Note 235 — Chapter IX · THE LAST DAYS OF JOHN KNOX.
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[In the rather scurrilous Legend of the Bischop of St Androis, it is said:—
"Ane baxters sone, are beggar borne, That twyse his surnaime hes mensworne; To be called Constene he thocht shame, He tuke up Constantine to name. . . . . . . . . . . Thinking that poore professione vaine, He changed his surname ower agane; Now Doctor Adamsone at last, Whairthrow he ower to Paris past."
—Dalyell's Scotish Poems, 1801, ii. 309, 310.
He inherited both names from his ancestors, who were called Constantine or Adamson (M'Crie's Melville, 1856, p. 461).]