John Bellenden

John Bellenden was a Scottish churchman and translator, Archdeacon of Moray, who made a Scots version of Hector Boece's Latin history of Scotland and a Scots Livy for the court of James V.

The poems gathered here are the verse prefaces to those translations and the opening stanzas of "The Benner of Pietie", printed by Eyre-Todd in 1892.