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See also:LESLEY, See also:JOHN (1527-1596) , Scottish See also:bishop and historian, was See also:born in 1527. His See also:father was Gavin Lesley, See also:rector of See also:Kingussie. He was educated at the university of See also:Aberdeen, where he took the degree of M.A. In 1538 he obtained a See also:dispensation permitting him to hold a See also:benefice, notwithstanding his being a natural son, and in See also:June 1546 he was made an See also:acolyte in the See also:cathedral 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 Aberdeen, of which he was afterwards appointed a See also:canon and See also:prebendary. He also studied at See also:Poitiers, at See also:Toulouse and at See also:Paris, where he was made See also:doctor of See also:laws in 1553. In 1558 he took orders and was appointed See also:Official of Aberdeen, and inducted into the parsonage and prebend of Oyne. At the See also:Reformation Lesley became a See also:champion of Catholicism. He was See also:present at the disputation held in See also:Edinburgh in 1561, when See also:Knox and Willox were his antagonists. He was one of the commissioners sent the same See also:year to bring over the See also:young See also:Queen See also:Mary to take the See also:government of See also:Scotland. He returned in her See also:train, and was appointed a privy councillor and See also:professor of canon See also:law in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, Aberdeen, and in 1565 one of the senators of the college of See also:justice. Shortly afterwards he was made See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Lindores, and in 1565 bishop of See also:Ross, the See also:election to the see being confirmed in the following year. He was one of the sixteen commissioners appointed to revise the laws of Scotland, and the See also:volume of the Adis and Constitutions of the Realme of Scotland known as the See also:Black Acts was, chiefly owing to his care, printed in 1566.
The bishop was one of the most steadfast See also:friends of Queen Mary. After the failure of the royal cause, and whilst Mary was a See also:captive in See also:England, Lesley (who had gone to her at See also:Bolton) continued to exert himself on her behalf. He was one of the commissioners at the See also:conference at See also:York in 1568. He appeared as her See also:ambassador at the See also:court of See also:Elizabeth to complain of the injustice done to her, and when he found he was not listened to he laid plans for her 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. He also projected a See also:marriage for her with the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk, which ended in the See also:execution of that See also:noble-See also:man. For this he was put under the See also:charge of the bishop of See also:London, and then of the bishop of See also:Ely (in See also:Holborn), and after-wards imprisoned in the See also:Tower of London. During his confinement he collected materials for his See also:history of Scotland, by which his name is now chiefly known. In 1571 he presented the latter portion of this See also:work, written in Scots, to Queen Mary to amuse her in her captivity. He also wrote for her use his Piae Consolationes, and the queen devoted some of the See also:hours of her captivity to translating a portion of it into See also:French See also:verse.
In 1573 he was liberated from See also:prison, but was banished from England. For two years he attempted unsuccessfully to obtain the assistance of See also:Continental princes in favour of Queen Mary. While at See also:Rome in 1578 he published his Latin history De Origine, Moribus, et See also:Rebus Gestis Scotorum. In 1579 he went to See also:France, and was made See also:suffragan and See also:vicar-See also:general of the archbishopric
of See also:Rouen. Whilst visiting his See also:diocese, however, he was thrown into prison, and had to pay 3000 pistoles to prevent his being given up to Elizabeth. During the See also:remainder of the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. he lived unmolested, but on the See also:accession of the See also:Protestant Henry IV. he again See also:fell into trouble. In 1590 he was thrown into prison, and had to See also:purchase his freedom at the same expense as before. In 1593 he was made bishop of See also:Coutances in See also:Normandy, and had See also:licence to hold the bishopric of Ross till he should obtain peaceable See also:possession of the former see. He retired to an Augustinian monastery near See also:Brussels, where he died on the 31st of May 1596.
The See also:chief See also:works of Lesley are as follows: A See also:Defence of the See also:Honour of . . . See also:Marie, Queene of Scotland, by See also:Eusebius Dicaeophile (London, 1569), reprinted, with alterations, at See also:Liege in 1571, under the See also:title, A See also:Treatise oncerning the Defence of the Honour of Marie, Queene of Scotland, made by See also:Morgan Philippes, See also:Bachelor of Divinitie, Pioe afflicts animi consolationes, ad Mariam See also:Scot. Reg. (Paris, 1574) ; De 9r°-one, moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum libri deem (Rome, 1578; rtiti,sucd 1675); De illustrium feminarum in republics administranda e„uthoritate libellus (See also:Reims, 158o; a Latin version of a See also:tract on " The Lawfulness of the See also:Regiment of See also:Women ": cf. Knox's pamphlet); De titulo et jure Mariae Scot. Reg., quo regni Angliae successionem See also:sibi juste vindicat (Reims, 158o; translated in 1584). The history of Scotland from 1436 to 1561 owes much, in its earlier chapters, to the accounts of See also:Hector Bocce (q.v.) and John See also:Major (q.v.), though no small portion of the topographical See also:matter is first-See also:hand. In the later sections he gives an See also:independent See also:account (from the See also:Catholic point of view) which is a valuable supplement and a corrective in many details, to the works of See also:Buchanan and Knox. A Scots version of the history was written in 1596 by 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 Dalrymple of the Scottish See also:Cloister at See also:Regensburg. It has been printed for the Scottish See also:Text Society (2 vols., 1888–1895) under the editorship of the Rev. E. G. See also:Cody, O.S.B. A slight See also:sketch by Lesley of Scottish history from 1562 to 1J71 has been translated by See also:Forbes-See also:Leith in his Narrative of Scottish Catholics (1885), from the See also:original MS. now in the Vatican.
End of Article: LESLEY, JOHN (1527-1596)
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