A History of the Bethune Family Together With a Sketch of the Faneuil Fami
A History of the Bethune Family Together With a Sketch of the Faneuil Fami
Jane Lee Hunt Weisse
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The following " life " is virtually only an abridgment of that by Lodge, and for the most part the appropriations are acknowledged by quotation signs. It is interwoven with family history, of which Lodge appears to know very little. The rest is translated from the French of Andre du Chesne. All I have done is to make one clear narrative from facts derived from these three different sources. LIFE OF CARDINAL BETHUNE. 29 LIFE OF CARDINAL BETHUNE. David Bethune, 1 born 1494, was son of John Bethun...e of Balfour and Elizabeth Moneypenny, daugliter of David Moneypenny of Pitinilly, in the County of Fife. Lie had an uncle, James Bethune, who was Archbishop of St. An- drew's and Primate of all Scotland. This uncle was very wealthy, and David was his adopted son and heir. He re- ceived an admirable education in the University of St. An- drew's, under the eye of his uncle, who afterward sent him to Paris, with the double view of completely qualifying him for the duties of a statesman and to Introduce him advan- tageously to the Duke of Albany, who resided in Paris and was about to accept the office of Regent of Scotland during the minority of his great-nephew, James IV.
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