Selections from Wodrow's Biographical Collections
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ISBN13: 9780217991322
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Note i, Page 1. Spotswood, otherwise Spottis woode, the historian and archbishop, was the elder son of John Spotswood, one of the pillars of the Reformation and Superintendent of Lothian, Merse and Teviotdale. John, the historian, was born in the year 1565, and educated at the University of Glasgow. Having made choice of the clerical profession, he, on the death of his father, succeeded to the incumbency of Calder, in the year 1586, in which station he obtained so good a reputation, that he was chosen to accompany the Duke of Lennox as his chaplain in his embassy to France, in the year 1602. From this connection he naturally cast in his lot with the Episcopal party, and became a devoted adherent of the King. For this he was rewarded by being first made Archbishop of Glasgow, and afterwards Archbishop of St. Andrews. He was regularly consecrated along with Lamb, Bishop of Brechin, and Hamilton, Bishop of Galloway, on 21st October, 1610, in the Chapel at London House, by the Bishops of London, Ely, and Bath. He, in 1615, was preferred to the See of St. Andrews, which he held till he was deposed and excommunicated by the General Assembly of 1638, and forced to flee into England, where he died the following year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He is disliked by the Presbyterians, says Dr. Cunningham, as the chief agent employed by the King to force Episcopacy on the country, and though, it appears, some of the violent measures of the Court were taken against his better judgment, yet he is, perhaps, on that account, the more culpable, as he gave such violent courses his active support. While, doubtless, conscientiously preferring Episcopacy to Presbyterianism, he scrupled not to sacrifice his country's faith to his own ambition. He wrote a small tre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217991322 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217991327 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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