See also: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
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Macgill, the clerk-See also:general
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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 (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil to See also:Bourges
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He was in this See also:city at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
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In 1572 or 1573 he returned to Scotland, and became minister of See also:Paisley
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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
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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
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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
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, in 1619
.
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