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ZACHARY See also: universities of See also: Glasgow and St Andrews
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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 Scotland in 1621, to escape the Huguenot persecution
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In 1623 he was appointed See also: minister of the See also: Barony See also: church in Glasgow, and he was rector of the university in 1634, 1635 and 1645
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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
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His poetical compositions, though often eccentric, have some merit
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The See also: common statement that he made the printing of his metrical version of the Gospels and other Biblical narratives a condition of the reception of his See also: grant to the university is a
See also: mistake
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In later years he was a staunch Covenanter, and though for a See also: time opposed to Oliver See also: Cromwell, afterwards became friendly with him
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His best-known See also: works are The Battel of the Soul in See also: Death (1629), of which a new,edition, with a biography by G
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Neil, was published in Glasgow in 1831; Zion's 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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