Dear Sir

The following books will be acceptable from the Catalogue
2882 Urquhart.
2885. Tweddale
3118 Spelman.¹ this last I want much the selling price in London is 2 —10,^d I also wish for Sir D. Lyndsays Poems q^to edition in which is the poem I quote p 194 of my last volume.² I bought a copy in London (date lost) a small quarto of 140 pages. in page 96 is the Tragedy of David Beaton a different poem from that I want. Pray can you copy the title of this book of mine as that leaf is lost. Thanks for the corrected bit of the map. Bailey says he has sent you a copy. So I hope it will soon be finished.

I am
Dear Sir
y^rs most truely

Tho. Pennant

Febr. 14^th 1777.

Have you found out another Picture of Cardinal Beaton yet.

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Editorial notes

1. The latter two books Pennant mentions are likely Alexander Pennecuik, A geographical, historical description of the shire of Tweeddale; with a miscelany and curious collection of select Scotish poems (Edinburgh: 1715) and the historian and antiquary Sir Henry Spelman's, Glossarium archaiologicum (London: 1626-1664).
2. See Pennant, Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 Part II (London: 1776), p.194. Pennant quotes the following lines, probably attributed to Sir David Lindsay by the church historian Robert Wodrow in The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, 2 vols., (Edinburgh: 1721-22), i, p.33:

As for this cardinal, I grant,
He was a man we might well want;
God will forgive it soon.
But of a truth the sooth to say,
Altho' the loon be well away,
The fact was foully done.

The above stanza is a separate work from Lindsay's poem of religious satire, 'The tragedie of David Beton, Cardinall, and Archbishop of Saint-Androes', which reflects on the murder of David Beaton in 1546.