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Annals of Hawick, A.d. M.cc.xiv.-A.d. M.dccc.xiv. With an Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches, and Other Illustrative Documents
Annals of Hawick Ad MccxivAd Mdcccxiv With an Appendix Containing Biographical Sketches and Other Illustrative Documents Author:James Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: T. G. Stevenson Subjects: Hawick (Scotland) Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you... more » get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX. GAVIN DOUGLAS. The most illustrious individual connected with Ha- wick in ancient times was probably Gavin Douglas, afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld. He was the third son of Archibald, sixth Earl of Angus, better known as Bell-the-Cat, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, Lord Boyd, sometime High Chamberlain of Scotland, and was born about 1474. Having entered into holy orders, he was appointed Rector of Hawick ; in 1509, was nominated Provost of the collegiate church of St Giles, in Edinburgh ; and finally, in 1515, on the death of George Brown, Bishop of Dunkeld, he was promoted to that episcopate. The political rivalries, and factious opposition, to this and previous preferments, which embittered his existence, and ultimately compelled him to leave his native county, and seek protection from Henry VIII. it is here unnecessary to detail, the rather that they have been succinctly and accurately set forth in the portion appropriated to Douglas by Dr Irving, in his valuable " Lives of the Scottish Poets." In 1522, when probably in his forty- These Biographical Sketches of Gavin Douglas and Douglas of Drumlanrig, have been contributed by an esteemed friend of the Editor. i eighth year, he fell a victim to the plague in London, and was interred in the Savoy Church there, on the left of Thomas Halsay, Bishop of Leighlin. According to Hume, the historian of his family, Douglas " had a base daughter, of whom the house of Foulewood (Semple) is descended (ii. p. 28, 4th edit.)." Albeit, as indicated abo...« less