blication. In the 'Athenae Cantabrigienses' 1549
is given.]
26. Assertio Doctrinae Ecclesiae Catholicae de Sancta Trinitate, cum
confutatione erroris Valentini Gentilis. 1564 (?). [British Museum
Catalogue gives Geneva, 1567.]
27. Edinburgi Regiae Scotorum Urbis Descriptio. Bannatyne Club
Miscellany, vol. i. [This description of Edinburgh was sent by Alesius
to Sebastian Munster for his "Cosmography," printed at Basle in 1550,
and republished in 1572. There are translations of it in Mackenzie's
Lives and Characters of Scots Writers, ii. 400, 401; and in Chambers'
Minor Antiquities of Edinburgh; and in Hume Brown's Scotland before
1700.]
28. [Congratulatory letter to Queen Elizabeth, dated at Leipsic, 1st
September 1559. The original holograph of twenty pages and a slip is
still preserved. A translation of most of it is given in the Calendar of
Foreign State Papers, Reign of Elizabeth, i. 524-534.]
[There are copies of Nos. 5, 12, 14, 15, 16 (1553), and 18 in St Andrews
University Library; of No. 2 in the Church of Scotland Library,
Edinburgh; of No. 16 (1553) in the Signet Library; of No. 8 in the
Advocates'; of Nos. 2, 3 (De Restituendis Scholis), 5, 13, 16 (1553),
and 17 in the Edinburgh University Library; and of Nos. 1, 6, 7, 9, 10,
12, 13, 15, 16 (1553), 18, 19 (1554), 23 (1556), and 26 in the British
Museum. Nos. 27 and 28 are in all important public libraries. At Laing's
sale, No. 1 brought L6, 5s.; No. 2, L17, 17s.; No. 5, L6; No. 6, L4; No.
13, L10; No. 15, L5, 17s. 6d.; No. 16, L5, 10s.; and No. 18 (with which
was bound up "Sarcerius de Scholasticae Theologiae Vanitate"), L6. In
the 'Athenae Cantabrigienses,' the following six items, which are not in
the above list, are mentioned: "Disputatio de Justitia Dei et Justitia
hominis coram Deo. Leipsic, 1553." "De utriusque naturae officiis in
Christo." "De distincta Christi hypostasi." "Preface to Gardiner upon
obedience. Translated from English to Latin." "De Balaei Vocatione.
Translated from English." "Ordinationes Anglorum Ecclesiae per Bucerum.
Translated from English to Latin." In connection with the last, see
'Liturgical Services of Queen Elizabeth,' Parker Society, p. xxv, n. 3.]
[ADDENDA.
Page 20. _Patrick Hamilton's admission to the Faculty of Arts in St
Andrews University._--The entry in the 'Acta Facultatis Artium' runs
thus: "Congregatione artium facultatis, in Nouis Scolis eiusdem tenta
tercio die mensis Octobris, anno Domini mille
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