Qui veut vivre apres la mort, Faut qu'il meure devant la mort. Melius dicit et docet qui intus habitat quam qui foris clamat. Cathedram habet in Caelo qui corda docet. Quis est fons amoris ? Ille idem qui nos lavit a peccatis nostris. Exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus. Multi dum diu vixerunt, parum vixerunt. Θεὸν σέβου καὶ πάντα πράξεις ἐνθεώς. Θεοῦ μνὴμονευτεον ὅπως ἀναπνευστέον. προσοχή καὶ προσευχή. NOTES. NOTE A (page 1). THE Leightons in early times owned the property of Usan, or Ulysses-haven, near Montrose. Their arms bore a lion rampant, with a lion's head for crest, and the motto Light on." Two prelates of the name figure in the history of the fifteenth century, Alexander de Lichton, Bishop of Brechin, and Dr. Henry Leighton, Bishop of Moray and afterwards of Aberdeen. Leighton used the family crest as his seal. NOTE B (page 3). In one of his visits to London Sir James Stewart became acquainted with Dr. Alexander Leighton, "who placed his son Robert under Sir James's patronage for his education at Edinburgh."-See Coltness Collections. NOTE C (page 3). We have the Matriculation Lists of Edinburgh University 1627-31. The class of Mr. R. Ranken began 29th November 1627. At the head of the List stand the names of John Sinclair and Robert Hamilton. The former was Master of Berriedale, grandson of the Earl of Caithness; the latter was the youngest son of Thomas Earl of Haddington. Leighton sat beside these scions of the nobility, as we gather from a letter to his father of 6th May 1628. The Provost, David Aikenhead of Kilquhis, had "restrained the boys from the play a good while; and upon that they made some verses mocking his red nose." Leighton made his contribution as follows: That which his name 1 imports is falsely said Some accounts of this escapade represent Leighton as "called before the faculty of Masters, and, to please the provost, extruded the University," but reponed on the intervention of his friend Sir James Stewart. Leighton in the letter above quoted, says, "As for the Primar (Principal Adamson), and Regents, to say the truth they thought it not so heinous a thing, as I myself did justly think it. I hope the Lord shall bring good out of it to me. Pray for me, as I know you do, that the Lord may keep me from like falls. If I have either Christianity or naturality it will not suffer me to forget you, but as I am able to remember you still to God, and to endeavour that my ways grieve not God and you, my dear Parents, the desire of my heart is to be as little chargeable as may be. Now, desiring the Lord to keep you, I rest, ever endeavouring to be, your obedient son, Robert Leighton." This letter is addressed "To his kind and loving father Mr. Alexander Leighton, Doctor of Medicine, at his house on the top of Pudle Hill, beside the Black Friars' Gate, near the King's Wardrobe there, London." In a postscript he conveys his "duty to his mother, his loving brothers and sisters, and his duty to all his friends." 1 His name is Okenhead. Among other names in the list of Leighton's class there is that of ARCHIBALD JOHNSTONE, which, if we mistake not, is that of Lord Warriston, the pen of the Covenant and one of its martyrs. Of students in 1629, one bears the name of NATHANIEL RATHBAND. One of Leighton's sisters was Mrs. Rathband. In 1630 we find the name of ANDREW CANT, probably Leighton's predecessor in Newbattle. NOTE D (page 5). We have given the names of two brothers and two sisters of Leighton; but the mention of a young brother in his letter, in addition to James and Elisha, would imply that he had three brothers. This is also evident from the terms of his father's petition to the Long Parliament in 1640, in which, among other things, he states that when the pursuivant searched his house, he held a pistol to the breast of a child five years old, threatening to kill him if he did not discover Jesuits' books." NOTE E (page 6). Dr. Thomas Gordon, minister of Newbattle, having in June 1862 communicated some extracts from the Records of Dalkeith Presbytery and New battle Session to Notes and Queries, Mr. David Laing, LL.D., V.P. of the Antiquarian Society, incorporated them, with notes of his own, in the Society's Transactions. The present writer, in 1858, made inquiry after the Records, but Dr. Gordon was not then able to supply extracts from them. The information contained in these Extracts regarding Leighton's conduct as a Presbyterian has been made use of in the present Memoir. The writer has dealt at greater length on the whole question in articles in The United Presbyterian Magazine, 1865, 1866, and 1869; also two articles in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, for 1869. D NOTE F (page 7). JAMES FAIRLIE was professor of Divinity in Edinburgh University during Leighton's student days. He was a regent in 1617, and, along with other academical dignitaries, was a disputant in Stirling Castle at the feast of reason King James VI. had there. The wise and witty sovereign said: "The defender is justly called Fairly; his thesis had some fairlies, and he sustained them fairly, and with many fairlies given to his opponents."-Fairlie was a zealous follower of Laud, and on 15th July 1637 was consecrated Bishop of Argyll; and on the 23d July he read Laud's Liturgy in Greyfriars Church-the same day that Jenny Geddes caused a commotion in St. Giles'; was deposed in 1638; afterwards made his submission to Presbytery; wandered about in much misery unable to find a church, for five or six years; was settled at last in 1644 as minister of Lasswade, the parish church of Drummond of Hawthornden. The reader will pardon these details as illustrative of a near neighbour of Leighton; the one the quondam Bishop of Argyll, the other the future Bishop of Dunblane. Fairlie died in 1658.-Baillie's Letters; Masson's Drummond, pp. 393-4. NOTE G (page 9). Dr. Stoughton says: "No passage of Scripture could be more appropriate as a motto for Leighton's life than that of one of Leighton's texts: 'In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength." In his excellent preface to the poem of The Bishop's Walk, Dr. Walter C. Smith says of such mystic spiritualism, "that it has its private region of emotion and sensibility from which it is loth to be dislodged, even at the call of urgent duty, and to which it ever returns, feeling that its contact with these very duties of common life |