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Memoirs of His Own Life, by Sir James Melville M.d.xlix-M.d.xciii [ed. by T. Thomson].
Memoirs of His Own Life by Sir James Melville MdxlixMdxciii - ed. by T. Thomson Author:James Melville General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 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 get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ. JAMES KEAY, ESQ. JOHN G. KINNEAR, ESQ. THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ. TREASURER. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF KINNOULL. DAVID LAING, ESQ. SECRETARY. 50 THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE. THE REV. JOHN LEE, D. D. THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN. THE HON. J. H. MACKENZIE, LORD MACKENZIE. JAMES MACKENZIE, ESQ. 55 JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ. THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ. GILBERT LAING MEASON, ESQ. WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, ESQ. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MINTO. 60 JAMES MONCREIFF, ESQ. JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, ESQ. WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ. MACVEY NAPIER, ESQ. FRANCIS PALGRAVE, ESQ. 65 HENRY PETRIE, ESQ. ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ. JOHN RICHARDSON, ESQ. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ROSSLYN. ANDREW RUTHERFURD, ESQ. 70 THE RIGHT HON. SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD, LORD CHIEF BARON OF SCOTLAND. ANDREW SKENE, ESQ. JAMES SKENE, ESQ. GEORGE SMYTHE, ESQ. JOFIN SPOTTISVVOODE, ESQ. 75 MAJOR-GENERAL STRATON. ALEXANDER THOMSON, ESQ. THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. VICE-PRESIDENT. V. C. TREVELYAN, ESQ. 79 PATRICK ERASER TYTLER, ESQ. chapter{Section 4 PRELIMINARY NOTICE. Sir James Melville is well known as a perfon of confiderable dif- tinction in the Scottifh court, during the reigns of Queen Mary and King James the Sixth. In many of the political transactions of that eventful period he was himfelf perfonally concerned, and for nearly half a century, had been an acute and intelligent obferver of the characters and conduct of thofe around him. On the acceffion of James to the Englilh crown, he withdrew himfelf entirely from public life, and appears to have devoted a part of his leifure to the compilation of fome " Memorial...« less