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274 ROBERT JOHNSTON.

ma n’oge ọ dị ka amataghị ma ọ hapụwo ihe atụ n’azụ ya
na ya na ụmụ ha abụọ.  Ọ dị ka na 1600, a rịọrọ ya arịrịọ
ịghọ "onye ozi nke abụọ" nke Haddington.  E wezụga ọrụ ndị ahụ ugbua-
tioned, enwere, ma ọ bụ dị adị, site n'aka ya na MS.  n'ọbá akwụkwọ Advocates,
Ilsgi "2,TtQx.vuv sive de coronis Martyrum in Scotia Liber Unus, De coronis
Martyrum na Anglia Libellus alter, na Pectilium Ecclesiae Scoticanae, et alia
quaedam Poemata." O dere epigrams na isi obodo Scotland, nke
etinyela ya nke ọma na Cambden's Britannia;  na ụfọdụ n'ime ohere ya-
A ga-achọta ters na akwụkwọ ozi nke ụlọ akwụkwọ ochie ahụ ama ama.  Andrew
Melville na-ekwu, "Mazị Johne Oavidsone hapụrụ ego n'azụ oge anyị, ya mere
Mazị Johne Johnstoun kwuru:" ihe mere nke a anyị amaghị
JOHNSTON, ROBERT, onye ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme, dị n'akụkụ mbụ nke asaa-
narị afọ nke iri na ụma.  A maara ọrụ nke onye a nke ọma, ma ọ bụghị
enwetara onwe onye amara;  ma anyị amaghị mgbe a mụrụ ya, ma-ọbụ nke
ọdụ nke o ji na ndụ.  Na Amsterdam e bipụtara na 1655, ya
" History Rerum Britannicarum, ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, na ndị ọzọ.
Germanicarum, tain politicarum, quara ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572, ad.
1628."
E bu n'obi na-arụ ọrụ a dị ka ihe na-aga n'ihu nke Buchanan;  na bishọp Nichol
nwa nwoke, ọ dịghị onye na-enye otuto na-enweghị uche, ọ dị ka ọ na-eche na ọ fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ nhata
hazie ọrụ nke ọ ṅomiri.  1 Onye-nwe VVoodhouselee nke nwụrụ anwụ, nke na-adịchaghị njọ.
onye nkatọ n'ebe onye Scotsman nọ, kpọrọ ya "Ọrụ bara uru dị ukwuu,
ma anyị na-atụle usoro ikpe ziri ezi nke akụkọ, sagacity nke
ntụgharị uche, nnukwu nghọta nke mkpụrụedemede, ma ọ bụ tincture oge gboo nke
ịke.  N’akụkụ ndị ahụ nke akụkọ ihe mere eme ya,” ka onye edemede a na-ekwu, “ebe e nwere ohere
maka ngosipụta nke ikwu okwu, ọ na-enwekarị obi ụtọ n'otu n'otu n'imetụ chara acha ahụ.
ọnọdụ omume nke na-egosi foto a siri ike n'uche nke
onye na-agụ, na-enweghị ntugharị okwu efu, ma ọ bụ nchacha nke mmetụta.
Anyị nwere ike ịkọwa dị ka ihe atụ, nkọwa ya banyere ọnwụ Mary, eze nwaanyị
Ndị Scotland, lib.  iv.  sub Anno, 1586: na ọnọdụ ndị na-abịa ọnwụ nke
Essex, ya na ntụgharị uche nke onye edemede na mmemme ahụ, lib.  ix.  nke afọ, 1641."
Otu onye edemede ahụ kwukwara na Robert Johnston bụ otu n'ime ndị e gburu.
tors nke George Heriot, onye nchoputa nke ụlọ ọgwụ.  2 Johnston, ewezuga nke a
nnukwu ọrụ, dere " History of Scotland n'oge obere James
VI.,” e bipụtara na London na 1646. Wodrow kwuru banyere “Epitome Histo-
ries Rerum Britannicarum," bipụtara, dịka akaụntụ ya siri dị, na 12mo, in
1642, oge ụfọdụ gara aga ka ọdịdị nke ọrụ ka ukwuu.  3 Sir Robert
Sibbald dị ka ọ nweghị ihe dị ịrịba ama ịgwa anyị gbasara Johnston karịa
na ya na Bruce, baron nke Kinloss nwere mmekọrịta chiri anya.  "Robertus
Jonstonus Baroni Killosensi Brusio dum viveret, charus : vir varize lectionis,
egregiae eruditionis, limati judicii." O kwuru na a sịrị na Johnston nwere
nwụrụ na 1630, ma nye anyị ihe odide na akụkọ ihe mere eme ya site na mkpịsị akwụkwọ Joannes
Owen.  4 E nwere n'ọ́bá akwụkwọ ndị na-akwado ndị na-akwado ihe odide akụkọ ihe mere eme nke
Scotland, nke onye aha ya bụ Johnston, na n'ozuzu ghọtara na ọ bụ
opekata mpe, edere ya site na isiokwu nke memoir anyị.  Ihe odide ahụ nwere
bụ nke onyenwe Fairfax, na mmalite bụ ndetu a na nke ya
aka ọdịde:
"N'ime onyinye nke Mr David Johnston, burgess nke Edinburgh, ọ bụ ya
ọrụ nke nna ya nwụrụ anwụ na nna nna ya, (draught mbụ.) Ihe odide ederede
1 Ọbá akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Scotland nke Nicholson, 121.
8 Tytler's Kames, i.  Ap.i.
1 Katalọgụ Wodrow nke ndị ode akwụkwọ Scotland, 14.
Sibbaldi Akwụkwọ Nsọ.  Scotland  MS., 221.