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he Fortunes of Nigel (Ch.5) read by Angus Millar and Michael Cameron, with Jonathan Brown as Heriot and Andy Peppiette as the King. All pupils at George Heriot's School.
The passage selected from The Fortunes of Nigel Chapter 5 features an encounter between King James VI and I, and his jeweller, George Heriot. Scott's novel offers the chief, if not the only, fictional representation of Heriot in Scottish Literature, and was therefore felt to be an appropriate choice for pupils of the school which bears his name. Indeed, it was to a large extent due to the financial acumen which Heriot displayed in his business with the King - and of which we gain a flavour in the extract chosen - that he was able to accumulate the very substantial sums which he left for the founding of the school.
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Camlet Moat. 1832. Engraving by Edward Finden from a drawing by Alexander Naysmith. Used here with the permission of the Walter Scott Digital Archive Image Collection.
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott. Edited by Frank Jordan.
Published in 2004 by Edinburgh University Press. © The University Court of the University of Edinburgh.
Permission has been granted to The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club for usage here until Dec.2012.
For more information about the series visit www.euppublishing.com/series/EEWN
The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott. Edited by Frank Jordan.
Published in 2004 by Edinburgh University Press. © The University Court of the University of Edinburgh.
Permission has been granted to The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club for usage here until Dec.2012.
For more information about the series visit www.euppublishing.com/series/EEWN Read more about this Edition on the EUP website
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