904, if somewhat wider in scope, will provide many important and interesting details. Other works that may be mentioned are Forbes-Leith's ' Scots Men-at-Arms and Life Guards in France,' Edinburgh, 1881, 2 vols. ; Hill Burton's ' The Scot Abroad,' Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1898, especially the first five chapters, ' The Ancient League with France ' ; and Grant's ' The Scottish Soldiers of Fortune,' London, Routledge, 1889, particularly the last chap- ters, pp. 234-331, the notes somewhat scrappy, but supplying a considerable list of names. In addition to these, an article in Macmillaris Magazine, vol. Ixxiii., 1896, on ' The Scottish Guard of France,' might also be consulted.

The works above cited deal mainly with military or political personages. They do not by any means exhaust a subject so wide as " Scotchmen in France." From the thirteenth century to the time of James I. of England, the relations between France and Scotland were of the closest and most intimate kind. No Scotsman with any pre- tensions to learning considered his education complete without a course of instruction at some French university. Hence, for more than 300 years, all the most distinguished scholars whom Scotland produced were educated in France. For information on this point the querist might do well to refer to vol. xxx. of the New Spalding Club, edited by Mr. P. J. Anderson, which contains registers of students, between 1581 and 1900, attending the Scots College at Douai and other places. Prof. Hume Brown's ' George Buchanan,' Edinburgh, 1890, might also provide some useful hints. Irving' s ' Lives of Scottish Writers,' Edinburgh, Black, 1850, 2 vols., gives in vol. i. careful biographies of twenty-three distinguished scholars, more than twenty of whom were educated, while several became professors or teachers, in French colleges. Boece, Buchanan, Melville, Barclay, Balfour, Bellen- <lMi. Duncan, Donaldson, Cameron, and Dempster are a few of the names of those who occupied chairs as teachers, and lived in France for longer or shorter periods. fill up details respecting individual

To

names reference might be made to Demp-

ster's ' Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scot- orum ; sive, De Scriptoribus Scotis,' Edinburgh/ Bannatyne Club, 1829, 2 vols. ; David Buchanan's ' De Scriptoribus Scotis/ Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club, 1837 ; George Mackenzie's ' Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation,' Edinburgh, 1708-22, 3 vols. (whose state- ments, however, need to be carefully verified); Moreri's ' Historical Dictionary,' in many French editions ; and Anderson's ' Scottish Nation,' Edinburgh, 1874, 3 vols.

The foregoing works ought to afford a fairly complete list of Scots who have resided temporarily or settled permanently in France. W. SCOTT.

M. NOUGUIER might find it useful to con- sult John Hill Burton's interesting work ' The Scot Abroad ' (Blackwood, 1864 r 2 vols.). Burton draws largely upon Michel's ' Extrait des Deliberations munici- pales de la Ville de Tours,' and references are given to various other French writers. If I mistake not, ' The Scot Abroad ' is now obtainable in a single-volume edition.

In the Maitland Club publications (1835) there is a volume, ' Papers relative to the Royal Guard of Scottish Archers in France. 7

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T. Moncrieff s ' Memoirs concerning the Ancient Alliance between the French and Scots, and the Privileges of the Scots in France,' &c., Edinburgh, 1751, may be useful to M. NOUGUIER.

HENRY T. FOLKARD.

Wingates, Wigan.

[MR. T. BAYNE and T. F. D. also thanked for replies.]

JACOB COLE (10 S. xii. 129, 218, 251, 418, 476). Shortly after the appearance of the reply at 10 S. i. 218 bearing my private address MR. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY called there to have a chat with me about my maternal grandfather, Jacob Cole. But I had not yet returned from business, so, with a half -promise to my wife that he would pay me a visit in the City, he departed, and later I read with regret in ' N. & Q.' (10 S. xii. 480) of his lamented death.

I can add but little to the information furnished by your other correspondents. Jacob Cole died on 22 Dec., 1868, aged 78 years, and his remains were interred at Nunhead Cemetery. He was born at Stalbridge in Dorsetshire, and I have before me as I write a letter from him to my mother, dated from his birthplace on 19 July, 1835, describing a visit he was then enjoying.