 Hume's other major Latin prose writings are his unpublished attack on William Camden for his depreciatory view of Scotland, written in 1617—"Cambdenia; id est, Examen nonnullorum a Gulielmo Cambreno in "Britannia,""—and a work dedicated to Charles I (Paris, 1626), entitled "Apologia Basilica; seu Machiavelli Ingenium Examinatum, in libro quem inscripsit Princeps".Hume wrote Latin poems when very young, and received the commendation of George Buchanan.Buchanan was an intellectual leader for the Scottish Presbyterians, among whom Hume was prominent, and as a close a follower as Buchanan had.