Mure, SIR WILLIAM

Mure, SIR WILLIAM, of Rowallan in Ayrshire, Scottish poet, was born in 1594, a nephew of the author of The Cherry and the Slae. He was wounded at Marston Moor, and died about the end of 1657. He translated into English sapphics Boyd of Trochrig's Latin poem, Hecatombe Christiana, but his principal work is his True Crucifix for True Catholikes (Edin. 1629). His fine version of the Psalms dates from 1639. See the Scottish Text Society's edition of his poems (2 vols. 1898).