David Hume of Godscroft

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David Hume (1558 - 1629) was a Scottish historian and political theorist. He was born at Godscroft, a farming hamlet 2 miles to the north of Abbey St. Bathans, in the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire.

A major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland, his work, De Unione Insulae Britannicae was published in London in 1605. It is a study in how to effect the closer political union of Scotland and England. With surprising foresight, he suggests a super-national parliament with regional assemblies.

Hume was a partisan panegyricist of the Douglas family. He was a grandson of Alison Douglas, herself a granddaughter of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus. His chief patron was William Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus, later the 1st Marquess of Douglas.

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• De Unione Insulae Britannicae
• A History of the House of Douglas and Angus