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ALEXANDER PEDEN (c. 1626-1686)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 37 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:PEDEN (c. 1626-1686)  , Scottish divine, one of the leading forces in the See also:Covenant See also:movement, was See also:born at Auchincloich, See also:Ayrshire, about 1626, and was educated at See also:Glasgow University . He was ordained See also:minister of New Luce in See also:Galloway in 166o, but had to leave his See also:parish under See also:Middleton's See also:Ejectment See also:Act in 1663 . For 23 years he wandered far and wide, bringing comfort and succour to his co-religionists, and often very narrowly escaping See also:capture . He was indeed taken in See also:June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow, and condemned by the privy See also:council to 4 years and 3 months' imprisonment on the See also:Bass See also:Rock and a further 15 months in the Tolbooth at See also:Edinburgh . In See also:December 1678 he was, with sixty others, sentenced to banishment to the See also:American plantations, but the party was liberated in See also:London, and See also:Peden made his way See also:north again to See also:divide the remaining years of his See also:life between his own See also:country and the north of See also:Ireland . His last days were spent in a See also:cave in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation . See A . Smellie, Men of the Covenant, ch. xxxiv .

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