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BALNAVES, HENRY (1512?-1579)

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BALNAVES, See also:HENRY (1512?-1579) , Scottish politician and reformer, See also:born at See also:Kirkcaldy about 1512, was educated at St See also:Andrews and on the See also:continent, where he adopted See also:Protestant views. Returning to See also:Scotland, he continued his legal studies and in 1538 was appointed a See also:lord of session. He married about the same See also:time See also:Christian Scheves, and in 1539 was granted the See also:estate of Halhill in See also:Fife, after which he is generally named. Before 1540 he was sworn of See also:James V's. privy See also:council, and was known as one of the party in favour of the See also:English See also:alliance and of an ecclesiastical See also:reformation. He is also described as treasurer to James (Letters and Papers, 1543, i. 64), but the See also:regent See also:Arran appointed him secretary in the new See also:government of the See also:infant See also:Queen See also:Mary (See also:January 1543). He promoted the See also:act permitting the See also:reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar See also:tongue, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange a See also:marriage treaty between the little queen and the future See also:Edward VI. In See also:London he was not considered so complaisant as some of the other commissioners, and was not made privy to all the engagements taken by his colleagues (ib. i. 834). But Beton " loved him worst of all," and, when Arran went over to the priestly party, Balnaves was, in See also:November 1543, deprived of his offices and imprisoned in Blackness See also:Castle. Thence he was released by the arrival of See also:Hertford's See also:fleet in the following May, and from this time he became a paid See also:agent of the English cause in Scotland. He took no See also:part in the See also:murder of Beton, but was one of the most active defenders of the castle of St Andrews.

He received £loo from Henry VIII. in See also:

December 1546, was granted an See also:annuity of £125 by See also:Protector See also:Somerset in 1547 and was made English paymaster of the forces in St Andrews. When that castle surrendered to the See also:French in See also:July Balnaves was taken prisoner to See also:Rouen. Somerset made vain efforts to procure his See also:release and continued his See also:pension. He made himself useful by giving See also:information to the English govern- ment, and even Mary Tudor sent him £5o as See also:reward in See also:June 1554. Balnaves also busied himself in See also:writing what See also:Knox calls " a comfortable See also:treatise of See also:justification," which was found in MS. with a See also:preface by Knox, among the reformer's papers, and was published at See also:Edinburgh in 1584 under the See also:title The See also:Confession of Faith. In 1557 Balnaves was permitted to return to Scotland and regain his See also:property; probably it was thought that Mary Tudor's burnings would have cooled the ardour of his English affections, and that in the See also:war threatening between two See also:Catholic countries, Balnaves would serve his own. The See also:accession of Queen See also:Elizabeth changed the situation, and Mary of See also:Guise had reasons for accusing him of " practices out of See also:England " (See also:Salisbury See also:MSS. i. 155) He took, hi fact, an active part in the rising of 1559 and was commissioned by the See also:Congregation to solicit the help of the English government through See also:Sir See also:Ralph Sadleir at See also:Berwick. He was also selected one of the Scots representatives to negotiate with the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk in See also:February 156o. In 1563 he was restored to his See also:office as lord of session, and was one of those appointed by the See also:General See also:Assembly to revise the See also:Book of Discipline. He was one of See also:Bothwell's See also:judges for the murder of See also:Darnley 111 1567, and in 1568 he accompanied See also:Moray to the See also:York inquiry into Queen Mary's See also:guilt. He resigned his judicial office in 1574, and died in 1S79 at Edinburgh.

He has been claimed as a Scots See also:

bard on the strength of one ballad, " O gallandis all, I cry and See also:call," which is printed in See also:Allan See also:Ramsay's See also:Evergreen (2 vols. 1724-1727). See Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. (1540—1545) ; See also:Bain's and Thorp's Cal. of Scottish See also:State-Papers; English Domestic and See also:Foreign Gals.; Acts of Engl. Privy Council; Reg. P.C., Scotland; Reg. See also:Great See also:Seal of Scotland; See also:Hamilton Papers; Border Papers; Knox, See also:Works; See also:Burnet, Reformation; See also:Fronde, Hist. (A. F.

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