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PATRICK ADAMSON (1537-1592)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 182 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATRICK See also:ADAMSON (1537-1592)  , Scottish divine, See also:arch-See also:bishop of St See also:Andrews, was See also:born at See also:Perth . He studied See also:philosophy, and took the degree of M.A. at St Andrews . After being See also:minister of See also:Ceres in See also:Fife for three years, in 1566 he set out for See also:Paris as See also:tutor to the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:James Macgill, the clerk-See also:general . In See also:June of the same See also:year he wrote a Latin poem on the See also:birth of the See also:young See also:prince James, whom he described as serenissimus princeps of See also:France and See also:England . The See also:French See also:court was offended, and he was confined for six months . He was released only through the intercession of See also:Queen See also:Mary of See also:Scotland and some of the See also:principal See also:nobility, and retired with his See also:pupil to See also:Bourges . He was in this See also:city at the See also:time of the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew at Paris, and lived concealed for seven months in a public-See also:house, the aged See also:master of which, in See also:reward for his charity to a heretic, was thrown from the roof . While in this " See also:Sepulchre," he wrote his Latin poetical version of the See also:book of See also:Job, and his tragedy of See also:Herod in the same See also:language . In 1572 or 1573 he returned to Scotland, and became minister of See also:Paisley . In 1575 he was appointed by the General See also:Assembly one of the commissioners to See also:settle the See also:jurisdiction and policy of the See also:church; and the following year he was named, with See also:David See also:Lindsay, to See also:report their proceedings to the See also:earl of See also:Morton, then See also:regent . In 1576 his See also:appointment as See also:archbishop of St Andrews gave rise to a protracted conflict with the ,Presbyterian party in the Assembly . He had previously published a See also:catechism in Latin See also:verse dedicated to the See also:king, a See also:work highly approved even by his opponents, and also a Latin See also:translation of the Scottish See also:Confession of Faith .

In 1578 he submitted himself to the General Assembly, which procured him See also:

peace for a little time, but next year fresh accusations were brought against him . He took See also:refuge in St Andrews See also:Castle, where " a See also:wise woman," See also:Alison See also:Pearson, who was ultimately burned for See also:witchcraft, cured him of a serious illness . In 1583 he went as James's See also:ambassador to the court of See also:Elizabeth, and is said to have behaved rather badly . On his return he took strong See also:parliamentary See also:measures against Presbyterians, and consequently, at a provincial See also:synod held at St Andrews in See also:April 1586, he was accused of See also:heresy and excommunicated, but at the next General Assembly the See also:sentence was remitted as illegal . In 1587 and 1588, however, fresh accusations were brought against him, and he was again excommunicated, though afterwards on the inducement of his old opponent, See also:Andrew See also:Melville, the sentence was again remitted . Meanwhile he had published the See also:Lamentations of See also:Jeremiah, and the book of See also:Revelation in Latin verse, which he dedicated to the king, complaining of his hard usage . But James was unmoved by his application, and granted the See also:revenue of his see to the See also:duke of See also:Lennox . For the See also:rest of his See also:life See also:Adamson was supported by charity; he died in 1592 . His recantation of See also:Episcopacy (1590) is probably See also:spurious . Adamson was a See also:man of many gifts, learned and eloquent, but with See also:grave defects of See also:character . His collected See also:works, prefaced by a fulsome See also:panegyric, in the course of which it is said that " he was a See also:miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate See also:production of See also:God Almighty than born of a woman," were produced by his son-in-See also:law, See also:Thomas See also:Wilson, in 1619 .

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