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LINDESAY, ROBERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LINDESAY, See also:ROBERT , of Pitscottie (c. 1530-c. 1590), Scottish historian, of the See also:family of the Lindesays of the Byres, was See also:born at Pitscottie, in the See also:parish of See also:Ceres, Fifeshire, which he held in See also:lease at a later See also:period. His Historie and Cronieles of See also:Scotland, the only See also:work by which he is remembered, is described as a continuation of that of See also:Hector See also:Boece, translated by See also:John See also:Bellenden. It covers the period from 1437 to 1565, and, though it sometimes degenerates into a See also:mere See also:chronicle of See also:short entries, is not without passages of See also:great picturesqueness. See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott made use of it in Marmion; and, in spite of its inaccuracy in details, it is useful for the social See also:history of the period. Lindesay's See also:share in the Cronicles was generally supposed to end with 1565; but Dr See also:Aeneas See also:Mackay considers that the See also:frank See also:account of the events connected with See also:Mary See also:Stuart between 1565 and 1575 contained in one of the See also:MSS. is by his See also:hand and was only suppressed because it was too faithful in its See also:record of contemporary affairs. The Historie and Cronicles was first published in 1728. A See also:complete edition of the See also:text (2 vols.), based on the See also:Laing MS. No. 218 in the university of See also:Edinburgh, was published by the Scottish Text Society in 1899 under the editorship of Aeneas J. G.

Mackay. The MS., formerly in the See also:

possession of John Scott of Halkshill, is See also:fuller, and, though in a later hand, is, on the whole, a better representative of Lindesay's text.

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