David Moysie () was a Scottish
notary public, known as the author of the ''Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, 1577–1603''.
[Also Moise, Moyses, Mosey.]
Life
He was by profession a writer and notary public. A notarial attestation of a lease by him occurs in 1577. From 1582 he was engaged as a crown servant, first as a clerk of the privy council, carrying out secretarial work under the superintendence of John Andrew, and attending
James VI
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at court. Afterwards, about 1596, he was in the office of
John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir, the king's secretary. On 3 August 1584 he obtained a grant under the privy seal for his son David's schooling; on the death of his son, soon after, he had the gift ratified in his own favour on 19 February 1585. Other references to Moysie occur in letters written to Sir John Lindsay the secretary in 1596.
Works
The ''Memoirs'' are the record of an eyewitness, surviving in two manuscripts. They were printed by Ruddiman (Edinburgh, 1755), and edited for the
Bannatyne Club The Bannatyne Club, named in honour of George Bannatyne and his famous anthology of Scots literature the Bannatyne Manuscript, was a text publication society founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, ...
(Edinburgh, 1830).
David Moyses, ''Memoirs of the affairs of Scotland from K. James VI his taking of the government in 1577, till his accession to the Crown of England in 1603'' (Edinburgh, 1755).
James Dennistoun, ''Memoirs of the affairs of Scotland, by David Moysie'' (Bannatyne Club: Edinburgh, 1830).
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Scottish memoirists
16th-century Scottish people