Henry Adamson

[2] He set out to train as a priest, after his uncle Patrick Adamson, but instead became a schoolmaster in his home city.

[2] His friend William Drummond encouraged the publication of his most famous poem: Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, (Edinburgh 1638 – see 1638 in poetry).

He related that his friend, Mr Gall, "a citizen of Perth, and a gentle-man of goodly stature, and pregnant wit, much given to pastime, as golf, archerie, curling and jovial companie".

It also records the playing of golf on the South Inch: And ye, my clubs must no more prepare To make your balls flee whistling through the air It is also particularly noted for its observation of rosicrucianism, freemasonry and second sight.

Referring to the rebuilding of a bridge over the River Tay, swept away in 1621, Adamson wrote:[4] Thus Mr Gall assured it would be so And my good genius doth surely know: For what we do presage is not in grosse For we be brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the Mason word, and second sight, Things for to come we can foretell aright.