out of knowledge that Anderson actually charges
the printer with committing "a strange blunder in the title." Believing
that _Ales_ was the real name of Alesius, he thought that the printer
had divided the name of the author between the author and the translator
('Annals of the English Bible,' ii. 479 n.).]

[312] [For the circumstances of his departure, see Appendix G.]

[313] [For M'Alpine, see Gau's Richt Vay, Introd., p. xii.]

[314] "I owe much," he says, "to your father, who received me most
hospitably at my first coming hither, and, in name of Duke Maurice (now
Elector of Saxony), invited me to give my services to this famous
university, and retained me here some years after, when I was called
elsewhere" (_i.e._, probably Koenigsberg), "promising me the favour and
grace of the most illustrious prince elector. Finally, after the war, he
encouraged me, then hesitating, to write to the elector to beg the
restitution of my books and other effects, which I had lost at the time
of the siege of this city, kindly offering his best services in
rendering my supplicatory letter to the prince, by which, however, he
only succeeded in securing that the elector, when departing from his own
dominions to attend the imperial diet, should give instructions on the
matter to his counsellors whom he had left at home, and should deliver
to be sent on to me a letter full of kindness through Damianus
Sybothendorff, secretary to his highness."

[315] On the former of which occasions he inscribed the following
paragraph in the matriculation book of the university: "Anno MDLV, die
23 Aprilis, qui Divo Georgio sacer est, et quo existimo me natum esse,
supputatis retro LV annis, ego Alexander Alesius, gente Scotus, Patria
Edinburgensis, atavis consulibus, qui duobus regibus, Jacobo Quinto, et
Henrico Octavo, et quatuor electoribus, Johanni Friderico, Mauricio et
Augusto, Ducibus Saxoniae, et Joachimo Electori Brandeburgensi
inservivi, invitus suscepi officium rectoris universitatis scholae in
inclyta urbe Lipsia."

[316] Lorimer's Scottish Reformation, 1860, pp. 112, 113. [The Perth
martyrs are noticed above, pp. 53, 54. See also Laing's Knox, i. 117,
118, 523-526.]

[317] Lorimer's Scottish Reformation, 1860, pp. 115, 116. [The
quotations from the Cohortatio which follow agree substantially with
those given by Dr Lorimer, but many of the variations in the phraseology
show that Dr Mitchell had the original as well as Lorimer's translati