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See also:FRANCIS See also:SEMPILL (1616?—1682) was a son of See also:Robert Sempill the younger. No details of his See also:education are known. His fidelity to the Stuarts involved him in See also:money difficulties, to meet which he alienated portions of his estates to his son. Before 1677 he was appointed See also:sheriff-depute of See also:Renfrewshire. He died at See also:Paisley in See also:March 1682. Sempill wrote many occasional pieces, and his fame as a wit was widespread. Among his most important See also:works is the " Banishment of Poverty," which contains some See also:biographical details. " The Blythsome See also:Wedding," See also:long attributed to Francis Sempill, has been more recently asserted to be the See also:work of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Scott of Thirlestane. Sempill's claim to the authorship of the celebrated See also:song " She raise and let me in," and of the ballad " Maggie See also:Lauder," has been discussed at considerable length. It seems probable that he had some See also:share in both.
See the works mentioned below in the See also:article on the See also:elder Robert Sempill, and The Poems of the Sempills of Beltrees, ed. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Paterson (See also:Edinburgh, 1849) ; A See also:Literary See also:History of See also:Scotland, by J. H. See also:Millar (1903); and Notes and Queries, 9th See also:series (xi., 1903, pp. 436-437).
End of Article: FRANCIS SEMPILL (1616?—1682)
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