the twenty-fourth bishop of St Andrews, to which he had been translated from Dunkeld. He was natural son of James, the first Earl of Arran, and was in great favour at court whilst his friends remained in power. He was one of Queen Mary's privy council, and a steady friend of that unfortunate princess. He performed the ceremony of christening her son, and was at different times lord privy seal and lord treasurer. The queen had reason to lament her not following the advice of this prelate, after the fatal battle of Langside, when he urged her not to trust her person in England. By the Earl of Murray, the regent, he was declared a traitor, and obliged to seek shelter amongst his friends. But being unfortunately in the castle of Dumbarton when that fortress was taken by surprise, he was carried thence to Stirling, where, on the 1st of April 1570, he was executed, with the uncere monious barbarity peculiar to the time.