The New International Encyclopædia/Sempill, Robert

SEM′PILL, Robert (c.1530-95). A Scottish ballad writer, who wrote many broadsides in support of the Reformation in Scotland. For them consult: The Sempill Ballates, ed. by Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1872); and Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, ed. by Cranstoun (Scottish Text Society, 2 vols., ib., 1889-93).