Rhine: and this was the last action of those gentlemen, for in a few weeks a treaty of peace was proposed, and K. W. would agree to nothing until the company of officers, was broke; and when the peace was concluded, the three companies marched from Strasburg to Silistad, where they were broke. The company of officers had liberty to go where they pleased, but the other two companies were joined unto my Lord Malock's dragoons. Of that company of officers there are not sixteen living.

And thus was dissolved one of the best companies that ever marched under command! Gentlemen, who in the midst of all their pressures and obscurity, never forgot they were gentlemen; and whom the sweets of a brave, a just, and honourable conscience, rendered perhaps more happy, under those sufferings, than the most prosperous and triumphant in iniquity, since our minds stamp our happiness.

THE END.

THE

Navigation

OF

KING JAMES V.

ROUND

SCOTLAND,

The Orkney Esles,

AND THE

HEBRIDES, OR WESTERN ISLES;

Under the Conduct of

THAT EXCELLENT PILOT,

Alexander Lindsay.

METHODIZED

BY NICHOLAS D'ARVILLE,

Chief Cosmographer to the French King.

LONDON:

Printed for the Booksellers.

1710.

Glasgow:

RE-PRINTED FOR JOHN WYLIE & CO.

By Robert Chapman.

PREFACE.

THE author of the following treatise was Nicholas d'Arfeville, chief cosmographer of the French King. In 1546, the Lord Dudley, the English admiral, invited him to England, Mr. John Ferrier, who continued Hector Boethius's history, assisted him to translate it into French; after which he presented it to Henry II. of France. The author, by the command of the French King, afterwards, in 1547, went, with sixteen galleys commanded by the Sieur Leon Strozza, prior of Capua, and admiral of all the galleys of France, to besiege the castle of St. Andrew's, which then held out, being garrisoned by those who had killed Cardinal Beatoun. Drummond gives this account of that voyage, That King James sailed with five well-manned ships, and gave out that he designed to steer his course to France; but it is more likely he designed to try the behaviour of the great men of the kingdom in his absence. He arrived at Orkney, placed garrisons in some forts, and sailed about the islands of Skye and the Lewis; he surprised the chief of the clans of those Highland islanders, whom he sent as hostages to the castles of Dumbarton and Edinburgh: and when, by the skill of one Alexander Lindsay, his pilot, he had sounded the

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* Vide Drummond's History of Scotland, p. 309.