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 count of him and his inventions? and, if so, where may it be found?

[We cannot find that any portrait of John Harrison has been published. The longest biographical notice of him is given in Hutton's Mathematical Dictionary, and for works treating of his inventions, a list will be found under his name in Watt's Bibliotheca.]

Will you allow me to correct some of the statements made by your correspondents regarding this individual? David Lindsay, who wrote The Godly Man's Journey to Heaven, is not the same David Lindsay as was afterwards Bishop of Ross. Nor, so far as I can discover, were they related to each other, though of the same name, and ministers of the same parish. The Bishop of Ross was second son of Sir William Lindsay of Edzel in Angusshire. He was born in 1530, and was the first Protestant Minister of Leith, being appointed by the committee of parliament in July, 1560. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1582. He performed the marriage ceremony between James VI. and Anne of Denmark, at Upsala, Nov. 28, 1589, in the French language. In October, 1600, he was appointed Bishop of Ross; and on Dec. 23, he baptized Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I.) at Dunfermline, on which occasion he preached from Rom. xiii. 11. He died at the end of 1613, aged eighty-three, and was buried at Leith by his own desire. His stipend in 1576 was 2007. (Scots), viz. the third of the parsonage of Restalrig, 82l. 8s. 10d., with four acres of kirk land, &c.

David Lindsay, author of The Godly Man's Journey, &c., was at first Minister of St. Andrew's (Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, vol. i. p. 40., and Leith Session Records). In the year 1606 George Gladestaines, Bishop of St. Andrew's, wrote to the king, complaining of David Lindsay's "intemperance in preaching," though it had been under the bishop's own recommendation that he had been appointed to St. Andrew's. Gladestaines mentions that he had reproved him, and made him recant some of his words, and calls him "a foole nocht worthie of your Majestei's wrathe." (Ib.) In consequence of the above remonstrance, Lindsay was removed to the parish of Forgan, hard by St. Andrew's. It would seem that this translation did not tame him sufficiently, for on April 17, 1608, we find the

these Scottish bishops were re-ordained or re-baptized when they were consecrated ? or was their Presbyterian baptism and ordination recognized ?
 * Could any of your readers tell me whether any of

bishop again complaining of him to the king as " the vanest and unrulyest man in Scotland." (Ib. p. 130.) But by 1609 the good man had learned to demean himself more patiently to the yoke, or the bishop had become weary with the contest, for having been translated to Leith at the recommendation of Spottiswoode in that year*, we find the bishop speaking more favourably of him in a letter to the king, of date Sept. 19, 1610- (Ib. p. 258.) He died at Leith in 1627.

In the year 1622 he published at St. Andrew's, in a thin quarto, the first two parts of what he afterwards called The Godly Mans Journey, Sf-c. I have not seen a printed copy of this, but I possess a manuscript of it, whether the author's or not I cannot say. The title is :

" Ane heavenlie Chariot laved open for transporting (be new-borne Babes of God, from tyme infected with sinne, towardis that eternitie in the which dwelleth righteous- nesse, made up of some rarest peeces of that purest Gold, which is not to be founde but in that richest thesaurie of sacred Scripture. Divided in Two Parts. Be (by) Mr. David Lindesaj', Minister of Christis Evangell, at Leith."

The title-page of the MS. is so soiled that I can with difficulty read even the above ; the im- print, if there was one, is quite illegible. There are a good many verbal alterations and small additions made in the subsequent edition, and the above title-page to part i. does not appear in them ; the book was not a " posthumous work," as one of your correspondents calls it. Your cor- respondent makes it " from Rome infected with sin," instead of " time infected with sin ; " bat be gives correctly the title of the second edition, with the exception of writing " ghosts of the inne," in- stead of "guestes." Of this work I have seen three copies. One now before me, belonging to David Laing, Esq., another in the possession of a friend, and a third in the British Museum. The last of these has a peculiar, and in some respects, inaccurate title-page of part iii., which has been cancelled in the other copies, and replaced by a new one. The British Museum is not "Part Third," but " The Way to Everlasting Life, con- tainins Six Treatises." The amended title is, " The'Third Part of the Heavenly Chariot, wherein are Eight several Treatises, of Meditations tend- ing to Everlasting Life." The other alterations and corrections I need not specify.

If it will not be thought very much aside from my purpose, I should like to extract a curious paragraph at p. 107. :

" Dare I forget the strange spectacle presented to mine owne eyes, being in the churchyard of Leith in the moneth of June, anno 1615 ! For being there, delighting to be- hold for awhile those honest men, who were there busied

sometimes " Parson of Restalrig," the latter being a part of the parish, about a mile and half from Leith, and pos- sessing originally a chapel of its own.
 * He is sometimes called "Minister of Leith," an.i