Beaton, James, Archbishop of Glasgow
Biography: Studied in France aged 15 at Paris, then Poitou, entrusted by French king with a mission to Mary of Guise aged 20, abbot of Arbroath 1546, archbp of Glasgow 1550/51, travelled to Rome, ordained 1552, Privy Councillor in Scotland 1553, left Glasgow Summer 1559, settled in Leith Winter 1559-60, arrived in Paris Aug 1560, ambassador in Paris for over 40 yrs for Mary and James VI, outlawed 1568, convicted of treason 1570, rehabilitated in principle 1587, restored to all honours and benefices 1598, d. in Paris 1603. Bequeathed a house and his library and estate for assisting Scots students (eventually formed the Scots College in Paris)
Biography Date: 1524-1603
Biography References: LOC; CERL; DNB; Drummond 295.
Book List
| Owner (other form of name) |
Book Title |
Author |
Publication Place |
Date |
| Beaton, James |
Opera L. Annaei Senecae per Des. Erasmum Roterd. & Matthaeum Fortunatum emendata. Aiecta sunt Scholia D. Erasmi in bonam... |
Seneca, L. A. |
Basel |
1529 |
| Beaton, James |
Ad illustriss. Tit. S. Stephani in monte Coelio Cardinalem, D. Dauidem Betoun, de foelici accessione dignitatis cardinalitiae, gratulatorius panegyricus /... |
Hay, A. |
Paris |
1540 |
| Beaton, James |
Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio iuxta verum ac originalem archetypum... / per R. Patre[m] Ioan. Roffensem episcopum ... |
Fisher, J. |
Antwerp |
1545 |
| Beaton, James |
Secundus tomus vitarum sanctorum priscorum patrum... per grauissimos & probatissimos authores descriptarum. Et nuper per R. P. D. Aloysium Lipomanum... |
Lippomano, L. |
Venice |
1553 |
| Beaton, James |
Scotorum historiae a prima gentis origine, cum aliarum et rerum et gentium illustratione non vulgari, libri XIX. / Hectore Boethio... |
Boece, H. |
Paris |
1574 |
| Beaton, James |
Confutatio responsionis Gulielmi VVhitakeri ... ad rationes decem, quibus fretus Edmundus Campianus ... certamen Anglicanae Ecclesiae ministris obtulit ... /... |
Durie, J. |
Ingolstadt |
1585 |
| Beaton, Jas, Abp of Glasgow |
Scholion in omnes Novi Testamenti libros, quo loci difficiles, aut etiam ambigui, iuxta originalem Scripturae phrasim, ac vetustissimorum theologorum citationem,... |
Zegerus, N. |
Cologne |
1553 |
