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nion, that his poem, prefixed to the Fairy Queen,and figned Hobbinol, would, if he had written no-thing elfe, have rendered him immortal.

John Major, a fcholafiic Divine and Hiftorianof the fixteenth century. After ftudying fome timein Chrifi: Church, he went to Paris , and increafedhis flock of learning in the College of St. Barbe,under the famous John Boulac. From thence heremoved to that of Montacute, where he began theftudy of Divinity under the celebrated Standouk.In 1505, he was created D. D. at the College of Navarre , and in 1519 returned to Scotland .

He taught theology for feveral years in the Uni-verfity of St. Andrew ; but at length, being difguftedwith the quarrels of his countrymen, he went backto Paris , and refumed his lectures in the College ofMontacute, where he had feveral pupils, who after-wards became men of great eminence. Returningonce more to Scotland in 1530, he became Profef-for of Theology at St. Andrew ’s, and afterwardsProvoft. Du Pin fays, that “ of all the Divines“ who had written on the works of the mailer of“ the fentences, Major was the moil learned and“ comprehenfive.” Launoy, and other Frenchwriters, have given him the fame character. HisHiftory of Scotland , though written with boldnefs,is in a barbarous ftyle, and often fabulous.

John Leland, the great Englilh Antiquarian,after receiving the early part of his education at St.

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