See also:BELLENDEN (BALLANTYNE Or See also:BANNATYNE), See also:JOHN (fl. 1533-1587)
, Scottish writer, was See also:born about the end of the 15th See also:century, in the See also:south-See also:east of See also:Scotland, perhaps in East See also:Lothian
.
He appears to have been educated, first at the university of St See also:Andrews and then at that of See also:Paris, where he took. the degree of See also:doctor
.
From his own statement, in one of his poems, we learn that he had been in the service 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 V. from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's earliest years, and that the See also:post he held was clerk of accounts
.
At the See also:request of James he undertook See also:translations of See also:Boece's Historia Scotorum, which had appeared at Paris in 1527, and the first five books of See also:Livy
.
As a See also:reward for his versions, which he finished in 1533, he was appointed See also:archdeacon of See also:Moray and a See also:canon of See also:Ross
.
He was a strenuous opponent of the See also:Reformation and was compelled to go into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile
.
He is said by some authorities to have died at See also:Rome in 1550; by others to have been still living in 1587
.
His See also:translation of Boece, entitled The See also:History and See also:Chronicles of Scotland, is a remarkable specimen of Scottish See also:prose, distinguished by its freedom and vigour of expression
.
It was published in 1536; and was reprinted in 2 vols., edited by See also:Maitland, in 1821
.
The translation of Livy was not printed till 1822 (also in 2 vols.)
.
Two See also:MSS. of the latter are extant, one, the older, in the See also:Advocates' library, See also:Edinburgh (which was the basis of the normalized See also:text of 1822), the other (c
.
1S5o) in the See also:possession of Mr See also:Ogilvie See also:Forbes of Boyndlie
.
An edition of the See also:work was edited for the Scottish Text Society by Mr W
.
A
.
See also:Craigie (2 vols
.
1901, 1903)
.
The second See also:volume of this edition contains also a See also:complete reprint of the portions of the holograph first draft which were discovered in the See also:British Museum in 1902
.
Two poems by See also:Bellenden—The Proheme to the Cosmographe and the Proheme of the History—appeared in the 1536 edition of the History of Scotland
.
Others, bearing his name in the well-known See also:Bannatyne MS. collection, made by his namesake See also:George Bannatyne (q.v.), may or may notbe his
.
See also:Sir See also:David See also:Lyndsay, in his See also:prologue to the Papyngo, speaks vaguely of:
" Ane cunnyng See also:Clark quhilk wrythith craftelie
Ane plant of poetis callit Ballendyne,
Quhose ornat workis my wit can nocht defyne."
The See also:chief See also:sources of See also:information regarding- Bellenden's See also:life are the Accounts of the See also:Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, his own See also:works and the ecclesiastical records
.
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