Excerpt from Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, Vol. 4 The first of the accounts contained in this volume embraces the period from the 6th September 1 507, the date on which the last account closed, to the 8th of August 1508. The Treasurer Who is responsible for it was the same James Beaton who had been appointed to that office in 1505, and a Sketch Of whose career was given in the Preface to the last volume.l After he demitted office, on his appointment to the Arch bishopric of Glasgow in 1509, he was ...
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Excerpt from Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, Vol. 4 The first of the accounts contained in this volume embraces the period from the 6th September 1 507, the date on which the last account closed, to the 8th of August 1508. The Treasurer Who is responsible for it was the same James Beaton who had been appointed to that office in 1505, and a Sketch Of whose career was given in the Preface to the last volume.l After he demitted office, on his appointment to the Arch bishopric of Glasgow in 1509, he was succeeded by George Hepburn, Abbot of Arbroath and Bishop of the Isles; he was a son of Hepburn of Hailes and uncle of the first Earl of Bothwell of that name. He got the Treasurership and his Bishopric in the same year, but almost immediately resigned the former, as he only held the appoint ment up to some time between the 23rd August and the 1 st October 1 5 1 0. 2 He ultimately fell with the King at Flodden in 1513. N 0 accounts of his have come down to us, so that there is a blank in the record from the last entry of his predecessor till the first of his successor. On his resignation his place was filled by Andrew Stewart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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