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343:, where she remained six months. Holinshed says: "The queen, being desirous to have peaceful landing in Scotland, would not for the present meddle with religion, although Durie, abbot of Dunfermline, and John Sinclaire, lately appointed bishop of Brechin, did vehemently persuade and labour her to the contrary".
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Much obloquy has been attached to his name for the part he took in the negotiations prior to the battle. The members of the privy council deceived the
Scottish army as to the conciliatory demands of the English, which they gave out to be insulting. They have been thought to have acted thus, less from
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of twenty members, four of whom were to act in rotation for a month. The abbot was appointed to act during the second month of this new arrangement. He was again in office as a privy councillor two years later, in
September 1547, at the critical juncture of affairs which led to the
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294:, the English chronicler of the "Expedition into Scotland", and an eye-witness of the battle, gives a very minute description of a banner found on the field after the fight, which was said to be that of the abbot of Dunfermline, and under which the "kirkmen" had fought.
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When the popular tide had run so far in
Scotland that many of the queen-regent's most influential advisers had deserted her, the abbot showed no sign of defection. When her prospects were the darkest, he approved of her withdrawal to
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His name appears in the chapter-book of the abbey of
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to France to obtain the ratification of this measure by the queen. His untoward reception was attributed in
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how they were situated. Although then sixty-seven years of age, he seems to have been quite as resolute as before. He embarked at
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