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Adam Abell (ca. 1480ca. 1540) was a Scottish people friar at Jedburgh Abbey. He wrote a chronicle in the 1530s that gives an insight into contemporary thought and contains anecdotes that appear in later writings. The manuscript of the Roit or Quheil of Tyme is kept at the National Library of Scotland, Ms. 1746. It was donated by Lt.-Colonel W. W. Cunninghame of Caprington.Asdair M. Stewart, Alasdair, (1996), 230 note 12.
"thai conspirit againis the king and gaif him batell beside Stirling and thare he wes slane. He wes confessit before with maistir Johne Yrland proffessor of theologie., ... thai slew him in the mill of bannoburne.Norman Macdougal, James III (1982), 315.Macdougall found nothing strikingly original in Abell's account of James III, which depends in part on Hector Boece, but was able to infer that his other sources for the reign were sympathetic to James III and Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, and to Abell's contemporary, John Stewart, Duke of Albany.Macdougall, Norman, James III, (1982), 280-282. Writing in 1537 of events in the previous year, Abell tells the story of the visit of James V of Scotland to Mary of Bourbon, with the interesting suggestion that there had been an exchange of portraits; as an Augustinians friar]]
"In ane dissimilit vestement he com to the duik of Vendôme fathir of the lady that he suld haif marreit. He wes knawin thare be his picture."Cameron, Jamie, James V, the personal rule, 1528-1542., Tuckwell (1998), 152-153, note 6: Alasdair M. Stewart, (1996), 252, quoting National Library of Scotland Ms 1746, folio 125v.
Alasdair Stewart contends that Abell's moralising handling of his subject matter and the examples he offers show his own strong character, contemporary attitudes and a unique view of international events from the cloister at Jedburgh.Alasdair M. Stewart, (1996), 230-235.
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