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John Sage (bishop)
John Sage (1652–1711) was a Scottish nonjuring bishop and controversialist in the Jacobite interest. Life He was born at Creich, Fife, where his ancestors had lived for seven generations. His father was a captain in the royalist forces at the time of the taking of Dundee by George Monck in 1651. Sage was educated at Creich parish school and St Salvator's College, St Andrews, where he graduated M.A. on 24 July 1669. Having been parish schoolmaster at Ballingry, Fife, and then Tippermuir, Perthshire, he entered on trials before Perth presbytery on 17 December 1673, and gained testimonial for license on 3 June 1674. He became tutor and chaplain in the family of James Drummond of Cultmalundie, Perthshire. While residing with his pupils at Perth he made the acquaintance of Alexander Rose, then minister of Perth. He visited Rose at Glasgow in 1684, and was introduced to Rose's uncle, Arthur Ross, then archbishop of Glasgow, who ordained him, and instituted him in 1685 to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 Islands of Scotland, islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 Subdivisions of Scotland, administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow, Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland (council area), Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameronian
Cameronian was a name given to a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters who followed the teachings of Richard Cameron, and who were composed principally of those who signed the Sanquhar Declaration in 1680. They were also known as Society Men, Sanquharians, and Hillmen. The Societies of Cameronians for the Maintenance of the Presbyterian Form of Worship were formed about 1681. There is no evidence that organised bands came from any parish or district to either Drumclog or Bothwell Bridge in June 1679. The United Societies were not in existence at that period. After 1688 it was different. The Covenanters were by then organised in their Societies which were again united in larger groups called "Correspondences." Their testimony, "The Informatory Vindication", was published in 1687. They quickly became the most pronounced and active adherents of the covenanting faith. The Cameronians were part of the Covenanting party but it has to be remembered that they formed only a section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gillan
John Gillan (c.1667–1735) was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman and author who served as the Bishop of Dunblane from 1731 to 1735. He was born c. 1667, the son of John Gillan., ''Scottish Episcopal Clergy'', p. 50. After his education at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he worked as a bookseller. He married Isabel Wingate, daughter of the Reverend John Wingate, Incumbent of Denny, and Margaret Marschall. He published ''Vindication of the Fundamental Character of Presbytery'' (1713), ''Life of Bishop Sage'' (1714), and is reputed to be the author of ''Carnwath's Memoirs''., ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops'', p. 546. He was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and not long afterwards consecrated at Edinburgh a college bishop on 22 June 1727 by bishops Freebairn, Duncan, Rose and Ochterlony., ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops'', p. 547. Gillan was the Incumbent of Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh (1727–35) and elected Bishop of the Diocese of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh
Greyfriars Kirk ( gd, Eaglais nam Manach Liath) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard. Greyfriars traces its origin to the south-west parish of Edinburgh, founded in 1598. Initially, this congregation met in the western portion of St Giles' Cathedral, St Giles'. The church is named for the Order of Friars Minor, Observantine Franciscans or "Grey Friars" who arrived in Edinburgh from the Low Countries, Netherlands in the mid-15th century and were granted land for a Priory, Friary at the south-western edge of the Old Town, Edinburgh, burgh. In the wake of the Scottish Reformation, the grounds of the abandoned Friary were repurposed as a Greyfriars Kirkyard, cemetery, in which the current church was constructed between 1602 and 1620. In 1638, Covenanters, National Covenant was signed in the Kirk. The church was damaged during the Commonwealth of England, Protectorate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
