Patrick Adamson (1537 - 1592), Scottish divine, archbishop of St Andrews, was born at Perth, Scotland. He studied philosophy, and took the degree of M.A. at the University of St Andrews.
After being minister of Ceres in Fife for three years, in 1566 he set out for Paris as tutor to the eldest son of Sir James Macgill, the clerk-general. In June of the same year he wrote a Latin poem on the birth of the young prince James to King consort Henry Stu...
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Patrick Adamson (1537 - 1592), Scottish divine, archbishop of St Andrews, was born at Perth, Scotland. He studied philosophy, and took the degree of M.A. at the University of St Andrews.
After being minister of Ceres in Fife for three years, in 1566 he set out for Paris as tutor to the eldest son of Sir James Macgill, the clerk-general. In June of the same year he wrote a Latin poem on the birth of the young prince James to King consort Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and Queen regnant Mary I of Scotland. He described James as serenissimus princeps of France and England. The French court under Charles IX of France was offended, and he was confined for six months.
He was released only through the intercession of Mary I and some of the principal nobility, and retired with his pupil to Bourges. He was in this city at the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre at Paris, and lived concealed for seven months in a public-house, the aged master of which in reward for his charity to a heretic,...
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