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 where he died. Satchells, wishing to give some authority for his account of the origin of the name of Scott, pretends, that, in 1629, he chanced to be at Burgh, under Bowness, in Cumberland, where a person, named Lancelot Scott, shewed him an extract from Michael Scott's works, containing that story.

Spain, from the reliques, doubtless, of Arabian learning and superstition, was accounted a favourite residence of magicians.