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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Nicholas de Balmyle, Bernard of Kilwinning, James Kennedy, Patrick de Leuchars, Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale, William de Malveisin, Robert de Keldeleth, William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, James Stewart, Duke of Ross, William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn, William de Lauder, William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, Gavin Dunbar, Alan de St Edmund, George Shoreswood, James Beaton, James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, John de Carrick, Edward of Aberdeen, John Cameron, Gilbert de Greenlaw, Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Enguerrand, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, William de Bondington, James Bruce, Florence of Holland, John de Peebles, Matthew the Scot, William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, Gamelin, Hugh de Roxburgh, John Laing, Walter de Bidun, Thomas Charteris. Excerpt: Nicholas de Balmyle (d. 1319 x 1320), also called Nicholas of St Andrews, was a Scottish administrator and prelate in the late 13th century and early 14th century. A graduate of an unknown university, he served his earliest years as a clergyman at St Andrews, moving on to hold churches in Lothian as well as deputising (as Official) to two archdeacons of Lothian. In the late summer and in the autumn of 1296, between the death of Bishop William Fraser and the arrival of the new Bishop of St Andrews William de Lamberton, Nicholas was placed in charge of the diocese of St Andrews as Official. Nicholas thereafter can be found exercising a senior role in Scottish affairs, and by early 1301 he was Chancellor of...
