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II. A Short Account of the Life and Writings of William Tytler, Esq; of Woodhouselee, F.R.S. Edin.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

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The custom which this Society has established, of giving some account of the lives of its deceased members, is in every case gratifying to friendship, in many interesting to curiosity, but in those which serve to record the pursuits and occupations of men of letters, it is more strictly and properly an object coming within the views of a literary institution. The history of the authors is always in a great degree the history of the literature of a country; and even exclusive of an immediate relation to their works, the narrative of their private and domestic habits is often, in a moral point of view, useful and interesting to the scholar and the author. In both these respects, I may claim the attention of the Society to the following short account of the life and writings of our late worthy colleague, Mr William Tytler.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1798

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* ‘The character, accomplishments and misfortunes of this Princess, (says the Introduction), have been the subject of much writing and controversy among the British historians. Republican writers, equally averse to monarchy and to the House of Stuart, have drawn her picture in the blackest colours, by traducing her as an accomplice with the Earl of Bothwell in the murder of the Lord Darnley her husband. On the other hand, the writers attached to the ancient constitution of their country, and to the Family of Stuart, have regarded that unfortunate Princess as one of the most virtuous and accomplished characters of that age, and as a victim to the secret conspiracies carried on by some of the neads of the reformed party in her kingdom for her destruction.’