See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• SIR RICHARD MAITLAND (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

MAITLAND (See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)  , Scottish lawyer, poet, and See also:

• COLLECTOR

collector of Scottish See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1496 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, 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:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland of Lethington and Thirlestane, See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell at See also:

• FLODDEN, or FLODDEN FIELD

Flodden; his See also:

• MOTHER

mother was a daughter of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• SETON (Family)

Seton . He studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at the university of St See also:

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

Andrews, and afterwards 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 . His See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle at Lethington was burnt by the See also:

• ENGLISH

English in 1549 . He was in 1552 one of the commissioners to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle matters with the English about the debateable lands . About 1561 he seems to have lost his sight, but this did not render him incapable of attending to public business, as he was the same See also:

• YEAR

year admitted an See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary lord of session with the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Lord Lethington, and a member of the privy See also:

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

council; and in 1562 he was appointed keeper of the See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• SEAL
• SEAL, FUR
• SEAL, HAIR

Seal . He resigned this last See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 1567, in favour of 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, See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior of Coldingham, his second son, but he sat on the See also:

• BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench till he attained his eighty-eighth year . He died on the loth of 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 1586 . His eldest son, by his wife See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary Cranstoun of Crosbie, was William Maitland (q.v.) : his second son, John (c . 1545-1595), was a lord of session, and was made a lord of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament in 1590, with the title of Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, in which he was succeeded by his son John, also for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time a lord of session, who was created See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• LAUDERDALE, JOHN MAITLAND, DUKE OF (1616–1682)

Lauderdale in 1624 . One of Sir See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard's daughters, See also:

• MARGARET
• MARGARET (1283–1290)
• MARGARET (1353-1412)
• MARGARET (1489–1541)
• MARGARET, ST (c. 1045–1093)
• MARGARET, ST (SANCTA MARGARITA)

Margaret, assisted her father in preparing his collection of old Scots verse . The poems of Sir Richard Maitland, none of them lengthy, are for the most See also:

• PART

part satirical, and are principally directed against the social and See also:

• POLITICAL

political abuses of his time .

He is chiefly remembered as the See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial collector and preserver of many pieces of Scots See also:

• POETRY

poetry . These were copied into two large volumes, one in See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio and another in See also:

• QUARTO

quarto, the former written by himself, and the latter by his daughter . After being in the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of his descendant the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of Lauderdale, these volumes were See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased at the See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale of the duke's library by See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• PEPYS, SAMUEL (1633-1703)

Pepys, and have since been preserved in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge . They See also:

• LAY

lay there unnoticed for many years till See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop See also:

• PERCY (FAMILY)
• PERCY, SIR HENRY
• PERCY, THOMAS (1729-1811)
• PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os)

Percy published one of the poems in his Reliques of English Poetry . Several of the prices were then transcribed by John See also:

• PINKERTON, ALLAN (1819–1884)
• PINKERTON, JOHN (1758–1826)

Pinkerton, who after-wards published them under the title of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Scottish Poems (2 vols., 1786.) For an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the Maitland Folio MS. see See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith's Specimens of See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle Scots, 1902 (p. lxxiii.) . The Scottish See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

Text Society has undertaken an edition of the entire See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript . Maitland's own poems were reprinted by See also:

• SIBBALD, SIR ROBERT (1641-1722)

Sibbald in his See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle of Scottish Poetry (1802), and in 183o by the Maitland,See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, named after him, and founded for the purpose of continuing his efforts to preserve the remains of See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early Scots literature . Sir Richard See also:

• LEFT

left in manuscript a See also:

• HISTORY

history of the See also:

• FAMILY

family of Seton, and a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of legal decisions collected by him between the years 155o and 1565 . Both are preserved in the See also:

• ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

Advocates' Library, See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh; the former was published by the Maitland Club, in 1829 .