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Adam Squire or Squier (died 1588) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Balliol College, Oxford from 1571 to 1580, and Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1577. ==Life== Squire graduated B.A. at Balliol College in 1560, and became a Fellow that year, graduating M.A. in 1564. He became vicar of Cumnor in 1568, and accumulated other preferments, being canon of St Paul's Cathedral in 1577. Squire's suspicions of Robert Persons were instrumental in forcing Persons, who was Dean of college, to resign his Balliol fellowship in 1574. They had clashed when Persons was Senior Bursar in 1572–3. Squire had an ally among the Fellows in Christopher Bagshaw. Squire himself had a reputation for dealings with the supernatural. It was alleged against him by Persons that he sold familiar spirits, in the form of a fly, to gamblers; or, in the term "dycing flies", the word ''fly'' was then a synonym for familiar.〔Hope Emily Allen, ''Influence of Superstition on Vocabulary: Two Related Examples'', PMLA Vol. 50, No. 4 (Dec., 1935), pp. 1033-1046, at p. 1034. Published by: Modern Language Association. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/458106〕 The charge came close to losing Squire his post as Master. Richard Harvey, in defending his own practice of astrology, mentioned Squire among other academics as sympathetic to it.〔Richard Bauckham, ''Science and Religion in the Writings of Dr. William Fulke'', The British Journal for the History of Science Vol. 8, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), pp. 17-31, at p. 23. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4025814〕 According to ''Balliofergus'' he was "a great Mathematician".〔Frances de Paravicini, ''Early History of Balliol College'' (1891), p. 324; (archive.org. )〕 Squire embezzled a legacy given to the college.〔(archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk ''Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts''. )〕 Around 1580 he was paid off by the Jesuit George Gilbert to turn a blind eye to the development of a Catholic association of young men in the area (Farringdon Without) of Chancery Lane or Fetter Lane. In 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, and also his death, he was given custody of a leading recusant, Walter Fowler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Squire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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