Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

WINZET, NINIAN (1518—1592)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

WINZET, See also:NINIAN (1518—1592) , Scottish polemical writer, was See also:born in See also:Renfrew, and was probably educated at the university of See also:Glasgow. He was ordained See also:priest in 1540, and in 1552 was appointed See also:master of the See also:grammar school of See also:Linlithgow, from which See also:town he was later " expellit and schott out " by the partisans of See also:Dean See also:Patrick Kinlochy, " preacher " there. He had also enjoyed the See also:office of See also:Provost of the Collegiate See also:Church of St See also:Michael in that town. He retired to See also:Edinburgh, where the return of See also:Queen See also:Mary had given See also:heart to the Catholics. There he took See also:part in the pamphlet See also:war which then raged, and entered into conflict with See also:Knox and other leading reformers. He appears to have acted for a See also:time as See also:confessor to the queen. In See also:July 1562, when engaged in the See also:printing of his Last Blast, he narrowly escaped the vengeance of his opponents, who had by that time gained the upper See also:hand in the See also:capital, and he fled, on the 3rd of See also:September, with the See also:nuncio See also:Gouda to See also:Louvain. He reached See also:Paris in 1565 and became a member of the " See also:German Nation " of the university. At Queen Mary's See also:request he joined See also:Bishop See also:Leslie on his See also:embassy to Queen See also:Elizabeth in 1571, and remained with the bishop after his removal by Elizabeth's orders to See also:ward at Fenny See also:Staunton, See also:Huntingdonshire. When further suspicion See also:fell on Leslie and he was committed to the See also:Tower, Winzet was permitted to return to Paris. There he continued his studies, and in 1574 See also:left for See also:Douai, where in the following See also:year he became a licentiate. He was in resid%ce at See also:Rome from 1575 to 1577, and was then appointed by See also:Pope See also:Gregory XIII. See also:abbot of the See also:Benedictine monastery of St See also:James, See also:Regensburg.

There he died on the 21st of September 1592. Winzet's See also:

works are almost entirely controversial. He justified his See also:literary activity on the See also:side of Catholicism on the See also:double plea of See also:conscience and the inability of the bishops and theologians to See also:supply the necessary arguments ( hies' Tractate, ed. S.T.S., i. p. so). "We may nawayis langer contene vs," he writes, " hot expresse on al sydis as we think, referring See also:Jur iugement to the haly Catholik See also:Kirk." In his first See also:work, Certaine Tractates (three in number), printed in T562, he rates his See also:fellow See also:clergy for See also:negligence and See also:sin, invites replies from Knox regarding his authority as See also:minister and his See also:share in the new ecclesiastical constitution, and protests against the interference with See also:Catholic burgesses by the magistrates of Edinburgh. The Last Blast, which was interrupted in publication, is an onslaught on heretics and a falsely ordained clergy. In his See also:Bake of Four Scoir Thee Questions (1563), addressed to the " Calviniane Precheouris," in which he treats of church See also:doctrine, sacraments, priesthood, obedience to rulers, See also:free-will and other matters, he is dogmatic rather than polemical. He translated the Commonitorium of Vincentius Lirinensis (1563), and wrote, in Latin, a Flagellum sectarionum and a Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum (1582). Winzet's See also:vernacular writings have been edited by J. Hewison for the S.T.S. (2 vols., 1888, 1890). The Tractates were printed, with a See also:preface by See also:David See also:Laing, by the See also:Maitland See also:Club (1835).

For Winzet's career see Zeigelbauer, Historia rei literariae O.S.B. iii., See also:

Mackenzie, Lives, iii., and the Introduction to S.T.S., edit. U.S.

End of Article: WINZET, NINIAN (1518—1592)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES (1809-1894)
[next]
WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M...