Polemo-Middinia utore Gulielmo Drummundo ... ; accedit Jacobi id nominis Quinti, Regis Scotorum, Cantilena rustica, vulgo inscripta, Christs kirk on the green ; recensuit, notisque illustravit E. G.
Subtitle: carmen macaronicum
Contributors: James V, King of Scotland, 1512-1542.; Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.; Carlyle, John A. (bookplate); Carlyle, John A. (autograph); Wolton, W. (association)
Publisher: E Theatro Sheldoniano
Published: 1691
Place of publication: Oxonii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Macaronic literature
Other titles: Christ's kirk on the green; Cantilena rustica
Notes: "Christ's kirk on the green" ascribed to James V, King of Scotland.  Cf. BM

E.G. = Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London.  Cf. BM.

The piece attributed to Drummond is in macaronic Latin; the piece attributed to James V is in English.  The Polemo-Middinia describes a fight between the tenants of Scot of Scotstarvet and those of his neighbor, Cunningham of Barns. Cf. DNB.

Wing D2204.

BM 56.67.

Fisher copy 1: With the crest and motto bookplate of John A. Carlyle [Franks 5145}; and with his autograph on t.p.

Fisher copy 2: With the inscription: W. Wolton ex dono Car: Hanses, on the t.p.