See also:

• AYTOUN, or AYTON, SIR ROBERT (1570-1638)
• AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE (1813-1865)

AYTOUN, or AYTON, See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT (1570-1638)  , Scottish poet, son of See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• AYTOUN, or AYTON, SIR ROBERT (1570-1638)
• AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE (1813-1865)

Aytoun of Kinaldie, Fifeshire, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1570 . He was educated at the university of St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews, where he was incorporated as a student of St Leonard's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1584 and graduated M.A. in 1588 . He lived for some years in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and on the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James VI. to the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• THRONE

throne he wrote in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris a Latin See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric, which brought him into immediate favour at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court . He was knighted in 1612 . He held various lucrative offices, and was private secretary to the queens of James I. and See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles I . He died in See also:

• LONDON

London and was buried in See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

Abbey on the 28th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1638 . His reputation with his contemporaries was high, both personally and as a writer, though he had no ambition to be known as the latter . Aytoun's remains are in Latin and English . In respect of the latter he is one of the earliest Scots to use the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard as a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• MEDIUM

medium . The Latin poems include the panegyric already referred to, an Epicedium in ohitum See also:

• THOMA, HANS (1839- )

Thoma Rhodi; Basics, sive Strena ad Jacobum Hayum; Lessus in funere Raphaelis Therei; Carina See also:

• CARO, ANNIBALE (1507-1566)
• CARO, ELME MARIE (1826-1887)

Caro; and See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor pieces, occasional and epitaphic . His first English poem was See also:

• DIOPHANTUS

Diophantus and Charidora (to which he refers in his Latin panegyric to James) . He has See also:

• LEFT

left a number of pieces on amatory subjects, including songs and sonnets .

Aytoun's Latin poems are printed in Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, 16,39 i. pp . 40-75 . His English poems are preserved in a MS. in the: See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum (Add . See also:

• MSS

MSS . 10,308), which was pre-pared by his See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Aytoun . Both were collected by Charles See also:

• ROGERS, HENRY DARWIN (18o8—1866)
• ROGERS, JAMES EDWIN THOROLD (1823-1890)
• ROGERS, JOHN (1627–c. 1665)
• ROGERS, JOHN (1829-1904)
• ROGERS, JOHN (c. 1500-1555)
• ROGERS, ROBERT (1727-1784?)
• ROGERS, S
• ROGERS, SAMUEL (1763-1855)
• ROGERS, WILLIAM (1819-1896)

Rogers in The Poems of Sir See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Aytoun (London, privately printed, 1871) . This edition is unsatisfactory, though it is better than the first issue by the same editor in 1844 . Additional poems are included which cannot be ascribed to Aytoun, and which in some cases have been identified as the See also:

• WORK

work of others . The poem I do confess See also:

• THOU, JACQUES AUGUSTE DE [THUANUS] (1553-1617)
• THOU, NOM

thou'rt smooth and See also:

• FAIR

fair " may be suspected, and the old version of " Auld See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang Syne " and " Sweet Empress " are certainly not Aytoun's . Some of the English poems are printed in See also:

• WATSON, RICHARD (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

Watson's Collection (1706–1711) and in the See also:

• BANNATYNE, GEORGE (1545—? 1608)

Bannatyne See also:

• MISCELLANY

Miscellany, i. p . 299 (1827) . There is a memoir of Aytoun in Rogers's edition, and another by See also:

• GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899)

Grosart in the Dict. of Nat .

Biog . Particulars of his public career will be found in the printed Calendars of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State Papers and See also:

• REGISTER

Register of the Privy See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period .