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HAY, GILBERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAY, See also:GILBERT , or " See also:SIR GILBERT THE HAVE " (fl. 1450), Scottish poet and translator, was perhaps a kinsman of the See also:house of Errol. If he be the student named in the registers of the university of St See also:Andrews in 1418–1419, his See also:birth may be fixed about 1403. He was in See also:France in 1432, perhaps some years earlier, for a " Gilbert de la Haye " is mentioned as See also:present at See also:Reims, in See also:July 1430, at the See also:coronation of See also:Charles VII. He has See also:left it on See also:record, in the See also:Prologue to his Buke of the See also:Law of Arrays, that he was " chaumerlayn umquhyle to the maist worthy See also:King Charles of France." In 1456 he was back in See also:Scotland, in the service of the See also:chancellor, See also:William, See also:earl of See also:Orkney and See also:Caithness, " in his See also:castell of Rosselyn," See also:south of See also:Edinburgh. The date of his See also:death is unknown. Hay is named by See also:Dunbar (q.v.) in his Lament for theMakaris, and by Sir See also:David See also:Lyndsay (q.v.) in his Testament and Complaynt of the Papvngo. His only See also:political See also:work is The Buik of See also:Alexander the Conquerour, of which a portion, in copy, remains at Taymouth See also:Castle. He has left three See also:translations, extant in one See also:volume (in old binding) in the collection of See also:Abbotsford: (a) The Buke of the Law of Arrays or The Buke of Bataillis, a See also:translation of Honore Bonet's Arbre See also:des batailles; (b) The Buke of the See also:Order of Iinichthood from the Livre de l'ordre de chevalerie; and (c) The Buke of the Governaunce of Princes, from a See also:French version of the pseudo-Aristotelian Secreta secretorum. The second of these precedes See also:Caxton's See also:independent translation by at least ten years. For the Bulk of Alexander see See also:Albert Herrmann's The Taymouth Castle MS. of Sir Gilbert Hay's Bulk, &c. (See also:Berlin, 1898).

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complete Abbotsford MS. has been reprinted by the Scottish See also:Text Society (ed. J. H. See also:Stevenson). The first volume, containing The Buke of the Law of See also:Arm's, appeared in 1901. The Order of Knichthood was printed by David See also:Laing for the Abbotsford See also:Club (1847). See also S.TS. edition (u.s.) " Introduction," and See also:Gregory See also:Smith's Specimens of See also:Middle Scots, in which annotated extracts are given from the Abbotsford MS., the See also:oldest known exe .plc of See also:literary Scots See also:prose.1899, and the See also:settlement, by See also:joint See also:commission, of the question concerning the disputed Alaskan boundary in 1903. See also:John Hay was a See also:man of quiet and unassuming disposition, whose training in See also:diplomacy gave a cool and judicious See also:character to his statesmanship. As secretary of See also:state under Presidents See also:McKinley and See also:Roosevelt his guidance was invaluable during a rather See also:critical See also:period in See also:foreign affairs, and no man of his See also:time did more to create confidence in the increased See also:interest taken by the See also:United States in See also:international matters. He also represented, in another capacity, the best See also:American traditions—namely in literature. He published See also:Pike See also:County See also:Ballads (1871)—the most famous being " Little Breeches "—a volume worthy to See also:rank with Bret See also:Harte, if not with the See also:Lowell of the Biglow Papers; Castilian Days (1871), recording his observations in See also:Spain; and a volume of Poems (189o) ; with John G. See also:Nicolay he wrote See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln: A See also:History (to vols., 1890), a monumental work indispensable to the student of the See also:Civil See also:War period in See also:America, and published an edition of Lincoln's Complete See also:Works (2 vols., 1894).

The authorship of the brilliant novel The Breadwinners (1883) is now certainly attributed to him. Hay was an excellent public See also:

speaker some of his best addresses are In Praise of See also:Omar; On the Unveiling of the Bust of Sir TValter See also:Scott in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, May 21, 1897; and a memorial address in See also:honour of See also:President McKinley. The best of his previously unpublished speeches appeared in Addresses of John Hay (1906).

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