...attention on the writer, and raise him from an humble copyist into a national benefactor. Bannatyne's Manuscript is in a folio form, containing upwards...supposed, to be sent to the press. The labour of compiling so rich a collection was undertaken by the author during the time of pestilence in the year 1568,6...

...sixty-one years old: but the period of his death is not precisely known. The work called Bannatyne's manuscript, is in a folio form, containing upwards...this valuable collection, was undertaken during the tune of pestilence, in the year 1568, when the dread of it compelled men to forsake their usual employments....

...attention on the writer, and raise him from a humble copyist into a national benefactor. " Bannatyne's Manuscript is in a folio form, containing upwards...supposed, to be sent to the press. The labour of compiling so rich a collection was undertaken by the author during the time of pestilence, in the year 1568,...

...him from a humble copyist into a national benefactor. " Bannatyne's Manuscript is in a folio fono, containing upwards of eight hundred pages, very neatly...supposed, to be sent to the press. The labour of compiling so rich a collection was undertaken by the author during the time of pestilence, in the year 1568,...

...copyist into a national benefactor. "Bannatyne's manuscript is in a folio form, containing upwards of 800 pages, very neatly and closely written, and designed,...supposed, to be sent to the press. The labour of compiling so rich a collection was undertaken by the author during the time of pestilence, in the year 1568,...

...the writer, and raife him from an humble copyift into a national benefaftor. Bannatyne's Manufcript is in a folio form, containing upwards of eight hundred pages, very neatly and clofely written, and defigned, as has been fuppofed, to be fent to the prefs. The labour of compiling...