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TYRIE
James Tyrie" (Paris, 1573). Next year he discussed
several points of religion with Andrew Melville pri-
vately in Paris. In 1585 he was summoned to Rome
as the representative of France on the Committee of
Six, who eventually drew up Father Acquaviva's first
edition of the "Ratio studiorum", printed in 15S6.
He was rector of Clermont College during the great
siege of Paris (May to September, 1590). His anxie-
ties and difficulties must then have been great, as he
had over a hundred .scholars as well ;is a large commu-
nity to feed, and that at a time when men were ijerish-
ing with hunger in the streets. After the Duke of Parma
had revictualled the town (September), TjTie was
again sent to Rome, as French deputy for the congre-
gation, which finally supported the government of
Father .\cquaviva.
On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-a-Mousson, as professor of Scrip- ture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffa;us, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France
and Germany, and played his part in the important
Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus
(1593). He also supported at Rome the vain endeav-
ours in Scotland of the three CathoUc Earls of Huntly,
Erroll, and Angus to maintain themselves, with King
James's connivance, by force of arms against the Kirk
(1594). The earls asked and obtained a subsidy from
Clement VIII; and Father Tyrie's advice and opinion
were constantly taken by both the papal and the Scot-
tish negotiators. He al.so took steps to restore the
Scottish hospital at Rome, which eventually (1600)
became the Scots College there. Rare as it was
to keep on good terms with adversaries in those days,
Tyrie won praise from such men as David Buchanan,
both for his ability and for his courtesy. Part of his
cursns is preserved in MS. at the Bibliotheque Na-
tionale, Paris.
Laing. The Works of John Knox (1846), VI, 476; Fouquerat, Hisl. lie la C. de Jesus en Fratice (1910): .^bham (ed. Carayon), Universile de Pont-a- Mnuasnn (1870); Sommervoqel, Bibl. de la C. de Jesus, viii, 300; Law in Diet. Nat. Biog., s. v.
J. H. Pollen.
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