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[475] In Vautr. edit. ”M. Iohne.”

[476] In Vautr. edit. the name Annand having been omitted, he is spoken of as ”Dean John.”

[477] Dean John Annand was an ecclesiastic of some note. In a decreet arbitral, dated 16th Oct. 1518, as well as in the sentence p.r.o.nounced against Sir John Borthwick, in 1540, he is styled a Canon of the Metropolitan Church of St. Andrews. He became Princ.i.p.al of St. Leonard's College in 1544, and he held that office till 1550, when he was succeeded by John Law.

[478] In Vautr. edit. ”preaching.”

[479] In Vautr. edit. ”briefly.”

[480] In Vautr. edit. ”other new names.”

[481] In MS. G, ”names.”

[482] Or Major: (see note 74.) He was born in 1469, and consequently at this time was far advanced in years. At the Provincial Council held in 1549, ”_M. Johannes Mayr_, deca.n.u.s facultatis theologicae Universitatis Sancti Andrete, et Martinus Balfour, Doctores in theologia, _annosi_, _grandaevi_, _et debiles_, comparuerunt per procuratores.”--(Wilkins, Concil., vol. iv. p. 46.) He died in 1550.

[483] John Wynrame: see note 395.

[484] In Vautr. edit. ”others hewed;” in MS. G, ”utheris hued.”

[485] In MS. G, ”Nydre.”--The person referred to was James Forsyth of Nydie, who had a charter of the salmon fis.h.i.+ngs pertaining to the King, in the water of Edyn, in Fyfe, 25th September 1541. The name of James Forsyth of Nydie in the regality of St. Andrews, between 1533 and 1552, occurs in an old Rental book belonging to the City of St. Andrews. One of his descendants was Alexander Forsyth, who was served heir of his father James Forsyth, in the lands of Nydie Easter, in the regality of St. Andrews, 16th April 1634.--(Retours, Fife, No. 142.)

[486] John Hamilton, Abbot of Paisley, as already stated, was appointed High Treasurer in 1543, when Kirkaldy of Grange was superseded. The Abbot's Accounts, under his designation of Bishop of Dunkeld, were rendered on the 1st October 1546, having commenced 13th August 1543. In the t.i.tle of his Accounts, commencing 1st October 1546, and rendered on the 16th of September 1550, he is styled Archbishop of St. Andrews. He may therefore have been promoted to the Primacy in October 1546; but he was not inducted until the year 1549. This date is fixed by the Archbishop himself, in a deed, 31st March 1558, as ”the 12th year of our Consecration, and the 9th of our Translation to the Primacy.”--(Lyons Hist. of St. Andrews, vol. ii. p. 262.) Keith has shown that Hamilton, who had been presented to the See of Dunkeld on the death of George Crichton, in January 1543-4, was not consecrated until 1545, or more probably the beginning of 1546. In like manner he continued to be styled John Bishop of Dunkeld, until the 14th June 1549; immediately after which date his translation to St. Andrews no doubt took place.--(Catal.

of Bishops, pp. 38, 96.)

[487] In MS. G, ”unfaythfull.”

[488] That is, as in MS. G, &c., ”our youth;” Vautr. edit. has ”your thoughtes.”

[489] This Friar may probably be identified with Alexander Arbuckylle, whose name appears in the list of Determinants, in the fourth cla.s.s (4^tus actus) ”in Pedagogio,” at St. Andrews, in 1525. There was a Franciscan Monastery of Observantines at St. Andrews, to which he doubtless belonged.

[490] In MS. G, and in Vautr. edit., ”abashed.”

[491] In MS. G, ”his fault.”

[492] In Vautr. edit. ”hinder.”

[493] In Vautr. edit. ”were merily skoft ower.”

[494] The Treatise which Knox wrote on board the French galley, containing a Confession of his Faith, and which he sent to his friends in Scotland, is not known to be preserved. The substance of it was probably embodied in some of his subsequent writings. Knox might, however, have had some reference to the Epistle which he addressed to his brethren in Scotland, in 1548, in connexion with Balnaves's Confession, or treatise on Justification, (see note 575.)

[495] Mr. John Spittal, Official Princ.i.p.al of St. Andrews, held the office of Rector of the University, from 1547 to 1550. In the ”Liber Officialis S. Andree Princ.i.p.alis,” from which extracts were printed for the Abbotsford Club, Edinb. 1845, 4to, his name occasionally occurs: thus, ”Joannes Spittal a Niuibus rector, in utroque Jure Licentiatus, Officialis Sancti Andree Princ.i.p.alis,” &c., 24 Aprilis 1547; and on the 20th February 1548-9, he has the additional t.i.tle of Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the Fields, near Edinburgh--”Prepositus Ecclesie Collegiate diui Virginis Marie de Campis prope Edinburgh,” (pp.

97, 101, 112; Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iv. p. 46.)

[496] Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, eldest son of Balfour of Montquhanie, (see before, p. 183,) is styled by Princ.i.p.al Robertson, and not unjustly, us ”the most corrupt man of his age.” Having joined the conspirators at St. Andrews, he was, when the Castle was surrendered to the French, sent on board the same galley with Knox. According to Spotiswood, he obtained his freedom before the other prisoners were released, by abjuring his profession; and upon his return to Scotland, he was appointed Official of Lothian, by the Archbishop of St.

Andrews.--(Hist. p. 90.) At a subsequent time, when raised to the bench, he took his seat under the t.i.tle of Parson of Flisk.

[497] That is, Martin Luther's.

[498] In MS. G, ”lat the G.o.dlie bewar of that race and progeny.” So in Vautr. edit., with this addition, ”progenie by eschewing.” The obvious meaning of the words is, ”let the person of that race who lives G.o.dly be shown.”