1. John Lesley was a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop and historian.
17 Facts About John Lesley
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John Lesley's father was Gavin Lesley, rector of Kingussie, Badenoch.
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John Lesley studied at Poitiers, at Toulouse and at Paris, where he was made doctor of laws in 1553.
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John Lesley was present at the disputation held in Edinburgh in 1561, when Knox and Willox were his antagonists.
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John Lesley was one of the commissioners sent the same year to bring over the young Mary, Queen of Scots, to take the government of Scotland.
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John Lesley returned in her train, and was appointed a privy councillor and professor of canon law in King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1565 one of the senators of the college of justice.
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John Lesley was one of the sixteen commissioners appointed to revise the laws of Scotland, and the volume of the Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland known as the Black Acts was, chiefly owing to his care, printed in 1566.
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John Lesley was one of the most steadfast friends of Queen Mary.
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John Lesley was one of the commissioners at the conference at York in 1568.
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John Lesley appeared as her ambassador at the court of Elizabeth I to complain of the injustice done to her, and when he found he was not listened to he laid plans for her escape.
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John Lesley projected a marriage for her with Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, which ended in the execution of that nobleman.
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Elizabeth I had John Lesley arrested in the autumn of 1569, partly to satisfy Regent Moray.
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John Lesley was put under the charge of Edwin Sandys, bishop of London.
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John Lesley was questioned at Hampton Court and then sent to visit Mary, Queen of Scots, at Chatsworth and Sheffield.
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John Lesley was held at Ely Place in Holborn, and then visited the bishop's houses at Fenstanton, and Somersham.
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John Lesley was allowed five servants in Huntingdonshire and accompanied by Ninian Winzet.
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John Lesley wrote for her use his Piae Consolationes, and the queen devoted some of the hours of her captivity to translating a portion of it into French verse.