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CARSTARES (or CARSTAIRS), See also: born at Cathcart, near See also: Glasgow, on the 11 th of See also: February 1649, the son of the Rev
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See also: John Carstares, a member of the extreme Covenanting party of Protestors
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He was educated at the university of
See also: Edinburgh, and then passed over to See also: Utrecht, where he commenced his lifelong friendship with the See also: prince of Orange, and began to take an active See also: part in the politics of his country
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The See also: government disliked Carstares for several reasons
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He was the intimate of See also: William; he had been the
See also: bearer of messages between the disaffected in Scotland and See also: Holland; and he was believed to be concerned with
See also: Sir See also: James
See also: Steuart (1635–1715) in the authorship of a pamphlet—An Account of Scotland's Grievances by reason of the D. of Lauderdale's Ministrie, humbly tendered to his Sacred Majesty
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Accordingly, on his return to See also: England, at the close of 1674, he was committed to the Tower; the following See also: year he was transferred to Edinburgh See also: Castle, and it was not till See also: August 1679 that he was released
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After this he visited See also: Ireland, and then became pastor to a Non-conformist See also: congregation at See also: Cheshunt
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During 1682 he was in Holland, but in the following year he was again in See also: London, and was implicated in the See also: Rye See also: House See also: Plot
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On its See also: discovery he was examined before the Scottish Council; though the torture of the thumb-screw was applied, he refused to utter a word till he was assured that his admissions would not be used in evidence, and in the disclosures he then made he displayed See also: great discretion
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On his return to Holland he was rewarded by William's still warmer friendship, and the See also: post of See also: court See also: chaplain; and after the Revolution he continued to hold this office, under the title of royal chaplain for Scotland
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He was the confidential adviser of the See also: king, especially with regard to Scottish affairs, and rendered important service in promoting the Revolution
See also: Settlement
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On the accession of See also: Anne, Carstares retained his post as royal chaplain, but resided in Edinburgh, having been elected See also: principal of the university
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He was also See also: minister of Greyfriars', and afterwards of St See also: Giles', and was four times chosen moderator of the general See also: assembly
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He took an important part in promoting the Union, and was consulted by Harley and other leading Englishmen concerning it
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During Anne's reign, the chief See also: object of his policy was to frustrate the See also: measures which were planned by See also: Lord See also: Oxford to strengthen the Episcopalian See also: Jacobites —especially a See also: bill for extending the privileges of the Episcopalians and the bill for replacing in the hands of the old patrons the right of patronage, which by the Revolution Settlement had been vested in the elders and the See also: Protestant heritors
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On the ac-cession of See also: George I., Carstares was appointed, with five others, to welcome the new dynasty in the name of the Scottish See also: Church
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He was received graciously, and the office of royal chaplain wasagain conferred upon him
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A few months after he was struck with apoplexy, and died on the 28th of
See also: December 1715
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See See also: State-papers and Letters addressed to William Carstares, to which is prefixed a See also: Life by M'Cormick (1774); See also: Story's Character and Career of William Carstares (1874) ; Andrew Lang's See also: History of Scotland (1907)
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