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ALEXANDER ARBUTHNOT (1538-1583)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:ARBUTHNOT (1538-1583)  , Scottish ecclesiastic and poet, educated at St See also:Andrews and See also:Bourges, was in 1569 elected See also:principal of See also:King's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, which See also:office he retained until his See also:death . He played an active See also:part in the stirring See also:church politics of the See also:period, and was twice See also:moderator of the See also:kirk, and a member of the See also:commission of inquiry into the See also:condition of the university of St Andrews (1583) . The " correctness " of his attitude on all public questions won for him the See also:commendation of See also:Catholic writers; he is not included in See also:Nicol Burne's See also:list of " periurit apostatis "; but his policy and See also:influence were misliked by See also:James VI., who, when the See also:Assembly had elected See also:Arbuthnot to the See also:charge of the church of St Andrews, ordered him to return to his duties at King's College . He had been for some See also:time See also:minister of Arbuthnott in See also:Kincardineshire . His extant See also:works are (a) three poems, "The Praises of Wemen" (224 lines), "On Luve" (ro lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure See also:Scholar" (189 lines), and (b) a Latin See also:account of the Arbuthnot See also:family, Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica (still in MS.), of which an See also:English continuation, by the See also:father of Dr See also:John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the See also:Advocates' Library, See also:Edinburgh . The praise of the See also:fair See also:sex in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his See also:age; and its geniality may help us to understand the author's popularity with his contemporaries . Arbuthnot must not be confused with his See also:con-temporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer, who produced the first edition of See also:Buchanan's See also:History of See also:Scotland in 1582 . Some have discovered in the publication of this See also:work a false See also:clue to James's resentment against the principal of King's College . The particulars of Arbuthnot's See also:life are found in See also:Calderwood, Spottiswood, and other Church historians, and in See also:Scott's See also:Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae . The poems are printed in See also:Pinkerton's See also:Ancient Scottish Poems (1786), i. pp . 138-155 .

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