A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript.

More recent scholarship on the Bannatyne Manuscript suggests an earlier date of 1565 for its composition.

A. MacDonald, ' The Bannatyne Manuscript: a Marian Anthology ', IR xxxvii ( 1986 ), 36-47 ) demonstrate this and Michael Lynch points out that its compilation at this time was appropriate given that it contains a great deal of love poetry and was put together at the time of the royal marriage between Mary I and Lord Darnley. Lynch, M. A New History of Scotland, Pimlico, 1991, p213.

A Scottish poem with a similar theme, Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be, is included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and English broadside versions from the 17th century are common.

* the Hunterian Club in their edition of the Bannatyne Manuscript

Similarly, the garbled Bannatyne Manuscript indicates that the MacNeacails held Lewis from the Kings of Mann, and that the clan's possession of the island terminated though the marriage of an heiress to a MacLeod.

The Bannatyne Club, named in honour of George Bannatyne and his famous anthology of Scots literature the Bannatyne Manuscript was founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, poetry, or general literature.

Four copies have been preserved of it, of which only one is complete ; but it was reprinted in facsimile in 1854 for the Bannatyne Club by the munificence of the Duke of Buccleuch.

The island has three golf courses, one of which is situated on the outskirts of the town, the 18-hole Rothesay Golf Club, another, the 9 hole Bute Golf Course, near the sands of Stravannan Bay on the west coast of the island, and the other, the rather unusual, 13 hole Port Bannatyne Golf Club, situated on the hills behind the village.

Keating is also godfather to Mackenzie Bannatyne.

There is an ad hoc link between Glasgow Pacific Quay and Port Bannatyne Marina by Loch Lomond Seaplanes, journey time 17 minutes.

The largest of the island's three primary schools is Rothesay Primary, the smallest school ( with roughly 50 pupils ) is North Bute Primary in Port Bannatyne.

Petanque is played at Port Bannatyne ; boules may be hired from the Post Office there.

The centre for sailing on Bute is at Port Bannatyne with two boatyards and the new marina, and a club which organises private moorings in these particularly protected waters of Kames Bay.

Port Bannatyne, a village towards the north of the island, is the centre for sailing and sea-fishing on the island.

Port Bannatyne Golf Club is known for scenic views from the course.

Port Bannatyne () is a coastal village on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.

Above the village, with views across the sea to the Isle of Arran and the Argyll hills, is the Port Bannatyne golf-course.

The text of the poem is preserved in the Asloan ( c. 1515 ) and Bannatyne ( 1568 ) manuscripts, though the poem is thought to be 50 – 70 years older than the earlier manuscript.

Entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne is a fan and Hawkes performed as a surprise at his birthday party.

The most important of these is The Sevyn Sages by John Rolland of Dalkeith edited for the Bannatyne Club ( Edinburgh, 1837 ).

The table given is based on the advice of Charles Bannatyne of Salsburgh, Holyhead.

1823: The Bannatyne Club is founded

He is said to be the author also of The Historie and Life of King James the Sext ( edited by T. Thompson for the Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1825 ).

The most complete edition of the Memoirs is that prepared by Thomas Thomson for the Bannatyne Club ( Edinburgh, 1827 ), based on a manuscript discovered in 1827.

Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford Club ", a successor of the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's honour, for printing and publishing historical works connected with his writings.

The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008.

It was published anonymously in 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging the authorship of the words two years before her death in a letter to Sir Walter Scott ( 1823 ), who subsequently edited it for the Bannatyne Club with two continuations.

In 1839 he edited the ancient metrical romances of Syr Gawayne for the Bannatyne Club, and in 1847 Layamon's Brut, with a prose translation, for the Society of Antiquaries.

In 2008 the company was the subject of a BBC2 documentary, in which Duncan Bannatyne investigated the marketing practices of the company in Africa and specifically the way the company targets younger Africans with branded music events, competitions and the sale of single cigarette sticks.

In 1887 the company began experimenting with its product line leading to the creation of the large Jumbo pocket watch invented by Archibald Bannatyne – named after the famous P. T. Barnum elephant.

Eldest daughter Marie, born in 1816, married Richard Lane, HBC clerk ; Ellen married Thomas Bird ; Catherine married Thomas Truthwaite ; Mary Sally married William McTavish, Governor of Red River and Assiniboia ; Anne married Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne, who became a partner with Andrew McDermot and became the second wealthiest man in the settlement ; Harriet married Alexander Ralph Lillie, an HBC postmaster.

with Duncan Bannatyne

In 1860 the Marquess of Bute purchased this part of the island and renamed the village Port Bannatyne in honour of the long historical association of the Bannatyne family with the area.

In 1879 a narrow gauge horse drawn tram linked Port Bannatyne with Rothesay.

He edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford, and Hunterian Clubs, and for the Spottiswoode Society ; and he was the main editor of John Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 2 vols.

Tytler was one of the founders of the Bannatyne Club and of the English Historical Society.

The University of Manitoba has three main locations — the Bannatyne Campus, the Fort Garry Campus and the William Norrie Centre.

The downtown Bannatyne campus of the University comprises a complex of ten buildings located west of the Health Sciences Centre between McDermot Ave and William Ave in Central Winnipeg.

** George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems ( b. 1545 )

** George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems ( d. 1608 )

A complete memoir and a full notice of all his writings will be found in David Laing's edition of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie ( 1637 – 1662 ), Bannatyne Club, 3 vols.

Balnaves also busied himself in writing what Knox calls " a comfortable treatise of justification ," which was found in manuscript at the house of John Cockburn of Ormiston by Knox's secretary Richard Bannatyne and published at Edinburgh in 1584 under the title The Confession of Faith.

( National Library of Scotland ) George Bannatyne ( 1545 – 1608 ) was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess.

The document was passed by Bannatyne to his descendants and then, via several private owners, to the Advocates ' Library of Edinburgh.

In 1783 he married Helen Bannatyne, who died in 1787, leaving an only son, Colonel Matthew Stewart.

In 1824 he published The Poetical Remains of some of the Scottish Kings, now first collected ; and in the same year he edited and presented as a contribution to the Bannatyne Club Robene and Makyne and the Testament of Cresseid, by Robert Henryson.

* Duncan Bannatyne Entrepreneur, moved to Stockton when he was 30, before he made his fortune.

He was also the long-standing secretary to the Bannatyne Club, many of whose publications were edited by him.