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33G APPENDIX. [book t.
Abbots ; Mancolalyne of Whithern, 1 and John of Pit-
tenweem, 2 Priors ; Mr Alexander Balfour, Vicar of Kilman,
Rector of Law, 3 Official of St Andrews ; John Winton, 4
Sub-Prior, John Annand and Thomas Cunningham, Cannons
of St Andrews ; and Mr John Mayor and Peter Capelland, 5
Batchelours of Divinitie, and Doctors ; Martine Balfour,
Batchelour of Divinitie, and Fellow Priour of the Friers
Augustines of the same city; John Tulidaffe, 6 Warden
of the Friars Minors, and John Paterson 7 of the same
Convent. And also in the presence of the Most Noble,
Mighty, and Honourable Lords, George of Huntly, 8 James
of Arran, 9 William Marischal, 10 William of Montrose, 11
Earles ; Malcom Lord of Fleming, 12 Chamberlaine of
of East Wemyss, Knight. Acta Pari. Scot, folio, vol. ii. p. 424. In the
Parliament held on the 3d of December 1543, William, Abbot of Culross,
was appointed one of the curators of the " souis and dochters" of the said
Sir James Colville of East Wemyss. Ibid. vol. ii. p. 428.— E.]
1 [Probably the real name is Macldlan, and the Prior of Whithorn may
have been a relative of the once powerful Galloway Family of Maclellan
of Bombie, created Lords Kirkcudbright in 1633. The title has been
dormant since the death of the ninth Lord in 1832. — E.]
2 [See the second note, p. 332, No. II. of this Appendix. The Prior of
Pittenweem was a peculiarly zealous opponent of the new doctrines. — E.]
3 [Probably Kilmany and Largo, two parishes in Fife. — E.]
4 [John Winram, Sub-Prior of St Andrews, is the personage indicated.
-E.]
5 [John Major and Peter Copeland. John Major, a Doctor of the Sor-
bonne, who had studied at Oxford and Paris, was a man of some repute in
his time, and as he is considered to have been latitudinarian or republi-
can in his religious and political opinions, it is singular to find his name
in this document. Major was afterwards Principal of the College of St
Salvador in the University of St Andrews, where he delivered lectures,
which were attended by John Knox and George Buchanan, both of whom
are alleged to have imbibed his sentiments. Major, or Mail", as the name
would now be written, was a man of no great strength of mind, solidity
of judgment, or of very high attainments. His pupil and admirer
Buchanan says of him that he taught " logic, or more properly the art of
sophistry." Major wrote " De Gestis Scotorum." — E.]
8 [John Tullidelph, Warden of the Franciscans. — E.]
7 [In another document called John Tltomson, Prior of the Dominican
Monastery .— E.]
8 [George Gordon, fourth Earl of Huntly. — E.]
u [James Hamilton, second Earl of Arran, and first Duke of Chatel-
herault.— E.]
10 [William Keith, fourth Earl Marischal.— E-]
11 [William Graham, second Earl of Montrose. — E.]
12 [Malcolm Fleming, third Lord Fleming, grandfather of the first Earl
of Wigton.— E.]