JAMES II. king of Scotland, 1437, succeeded his father, being then but seven years of age; and was killed at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460, aged 29. This prince wrote, 1. A panegyric on his queen, before she was married to him. 2. Scotch sonnets: one of them, a lamentation while in England, is in manuscript in the Bodleian library, and bestows great praises on Gower and Chaucer. 3. Rhythmi Latini. 4. On music.
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