A defence of the Scots abdicating Darien
Subtitle: Including and answer to the Defence of the Scots settlement there
By: Authore Britanno sed Dunensi..
Contributors: Hodges, James; Foyer, Archibald
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1700
Place of publication: [Edinburgh]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: History; Commerce; Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies; Defence of the Scots settlement at Darien
Notes: Epistle dedicatory signed: Phil Scot.

Phil. Scot has veen variously identified as Walter Harris, or Herries, James Hodges, Archibald Foyer, and one H-A, who is constantly referred to in an answer to the Defence entitled, An enquiry into the causes of the miscarriage of the Scots colony at Darien, Glasgow, 1700.

Place of publication conjectured by Wing.

In part a reply to: A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien, printed in Edinburgh, 1699 (Scott, 67). This work has been variously attributed to John Hamilton Belhaven, Andrew Fletcher, and George Ridpath. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.

"This is the second of the books for which Walter Heries or Harris was ordered to be prosecuted by the Scottish Parliament. The book was ordered to be burned." See Scott.

Another issue printed in Edinburgh with 50 pages appeared in the same year (Scott (Supplement), 103).

Two issues with 168 pages were printed in Ediburgh in the same year: in this one, the word "Dunensi" is printed in Roman type; in the other the word "Dunensi" is printed in italic type. Within this issue, there are two states of the text: one in which page 18 is correctly numbered and catchword on page 22 is "the" and other in which page 18 is numbered 1S and there is no catchword on page 22..

Pages 145-165 and 167-168 have been printed in a different size of type from pages [1-20] and 1-60; the text is continuous despite pagination.

Signatures: A-N⁴ (A1, N4 versos blank).

Title printed within double rule border.

Scott, J. Bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien company, 102

Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 2226

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek, 14514

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), H2298

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, pages 414-415

European Americana, 700/130

European Americana, 700/131

English short title catalogue R29058

Purchase; before 1875; 04787.

Purchase; 1981; 82-282.