The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs Episodes Leaders and Distinctive Characteristics (Being the Baird Lecture for 1899) - nouveau livre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. PATRICK HAMILTON. It has not been very clearly ascertained how or when the opinions and writings of Luther were first introduced into Scotland. M. de la Tour, who in 1527 suffered in Paris for heresy, was accused of having vented various Lutheran opinions while in Edinburgh in attendance on the Duke of Albany. This, of course, must have been before 1523. On the gth June 1523, the same day that John Major was received as Principal of the Psedagogium, or St Mary's College,1 Patrick Hamilton was incorporated into the University of St Andrews;2 and on 3rd October 1524 hewas admitted as a member of the Faculty of Arts. If he did not from the latter date act as a regent in the University, he probably took charge of some of the young noblemen or gentlemen attending the classes. At that date he was probably more Erasmian than Lutheran, though of that more earnest school who were ultimately to outgrow their teacher, and find their congenial home in a new church. 1 See Appendix A. '2 [The entry in the Register of the University occurs at the bottom of a page, and is preceded and followed by entries of 1521, as if it had been inserted there to save space. The entries of 1521 are distinct and easily read, but in this of 1523 the ink is very faint, and the surface of the vellum has a rubbed appearance. It runs thus: " Die nono mensis Junii anno Domini Im Vc xxiij incorporatus erat venerabilis vir Magister noster Magister Johannes Major doctortheologus in Parisiensis et thesaurarius capelle rcgis. Eodem die incorporati sunt Magister Patricius Hamilton et Magister Robertus Laudar in nostra Universite" (: ).] Patrick Hamilton was born in 1503 or 1504 at Stonehouse in Lanarkshire, or at Kincavel near Linlithgow. His father, a natural son of the first Lord Hamilton, had b...