Boece
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This part of Holingshed is an Abridgment of Johne Bellenden's translation of the noble clerk, Hector Boece, imprinted at Edinburgh, in Fol.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
The chroniclers, especially Boece, have much doubt thrown upon them by more serious historians, who quote them and build upon them nevertheless, having really no better evidence to go upon.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
Boece further relates how a ship named the Christofir was brought to Leith, and was broken down because her timbers had grown old and failing.
From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Holden, Edward Singleton
We have laid stress upon the evidence of Boece because in Aberdeen, if anywhere, the memory of the "Celtic peril" at Harlaw should have survived.
From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.
Ay, ay," rejoined Oldbuck, "you mean, I suppose, Mair and Boece, the Jachin and Boaz, not of history but of falsification and forgery.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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