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22. Remarks on the History of Scotland. Edin. 1773. Inscribed to George, Lord Lyttelton, in nine Chapters, pp.

284. 12mo.

23. Huberti Langueti Epistolæ ad Philippum Sydneium Equitem Anglum Accurante D. Dalrymple de Hailes, Eq Edin. 1776, 8vo. Inscribed to Lord Chief Baron Smythe.Virorum Eruditorum Testimonia de Langueto. pp. 7. Epistolæ, 289, Index Nominum, pp.41.

24. Annals of Scotland, from the Accession of Malcolm III, surnamed Canmore, to the Accession of Robert I. Edin. 1776, pp. 311. Appendix, pp. 51.

25. Tables of the Succession of the Kings of Scotland, from Malcolm III, to Robert I; their Marriages, Children, and time oftheir death; also of the Kings of England and France, and of the Popes who were their Contemporaries. The Chronological Abridgment of the volume contains 30 pages, and the Appendix 8 Dissertations, viz.

1. Of the Law of Evenus and Mercheta Muliorum, pp. 17. 2. A Commentary on the 22d Statute of William the Lion, pp. 8.

3. Of the 18th Statute of Alexander III, pp. 5.

4. Bull of Pope Innocent IV, pp. 6.

5. Of Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, 1296, pp. 7.

6. Of Mac Duff, slain at Falkirk, in 1298, pp. 3.

7. Of the Death of John Comyn, 10th February, 1305,

pp. 4.

8. Of the Origin of the House of Stewart, pp. 6. 26. Annals of Scotland, from the Accession of Robert I, surnamed Bruce, to the Accession of the House of Stewart. Edin. 1779, 4to. pp. 277, Appendix, pp. 54, containing,

1. Of the Manner of the Death of Marjory, daughter of Robert I, pp. 7.

2. Journal of the Campaign of Edward III, 1327, pp. 9. 3. Of the Genealogy of the Family of Seton; in the 14th

Century.

4. List of the Scottish Commanders at the battle of Halidown, July 19, 1383, pp. 11.

5 Whether Edward III put to death the son of Alexander Seton, pp. 8.

6. List of the Scottish Commanders, killed or made prisoners at the battle of Durham, pp. 8.

7. Table of Kings, p. 1.

8. Corrections and Additions to volume 1, pp. 16. 9. Corrections and additions to volume 2, pp. 8. 10. Chronological Abridgment of the volume, pp. 39. 27. Account of the Martyrs of Smyrna and Lyons, in the ed Century, with explanatory Notes. Edin. 12mo. 1776. Dedicated to Bishop Hurd, pp. 68. Notes and IIlustrations, pp. 142,-This is a new and correct version of two ancient Epistles, the one from the Church at Smyrna to the Church at Philadelphia, and the other from the Christians at Vienne and Lyons, to those in Asia and Phrygia. Their antiquity and authenticity are undoubted. Great part of both is extracted from Eusebius's Ecclésiastical History. The former was first completely edited by Archbishop Usher. The author of the Notes says of them, with his usual modesty," That they will afford little new or interesting to men of erudition, though they may prove of some benefit to the unlearned reader."-But the erudition he possessed in these branches, is so rare, that this notice is unnecessary. They display much useful learning and ingenious criticism, and breathe the most ardent zeal, connected with an exemplary knowledge of Christianity.This volume is the first of three entitled "Remains of Christian Antiquity."

28. Remains of Christian Antiquity, with Explanatory Notes, volume II. Edin. 12mo. 1778. Dedicated to Dr. Newton, Bishop of Bristol, Preface, pp. 7. This volume contains, the Trial of Justin Martyr and his Companions, Pp. B.-Epistle of Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, to

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Fabius, Bishop of Antioch, pp. 16.-The Trial and Execution of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, pp. 8.-The Trial and Execution of Fructuosus, Bishop of Tarracona in Spain, and of his two Deacons, Augurius and Eulogius, pp. 8.-The Maiden of Antioch, pp. 2.-These are all newly translated by Lord Hailes, from Ruinart, Eusebius, Ambrose, &c. The Notes and Illustrations of this volume extend from p. 47 to 165, and display a most intimate acquaintance with antiquity, great critical acumen, both in elucidating the sense and detecting interpolations; and above all, a fervent and enlightened zeal, in vindicating such sentiments and conduct as are conformable to the Word of Gon, against the malicious sarcasms of Mr Gibbon. To this volume is added an Appendix of 22 pages, correcting and vindicating certain parts of the first volume.

29. Remains of Christian Antiquity, volume III. Edin. 1780, dedicated to Thomas Balguy, D. D. Preface pp. 2. This volume contains the History of the Martyrs of Palestine in the third Century, translated from Eusebius, pp. 94. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 135, in which Mr. Gibbon again comes, and more frequently, under review. The partialities and misrepresentations of this popular writer, are here exposed in the calmest and most satisfactory manner.

These valuable volumes were printed and published at the expense of the author, as were most of his other works, and dispersed so liberally by him to his friends, that they have been not much circulated otherwise.

30. Octavius, a Dialogue, by Marcus Minucius Felix. Edin. 1781, pp. 16, Preface.-The Speakers are, Caecilius, a Hea then; and Octavius, a Christian. The arguments of Octavius prevail with Caecilius to renounce Paganism, and become a Christian Proselyte. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 120.

31. Of the Manner in which the Persecutors died. A Treatise, by L. C. F. Lactantius. Edin. 1782. Inscribed to Dr. Porteus, Bishop of Chester (now Bishop of London)

Preface, pp. 57, in which it is, proved that Laetantius is the author. Text, pp. 125. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 109. 92. L. C. F. Lactanti Divinarum Institutionum Liber Quintus seu de Justitia, 1777.

33. Disquisitions concerning the Antiquities of the Christian Church. Glasgow, 1783, Inscribed to Dr. Hali. fax, Bishop of Gloucester, pp. 194.

This small, original, and most excellent work, consists of six Chapters.

Chapter I. A Commentary on the Conduct and Character of Gallio, Acts xviii. 5, 12, 17.

Chapter II. Of the time at which the Christian Religion became publickly known at Rome.

Chap. III. Cause of the Persecution of the Christians under Nero. In this the hypothesis of Mr. Gibbon, vol. I. 4to. p. 641, is examined.

Chap. IV. Of the eminent Heathen writers who are said (by Mr. Gibbon) to have disregarded or contemned Christianity, viz. Seneca, Pliny, senr. Tacitus, Pliny, jun. Galen, Epictetus, Plutarch, Marcus Antoninus. To the admirers of Heathen Philosophers, and to those especially who state between them and the Christian Doctrine any consanguinity, this Chapter is earnestly recommended.

Chap. V. Illustration of a conjecture by Gibbon, respecting the silence of Dio Cassius concerning the Christians. In this Chapter, with extreme impartiality, he amplifies and supports an Idea of Mr. Gibbon on this head.

Chap. VI. Of the Circumstances respecting Christianity that are to be found in the Augustan History.

The close attention which Lord Hailes appears to have given to subjects of this nature, was probably, in some measure the effect of the mistakes and partialities of Gibbon. In no one work, from 1776, the date of Mr. Gibbon's first publication, has he omitted to trace this unfair and insinuating author.

34. An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity. Edin. 1786, gratefully and affectionately inscribed to Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester. 4to. pp. 213, in fivé Chapters.

This was the most able and formidable reply which Mr. Gibbon ever received.

35. Sketch of the Life of John Barclay, 1786. 4to.

36. Sketch of the Life of John Hamilton, a secular Priest (one of the most savage and bigotted adherents of Popery, who lived about the year 1600.) 4to. 1787.

37. Sketch of the Life of Sir James Ramsay, a General Officer in the armies of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden, with a head. 4to. 1787.

38. Life of George Leslie, (an eminent Capuchin Friar in the early part of the 17th Century, pp. 24, 1787.

. 39. Sketch of the Life of Mark Alexander Boyd, 4to. 1787.

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These Lives were written and published as a Specimen of the manner in which a Biographia Scotica might be executed.

.40. The Opinions of Sarah, Duchess Dowager of Marlborough, published from her original Manuscripts. 1788. 12mo. pp. 120. Lord Hailes added a few Notes at the foot of the page, in which he corrects the splenetic partiality of her Grace.

41. The Address of Q. Sept. Tertullian to Scapula Tertullus, Proconsul of Africa, translated by Sir David Dalrymple, 12mo. Edin. 1790, Inscribed to Dr. John Butler, Bishop of Hereford. Preface, pp. 4. Translation, pp. 18. Original, pp. 13. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 135.

This Address contains many particulars relating to the Church, after the third Century. The Translator has rejected all words and phrases of French origin, and written entirely in the Anglo Saxon Dialect. In the course of the Notes.

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