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FORMAN, ANDREW (c. Scottish ecclesiastic, was educated at the university of St. Andrews and entered the service of King James IV., who employed him on various foreign missions. In 1501 he became bishop of Moray, and in July 1513 Louis XII. of France secured his appointment as archbishop of Bourges, while pope Julius II. promised to make him a cardinal. In 1514 Forman was nominated by Pope Leo X. to the vacant archbishopric of St. Andrews, and was made papal legate in Scot land, but his possession of the see was delayed until 1516 on account of the rivalry of Gavin Douglas, the poet, and John Hepburn, prior of St. Andrews. He died on March I I, 1521. As archbishop he issued a series of constitutions which are printed in J. Robertson's Concilia Scotiae (1866). A. Lang (History of Scotland, vol. i.) describes Forman as "the Wolsey of Scotland, and a fomenter of the war which ended at Flodden." See J. Herkless and R. K. Hannay, The Archbishops of St. Andrews (vol. ii., igo9) .

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