Background
Adamson was the son of James Adamson, Dean of the Merchant Guildry and Provost of Perth, Scotland, baptised on 11 November 1581.
Adamson was the son of James Adamson, Dean of the Merchant Guildry and Provost of Perth, Scotland, baptised on 11 November 1581.
University of Street Andrews.
He died before July in the year 1637. The poem is an important document for its general account of Perth in the seventeenth century. Adamson is credited with first using the word curling in 1620.
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".
lieutenant 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
Referring to the rebuilding of a bridge over the River Tay, swept away in 1621, Adamson wrote:
Thus Mr Gall assured it would be so
And my good genius doth surely know:
Foreign what we do presage is not in grosse
We have the Mason word, and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.