and pinned them down. More interesting and important than such details
about the recording of proverbs is the publication of Pappity Stampoy's
book in London. It is therefore an early instance of English interest in
Scottish proverbs. R. B.'s plagiarism of 1668 is in the same tradition,
and so also is John Bay's publication of Scottish proverbs in 1670. A
selection of 126 Scottish proverbs, which like the others appears to have
been derived from Fergusson, may be found in the anonymous _Select
Proverbs, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Scotish, British &c_.
(London, 1707), which is credited to John Mapletoft. It was reprinted
with a slight variation in title in 1710. F. P. Wilson notes an even better
example of English interest than these in "[James] Kelly's excellent
collection of 1721 [which] was published in London and was specially
designed for English readers."

Archer Taylor
University of California
Berkeley

Note: The copy here reproduced is in the possession of the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library.



NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

1. "Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings from Scottish Writings Before 1600,"
_Mediaeval Studies_, XI (1949), 123-205, XII (1951). 87-164.

2. Erskine Beveridge, _Fergusson's Scottish Proverbs From the Original
Print of 1641 Together with a larger Manuscript Collection of about the