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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lee, William Valentine

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​LEE. (Lieutenant, 1827. f-p., 16; h-p., 10.)
William Valentine Lee, born 14 Feb. 1806, at Reculvers, co. Kent, is son of Lieut. Wm. Lee, R.N. (1796), who died 24 Feb. 1817, at the Telegraph, West Square.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 June, 1821, as Schoolmaster, on board the Wye 26, Capt. Peter Fisher, stationed in the North Sea; and, on removing with that officer to the Ranger 28, visited North America and the West Indies, and then the Mediterranean, where, in 1824, we find him employed as Midshipman under Sir Harry Neale at the blockade of Algiers. During the three following years he presents himself to our notice as serving at Sheerness, and again in the Mediterranean, on board the Gloucester 74, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. B. Owen and Joshua Sydney Horton, Philomel 10, Capts. Wm. Paget and Viscount Ingestrie, and Asia 84, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington. For his conduct as Mate of the Hind, tender to the latter ship, Lieut.-Commander John Robb, at the battle of Navarin, where he lost a leg, Mr. Lee was advanced to his present rank by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827. His next appointment was, 25 Oct. 1836, to the Victory 104, Capts. Thos. Searle, Fras. Erskine Loch, and Wm. Wilmott Henderson, under whom, in succession, he was for nearly six years and a half employed at Portsmouth. He has had charge, since 20 June, 1844, of the Semaphore station at Chelsea.
Lieut. Lee is in the receipt of a pension for his wound of 45l. 10s. He married, 4 Dec. 1828, Harriet, youngest daughter of John Pearce, Esq., of Haslar Hospital, by whom, he has issue six children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lean, James Sedgwick

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​LEAN. (Lieutenant, 1810. f-p., 18; h-p., 31.)
James Sedgwick Lean entered the Navy, in July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Kangaroo 18, Capt. Edw. Brace; and in the following Oct. was twice engaged, in a very gallant manner, ​with La Loire of 46 guns (part of a force originally under the orders of Commodore Bompart, and destined for the invasion of Ireland), previously to the surrender of that ship to the Kangaroo and her consort the Anson 44. He continued in the same vessel until the close of 1800; and in Sept. 1804, after an intermediate servitude in the Channel and North Sea on board the Clyde 38, Capts. Chas. Cunningham and John Larmour, he joined, as Midshipman, the Camel store-ship, Capts. Thos. Garth and John Joyce, under the latter of whom, having first visited the Mediterranean and Cape of Good Hope, he commanded a gun-boat during the unfortunate attempt made to recover Buenos Ayree in July, 1807. In the course of 1808 Mr. Lean became in succession Master’s Mate, on the Home station, of the Invincible 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly, and.Redpole 10, Capts. John Joyce and Colin M‘Donald. While in the latter of those vessels we find him serving in the Zephyr fire-ship on the occasion of Lord Cochrane’s memorable attack on the enemy’s squadron in Aix Roads in April, 1809; and, among other services, commanding a boat on the river Scheldt during the siege of Flushing. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 4 Jan. 1810, he served from that period until Dec. 1813 in the Thracian 18, Capts. Jas. Grant, John Lawson, Henry Hart, Joseph Symes, and John Carter, on the Channel and Baltic stations. His next appointment was, 4 Sept. 1826, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued for two years as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye.
Lieut. Lean at present holds the appointment of Emigration Agent in London.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Leary, George Alexander

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​LEARY. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 21; h-p., 17.)
George Alexander Leary died 31 Jan. 1845, a victim to the climate of Sierra Leone.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1807, as Schoolmaster, on board the Dictator 64, Capt. Donald Campbell; on accompanying whom, after he had attended the expedition to Copenhagen, into the Audacious 74, he took part, as Midshipman, in the operations of 1809 against Walcheren. From the period of his quitting the latter ship, in Dec. 1811, until May, 1814, Mr. Leary, with the exception of four months passed in 1813 on board the Redwing 18, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, served continuously with Capt. John Erskine Douglas in the Prince of Wales 98, on the Mediterranean station, where he beheld Sir Edw. Fellow’s two partial actions with the Toulon fleet, and the fall, in April of the latter year, of Genoa. During the short period of his attachment to the Redwing, Mr. Leary, besides sharing in a hostile operation under the batteries of Morgean, near Marseilles, assisted, we understand, in capturing, beneath those of Cassis, a convoy of 26 sail, together with 2 heavy gun-boats, after an opposition had been encountered which occasioned the British a loss of 4 men killed and 16 wounded. Removing, in May, 1814, to the Furieuse 36, Capt. Wm. Mounsey, he served during the next 15 months in that frigate on the coast of North America; after which we find him, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 July, 1821, employed on the West India, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, Landrail 4, Master-Commander Anthony De Mayne (under whom he was for a considerable time occupied among the Bahama Islands as Assistant-Surveying Master), Salisbury 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, Fly 18, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson, Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Moore, Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. John Baker Hay, and Rose 18, Capt. Thos. Ball Clowes. His subsequent appointments were – 8 Oct. 1830, for six months, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Talavera 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 31 May, 1831, to the Coast Guard, which he left at the close of 1832-16 Aug. 1837, to the Hercules 74, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, off Lisbon – 16 Juno, 1838, to the command of the Bullfrog schooner on the Lakes of Canada – next, as Senior, to the Niagara 20, commanded there by Capt. Williams Sandom, under whom he assisted, 16 Nov. 1838, in defeating a band of rebels, on which occasion he was sent with a flag of truce, and induced them to surrender – 13 Jan. 1840 (having been superseded from the latter ship in the previous Oct.), to the command of the Asp, a Portpatrick steamer, wherein he remained until May, 1841 – and 28 Jan. 1843, to the office (which he retained until his death) of Agent on board the Glen Huntley emigration transport.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Guzla

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gye, Frederick

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gymnase de Musique Militaire

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/H

From volume 1 of the work.
​H (pronounced Ha) is the German name for B natural, B flat being called by them B. It was originally 'B quadratum,' or b, a letter which would easily slip by degrees into h or h. [See Accidentals, 19a.] In solfaing it is Si.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gusikow, Michael

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gustave III

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Götterdämmerung

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gänsbacher, Johann

From volume 1 of the work.
​GÄNSBACHER, Johann, Capellmeister of the Cathedral at Vienna, born May 8, 1778, at Sterzing in the Tyrol. At 6 years old he was a chorister in the village church of which his father was choirmaster. Later he learnt the organ, piano, cello, and harmony at Innspruck, Halle, ​and Botzen. In 1795 he entered the University of Innspruck, but on the formation of the Landsturm in 96 served as a volunteer, and won the gold 'Tapferkeits-medaille.' In 1801 he was in Vienna, studied under Vogler and Albrechtsberger, and was recommended as a teacher by Haydn, Gyrowetz, and distinguished patrons. He next accompanied Count Finnian to Prague, and devoted himself entirely to composition. In 1809 he was at Dresden and Leipzig, revisited his home, and in the following year settled for a time in Darmstadt to renew his studies under Vogler. Weber and Meyerbeer were his fellow-pupils, and the three formed a lasting friendship. Weber especially retained a sincere affection for him, took him to Mannheim and Heidelberg, where Gänsbacher assisted in his concerts, and at a later time proposed to him to compete for the vacant post of Court Capellmeister in Dresden. Meantime Gänsbacher lived alternately in Vienna, where he became acquainted with Beethoven, and Prague, where he assisted Weber with his 'Kampf und Sieg.' He also served in the war of 1813, went to Italy as captain in military service, and was even employed as a courier. This unsettled life at length came to a satisfactory end. At the time that Weber was suggesting his settling at Dresden, the Capellmeistership of the cathedral at Vienna fell vacant by the death of Preindl (Oct. 1823); Gänsbacher applied for it, was appointed, and remained there for life. He died July 13, 1844, universally respected both as a man and an artist. As a composer he belongs to the old school; his works are pleasing but betray by their solidity the pupil of Vogler and Albrechtsberger. His compositions number 216 in all, of which the greater part are sacred,—17 masses, 4 requiems, 2 Te Deums, offertories etc. He wrote also a symphony, several serenades, marches, and concerted pieces; pianoforte pieces with and without accompaniment; songs accompanied by various instruments; music to Kotzebue's 'Die Kreuzfahrer'; a Liederspiel, etc. Two requiems, 2 masses, and several smaller church works were published by Spina and Haslinger; 3 terzettos for 2 soprani and tenor (op. 4) by Schlesinger; Schiller's 'Erwartung' by Simrock; and sonatas and trios by various publishers. A song of his is given in Ayrton's 'Sacred Minstrelsy.'
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Habeneck, François

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Second

​SECOND. The smallest interval in the scale used for musical purposes. It is described by notes which are next to each other on the stave, or by letters which lie next each other in the alphabet, as A B, B C, C D♯, E♭ F♯.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/See, the Conquering Hero Comes

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sehnsucht

​SEHNSUCHT ('longing' or 'yearning' an untranslatable word).
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Weiss was ich fühle,
is one of the Songs of Mignon in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, which has been specially attractive to two great composers. Beethoven composed it four times for voice and PF.—three times in G minor, once in E♭ major—and the four were published Sept. 22, 1810, at Vienna. Schubert set the words four times—twice as a solo song for soprano (op. 62, no. 4, and 40 Lieder, no. 13); as a duet for Mignon and the Harper (op. 62, no. 1); and as a quintet for men's voices. Goethe wrote another 'Sehnsucht' ('Was zieht mir das Herz so?' Schubert, Lf. 37, 2); and songs with the same title are found in the works of Schiller ('Ach aus dieses Thales grunden,' Schubert, op. 39), Mayrhofer (' Der Lerche wolkennahe,' Schubert, op. 8, 2), and Seidl ('Die Schiebe freiert,' Schubert, op. 105, 4).
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sechter, Simon

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Seguin, Arthur

​SEGUIN, Arthur Edward Shelden, commonly known as Edward, was born in London, April 7, 1809. He received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music, and first appeared in public in 1828 at concerts and performances of Italian operas given by its pupils. His voice was a deep bass, of very extensive compass, and he met with a very favourable reception. In 1829 he sang at Exeter Festival. In 1831 he appeared at the theatre in Tottenham Street as Polyphemus in Handel's 'Acis and Galatea.' In 1832 he sang at the Concert of Ancient Music. In 1833 and 1834 he was engaged at Covent Garden, and in the latter year appeared at the King's Theatre as Il Conte Robinson in Cimarosa's 'Matrimonio Segreto,' and also sang at the Festival in Westminster ​Abbey. From 1835 to 1837 he was engaged at Drury Lane. In August 1838 he appeared at the English Opera House in Macfarren's 'Devil's Opera,' and soon afterwards quitted England for America, made his first appearance at the National Theatre, New York, as the Count in Rooke's 'Amilie' on Oct. 15, 1838, and was extremely well received. He afterwards formed an opera company named 'The Seguin Troupe,' who performed at various places in the United States and Canada. Amongst other distinctions he was elected a chief by one of the Indian tribes, and received an Indian name, signifying 'The man with the deep mellow voice'; an honour which had never before been conferred on any Englishman, except Edmund Kean, the tragedian. He died at New York, Dec. 9, 1852.
His wife, Ann Childe, was also a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, and appeared in public as a soprano singer in 1828 in the same performances as her future husband, and with equal success. In 1832 she sang at the Concert of Ancient Music, and in 1834 at the Westminster Abbey Festival. After performing for two or three seasons at the King's Theatre as 'seconda donna,' she appeared on the English stage at Drury Lane, Nov. 3, 1837, as Donna Anna in the English version of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni.' She accompanied her husband to America and performed in opera until his death, when she retired from the stage and taught music in New York, where she was residing in 1880. [App. p.792 "Add that Mrs. Seguin died in New York, in August 1888."]
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sedie, Delle-, Enrico

​SEDIE, DELLE-, Enrico, baritone singer, son of Arcangelo Delle-Sedie, merchant of Leghorn, Italy, born 1826. In the year 1848 he volunteered in the army of Charles Albert of Piedmont, and fought against the Austrians in the war for Italian independence. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Curtatone but afterwards released, and at the close of the campaign of the following year retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant. Under the direction of his fellow-citizen, Orazio Galassi, he then devoted himself to the study of singing, and in 1851 made his début at Pistoia in Nabucco.
In 1854 he was engaged to perform Rigoletto at Florence: casting aside the traditional conception of Varesi, who had created the rôle at Venice, he adopted an entirely original rendering of the character, and at once asserted himself as an artist of high rank. From that time his position was secure; he appeared with unvarying success at Rome, Milan, Vienna, Paris, and London, and though possessed of so little voice as to gain the sobriquet of Il baritono senza voce, he made up by dramatic accent and purity of style for the shortcomings of nature. In 1867, at the earnest request of Auber, he accepted a professorship at the Conservatoire of Paris on the most advantageous terms hitherto offered. Under him a commission was appointed for the entire remodelling of that institution, but the death of Auber, and the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, compelled the government to abandon their intention. In 1874 he published a large work upon the art of singing and musical declamation, under the title of L'Art Lyrique, of which a lengthy critical notice appeared in the 'Westminster Review' of July 1876.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Segno

​SEGNO, i.e. the sign . [See Dal Segno.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Segue

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Secondo

​SECONDO. The second player in a duet. [See Primo.]
# A Marble Year

Published in January
The wassail cup passed from lass to lad,—
Lassies and laddies all Highland born,—
 Tartan and bonnet and snood and plaid,
Kirtle and claymore and brooch o' Lorn.
 Hallow’s tide e’en, at twelve o’ the clock: Who’ll hie to the wood to fetch the good
 Or ill perchance our fates to unlock
For all o’ the year from Wonderwood?
 Then up spake Maggie, the sweetest maid,—
Beautiful, lovely and brave and good,—
 “I’ll go, I’ll go, I am not afraid,
I’ll hie to the heart of Wonderwood.
 “Now Lochlin, dear, come gie me a kiss,
And spare an hour and quietly wait,
 I’ll surely be hame in an hour frae this,
I’ll see the goblin and know our fate.”
 Wonderwood beckons with arms of oak,
Beckons and welcomes the Highland maid,—
 She’s greeted now by the goblin folk:
“What may be your will, fair lass ?” they said.
 “I’d ken,” quoth she, “o’ the year to come,—
Whate’er may happen, or ill or good,—
 For ye can tell tho’ the world be dumb;
For this I have hied to Wonderwood.”
 Then drew the king of the goblins near:
“I’ll tell you all, but I’ll tell you slow;
 Better you bide the end o’ the year;
Then, goblin or none, belike you’ll know.”
 “Now quit your prattle,” quoth Maggie. “Hush,
Tell of the things till next Hallow’s tide;
 I want them a’ to come wi a rush,—
The good or the ill that Fate wad hide.
 “The king of the goblins waved his wand: “‘Tis much to you. but it’s naught to me,—
 Ye want to ken a’ the things beyond,—
Fair maid, your wishes I’ll gladly gie.”
 As the goblin spoke she turned to stone,
Right where she stood in her smock and snood,—
 Nothing alive but her thoughts alone,—
A marble image in Wonderwood.
 So there she stayed in her robe of white,
Ne’er moving at all the livelong year,
 Till full o’ the moon at dead o’ night
Next Hallow’s tide e’en the king drew near:
 “Good Mistress Maggie,” he snarled and snapped,
You’ve had your wishes for Hallow’s tide,
 I wish ye luck o’ the things that happed;
I ken ‘twere better at harne to hide.
 “But never say aught to kin or kith,
Never say aught or evil or good,
 But bide ye dumb or ‘twill be your death
O’ the thing that happened in Wonderwood.”
 She hies her quick to her ain dear hame,
She lifts the latch with a gentle push;
 Alas and alack I then a’ things came,—
As she wished them a’ to come,—wi’ a rush.
 No Hallow’s e’en guest was there the night;
Brother and sister they baith were there;
 Her gray-haired mither had died wi’ fright,
And Lochlin had gan and none kenned where.
 Poor Maggie sits like a marble lass;
From year to year, upon Hallow’s tide,
 She raves till twelve o’ the clock shall pass:
“‘Tis worse to greet than it is to bide;
 For I could have made me fate mesel’,—
All that I ought by God's ain law;
 Alas and alack I what things befel
Wi’ Maggie at hame had na happened ata’.”
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Map of South America

Text on the map available as notes at Wikicommons.
Published by Laurie & Whittle, London, largely derived from an earlier French map by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, later included in the 1797 Kitchin's General Atlas, Describing the Whole Universe, Being a Complete Collection of the Most Approved Maps Extant, Corrected with the Greatest Care and Augmented from the Last Edition of D'Anville and Robert with Many Improvements by Other Eminent Geographers...
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stent (Peter)

​STENT (PETER), printer and engraver in London; Whitehorse in gilt-spur-street, 1643-67. Printer of maps, pictures and copy books. A list of some of his publications will be found at the end of Richard Fage's Description of the Whole World, 1658.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Story (Edward)

​STORY (EDWARD), bookseller in Cambridge, 1653-74. Nothing of a biographical character appears to be known about this bookseller. Books sold by him in the years 1653, 1668, 1670, 1671, 1674, are noted by Bowes in his Catalogue of Cambridge books (pp. 46 et seq.).
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stedman (Fabian)

​STEDMAN (FABIAN), bookseller (?) in London; In St. Dunstan's Churchyard in Fleet Street, 1665. An Essay upon the Victory obtained by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, against the Dutch, upon June 3, 1665. [a broadside.] [Lutt Coll., iii. 90.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stephenson (John)

​STEPHENSON (JOHN), bookseller in London; Sun on Ludgate Hill, 1649-52. Summoned before the Council of State, March 29th, 1649, for selling the Koran, printed by or at the expense of Thos. Ross. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649, pp. 59-63.] His name occurs on the imprint to the following book: Raleigh, Sir W., Marrow of Historie, 1650. [B.M., 463, h. 4 (2165).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stranghan (David)

​STRANGHAN (DAVID), (?) Pseud. Printer at Aberdeen, 1659. This name is found on the imprint to Message sent from the King of Scots. Mr. Aldis thinks it was probably printed by James Brown, q.v., under a feigned name. [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 121.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Sumptner (Charles)

​SUMPTNER (CHARLES), printer in London, 1650. His name is found on the imprint to Daniel King's A Way to Sion … London, Printed by Charles Sumptner, for Hanna Allen, at the Crowne in Pope's Head Alley, 1650. [E. 596 (7).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Swaine (Robert)

​SWAINE (ROBERT), bookseller in London; Britains Burse, 1629-41. Took up his freedom December 20th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.] Mentioned in a list of stationers, dated August 5th, 1641, as one of the better sort of freemen, who paid five shillings to the poll tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483, 11.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stationers, Society of

​STATIONERS, SOCIETY OF, Edinburgh, 1660-90. This press appears to fall into two periods: First period, 1660-71. Succeeding Higgins, q. v. This seems to be the Stationers' Company of London. Watson, p. 10, states that, "Tyler made over his part of the forfeited gift to some Stationers at London, who sent down upon us Christopher Higgins and some English servants with him … After he died, these London Stationers appoint Patrick Ramsay, q.v., a Scotsman to be overseer of that House … but the masters living at a distance, and the work coming to no account, they sold this printing house to several booksellers [probably Swintoun, Glen and Brown, q.v.] at Edinburgh, who, in a little time after did divide and set up distinct houses." Arber [Stationers' Registers, v. xlvii] says that the Company "held for some years a patent for printing in Scotland, granted by the Scotch Parliament. This Scotch Patent … appears to have been abandoned in 1669 upon the death of Christopher Higgins, the Company's agent at Edinburgh, and the stock and plant sold there for £300." [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 121.]