WILLIAM, a noted traveller, was born in the parish of Lanark in 1583. Early imbued with a propensity for roaming, when he attained to manhood, he set out on a walking tour through the Netherlands, Germany, and Bohemia, trusting probably to benevolence and to his own good fortune to defray the expenses of his journey. He then repaired to Paris, and after remaining there for ten months, proceeded in 1609 to Rome, and afterwards to Naples, trudging along on foot, and refusing on principle the help of any vehicle that passed him on the way. In this manner he wandered through Greece and Asia; and having escaped numberless dangers from robbers, and hardships from exposure to inclement weather, passed over land to Egypt, where three of his fellow-travellers died, and left him their property. He returned to England by Sicily and Paris. Another tour which he made lay through Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Hungary, Germany, and Poland. On his arrival in London he became an object of interest, and had frequent audiences of James I. Furnished with commendatory letters from the king to all kings, princes, dukes, he sailed to France in 1619, and travelled through Portugal and Spain to Malaga. There he was apprehended as a spy, and after suffering the most horrible manglings and lacerations, first in the prison, and subsequently in the Inqui-