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SIR JAMES SEMPILL (1566–1626)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JAMES SEMPILL (1566–1626)  was the son of John Sempill of Beltrees, and Mary Livingstone, one of the " four Marys," companions of Mary, queen of Scots . He was brought up with James VI. under George Buchanan, and later assisted the king in the preparation of his Basilikon Doron . Ambassador to England 1 S9o-1600, he was made a knight bachelor, and in 16o1 was sent to France . He died at Paisley in 1626 . His wife was Egidia or Geillis Elphinstone of Blythswood . He wrote some theological
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prose, but is chiefly remembered for the poem " The Packman's Pater Noster," a vigorous attack upon the Church of Rome . An edition was published at
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Edinburgh in 1669 entitled " A Pick-tooth for the Pope, or the Packman's Pater Noster, translated out of Dutch by S . I . S., and newly augmented and enlarged by his son R . S." (reprinted by Paterson) . Seven poems, chiefly of an amorous character, are printed in T . G .

Stevenson's edition of The Sempill Ballates .

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