Note 733 — Chapter I · JEWS.
Reading edition
Georgii Buchanani Vita ab ipso scripta.—Lopez de Mendonça, Damião de Goes e a Inquisição de Portugal, p. 21 (Lisboa, 1859).
The poem on the Franciscans was written at the request of James V of Scotland. It forced Buchanan to leave the country and, before venturing to Portugal, he made his excuses for it to King João. A brief extract will show its temper:—
At nunc posteritas, vera pietate relicta, Degenerem quæstum sordesque secuta, caducas Cogit opes, ficta et sub relligione pudendos Occultat mores et, fama innixa parentum, Seducit stolidum pietatis imagine vulgus.