John Paul Jameson (Jamieson) D.D. ( - 20 March 1700) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
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priest and
antiquarian
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.
Life
Jameson was born at
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
, was brought up a
Protestant
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, but became a Roman Catholic convert. He entered the Scots College at Rome on 10 April 1678 and was ordained priest on 9 May 1685. He was nominated to the chair of divinity in the seminary of Cardinal
Gregorio Barbarigo
Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo (16 September 1625 – 18 June 1697) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Catholic), cardinal who served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of Padua. ...
,
Bishop of Padua
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Jameson was sent back on the mission in 1687, when all the Scottish priests abroad were required by special orders from
James II and VII
James VII and II (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Re ...
to return to their native country. He was stationed first at
Huntly
Huntly ( gd, Srath Bhalgaidh or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie or simply Strathbogie. It had a population of 4,460 in 2004 and is the site of Huntly Castle. Its neighbouring settlemen ...
, began a new mission at Elgin in 1688, and died at Edinburgh on 25 March 1700 aged 41.
Scholar
During his residence in Rome Jameson transcribed, in the
Vatican
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The Holy See
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and elsewhere, original documents for a planned ''History of Scotland'', not completed. Some of these documents he left to Robert Strachan, missionary at Aberdeen, and the remainder were deposited in the
Scots College at Paris
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. According to
William Nicolson
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's ''Scottish Historical Library'', Jameson took from Rome copies of many bulls and briefs, made extracts of the consistorial proceedings of the Church of Scotland from 1494 to the
Protestant Reformation
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. He wrote critical notes on
John Spotiswood
John Spottiswoode (Spottiswood, Spotiswood, Spotiswoode or Spotswood) (1565 – 26 November 1639) was an Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of All Scotland, Lord Chancellor, and historian of Scotland.
Life
He was born in 1565 at Greenbank in ...
's ''History'' and on the printed '' Chronicle of Melros'', made remarks on ''Reliquiæ Divi Andreæ'' by George Martine, and compiled a ''Chartulary of the Church of Aberdeen''. He discovered in the
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death a ...
's library at Rome the original manuscript of the ''History of Kinloss'' by
Joannes Ferrerius
Joannes or John ( la, Iohannes; died 425) was western Roman emperor from 423 to 425.
On the death of the Emperor Honorius (15 August 423), Theodosius II, the remaining ruler of the House of Theodosius, hesitated in announcing his uncle's dea ...
, and circulated his transcript of the work to Scottish scholars.