The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

INTRODUCTION TO THE HEIART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 297
them in his owne family, hes sent thler to the city of Glasgow, to be bread at schooles, and there to be principled with the knowledge of the true religion, and that it is necessary the Councill determine what shall be
the maintenance for which Raeburn's children may be charged, as likewise that Raeburn himself, being now
in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, where he dayley converses with all the Quakers who are prisoners there, an6
others who daily resort to them, whereby he is hardened in his pernitious opinions and principles, without all
hope of recovery, unlesse he be separat from such pernitious company. humbly therefore, desyrilg that the
Councell might determine upon the soume of money to be payed be Raeburn, for the education of his chil
dren, to the petitioner, who will be countable therefor; and that, in order to his conversion, the place of his
imprisonment may be changed.'Ihe Lords of his Maj. Privy Counicell having at length heard and considered
the foresaid petition, doe modifie the soume of two thousand pounds Scots, to be payed yearly at the termne
of Whitsunday be the said Walter Scott of Raeburn, furth of his estate to the petitioner, for the entertainment and education of the said children, beginning the first termes payment therof at Whitsunday last for
the half year preceding, and so furth yearly, at the said terme of Whiitsuniday in tym corneiniz till furder
orders; and ordaines the said Walter Scott of ftaeburn to be transported frorn the tolbooth of Edinbulrgh to
the prison of Jedburgh, where his fiiends and others may have occasion to convert him. And to the eflect
he mray be secured from the practice of other Quakers, the said Lords doe hereby discharge the magistrates
of Jedlburglh to suffer any person suspect of these principles to have acrcess to him; and in case any contra-.
veen, that they secure ther persons till they be therfore puneist; and ordlaines letters to be direct heirupon in
formI, ias effeirs."
Both the sons, thus harshly separated from their father, proved good scholars. Tihe eldest, William, who
carried on tile line of Raeburn, was, like his father, a deep Orientailist; the younger, Walter, became i good
classical scholar, a great friend and correspondent of the celebrated Dr. Pitcairn, and a Jacobite so distinguished for zeal, that he made a vow never to shave his beard till the restoration of the exiled fanmily. The
last Walter Scott was the author's great-grandfather.
There is yet another link betwixt the author and the simple-mir:ndeld aid excellent Society of Friends, though
a proselyte of much more importance than Walter Scott of Raebulrn. Tihe celebrated John Swinton, of Swinton, xixth baron in descent of that ancient and once powerful farily was, with Sir William Lockhiart of Lee,
the person whom Cromlwell chiefly trusted in the management of tile Scottish affairs during his usurpation.
After the Restoration, Swinton was devoted as a victim to the new order of things, and was Ibrought down in
the sanle vessel which conveyed the Marquis of Argyle to Edinburgh, where that nobleman was tried anti
executed. Swinton was destined to the same fate. He had assurred the habit, and entered into the Society
of the Quakers, and appeared as one of their number before the Parliament of Scotland. He renoluned nil
legal defence, though several pleas were open to him, and answered, in conformity to the principles of his
sect, that at the time these crirmres were imputed to him, he was in the gall of bitterness and brnd of iniquity;
iet that God Almightv having since called him to the light, he saw and acknowledged these errors, and did
not refuse to pay the forfeit of them, even though, in the judgment of the Parliament, it should extend to life
itself.
Respect to fallen greatness, and to the patience and calmn resignation with which a man once in high
power expressed himself under such a change of fortune, found Swinton friends; family connexions. aend
some interested considerations of Middleton the Commissioner, joined to procure his safety, and he was dismissed, but after a long imprisonment, and much dilapidation of his estates. It is said, that Swinton's adirro
nitions, while confined in the Castle of Edinburgh, had a considerable share in converting to the tenets of the
Friends Colonel Dayid Barclay, then lying there in the garrison. This was the father of Robert Barclay,
author of the celebrated Apology for the Qu akers. It may be observed among the inconsistencies of human
nature, that Kirkton, Wodrow, anrd other Presbyterian authors, who have detailed tihe sufferings of their owl
sect for non-conformity with the established church, censure the government of the time for not exerting tihe
civil power against the peaceful enthusiasts we have treated of. and some express particular chagrin at the
escape of Swinton. Whatever might be his motive for assuming the tenets of the Friends, the old man retained them faithfully till the close of his life.
Jean Swinton, grand-daughter of Sir John Swinton, son of Judge Swinton, as the Quaker was usually
termed, was mother of Anne Rutherford, the author's mother.
And thus, as in tire play of the Anti-Jacobin, the ghost of the author's grandmother having arisen to speak
the Epilogue, it is full time to conclude, lest the reader should remonstrate that his desire to know the
Author of Waverley never included a wish to be acquainted with his whole ancestry.