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COLVILLE, JOHN (c. 154o-16o5)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 748 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COLVILLE, JOHN (c. 154o-16o5) , Scottish divine and author, was the son of Robert Colville of Cleish, in the county of Kinross. Educated at St Andrews University, he became a Presbyterian minister, but occupied himself chiefly with political intrigue, sending
secret
  information to the English government concerning Scottish affairs. HA0 joined the party of the
earl
  of Gowrie, and took part in the Raid of Ruthven in 1582. In 1587 he for a short time occupied a seat on the judicial bench, and was
commissioner
  for Stirling in the Scottish
parliament
 . In December 1591 he was implicated in the
earl
  of Bothwell's attack on Holyrood Palace, and was outlawed with the earl. He retired abroad, and is said to have joined the Roman Church. He died in Paris in 1605. Colville was the author of several works, including an Oratio Funebris on Queen Elizabeth, and some political and religious controversial essays. He is said to be the author also of The Historie and Life of King James the Sext (edited by T.
Thompson
  for the Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1825).
Colville's
Original
  Letters, 7582-1603, published by the Bannatyne Club in 1858, contains a biographical memoir by the editor,
David
  Laing.


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