- BELLENDEN, WILLIAM
- a Scottish writer, distinguished for diplomatic services to Queen Mary, and for the purity of his Latin composition; a professor of belles-lettres in Paris University (1550-1613).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BELLENDEN, WILLIAM
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