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See also:BALFOUR, See also:SIR 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 (of Pittendreich) (d. 1583 Or 1584) , Scottish See also:judge and politician, son of Sir See also:Michael Balfour of Montquhanny, was educated for the legal See also:branch of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Scotland. In See also:June 1547, together with See also:Knox and others taken at St See also:Andrews, he was condemned to the See also:French galleys, but was released in 1549, abjured the reformers, entered the service of See also:Mary of See also:Guise, and was rewarded with some considerable legal appointments. Subsequently he went over to the lords of the See also:congregation and then betrayed their plans. After Mary's arrival in Scotland he became one of her secretaries, in 1565 being reported as her greatest favourite after See also:Rizzio.1 He obtained the parsonage of Flisk in See also:Fife in 1561, was nominated a See also:lord of session, and in 1563 one of the commissaries of the See also:court which now took the See also:place of the former ecclesiastical tribunal; in 1565 he was made a privy-councillor, and in 1566 lord-clerk-See also:register, and was knighted. According to Mary his See also:murder was intended together with Rizzio's in 1566. An adherent of See also:Bothwell, he was deeply implicated in See also:Darnley's murder, though not See also:present at the See also:commission of the See also:crime. By his means Darnley was lodged at See also:Kirk o' See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field, his See also:brothers' See also:house. He was supposed to have See also:drawn up the See also:bond at Craigmillar for the murder; he signed it, was made under Bothwell See also:deputy-See also:governor of See also:Edinburgh See also:Castle, and is said to have drawn up the See also:marriage-See also:contract between Bothwell and Mary. When, however, the fall of Bothwell was seen to be impending he rapidly changed sides and surrendered the castle to See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray, stipulating for his See also:pardon for Darnley's murder,the retention of the priory of Pittenweem, and pecuniary rewards. He was appointed See also:president of the court of session on resigning the 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 of lordclerk-register. He was present at the See also:battle of Langside with the See also:regent in 1568, and was accused of having advised Mary to
1 Cal. of See also:State Pap. (Scottish), ii. 218, 250.
leave See also:Dunbar to her ruin, and of having betrayed to her enemies the See also:casket letters. The same See also:year, however, in See also:con-sequence of renewed intrigues with Mary's See also:faction, he was dismissed, and next year was imprisoned on the See also:charge of complicity in Darnley's murder. He succeeded in effecting his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape by means of See also:bribery, the expenses of which he is said to have paid by intercepting the See also:money sent from See also:France to Mary's aid. In See also:August 1571, during the regency of See also:Lennox, an See also:act of See also:forfeiture was passed against him, but next year he was again playing traitor and discovering the secrets of his party to See also:Morton, and he obtained a pardon from the latter in 1573 and negotiated the pacification of See also:Perth the same year. Distrusted by all parties, he fled to France, where he seems to have remained till I580. In 1579 his forfeiture was renewed by act of See also:parliament. In See also:January 158o he wrote to Mary offering her his services, and in June protested his See also:desire to be useful to See also:Elizabeth, lamented the See also:influence of the See also:Jesuits, and intended a See also:journey to See also:Dieppe to hear some See also:good See also:Protestant See also:preaching x On the 27th of See also:December of the same year he returned to Scotland and effected the downfall and See also:execution of Morton by producing a bond, probably that in See also:defence of Bothwell and to promote his marriage with Mary, and giving See also:evidence of the latter's knowledge of Bothwell's intention to murder Darnley. In See also:July 1581 his cause was reheard; he was acquitted of murder by See also:assize, and shortly afterwards in 1581 or 1582 he was restored to his estates and received at court. His career, one of the blackest in the See also:annals of See also:political perfidy and crime, closed shortly before the 24th of January 1584. He was the greatest lawyer of his See also:day, and See also:part-author at least of Balfour's Practicks, the earliest See also:text-See also:book of Scottish See also:law, not published, however, till 1754.
End of Article: BALFOUR, SIR JAMES (of Pittendreich) (d. 1583 Or 1584)
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