SPOTTED JEW-FISH (Promicrops gitaiara), an im mense marine bass (f am. Serra nidae) found on the coasts of tropical America, which some times attains a length of 8 ft. and a weight of about 700 pounds. The adult is dull olive-brown in colour, with faint spots and bands; the young are yellowish green, with dark cross-bars and spots about the head. The South Pacific jew-fish reaches 12 ft. SPOTTISWOODE (SPOTTISWOOD, SPOTISWOOD or SPOTS WOOD), JOHN (1565-1639), archbishop of St. Andrews and his torian of Scotland, eldest son of John Spottiswood, minister of Calder and "superintendent" of Lothian, was born in 1565. He was educated at Glasgow University (M.A. 1581), and succeeded his father in the parish of Calder in 1583. In 16o1 he attended Ludowick, duke of Lennox, as his chaplain, in an embassy to the court of France, returning in 1603. He followed James to Eng land on his accession, but was the same year nominated to the see of Glasgow, his consecration in London, however, not taking place until October 161o. On May 3o, 1605 he became a member of the Scottish privy council. In 1610 he presided as moderator over the assembly in which presbytery was abolished, in 1615 he was made archbishop of St. Andrews and primate of Scotland,
and in 1618 procured the sanction of the privy council to the Five Articles of Perth with their ratification by parliament in 1621. In 1633 he crowned Charles I. at Holyrood. In 1635 he was appointed lord chancellor of Scotland, an office which he retained till 1638. He was a spectator at the riot of St. Giles's, Edin burgh, on July 23, 1637, endeavoured in vain to avoid disaster by concessions, and on the taking of the Covenant perceived that "now all that we have been doing these thirty years past is thrown down at once." He escaped to Newcastle, was deposed by the assembly on December 4, on trivial charges, and died in London on November 26, 1639, receiving burial in Westminster Abbey. His most considerable work was The History of the Church and State of Scotland (London, 1655, seq.).
See the accounts prefixed to the first edition of Spottiswoode's History of Scotland and to that published by the Spottiswoode Society in 1851; also David Calderwood's Hist. of the Kirk of Scotland (1842-1849).