Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) - A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies), by John Howie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies Author: John Howie Release Date: March 7, 2009 [eBook #28272] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA (SCOTS WORTHIES)*** E-text prepared by Nigel Blower, Jordan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's Notes In the original text, Scottish names, such as M'Clelland or M'Kail, sometimes use a regular apostrophe and sometimes a reversed apostrophe. In this transcription, the ASCII apostrophe character (') has been used throughout. Missing quotation marks and other minor punctuation errors and inconsistencies such as differing hyphenations of words have been silently corrected. Missing or poorly printed letters in words have been silently supplied. Illegible text that could not be supplied from other sources is marked {illegible}. There is an error in page numbering: the page following 336 is numbered 347.