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Speech of Sir Robert Heath, Attorney-General, in the case of Alexander Leighton in the star chamber, June 4, 1630

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1875

Extract

The particulars of Dr. Leighton's life are scanty and doubtful. He is said to have been born in Edinburgh about 1568. After having taken orders in the Scotch Church, and holding a professorship of moral philosophy in his native city, we are informed that he proceeded to Leyden, studied physic there under Heurnius, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

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References

page iii note a His first book, “Speculum Belli Sacri,” was printed in 1624.—S. R. G.

page iii note b References to Bacon's “Wisdom of the Ancients” occur.—S. R. G.

page vi note a In the MS., in which the quotations are not in Mr. Brace's hand, we have “sit us with.” I have corrected it from the copy in Dr. Williams's library, the paging of which is quite different from the one quoted above, and which is dated thus: “Printed in the year and moneth wherein Rochell was lost.” It must be the original edition, as the pages correspond with that mentioned in Heath's speech.

page vii note a Archbishop in MS.

page ix note a It is to be found at p. 240 of the original edition, but may be explained as used figuratively: “Strike neither at great nor small, but at these troublers of Israel. Smite that Ilazael in the fifth rib.”—S. R. G.

page xii note a Neal's “History of Puritans,” i. 190.

page xiii note a See p. xxi.

page xiii note b Rushworth, yol. ii. p. 58, ed. 1686.

page 6 note a Home.

page 8 note a Sic.