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Retiring from the court, he entered into orders, and was appointed rector or minister of Logie, the names of ecclesiastical offices then floating between presbytery and prelacy. If, as has been conjectured with some plausibility, he was the author of the Invectives or Flytings, addressed to Montgomery under the signature of Polwart, these must have been composed while he retained the character of a courtier; and his disgust was probably completed by the superior applause which his adversary