which fell into the hands of the parliament's army." Wilkie's
letters contained an account of the proceedings of the Assembly,
Wodrow says, not very favourable to the majority there. And he then
adds it was "from these and such other informations upon the one
side, Doctor Balcanqubal drew up The Large Declaration, under the
Kings name, in 1642." At the time of the Glasgow Assembly, Mr.
William Wilkie was one of the regents of the university.

Since this was written, Wilkie's letters have been printed, without
abridgment in the Appendix to vol. of a new edition of Ballie's
Letters, published at Edinburgh by the Bannatyne club.

"The originals of all these letters are contained in folio vol. xxv.
of the Wodrow manuscripts, which is now preserved among the Archives
of the Church of Scotland."--Id. p. 481.--_Ed._]

100 [The estate of Trochrigg which is one of the largest in the parish
of Girvan, in the county of Ayr, is now the property of John
Hutchieson Fergusson Esq. It was sold by the descendants of the
ancient proprietors about the year 1782. It was to his paternal
residence at Brodrigg that Principal Boyd retired with his family in
1621, when he resigned his office as Principal of the University of
Glasgow, and it was in this retreat he wrote the Latin poem
entitled, _Ad Christum Servatorem Hecatombe_. This beautiful poem
has been justly described to be, cannon totius fere Christianae
Religionis, seu evangeli ae doctrinae medullam, vel compendium verius,
cultissians dul tissimisque versibus, ex intimoque Latio petitis,
stropbarum Sopphicarum centuria lectori ob oculos proponens, "a song
embracing almost the whole of the Christian religion, or placing
before the eyes of the reader in a hundred Sapphic stanzas, the
marrow, or rather a compend of evangelical doctrine, in the most
polished and mellifluent verses and in language taken from that of
the Augustan age." (Poet. Scot. Musa. Sacrae, p. 198, praefaetio, vol.
vi., Edin., 1739. Life of Boyd, Wodrow MSS., vol. xv. p. 123 in Bib.
Coll. Glas.).

The commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians (Roberts Bodn, A
frocheregia Scoti, In Epistolam ad Ephesios Praelectiones, fol. pp.
1236. London, 1652) contains the substance of the Lectures, which
Boyd delivered, when