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9 unusual facts about James Maidment

Andrew Lumisden

He also compiled a pedigree of his family, which was published in James Maidment's Analecta Scotica, vol.

Eppie Morrie

It was printed in James Maidment's anthology A North Country Garland in 1824.

The preface by James Maidment to Letters from Thomas Percy, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Dromore, John Callander of Craigforth, Esq., and others, to George Paton, which appeared at Edinburgh in 1830, indicates that in his latter years Callendar was reclusive, and a religious melancholic.

John Crowne

See The Dramatic Works of John Crowne (4 vols., 1873), edited by James Maidment and W. H. Logan for the Dramatists of the Restoration.

Lawrence Charteris

The catalogue of Scottish divines in James Maidment's Catalogues was drawn up by Charteris for his friend Sir Robert Sibbald.

Richard Niccols

It was reprinted in the ‘Harleian Miscellany’ (vii. 178 seq.) and by the Hunterian Club, Glasgow, in 1873, with an introduction by James Maidment.

Richard Stanihurst

A reprint in 1583 by Henry Bynneman forms the basis of James Maidment's edition (Edinburgh, 1836), and of Edward Arber's reprint (1880), which contains an excellent introduction.

Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet

James Maidment also extracted papers from the collection in order to publish them.

Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet

Wood incorporated in it a number of corrections of the first edition made by Lord Hailes (some of his unpublished critical comments were given by James Maidment).