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ZACHARY BOYD (1585?-1653)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOYD (1585?-1653)  , Scottish divine, was educated at the See also:universities of See also:Glasgow and St See also:Andrews . He was for many years a teacher in the See also:Protestant See also:college of See also:Saumur in See also:France, but returned to See also:Scotland in 1621, to See also:escape the Huguenot persecution . In 1623 he was appointed See also:minister of the See also:Barony See also:church in Glasgow, and he was See also:rector of the university in 1634, 1635 and 1645 . He bequeathed to the university the See also:half of his See also:fortune, a sum amounting to £20,000 Scots, besides his library and twelve volumes of See also:MSS . His poetical compositions, though often See also:eccentric, have some merit . The See also:common statement that he made the See also:printing of his metrical version of the Gospels and other Biblical narratives a See also:condition of the reception of his See also:grant to the university is a See also:mistake . In later years he was a staunch Covenanter, and though for a See also:time opposed to See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, afterwards became friendly with him . His best-known See also:works are The See also:Battel of the Soul in See also:Death (1629), of which a new,edition, with a See also:biography by G . Neil, was published in Glasgow in 1831; See also:Zion's See also:Flowers—often called " See also:Boyd's See also:Bible " (1644); Four Letters of Comfort (1640, reprinted, See also:Edinburgh, 1878) .

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