Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . rubseems to doubt his Conse-cration [vol. i., p. 395]. After the young Arch-bishop had, by his study andtravelling, rendered himselfcapable of serving the Churchand his country, he returnedhome in 1510 [Bp. LesleysHist.], and was received withgreat love by the King,Queen, and Court, and theNobility, for his rare learn-ing and natural sweetnessof temper, qualities he wasendowed with to a veryeminent degree; and theKing, who loved him mostpassionately, being desirousthat he should appear withas great lustre in the Statethat of ashe was to do in the Church,
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . rubseems to doubt his Conse-cration [vol. i., p. 395]. After the young Arch-bishop had, by his study andtravelling, rendered himselfcapable of serving the Churchand his country, he returnedhome in 1510 [Bp. LesleysHist.], and was received withgreat love by the King,Queen, and Court, and theNobility, for his rare learn-ing and natural sweetnessof temper, qualities he wasendowed with to a veryeminent degree; and theKing, who loved him mostpassionately, being desirousthat he should appear withas great lustre in the Statethat of ashe was to do in the Church, Archbishop James Stuart, his Predecessor, with Was pleased to make himthe exception of the circumscription. hold Chancellor in 1511 [Bymers Fcsdera]; and that the Pope might contribute all hecould to aggrandize the young Archbishop, he made him hisLegate a latere in Scotland, and gave him the rich Abbey ofDunfermline and Priory of Coldingham in commendam, on pretencethat, as this latter place was a frontier, its Prior should be a per-. Tliis Seal is precisely the saufe as 240 AKCHBISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDEEWS. son of eminent position and secure fidelity. All these dignitiesthis most hopeful Royal youth held for the space of three years,till he lost his life, with the King his father, at the Battle ofFlodden, the 9th of September, 1513, with above 5000 of thenoblest persons of the Kingdom, before he had completed the21st year of his age. [Only the 18th, if he was Born in 1495.] Erasmus gives a notable character of the Archbishop. Iwas at one time domesticated with him in the Town of Sienna,where I instructed him in Greek and Rhetoric. Good Heavens!how quick, how attentive, how persevering in his studies! Howmany things he accomplished! At one and the same time helearnt Law—not a very agreeable study, on account of its bar-barous admixtures, and the irksome verbosity of its interpreters;he heard lectures on Rhetoric, and declaimed on a prescribedthesis, exercising alike hi
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