Patrick Primrose

Patrick Primrose OP (c. 1605–1671) was a Scottish Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church, Scottish Vicar General, and royal chaplain to Queen Catherine of Braganza, who died in 1671 after being jailed for two months over winter for celebrating Mass.

Biography

Patrick Primrose graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1631. His appointment to that position required special dispensation because he had not been a Dominican for 12 years as required. The Domestic Annals of Scotland describe how several months passed after his imprisonment before he was identified as a servant of the Queen. Primrose was then released on condition that he exile himself. The authorities later allowed that he was prevented from leaving by ill health, likely caused by the conditions of his imprisonment. although the location of his death is at most uncertain.

He was buried in the grounds of the pre-Reformation church of St. Peter, Drumdelgie, at the River Deveron near Milton of Strathbogie (now Huntly) in the former parish of Botary. His monument there was ordered demolished by the authorities, citing the penal laws, identified by an inscription on its base.