. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. lection of decisions entitled Bal- BALFOUR, 214 SIR JAMES. fours Pi-acticks, or a System of the more ancientLaw of Scotland, a voluminous work which re-mained in manuscript until 1754, when it waspublished by the Ruddimans, in a folio volume ofG84 pages, with a life of Balfour prefixed by Wal-ter Goodall. This work continued to be used bypractitioners till superse<1ed by Stairs Hailes observes that Balfours work is inter-polated, for it mentions certain
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. lection of decisions entitled Bal- BALFOUR, 214 SIR JAMES. fours Pi-acticks, or a System of the more ancientLaw of Scotland, a voluminous work which re-mained in manuscript until 1754, when it waspublished by the Ruddimans, in a folio volume ofG84 pages, with a life of Balfour prefixed by Wal-ter Goodall. This work continued to be used bypractitioners till superse<1ed by Stairs Hailes observes that Balfours work is inter-polated, for it mentions certain acts of parliamentand the names of certain peers that did not existtill after the death of Balfour. It is very likelyto have been added to after his time. BALFOUR, Sir James, of Kinnaird, Bart., aneminent herald, annalist, and antiquary, eldestson of Sir INIichael Balfonr of Denmylne, by hiswife, Jane, daughter of James Durham of Pitker-row, was born about 1600. He soon displayed acapacity for study, and a taste for poetry. Theaccompanying portrait of him is from an originalpicture in the uossession of Lord His youthful efforts ni verse were noticed withcommendation by the poet Leach or Leochseus, inhis StrencB, published in 1626. He had success-fully translated Leachs Latin poem, Pant/iea, intothe Scottish vei-nacular; and Sir Robert Sibbald,who, in his Memoria Balfouriana, gives an account of his life and writings, tells us that he had seen avolume of Latin and Scottish poems, written byBalfour, not now extant. After some time spentabroad, Sir James, on his return, devoted himselfto the study of the antiquities of his native coun-try. It was, indeed, fortunate for his progress,says Sibbald, that several learned men had be-gun to illustrate the history of Scotland. Of these,Robert Maule, commissary of St. Andrews, hadengaged in a work concerning the origin of ouination, while David Buchanan had applied an ac-curate criticism to the older monuments of Scottishstory.
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