Patrick Scot (
fl.
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1620) was a Scottish official, tutor and author.
Life
He followed
James VI of Scotland
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until hi ...
to England on his accession in 1603. In June 1618 he was engaged in the work of raising voluntary gifts for the supply of the king's exchequer by threatening persons with prosecutions for
usury. Six years later (August 1624) King James I wrote a letter of recommendation on his behalf.
Scot apparently acted as occasional tutor to
Prince Charles
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. In 1623 and 1625 he was in
Amsterdam, and observed the
separatist
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churches there.
Works
Scot's position resembled those of
Joseph Hall and
Thomas Tymme
Thomas Tymme (or Timme) (died 1620) was an English clergyman, translator and author. He combined Puritan views, including the need for capital punishment for adultery, with a positive outlook on alchemy and experimental science.
Life
He seems to h ...
, with emphasis on unity of doctrine. He attacked
alchemy, in particular, as example of curiosity, leading to
skepticism, leading to a large-scale questioning of orthodoxy. His writings include:
* ''Omnibus et singulis affording matter profitable for all men, necessarie for every man, alluding to a father's advice or last will to his sonne'', London, 1619; (dedicated to King James and Prince Charles). At the end are some verses, "ad serenissimam Magnæ Britanniæ Annam reginam defunctam". The work was rearranged and revised as ''A Father's Advice or Last Will to his Son'', London, 1620.
* ''Calderwood's Recantation, or a Tripartite Discourse directed to such of the Ministrie and others in Scotland that refuse Conformitie to the Ordinances of the Church'', &c., London, 1622 (epistle to the reader dated from Amsterdam, 29 November 1622).
* ''The Tillage of Light, or a True Discoverie of the Philosophical Elixir commonly called the philosopher's stone'', London, 1623. Dedicated to
James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton. It is a
hermetic and ethical work, denying
alchemical transmutation.
* ''Vox Vera, or observations from Amsterdam examining the late insolencies of some pseudo-puritans separatists from the church of Great Britaine'', London, 1625.
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17th-century Scottish writers