See also:SPOTTISWOODE (SPOTTISwooD, SPOTISWOOD Or See also:SPOTSWOOD), See also:JOHN (1565-1639)
, See also:archbishop of St See also:Andrews and historian of See also:Scotland, eldest son of See also:John Spottiswood, See also:minister of See also:Calder and " See also:superintendent " of See also:Lothian, was See also:born in 1565
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He was educated at See also:Glasgow University (M.A
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1581), and succeeded his See also:father in the See also:parish of Calder in 1583
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In 16or he attended Ludowick, See also:duke of See also:Lennox, as his See also:chaplain, in an See also:embassy to the See also:court of See also:France, returning in 1603
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He followed See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James to See also:England on his See also:accession, but was the same See also:year nominated to the see of Glasgow, his See also:consecration in See also:London, however, not taking See also:place until See also:October 1610
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See also:Spottiswoode had originally become prominent as an ardent supporter of the strict Presbyterian party, but gradually came to see the inconveniences of " parity in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church," attributed little importance to the existing matters of dispute, and thought that the interests of both church and See also:state were best secured by keeping on See also:good terms with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king
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He was therefore ready to co-operate with James in curtailing the See also:powers of the Kill which encroached on the royal authority, and in assimilating the church of Scotland to that of England
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On the 3oth of May 16o5 he became a member of the Scottish privy See also:council
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In 1610 he presided as See also:moderator over the See also:assembly in which See also:presbytery was abolished, in 1615 he was made archbishop of St Andrews and See also:primate of Scotland, and in 1618 procured the See also:sanction of the privy council to the Five Articles of See also:Perth with their ratification by See also:parliament in 1621
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In 1633 he crowned See also:Charles I. at Holyrood
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In 1635 he was appointed See also:lord See also:chancellor of Scotland, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he retained till 1638
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He was opposed to the new See also:liturgy as inexpedient, but when he could not prevent its introduction he took See also:part in enforcing it
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He was a spectator of the See also:riot of St See also:Giles's, See also:Edinburgh, on the 23rd of See also:July 1637, endeavoured in vain to avoid disaster by concessions, and on the taking of the See also:Covenant perceived that " now all that we have been doing these See also:thirty years past is thrown down at once." He escaped to See also:Newcastle, was deposed by the assembly on the 4th of See also:December on a variety of ridiculous charges, and died in London on the 26th of See also:November 1639, receiving See also:burial in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey
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Spottiswoode published in 1620 Refutatio libelli de regimine ecclesiae scoticanae, an See also:answer to a See also:tract of See also:Calderwood, who replied in the Vindiciae subjoined to his Altare damascenum, (1623)
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The only other See also:writing published during his lifetime was the See also:sermon he preached at the Perth assembly
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His most considerable See also:work was The See also:History of the Church and State of Scotland (London, 1655, seq.)
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It displays considerable See also:research and sagacity, and even when dealing with contemporary events gives a favourable impression, upon the whole, of the author's candour and truth
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The opposite See also:side can be studied in Calderwood's History
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Spottiswoode married See also:Rachel, daughter of See also:David See also:Lindsay, See also:bishop of See also:Ross, and besides a daughter See also:left two sons, See also:Sir John Spottiswoode of Dairsie in See also:Fife, and Sir See also:Robert, See also:president of
' To each of his comrades in this See also:journey See also:Spotswood presented a small See also:golden horseshoe, lettered " Sic juvat transcendere mantes."
the Court of Session, who was captured at the See also:battle of Philiphaugh in 1645 and executed in 1646
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See the accounts prefixed to the first edition of Spottiswoode's History of Scotland and to that published by the Spottiswoode Society in 1851 ; also David Calderwood's Hist. of the See also:Kirk of Scotland (1842-1849)
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