Note 164 — Chapter IV
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The subjects were these:—First, That sheriffs and other inferior magistrates should not be hereditary. With this, James was so well pleased that he turned to the Marquis of Hamilton, Hereditary Sheriff of Clydesdale, and said, “James, you see your cause is lost.” Secondly, On the rate of locomotion. The respondent in this disputation quoting Aristotle, the King remarked, “These men know the mind of Aristotle as well as he did himself when alive.” Thirdly, On the origin of fountains or springs.