James Melville of Halhill
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Sir James Melville was a Scottish diplomat and memoir writer, and father of the poet Elizabeth Melville.
The vault of Sir James Melville in the Collessie churchyard, Fife.
Elizabeth Melville
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Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross was a Scottish poet. In 1603 she became the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work in print, when the Edinburgh publisher Robert Charteris issued the fir
Culross Abbey Kirk, where Elizabeth Melville worshipped.
Culross situated on the north coast of the Firth of Forth; the village from which Melville took her courtesy title, Lady Culross.
St Mary's College, St Andrews, at which Melville's son, Alexander, taught.
Pastor Samuel Rutherford (c.1600 – 1661).