A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien
Subtitle: With an answer to the Spanish memorial against it. And arguments to prove that it is the interest of England to join with the Scots to protect it. To which is added, a description of the country, and a particular account of the Scots colony..
Contributors: Belhaven, John Hamilton, Baron, 1656-1708; Foyer, Archibald; Ridpath, George, -1726; Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1699
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Natural history; Colonization; Description and travel; Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies
Notes: Dedication, page 8, 1st count, signed: Philo-Caledon.

"According to a manuscript note in the librarian's copy of the Catalogue of the New College Library (Edinburgh, 1868), the author is Archibald Foyer". See Scott.

Variously attributed to John Hamilton Belhaven, Andrew Fletcher, and George Ridpath. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun / by W.C. Mackenzie, Edinburgh, 1935, pages 314-323, attributes the work to John Hamilton Belhaven.

The first issue was printed in Edinburgh as a quarto under title: A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien. With an answer to the Spanish memorial against it. And arguments to prove that it is the interest of England, and join with the Scots to protect it. To which is added, a description of the country, and a particular account of the Scots colony (Scott, 68). It was also printed in the same year in Edinburgh as an octavo in half sheets (Scott, 67) and an octavo in whole sheets with one rule or two rules above imprint on title page (Scott, 67a1 and Scott, 67a2).

Signatures: A-F⁸ (leaf F8 blank).

Errata: verso of title page.

See: Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 2106.

See: Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 2117.

See: 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. 1994), F2047A.

See: English short title catalogue, R6186.

Scott, J. Bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien company, 67b

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana (1875-1882 edition), II:1560

European Americana, 699/11

Purchase; before 1874; 04751.

Purchase; before 1874; 05210.