Excerpt from The Poets of Dumfriesshire Having found Some lines of poetry in the ms. Of the Parliamentary Records for 1468, which he erroneously ascribed to the same penman as the Wallace ms.,2 Mr. Brown concluded that Ramsay, whether a composer of verses on the national hero or not, was a genuine 'makar, ' and tried to identify him with Schir John the Ross, who figures in Dunbar's 'flyting' and 'lament.' Ramsay was a chaplain, as is stated in the colophon attached to the ms. Of 'the Bruce' preserved at St. John's College, Cambridge, and so, as a pope's knight, had the courtesy title of 'sir.' In three of the five existing mss. Of Ramsay his name is contracted into 'j. De R.' Mr. Brown argues that these initials are much more likely to stand for Johannes de Ross, the Latin equivalent of 'john of Ross, ' or 'john the Ross Herald, ' than for John de Ramsay, as Professor Skeat supposes. The transcriber of the Parliamentary Records was of course in the public service, and as the officers - at arms headed by the Lyon were closely associated with Parliament, Mr. Brown thinks he may have been a herald. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.