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THE YOUNG LAIRD OF HAWTHORNDEN: HIS TASTES AND
SURROUNDINGS: STATE OF LITERATURE IN SCOTLAND.
CHAPTER IV.
TLARS ON THE DEATH OF MŒLIADES: FIRST MEETING WITH
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER MISS CUNNINGHAM OF BARNS
AND THE STORY OF DRUMMOND'S FIRST LOVE: PUBLICA-
TION OF HIS POEMS: KING JAMES IN SCOTLAND: FORTH
FEASTING.
CHAPTER V.
DRUMMOND'S POETRY: FARTHER SPECIMENS, WITH A
(RITICISM.
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CHAPTER VI.
LITERARY LONDON: DRUMMOND'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH
DRAYTON: BEN JONSON'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND: HIS
VISIT ΤΟ DRUMMOND AND THEIR HAWTHORNDEN
CONVERSATIONS.
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CHAPTER VII.
LAST SIX YEARS OF KING JAMES'S REIGN: KERR OF
ANCRAM'S BANISHMENT: AFFAIRS OF SIR WILLIAM
ALEXANDER VARIOUS LETTERS OF DRUMMOND: HIS
FLOWERS OF SION AND CYPRESS GROVE.
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CHAPTER VIII.
FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.: DRUM-
MOND'S PATENT FOR MECHANICAL INVENTIONS, AND
HIS GIFT TO EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY UNCERTAINTY
OF HIS WHEREABOUTS DURING THOSE FIVE YEARS :
PROBABLY ABROAD FOR THE MOST PART. .
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CHAPTER IX.
DRUMMOND BACK IN HAWTHORNDEN: MORE LETTERS OF
HIS DEATH OF DRAYTON: THE STRATHERNE-MENTEITH
SCANDAL DRUMMOND'S INTERFERENCE IN IT: HIS
MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER X.
CHARLES'S CORONATION VISIT TO SCOTLAND, WITH LAUD IN
HIS TRAIN LAUD'S PROJECTS FOR SCOTLAND: DRUM-
MOND'S REFLECTIONS ON THE SAME.
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CHAPTER XI.
POETRY AND VERSE EXCHANGED FOR HISTORY AND PROSE:
DRUMMOND'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EARL OF
PERTH AND INTEREST IN THE DRUMMOND GENEALOGY:
HISTORY OF THE FIVE JAMESES COMMENCED: A
GLIMPSE OF SCOT OF SCOTSTARVET.
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CHAPTER XII.
PROGRESS OF LAUD'S POLICY IN SCOTLAND: DRUMMOND'S
POSITION: THE BALMERINO BUSINESS: DRUMMOND'S
MANLY LETTER ABOUT IT: THE EARL OF STIRLING'S
UNPOPULARITY: THE NEW SCOTTISH SERVICE BOOK.. 228
CHAPTER XIII.
DELITLE POETARUM SCOTORUM: THE JENNY GEDDES RIOT
AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: THE SCOTTISH COVENANT :
GRIEFS AND DISGRACE OF THE EARL OF STIRLING: THE
MARQUIS OF HAMILTON'S MISSION: DRUMMOND'S
THOUGHTS ABOUT PUBLIC AFFAIRS: HIS IRENE AND ITS
PECULIAR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: THE GLASGOW AS-
SEMBLY AND ABOLITION OF EPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND:
HAWTHORNDEN HOUSE REBUILT.
CHAPTER XIV.
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PREPARATIONS ON BOTH SIDES FOR THE FIRST BISHOPS
WAR: DRUMMOND UNDER SUSPICION: LASSWADE PARISH
AND THE PRESBYTERY OF DALKEITH: DRUMMOND AS A
PSEUDO-COVENANTER, OR COVENANTER BY COMPULSION:
SECRET SQUIBS OF HIS IN VERSE AND PROSE: LESLIE AT
DUNSE LAW: CLOSE OF THE FIRST BISHOPS' WAR IN
THE PACIFICATION OF BIRKS: DRUMMOND'S CONCERN
IN THE AFFAIR : HIS LETTERS TO THE MARQUIS OF
DOUGLAS..
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