Alexander Scott


Scott was a musician who is recorded as playing the fife in tableaux in 1540, and in 1548 was appointed organist at the Augustinian Priory of Inchmahome. His patron Robert Erskine took him to France and the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, for whom he wrote "Ane New Yeir Gift to the Quene Mary, quhen scho come first hame" (1562). In 1567 he purchased the estate of Nether Petledie in Fife, and he became a substantial landowner. It is for his love poetry that "sweet-tung'd Scott" (as Allan Ramsay called him) is admired, though he seems to have had an unhappy marriage judging by a footnote added by George Bannatyne (1545-1608) in the "Bannatyne Manuscript", where Scott's surviving output of thirty six poems appear. Beneath "To luve unluvit" Bannatyne wrote "Quod Scott, quhen his wife left him". AC

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