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 ADAM. 43 learning of Germany. He wrote other works bcfides his lives [B}, and died in 1622. [B] Viz r. " Apographum menu- In the catalogue of the Bodleian li- " irKntorum HeidelbergenfiuB." brary, he is faid to have been the author a. " No';e in Orationem Jtilii (.'ael-nis of'' Hiilon.i lucltfuftita H.imbur^enfn " Scaligeri pro M. T. Cicucnc conna " ei Bremends :" but tins wnk, accord- " Ciccrnnianum Eralmi." ing to Mr. Bayle, was wii'ini hy one 3. ' Paioilia; et Metaphrafes Horati- Adam, a c.inon of Bremen, who lived ia " ana?. L'uriuni B.ograpii. Kenning! the lltb century. " Witte." ADAMSON (PATRICK.), a Scottifh prelate, archbifhop of St. Andrews. He was born 1543, in the town of Perth, where he received (he rudiments of his education, and after- wards ftudied philofophy, and took his degree of M. A. at the univerfity of St. Andrews. In the year 1566, he fet out for Paris, as tutor to a young gentleman. In the month of June in the fame year, Mary queen of Scots, being delivered of a fon, afterwards James VI. of Scotland, andFirft of Eng land, Mr. Adamfon wrote a Latin poem on the occahon. This proof of his loyalty involved him in fome difficulties, caufing him to be arrefted in France, and confined for fix months ; nor would he have got off fo eafily, had not queen Mary, and fome of the principal nobility, interested them- felves in his behalf. As foon as he recovered his liberty, he retired with his pupil to Botirges. He was in this city during the maiTacre at Paris; and the fame bloody perfecuting fpirit prevailing amongit the Catholics at Bourges, as at the metro- polis, he lived concealed for 7 months at a public houfe, the inafter of which, upwards of 70 years of age, was thrown from the top thereof, and had his brains dafhed out, for hisPrzfat. in charity to heretics. Whilft Mr. Adamfon lay thus in his fe-J bf pulchre, as he called it, he wrote his Latin poetical verfionof the Book of Job, and his Tragedy of Herod, in the fame lan- guage. In 1573, he returned to Scotland, and, having en- c a ider- tered into holy orders, became minifter of Paifley. In 1575, wood's Hi f- he was appointed one of the commiflioners, by the general af- f r y ( th = r ii -n-n- j i- r u u u .Church of fembly, to fettle the junldiciion and policy of the church j and Scotland, the following year he was name<i, with Mr. David Lindfay, tofol. 1680. report their proceedings to the e;irl of IVJoreton, then regent. p * $5- About this time, the earl made him one of h:s chaplains, and, on the death of bifhop Douglas, promoted him to the archi- epifcopal fee of St. Andrews, a dignity which brought upon him great trouble and uneafinels ; for now the clamour of the prefbyterian party rofe very high againft him, and many in- confiflent abfurd ftories were propagated about him. Soon afcer his promotion, he publiihed his Caiechifni in Latin verfe,