Beaton

or Bethune, David , cardinal, archbishop of St. Andrews, and primate of the kingdom, born in Fife; an adviser of James V., twice over amba ador to France; on the death of James secured to himself the chief power in Church and State as Lord High Chancellor and Papal Legate; opposed alliance with England; persecuted the Reformers; condemned George Wishart to the stake, witne ed his sufferings from a window of his castle in St. Andrews, and was a a inated within its walls shortly after; with his death ecclesiastical tyranny of that type came to an end in Scotland (1494-1546).