Melville, SIR JAMES, of Halhill, born in 1535, was sent as page of honour to the young Queen Mary in France, and subsequently undertook numerous missions to the court of England and of the Elector Palatine. He died 1st November 1617, leaving interesting Memoirs, of which the standard edition is that of the Bannatyne Club (1827).
Melville, SIR JAMES
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 129
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