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See also:MAITLAND, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD (See also:LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586) , Scottish lawyer, poet, and See also:collector of Scottish See also:verse, was See also:born in 1496. His See also:father, Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Maitland of Lethington and Thirlestane, See also:fell at See also:Flodden; his See also:mother was a daughter of See also:George, Lord See also:Seton. He studied See also:law at the university of St See also:Andrews, and afterwards in See also:Paris. His See also:castle at Lethington was burnt by the See also:English in 1549. He was in 1552 one of the commissioners to See also:settle matters with the English about the debateable lands. About 1561 he seems to have lost his sight, but this did not render him incapable of attending to public business, as he was the same See also:year admitted an See also:ordinary lord of session with the See also:title of Lord Lethington, and a member of the privy See also:council; and in 1562 he was appointed keeper of the See also:Great See also:Seal. He resigned this last 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 in 1567, in favour of See also:John, See also:prior of Coldingham, his second son, but he sat on the See also:bench till he attained his eighty-eighth year. He died on the loth of See also:March 1586. His eldest son, by his wife See also:Mary Cranstoun of Crosbie, was William Maitland (q.v.) : his second son, John (c. 1545-1595), was a lord of session, and was made a lord of See also:parliament in 1590, with the title of Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, in which he was succeeded by his son John, also for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a lord of session, who was created See also:earl of See also:Lauderdale in 1624. One of Sir Richard's daughters, See also:Margaret, assisted her father in preparing his collection of old Scots verse.
The poems of Sir Richard Maitland, none of them lengthy, are for the most See also:part satirical, and are principally directed against the social and See also:political abuses of his time. He is chiefly remembered as the See also:industrial collector and preserver of many pieces of Scots See also:poetry. These were copied into two large volumes, one in See also:folio and another in See also:quarto, the former written by himself, and the latter by his daughter. After being in the See also:possession of his descendant the See also:duke of Lauderdale, these volumes were See also:purchased at the See also:sale of the duke's library by See also:Samuel See also:Pepys, and have since been preserved in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene See also:College, See also:Cambridge. They See also:lay there unnoticed for many years till See also:Bishop See also:Percy published one of the poems in his Reliques of English Poetry. Several of the
prices were then transcribed by John See also:Pinkerton, who after-wards published them under the title of See also:Ancient Scottish Poems
(2 vols., 1786.)
For an See also:account of the Maitland Folio MS. see See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's Specimens of See also:Middle Scots, 1902 (p. lxxiii.). The Scottish See also:Text Society has undertaken an edition of the entire See also:manuscript. Maitland's own poems were reprinted by See also:Sibbald in his See also:Chronicle of Scottish Poetry (1802), and in 183o by the Maitland,See also:Club, named after him, and founded for the purpose of continuing his efforts to preserve the remains of See also:early Scots literature. Sir Richard See also:left in manuscript a See also:history of the See also:family of Seton, and a See also:volume of legal decisions collected by him between the years 155o and 1565. Both are preserved in the See also:Advocates' Library, See also:Edinburgh; the former was published by the Maitland Club, in 1829.
End of Article: MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)
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