Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple.

  • Smith, John, of the Inner Temple.
Date:
[1798]
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Credit: Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cardinal BEATON. D AVID BEATON was clefeended from an ancient (a) family in the Shire of Fife, in North Britain, and bora in the year 1494, in the reign of King James IV. of Scotland * he was fon to John Bea- ton, Laird of Balfour, and was educated at the Univerfity of Saint (b) Andrews, where he went through a courfe of ftudies, and polite literature and philofophy; he difeovered very good parts, and applied himfelf clofely to the acquifition of learning; which induced his uncle* James (V) Beaton, then Arch hi [hop of Glafgow, and afterwards of Saint Andrew, to fend him to the Univerfity (d) of Paris; he there perfected himfelf in the knowledge of the Civil and Canon law, and alfo applied himfelf to the ftudy of divinity ; in order to qualify himfelf for the fervice of the church; and when he had attained to a proper age, entered into holy orders; he made a conflderable flay in France,, but that was no way an obftacle to his preferment, rather the contrary, for it gave him an early opportunity of entering into the fervice, and obtaining the favour of John Stewart, Duke of (e) Al- bany, whom the States of Scotland, had made Regent of that king- dom, during the minority of their king, James V. and who was then in France; Beaton may attribute the Duke's patronage of him, to his Grace’s near relationlhip to his (f) uncle, the Archbifnop, who joined that Nobleman’s party, in oppolition to that of the Earl of Angus. In confequence of the Duke employing his relative David Bea- 'Ion3 (a) Tow. Br. Biogr. II. 293. (b) M‘Kenzie’s, Lives of Scots Writers, III. (c) See his Article in Tow. Br. Biogr. I, 408. (r/) M'Kenzie, ut supra. (e) Bolt. Ext. Peer. Engl. 5.