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DAVID CALDERWOOD (1575-1650)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 986 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:CALDERWOOD (1575-1650)  , Scottish divine and historian, was See also:born in 1575 . He was educated at See also:Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1593 . About 1604 he became See also:minister of Crailing, near See also:Jedburgh, where he became conspicuous for his resolute opposition to the introduction of See also:Episcopacy . In 1617, while See also:James was in See also:Scotland, a Re-See also:monstrance, which had been See also:drawn up by the Presbyterian See also:clergy, was placed in See also:Calderwood's hands . He was summoned to St See also:Andrews and examined before the See also:king, but neither threats nor promises could make him deliver up the See also:roll of signatures to the Remonstrance . He was deprived of his See also:charge, committed to See also:prison at St Andrews and afterwards removed to Edinburgh . The privy See also:council ordered him to be banished from the See also:kingdom for refusing to acknowledge the See also:sentence of the High See also:Commission . He lingered in Scotland, See also:publishing a few tracts, till the 27th of See also:August 1619, when he sailed for See also:Holland . During his See also:residence in Holland he published his Altare Damascenum . Calderwood appears to have returned to Scotland in 1624, and he was soon afterwards appointed minister of Pencaitland, in the See also:county of See also:Haddington . He continued to take an active See also:part in the affairs of the See also:church, and introduced in 1649 the practice, now confirmed by See also:long usage, of dissenting from the decision of the See also:Assembly, and requiring the protest to be entered in the See also:record . His last years were devoted to the preparation of a See also:History of the Church of Scotland .

In 1648 the See also:

General Assembly urged him to See also:complete the See also:work he had designed, and voted him a yearly See also:pension of £800 . He See also:left behind him a See also:historical work of See also:great extent and of great value as a storehouse of See also:authentic materials for history . An abridgment, which appears to have been prepared by himself, was published after his See also:death . An excellent edition of the complete work was published by the See also:Wodrow Society, 8 vols., 1842-1849 . The See also:manuscript, which belonged to General Calderwood See also:Durham, was presented to the See also:British Museum . Calderwood died at Jedburgh on the 29th of See also:October 1650 .

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