Tuesday, September 03, 2024
After-Dinner Reading
George Chalmers, The Life of Thomas Ruddiman (London: John Stockdale, 1817), p. 320, note d:
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This anecdote is contained in the following extract of a letter from Randolph to Cecil, dated at St. Andrew's, the 7th of April 1562, in the Paper Office:— "The Queen readeth daily, after her dinner, instructed by a learned man Mr. George Bowhannan, somewhat of Lyvie."— This transaction did honour to both parties: to Mary, in thus employing her leisure: to Buchanan, in having such a scholar to instruct, in the beauties of Livy.
