, a man of considerable learning and singular character, was born
, a man of considerable learning
and singular character, was born in Scotland in 1579. He
is said to have been descended from a noble family, and
was instructed in grammar learning at Aberdeen; but
being obliged at an early age to leave Scotland, on account
of the commotions that then prevailed in that country, he
went into England, where he studied for some time at
Pembroke-hall in Cambridge. From thence he went to
France, where he gave out, that he had left givat estates
in his own country, on account of his attachment to the
Roman catholic religion. He also assumed the title of
Baron of Muresk, which is said to have been one of the
titles of his father; but the low state of his finances obliged him to undertake to teach classical literature at Paris.
In that city he also published, in 1613, in one volume, fol.
“Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutiss mum, in quo
praeter ea quse Joannes Rosinus delineaverat, inlimta supplentur, mutantur, adduntur, ex criticis, et omnibus utriusque linguae auctoribus collectum: poetis, oratoribus, historicis, jurisconsultis, qui laudati, explicati, correctique.
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