Nicol Burne

{{Short description|Scottish controversialist}} {{For|those of a similar name|Nicholas Byrne (disambiguation){{!}}Nicholas Byrne|Nicholas Burns (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2014}}  '''Nicol Burne''' (fl. 1574–1598) was a Scottish Roman Catholic controversialist.

==Life== Burne told Thomas Smeaton in Paisley that he wished to defend Catholic doctrines before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Smeaton excommunicated him, and Burne was arrested. He was confined in St Andrews Castle, and then taken to the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh. He remained there from 15 October 1580 to the end of January 1581. He was then exiled.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Burne, Nicol|volume=6}}</ref>

==Works== Burne is known through his ''Disputation''<ref>''The Disputation concerning the Controversit Headdis of Religion, haldin in the Realme of Scotland, the yeir of God ane thousand fyue hundreth four scoir yeiris, betuix the pretendit ministers of the deformed kirk in Scotland and Nicol Burne, Professor of Philosophie in S. Leonardis College, in the citie of Sanctandrois, brocht up from his tender eage in the peruersit sect of the Calvinistis and nou, be ane special grace of God, ane member of the halie catholic kirk, Dedicat to his Souerane the Kingis M. of Scotland, King James the Saxt.''</ref> published in 1581 in Paris. In the epistle to the reader, Burne states that he was brought up a Calvinist. The work repeats slurs against John Knox and continental Protestant reformers.<ref name="DNB"/>

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;Attribution *{{DNB|wstitle=Burne, Nicol|volume=6}}

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