Crossword-Solution: VAUS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thus although Scottish writers, such as John Vaus and Hector Boece of Aberdeen, had to send their books to France to be printed, it is possible that presses were at work in Edinburgh or elsewhere in Scotland, of which nothing is now known.

But both the systems and the books employed were for some centuries of foreign origin; and the grammatical publications of an Aberdeen man, John Vaus, whose name seems to be the earliest on the roll of native authors, were, so far as we at present know, without exception published, as well as written, in France, to which Scotland perhaps owed, among other matters, her adoption of the Continental law of Latin pronunciation.

Vaus grounded his _Rudiments_, printed at Paris repeatedly about 1520, on the old _Doctrinale_ of Alexander Gallus, which bespeaks a backwardness of information, since at this date Lily's Grammar was already in use in the South, and even the systems of Whittinton and the other disciples of the Magdalen School method had been almost completely discarded there, except, perhaps, as occasional auxiliaries.

Hee receiued into protection many _English_, who either for feare, or for discontentment, forsooke their Countrey; of whom many families in _Scotland_ are descended, and namely these; _Lindsey_, _Vaus_, _Ramsey_, _Louell_, _Towbris_, _Sandlands_, _Bissart_, _Sowlis_, _Wardlaw_, _Maxwell_, with diuers others.

Jos., the first mention of the West is found in Christ's words to Joseph concerning his nephew, Alain, who is to keep the Grail, to take charge of his brothers and sisters, and Puis s'en ira vers occident Es plus loiteins lius que pourra; (3,100-01) further that Petrus is likewise to go "ès vaus d'Avaron" (3,123), it being added that-- Ces terres trestout vraiement Se treient devers occident.