BALFOUR, Sir James, Bart., of Denmyne and Kinnaid, lord Lyon king-at-arms in the reigns of Charles I. and II., was eminent as an annalist, a lawyer, and antiquary. He appears to have been an able and indefatigable collector of MSS., and left, besides his Annales of Scotland, sixteen treatises on genealogies and heraldry. Some of his works are preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence; from which rich collection
Balfour
Balguy. Mr Haig published Balfour's Annals of Scotland, from the zeire 1057 to 1603, in 4 vols. 8vo.