See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS See also:

• SEMPILL
• SEMPILL (OR SEMPLE), SIR JAMES, ROBERT AND FRANCIS
• SEMPILL, ROBERT [the elder] (c. 1530-1595)

SEMPILL (1616?—1682)  was a son of See also:

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

Robert See also:

• SEMPILL
• SEMPILL (OR SEMPLE), SIR JAMES, ROBERT AND FRANCIS
• SEMPILL, ROBERT [the elder] (c. 1530-1595)

Sempill the younger . No details of his See also:

• EDUCATION

education are known . His fidelity to the Stuarts involved him in See also:

• MONEY

money difficulties, to meet which he alienated portions of his estates to his son . Before 1677 he was appointed See also:

• SHERIFF

sheriff-depute of See also:

• RENFREWSHIRE

Renfrewshire . He died at See also:

• PAISLEY
• PAISLEY, CLAUD HAMILTON, LORD (c. 1543-1622)

Paisley in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1682 . Sempill wrote many occasional pieces, and his fame as a wit was widespread . Among his most important See also:

• WORKS

works is the " Banishment of Poverty," which contains some See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical details . " The Blythsome See also:

• WEDDING

Wedding," See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long attributed to See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis Sempill, has been more recently asserted to be the See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott of Thirlestane . Sempill's claim to the authorship of the celebrated See also:

• SONG

song " She raise and let me in," and of the ballad " Maggie See also:

• LAUDER
• LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK
• LAUDER, WILLIAM (d. 1771)

Lauder," has been discussed at considerable length . It seems probable that he had some See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in both . See the works mentioned below in the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder Robert Sempill, and The Poems of the Sempills of Beltrees, ed . 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 See also:

• PATERSON
• PATERSON, ROBERT (1715-1801)
• PATERSON, WILLIAM (1658-1719)

Paterson (See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, 1849) ; A See also:

• LITERARY

Literary See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, by J .

H . See also:

• MILLAR, ANDREW (1707-1768)

Millar (1903); and Notes and Queries, 9th See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series (xi., 1903, pp . 436-437) .