Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hay, Archibald

by Gordon Goodwin

HAY, ARCHIBALD (fl. 1543), writer, was a Scottish monk, domiciled at the ‘Mons Acutus,’ Paris. A cousin and dependent of Cardinal Beaton, he published ‘Ad … Cardinalem D. Betoun …, de fœlici accessione dignitatis Cardinalitiæ, gratulatorius panegyricus A. Hayi,’ 4to, Paris, 1540. He wrote also a Latin translation of the ‘Hecuba’ of Euripides, 4to, Paris, 1543.

[Tanner's Bibl. Brit. p. 387; British Museum Catalogue.]

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