Boece
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In translating this passage from Boece, both Holinshed and Bellenden overstate, in some degree, the words of their original author.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart
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 George Reid
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 David Nichol Smith
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 Sir Walter Scott
"Then the King began to muse," says Boece.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
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